On April 2, 2021, Travis’ 1997 debut Good Feeling returns to vinyl in its original format for the first time with classic sleeve and original packaging replication. As well as 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl, an exclusive limited–edition red vinyl version is available for pre-order via the Travis official store and UK independent record shops.

Good Feeling was produced by Steve Lillywhite (U2, The Rolling Stones, Morrissey, Peter Gabriel) who teased out the anthemic hooks of the group’s debut single, ‘All I Want to Do Is Rock’, and helped them craft their breakthrough hit, ‘More Than Us’, which went Top 20 in the spring of 1998. Taking Travis into the Top 10 of the UK albums charts, Good Feeling also included the Top 40 singles ‘U16 Girls’, ‘Happy’ & ‘Tied to the 90’s’.

On welcoming Good Feeling back into the world, frontman Fran Healy reflects; “In December 1996, just out of Woodstock in Upstate New York, Travis assembled in the legendary Bearsville Studios with the legendary producer Steve Lilllywhite to begin recording their debut album Good Feeling. Hailed at the time as one of the debuts of the year by the legendary music critic Andy Gill, Good Feeling is us at our rawest. We’re extremely happy to be reissuing it on vinyl for you all.”

Unavailable since its first release, the original version of ‘More Than Us’ is also now available to stream worldwide HERE.

Travis have also announced rescheduled 2022 UK tour dates. Visit https://www.travisonline.com/ for the details:

May

10th – Cambridge, Corn Exchange 

11th – Leeds, O2 Academy 

12th – Bath, The Forum 

14th – Stoke, Victoria Hall 

15th – Birmingham, Symphony Hall 

17th – Manchester, Albert Hall 

18th – Bournemouth, O2 Academy 

20th – London, The Roundhouse 

21st – Newcastle, O2 City Hall 

22nd – Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall 

Good Feeling TRACK LISTING

Side A

1. All I Want to Do Is Rock
2. U16 Girls
3. The Line Is Fine
4. Good Day to Die
5. Good Feeling
6. Midsummer Nights Dreamin’

Side B

1. Tied to the 90’s
2. I Love You Anyways
3. Happy
4. More Than Us
5. Falling Down
6. Funny Thing

Pre-Order Good Feeling LP

• Black vinyl HERE
• Red vinyl HERE
• Stream the album HERE
• Watch Travis videos in HD HERE

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About Craft Recordings:

Craft Recordings is home to one of the largest and most prestigious collections of master recordings and compositions in the world. Its rich and storied repertoire includes legendary artists such as Joan Baez, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, John Lee Hooker, Little Richard, Nine Inch Nails, Thelonious Monk, Otis Redding, R.E.M. and Traveling Wilburys, to name just a few. Renowned imprints with catalogs issued under the Craft banner include Concord, Fania, Fantasy, Fearless, Milestone, Musart, Nitro, Prestige, Riverside, Rounder, Specialty, Stax, Sugar Hill, Vanguard, Vee-Jay and Victory, among many others. Craft creates thoughtfully curated packages, with a meticulous devotion to quality and a commitment to preservation—ensuring that these recordings endure for new generations to discover. Craft Recordings is the catalog label team for Concord Recorded Music. 

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Calling all you lovers out there: one of the UK’s most exciting new artists and multi-instrumentalists, Sid Stone, has released his romantically jazz infused new track, ‘For Lovers’. The track follows the release of the irresistibly catchy ‘Hold On’, as well as his incredible debut Mixtape, ‘Inside/Outside’, which was released on Hotspring Music last year. 

“Oh I need a lover.” Sid’s old-time alluring voice croons in the opening bars of ‘For Lovers’. Partnered with a vivacious electric guitar and tantalizingly smooth backing vocals, ‘For Lovers’ is the feel good soundtrack for Valentines Day. 

“This song is a bit of a homage to all the great love songs that have inspired me so much over the years. Otis, Stevie, Bill Withers, all the soul legends,” Sid said of the track. “Right now feels like a good time to embrace the love vibration within us all and move into a higher plane of vibrational existence.”

Listen To ‘For Lovers’ HERE

Sid burst onto the scene with the release of his debut Mixtape, ‘Inside/Outside’. A sum greater than its individual parts, the mixtape is a rhapsody of isolation, a heartfelt elegy to the process of withdrawing/going within as a necessary means to personal and artistic fulfilment. Listen to ‘Inside/Outside’ EP HERE.

