Following a sold-out headline show at The Lexington, two phenomenal Country2Country shows at London’s O2 Arena and the release of her debut EP earlier this year, rising artist Twinnie has revealed her new single ‘Social Babies’ impacting August 16^th on BMG. The track is taken from her debut album, set for release in early 2020 and has been added as a New To 2 featured record on BBC Radio 2.

Produced by Pete Hammerton (Little Mix, One Direction, Britney Spears) and written about the current social world of people living through social media and spending too much time on their phones, ‘Social Babies’ is another catchy country-pop gem from Twinnie. Speaking of the track Twinnie said “I wrote this song from the perspective of my friends and family about me. We live in this social media age which is very different to the one I grew up in. It can be a dangerous place.” She continues “There is pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way and portray “a life of riley” when sometimes it’s not a true representation. I think we can all be victims of this online culture. I certainly experience it, from the effects on my relationships to my self esteem.”

Listen to ‘Social Babies’ HERE

Named by Rolling Stone as one of the stand-out acts at the 2018 Country2Country festival and in Billboard’s Hotly Tipped ‘Ones To Watch For 2019, Twinnie was always destined to be a performer. Spending her formative years in Yorkshire singing, writing, acting and travelling to her beloved Nashville to soak up the knowledge and learn the craft she is definitely one not to be missed in 2019.

Twinnie heads out on a run of UK dates with Lauren Alaina this July and will play Nashville Meets Country Festival in London on July 27^th, as well as The Long Road Festival and Blackpool Winter Gardens Festival in September. Tickets for all shows available HERE

 Catch Twinnie at the following dates:

July

Tues 16th .                   MANCHESTER, The Deaf Institute *

Fri 19th                        GLASGOW, St Luke’s *

Tues 23rd                    BRIGHTON, The Haunt *

Wed 24th                     NOTTINGHAM, The Bodega Social Club *

Thurs 25th                   BRISTOL, Hy Brasil Music Club *

Sat 27th                        LONDON, Canada Square Park

September

Sat 7th                           LUTTERWORTH, The Long Road Festival

Sat 14th                         BLACKPOOL, Blackpool Winter Gardens

* supporting Lauren Alaina

An amazing journey ushered Twinnie from humble beginnings in York, England to Nashville, TN. This talented country songstress, actress, and model has been co-writing with Multi Grammy Award winning writers and producers, Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift, Shania Twain)  Liz Rose, Dave Barns (Carrie Underwood, Marren Morris) amongst others.

In the process she developed a sound all her own and delivered spellbinding performances at the Country2Country Festival among others and received glowing praise from Rolling Stone, Billboard, and other tastemakers

She also has enjoyed success both on the West End stage with the West End musicals We Will Rock You, Rock of Ages, and Footloose and on the screen with a small role in the acclaimed film The Wife starring Glenn Close,

She’s also recorded with Ed Sheeran signee Jamie Lawson and co-wrote “Black and White” and “First Flight Out” on The Shires’ gold-selling Brave, as well as co-writing with Kylie Minogue amongst others for their own artist projects’.

http://www.twinnieofficial.com/

Off the back of scoring his first ever Number 1 album, as well as recent blistering arena performances, Jack Savoretti spends no time resting on his laurels and returns with ‘Youth and Love’, this time reimagined, with a guest appearance from international music star Mika.

After blowing the roof off a packed Wembley Arena, Jack just two weeks later sold 10,000 tickets for his Westonbirt Arboretum show in Gloucestershire, a move that further cements his place as one of the country’s live favourites. He will play a 12-date headline tour this November. For more info visit https://jacksavoretti.com/:

October

Mon 28^th         SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, Cliffs Pavilions
November

Fri 1^st               PLYMOUTH, Pavillion

Wed 6^th          BRIGHTON, The Dome

Thurs 7^th          CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange                                SOLD OUT

Sat 9^th             CARDIFF, The Great Hall                                          SOLD OUT

Sun 10^th          ABERYSTWYTH, Arts Centre                                   SOLD OUT

Thu 14^th           PERTH, Perth Concert Hall

Fri 15^th             EDINBURGH, Usher Hall

Sat 16^th           GLASGOW, Royal Concert Hall

Mon 18^th         ABERDEEN, Music Hall

Tues 19^th         MANCHESTER, Bridgewater Hall

Thurs 21^st         NEWCASTLE, O2 City Hall

Fri 22^nd            HULL, Bonus Arena

Produced by Cam Blackwood, with Mika’s vocals recorded at his home studio in Florence, the track is an infectious 80’s-inspired disco track that features two stunning, contrasting vocalists producing melodies that won’t leave your consciousness. It received a worldwide exclusive play from Zoe Ball on her BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show.

