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Pulp

Formed 1978 in Sheffield, England and originally called "Arabacus Pulp", Pulp achieved sudden success some thirteen years after their formation and became known during the Britpop era as much for their music as for frontman Jarvis Cocker's antics (notably conducting a stage invasion during Michael Jackson's performance of Earth Song at the 1996 BRIT Awards). The band has gone through several changes, with the best known and most stable lineup being Cocker, keyboardist Candida Doyle (the longest tenured member aside from Cocker, joining in 1984), bassist Steve Mackey, drummer Nick Banks, guitarist/violinist Russell Senior and guitarist Mark Webber.

Achieving little success off the back of a Peel session in 1981, Pulp were finally able to release their debut album, It, in 1983. This album and its 1986 follow-up, Freaks, showcased a Pulp keen on Nick Drake (notably on the single My Lighthouse), with strong folk roots and little sign of the tendencies for storytelling and acid house music which would eventually bring forth success. After the release and commercial flop of Freaks, the band disbanded for a year, though formed a year later to record a third album, Separations. Delayed for three years after its recording, Separations showed Cocker's increasing exposure to acid house, featuring multiple synths, and a hit single, My Legendary Girlfriend, which helped Pulp's career start to rocket.

Their next single, Babies, which would eventually feature on 1994's commercial breakthrough His 'n' Hers, was the first example of the Pulp sound most listeners associate with the band--cheap synths, rolling guitars, and Cocker's deadpan vocals telling a story. His 'n' Hers, in sound, was lumped in with the Britpop movement of the time, receiving commercial as well as critical acclaim. However, it was the 1995 single Common People, awash with Britpop guitars, catchy keyboard lines and that trademark Cocker vocal performance, which finally saw them become known, eventually charting at number 2 in the UK charts. A successful appearance at Glastonbury that summer cemented their fame, and their success was subsequently confirmed by the album Different Class, which arrived at the peak of the Britpop movement and featured the UK hits Common People, Disco 2000 and Sorted for E's & Wizz.

Their last two albums, 1998's darker This Is Hardcore, an album that marked the end of the Britpop era, and 2001's more downbeat We Love Life were commercial successes, but Pulp were no longer as famous or as trendy as they had been in the height of Britpop, and following their curation of a music festival, Auto, in 2002, the band announced that they would be embarking on an "indefinite hiatus". Cocker has since announced that he is to embark on a solo career, making an appearence as the lead singer of the fictonal band The Wyrd Sisters in the fourth Harry Potter film, calling time on Pulp.

In 2003 former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker and British electronica artist Jason Buckle started a side project called Relaxed Muscle. This began as "a laugh" between Pulp rehearsals, but developed once Jarvis realised he could have more fun with a new alter ego than he did as the public figure who could leap on stage to terrify Michael Jackson. In early 2003 Relaxed Muscle began playing gigs. They maintained anonymity by assuming the alter-egos "Darren Spooner" and "Wayne Marsden", respectively. Billing themselves as "the sound of young Doncaster", "Darren" claimed to have met "Wayne" while doing community service ("planting flowers") for burglary. Their fictional criminality fit the project well, with their songs about sex, gambling and domestic violence complementing the depraved character of Relaxed Muscle.

Cocker’s transformation into a violent, wife-beating drunk is ironic when you consider his trademark bookish, slightly effeminate image. When guesting on the celebrity television quiz Shooting Stars, Bob Mortimer jokingly called Cocker "the weed in tweed" and insisted that when throwing mini Babybel cheeses at a giant blow-up poster of Judy Finnigan for cash prizes, that he must do so "in the style of a girl". Cocker continued to avoid detection and, while on-stage as Darren Spooner, took to karate-chopping balsa wood and breaking sugar-glass bottles on other band members.

However, soon Cocker and Buckle's cover was blown while playing a gig in London, despite wearing full eye make-up and skeleton suits. Even with their identities revealed, the band continued playing gigs, capitalizing on their electronic sound to play the likes of Trash club on 20th October, 2003.

Kneecap

Hip-Hop Threesome as

Disclosure

Surrey brothers, Disclosure, effortlessly combine the 2-step garage rhythms and dubstep basslines of their locale with their own rich musical heritage of soul, jazz and 90s hip hop. Crafting their own lo-fi dream-dub sound, Disclosure released their d..

Underworld

Time to down rulers and dump the rules about how to create, consume and categorize dance music. The beautifully blurred clarity of the Underworld playworld; germinated, perfected, dissected, stretched and re-pollinated over their ten-year reign as The..