Hailing from Somerset, Sid Stone is a seasoned songwriter and a true artist of his craft. With influences taken from a large gene pool borrowing elements from soul, jazz, pop, rap & dance music, his raw and eloquently disheveled vocals bring together a remarkably diverse, but accessible sound. Already garnering support from The Times, Music Week, The Independent, Mahogany and Spindle Magazine, Sid Stone is poised for greatness and is an artist that is as exciting as he is essential. 

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Sir Rod Stewart loves to sing about love. It’s a subject the legendary singer-songwriter has explored consistently throughout his career as one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Stewart’s fan-adored hits are just right for the moment. 

“I’ve always been a hopeless romantic, and this list is perfect for that candle lit date night,” says Stewart.  “No need to be a DJ, just press play and focus on your lover.”

Available for streaming on February 12, Rhino aims straight for the heart with CUPID, a new love-themed digital playlist from Stewart. The 16-track collection mixes some of his best-known love songs with five rarities that have never been available digitally until now. In celebration of the release, a new Valentine’s Day-themed Instagram filter with audio from the song “Cupid” will make its debut, along with a new lyric video.

CUPID sets the mood with indelible songs like “Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)” (#1US/#5 UK) and “The First Cut Is The Deepest” (#1UK/#21US), both from Stewart’s multi-platinum album, A Night On The Town (1976). That prolific era is revisited for “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)” (#3UK/#4US) from the follow-up, Footloose & Fancy Free (1977), the singer’s second multi-platinum solo album. Meanwhile, the collection’s title track, “Cupid,” is a bonus track taken from the 2009 Expanded Edition of Stewart’s 19th studio album, Human (2001).

The playlist marks the digital debut for several songs, including two b-sides: “Love In The Right Hands,” which accompanied the unplugged version of “Reason To Believe” in 1993, and “One Night,” which was the flip side to “Have I Told You Lately.”

CUPID taps two of Stewart’s best-loved film contributions with the Top 10 US hit, “Love Touch” (1986) from Legal Eagles and the #3 US hit “Faith Of The Heart” (1998) from the Patch Adams Soundtrack; the latter is making its digital debut. 

A number of songs on the playlist spotlight music the singer released during the 1990s, including the Top 40 hit “This” from A Spanner In The Works (1995), “For The First Time” from the platinum-certified If We Fall In Love Tonight (1996) and his tender cover of Van Morrison’s “Have I Told You Lately” from the platinum-certified Vagabond Heart (1991). 

One of the most talented singers in rock and pop music, Stewart has sold more than 250 million records worldwide during a stellar career that includes nine #1 albums and 26 Top 10 singles in the UK; plus 17 Top 10 albums and 16 Top 10 singles in the US.

CUPID – Track Listing:

1. “Cupid”
2. “Have I Told You Lately”
3. “Faith Of The Heart” *
4. “Love Touch”
5. “Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)”
6. “Careless With Our Love” *
7. “For The First Time”
8. “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)”
9. “Kiss Her For Me” *
10. “If Only”
11. “The First Cut Is The Deepest”
12. “Love In The Right Hands” *
13. “This”
14. “Run Back To Your Arms”
15. “Superstar”
16. “One Night” *

* digital debut

“…she’s cracked how to make slick country pop, but these songs prove her talent cuts much deeper….it feels as if her time is now.” – The Sun

“Blending traditional country with blues, rock and a little modern pop sensibility gives this Canadian an edge over her Nashville rivals.” – Daily Star

Today, chart topping musician, vocalist and songwriter Lindsay Ell has dropped the brilliant track, ‘Hits me’, taken from last year’s incredibly personal concept album ‘heart theory’. The song delivers exactly as the title suggests – hitting hard on both a lyrical level, coupled with a driving beat that explodes into a chorus of pure excellence.

Watch the visualiser for ‘Hits me’ HERE

Linday says of the track; “‘Hits me’ is the song that started this whole record.  It was the first song that I wrote and knew that I’d written something special.  The first drum hit  is where all the magic starts and I think that most people can relate to the feeling of shock that this song is about. Particularly now, given the circumstance we’ve collectively been living through this past year.” 

heart theory, Lindsay’s sophomore album, landed in style last year, debuting inside the Top 10 of Billboard’s Top Country Albums and Top 5 on the UK Country Album Chart. Receiving critical acclaim in the UK, The Sun declared that “her time is now”, with the Daily Star suggesting that her “pop sensibility gives this Canadian an edge over her Nashville rivals”, and Fabulous Magazine brilliantly branding Lindsay as “the new country queen” that “could give Tay-Tay a run for her money!”

