Following on from the reissue of their cult favourite ‘Holo Pleasures’ EP and their incredibly successful first ever UK live shows early last year, Elvis Depressedly will be playing the following dates later this month:

Apr 23 – Brighton, UK @ The Joker
Apr 24 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Apr 25 – Manchester, UK @ The Star and Garter
Apr 26 – London, UK @ Kamio

The info

Elvis Depressedly is Mathew Cothran and Delaney Mills. Mathew and Delaney live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

Elvis Depressedly stares straight into the void and airs their own blunt perceptions about it through their music, but it’s never been the band’s intentions to bring you down even if it says so right there in their name. Mathew Lee Cothran (also of Coma Cinema) and Delaney Mills – alongside a revolving cast of friends and collaborators – have been taking the monoculture’s obsession with a dystopian world and turning it into their own wry joke in their homespun quarters of South Carolina from the very beginning. Since 2011, EPs and singles built with a bare necessity of instruments and production tools have recorded a memory box of self-healing guitar-pop laced with an Ambien trance, but with Cothran quitting his day job and resettling in Asheville, NC with Mills after the release of 2013’s Holo Pleasures to focus his efforts on their latest full-length New Alhambra, an increased currency in time has resulted in Elvis Depressedly’s most definitive listen yet.

‘Holo Pleasures’ is a 12 minute cult favourite EP amongst the DIY scene and has spawned many bands from its sulky muddled influence, whilst in many ways, New Alhambra is an auditory homage to what has shaped lead singer Mathew Lee Cothran’s life. Its title, as any hardcore pro-wrestling fan will recognize, credits the Philadelphia arena that birthed its most legendary and extreme version of it, and the use of samples from wrestling shows serve as a reference to his upbringing. The album was characteristically made with outdated equipment and limited by only one microphone, with Mike “Dr. Vink” Roberts playing an essential role on bass that enrichens the rockier resonations in comparison to Elvis Depressedly’s previous releases. Cothran and Delaney were constantly on the move during the recording process thanks to their new found career freedom, but none of it takes away from New Alhambra’s fully texturized shift toward brightly melancholic noise-pop inspired by Cothran’s favorite unsung heroes such as Waterboys, Prefab Sprout and Emperor X, and in more conventional instances, Elliott Smith and Mac DeMarco.

You can follow their adventures via @tastymask on twitter.

The band say:

Hello World… On April 18th 2017 we are releasing a brand new music video for our song ‘Bad Egg’ and we want you to help us with this!

Our ‘fans’, ‘followers’, ‘friends’ have been the biggest supporters of our music so far. All of you have helped crowd fund our entire album release and through buying our music and band merchandise you have helped us fund our music going forward, including plans for Germany, which we couldn’t have done without you!

We strongly believe in people power, we figured we could have more success with you behind us, than the overpaid and underperforming PR guys that a band at our level can afford. We want to take that same crowd funding approach and use it to help us create a massive BOOM behind our video release!

So, all we ask is that pledge your support by being willing to send out just one Tweet or FB post on April 18th when the video releases! All you have to do to make this happen is help us reach our minimum goal of 250 supporters by the video’s release date and Thunderclap will do the rest!!

PLEASE NOTE: If you can add a personal message with your post that would help us SO SO much more because people then would know to trust the link and not see it as SPAM and ignore it!!! Example: “Been following this band for a while now, check out their new tune”!

Now you are probably wondering what the hell is THUNDERCLAP… and putting the hilarious name aside let us tell you that THUNDERCLAP is a perfect way for us to make some noise in sea of cute cat videos, Donald Trump memes and everyday clutter… causing a huge HOG bomb! Everyone who joins the campaign will automatically share our video on Facebook or Twitter at 3pm, as it’s released on Tues 18th April. Pushing it our to thousands of news feeds at the same time!

We’ve never done anything like this before so we are relaying completely on YOU taking part and helping us achieve 100% of our goal. We don’t need a label, we don’t need a big production team, we don’t need radio… we can do this together! Sign up now and help our little HOG bomb blast the net in a few days… oh and we really hope you like our new video!!!

If you want to help go to https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/55365-hands-off-gretel-new-video?locale=en and sign up.

Accompanying Jackson on the road this June are longtime bandmates Val McCallum (guitar), Mauricio Lewak (Drums), Jeff Young (keyboards), Bob Glaub (bass), Alethea Mills (Vocals) and the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz (guitar, lap steel, pedal steel).

For more tour details, please visit www.jacksonbrowne.com

June 2017 tour dates

12 Vicar Street Dublin
13 Vicar Street Dublin
15 Vicar Street Dublin
16 Vicar Street Dublin
18 Festival Theatre Edinburgh
19 Royal Concert Hall Glasgow
21 Sage Gateshead Gateshead
24 Royal Albert Hall London *just announced
25 Royal Albert Hall London
27 Symphony Hall Birmingham
29 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Liverpool
30 Bridgewater Hall Manchester

‘The Usual Suspects’ features brand new recordings of some of Jah Wobble’s finest solo, Invaders Of The Heart and Public Image Limited output from an incredible and genre bursting career that spans nearly forty years.

