Live in Hoxton: Luca Wilding and Wassailer

A win­dow opened briefly on a world we knew and which will come again. Being able to go to a gig – social­ly dis­tanced though it was -– brought into sharp focus just what has been miss­ing from life. It’s ulti­mate­ly about the music but it’s every­thing else besides – the cama­raderie that comes from…

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Kinbote album release: Shifting Distance

Kin­bote – oth­er­wise known as found-sound sam­pling glitch-pop pro­duc­er Matt Gibb – released a quirky and intrigu­ing sin­gle called Hiemalis in the sum­mer, reviewed on Gourmet Gigs. And on 4th Decem­ber he launched his album called Shift­ing Dis­tance. The cov­er of Shift­ing Dis­tance fea­tures slices of scenery, tan­ta­lis­ing but unable to be grasped and expe­ri­enced in…

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Passport: Back to Our Roots second wave of artists

Pet Shop Boys, KT Tun­stall, Rus­sell Wat­son and Pas­sen­ger have pledged to play gigs for ‘Pass­port: Back to Our Roots’, the cam­paign to raise mon­ey for grass­roots music venues at risk of clo­sure. UPDATE: Jamie xx and Metron­o­my have been added to the line-up,  announced on BBC Radio 6 Music dur­ing the station’s ‘State Of Inde­pen­dence Day’. Metron­o­my will…

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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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Modern Studies: The Weight of the Sun

One Sat­ur­day after­noon last Decem­ber I made my way to east Lon­don venue Stu­dio 9294 for Fire Records’ chilled, friend­ly Christ­mas event called Out­er Lim­its. With a ros­ter of about sev­en per­for­mances, it unex­pect­ed­ly turned out to be one of my top gigs of 2019. One of the new (to me) bands who were an…

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One Day, After School new release

Out today is the impres­sive new release by One Day, After School enti­tled Are You Awake? It’s a melan­cholic track in which the vocals, left low in the mix, act like an anchor in the mul­ti-lay­ered com­po­si­tion. It starts from a soli­tary piano note through to a nervy clock tick­ing sound before the track starts…

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Independent Venue Week 2020

Inde­pen­dent Venue Week lights up the end of Jan­u­ary with a fab­u­lous roll-call of musi­cians at venues around the coun­try. It’s the sev­enth IVW 2020, and it’s hap­pen­ing Mon­day 27th Jan­u­ary to Sun­day 2 Feb­ru­ary. This year cel­e­bra­tions include inti­mate live shows and tours, a fea­ture doc­u­men­tary and a new live record release – details…

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Special Phildel gig at St Pancras Old Church

Phildel will be return­ing to the atmos­pher­ic and inti­mate St Pan­cras Old Church for a spe­cial gig on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 21st where she’ll be per­form­ing songs from The Dis­ap­pear­ance of the Girl and Wave your Flags but as you’ve nev­er heard them before, with the accom­pa­ni­ment of strings and choir. St Pan­cras Old Church was Phildel’s choice…

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