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Lindsay Ell will be performing songs from heart theory for the first time ever in a #LiveRedesigned concert experience on Friday, Feb 12th, 2021. The show will be a charity event, with all net proceeds donated to Crew Nation and other beneficiary organisations soon to be announced. Lindsay’s band and onsite crew will be paid, but all companies involved will be donating their time and equipment, while artist, creatives and management will be donating their time and services. Special guests performing with Ell will be announced in the coming week. Tickets, which will be based on a pay-what-you-can model, are on sale now and available here. The stream will remain live for 48 hours after the premiere event.

Lindsay Ell is a triple threat: accomplished musician, unique vocalist and awe-inspiring songwriter – an impeccable cross between Sheryl Crow and Taylor Swift. Lindsay honed her craft as a musical stylist and songwriter after being discovered by BTO and The Guess Who’s Randy Bachman (“American Woman” / “Taking Care of Business”) who discovered her at the age of 13. The multi-instrumentalist was soon touring alongside the likes of Luke Bryan, Buddy Guy, and Keith Urban.

“Stirring songs of rebirth from rising Nashville-based star.” – Music Week

“The new country queen’s album ‘Heart Theory’ could give Tay-Tay a run

for her money.” – Fabulous Magazine

https://www.lindsayell.com/

Gearing up for a big year worldwide, Irish international phenomenon, Picture This, return with a new single entitled “Things Are Different” today.  Co-produced by GRAMMY® Award winning producers The Monsters & Strangerz [Justin Bieber, Halsey], German [Camilla Cabello, Liam Payne], and Picture This, “Things Are Different” sets the stage for their forthcoming third studio album to arrive later this year.

Listen to ‘Things Are Different’ HERE

The track’s lyrical intimacy belies its sweeping scope. Cinematic synths coast over rapturous guitars and a stadium-size beat. Everything culminates with an affirmation appropriate for the moment on the chorus, “Just cuz things are different don’t mean anything has changed.” 

Picture This lead singer, Ryan Hennessy, comments on the new single, “‘Things Are Different’ is a song that I may never have written if it wasn’t for the chaos that was going on in the world around me.  Normally I write love songs about people who have been in my life and who I have been in relationships with and this too is a love song. However, this time it is a love song to the world.”  

Ryan continues, “A lot of things are different in the world we live in right now, but what will never change no matter what the circumstances are our morals, our passions, our beliefs and who we are as people. We now as a civilisation have to pick up where we left off and step into a new world with love and compassion in our hearts, both for ourselves and for those around us.”

Representing music’s biggest global underdog story, Picture This have unassumingly captivated listeners in every corner of the world, amassing nearly 300 million total streams, selling out stadiums, and inspiring praise from Billboard, ThisSongIsSick, and many more. Emerging from Ireland with a cinematic pop rock style of their own, the band’s 2017 self-tilted full-length debut, Picture This, kicked off a history-making run. In Ireland, it went triple-platinum, clinched #1 on Ireland’s Overall Chart for four weeks, and topped the Streaming Chart for seven weeks. In its wake, ticket sales eclipsed 500K as they headlined stadiums back home and various hallowed venues, including O2 Shepherd’s Bush London, SSE Arena Belfast, and 3Arena. 2019’s MDRN LV yielded hits such as “One Drink” and “Everything Or Nothing” and stood out as “the top-selling album from an Irish Artist in 2019.” They maintained this momentum by touring with Jonas Brothers and unveiling the 2020 fan favorite “Unconditional.” However, they show no signs of stopping or slowing down in 2021 either.

Following the announcement of their raucous, hook laden debut album, W.L. – out 19th March on Parlophone Records – The Snuts have today released their infectious new single ‘Somebody Loves You’, which premiered on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show, alongside an emotionally uplifting video for the track. 

A love song for the ages, with its title deep-rooted in the desire to check in on people closest to us, the radio-ready indie-pop tune sees the band step into another direction with ‘Somebody Loves You’.

“Three simple words: ‘Somebody Loves You’, spray painted all across my city. It is a simple but powerful reminder,” Jack said of the track. “As the days disappeared into months, I noticed myself and everyone around me scrambling to stay in touch, to check up on each other. There was something really special about this to me. I don’t think anyone really saw that coming. It shouldn’t take a global pandemic to remind us how important the people we care about are, but I’m kind of glad it did.”

A charity close to their hearts, the band teamed up with the Scottish Refugee Council to create the video and help raise awareness for the charity. Directed by Michael Sherrington and shot in Glasgow, the video follows the lives of people directly affected by the actions and efforts of the charity, who with the help of the Scottish Refugee Council have made a home in Glasgow. As well as the band donating the video budget to the charity, the band’s label, Parlophone Records, will also donate all proceeds from downloads of the single.