Talking of the collaboration, Jack comments; “I have always admired the elegance and theatre of performers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. I think Mika has what they had, and I am honoured to have him performing on this track.”

Speaking further on the two’s partnership on the track, Mika says; “I’m delighted to be dueting with Jack on his song. I first heard his voice on the radio a few years ago. He is soulful and the texture of his voice is such a contrast to mine that it works. Added to that, he is a total gent. It’s not often that you get to collaborate with such a charming class act like him.”

After well and truly holding his own on Sky Sports’ Soccer AM earlier this year, Jack made a welcome appearance at this year’s Soccer Aid last weekend, coming on at Stamford Bridge in the second half for Piers Morgan’s victorious World XI team. He played alongside footballing legends and celebrities alike, including Usain Bolt, Niall Horan, Roberto Carlos, Eric Cantona, Didier Drogba and many more.

As well as his 12 date UK tour, Jack will also play the following festivals this summer:
June

Sun 30^th          EDWINSTOWE, Sherwood Pines
July

Sun 7^th            RUGELEY, Cannock Chase Forest

Fri 12^th             TYNEMOUTH, Tynemouth Priory and Castle          SOLD OUT

Sun 21^st           SALISBURY, Larmer Tree Festival

Sat 27^th           BOLESWORTH, Car Fest North
August

Sat 24^th           LAVERSTOKE PARK FARM, Car Fest South

Sun 25^th          KINGHAM, The Big Festival
September

Sat 14^th                 LONDON, BBC Proms In The Park 2019 @ Hyde Park

His latest album ‘Singing To Strangers’, his first UK Number 1, is Jack’s sixth LP, shifting just over 32,000 sales in the first week, his highest opening sales yet, and is well on its way to becoming his third Gold-certified album. Produced by Cam Blackwood (George Ezra), the BBC Radio 2 ‘Album Of The Week’ follows Jack’s last two gold discs ‘Written in Scars’ (2014) and ‘Sleep No More’ (2016).

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Beloved singer-songwriter, Pete Yorn, announces Caretakers, his first solo album in three years and his most spontaneous collection to date out August 9^th via his new label Shelly Music. Produced with Jackson Phillips of the celebrated indie rock band Day Wave, the album finds Yorn trusting his gut and working from instinct more than ever before. Alongside the announcement, Pete has also released the mesmerising single ‘Calm Down’ with companion track ‘Can’t Stop You’. Premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats1 radio show, ‘Calm Down’ combines Pete’s soft vocal tones with beautiful synths perfectly.

Listen/watch ‘Calm Down’ and ‘Can’t Stop You’ HERE

“These songs are designed to grow with you,” explains Yorn. “They’re all anchored in particular moments, but they blast off from there, so what they mean to you on any given day might evolve. They’re built to have that flexibility.”

Yorn is equally indebted to Bruce Springsteen’s blue-collar introspection as Lou Reed’s deadpan stream-of-consciousness. He first broke out in 2001 with his extraordinary Columbia Records debut, ‘Musicforthemorningafter’, which was hailed by NPR as one of the year’s finest and Rolling Stone praised it as “atmospheric, gently lit by sunlight and regret.” In the decades that followed, Yorn solidified his status as a songwriters’ songwriter, releasing five more solo albums and collaborating in the studio with everyone from Frank Black and Peter Buck to Liz Phair and Scarlett Johansson (Yorn and Johansson’s joint 2009 release, ‘Break Up,’ went Platinum in France). Yorn has performed on a plethora of TV shows including Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel, Ellen and more; as well as sharing the stage on tours with artists as varied as R.E.M., Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Foo Fighters and The Dixie Chicks, and festival slots from Coachella and Bonnaroo to Glastonbury and Austin City Limits.

