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A new Glasgow festival, Freakender has been announced. The3 day festivalwill be a garage/psych/pop festival taking place between Friday 16th - Sunday 18th September 2016 at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow and will feature the very best in independent guitar music from Glasgow and beyond.

Early bird tickets have now sold out. Limited weekend tickets are available priced £15.00 with day tickets priced £5/7/12.00 available once the weekend allocation sells out. Tickets available from Tickets Scotland 

Freakender is the brainchild of Ian Crawford (El Rancho), Holly Calder (Eyes Wide Open) and Ross Keppie (Fuzzkill Records). Counting over 15 years in promoting local/international shows, managing bands, running club nights, releasing records/tapes, presenting radio shows and DJing the three independent individuals share a love and passion for live music and are fully involved and respected in Glasgow’s music scene.

This is the first event all three have worked together on and they are ecstatic to present an exclusive performance from East Los Angeleno’s Feels - first time in Scotland. The band who feature front women Laena Geronimo ex The Like and daughter of DEVO’s Alan Myers. Their debut album was produced by Ty Segall and came out on both on Castle Face Records/Burger Records. 

The three day, one venue event kicks off at The Old Hairdressers on Friday 16th September at 7pm with a 4 band bill and DJs till 1am. Live music takes place upstairs in the gallery with DJ’s in the downstairs bar. On Saturday 18th, Freakender takes over the whole venue from 12pm till 2am where two stages will be in used with staggered scheduling; one in the bar downstairs and one in the gallery. There will be DJs between bands on both floors and there will be stalls selling music, art and zines in the mezzanine.

A dance party will follow on from the last band in the gallery till 2am. On the final day; Sunday 19th, jugs of bloody marys will welcome Freakenders in the bar of The Old Hairdressers alongside smooth sounds and live music for a festival comedown party to mellow out and slide away.

Friday 16th September 
Wedding (Berlin - RIP Records) / Spinning Coin (Domino Recording Company) / The Pooches (Lame-O Records) / Breakfast MUFF / HOME$LICE
Friday ticket (£7) 

Saturday 17th September -
FEELS (L.A, U.S - Castle Face Records) / The Cosmic Dead / Virgin Kids (London - FLUFFER RECORDS/ BURGER RECORDS) / Thee MVPs (London - PNKSLM/Slovenly/Lolipop) / Fruit Tones (Manchester - Stolen body records) / Velvet Morning (Southend - RIP) / The Bellybuttons / Sweaty Palms / LYLO / Time Team (fka Halfrican) / Electric Gardens / Domiciles
Saturday ticket (£12)  

Sunday 18th September -
Beach Skulls (Liverpool - PNKSLM Recordings) / Lush Purr / Mordwaffe
Sunday ticket (£3) 

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Following a Sold Out show at Oslo, London in April, DR DOG return to the UK at the end of August for a co-headline show with Eleanor Friedberger at Village Underground in London, plus headline shows in Leeds and Manchester before both appear at Electric Picnic and End of the Road festivals. 

Dr. Dog's - ‘Bring My Baby Back’

August:
31st LONDON - Village Underground [co-headline with Eleanor Friedberger]

September:
1st LEEDS - Brudenell Social Club
2nd MANCHESTER - Sound Control
3rd ELECTRIC PICNIC - Stradbally, Ireland
4th END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL - Salisbury

 

 

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Billy Bragg & Joe Henry, who recently announced the forthcoming release of their new album ‘Shine A Light – Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad’ on Sept 23rd as well as a November UK tour, have now announced a further UK tour in January 2017.

‘Shine A Light’ is Billy & Joe’s take on the song that became a staple of Woody Guthrie’s repertoire, ‘Hobo’s Lullaby’. The video is here.

The full list of dates is:

JANUARY 2017
Mon 16 LONDON Union Chapel
Tue 17 BRISTOL St George's
Wed 18 EXETER Corn Exchange
Fri 20 SALISBURY City Hall
Sat 21 BUXTON Opera House
Sun 22 NORWICH Open
Tue 24 YORK Grand Opera House
Wed 25 WHITLEY BAY Playhouse
Thu 26 GLASGOW Old Fruitmarket (Celtic Connections)
Sat 28 DUBLIN St Patrick's Cathedral

Tickets will be available on Thursday 18th August at 10am.

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Vanessa Anne Redd has announced the release of her first solo record Behind The Wall, set for release on Sharp Attack Records on 7th October and shared  two songs, the title track 'Behind The Wall' and 'Invisible Strings'.

Invisible Strings will also be available as a stand-alone digital single on Friday 12 August and as an instant gratification download on all pre-orders of the Behind The Wall album via iTunes now.

Vanessa Anne Redd is a half-German, London-based singer-songwriter who is one half of folk duo Six Years and part of electronic outfit Rubicks. Her first solo offering is a slight departure, a more pastoral affair. Described by Vanessa as a “simple grunge-folk affair", 

Behind The Wall was recorded on tape at Toe Rag analogue studios then the raw recordings were honed by Vanessa and long-term collaborator Marc Makarov at their Sharp Attack Studios in Leyton, with Marc mixing the final record.

Tracklisting:
1. Invisible Strings
2. Beast
3. Escape
4. Borderlands
5. Road That Drives Us
6. Behind The Wall
7. Twilight
8. Drona Sticks
9. Boomerang
10. Proof

Live: 14 September - The Kings Head Members Club, London (Album Launch Show)

 

{https://soundcloud.com/vanessaanneredd}

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 'Conceptual Romance' is taken from Jenny Hval's new album 'Blood Bitch', which is due for release via Sacred Bones records on 30th September.

 Euro Tour Dates

Mon. Oct. 17 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
Tue. Oct. 18 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
Wed. Oct. 19 - London  @ Oslo
Fri. Oct. 21 - Brussels, BE @ AB
Sat. Oct. 22 - Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Mon. Oct. 24 - Luzern, CH @ Suedpol
Wed. Oct. 26 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain
Thu. Oct. 27 - Amsterdam, NL @ De School
Fri. Oct. 28 - Hamburg, DE @ Kampnagel
Sat. Oct. 29 – Copenhagen, DK @ Jazzhouse

 

{https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/jenny-hval-conceptual-romance}

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Singaporean artist iNCH will release her new EP, Letters To Ubin, on 2nd September on House Of Riot records and she has shared new single, "Breakbone", from the record.

Of the single, iNCH had to say, "The word "breakbone" comes from the term Breakbone fever. While I was living on the remote island of Pulau Ubin, I lived next to a cemetery. It's a very calm, serene place, and naturally, you ponder about the death while you feed the tropical mosquitoes. These two things, made me think about a "friend" of mine that passed away from dengue fever. You see, if someone you loved and cared for passed away, the grieving process is pretty straightforward. It sucks, you love them, and you'll miss them. But if someone you didn't have a great relationship with passed on, the grieving process is much more complicated. I still bore a grudge and never got to say goodbye, and this song was a way for me to let go. The producer, Evan Low & I sampled sounds from the island and wanted to recreate my moment of struggling with forgiveness. My personal favourite moment of the song is the flugelhorn solo. It took us a while to find someone as specific as a flugelhorn player, but it was all worth it. Why a flugelhorn? Well, in the military, I've been told that the flugelhorn is the choice instrument used to salute a fallen comrade."

Written during a 4-month stint in a Kampong house on the rustic Ubin Island, Letters To Ubin follows iNCH's 2013, full-length album, Bumfuzzle. Take a listen to 'Breakbone' below.

 Website

{https://soundcloud.com/thisisinch/breakbone}

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