Speaking of the video Jack said, “When our record label asked what we’d do if they gave us the full video budget, immediately we decided to use our platform to help bring attention to the Scottish Refugee Council here in Glasgow. The song for us is a universal message of love and compassion and the work of this charity and others like it is something I am particularly inspired by.” He continued, “It  is exactly this sense of an expanding and welcoming community spirit we hope to portray with this video.”

Watch the video for ‘Somebody Loves You’ HERE

Hailing from Whitburn, West Lothian, The Snuts have well and truly found their stride on W.L.. Produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Phoenix, M83) and recorded at the Firepit London, the album encapsulates the band’s journey from four working class kids growing up with a dream in Whitburn, to becoming one of the UK’s most exciting and vital bands of the new decade. 

Adored up and down the country for their uninhibited, sweat-drenched live shows, the band have also announced a UK tour for May/June 2021, including 3 sold-out dream shows at Glasgow’s Barrowland.

Tickets on sale now from HERE

The Snuts play the following UK and Irish shows:

April

Fri 30th LIVERPOOL, Sound City 

May

Sat 1st DORSET, Teddy Rocks 

Sun 2nd CARDIFF, Globe SOLD OUT

Tues 4th SHEFFIELD, Leadmill 

Weds 5th LEEDS, Stylus SOLD OUT 

Thurs 6th MIDDLESBROUGH, Town Hall Crypt SOLD OUT 

Sat 8th NORWICH, Waterfront 

Mon 10th BRISTOL, Fleece 

Tues 11th OXFORD, O2 Academy 

Weds 12th MANCHESTER, O2 Ritz SOLD OUT 

Fri 14th EDINBURGH, Corn Exchange SOLD OUT 

Sat 15th LONDON, O2 Kentish Town Forum 

Mon 17th DERBY, The Venue 

Tues 18th BRIGHTON, Concorde 2

Weds 19th EXETER, Phoenix

Fri 21st COLCHESTER, Arts Centre 

Sat 22nd HULL, Asylum 

Sun 23rd BLACKPOOL, Waterloo SOLD OUT 

Tues 25th DUBLIN, Button Factory 

Weds 26th BELFAST, Empire 

Fri 28th LEEDS, Temple Newsham 

Sat 29th WARRINGTON, Neighbourhood Weekender

Sun 30th NEWCASTLE, This Is Tomorrow 

June

Tues 1st BIRMINGHAM, Sonic Wave Closing Party – O2 Institute

Tues 8th GLASGOW, Barrowland SOLD OUT

Thurs 10th GLASGOW, Barrowland SOLD OUT

Fri 11th GLASGOW, Barrowland SOLD OUT

The Snuts are: Jack Cochrane (vocals/guitar), Joe McGillveray (guitar), Callum ‘29’ Wilson (bass) and Jordan ‘Joko’ Mackay (drums).

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About Scottish Refugee Council

Scottish Refugee Council are an independent charity dedicated to supporting people in need of refugee protection. Through direct services they provide practical support, advice and a listening ear to help people rebuild their lives in a sustainable and meaningful way. 

After a year of worldwide restraint and pent up dissatisfaction, Tanzanian-born and London-based singer, songwriter and producer, Tiggs Da Author, comes bursting out of the traps in 2021 with the announcement of his stellar debut album, ‘Blame It On The Youts’ – out March 12th on Alacran Records.

Recorded in the storied RAK studios with engineer Jonathan Quarmby (Lewis Capaldi, Tom Walker, Plan B), and featuring a highly charged, twelve-dose blend of Afrobeat, Afrojazz and Afrosoul splendour, ‘Blame It On The Youts’ is a bold, bright & brilliant album, packed full of hard hitting messages born from frustration, but with the aim to inspire and help make a change. This is an album that lyrically resonates in the current climate. It’s an album that has something to say.

Tiggs also today drops a brand new single from the album – ‘Fly ‘Em High’ – featuring UK rapper Nines, whom he performed on and co-wrote the track ‘Oh My’ with, which landed a coveted slot on the soundtrack to the huge Netflix show Top Boy – as well as collaborating on Nines’ track ‘NIC’ from, his UK number 1 album‘Crabs In A Bucket’. The song, produced by Show n Prove receivedits first spin onBBC 1Xtralast night from DJ Target. Watch the Jack Brown / JB London Animation  – directed arcade visualiser HERE.