Caretakers Track List 

1. Calm Down
2. I Wanna Be The One
3. Can’t Stop You
4. Idols (We don’t ever have to say goodbye)
5. Do You Want To Love Again
6. Caretakers
7. Friends
8. ECT
9. POV
10. Opal
11. A Fire In The Sun
12. Try

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Following the release of his acclaimed track ‘Favourites’ featuring Little Simz, Kasabian mastermind Serge Pizzorno aka The S.L.P. has revealed he will release his debut solo record ‘The S.L.P.’ on 30th August on Columbia Records. Serge will also play a string of headline dates across the UK and Europe this September including two shows at London’s EartH on the 9th and 10th September.

The S.L.P. plays the following dates –

Thu 5th            Glasgow, SWG3

Fri 6th              Manchester, Albert Hall

Sat 7th             Birmingham, O2 Institute

Mon 9th          London, EartH

Tue 10th          London, EartH

Thu 12th          Milan, Circolo Magnolia

Fri 13th            Berlin, Gretchen

Mon 16th        Amsterdam, Paradiso Noord

Tue 17th          Paris, Café de la Danse

New single and second song to be taken from the upcoming album ‘Nobody Else’ is an infectious house hit and a track that sums up The S.L.P.’s breezy, rulebook-out spirit of exploration. Speaking of the track Serge said ‘I started to learn jazz chords,” he continues “it’s so important, that innocence of just exploring and experimenting, when you’ve got that little part of you going ‘can I get away with that?’

Listen To ‘Nobody Else’ HERE

Recorded and produced by Serge at his Leicester studio The Sergery ‘The S.L.P.’ is an 11-track trip across hip-hop influence, richly melodic moments, psychedelic-funk, new-wave and euphoric scenes. Second single ‘Nobody Else’ is piano ballad turned sun soaked house banger follows first taste ‘Favourites’ featuring Little Simz. Other album highlights include ‘Meanwhile… At The Welcome Break’ a collaboration with man of the moment slowthai, the euphoric ‘Trance’, and psychedelic funk outs ‘The Wu’and ‘Youngest Gary’.

Serge says of the project Serge says “Moving forward, I’d like to collaborate more and open that door more. The S.L.P. project will become this sort of place I can go and just do whatever. It’s so important to have that” continuing “My life in the band and my boys, that’s part of me that will be there forever, but then there’s something else I have to get that out or I won’t be able to move forward.”

Serge takes The S.L.P. out on its first run of dates this September and it’s certain to be one of the shows of the year. Tickets go on sale Friday 28th June at 9 30am. Ticket link can be found here.

The S.L.P. Tracklisting

1. Meanwhile… In Genova

2. Lockdown

3. ((trance))

4. The Wu

5. Soldiers 00018

6. Meanwhile… At The Welcome Break (featuring slowthai)

7. Nobody Else  

8. Favourites (featuring Little Simz)

9. Kvng Fv

10. Youngest Gary

11. Meanwhile… In the Silent Nowhere

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Praise For ‘Hot Thoughts’

‘They have nothing to prove, but you wouldn’t know that from the 10 songs here: Hot Thoughts is loaded with tunes, invention and adventure’ – The Guardian 5*

‘Hot Thoughts finds Spoon at the peak of their considerable powers, their ninth album effortlessly unfolding and revealing its mysteries as they cement their place in the firmament of undeniably great rock bands.’ – Uncut 8/10

 ‘Even at their most traditional, the Austin band subvert expectations.’ – Sunday Times Culture

‘Spoon are a band who are impossible to second-guess, and one deserving of much more attention.’ –  Q 4*

‘Spoon offer a pretty good portrait of the indie band in middle age; more accomplished and less earnest than in youth but still with the invention, quirkiness and rebelliousness that made students relate to them in the first place.’ – The Times 4*

Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors, Spoon, today unleash the band’s first new song since 2017’s acclaimed Hot Thoughts.  “No Bullets Spent” showcases Spoon in full creative forward momentum, with its staccato rhythms and spooky film-noir guitar.  The inimitable vocals of magnetic frontman Britt Daniel kicking off at the first note, Spoon’s signature is stamped on the track immediately while another level is achieved in Daniels’ seemingly infinite hot streak as a songwriter.  Blending with the percussion wizardry of Spoon co-founder Jim Eno, the song is propelled from the doors of his own Public Hi Fi studio in Austin, TX and is produced by Mark Rankin.  Alex Fischel (keyboard) and Gerardo Larios (guitar) add their own dimension to the band whose recent recording sessions point to, perhaps, a forthcoming new album.

