Review: Squeeze release their ‘first’ album Trixies

You can imag­ine the scene. Teenagers Glenn Till­brook and Chris Gif­ford are rif­fling through an old card­board box in the attic. Noth­ing much here… but what’s this? Glenn brush­es a few decade’s worth of dust off a cas­sette, snaps it into the play­er, press­es PLAY… and the years melt away. The two are trans­port­ed back…

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Trixies – Squeeze new release of earliest songs

Squeeze have just dropped the sec­ond track from upcom­ing album Trix­ies (6th March 2026). Rather than pre­sent­ing us with a set of new songs, Chris Dif­ford and Glenn Tilbrook have wound back the years, dust­ing off a cas­sette of their ear­li­est mate­r­i­al – a con­cept album they wrote and record­ed when Glenn was just 16…

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Squeeze announce Tried, Tested and Trixies tour

Tick­ets go on gen­er­al sale Novem­ber 28, 2025 at 09:30. The tour will sup­port grass­roots venues, artists and pro­mot­ers, plus the anti-pover­­ty char­i­ty Trussell Trust. And the new album Trix­ies is set for release March 6, 2026. Fol­low­ing the announce­ment of their new stu­dio album Trix­ies, Squeeze announce the most ambi­tious UK tour of their 50+ year career. Found­ed in…

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Squeeze proud and honoured to open Glastonbury festival 2024

As they pre­pare for their 50th Anniver­sary Tour, Squeeze’s co-founders Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Dif­ford look for­ward to open­ing Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val when they per­form on the Pyra­mid Stage at mid­day on Fri­day June 28. Says Glen Till­brook: “I was at the 1971 Glas­ton­bury Fayre and it was a life chang­ing expe­ri­ence for me. I didn’t return…

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Jessie Buckley and band sing for frontline workers

It all start­ed with a set of pho­tographs of nurs­es on a Covid ward, tak­en by front­line work­er Han­nah Grace Deller. The work was shown on Grayson’s Art Club – a series pre­sent­ed by Grayson Per­ry on Chan­nel 4 – which Chris Dif­ford of Squeeze just hap­pened to catch.  Chris was impressed by Han­nah’s work and…

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Bearded Theory review 2016

The weath­er gods smiled down on Beard­ed The­o­ry again this year: I can only imag­ine it was at the sight of so many hir­sute indi­vid­u­als dis­port­ing them­selves in the Mag­i­cal Sounds dance tent, stomp­ing along to The Lev­ellers on the main stage, or maybe it was the giant pink pup­pets pranc­ing about the fes­ti­val site. Each year, Bearded…

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