Tiggs says of the track; “Myself and Nines have been working together since around 2015. Since then we’ve just been making back to back bangers! We have good chemistry, so it makes everything easier. This song speaks for itself, has a nice vibe and as always, is a little different. We don’t try to recreate. This is one of the pockets we haven’t explored before.”With Nines adding; “Tiggs is a very special artist. I always enjoy working with him.”

The album is biographical, but its sentiments ring loud and clear. “Listen to this and you’ll be in the brain of this teenager who’s explaining exactly how he feels. Me moving from Tanzania then growing up in south London with no father figure. You just have to learn from your mistakes and teach yourself how to be a man.”

Equally important is representing as much as possible multiple sounds of Africa. Mali has its own sound, Congo its own sound, South Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria…Africa has multiple sonic tributaries, and many of them flow together on Tiggs’ vibrant, vivid, continent-sized album.

Growing up in New Cross, London, Tiggs loved football first, and played to semi professional level. But then in came grime. Dizzee Rascal and Kano in particular. Ghanaian north Londoner Swaytook him under his wing, mentoring Tiggs, helping introduce him to labels and ultimately cooking up a collaboration between Sway, Tiggs and YouTuber-turned-musician KSI.

2019 saw the release of his eleven-track ‘MOREFIRE’ mixtape featuring guest appearances from NSG  & NOT3S. Additionally, Tiggs produced, co-wrote, and featured on Stefflon Don’s single‘Pretty Girl’, and contributed to J Hus’ gold-selling debut album ‘Common Sense’.

This is the Tiggs story, told via an album that further amplifies the success of the African wave of artists like Burna Boy and Naira Marley– and that also taps into neo-the new strain of classic soul exemplified by Leon Bridges and Michael Kiwanuka. Equally, though, as we might expect from the title, ‘Blame It On The Youts’ is an album in touch with the realities of life right now.

It is, he concludes, his journey, his story and his success. Twelve tracks that chronicle a young life. “It’s a journey that starts in Tanzania, goes to New Cross, and will hopefully end up on a stage somewhere in Europe in the near future. The album captures everything.”

‘Blame It On The Youts’– Track Listing

1. Enough
2. Zulu Gang
3. We Ain’t Scared
4. Hands Up
5. Suitcase Of Sins
6. Just A Little
7. Blame It On The Youts
8. Brand New
9. Chasing Love
10. Thank You
11. Fly ‘Em High (ft. Nines)

Pre-Order the album HERE

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Hot on the heels of “No Son of Mine,” Foo Fighters unleash another dose of Medicine at Midnight in the form of “Waiting on a War”. The track is a sprawling melodic opus that gradually builds to a patented FF rave-up.

If “Waiting on a War” seems to have an especially emotional heft to its lyrics, well, that’s because it does. Dave Grohl recounts the personal anecdote that inspired the song:

Last fall, as I was driving my daughter to school, she turned to me and asked, “Daddy, is there going to be a war?” My heart sank as I realized that she was now living under the same dark cloud that I had felt 40 years ago. 

I wrote “Waiting on a War” that day.

Everyday waiting for the sky to fall. Is there more to this than that? Is there more to this than just waiting on a war? Because I need more. We all do. 

This song was written for my daughter, Harper, who deserves a future, just as every child does. 

Medicine at Midnight (out February 5th on Roswell Records/Columbia Records) is produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters, engineered by Darrell Thorp and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and packs the following nine songs into a tight-ass 37 minutes:

      Making a Fire

      Shame Shame

      Cloudspotter

      Waiting on a War

      Medicine at Midnight

      No Son of Mine

      Holding Poison

      Chasing Birds

      Love Dies Young

Foo Fighters are Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, and Rami Jaffee.

Culture Club frontman Boy George, Pretty Reckless bandleader Taylor Momsen, Award-winning comedian and After Life star Ricky Gervais, and Ground Control supergroup with Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction), Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), and Chris Chaney (Jane’s Addiction) and six-time Ivor Novello Award winner Gary Barlow (Take That) will take the virtual stage for “A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!”, the global streaming concert bringing together a dazzling array of artists who worked with David Bowie or who were inspired and influenced by his work — for a celebration of what would have been his 74th birthday and the weekend of the fifth anniversary of his passing. Presented by Mike Garson, David Bowie’s longest-standing band member, the concert will stream on January 8 beginning at 6pm PT/2am GMT.   

