New HENGE album ExoKosm

The new album by psy­che­del­ic rock­ers HENGE titled ExoKosm is unleashed upon the plan­et today. ExoKosm is, like the band’s first album, an explo­ration into the extra-ter­res­tri­al, sacred son­ic art­form that HENGE call ‘Cos­mic Dross’.  Fea­tur­ing sev­en new tracks, ExoKosm includes HENGE’s recen­t­­ly-released sin­gles Get Out­ta Ma House and New Plan­et, plus their first sin­gle, Exo. Side A opens…

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Review: new Kinbote single Hiemalis on Lost Map

We always pay atten­tion here at Gourmet Gigs when­ev­er Lost Map Records announces a new release. It is run by John­ny Lynch aka Pic­tish Trail from his remote island home in Eigg in the High­lands and, apart from sound­ing like a very appeal­ing loca­tion, the label nev­er dis­ap­point with its eclec­tic and quirky range of…

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Jessie Buckley and band sing for frontline workers

It all start­ed with a set of pho­tographs of nurs­es on a Covid ward, tak­en by front­line work­er Han­nah Grace Deller. The work was shown on Grayson’s Art Club – a series pre­sent­ed by Grayson Per­ry on Chan­nel 4 – which Chris Dif­ford of Squeeze just hap­pened to catch.  Chris was impressed by Han­nah’s work and…

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Synthwave duo Affair are back for 2020

After eight years of silence, euphor­ic syn­th­wave duo Affair release a new EP called Clouds; the sin­gle tak­en from it, High­er Still, dropped at the end of August. A cer­tain amount of mys­tery shrouds Affair who were, near­ly a decade ago, on the cusp of sign­ing after a flur­ry of inter­est in their sound by…

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New Aerial festival in the Lake District

AERIAL is the Lake District’s inno­v­a­tive new fes­ti­val of orig­i­nal work and com­mis­sions – online and free from 26 Sep­tem­ber 2020 Over 20 new works and com­mis­sions from over 40 artists will be acces­si­ble online and for free via aerialfestival.com from 26th Sep­tem­ber This was intend­ed to be Aerial’s inau­gur­al year but like all oth­er live…

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Re-release of Believe by Bliss plus new video

Bliss band’s Rachel Mor­ri­son and Tom E Mor­ri­son have just rere­leased Believe (Let the Love Shine In), mix 2020. Accom­pa­ny­ing the song is an uplift­ing video cre­at­ed by Tom, enhanced with gor­geous­ly psy­che­del­ic touch­es – and check out those singing sun­flow­ers… I chat­ted to Rachel about mak­ing the re-release of Believe and the cou­ple’s lockdown…

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Interview with Isle of Wight band As We Leave

Four-piece band As We Leave has just released their new sin­gle via Abbey Records called Sto­ries We Tell – it’s a shim­mery and nos­­tal­­gia-laden ode to sum­mer, replete with the feel­ings the sea­son can con­jure. The band’s mem­bers all grew up on the Isle of Wight where they formed their strong friend­ship bonds at school…

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Roachford back with rescheduled tour dates

NOTE: Tour dates are being can­celled and resched­uled. We will post an updat­ed tour date list on here when we have the cor­rect dates. Roach­ford is back with tour dates for 2021. His strong, emo­tion­al and soul-drenched sin­gle called High On Love was released in 2020, the first song on the new album Twice in…

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Jimmy C and the Blues Dragons: almost a festival

JUNE 2021: VERY SHOCKED AND SADDENED TO HEAR OF THE DEATH OF JIMMY C. He will be missed by his friends, fam­i­ly and every­one who has seen this won­der­ful band per­form over the years. Being able to hear live music again lifts the spir­its and gives us hope for the future. Jim­my C & the Blues…

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