“A movingly pragmatic distinction between desire and self-respect set to pedal steel.” – THE GUARDIAN

“Razor-sharp lyrics, confiding, crystalline vocals and nods to classic country rock & soft pop, with
results that are ensnaring & bewitching” – SUNDAY TIMES

“Modern-day reflections on disco euphoria and Canyon contemplation.” – UNCUT

“Bursting with blues-rock and blissed-out psychedelia.” – PITCHFORK

One of the US’ finest rising artists Pearl Charles today drops her enchanting new single ‘Does This Song Sound Familiar?’ – listen here. The track follows her recent, fantastic, trippy offering ‘Smoke In The Limousine’.

‘Does This Song Sound Familiar?’ – an exploding serving of sun-soaked, upbeat joy right from the heart of the Mojave Desert – arrives ahead of Pearl’s forthcoming set at The Long Road Festival on Aug 24th, and comes with the announcement of an October UK headline tour, which will see shows in four major UK cities, including her biggest UK headline show to date on October 10th at London’s Omeara. 

Of the new track, Pearl explains; “On a hot summer night, sitting alone as the sun went down in its usual spectacular desert fashion, Does This Song Sound Familiar? was born on a gust of Santa Ana wind. Like the same mirages and hallucinogenic visions that have been conjured so many times before in the Mojave Desert I call home, the music and lyrics floated in like peyote-induced psilocybin dream encounters with the deeper levels of my own psyche. This quintessentially desert song explores life, identity, reincarnation and alternate dimensions, likening “the song” to the cycle of life and positing that perhaps we have all been here before, and that we will be here again.”

2021 saw the release of Pearl’s highly acclaimed album Magic Mirror, which drew high praise from the likes of The Guardian, Sunday Times, Uncut, Pitchfork and saw single ‘Givin’ It Up’ light up the airwaves on BBC 6 Music.

Pearl has been playing music since she was five years old. At 18, she formed country duo The Driftwood Singers with Christian Lee Hutson, singing and playing guitar and autoharp. After a few fun-filled years immersed in the rock and roll lifestyle, she decided it was time to pursue her own songwriting, and began developing the songs that formed 2015’s eponymous debut EP and additional debut LP that came out in 2018 on Kanine Records. She has headlined national and international dates as well as shared the stage with contemporaries Weyes Blood, Best Coast, Sunflower Bean, Mac Demarco, Conor Oberst, The Teskey Brothers etc, as well as festival plays like ACL, Pickathon and Desert Daze.

Her music career has been a chronological progression from old-time music to 60’s garage and psychedelia, and now more 70’s country and soft rock. Drawn to catchy, poppy hooks and choruses, Pearl draws on what she loves about each era while developing her unique style and voice as a musician, singer, and songwriter.

Tickets for Pearl’s headline tour are available HERE.

August
24th LUTTERWORTH, The Long Road Festival (Loose Music Stage)

31st GLASGOW, Last Night (In-Store)

October
5th GLASGOW, King Tuts

6th BRISTOL Thekla

8th MANCHESTER, Deaf Institute

10th LONDON, Omeara

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Mo Gilligan, the triple BAFTA winning comedian, actor, presenter and content creator, has today launched his brand-new podcast, Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle & End.

In the podcast, which is available now on Global Player, Mo asks some of the UK’s biggest stars about the moments that made them and the legacy they want to leave behind.

The podcast features an exciting variety of guests, hand-picked by stand up sensation Mo, which range from viral stars to huge household names, including Shits and Giggs, George the Poet, Aisling Bea, Joel Dommett, America Foster, and more.

In the first episode, Mo Gilligan catches up with broadcasting legend Johnathan Ross to find out how he started out, what he’s doing now, and what he wants his legacy to be. Plus, Jonathan reminisces about rapper Eminem coming round his house, playing games with Tom Hardy, and his infamous halloween parties.

Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle, & End is a Lucky 17 & MOMO G Production for Global, and you can watch the trailer over on Global Player now.

Chike Orakwue and Eleanor Lawrence are producers for Mo Gilligan’s Beginning, Middle & End. BAFTA winning David Geli and Pollyanna McGirr serve as Executive Producers.

LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE HERE: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrjAjF/ 

**Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle & End is available to listen to now on Global Player, or wherever you get your podcasts** 

Following a blistering show at London’s O2 Arena in March this year, Pendulum have teamed up with hotly-tipped punk hip-hop duo Joey Valence & Brae on their abrasive new single ‘Napalm’.