The all-star show will also feature previously announced artists including the Grammy award-winning British music icons Duran Duran, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), William Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), UK chart topping YUNGBLUD, Grammy Award-winning guitar legend Peter Frampton, three-time Grammy nominee Andra Day, vocal sensation Adam Lambert, Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman, Gavin Rossdale (Bush), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction), Kind Heaven Orchestra vocalist Etty Lau Farrell, Grammy-winning singer Macy Gray, Ian Astbury (The Cult), Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), actor/musician Michael C. Hall, Mott the Hoople icon Ian Hunter, singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist Anna Calvi, award-winning musician Atticus Ross, How to Destroy Angels vocalist Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz), Bernard Fowler (Rolling Stones), Corey Glover (Living Color), Tony-winner Lena Hall, vocal phenom Judith Hill (Grammy winner for 20 Feet From Stardom), Charlie Sexton (David Bowie, Bob Dylan), Grammy nominee Catherine Russell and more.

Produced by Mike Garson in partnership with Stacey Sher and Kerry Brown together with Rolling Live Studios, A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day! will be an experience to be talked about for years, featuring a lineup of artists that have never before performed together offering stirring and brand-new renditions of Bowie’s greatest hits alongside treasured fan favorites. 

The featured vocalists will join alumni members of Bowie’s bands spanning his 1969 self-titled album through his final album, Blackstar. Alumni taking the stage to honor Bowie include Grammy Award-winning saxophone phenom David Sanborn, Bowie’s longtime record producer and musician Tony Visconti, Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and a career-spanning list of artists including Bowie’s final touring band of Mike Garson, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Sterling Campbell, Gerry Leonard and Catherine Russell along with Zack Alford, Carlos Alomar, Kevin Armstrong, Everett Bradley, Matt Chamberlain, Ava Cherry, Alan Childs, Robin Clark, Richard Cottle, Greg Errico, Mark Guiliana, Emm Gryner, Omar Hakim, Stan Harrison, Henry Hey, Clare Hirst, Erdal Kızılçay, Emir Ksasan, Tim Lefebvre, Tony Levin, Geoff MacCormack, Martha Mooke, Andy Newmark, Holly Palmer, Mark Plati, Carmine Rojas, Pablo Rosario, and Charlie Sexton.

In addition, child internet drumming sensation Nandi Bushell, Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno, Fiction Plane frontman Joe Sumner, and vocalist Simon Westbrook will make special appearances along with The Section Quartet and more. 

A Bowie Celebration is proud to announce they will donate $2 per ticket purchase to the Save the Children organization, a charity that was deeply important to Bowie. In 1997, the organization was the beneficiary of funds raised from Bowie’s sold-out 50th Birthday Concert held in Madison Square Garden and featuring many of the artists who are coming together for this event to honor a man who was their band member, friend, and inspiration. 

Starting at 6 pm PT/2am GMT, the show will continue to play on loop and will remain available for ticket holders around the globe to enjoy for 24 hours after its initial stream. With over three hours of music, the show will offer fans the opportunity to enjoy, reminisce and experience their favorite Bowie songs as never before — performed by David’s friends, bandmates, and those with whom he was the soundtrack to their lives.

Ultimate Ears Pro has partnered with Rolling Live Studios and A Bowie Celebration to provide artists with the industry standard in-ear monitoring solution for live performances. Fans can get their own set of collectible A Bowie Celebration inspired UE Pro earphones. The show will broadcast on RollingLiveStudios.com via Lucra, a new streaming platform built by Streamlabs. Ultimate Ears Pro and Streamlabs are a part of Logitech, a leading provider of audio and streaming tools. 

“A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!” has joined with HYFI, a leading destination for the highest-quality 4K and HDR on-demand concert programming and virtual live entertainment, as an entertainment partner for the event. The concert will be available online, as well as via the HYFI app where fans can enjoy A Bowie Celebration on their televisions and other devices. 

Fans can visit the event page at http://rollinglivestudios.com/bowie or HYFI.com/Bowie to buy tickets, purchase VIP experiences, and order exclusive merchandise. VIP ticket bundles offer fans a variety of exclusive opportunities and merchandise including everything from access to a pre-show soundcheck and an after-show Q&A with members of the band.

Artist lineup is subject to change. This sales promotion is conducted by A Bowie Celebration.

To learn more about A Bowie Celebration, visit Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Mike Garson 

Universally respected for his impressive skills as a pianist, Mike Garson is a respected composer, performer and educator, as well. He is perhaps best known for his relationship with David Bowie which began in 1972 for Bowie’s first performances in the United States. Garson made his mark on dozens of Bowie albums and travelled thousands of miles with him on his world tours. In 2006, Mike accompanied Bowie for his final public American performance.

