MARTY & OLIVIA WILLSON-PIPER U.K. TOUR!

MARTY & OLIVIA WILLSON-PIPER U.K. TOUR!

Former member of The Church, All About Eve and The Saints, Marty Willson-Piper embark on a UK tour next month, revisiting the guitarist’s extensive career-spanning catalogue on acoustic 12-string guitar and violin.

Says Marty: “After playing together in South America in 2016, Olivia and I set about discovering the possibilities of the 12 string acoustic and the violin, currently interpreting songs from my own back catalogue, and adding a completely new magical layer to tunes that you thought you knew, taking them to new planets, new dimensions and new emotions.”

Best known as a member of Australian luminaries The Church (from its inception in. 1980 through to 2013), Marty Willson-Piper has been writing and performing music for almost four decades. He was also a member of All About Eve and The Saints, and has co-written music with Grace Slick, Aimee Mann, Jules Shear, Susanna Hoffs and Linda Perry, among others. Today he represents one half of Cornish duo Noctorum. Marty is also lead singer and lyricist with Swedish band MOAT and a member of Swedish Prog legends Anekdoten, joining in 2015. Since the mid-1980s, Willson-Piper has maintained a steady solo output as well, with nine releases to date.

Born in a leap year near Cologne with a Polish surname to a Swedish air hostess mother from Västmanland and a German scientist father from “Kraftwerk” city Düsseldorf (who is currently designing bricks for a future moon station), Olivia Willson-Piper started playing the violin when she was nine years old and joined an orchestra at eleven. Playing concerts in Sweden, Russia, Lithuania, Spain and Germany, she became leader of the orchestra at 18. During her Uni years she focused on busking, jam sessions and Jazz violin.

The Willson-Pipers have been featured on Noctorum’s fourth album The Afterlife, are members of Atlantæum Flood and were  part of MOAT’s 2021 release Poison Stream (Schoolkids Records).

Wed, 15th March – The Acorn Theatre, Penzance
Thu, 16th March – Crofters Rights, Bristol
Fri, 17th March – The Slaughtered Lamb, London
Sat, 18th March – House Concert, Worcester
Sun, 19th March – Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham
Mon, 20th March – The Musician, Leicester
Tue, 21st March – Gullivers, Manchester
Wed, 22nd March – Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek
Thu, 23rd March – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
Fri, 24th March – Thornton Hough Village Club, Wirral
Sat, 25th March – Nomad, Liverpool
Sun, 26th March – The Flying Duck, Glasgow
Mon, 27th March – Bannerman’s, Edinburgh

Tickets are on sale here.

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THE HIP PRIESTS Reveal Details Of  ‘Roden House Blues’

THE HIP PRIESTS Reveal Details Of  ‘Roden House Blues’

The details of their new album Roden House Blues, due out May 5th, via The Sign Records. Stream their most recent single “Chasing Death” HERE. 

“The finest Rock N’ Roll band in the UK” – Eddie Spaghetti, Supersuckers

Since their inception in 2006, THE HIP PRIESTS have released a mighty thirty 7” singles, four albums, two compilations and three EPs by various independent labels from all over Europe & the USA. Fiercely independent and tirelessly driven, the ‘Priests have preached their high energy sermon of misanthropy, hate and contempt across numerous tours of the UK, Europe and USA and made countless rapturously received festival appearances.

Gaining a richly deserved reputation as a white-hot live band, the last few years have seen the band’s popularity increasing further with them regularly playing alongside kindred spirits such as THE HELLACOPTERS, GLUECIFER, THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY, NEW BOMB TURKS, DWARVES and ZEKE at both festivals and in clubs. Rave reviews pour in for every release, ranging from ‘a band on top of their game & steps ahead of any of their UK contemporaries’ to ‘if you’re in any doubt about how good these bad boys are then you need locking up’. After 16 years some bands would be taking it easy but in spite of a global pandemic, there was no let-up in their determination and activity. Their fifth, and by far their best full-length album – Roden House Blues – was written, rehearsed, and recorded during this period and will be released May 5th, 2023, via The Sign Records.

Rehearsed, recorded and mixed between the numerous U.K lockdowns in Roden House, one of Nottingham’s former lace factories where the Priests have their own space, and which spawned the album title. This is no Mississippi Blues but perhaps it makes more sense than you think: Howling laments, loss, self-reflection and revelation – alongside some recurring Priests lyrical themes: negativity, nihilism, rage and revolution. After 2019’s Stand for Nothing the band were unsure whether they’d do another album – However, global lockdown inadvertently led to a renewed passion and realization that, like Jagger said, ’what can a poor boy do’ – especially when feeling more lost in a world that increasingly resembles a dumpster fire. A few dozen demos were scrutinized of which, through a stricter than ever group consensus, 14 were recorded but then honed down, razor sharp, into the tightest collection of 11 low-fat, lean and mean banging tunes that could fit into 30 minutes.