Listen to ‘No Bullets Spent’ HERE

“No Bullets Spent” joins classics from the Spoon catalog on Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon, the greatest hits compilation coming out July 26th on Matador Records.

“No Bullets Spent” will also be available as a limited edition 7”, with the A Series of Sneaks era rarity “Shake It Off” on the B-side.  Limited to a small pressing worldwide, the 7” will be sold exclusively via the Matador and Spoon webstores and on tour with the band this summer.  The album’s tracklist (complaints about what songs are missing can be directed to the Twitter ether) and Spoon’s full list of summer tour dates can be found below the physical and digital artwork, and the Rob Sheffield-penned bio.

How many rock bands from the past 25 years could get away with a greatest-hits album? Spoon stand alone, with a career-spanning retrospective culled from all over their unique songbook. It’s a flawless compilation of their best-known, best-loved tunes, yet it’s still full of surprises—the only thing you could expect from a band that’s spent their whole career taking people by surprise.

“The idea of doing a best-of came to us a couple times,” Britt Daniel says. “First I wasn’t sure how I felt about it but at some point I remembered that when I got my first Cure record it was Standing on a Beach. When I got my first New Order record, it was Substance. That was how I met those bands, and I moved backwards from there but I still listen to those comps. I love a greatest hits LP when it’s done well. It can be a thing unto itself.”

If you were the betting type in 1996, and you were taking odds on which bands would still be on top of their game in 2019—still thriving, creating, evolving, sitting on top of a catalog so rich it could produce a compilation like this—it’s safe to say you could have bought a house betting a quarter on Spoon. They did not seem the likeliest band to make history. Yet they’ve achieved this by refusing to concede a thing to fashion, refusing to pander, declining to repeat themselves, resisting the impulse to play it safe. When they dropped Kill the Moonlight in 2002, it already seemed bizarre this underdog band had turned out to be so freakishly prolific and creative. But Spoon were just getting started. They have kept going their own way, moving past their original blueprint and building something new one album at a time.

When you hear Spoon has a greatest-hits record, you instantly think of your pet favorites. Every fan would assemble a totally different lineup—that’s the beauty of it. They’ve built the kind of ridiculously vast catalog where people love to argue for hours over their favorite highlights. Are you a Girls Can Tell diehard or a Transference cultist? Do you prefer Gimme Fiction or Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga? Hot Thoughts? They Want My Soul?

Certain artists like Al Green, Blondie or Creedence spend years making individual albums that stand up as fully realized works of art—but they spawn a perfect greatest-hits record that makes its own statement. That’s the classic level Spoon are on here. So how did this complex and diverse string of albums boil down to one disc? “Honestly, it was a struggle,” Daniel says. “I was listening to the old records and jotting down the songs—if you wanna turn the volume up, that’s a good sign. The list really got whittled down, so these are the best. ‘I Summon You’ was never a huge song, wasn’t for the radio, but it had to be on there. It’s one of the best things we’ve done. I wanted to represent Transference, even though it’s not really a ‘hit’ type of album—‘Got Nuffin’ was the closest thing. It did get to a point where I started feeling like, ‘We gotta represent this album in some way, we’ve gotta represent this change in some way.’ ‘Everything Hits at Once’ was a turning point for us—a minimal new wave soul type of rock song.’”

That’s part of what makes this a classic greatest-hits album—we will keep arguing over the selections for years to come. “It’s a small collection trying to cover a lot of years, but I hope it does what The Singles record by the Pretenders or Hot Rocks did for me—cover a lot of ground and then if you want to find out more, you can find out more.” It’s a conversation starter, like any great group’s best-of should be.  But it’s also a map to the work of a band that’s still full of surprises—and more yet to come.

Tracklisting:

1. I Turn My Camera On
2. Do You
3. Don’t You Evah
4. Inside Out
5. The Way We Get By
6. The Underdog
7. Hot Thoughts
8. I Summon You
9. Rent I Pay
10.  You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
11. Got Nuffin
12. Everything Hits At Once
13. No Bullets Spent

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Off the back of scoring his first ever Number 1 album, as well as recent blistering arena performances, Jack Savoretti spends no time resting on his laurels and returns with ‘Youth and Love’, this time reimagined, with a guest appearance from international music star Mika.