The Mary Wallopers

New album "Irish Rock n Roll" out now!

https://linktr.ee/themarywallopers

Christy Moore

This is the official Christy Moore Fan Page - for more see: www.christymoore.com

Maribou State

Despite growing up in the same picturesque village in Hertfordshire, Chris Davids and Liam Ivory aka Maribou State customarily ignored each other at school, but discovered their shared passion for music when they both went to University.

Since then..

Self Esteem

Management: louise@goldenarm.me & cherishkaya@googlemail.com

Live: Andy Duggan at Primary ADuggan@wmeagency.com

Instagram @selfesteemselfesteem

Ezra Collective

Femi Koleoso - Drums

TJ Koleoso - Bass

Joe Armon Jones - Keys

Dylan Jones - Trumpet

James Mollison - Saxophone

Floating Points

Mall Grab

love is everything

Mogwai

Mogwai formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar) and Martin Bulloch (drums). Since 1997, the band have released ten studio albums, with their most recent, 2021’s As The Love Continues, being a commercial and critical success, reaching number 1 on the Official UK Album Charts, amassing a Mercury Prize nomination and winning the Scottish Album of the Year award.

The band have also contributed to and written scores for projects with Amazon Prime and Apple TV+. Earlier this year, it was announced that Blazing Griffin, Adler Entertainment, Rock Action Records and Screen Scotland had completed post-production of Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound, a first documentary about the band, directed by longtime collaborator Antony Crook. The documentary had its World Premiere at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, in March 2024 and is currently being shown at film festivals across the world.

Mogwai have recently been in the studio recording new music.

Damien Dempsey

Official page for Damien Dempsey

Kate Tempest

Annie Mac

Chet Faker

Australian-born vocalist, songwriter and producer Chet Faker first endeared himself to a devoted international following with his haunting cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity”, which catapulted him into the spotlight in 2011 and featured on his debut EP, Thinking In Textures. He followed that up with a much-lauded collaborative EP with Flume and his 2014 platinum-selling debut album Built on Glass, which cemented him as a world-class talent and earned him a slew of ARIA Awards. In the years since, he's continued to build a critically acclaimed discography – including 2021 album Hotel Surrender and multiple releases under his birth name Nick Murphy – and has toured the world over playing sold out headline shows and stages including Coachella, Lollapalooza and countless more. In a story of constant reinvention,  his upcoming album A Love For Strangers – featuring new singles "Far Side of the Moon", "Can You Swim?" and "This Time For Real" – is shimmering proof that this evolution is far from over.

Kerri Chandler

Kerri 'Kaoz' Chandler one of deep house music's originators, has been injecting soul into music since the early nineties.

THE AVALANCHES

There are few living musicians as influential and wholly original as world-renowned recording artists, producers and DJs, The Avalanches. Their debut album 'Since I Left You', released in 2000, laid the blueprint for the future of sample-based music in the 21st century. Similarly, their follow up album, 2016’s ‘Wildflower', sits on a patchwork of samples earning the band further critical acclaim across the globe. It’s not only through their studio albums that The Avalanches have made a mark on the musical landscape. They have released cult famous mixtapes that have become heavily coveted collectibles. As DJs, they have performed at their own infamous monthly club night ‘Brains', to the main stage at some of the biggest festivals in the world including Splendour In The Grass, Fuji Rock, Primavera Sound, Glastonbury, Coachella and Creamfields. Big believers in the life-changing power of music, wherever they’re playing and whatever they’re spinning, The Avalanches’ sets will always be joyous, raucous and celebratory affairs. Their highly acclaimed third full-length album 'We Will Always Love You' was released Dec 11, 2020 and has received worldwide critical acclaim. It’s an album for music lovers that many are calling their album of the year.

Girl Band

BIIRD

Barrington Levy

OFFICIAL PAGE FOR BARRINGTON LEVY

Greentea Peng

GREENTEA SENSI OPEN YA EYE.

Soda Blonde

Following two successful introductory EPs (2019's “Terrible Hands” and 2020's “Isolation Content”), Soda Blonde released their debut album, “Small Talk”, in 2021. The LP was subsequently nominated for RTÉ’s Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year and received rave reviews from Paste Magazine, Atwood Magazine, and The Irish Times, who called it "a record so articulate and expressive that its title has to be a wry in-joke."

Dream Big - the second studio album from Irish band Soda Blonde, is far more than a collection of catchy and cathartic pop songs; it’s a mantra – a mission statement from four lifelong friends. It’s their promise to themselves, and a message to all who come along for the ride: A reminder that life is precious, fragile, and fleeting, so we might as well dream big and hold nothing back.

