Category: Recommended

Nov 25

Squeeze announce 50th anniversary tour 2024

TICKETS GO ON SALE 10:00AM, FRIDAY 1ST DECEMBER HERE To cel­e­brate their momen­tous 50th anniver­sary, British music leg­ends Squeeze have announced a mas­sive UK tour for 2024. They will be per­form­ing a list of hits and rare gems from their exten­sive back cat­a­logue and will be joined by spe­cial guest Bad­ly Drawn Boy. Tick­ets go on sale 10:00AM, Fri­day 1st Decem­ber via www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk.  Squeeze’s…

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Nov 22

Leftfield’s Neil Barnes donates records for Xmas special auction via Golden Lion, Todmorden

The Gold­en Lion in part­ner­ship with Todmorden’s Uni­tar­i­an Church unite to fly the kind­ness flag once again in the Calderdale Val­ley for the com­mu­ni­ty in need this Christ­mas. The elder­ly of the local care home and any­one who needs com­pa­ny and help dur­ing the cost of liv­ing cri­sis are wel­come.  On Mon­day 25th Decem­ber the Grade 1 list­ed build­ing will be…

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Nov 7

TDC Tunes and RJ Electronica: venue Film Atelier’s farewell concert

Film Ate­lier is a small venue in Cat­ford – a cafe with its own recipe teas, a dark room/film devel­op­ment stu­dio, an art gallery and con­cert venue. Unfor­tu­nate­ly it is to close short­ly. I can’t stand to hear of yet anoth­er venue clos­ing. But here we are – again.  There is to be a farewell concert…

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Magnetic Skies
Nov 2

Empire Falling: dramatic debut album from Magnetic Skies

With synth-rich anthemic tracks that radi­ate an emo­tion­al land­scape from eupho­ria to dark­ness, Mag­net­ic Skies feels very much like a band who have found their call­ing. And after releas­ing a series of sin­gles and EPs, the band’s debut album, Empire Falling, is out on Fri­day 3rd Novem­ber. Even the album title con­jures impend­ing tur­moil and…

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Oct 16

Llais 23 Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell tribute concert

It was time­ly and fit­ting to hold a trib­ute to Joni Mitchell at Llais 23, the Fes­ti­val of Voice, tak­ing place at the beau­ti­ful Wales Mil­len­ni­um Cen­tre in Cardiff. Joni remains one of the most tal­ent­ed and unique artists of the past few decades, and her vocals and extra­or­di­nary tal­ent for writ­ing poignant and poetic…

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Callis band in Todmorden
Oct 6

Callis: new single and tour dates plus mini interview

The Tod­mor­den band Cal­lis made an impres­sion on us when their first sin­gle called Dra­maskin came to our atten­tion ear­li­er this year. So it’s wel­come news to hear the band reveal their sec­ond sin­gle, called Dream Sequence, today. The track will also fea­ture on the band’s upcom­ing EP, set to be released in Feb­ru­ary 2024.  Callis…

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Sep 26

Elephant Stone at The Shacklewell Arms 2023

This was an evening fans had been antic­i­pat­ing for a few years – the return of Mon­tre­al psy­che­delia-lean­ing band Ele­phant Stone to UK shores. This, their only show here, took place at char­ac­ter­ful music venue The Shack­lewell Arms, mean­ing fans coun­try wide had no option but to trav­el to the Lon­don venue, a fact that…

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Sep 12

Festivals through autumn and beyond

No trip­ping over guy ropes in the night, no cup of saw­dust for the loo vis­it – there are at least some pos­i­tives to win­ter fes­ti­vals. Here’s our ever-grow­ing list of UK-wide autumn and win­ter events with plen­ty of good music to warm to. And if your own event isn’t fea­tured here, whizz us some…

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Sep 5

What next for Magical Sounds dance tent?

The announce­ment, via Mag­i­cal Sounds own face­book page, came as a bit of a shock. The bril­liant and beau­ti­ful dance tent to be found year upon year at Beard­ed The­o­ry fes­ti­val, pul­sat­ing away into the music-filled atmos­phere, will no longer be on site. Start­ing in 2024, Beard­ed The­o­ry’s new own­ers will pro­gramme their own dance tent. …

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Aug 7

Hot Chip: Fire of Mercy new single feat Yune Pinku

Hot Chip have sure­ly reached nation­al trea­sure sta­tus. The band’s work always has a embrac­ing, uplift­ing qual­i­ty to it, and live they’re exhil­a­rat­ing. As sum­mer gets an uplift weath­­er-wise, it seems like a good time to release this euphor­ic new track fea­tur­ing Malaysian-Irish pro­duc­er and song­writer Yunè Pinku. The new sin­gle is called Fire of Mer­cy. Alexis…

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