The track is the first new music the band have dropped in 2024 and comes ahead of their unmissable main stage performance on Reading & Leeds Festival main stages this weekend.

A raucous drum and bass floor filler, ‘Napalm’ is Pendulum at their heaviest. Produced by Rob Swire at his London studio the track is raw, infectious and ready made for the festival main stages. Listen to ‘Napalm’ HERE.

Speaking of the collaboration, Rob Swire said, “as soon as I heard their single ‘Punk Tactics’ I knew we had to work together on a heavy DnB track”. Joey Valence & Brae continue “this is such a legendary collab for us. We’ve both been fans of Pendulum and drum and bass in general for so long, so it’s crazy to finally do a track together.” 

Undoubtedly one of the biggest electronic bands of all time, Pendulum have 3 platinum albums to their name, including renowned debut Hold Your Colour and a UK #1 and #2 for Immersion and In Silico. The drum and bass/rock band from Perth, Australia have sold over a million albums in the UK alone, as well as selling out global arena tours and playing to thousands across main stage performances from Glastonbury and Download to Reading and Leeds on top of a headline slot at Ultra Miami. 

The band returned with their EP Elemental in 2021 along with the comeback of the live band. In 2023 they followed up with their EP Anima, featuring Matt Tuck from Bullet For My Valentine and acclaimed trap metal artist Scarlxrd. The band completed their biggest UK headline tour to date in 2024, including a stop at London’s O2 and with more music slated for 2024/25 the band are back on strong form.

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“Surf-rock riffs, oddball humour, and warped Americana storytelling define the Austin band” — Pitchfork

“One of the most chaotic trios in Texas.”  — The Line Of Best Fit

“Part scuzz-rock haymaker, part paisley-coloured psychedelic singalong, ‘Firefighters’ could function equally well as a theme song for the titular emergency service members or a more universal anthem for the ever-encroaching calamity.” — The FADER

Being Dead — the Austin, TX-based project of multi-instrumentalists and best friends Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy — present a new single, ‘Nightvision’, from their new album, EELS, out September 27th on Bayonet.

‘Nightvision’ opens with an alluring voice and acoustic guitar intro before kicking into a driving, moody beat, with just enough of the band’s unhinged weirdness peppered throughout. As Paste states, “caught somewhere between garage rock and surfing castaways, [Being Dead’s] music is for the oldheads and the new guard,” and “Nightvision” is another staple in their colourful catalogue. 

Listen to Being Dead’s ‘Nightvision’

A band whose varying origin stories have been immortalised across the last seven years of being a band, Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy deliver each story with a wink, inviting you in on the joke. Something about their music suggests it’s a dispatch from both the future and the past – vocal harmonies that sound like they’re reverberating in a medieval church to surfy guitar lines, weirdo-punky cacophonies erupting into chaos. There’s the sense that these are two people who are strangers to all that is banal – there is always fun to be had, a little mischievous magic waiting around the corner, if you know how to find or make it.

Like its animal namesake suggests, the songs on EELS are malleable, the record like slithering through murky waters or strange half dreams, mysterious and beautiful in how it moves, reflective in a wavering sheen. Dipping into each song feels like uncovering a new cavern, plunging into depths unknown but fully open to what will be revealed. EELS feels like an album of possibilities, little tasters of what might be next, a vast and limitless stretching out before them.

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Follows March’s First Instalment Unheard EP

Recently Scored His First Ever UK Number 1 Single With ‘Too Sweet’
Smashing Almost 30 Million Global Streams In Its First Week
Top 10 In Spotify Charts In 17 Countries

Last Month Sold Out 45,000 Capacity London Finsbury Park & Dublin Marlay Park

World-renowned, and now UK Number 1-selling singer-songwriter Hozier today drops the powerful video for his new single ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ – taken from a new second instalment of never-heard-before treats for fans in the shape of Unaired EP – out now.

The track, highlighting the hugely problematic issues of global arms dealing, comes with a powerful music video, directed by Daniel Ryan here.

The last few weeks has seen some cryptic, exciting teasing, with an initial snippet of ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ posted to setlist.fm, whipping fans into a whirlwind of intrigue, followed by it’s global live debut in full for a thrilled audience at Lollapalooza, during Hozier’s headline set on the Bud Light Stage in Chicago on August 1st. 

