Jan 9

Camp Bestival introduces the Explorer’s Passport

Favourite chil­dren’s fes­ti­val, Camp Besti­val has an excit­ing new devel­op­ment for 2024. The Explor­er’s Pass­port is a brand new mag­i­cal book­let designed and illus­trat­ed by fes­ti­val co-cura­­tor Josie da Bank. The Explorer’s Pass­port will be free for every child to col­lect on arrival at the fes­ti­val and is packed with beau­ti­ful illus­tra­tions, maps and information,


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Alex Maas
Dec 20

Dark Christmas song by Alex Maas “XMAAS (Take Me Away)”

Alex Maas, of the Black Angels, released an album called Luca dur­ing the last days of 2020 – a work that utter­ly blew us away (it was on the Gourmet Gigs faves of the year list). We’ve been secret­ly wait­ing for a fol­low up to that haunt­ing­ly melan­cholic work, and just as 2023 reach­es its


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Magnetic Skies
Dec 4

Gourmet Gigs – favourite albums, EPs and singles of 2023

These are our favourite releas­es of 2023 – most­ly albums with a smat­ter­ing of EPs and sin­gles too, from folk to elec­tron­i­ca. The most mov­ing album of the year is the emo­tion­al Slow­dive release Every­thing is Alive. There are a few albums we did­n’t have time to include, one being False Lankum: those drone sounds


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Nov 30

Bill Ryder-Jones releases If Tomorrow Starts Without Me

A new track has just been released by Bill Ryder-Jones. Called ‘If Tomor­row Starts With­out Me’, it’s the sec­ond track tak­en from his forth­com­ing fifth album Iechyd Da, Jan­u­ary 12th. There will also be a run of solo in-store dates for Jan­u­ary. The sim­plis­tic yet mov­ing phrase of ‘If Tomor­row Starts With­out Me’ is something


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Nov 20

Magnetic Skies at The Lexington

Pho­tos of the gig at The Lex­ing­ton where Mag­net­ic Skies appeared, show­cas­ing their debut album Empire Falling.  Pho­tos from the event Mag­net­ic Skies Face­book / The Lexington /

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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 31

Richard Walters unveils ‘Long Way Down’ ahead of solo album ‘Murmurate’

It’s hard to keep up with Richard Wal­ters. The artist is known for work­ing solo and col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly and he’s also a pro­lif­ic song­writer. He is prob­a­bly best known for his works as one third of the group LYR with Poet Lau­re­ate Simon Armitage plus Patrick Pear­son. They released their sec­ond album The Ultra­vi­o­let Age in


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Oct 23

Electronic in the Tower#4, TDC Tunes analogue synths, poetry and visuals

TDC Tunes elec­tron­i­ca night at The Inti­mate Space – per­haps the small­est venue in the UK. You can only seat 25 in the atmos­pher­ic church tow­er in Hornsey, north Lon­don so this might be true.  Open­ing the evening was ana­log lep­er with a dra­mat­ic piece that sound­ed like a rag­ing storm. Jee­van S Khaira recit­ed some


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lathums-band-2023
Oct 20

Irish indie artist Sarah Buckley reveals new single Wind Chimes

A self-assured and dis­tinc­tive sin­gle and EP has just been released by Cork alt-folk singer-song­writer Sarah Buck­ley called Wind Chimes. The song comes hot on the heels pre­vi­ous sin­gle release, Always Trou­ble and both tracks are on her new EP. There’s more than meets the eye with Wind Chimes – the three-track EP as a whole


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