In more recent years, Garson has headlined his critically acclaimed concert production “A Bowie Celebration” touring the world with fellow alumni band members of Bowie’s bands along with world-class vocalists. He is also the subject of the international bestselling biography of his life, “Bowie’s Piano Man – The Life of Mike Garson” by Clifford Slapper.

Garson is as comfortable in jazz, classical, pop and the rock arena and is considered one of the world’s best improvisers who has also composed thousands of pieces in every imaginable style. He continues to be called into duty as the secret weapon behind billboard-topping, Grammy lauded albums, tours and longstanding artist success.

About Rolling Live Studios 

Rolling Live Studios takes virtual live events to the next level. Since its inception, Rolling Live Studios has produced over 50 live virtual events and helped raise over $15 million in donations for an array of charities. Recent credits include On The Air, Chrysalis Night In – Virtual Gala, Richard and Demi Weitz’s RW Quarantunes, and livestreams for The Recording Academy. Rolling Live Studios was founded by Kerry Brown, who has managed and produced multi-platinum artists (The Smashing Pumpkins, Miley Cyrus, Cheap Trick, among others), feature films, television and video games (Blow, Along Came Polly, Scream, The Academy Awards, and more). Kerry produced the live multimedia show BLACKOUT, a collaboration between PepsiCo and the NFL to celebrate the Superbowl, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday party, among other live events.

About Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. Since our founding more than 100 years ago, we’ve changed the lives of more than 1 billion children. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Sturgill Simpson has released his second surprise bluegrass album in two months:  Cuttin’ Grass’ Vol 2 – The Cowboy Arms Sessions (Vol 1 released digitally in October and physical is out now).  Produced by David Ferguson, Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 is out now digitally on High Top Mountain Records via Thirty Tigers.  Vinyl preorder available now for release April 2, 2021. Listen to Vol 2 HERE

For Cuttin’ Grass, Volume 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions, Simpson reunites with an A Team of acoustic musicians — now dubbed “The Hillbilly Avengers” – to once again revisit and reinterpret his catalogue. But going back into the studio so quickly after releasing Volume1 didn’t mean simply repeating a formula. “On Volume 2, we recorded everything I was too afraid to do on Volume 1,” says Simpson. “It’s hard to deny that this is a much more personal record. I was thinking about my kids, my grandfather, my wife.”

TRACKLIST for Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 – The Cowboy Arms Sessions

1. Call to Arms
2. Brace for Impact (Live a Little)
3. Oh Sarah
4. Sea Stories
5. Hero
6. Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
7. Jesus Boogie
8. Keep It Between the Lines
9. You Can Have the Crown
10. Tennessee
11. Some Days
12. Hobo Cartoon

*All songs written by Sturgill Simpson, with the exception of “Hobo Cartoon” which is written by Merle Haggard and Sturgill Simpson

PLAYERS

Vocals, Rhythm Guitar: Sturgill Simpson

Mandolin, Vocals: Sierra Hull

Bass: Mike Bub

Fiddle, Vocals: Stuart Duncan

Banjo, Vocals: Scott Vestal

Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Vocals: Tim O’Brien

Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Vocals: Mark Howard

Percussion, Vocals: Miles Miller

Executive Producer: Ora Simpson

Produced: David Ferguson

Recorded and Engineered by: Sean Sullivan

Mastered by: Richard Dodd

About Sturgill Simpson:

Since breaking through in 2014 with his Grammy-nominated Metamodern Sounds in Country Music album, Sturgill Simpson has established himself as one of the most daring and most acclaimed artists of our time. His music stretches across genres and styles, from the psychedelic soul of 2016’s A Sailor’s Guide To Earth (Grammy-nominated for Album of the Year and winner for Best Country Album) to the fuzzed-out rock attack of Sound & Fury in 2019, which is currently nominated for Best Rock Album for the 2021 Grammy Awards.

Simpson debuted in 2013 with his independent release High Top Mountain. Since then, he has challenged musical expectations—from recording with Kesha to touring with Guns n’ Roses—and branched out into the world of film and television. After making his acting debut in the CBS All Access series$1, he has appeared in several movies, including Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die (for which he also wrote and performed the theme song), and had a pivotal role in the award-winning Queen & Slim. The Sound & Fury album was accompanied by a groundbreaking anime film (an interest he picked up during his years in the Navy), on Netflix. Simpson also remains committed to philanthropy, supporting such non-profit organizations as the Special Forces Foundation, Equity Alliance, and MusiCares.