Unaired EP, which arrived on August 16th, contains three unreleased songs, originally recorded during the sessions for latest chart-topping album Unreal Unearth. As well as ‘Nobody’s Soldier’, the EP includes ‘July’, produced by Jeff ‘Gitty’ Gitelman (Anderson .Paak, H.E.R.), and ‘That You Are’, produced by Gus Seyffert (Beck, Michael Kiwanuka) – featuring the enthralling Syrian-American folk artist Bedouine.

In a note to fans, Hozier says; “Dear Souls, I want to thank each and everyone of you for everything over this past year. It’s been a privilege to travel and play the music and be met with so much love and support. This has been a very special time for me, thank you all sincerely.

“Nobody’s Soldier,” which some of you may have heard live already, “July,” the sister song of “Wildflower and Barley,” written while awaiting the pandemic’s passing, and “That You Are,” a song that I was blessed to write with Bedouine in Los Angeles and record together shortly after.

I sincerely hope you enjoy these additional songs from this chapter. Thank you again for your support, I hope to see some of you at a show soon!”

Following a recent spate of career-affirming milestones that saw Hozier score his first ever UK number 1 album with Unreal Unearth, outselling the entire UK Top 5 combined in release week and also scored the top spot in Ireland, shortly followed by part 1’s release of Unheard EP and subsequent UK number 1 single ‘Too Sweet’, beating both Beyoncé & Benson Boone. The track has currently clocked up a huge 1.6 billion global streams already, and its video has been nominated for Best Alternative Song at the upcoming VMA’s.

He also cemented himself within the upper echelons of musical greats, conquering a run of huge outdoor shows selling out London’s Finsbury Park to 45,000 adoring fans – as well as Dublin’s Marlay Park to the same capacity, plus Glasgow Green and Lytham Festival.

Hozier will continue to make his way through the US & Canada throughout August and September, before heading into Australia and New Zealand in November, as his world domination continues. Visit hozier.com for full worldwide dates and tickets.

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“A classic Hives album filled with boasts, powder-keg energy and punk angst” – NY Times

“Bouncy, shouty, instantly recognisable garage-rock stompers” – The Guardian

‘Playful, juvenile and nails the brief.’ – 4* NME 

“Sounding as undiluted as ever. Their new album is filled with straight-to-the-vein rock and roll riffs and Pelle’s distinctively angular vocal shouts that even verge into rap territory thanks to his machine-gun delivery style” – CLASH

“The album unfurls via a series of taut yet infectious riffs, pummelling drums and impassioned
high-octane vocals” – Uncut

‘The Hives’ subtle reinvention thrills and thrives on The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons.’ – The Line Of Best Fit

Today, The Hives release a show-stopping video for their swaggering single ‘Rigor Mortis Radio’. The video directed by Filip Nilsson finds the band in like never before: synchronized dance decked out in their matching signature suits showing off their best boyband meets Bob Fosse moves as they strut through the streets of South London – watch here.

The video comes off the back of their Summer support tour with Foo Fighters and the announcement of their 2024 North American fall headline tour. The Hives’ largest headline arena concert of their career is coming up at Mexico City’s 20,000 cap Palacio De Los Deportes on Oct 8th. The band’s North American 2023 tour sold out entirely within 15 minutes. See list of full tour dates here.

Last year, The Hives released their first album in over a decade, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, which earned critical praise from The Guardian, NME, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Uncut, Stereogum and more. 

​​In the twenty-five years since The Hives exploded around the world, they have sold out stadiums and shared stages with everyone from AC/DC to The Rolling Stones. SPIN calls The Hives “the best live band on the planet” and Howlin’ Pelle “the greatest frontman in rock,” and the BBC dubbed the band “a force of nature.” Rolling Stone named Veni Vidi Vicious one of the Top 100 Albums of the decade and “Hate To Say I Told You So” earned a spot on Pitchfork’s Top 500 Songs of the 2000’s. They have sold millions of albums world-wide with multiple RIAA Gold-certifications. In the time since Lex Hives, the band has released 2019’s double A-side “I’m Alive”/“Good Samaritan” as well as a live album via Third Man Records, and embarked on a series of global tours. The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons marks a true renaissance.

The Hives are Chris Dangerous, Vigilante Carlstroem, Nicholaus Arson, Howlin’ Pelle, and The Johan And Only.

