BM Park Live Series Goes 100 per cent Veggie

Sounds like a good ini­tia­tive to us here at Gourmet Gigs! We’re always in favour of any­thing that reduces waste and cuts down on ener­gy con­sump­tion at fes­ti­vals, with­out tak­ing away any of the fun.  The BM Park Live series of events, which includes Junc­tion 2 Fes­ti­val and Par­adise In The City (in Boston Manor Park,…

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Hot Chip serve up a Best Of album, new song and live dates

Eight stu­dio albums in, Hot Chip remain as vital as ever and today they announce their first Best Of album, Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion, to be released Sep­tem­ber 5th.  Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion – the title alludes to both the lyrics of their career-defin­ing track and one of Alex­is Taylor’s favourite Prince songs – cap­tures some­thing ele­men­tal about the band: a…

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Love Motion: The Disco Express Second Stage Joins Nile Rodgers & CHIC

South Fac­ing Fes­ti­val announce the addi­tion of a sec­ond stage for this year’s Love Motion fes­ti­val, host­ed by par­­ty-starters The Dis­co Express, on Sun­day 24 August in Crys­tal Palace Park. One of London’s ‘lead­ing dis­co labels’, The Dis­co Express is an inter­na­tion­al event series, DJ col­lec­tive and record label. A revered plat­form for Nu-Dis­­­co, House…

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Australian artist Merpire releases new album called Milk Pool

Merpire’s high­ly antic­i­pat­ed sec­ond album, Milk Pool, drops today July 4th, fea­tur­ing the pre­vi­ous­ly released sin­gle Big­ger. Mel­bourne based Rhi­an­non Atk­in­­son-Howatt – aka Mer­pire – first impressed music fans with her 2021 debut, Sim­u­la­tion Ride, and she’s back to take things even fur­ther. Flu­id and meta­phys­i­cal as the tides, Milk Pool is for “the roman­tics, the daydreamers,…

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Upcoming album The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation

Excite­ment is at record lev­els at Gourmet Gigs Tow­ers as word has winged its way from Mon­tre­al that our favourite band The Besnard Lakes are set to release a new album on 10th Octo­ber via Full Time Hob­by. Going by the title of The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation (when­ev­er did the Bezzies do…

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Animal Collective reveal Love on the Big Screen

Some­thing joy­ful this way comes from Ani­mal Col­lec­tive. The new sin­gle called Love on the Big Screen came out last week, via Domi­no, and there’s a spe­cial lim­it­ed-edi­­tion 7‑inch sin­gle fea­tur­ing the B‑side Bud­dies On the Black­board set to be released on August 1st. Both tracks were pro­duced by Avey Tare and Adam McDaniel, engi­neered and mixed by McDaniel…

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Document Presents Leftfield Live, Bristol

Elec­tron­ic pio­neers Left­field cel­e­brate 35 years with a spe­cial live show at Doc­u­ment Bris­tol, Fri­day 12th Sep­tem­ber 2025, 8:00pm til 12:00am. Since 1990, Left­field have shaped the sound of UK elec­tron­ic music –  along with their game-chang­ing and influ­en­tial live per­for­mances that rede­fined what an elec­tron­ic act could be. Blend­ing tech­no, dub, break­beat and beyond,…

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Snowapple unveil new album Utopia

Always inven­tive, with a unique and expan­sive world view, the inter­na­tion­al, female-led Snowap­ple col­lec­tive has released a new album June 13th titled Utopia, blend­ing music, the­atre and activism. And they will be play­ing at Glas­ton­bury fes­ti­val on 25th June. The Snowap­ple col­lec­tive evades pigeon­hol­ing into par­tic­u­lar genre; instead they embrac­ing and bring togeth­er dif­fer­ent gen­res in…

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All Points East announces lineup additions

When it comes to Lon­don fes­ti­vals, All Points East is a favourite of Gourmet Gigs. The ten-day event has made its home at east London’s Vic­to­ria Park – a tree-filled green space that’s big enough to make you feel like you’ve escaped the city for a bit. High­light of the action is the mas­sive East…

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Sydney Minsky Sargeant of WMC reveals solo album

Work­ing Men’s Club’s Syn­dey Min­sky Sergeant will release his debut solo album Lun­ga on Sep­tem­ber 12th. It is his first since sign­ing to Domi­no. This sees the front man of WMC chart a new and per­haps sur­pris­ing new course. These are glis­ter­ing melod­ic songs, an anti­dote to the chaos and abra­sive atmos­phere of tour­ing, and…

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