Produced by Cam Blackwood, with Mika’s vocals recorded at his home studio in Florence, the track is an infectious 80’s-inspired disco track that features two stunning, contrasting vocalists producing melodies that won’t leave your consciousness. It received a worldwide exclusive play from Zoe Ball on her BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show.

Talking of the collaboration, Jack comments; “I have always admired the elegance and theatre of performers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. I think Mika has what they had, and I am honoured to have him performing on this track.”

Speaking further on the two’s partnership on the track, Mika says; “I’m delighted to be dueting with Jack on his song. I first heard his voice on the radio a few years ago. He is soulful and the texture of his voice is such a contrast to mine that it works. Added to that, he is a total gent. It’s not often that you get to collaborate with such a charming class act like him.”

After well and truly holding his own on Sky Sports’ Soccer AM earlier this year, Jack made a welcome appearance at this year’s Soccer Aid last weekend, coming on at Stamford Bridge in the second half for Piers Morgan’s victorious World XI team. He played alongside footballing legends and celebrities alike, including Usain Bolt, Niall Horan, Roberto Carlos, Eric Cantona, Didier Drogba and many more.

His latest album ‘Singing To Strangers’, his first UK Number 1, is Jack’s sixth LP, shifting just over 32,000 sales in the first week, his highest opening sales yet, and is well on its way to becoming his third Gold-certified album. Produced by Cam Blackwood (George Ezra), the BBC Radio 2 ‘Album Of The Week’ follows Jack’s last two gold discs ‘Written in Scars’ (2014) and ‘Sleep No More’ (2016).

After blowing the roof off a packed Wembley Arena, Jack just two weeks later sold 10,000 tickets for his Westonbirt Arboretum show in Gloucestershire, a move that further cements his place as one of the country’s live favourites. He will play a string of UK festivals this summer as well as a 12 date headline tour this November. For more info visit https://jacksavoretti.com/:

June

Sun 30^th          EDWINSTOWE, Sherwood Pines

July

Sun 7^th            RUGELEY, Cannock Chase Forest

Fri 12^th             TYNEMOUTH, Tynemouth Priory and Castle          SOLD OUT

Sun 21^st           SALISBURY, Larmer Tree Festival

Sat 27^th           BOLESWORTH, Car Fest North

August

Sat 24^th           LAVERSTOKE PARK FARM, Car Fest South

Sun 25^th          KINGHAM, The Big Festival

September

Sat 14^th                 LONDON, BBC Proms In The Park 2019 @ Hyde Park

October

Mon 28^th         SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, Cliffs Pavilions

November

Fri 1^st               PLYMOUTH, Pavillion

Wed 6^th          BRIGHTON, The Dome

Thurs 7^th          CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange                                SOLD OUT

Sat 9^th             CARDIFF, The Great Hall                                          SOLD OUT

Sun 10^th          ABERYSTWYTH, Arts Centre                                      SOLD OUT

Thu 14^th           PERTH, Perth Concert Hall

Fri 15^th             EDINBURGH, Usher Hall

Sat 16^th           GLASGOW, Royal Concert Hall

Mon 18^th         ABERDEEN, Music Hall

Tues 19^th         MANCHESTER, Bridgewater Hall

Thurs 21^st         NEWCASTLE, O2 City Hall

Fri 22^nd            HULL, Bonus Arena

www.jacksavoretti.com

Jack Savoretti can now add Soccer Aid winner & culinary expert to his name. Coming on at Stamford Bridge for Piers Morgan’s World XI team, playing alongside footballing legends and celebs alike including Usain Bolt, Niall Horan, Roberto Carlos, Didier Drogba and many more, they emerged victorious in the UNICEF charity match. He also put his food expertise to the test on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen, and flew off the next day to the US to join our very own Dido for a host of support shows.
 
From football & food, to heavy metal! The giants that are Metallica bring their stadium show to the Etihad tonight and Twickenham on Thursday. There’s also the small matter of the Kerrang! Awards on Wednesday.