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Follows March’s First Instalment Unheard EP

Recently Scored His First Ever UK Number 1 Single With ‘Too Sweet’
Smashing Almost 30 Million Global Streams In Its First Week
Top 10 In Spotify Charts In 17 Countries

Last Month Sold Out 45,000 Capacity London Finsbury Park & Dublin Marlay Park

World-renowned, and now UK Number 1-selling singer-songwriter Hozier has today released a second instalment of never-heard-before treats for fans in the shape of Unaired EP. It’s powerful lead single ‘Nobody’s Soldier’, a track highlighting the hugely problematic issues of global arms dealing, is out today – listen here.

The last few weeks has seen some cryptic, exciting teasing, with an initial snippet of ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ posted to setlist.fm, whipping fans into a whirlwind of intrigue, followed by it’s global live debut in full for a thrilled audience at Lollapalooza, during Hozier’s headline set on the Bud Light Stage in Chicago on August 1st. 

Unaired EP will contain three unreleased songs, originally recorded during the sessions for latest chart-topping album Unreal Unearth. As well as ‘Nobody’s Soldier’, the EP will also include ‘July’, produced by Jeff ‘Gitty’ Gitelman (Anderson .Paak, H.E.R.), and ‘That You Are’, produced by Gus Seyffert (Beck, Michael Kiwanuka) – featuring the enthralling Syrian-American folk artist Bedouine.

In a note to fans, Hozier says; “Dear Souls, I want to thank each and everyone of you for everything over this past year. It’s been a privilege to travel and play the music and be met with so much love and support. This has been a very special time for me, thank you all sincerely.

“Nobody’s Soldier,” which some of you may have heard live already, “July,” the sister song of “Wildflower and Barley,” written while awaiting the pandemic’s passing, and “That You Are,” a song that I was blessed to write with Bedouine in Los Angeles and record together shortly after.

I sincerely hope you enjoy these additional songs from this chapter. Thank you again for your support, I hope to see some of you at a show soon!”

Following a recent spate of career-affirming milestones that saw Hozier score his first ever UK number 1 album with Unreal Unearth, outselling the entire UK Top 5 combined in release week and also scored the top spot in Ireland, shortly followed by part 1’s release of Unheard EP and subsequent UK number 1 single ‘Too Sweet’, beating both Beyoncé & Benson Boone. The track has currently clocked up a huge 1.6 billion global streams already, and its video has been nominated for Best Alternative Song at the upcoming VMA’s.

He also cemented himself within the upper echelons of musical greats, conquering a run of huge outdoor shows selling out London’s Finsbury Park to 45,000 adoring fans – as well as Dublin’s Marlay Park to the same capacity, plus Glasgow Green and Lytham Festival.

Hozier will continue to make his way through the US & Canada throughout August and September, before heading into Australia and New Zealand in November, as his world domination continues. Visit hozier.com for full worldwide dates and tickets.

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“A future megastar” – The Guardian

“Scottish indie star-in-waiting already mingling with the greats” – NME

Following her breakout in 2023, which saw her debut mixtape Black Is The New Gold shortlisted at the Scottish Album Of The Year Awards, one of the UK’s most exciting artists Brooke Combe returns with her new single ‘Dancing At The Edge of The World’. Listen to ‘Dancing At The Edge Of The World’ HERE & watch a live version recorded at Nan’s House Studio in Liverpool HERE.

The latest taste of Brooke’s forthcoming debut album, ‘Dancing At The Edge Of The World’ sees Brooke’s beautifully captivating vocals take the front seat in this stunning, laid back soul jam.

“I wrote this after parting ways with a major label. After feeling like I wasn’t able to pursue creating music and lyrics that I felt strongly about, I ended up with a lot of self doubt and felt as though I was jumping through hoops for people that weren’t actually performing these songs themselves,” Brooke says of the single. “It was quite a crucial point in my career. I had to go through that to find my feet. I had to stay true to myself and when I finally had the freedom, my forthcoming debut album pretty much wrote itself. The title of the track came from a book my producer was reading at the time and I instantly resonated with the quote due to the feelings I had surrounding my situation.”

Known for her captivating live shows, Brooke will return to Liverpool for a very special date at The Arts Club in Liverpool on Friday December 13th. Tickets are on-sale HERE.

Tipped by Rolling Stone UK as ‘One of 2023’s defining artists’ in their ‘Ones To Watch’ and in Dork Magazine’s ‘Hype List 2023’ and already garnering support from the likes of The Guardian, NME, Clash, BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and Radio X, Brooke Combe continues to rise as one of the UK’s hottest talents. With more music coming imminently, Brooke is an artist you should not sleep on!

