Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store unplugged performance and signing from Clémentine March. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest EP 'My Empty Town' released 3rd March via Lost Map Records.

*My Empty Town follows the release in 2020 of Clémentine March’s debut album Le Continent on Lost Map, and its stripped-back follow-up, 2021’s Songs of Resilience. Clémentine’s music has won her admirers throughout the music world, including BBC 6 Music’s Stuart Maconie who has featured her several times on his show the Freak Zone, and selected the song ‘Into The Distance’ as part of his Best New Music of 2021playlist. She has toured extensively around the UK and Europe, including as solo tour support for feted American indie-rock band Big Thief. In parallel with her burgeoning solo career, Clémentine has become a much in-demand multi-instrumentalist, particularly on bass, for artists including Snapped Ankles, Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume, Dana Gavanski, Bamboo, Yama Warashi, Naima Bock, Blue House, Bas Jan, Floating World Pictures and Haha Sounds Collective.*

*‘Silence’ is the third track from the My Empty Town EP to be released. ‘Elixir’ – a psychedelic reworking of a song from Clémentine’s 2020 debut album Le Continent, given new life by producer Toby Burroughs (POZI), and featuring Phil MFU (Vanishing Twin) on Moog and electronics, Ursula Russell (Snapped Ankles) on drums, James Howard (Blue House, Dana Gavanski) on bass and Dimitrios Ntontis on organ and synths – came out in 2020. Featuring the same line-up of players, the scuzzy ‘Isolated’was released in 2021. The My Empty Town EP is completed by the title track, a woozy bossa nova written during the pandemic, with themes of dislocation and malaise that refer to that period.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new EP on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/clementine-march/my-empty-town-ep

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Clémentine March: Unplugged + Signing

Elixir - Single Version

Clémentine March

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Rough Trade West is very excited to present a special instore performance and signing with ARXX. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album 'Ride or Die' arriving on March 31st via Submarine Cat Records.

*Rough Trade tip packed with infectious pop nuggets. Queer alt-rock Brighton duo Arxx  release their debut album Ride Or Die. Produced by long-term collaborator Steve Ansell (Blood Red Shoes), and mastered by Katie Tavini (Arlo Parks), the album is an infectious package of bittersweet emotions, teeming with sparkling, uplifting synths, unapologetic bass licks and soaring vocals designed to envelop the listener in a empathetic blanket of cathartic-yet-ambivalent post-heartbreak warmth. For fans of Peaness, Big Moon, Charli XCX and Haim.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/arxx/ride-or-die-2

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ARXX: Acoustic + Signing

ARXX - The Last Time

ARXX 

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store unplugged performance and signing from Alberta Cross. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album 'Sinking Ships' released 31st March via AMK.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/alberta-cross/sinking-ships

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Alberta Cross: Unplugged + Signing

Alberta Cross - Between You And Me

Alberta Cross - Between You and Me

Alberta Cross

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store In Conversation and signing from The Only Ones and author Simon Wright. This unique event celebrates the release of the Simon's book 'It’s The Truth – Making The Only Ones' released April 1st.

*The Only Ones were the most important band to emerge in 1977, artistically if not commercially. Their eponymous first LP presents a wonderful sense of possibilities and excitement, of a band standing on the verge of something fantastic. And the presence of Another Girl, Another Planet – ‘arguably the best rock single ever recorded’ according to Allmusic.com – illustrates how not being a hit can extend the shelf life of a song.*

*Working from new interviews with the band members, Simon Wright documents the formation and early days of this enigmatic group and explains why they never achieved the massive success they deserved. Illustrated with previously unseen photographs, it’s an account of how four musicians from very different backgrounds made an exhilarating LP which grafted punk attitude onto rock ‘n’ roll rootstock.*

*Odds-on that your favourite musician has this LP in their collection: read this book to find out why.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new book to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/simon-wright/its-the-truth-making-the-only-ones/paperback

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The Only Ones: In Conversation with Simon Wright + Signing

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

The Only Ones

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Artist signing

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store live performance and signing from Ben Gregory. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album 'Episode' released on April 7th via Transgressive.

*It is impossible to separate Ben Gregory’s majestic, multi-faceted and emotionally wrenching debut solo album Episode from a period of profound personal upheaval. In 2019 Blaenavon, the much-beloved band with whom he released two widely acclaimed albums, was dissolving. Not unrelatedly, Gregory was receiving treatment in psychiatric hospitals. “Everything on ‘Episode’ comes back to my struggle to interpret, or reinterpret, my life and its core relationships, after having my concept of reality revoked,” he says. “This may sound dramatic, but it’s hard to know if you can trust how you feel about a partner, a situation, a future, when you’ve sat in a hospital bed, torn a newspaper to shreds, sat back and watched it put itself back together.”*

*Over a ten-day period he wrote the eight songs that would become Episode, songs which sprawl out across the vast emotional spectrum he had experienced in the months beforehand. The instrumentals that back those songs are breath-taking. Gregory – with the help of producer and old friend Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets and engineer Matt Twaites – pushing his music to limits far beyond anything he’s reached in the past.*

*Episode is a record of unbelievable capacity, in which is to be found true catharsis, the type of record that does not come around often.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/ben-gregory/episode

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Ben Gregory: Live + Signing

Ben Gregory - blue sea blue

Ben Gregory - Blue Sea Blue

Ben Gregory

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an unplugged performance and signing from Pixey. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Dreams, Pains and Paper Planes' released on April 7th via Chess Club.

Some tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/pixey/dreams-pains-and-paper-planes

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Pixey: Unplugged + Signing

Free to Live in Colour

Pixey

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store unplugged performance and signing from SBT. This unique event celebrates the release of the Sarabeth Tucek's new album 'Joan of All' released on May 19th 2023 via Ocean Omen Records.

*Sarabeth Tucek emerges from a decade-long hibernation with a new double-album Joan of All under the new moniker SBT – a longtime nickname given to her by the many musicians she has worked with throughout her career. After retreating from the fevered pace of the record business to concentrate on other creative endeavors, Sarabeth began to piece together the music that would eventually become her most ambitious, personal project yet – the sprawling double-album Joan Of All, via her own freshly-minted imprint Ocean Omen.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/sbt/joan-of-all

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SBT (Sarabeth Tucek): Unplugged + Signing

Sarabeth Tucek - Get Well Soon

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store unplugged performance and signing from Martin Luke Brown. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album 'Damn, Look At The View!' released on May 19th 2023 via Kartel.

*Damn, Look at the View is the debut 8 track LP from Pop Singer-Songwriter Martin Luke Brown. Marking a significant new era in both his musical career and life with a blissful, west coast inspired sound. Awash with a palpable feeling of nostalgia and bittersweet reflection, Martin deals unapologetically with themes of love, loss and belonging on tracks like ‘else’ - a tribute to his hometown and childhood in Leicester, ‘grateful’ - a laid back, stream of consciousness love letter and ‘love is a black hole !’, the story of a relationship. Martin has released over 100 songs as either a co-writer or a producer, with BTS, Dylan, Jacob Banks, Gavin James, Greta Isaac, James Smith, Orla Gartland, Sody, Jack Kane. This album was recorded in Martin’s home studio with producer and friend Matt Zara.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/martin-luke-brown/damn-look-at-the-view

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Martin Luke Brown: Unplugged + Signing

Martin Luke Brown - love is a black hole !

Martin Luke Brown - Love Is a Black Hole !

Martin Luke Brown

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