Press release © Mitch Mosk, 2023.

For Those I Love

Sprints

SPRINTS have announced their debut album, 'Letter To Self', out January 5th 2024 on City Slang!

‘Letter To Self' embodies their substantial evolution over the past 3 years. Transforming pain into truth, passion into purpose and perseverance into strength, the Dublin four-piece, who formed in late 2019, have steadily grown in stature, releasing two acclaimed EPs and building a fearsome live reputation. Letter To Self is the sound of Sprints co levelling up once again, revisiting their most vulnerable moments and imbuing their visceral garage-punk with a palpable sense of catharsis that we can all benefit from.

Now, more confident in their opinions and identities than ever, SPRINTS have signed to the iconic label, City Slang and racked up sold-out shows across Ireland, the UK, and Europe as well as a run of shows at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

SPRINTS's debut AA side ‘Kissing Practice’/‘The Cheek’ immediately landed them a fan in BBC 6Music legend Steve Lamacq and, as the year went on, early support from the likes of DIY, NME, So Young and more. Cemented by the reception to the ‘Manifesto EP’ and 'A Modern Job EP', it’s allowed them to dig even deeper into their policy of honesty.

"Screw-you power, relentless motorik rhythms and impressively large choruses." - The Guardian

"The Dublin gang neatly package existential panic into a buzzy, punchy musical box." - DIY Magazine

"On course towards future raucous, beer-soaked headline festival sets." - NME Magazine

Dry Cleaning

As soon as Dry Cleaning finished their debut album New Long Leg – critically acclaimed across the board and number four in the UK album charts – they immediately set about moving fowards. Having already started writing their second record before their first was released, they proposed to producer John Parish that they spend twice as much time on the follow-up, Stumpwork.

Listen to the album and you can feel that increased boldness - vocals which coil tightly around deft and complex riffs, great meshes of instrumental texture and the willingness to launch into full-on abstraction. It is a heady mix that is entirely Dry Cleaning’s own, distinguishing from their contemporaries. “We felt more confident,” says guitarist Tom Dowse. “We could see the bigger picture and knew where to focus our energy more efficiently.”

Ultimately, what defines Dry Cleaning’s second album is the breadth of its scope. Their music is bolder and more expansive.

Gurriers

As the end of the first quarter of the 21st century inches ever closer, our planet precariously teeters from one crisis to the next. Rather than passively sit back and watch, the high-energy Irish guitar quintet Gurriers are firing on all cylinders and confronting the ills of the modern world on their debut album, Come and See, a truly thrilling collection of razor-sharp progressive punk songs.

Come and See explores many themes, be they the end of the world, the disenfranchised youth of Dublin, emigrant friends, the rise of the far right, desensitisation to violence, a pope struggling with belief and love amongst other things.

Gurriers' first album is no ordinary debut, but an exhilarating statement of intent by five people fed up with tiptoeing politely around the chaos. Come and see for yourself.

“It’s impossible to overstate how impressive this album is. It’s not impressive for a debut; it’s not impressive for a punk album; it’s just impressive. It’s unambiguous, it’s unapologetic, it’s quite frankly unbelievable.” 5/5 Dork Magazine

“At Simple Things in Bristol Gurriers riotous art-punk threatens to collapse the venue’s bouncy floor“
5/5 NME

Anna Von Hausswolff

David Kitt

Joy Orbison

RA: Resident Advisor

Job Jobse

Dare

Jyoty

Sam Alfred

DJ/Producer

contact: scalfredd@gmail.com

Say She She

Kean Kavanagh

Friendly Fires

Friendly Fires comprises singer Ed MacFarlane, drummer Jack Savidge, and guitarist Edd Gibson.

Formed out of the ashes of 'First Day Back', the St Albans hardcore band they formed while still at school, Friendly Fires make razor-sharp post-punk that burns through the memories of all the dismal, skinny jeaned ‘80s revivalists you’ve been hearing these past few years. Sounding brittle, knotty and urgent, Friendly Fires are the real deal. With no fat or padding on them at all, their songs possess an elegant sparseness. As guitarist Edd Gibson notes: “The hardest thing I think is to know what to leave out, to know when something is enough.” But amongst all the strpped-back twists, there are also moments full of deep, blessed-out melodies. “I love lush, massive, tingly chords; the My Bloody Valentine sound,” says bassist and singer Ed MacFarlane.

