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mclusky were a band between 1999 and 2005, in which time they made a few friends and three albums. slow-forward 18 years and, thanks to the uncanny pull of nostalgia and gravity, they have made more friends at least. originally persuaded to reform - like ham - to help save a local music venue and for other vaguely charitable reasons, mclusky are now in the process of writing and recording a fourth album and travelling around the world playing rock shows whenever circumstances allow.

mclusky firmly believe that all djs should be french

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Mclusky

Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues

Mclusky - Day of the Deadringers

mclusky

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Gigs

London

Dingwalls

Best known as the manic drummer behind the garage-psych outfit Strange Cages, and more recently Jealous Nostril, ELLiS·D spent ten years flailing his limbs across the tattered kits of UK and Europe’s basement scene before starting out his solo project in 2021. After signing with DIY label Crafting Room Recordings at the turn of the 2022, the ensuing 15 months has seen him in a state of near consistent gigging and touring throughout the sweaty dives of the continent, bringing his raw, mercurial live performance to stages from London to Luxembourg, Bristol to Brussels, Kendal to Kusel.

Backed by a near-continuously shifting set of session musicians on his tours, in the studio ELLiS·D channels the workhorse-like energy of fellow multi-instrumentalists Ty Segall, Prince and Kevin Parker to mould a sound that at once feels familiar but also completely his own, embodying the extravagance and glam-pop sensibilities of the likes of Marc Bolan and New York Dolls with the lyrical sensitivity and intensity of The Smiths and Jehnny Beth, to create something almost uniquely contradictory. Jangly, threadbare guitar riffs weave their way through CAN inspired rhythmic pulses as hook-smeared repetitions and explosive, abstract vocal acrobatics flow and fight their way into psych-driven instrumentals.

After two self-produced EP’s recorded on a shoestring in his mysterious Brighton studio space (known only to its inhabitants as ‘The Carwash’) sold out separate limited cassette runs, February 2023 single ‘Straitjacket Blues’ signified a marked shift as ELLiS·D began exploring new territory with tinges of new wave and disco infused kraut rock weaving its way into his music, gaining consistent radio play from Tom Robinson at BBC Radio 6 alongside support slots for Razorlight at Brighton Dome and Hammersmith Apollo in April 2023. "If you're into twisted, psychosomatic art-rock, ELLiS·D is right up your alley. It's like they've hacked into the matrix of music-making and come up with something entirely new. But the real magic happens during his live shows where every performance is a wild ride, like a game of musical roulette." - Still Listening

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JaguarShoes Collective

ELLiS-D, FEZ and Flip Top Head

ELLiS·D - I Want You To Know

ELLiS-D

Flip Top Head

The Victoria

Plus special guests Tummyache and Fuzzy Heart!

Really Big Really Clever is the new project from Jared Tomkins and Jordan Lilford, formed in 2022 after the split of their previous band Gender Roles. After years of touring, writing & recording together, the pair wasted no time in writing and recording their self-titled debut album (released 1st Dec ‘23 through Beth Shalom Records) at London's The Bookhouse Studio with producer Tom Hill. Expect 10 chaotic fast-paced guitar bangers about doubt, uncertainty and self-help.

The band performs live as a 4 piece with good friends Sam Perkins (drums) and Chris Childs (bass). The band's first shows were opening on tour for Regal Cheer around the UK in February '23, since then shows have followed around the country including showcases at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival, Rotterdam’s Left of the Dial Festival and a September tour with US alt-rockers Church Girls. After support slots with the likes of Tigercub, Chris Farren, Jaws the Shark & more the band set out on the road in December ‘23 for their first headline tour in support of the release of their debut self-titled album.

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Really Big Really Clever

Tummyache - Knee Jerk

Tummyache

Fuzzy Heart

Sebright Arms

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Mando Diao

Gag Salon

O2 Academy Islington



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“Thrilling post-punk pop voodoo with verses almost catchier than choruses that throw a hook into the earlobe and tug on it” - Louder Than War

“The dual vocals of Mia and Laura provide both contrast and then a furious onslaught when they combine on songs. They operate in the main with the accelerator pedal pushed firmly to the floor” - Even The Stars

The post-garage-punk and psychedelic power pop anomaly that is Chemtrails started out as the DIY bedroom recording project of romantic partners Mia Lust and Laura Orlova, evolving into a full band in 2016. Their uncanny talent for blasting out weird but irresistibly catchy pop songs was quickly noticed by Swedish label PNKSLM Recordings, who signed them just after their first gig — at Trans Pride Brighton. After relocating from London to Manchester in 2019, Lust and Orlova joined forces with a ferocious new rhythm section, putting the final piece of the puzzle into place. With Ian Kane on bass and Liam Steers on drums, the Chemtrails machine is now souped up with a turbocharged rhythmic engine, propelling the hook-filled songs to new levels of raw power, as the band sashays between sleazy punk, frantic krautrock and sardonically sassy grooves.

Served on a bed of twangy and fuzzy guitars, primitive synths and polychromatic pop, Mia Lust’s tongue-in-cheek lyrics tackle alienation, the absurd, the human condition, the impending apocalypse and, occasionally, her place in the world as a transgender woman. The band cites their biggest influences as Pixies, Blondie, Oh Sees, Fat White Family and sixties psych and garage punk, but what has always held the whole project together is the endless supply of catchy melodies, delivered with the band’s relentless excitement and energy.