Released on limited double vinyl, CD and available digitally, the twenty three tracks here were recorded over the last few months at The Smokehouse studios in East London and include the lead single and album opener ‘Public Image’, re-worked from PIL’s ground breaking debut album from 1978.

Other highlights include versions of cinematic scores ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and ‘Get Carter’, Dawn Penn’s ‘You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)’ that features the vocals of Aurora Dawn and a new take of ‘Visions Of You’ which originally appeared on Wobble’s Invaders of The Heart album ‘Rising Above Bedlam’ which was nominated for a Mercury Prize on it’s release in 1992. Also included are two recent live recordings of the classic rocksteady standard ‘Liquidator’ and ‘Poptones’, which originally appeared on PIL’s seminal ‘Metal Box’ record.

The idea to record this collection came about after a recent and successful run of live shows with saw Wobble and his band play a selection of songs spanning the innovative bassist, percussionist and singer’s long career. He went straight into the studio with Marc Layton-Bennett (drums, percussion & backing vocals), Martin Chung (guitars), George King (keyboards & backing vocals), Steve Rigby (beats, programming & backing vocals), Sean Corby (trumpet & flugelhorn), Aurora Dawn (vocals) and Holly Macve (backing vocals) and set about recording the tracks that appear here.

Album One – Track Listing:

01. ‘Public Image’
02. ‘Socialist’
03. ‘Doctrine Of Drum & Bass’
04. ‘Midnight Cowboy’
05 ‘No, No, No’
06. ‘Java’
07. ‘The Chain’
08. ‘Visions Of You’
09. Becoming More Like God’
10. ‘Everyman’s An Island’
11. ‘How Much Are They’
12. Reggae Segue’
13. ‘Invaders Of The Heart’
14. ‘Sanguine Siesta’

Album Two – Track Listing:

01. ‘Seven’
02. ‘Foderstompf’
03. ‘Cosmic Blueprint’
04. ‘Cosmic Love’
05. ‘Moments’
06. ‘Get Carter’
07. ‘Hop And Charity’
08. ‘Poptones’ (Live)
09. ‘Liquidator’ (Live)

Jah Wobble and The Invaders Of The Heart line up of Marc Layton-Bennett (drums), George King (keyboards) and Martin Chung (guitar) are set to play a handful of shows during the Summer that he promises will be “a heady trip through four decades of music”.

Prior to the live dates he will appear in conversion with John Robb two ‘Louder In The Regions’ events at York and Wakefield on the 26th and 27th of April respectively.

‘LOUDER IN THE REGIONS’ (in conversation with John Robb)

APR 26TH THE WOOLPACK, YORK
APR 27TH BEER EXCHANGE, WAKEFIELD

LIVE DATES:

MAY 12TH CORN EXCHANGE, HERTFORD
MAY 19TH THE WARDROBE, LEEDS
MAY 20TH THE FLEECE, BRISTOL
MAY 27TH THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER
JUN 02ND HARE & HOUNDS, BIRMINGHAM
JUN 16TH THE VENUE, DERBY
JUL 01ST MERTON ARTS SPACE, LONDON
AUG 27TH VALE EARTH FAIR, GUERNSEY

Tickets for all shows available here: https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/jah-wobble

Website: http://jahwobble.com/

After tens of thousands of singers entered the competition to win a record deal, Into The Ark, sang, played, performed and battled their way to the runners up spot behind winner Mo Adeniran.

The band have just announced their own first UK & Ireland 16-date Headline Tour – which has already sold out in some venues across the UK – including Cardiff, St Albans and Bristol. Following this they will then support Sir Tom Jones on tour throughout June and July.

May
12th – Focus Wales at St Giles Parish Church, WREXHAM
13th – The Crofters Rights, BRISTOL – SOLD OUT
16th – The Borderline, LONDON
17th – The Horn, ST ALBANS – SOLD OUT
19th – The Great Escape at Latest Music Bar, BRIGHTON
20th – The Great Escape at The Hope & Ruin, BRIGHTON
23rd – Oporto, LEEDS
24th – Cabaret Voltaire, EDINBURGH
25th – Mad Hatters, INVERNESS
26th – Bluebell Festival at The George Hotel, INVERARY
27th – Think Tank, NEWCASTLE
30th – Ruby Session at Doyles Bar, DUBLIN

June
1st – Fallow Cafe, MANCHESTER
2nd – O2 Institute 3, BIRMINGHAM
3rd – The Globe, CARDIFF – SOLD OUT
24th – Sherwood Pines, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE /w Sir Tom Jones
25th – Chester Live at The Live Rooms, CHESTER
30th – Cartmel Racecourse, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS /w Sir Tom Jones

July
1st – Delamere Forest, CHESHIRE /w Sir Tom Jones
2nd – Open Air Theatre, SCARBOROUGH /w Sir Tom Jones
8th – The Spitfire Ground, CANTERBURY /w Sir Tom Jones
9th – Cannock Chase, STAFFORDSHIRE /w Sir Tom Jones
23rd – Holkham Hall, NORFOLK /w Sir Tom Jones
5th – Kelvingrove Park, GLASGOW /w Sir Tom Jones
21st – Tramshed, CARDIFF