Brògeal

Getdown Services

An international artist from the UK.

Moonchild Sanelly

SexyTadhg

Building a reputation for theatricality, virtuosity, and fearless queer expression, SexyTadhg has had a breakthrough start to their career, including a UK tour with The Mary Wallopers, and Irish TV appearances. SexyTadhg was recently named one of The Irish Times' '50 to Watch' and received the Dublin Fringe Festival’s ‘Radical Spirit’ Award. Their bold commitment to the Irish language, queer visibility, and radical imagination, threads through all their work, like their recent debut EP SEXY, including the bilingual single

Rois

Rose Betts

David Keenan

King Kong Company

King Kong Company are a band with “21st century swagger” (Irish Times), whose “live shows are events, built from sweat soaked late-night electronic buzz and rumble” (Last Mixed Tape) & recently crowned the Best Irish Live Act (2016 Pure M Awards).

Muireann Bradley

Witch

Cardinals

Cardinals start as a joke between two sixteen-year-olds in a sleepy fishing town on the southern coast of Ireland. A whole joke-taken-to-heart later and their difference is marked by an early immersion in Cork’s live music scene, ‘we wanted to juxtapose ourselves,’ says frontman Euan Manning, ‘we have pop-leaning influences and didn’t want to shy away from that.’ Now barely twenty, the six-piece are next in an Irish line changing the sound of alternative music.

Blending Ireland’s musical beating heart with a swell of contemporary frisson, the six-piece are tied to making music they enjoy whilst being perpetually kept outside of their comfort zone. The result is an eclectic gothic amalgam of shoegaze, Irish trad folk, and rock which incorporates 60s Wall of Sound elements for a punk-inflected noise that ‘wants to be warm pop.’ Underpinning this trademark friction is a soft narrative arc which chases a stark vulnerability, ‘I’ve heard music and seen films and somehow felt less alone,’ says Euan, ‘if we can do that for someone else, then that’s cool in my books.’

Alabaster Deplume

Music, words and behaviour, London and Manchester.

New album ‘A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole’ Out Now

https://international-anthem.lnk.to/ABladeBecauseABladeIsWhole

Sophia Stel

Maruja

Artists in the truest sense of the word, Maruja’s ferocious combination of punk, harsh noise, and transcendent cosmic jazz is
fast marking them out as one of the most exciting new acts in the UK. The years spent relentlessly honing their craft are paying off in style, driven not just by passion but rather an all-consuming need to create and perform with a visceral intensity, they are both electrifying and terrifying. Their breathtaking live show has seen the band selling out Supersonic in Paris, The Temple in Athens, Camden’s Underworld and an entire UK tour. Maruja’s debut EP ‘Knocknarea’ ended last year as the No.1 rated EP on RateYourMusic, whilst Anthony Fantano included the release in his 2023 Top 3 EPs. Recent EP ‘Connla’s Well’ is a 5 track collection and the definition of a body of work. Lead single ‘Invisible Man’ garnered support from 6 music, with both a playlist and Maida Vale session. Now having released the huge 'Break The Tension', the band have embarked on a mammoth 45 date UK/European Tour. They will make their US debut in March 2025.

Sassy 009

Seamus Fogarty

The New Eves

Black Nylon

The Orchestra (For Now)

A UK music group.

Hank

The Itch

Little Grandad

George Houston

Sell Everything

Cable Boy

BABYRAT

Trinity Orchestra

Aiken Promotions

Aiken Promotions, with offices in Dublin and Belfast, is Ireland's premier concert promoter.

Gaudion

From the heart of outback New South Wales in Australia, Gaudion captivates audiences with his stunning voice, infectious energy, and heartfelt storytelling. With a vision to create music that inspires love, hope, and reality, Gaudion seamlessly blends Folk, Country, and catchy Pop melodies—drawing influence from the likes of Tracy Chapman, Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, and Ziggy Alberts.

Known for his vibrant stage presence, Gaudion has shared the spotlight with renowned acts such as Hollow Coves, The Dreggs, The Corrs (IRE), Kim Churchill, (+ many more) while lighting up iconic Australian festivals like The Grass Is Greener. 2024 delivered milestones, as Gaudion embarked on a 30+ show European tour in collaboration with Filter Music Group, where the artist found himself working closely with the likes of Steph Strings, Ziggy Alberts and Felipe Baldomir.

With more than 5 million streams as an independent artist, Gaudion has plenty to smile about and his journey has only just begun. As 2025 approaches, Gaudion continues to align new music with shows all over the globe.

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