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After recently making her welcomed return, which included a thrilling performance as part of Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival at London’s Southbank Centre last month, as well as a sold out residency at Los Angeles’ Sun Rose on Sunset Strip, Lady Blackbird releases her new single, the stunning psychedelic gospel hymn  ‘Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)’, taken from her brand new studio album Slang Spirituals, out September 13th on BMG.

The soulful orchestral fanfares of this beautiful new track, that has sprung out of the traps being premiered as Zoe Ball’s ‘New To 2’ on BBC Radio 2, and spun by Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music, were penned in hotel bars after exhilarating shows or in impromptu studio sessions, and is a remarkable work of soul-searching and self-acceptance. It sees Lady Blackbird repeating the freeing line, “Heaven is just a game not meant to last,” playfully casting off her previous religious shackles over ornate swells of choral harmony. Listen here and watch the stunning Christian Tirone-directed music video here.

“’Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)’ is a track that embodies the whole ‘Slang Spirituals’ journey, both lyrically and musically,” Lady Blackbird explains. “From the humble soul beginnings, to the psychedelic star bound after life, it’s the story of finding freedom within oneself and singing about it with the acid choir of love!”

Collaborating once again with Black Acid Soul producer Chris Seefried, the pair produce a second album that not only embodies the freewheeling, emotive Lady Blackbird sound, but that also taps into deeply vulnerable lyrics that recount the singer’s challenging ascent to musical stardom.

“Once I entered my teenage years, I started to realise that religion was something that was put on me and it never felt right,” she says. “As I also began to develop my own identity as a queer woman, I felt judged as an outcast and labelled as a sinner. It was burying who I really was and I needed to find a way out.”

In taking charge of her own life and her own sound, Lady Blackbird walks a new path, making each note on Slang Spirituals a step in a radically different direction. Across 11 tracks Lady Blackbird puts her sweeping, cinematic vocal power to use on everything from the finger-picking folk storytelling of ‘Man On A Boat’, euphoric gospel empowerment of ‘Like A Woman’ and the seven-minute avant soul instrumentation of ‘When The Game Is Played On You’.

Lady Blackbird’s debut album Black Acid Soul garnered 5* reviews and won unanimous praise across UK media. She’s dazzled the likes of London’s Union Chapel, The Barbican, KOKO, & Shepherds Bush Empire, as well as supported Gregory Porter on his UK tour and won ‘International Artist of the Year’ at the Jazz FM Awards. Without doubt, her appearance on a star studded Graham Norton show had the country captivated and Taylor Swift lost for superlatives, watch HERE.

Lady Blackbird will be supporting Moby in the UK & Europe on tour as part of his 25th Anniversary of ‘Play’, from September 16th-25th (including London, The O2 on Sep 19th), before heading into Europe for her own headline run from November 16th – December 7th.

“This is my journey of becoming,” she concludes. “It’s me rewriting the book to show the world who I truly am. From being labelled a sinner to finding my acceptance.”

PRAISE FOR LADY BLACKBIRD:
The Times – “A captivating star in the making” / Guardian – “Songs and performances that burn deep into you” / Metro – “See her before she goes galactic” / NY Times – “Enigmatic and arresting”

The Times ★★★★★ | The Guardian ★★★★★ | Mojo ★★★★ | Uncut ★★★★

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Ray LaMontagne – the celebrated Grammy award winner – today shares a new single, ‘I Wouldn’t Change A Thing’ – listen/share here. The track, releasing via the highly independent artist’s newly created label Liula Records, is the third taken from LaMontagne’s forthcoming, highly anticipated studio album, Long Way Home, out August 16th – presave/preorder here.

Additionally, last week LaMontagne shared a new video for ‘Long Way Home’, the previous single and the album’s title track – watch here. A somber, bittersweet rumination on times past, the video features visuals from his son Tobias and collage art by his daughter-in-law Bella.

‘I Wouldn’t Change A Thing’ sees LaMontagne reflect on his journey traveled, accepting the downs with the ups. “If I had the chance to turn back time // I could tell you this my friend // I’d do it all over again // I’d get right back in the ring,” he sings. The track’s jangly guitar strums are complimented by the sorrowful wail of a slide guitar and an easy drumbeat.