11 glorious tracks of High Energy R’n’R, anthemic, adrenalised, sweaty, singalong, life-affirming Rock and Roll. Huge Choruses, colossal dual guitar riffarama, more hooks than a fishing shop, and one hell of an attitude. Punk? Garage Rock? Scandi Rock? Just know this…. They ARE THE HIP PRIESTS and YOU are NOT.

Play Loud or just don’t fuckin’ bother.

Roden House Blues is released on May the 5th and will be available on all streaming platforms, CD, and in three color variants on vinyl; (1) black vinyl, (2) solid turquoise vinyl with solid white splatter, solid black splatter, and solid blue splatter, and (3) transparent/clear vinyl with transparent yellow splatter and transparent pink splatter.

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Märvel – ‘Double Decade’ (The Sign Records)

Märvel – ‘Double Decade’ (The Sign Records)

The self-proclaimed “Barons of High Energy Rock n’ Roll” Märvel celebrate their 20th anniversary with a double album of their greatest hits, B sides and hard to find tracks, collected together on vinyl for the first time.

The Swedish power trio, consisting of The King (Vocals/guitar), The Burgher (bass) and The Vicar (drums) play the sort of high-octane rock n’ roll usually reserved for the likes of Hellacopters, Gluecifer and Turbonegro and are influenced by the most flamboyant and hard-hitting rock bands from the 70’s and 80’s.

‘Double Decade’ follows the release of last year’s ‘Graces Came With Malice’ album and takes the listener on a ride through their 9 studio albums and a plethora of EPs and singles.

They open proceedings with the title track of their 2015 EP ‘The Hills Have Eyes’, a poptastic affair with handclaps, whistling and urgent, bombastic beats. It’s so “Disco Kiss” it could be an outtake from ‘Dynasty’. In complete contrast, ‘Bring It On’ from the same EP, sees the trio veer off the Kiss train into laid back blues slumber, as The King wails ‘Bring it on motherfuckers!” over a sloppily delivered Billy Gibbons riff.

Apart from the most recent ‘Graces Came With Malice’ and the covers opus ‘Guilty Pleasures’, all the studio albums are represented.  You wanted the best; you got the best! From the debut ‘5 Smell City’ to the 2017 release ‘At The Sunshine Factory’, we get a snapshot of the best Märvel have to offer. You want a band who sound like 70’s Kiss meets Hellacopters, with a smattering of Thin Lizzy and Bolan thrown about for good measure? Then look no further.

The punky ‘T.N.H.’ and ‘The Effort’ taken from the excellently titled ‘Warhawks Of War’ are two of my personal faves, along with ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ and the most awesome of B sides that is ‘Ambassador Of Fantastic’.

They include 2 new songs as well. ‘Catch 22’ and the killer ‘Turn The Page’ show that Märvel have not lost the art of penning a catchy chorus or two over the years.

Another highlight and a bit of a curioso is ‘The Devil Stole The Beat From The Lord’, taken from the Hellacopters tribute album ‘Payin The Dues’ and is a faithful rendition of the classic and fits the vibe of this album perfectly.

A lot of these songs you won’t find on streaming sites, there’s no videos on YouTube. Hell, you can’t even find any info on Google (you try typing in “Märvel” followed by “Motherfucker” and scroll through pages of Samuel L Jackson quotes!). But this sort of adds to the anonymity and excitement of the band and sets them apart from their peers.

‘Double Decade’ is a killer 23 track compilation of one of the best unsung bands of Scandinavian rock n’ roll, that have been treading the boards for the past 20 years. If you’ve not discovered the joys of a Märvel album, this is your perfect introduction. Long may they reign supreme.

Author: Ben Hughes

Dunstan Bruce – ‘I Get Knocked Down’

Dunstan Bruce – ‘I Get Knocked Down’

Popcorn? Check

Spraycan for the walls? Check

Loudhailer to annoy the others within 100 yards? Check

Lager Drink? Check

Cider Drink? Check

It’s only a movie by Dunstan Bruce about his band Chumbawumba and what he’s doing now. with I Get Knocked Down you have warts n all no bullshit untold story of Leeds-based anarcho-pop band Chumbawamba. Founding band member Dunstan Bruce is now 59, and he is struggling with the fact that the world seems to be going to hell in a handcart. Twenty years after his fall from grace, Bruce is angry and frustrated, but how does a retired middle-aged radical get back up again? In this punk version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Dunstan is visited by the antagonistic ghost of his anarchist past – his alter ego, ‘Babyhead’ – who forces him to question his own life, sending him on a search for his long-lost anarchist mojo. Following Bruce’s voyage of rediscovery, redemption, and reawakening, I Get Knocked Down acts as a call to arms to those who think activism is best undertaken by someone else.

