Debut EP release ‘Sex Yoga’ by Callis

West York­shire band Cal­lis unveil their long-await­­ed debut EP release 2nd Feb­ru­ary, called Sex Yoga. We won’t be for­get­ting that title in a hur­ry. The Tod­­mor­­den-based band have been described as a “Work­ing-class sym­pho­ny of North­ern grit, new wave nuances gal­vanised with a post-punk atti­tude”. Dean Molyneux (lead vocals, gui­tar), Bryn Davies (back­ing vocals, bass) and…

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Camp Bestival Dorset and Shropshire: first lineups

Camp Besti­val Dorset the UK’s favourite fam­i­ly fes­ti­val is land­ing back in Lul­worth Cas­tle, Dorset (25 – 28 July 2024) with a total­ly out of this world line­up and inter­galac­tic, aliens and space theme fea­tur­ing a galaxy-bend­ing UK fes­ti­val exclu­sive head­line per­for­mance from PETE TONG IBIZA CLASSICS – Jules Buck­ley & The Essen­tial Orches­tra, pop queen Paloma…

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Victorious Festival 2024 adds: Sugababes, Groove Armada and more

Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val, set on Portsmouth’s South­sea seafront (dates this year 23–25 August) have announced a fur­ther set of artists to make 2024 an even bet­ter propo­si­tion! For starters there’s the Sug­ababes, who are rid­ing high at the moment with the orig­i­nal line­up back in force, as seen on Jools Hol­land’s Hoo­te­nan­ny on New Year’s Eve. Dance…

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“Dance We Do” single release by Annie Dressner

Annie Dress­ner unveiled her lat­est sin­gle Dance We Do on Jan­u­ary 12th. She has simul­ta­ne­ous­ly announced her upcom­ing album, “I Thought It Would be Eas­i­er,” slat­ed for release on April 5th via Dhar­ma Records. Dance We Do delves into the com­plex­i­ties of try­ing to gauge a par­tic­u­lar love inter­est’s feel­ings; the song dwells on Annie’s…

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Interview with modular synth artist TDC Tunes

TDC Tunes is a mod­u­lar artist and pro­duc­er based in Lon­don; he curates unique elec­tron­ic events at an atmos­pher­ic north Lon­don venue and has sev­er­al oth­er projects on the go. Gourmet Gigs met up with him to find out more… How did your love for mod­u­lar synths start? Did you play an instru­ment at school? Yes,…

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Bill Ryder-Jones fifth album “Iechyd Da” review

Three tracks from Bill Ryder-Jones lat­est album sur­faced towards the close of 2023. They hint­ed at the rich­ness and emo­tion­al depth in store for lis­ten­ers of Iechyd Da, which saw its release on Fri­day 12th Jan­u­ary. The result is a sol­id, beau­ti­ful col­lec­tion of songs, and the tim­ing could not have been bet­ter as we…

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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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Gigs 2024: The Lottery Winners, Heather Small, Sasha, Electronica in the Tower

Time to start fill­ing up the diary with some choice gigs for 2024.  Man­ches­ter band The Lot­tery Win­ners cer­tain­ly cap­ti­vat­ed fes­ti­val crowds last year. And they’re set to play at Black­pool Tow­er on the 5th April next year. Tick­ets avail­able:Buy tick­ets for Lot­tery Win­ners at Black­pool Tow­er The Fifth Floor, Fri­day 5th Apr 2024 Sasha is set…

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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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Peter Hook & The Light play Manchester; New Order in Cardiff

An inti­mate, one-off evening of con­ver­sa­tion with Peter Hook, at The Star & Garter in Man­ches­ter, home to the mur­al of Joy Divi­sion. Pro­ceeds from this spe­cial Head­stock event will sup­port men­tal health char­i­ty Shout. The gig will take place in mem­o­ry of Ian Cur­tis who lost his life to sui­cide in May 1980.  Buy tickets…

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