After a ferocious start to 2020, which saw the band land a top 15 album chart position with their debut Mixtape EP, The Snuts have announced their raucous, hook laden debut album, W.L. –out 19th March on Parlophone Records.

Hailing from Whitburn, West Lothian, The Snuts have well and truly found their stride on W.L.. Produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Phoenix, M83) and recorded at the Firepit London, the album encapsulates the band’s journey from four working class kids growing up with a dream in Whitburn, to becoming one of the UK’s most exciting and vital bands of the new decade. The album openswith the poignant ‘Top Deck’, windingthrough a voyage of genres including the raw, rousing, hip-hop driven ‘Elephants, heart-wrenchingly honest ‘Boardwalk’, the undeniable pop banger ‘Somebody Loves You’, the hauntingly heartfelt anthem ‘Always’ and the main stage festival ready hymn, ‘All Your Friends’.

“Our debut album W.L. is our lifetime work. It’s a collection of milestones and melodies that time stamp a dream we had becoming a reality.” Lead singer Jack Cochrane reflects. “It’s a record about being true, loving and resilient.”

The band also share a brand-new clip offan-favourite ‘Glasgow’. This joyous pop tinged guitar classic takes us right back to the band’s roots. Watch the visual HERE 

Adored up and down the country for their uninhibited, sweat-drenched live shows, the band have also announced a UK tour for May/June2021, including adream show at Glasgow’s Barrowlands on 11th June. Jack Said of the milestone “We promised ourselves that playing the world famous Barrowlands and releasing our debut record would be eternally intertwined. This occasion is a celebration of that fact for us as a band and the fans who have supported us unconditionally.” Artist presale tickets for the tour available 10am Wednesday 9th December and general sale 10am Friday 11th Decemberfrom HERE

The Snuts play the following UK and Irish shows:

April

Fri 30th                                    LIVERPOOL, Sound City

May

Sat 1st                                        DORSET, Teddy Rocks

Sun 2nd                                     CARDIFF, Globe

Tues 4th                                     SHEFFIELD, Leadmill

Weds 5th                                    LEEDS, Stylus

Thurs 6th                                   MIDDLESBROUGH, Town Hall Crypt

Sat 8th                                         NORWICH, Waterfront

Mon 10th                                     BRISTOL, Fleece

Tues 11th                                     OXFORD, O2 Academy

Weds 12th                                   MANCHESTER, O2 Ritz

Fri 14th                                         EDINBURGH, Corn Exchange

Sat 15th                                          LONDON, O2 Kentish Town Forum

Mon 17th                                        DERBY, The Venue

Tues 18th                                        BRIGHTON, Concorde 2

Weds 19th                                       EXETER, Phoenix

Fri 21st                                            COLCHESTER, Arts Centre

Sat 22nd                                           HULL, Asylum

Sun 23rd                                          BLACKPOOL, Waterloo

Tues 25th                                         DUBLIN, Button Factory

Weds 26th                                        BELFAST, Empire

Fri 28th                                             LEEDS, Temple Newsham

Sat 29th                                              WARRINGTON, Neighbourhood Weekender

Sun 30th                                            NEWCASTLE, This Is Tomorrow

June

Tues 1st                                              BIRMINGHAM, Sonic Wave Closing Party – O2 Institute

Fri 11th                                               GLASGOW, Barrowland

A band with their feet firmly grounded in a sense of community and never forgetting where they came from, together with their devoted fan base they raised over £3300 for their crew who had been left without work earlier this year. Jack also established himself as a voice for the people, writing an impassioned open letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as part of the #LetTheMusicPlay.

2020 was the year the UK’s most exciting act, The Snuts, had in their sites:a sold-out UK tour, a top 15 EP in the UK album chart and aband on the tip of everyone’s tongues. The map was routed, but the world had other ideas. With a year thathasseen Covid-19 derail the music industry, the band found themselves on a re-route, as resilient as they are essential, 2021 is the year of The Snuts.

Tracklisting:

1. Top Deck
2. Always
3. Juan Belmonte
4. All Your Friends
5. Somebody Loves You
6. Glasgow
7. No Place I’d Rather Go
8. Boardwalk
9. Maybe California
10. Don’t Forget It (Punk)
11. Coffee & Cigarettes
12. Elephants
13. Sing For Your Supper

The Snuts are: Jack Cochrane (vocals/guitar), Joe McGillveray (guitar), Callum ‘29’ Wilson (bass) and Jordan ‘Joko’ Mackay (drums).

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