Last week was a big one for Madonna with the arrival of her new album ‘Madame X’. As well as receiving rave reviews, she treated fans to a special Q&A hosted by Graham Norton at London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre where she took a slew of questions from fans from all around the world. We can’t wait for her 15 night run at London’s Palladium early 2020.

Congratulations to Neil Hannon who’s magnificent new Divine Comedy album ‘Office Politics’ charted at Number 5 – his highest ever position!

Talking of chart positions, Lewis Capaldi‘s reign at the top continues yet again! ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ has now reached a full month at Number 1, has been certified Gold & and is the fastest selling album of 2019 so far.

LION (aka Beth Lowen) kicks off a double whammy of shows with Band Of Horses this week, which will see performances at the Oxford Academy on Thursday, and London’s HMV Forum on Friday. These are not to be missed!

The Isle Of Wight played host to a string of MBC artists at the weekend, with much talked about sets taking place from Keane, Tom Walker, Rick Astley, Miles Kane, Picture This & Ward Thomas.

We are sad to announce the cancellation of Cage the Elephant‘s 3 UK shows, as well as their IOW performance due to guitarist Nick Bockrath hurting himself on stage. We wish Nick a very speedy recovery.

We’re creeping ever closer to the release of Mark Ronson’s acclaimed new album ‘Late Night Feelings’ – out on Friday. He’ll be paying a visit to the Scala on June 25th. Expect a host of exciting guests!

Following a mesmerizing show at London’s Union Chapel in April, Ryan Bingham returns to the UK for a short run of headline shows, including The Garage in London on June 21st and a slot at the coveted Black Deer Festival.

 Miles Kane released a delicious teaser of new music ahead of a jam packed summer of festival dates. ‘Can You See Me Now’ (listen here) is a subtle nod towards new music that is expected to come later this year.

It’s also an exciting time for Ida Mae as they gear up for the release of their debut album ‘Chasing Lights’ – out July 12th. The blues-folk duo will kick off celebrations the night before with a special, intimate show downstairs at The Kings Head.

Following the release of his acclaimed top 10 album ‘Coup De Grace’ and a massive sell-out UK tour last year, amidst playing a string of UK and European festivals this summer, Miles Kane today releases his latest single, ‘Can You See Me Now’ via AWAL.

With an infectiously fuzzy guitar riff, Beatles-esque harmonies and Miles’ signature sassy vocals, ‘Can You See Me Now’ is an immediate indie-rock smash. The video, directed by James Kelly (who also directed Miles’ video for ‘LA Five Four (309)’), was shot whilst Miles was on tour in France and Italy in May and sees Miles swaggering in his comfort zone, on the stage. Speaking of the track Miles said, “This is a song about reaching a point in your life when you feel comfortable in yourself and you’re not afraid to shout about it.”

After a huge headline date at Glasgow’s SWG3, Miles and his band play a host of shows and festivals this summer including slots at Isle of Wight Festival, Rock Werchter, Tramlines, Neighbourhood Festival, Y Not Festival, Kendal Calling and headlining Skeleton Coast Festival, as well as supporting Paul Weller at Cardiff Castle.

Miles Plays the following dates –

After months of speculation, Keane, one of Britain’s most beloved bands are back with a brand new album out September 20th on Island Records and featuring the powerful first single ‘The Way I Feel’. Watch the video HERE.

Written by Keane and produced by David Kosten and the band themselves, ‘Cause and Effect’ features 11 new songs recorded in London and Sussex.

Keane have also announced a major UK tour this autumn including two nights at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall. The band will play a series of festivals this summer including BST in Hyde Park on July 14th.

‘Cause and Effect’ is Keane’s 5th studio album. Their 4 previous albums have all entered the UK charts at number 1 and accumulated sales of over 13m worldwide and 2.6 billion streams.

The birth of this new album came as something of a surprise even to the band. Singer Tom Chaplin had released two successful solo albums but missed his old sparring partner Tim Rice-Oxley. “I found myself wondering how I had come to let this very enigmatic and important relationship in my life drift,” Tom says.

Meanwhile Tim found his life falling apart and from the ashes had written an album’s worth of incredibly personal songs fuelled by humour as well as pain. When Tom, bassist Jesse Quin and drummer Richard Hughes heard the songs, they were immediately drawn to them both sonically and lyrically.

