Ed Cosens releases single ‘If’ ahead of solo album

Ed Cosens is step­ping out of the shad­ows to take cen­tre stage. If, his debut sin­gle, marks the start of an over­due solo career for the long­time lynch­pin of the Sheffield music scene. Best known as the guitarist/bassist and co-song­writer in Rev­erend & The Mak­ers, Ed has toured the world. With If, the first song writ­ten for…

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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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New single Light Me Up by The Coronas

The Coro­nas’ thir­­teen-year jour­ney has def­i­nite­ly been unique. With a hand­ful of mul­ti-plat­inum sell­ing albums and a huge fan­base in their native Ire­land, the band were just about to embark on a 6‑month world tour when a cer­tain unfor­tu­nate­ly named virus tried to spoil the par­ty. Thank­ful­ly, the band are back with the new album. “The…

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Featured single of the week: Crazy Enough by Pattern Pusher

They sup­port­ed Wolf Alice and Super­grass in 2019, scaled the heights of the BBC6 Music playlist and even have a Robert Plant con­nec­tion. The band in ques­tion is Pat­tern Push­er, who I saw at Beard­ed The­o­ry fes­ti­val last year and was impressed by their upbeat, funky set, skit­ter­ing sum­mer beats and beau­ti­ful bass lines. Now the…

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