Set to hit selected cinemas over the next few weeks it’s a fantastic trip down memory lane and some laugh-out-loud clips from their adventures in the gliterry world of rock and roll and a look behind the curtain of the pop world. A wonderful way to while away 90 minutes. The 80s and 90s (like many our age) flew by with a bazillion things to do – pre-internet – pre-social media and Sounds and NME were still a thing and CDs had taken over the world there were still no downloads or mobile phones. Those were certainly the days and the world needed changing and I guess Bruce thought he was gonna change the world and now all these years later with the power of hindsight he did a little bit – well, a little bit more than many pop stars.

I Get Knocked Down is a warm, engaging, and light-hearted look back on his/their time in the limelight. as far as popumentaries go this is a belter, thoroughly enjoyable. Like em or loath them you couldn’t ignore them and their anarchopop – check out this flick and get a warm feeling all over then get out there and fuck the government they’re even shitter than new Labour ended up. If you’re looking for a soundtrack then this is a good ‘un. Leeds punks still have a great sense of humour and don’t take themselves too seriously and this film proves it. Get on it and fly the flag!

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  • MON 6 MAR: QUAD, DERBY (**WITH Q&A) TICKETS
  • TUE 07 MAR: HORSE AND BAMBOO, ROSSENDALE TICKETS
  • SAT 11 MAR: BISCUIT FACTORY, READING (**WITH Q&A) TICKETS
  • WED 15 MAR: GENESIS CINEMA, LONDON (**WITH Q&A) TICKETS
  • MON 27 MAR: CITY VARIETIES, LEEDS
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The Battered Songbook Tour – Peter Doherty

The Battered Songbook Tour – Peter Doherty

Acoustic solo Tour of the UK 

Peter Doherty, the Millennial Jean Genie/Jean Genet, will embark on his first solo acoustic tour in ten years, with a series of intimate ‘Songbook’ shows in the spring. Peter will be performing a selection of nuggets from his back catalogue, including classics from The Libertines, Babyshamble and not forgetting all of his delicious solo projects/records. 

Peter promises to take audiences on an unforgettable ride into his strange and fascinating world where nothing is as it seems and life itself is an intense euphoric dream. Friends and special guests are expected to join him on occasion across these seventeen dates. ‘The Battered Songbook Tour’ culminates in a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on the 5th May. Tickets for the UK shows will go on sale Friday 24th Februaryat 10:00am and are available from: https://linktr.ee/peterdohertyofficial

APRIL

13th THU Belfast – Limelight

14th FRI Dublin – Opium Rooms

15th SAT Cork – Cyprus Avenue

18th TUE Glasgow – SWG3

19th WED Stockton – KU Bar

21st FRI Newcastle – Riverside

22nd SAT Lancaster – Kanteena

23rd SUN Hull – The Welly Club

24th MON Norwich – The Waterfront

26th WED Manchester – O2 Ritz

27th THU Liverpool (Anfield) – The Church

29th SAT Bristol – O2 Academy

30th SUN Falmouth – Princess Pavilion

MAY

2nd TUE Oxford – O2 Academy

3rd WED Sheffield – O2 Academy

4th THU Birmingham – O2 Institute

5th FRI London – Royal Albert Hall

Peter Doherty has released ten albums – three with The Libertines Up The Bracket (2002), The Libertines(2004) & Anthems For Doomed Youth(2015); three with Babyshambles: Down In Albion (2005), Shotters Nation (2007) & Sequel To The Prequel (2013); two solo albums: Grace/Wastelands (2009) & Hamburg Demonstrations (2017); one as Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres (2019) and most recently a collaboration with Frederic Lo The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime (2022).

Two For Tuesday

Two For Tuesday

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The Fine Art of Self Destruction came out at a time before punk rockers were picking up acoustic guitars and doing singer/songwriter songs. I wouldn’t want it to be lost that at that time very few people were mixing Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and punk rock or any of that. You either liked one or the other. I believe liking the Rolling Stones was a sin in my circle of friends at this time. The internet hadn’t been there to absolve us of such sins yet.