The first single ‘Step Into Your Power’ released early June and is the fastest moving track of LaMontagne’s in the last ten years. Accompanied by a stop-motion music video animated by his son Tobias, the foot-tapping, nostalgia laden track features choral backing vocals from The Secret Sisters.

The core of Long Way Home reverberates deep into LaMontagne’s youth—at 21-years-old, in a small club in Minneapolis, he recalls seeing Townes Van Zandt perform live. A line from “To Live Is To Fly” has stuck with him ever since; Van Zandt sang, “When here you been is good an gone, all you keep is the getting there.”

Produced in tandem with Seth Kauffman (Floating Action, Angel Olsen, Lana Del Ray), Long Way Home’s nine moving tracks recall the folk-rock explosion of the early seventies, while aptly sitting among the modern Americana revival that LaMontagne was integral in fueling. Recorded over the course of a few weeks in his home studio, LaMontagne tapped both long-time and new collaborators across the record—The Secret Sisters provide backing vocals on the first three tracks, while the album was engineered and mixed by the team of LaMontagne, Kauffman, and Ariel Bernstein.

LaMontagne reflects, “Thirty years later it occurs to me that every song on Long Way Home is in one way or another honoring the journey. The languorous days of youth and innocence. The countless battles of adulthood, some won, more often lost. It’s been a long hard road, and I wouldn’t change a minute. It took me nine songs to express what Townes managed to say in one line. I guess I still got a lot to learn.”

Acclaimed folk singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne has released eight studio albums since his 2004 debut, Trouble, which is certified RIAA Platinum. 2006’s Till the Sun Turns Black and 2008’s Gossip in the Grain saw RIAA Gold certifications. LaMontagne received two Grammy nominations and won the award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise. In 2010 he began recording as Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs. For his debut album, LaMontagne won four awards, including three Boston Music Awards (Best Male Singer/Songwriter, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year) and an XM Nation Music Award for Acoustic Rock Artist of the Year. LaMontagne has received a nomination from the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards for Best New Touring Artist, the BRIT Awards for International Breakthrough Act, the MOJO Awards for Best New Act, and was given the title of Best Voice in 2006 by Esquire. 

Elles Bailey releases her latest single, “1972,” from her upcoming album, Beneath The Neon Glow, out August 9th via Cooking Vinyl Records.

Co-written with Jess Grommet and Willie Morrison, “1972” is a lively country-funk track inspired by the desire to embrace the present moment. Elles explains, “We live in a world where so much time is spent looking down at our phones or trying to capture an occasion through the lens that sometimes we forget to live in the moment. 1972 is joyful, almost tongue in cheek celebration of doing our best to live in the moment, perhaps like they did in 1972”.

Elles releases a vibrant, nostalgia-filled video that takes us back to the simpler days. The video features appearances from her friends and musical peers. Elles says “This video is a celebration of living in the moment, looking up, marvelling at nature, enjoying friendships, and being present! It was an absolute pleasure to have guest appearances from the fabulous Greta from Beaux Gris Gris and the Apocalypse, blues man Thomas Heppel, Miss Sparkles herself Demi Marriner, and the Queen, Miss Alice Armstrong! I actually wrote a lyric in the song that was inspired by Alice (‘I’ma put on my JaJo Glasses’), so it meant the world that she could be in the video too! The hugest shout-outs to Robin and Greta from Grow Vision for pulling this whole video together in a day! It’s the perfect accompaniment to the song!” Listen to ‘1972’ HERE & watch the video HERE.

Beneath The Neon Glow, Elles’ fourth studio album. Produced by Dan Weller (Enter Shikari) and recorded with her exceptional live band, the album delves into the many facets of love with lyrically vulnerable and brutally honest songwriting. Songwriting that GRTR say “transcends all genres” and “an excellent album that deserves to push Elles Bailey into the higher echelons of contemporary singer-songwriters.”

Early reviews have been glowing. “Brilliant” say Daily Star. “She’s hit a new hooky sweet spot” Classic Rock Magazine proclaimed, the album is awarded 5/5 from Music News and RNR said “Perhaps a Career Best”.

Elles and her top-tier band will tour with the new album in Autumn 2024, including a show at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on November 2nd. Following a jam-packed festival season in the UK and Europe.  Elles will also be doing a UK In-Store tour to celebrate the album’s release in August. Tickets on sale HERE.