“Hopes and Fears was a break-up album too, but it was about a break-up when I was 19,” Tim explains. “It’s a bit different when you’re older and you’ve got kids – your whole little world shifts on its axis.”

Tickets for Keane’s tour go on sale on Friday 14th June
They play the following dates:

September
Tues 24th BIRMINGHAM, Symphony Hall
Wed 25th LEICESTER, De Montfort Hall
Thu 26th MANCHESTER, Apollo
Sat 28th LONDON, Royal Albert Hall
Sun 29th LONDON, Royal Albert Hall

October
Tues 1st NEWCASTLE, City Hall
Wed 2nd EDINBURGH, Usher Hall
Fri 4th NOTTINGHAM, Royal Concert Hall
Sat 5th BRIGHTON, Brighton Centre
Mon 7th BELFAST, Waterfront
Tues 8th  DUBLIN, Olympia

The video for ‘The Way I Feel’ was directed by Kevin Godley, who previously directed the video for the band’s hit single ‘Is It Any Wonder’ and Tom’s solo release ‘Still Waiting’.

‘The Way I Feel’, like the other ten tracks on ‘Cause and Effect’, is an emotional and remarkable slice of life, and reminiscent of the very best of Keane. It’s an exciting period for one of the country’s best bands and a very welcome return.

As Tim Rice-Oxley says, “We’re not some heritage act. We’ve got a lot of great music in us.” ‘Cause and Effect’ is just that.

Tracklisting for ‘Cause and Effect’

1.     You’re Not Home
2.     Love Too Much
3.     The Way I Feel
4.     Put The Radio On
5.     Strange Room
6.     Stupid Things
7.     Phases
8.     I’m Not Leaving
9.     Thread
10.   Chase The Night Away
11.   I Need Your Love

End of Standard Edition

12.   New Golden Age (Bonus Track)
13.   Difficult Year (Bonus Track)
14.   The Way I Feel (Sea Fog Acoustic Session)
15.   Stupid Things (Sea Fog Acoustic Session)
16.   I’m Not Leaving (Sea Fog Acoustic Session)

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One of the UK’s finest rising bands, The Snuts, today release their explosive new single ‘All Your Friends’ on Parlophone Records. Choosing to work with Inflo (Karen O / Danger Mouse, Michael Kiwanuka, Little Simz) the track throws the rulebook out the window creating a fresh, yet authentic first taste of the West Lothian quartet’s debut album, which the band are currently recording.

Driven by a huge slice of rock ‘n roll swagger, fused with a vintage hip-hop backbeat, ‘All Your Friends’ possesses an irresistibly catchy raw edge and a massive chorus. The video, directed by Ronan Corrigan and Hope Kemp, has both the humour and charm of long gone classics as the band are literally caught up in a shopping channel TV advert fuelled by their much loved Buckfast.

Watch the video for ‘All Your Friends’HERE

Speaking of the track Jack Cochrane explains “Reflected in the lyrics and the artwork ‘All Your Friends’ is new twist on a familiar social stigma around the drug epidemic that nobody seems to want to talk about”. He continues “keeping in tune with the passionate tones of The Snuts this is a rawer, more direct addition to the catalogue.”

Already garnering a massive following in Scotland and across the UK and with support from the likes of BBC 6 Music, Radio 1, Clash and Dork Magazine, The Snuts are set for a massive 2019 with new music, touring and a fine selection of festivals.

The Snuts, famed for their kinetic live shows, will support Lewis Capaldi on his November UK dates and play a host of summer festivals including Isle of Wight Festival, Mad Cool, Reading & Leeds Festival, Y Not Festival and a main stage, homecoming performance at TRNSMT. The band will also hit the road on a run of UK headline shows this autumn.

May
Sat 25th                      NEWCASTLE, This is Tomorrow
Sun 26th                     WARRINGTON, Neighbourhood

June
Sat 15th                      ISLE OF WIGHT, IOW Festival

July
Thurs 11th                   MADRID, SPAIN, Mad Cool Festival
Sat 13th                      GLASGOW, TRNSMT
Sat 27th                      DERBYSHIRE, Y Not Festival
Sun 28th                     PENRITH, Kendal Calling Festival