There were a few people who liked these mixes of genres and took in everything instead of shunning things. They took it all in and received the transmissions that spoke to their hearts rather than thinking of what was allowed or safe. One of these was a guy who once set fire to bars in the Lower East Side, had things tied inside his dreadlocked hair, and fronted one of the wildest punk rock bands since The New York Dolls… And then says he has a singer/songwriter record coming? Mercy on our souls…

The Fine Art of Self Destruction opened up a new room in Jesse Malin’s world. And maybe, unknowingly at the time, opened up doors for many others who would follow in the future, myself included.

Jesse Malin and Ryan Adams were two of the first people in the forefront of showing that you could sing songs on records in a new way for punk rockers. The songs on The Fine Art of Self Destruction were punk in spirit yet broken and delicate in execution. These are beautiful songs about people in an in between, nocturnal world who “moved to Brooklyn”, back when that meant something, and people who “come so hard but their songs are so slow.” Those were the people I knew. That was a lot of people. And they felt like they were my songs, not that I wrote them, or could’ve, but that they belonged to me in my world. Jesse put those characters in songs that could sit with you on the drives next to Nebraska and Closing Time when you drove home at night.

I don’t think without Jesse making that bold move of doing exactly what he wanted instead of what was expected that I would’ve been here doing what I do now. I think there are a lot of people who could say the same. It’s not that we never heard music like this, we just didn’t know “we” could do it too. You didn’t have to be Dylan, or Bruce, or Tom Waits. You could be a punk rocker who knew three chords and had a story to tell and that was enough.

I also believe that there was no better person to produce this record than Ryan Adams, even though he may have cheated by knowing five or six chords to our three, but he knew what needed to happen with this record. He was in tune and tapped into the spirit. There was a magic Jesse and Ryan both caught on The Fine Art… And I think we’re all better for it.

-Brian Fallon

Over The Moon

Over The Moon

Another Banger from Ms Moon lifted from her debut solo album, ‘Any Other Way’ is all killer and no filler. We’ve been longtime fans of her work and this is another cut from the excellent album ‘Dumb & In Luv’. Buy Here

Rainy Days & Mondays

Rainy Days & Mondays

This new video and single is the light at the end of a very dark tunnel for Mike Peters so lets celebrate this Monday with the brand new video and song off the new album – Take it away MP…

NEXT is the brand new single from The Alarm and is available to listen to now at all DSP’s and online music services. Are you ready for what’s next? 28 February 2023 Subscribe – http://smarturl.it/SubscribeToTheAlarm

“Words cannot express the joy of leaving hospital after a long stay on the wards, especially when it means you have regained your health,” he says, referring to the last year of hospital visits, chemo treatments, and life-threatening pneumonia brought on with the relapse of his leukaemia, which was originally diagnosed in 2005.

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While the single may signal that he’s newly energised from a healthy prognosis and ready to return to what he loves best – recording and performing – the fact is that Peters never stopped doing either of those things. Writing new music and performing it live to hospital staff while undergoing medical procedures to keep his cancer in check, Peters wrote “Next” with his trusty acoustic guitar and an IV stuck in his arm.

“The lyrics of the song were conceived while I was being treated for a leukaemia relapse and a lung that had filled with blood,” Peters explains. “The outcome was uncertain, but the medical and nursing staff did all they could to keep me going and, in fact, were probably the first people to hear what I was working up musically while they did their life saving work. It wasn’t planned, but once the realization hit me that I was going to be in hospital for a long time, I knew I needed my guitar to break the monotony of the isolation. Being able to play music to myself kept me going and I’m convinced that it helped me make the transition back to life.”

As a reminder of what he went through and what he leaves behind, Peters filmed the new video in hospital corridors, a familiar sight in the last year especially. “I wanted to film something that captured the elation of knowing you are going home, moving on, going forwards ready for what lies ahead, for what’s next,” he says. “At night and in between IV sessions, I would walk the very same empty hospital corridors of the North Wales Cancer Centre trying to preserve whatever human strength I could hang on to.”

Gyasi is Born to boogie

Gyasi is Born to boogie
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For those who miss the fun, brash and ballsy, unapologetic rock ‘n’ roll of the early ’70s, fear not, as Gyasi is here to deliver the goods. Following his 2022 album for Alive, Pronounced Jah-See, the Nashville singer/guitarist/songwriter is releasing his new single Baby Blue today, with a full EP out later this month. With heavy riffs, stinging leads and a cocksure swagger, the four tracks manage to tap into the true essence of rock ’n’ roll, while also channelling the flamboyant likes of Bolan and Bowie in equal measure.

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