Elles is poised for her next big step. Her recent debut on Glastonbury’s Avalon stage highlights her upward momentum. This album marks the perfect point for her continued ascent. As MOJO Magazine put it “Her rise and rise is inevitable”

AUGUST IN-STORE SHOWS:

Sat 10th                  OXFORD, Truck

Sat 10th                  MARLBOROUGH, Sound Knowledge

Sun 11th                 BIRMINGHAM, HMV Vault

Sun 11th                   LEAMINGTON SPA, Temperance

Mon 12th                MANCHESTER, HMV

Mon 12th                LIVERPOOL, Jacaranda

Tue 13th                 LEEDS, Vinyl Whistle

Wed 14th               BRIGHTON, Resident

Thu 15th                  BRISTOL, Rough Trade

SEPTEMBER

Wed 25th               LINCOLN, The Drill

Thu 26th                  NORWICH, Waterfront

Fri 27th                    CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge Junction

Sat 28th                  OXFORD, O2 Academy 2

OCTOBER

Fri 11th                    CARLISLE, Carlisle Blues Festival

Sat 12th                  GLOUCESTER, Gloucester Guildhall

Thu 24th                  EXETER, Exeter Phoenix

Sat 26th                  BRISTOL, SWX

NOVEMBER

Sat 2nd                   LONDON, Islington Assembly Hall

Sun 3rd                   SOUTHAMPTON, Engine Rooms

Thu 14th                  SUNDERLAND, The Fire Station

Fri 15th                    EDINBURGH, Cabaret Voltaire

Sat 16th                  GLASGOW, Oran Mor

Sun 17th                 CHESTER, The Live Rooms

Sat 30th                  WOLVERHAMPTON, KK’s Steel Mill

DECEMBER

Sun 1st                                LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club

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Following a raucous, intimate hometown show at Glasgow’s Garage earlier this week, Twin Atlantic have released the title-track from their forthcoming new album Meltdown. The album will be released on the band’s own label, Staple Diet Records, on August 9th. The band, who play another sold-out underplay in Stirling this evening, will perform a special headline date at Belladrum Festival on Saturday 27th July.

A euphoric, pop-rock anthem ‘Meltdown’ taps into the more emotional side to the record. “This was one of the easiest songs we’ve ever written as a band. It was the last song we added to the album after we felt like a certain flavour was missing, so we wrote this with a real purpose and I think that comes across in the simple nature of all the musical parts that Ross put together,” lead singer Sam McTrusty said of the track. “The track feels really raw and honest, which has always been our mission as a band. With Ross and I being dads of two we are very very familiar with the word meltdown of late. All of that being said after a meltdown you have to step back and learn from it and rebuild. Culturally it feels like we are all experiencing that right now so the word and meaning really resonated with the bigger picture of life going on around us when we made the album.” Listen to ‘Meltdown’ HERE.

Produced by McTrusty and bassist Ross McNae and mixed by longtime collaborator Romesh Dodangoda, from top to bottom Meltdown is a return to form for the band. Eleven slices of infectious, masterful pop-rock, Meltdown is equal parts guitar heavy bangers and emotionally driven heartfelt anthems. With one foot firmly in nostalgia, while wholeheartedly looking to the future, Twin Atlantic are back to their very best. 

Following a headline show at Belladrum Festival this weekend, the band return to the road this winter for a run of UK dates in November. Kicking off at Boilershop in Newcastle, the tour culminates with a show at London’s Brixton Electric on November 14th. Tickets for all shows on sale HERE.

Twin Atlantic play the following UK dates:

July

Fri 26th Stirling, Tolbooth

Sat 27th Kiltarlity, Belladrum Festival

November
Thu 7th Newcastle, Boilershop

Fri 8th Leeds, Wardrobe

Sun 10th Manchester, Academy 2

Tue 12th Cardiff, Tramshed

Wed 13th Oxford, O2 Academy 2

Thu 14th London, Electric Brixton

Sat 16th Norwich, The Waterfront

Sun 17th Birmingham, Academy 2

Fri 22nd Dundee, Fat Sams

Sun, 24th Edinburgh, Assembly Rooms

Now onto their eighth studio album, Twin Atlantic are well and truly veterans in their field. With countless huge tours and two top ten records in their armour, Twin aren’t stopping anytime soon. Long may the reign continue. 

Twin Atlantic are Sam McTrusty, Ross McNae, Barry McKenna & Joe Lazarus

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