Their upcoming third album, “The Joy of Sects”, promises to be their boldest yet, as Chemtrails return with a more danceable and rhythm-driven style, armed to the teeth with their trademark fuzzy guitars and playfully sinister melodies. Having worked with producer Margo Broom (Fat White Family, Big Joanie, Goat Girl), this time round the group has traded in the homemade DIY approach for a more hi-fi studio sound, which, thanks to Broom’s magic, remains just as raw and wild as ever, but with a whole new level of focus and intensity.

Chemtrails

Blurred Visions

After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her new album Love As Projection. Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, Love As Projection is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop.

Painstakingly written, recorded, and engineered through some of the most tumultuous times in history, this new collection of songs harnesses the power and propulsion of Frankie's early DIY-centric punk days without losing sight of the immersive, dreamlike world-building she's been known for in recent years. Featuring beautiful, ethereal songs like lead-off single "Anything," "Sixteen Ways" and "Come Back," this album is more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence, a newly-defined scope using the tools at her disposal, and the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet.

\------------------------------------------------------------SRSQ (pronounced seer-skew) is the moniker of singer, musician, and elemental force Kennedy Ashlyn. From foundational years as co-founder of visionary shoegaze duo Them Are Us Too (alongside the late, lamented Cash Askew) through her growing body of solo work on Dais Records, she has steadily honed her multi-octave range and moodswing songcraft into an increasingly potent poetic voice. 2019’s celebrated debut, Unreality, showcased a deepening gift for melodic dynamics and emotive exorcism – a mode she half-seriously coined “griefwave.” The album’s passionate response prompted extensive live dates, further sharpening her natural performative instincts.

2023 further confirms Kennedy as an essential generational talent, able to synthesize private struggles and sorrows into stirring, redemptive anthems. Hers is a music of tumult and triumph, darkest night breaking into brightest dawn, where anguish blurs and becomes acceptance. SRSQ’s seeds have only just begun to bloom; looming tours, videos, and more will inevitably hasten an already radiant refinement.

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Frankie Rose Vs SRSQ

Pair Of Wings

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Frankie Rose

The Shacklewell Arms

Austin TV is one of the most important rock bands in Latin America. Despite being an instrumental band, they have a lot to say. Using masks according to the album concept, they give life to their motto ¨Tu Cara No Importa, Importas Tú¨ (Your face does not matter, you matter!).

After a 10 year hiatus they decided to return in 2022 with new music and a strong comeback to the stage. Their message has marked more than one generation, they have performed more than 1,200 shows, released 5 albums and with 21 years of experience, they have managed to carry the flag of independence to new horizons.

Their iconic concept album "Fontana Bella" was produced by Emmanuelle del Real (Café Tacvba´s Keyboardist and composer), released in 2007 at their Vive Latino Festival show. After a 10-year hiatus, they announced their first comeback show, Selling Out in just 3 minutes at Foro Indie Rocks.

Currently they have already finished their new album, being one of the most anticipated albums of 2023 according to Rolling Stone Mexico magazine. 40,000 people witnessed Austin Tv's return to the stage as one of the main acts at Vive Latino 2023, the most important festival in Latin America.

Austin TV surprised everyone with a live session for the cult radio station KEXP, in which they obtained more than 500,000 views in just one month.

Austin TV released their new full length album called "Rizoma" at the end of September 2023. It features 9 instrumental pieces recorded entirely live at Estudios Noviembre in Mexico City.

Austin TV

In 2022 Twang-Pop Post Yacht-Rock Soft Psychers Hutch had an astounding first year releasing three singles, picking up a strong organic following, hitting the festival circuit, receiving BBC and international radio attention, making the glastonbury longlist 2022 and selling out both of their headline shows.  
  
2023 has already seen Hutch on tour, taking their Brighton-crafted twang to all new cities and audiences. As well as securing festival slots for the summer and playing sold out shows across the first few months of the year, they are busy writing and recording new material as well as creating live sessions in staple Brighton venues. As the bands sound becomes more mature and refined, their local and national following marches on: stronger in numbers.  
  
If you want to see “a band as good as ‘Rumors’-era Fleetwood Mac” jump aboard the train to twang town and strap in, we’re going to the moon.

Hutch

Mechanical Bull

It was never the plan to do a hit single,” says Jarrod Gosling, one half of I Monster along with Dean Honer. “We were just mucking about in the studio."

Experimenting, innovating and having fun in the studio with the results unexpectedly taking off has become the blueprint story for this Sheffield duo. From their 2001 track ‘Daydream in Blue’ going top 20 and featuring on endless films, TV shows and adverts, to twenty years later their song ‘Who is She?’ becoming a global TikTok sensation and racking up hundreds of millions of plays, the pair have consistently managed to create wonky electronic pop that feels simultaneously fresh and timeless.

2001’s ‘Daydream in Blue’, a beautifully woozy, unfurling and dreamy piece of pop music that samples The Gunter Kallmann Choir's version of The Wallace Collection's ‘Daydream’ was a re-worked track from their debut album, These Are Our Children, that laid the foundations for their 2003 acclaimed breakthrough album Neveroddoreven. A 20th anniversary reissue of the record is set for March 2024. Such has been the spike of interest in the band, gaining a whole new generation of fans and listeners, that in 2024 they will embark on a UK and EU tour – the pair's first live dates in 18 years.

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