Video: Frank Hamilton - 'Summer' & UK Tour Dates

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Single 'Summer' || Released 7th October

2012 was a hectic year for Frank Hamilton ,which saw him write, record and release one song a week and there hasn't really been a dull moment for him this year either... What with recording an EP aboard the London Eye in the 28 minutes it takes to rotate once; releasing the entire 52 track #OneSongAWeek album, touring with Lucy Spraggan and Lewis Watson, a sell out show at The Borderline, slots at Belladrum and Secret Garden Party festivals and he's currently working towards a 17 date UK headline tour this September and October!

To coincide with the headline tour, Frank will be releasing his lullaby, love letter of a single 'Summer' on 7th October. The single is a revamped version taken from the #OneSongAWeek album and is produced by Richard Wilkinson (Adele, Bombay Bicycle Club, Lewis Watson). The track is also accompanied by an adorable, nostalgic, lovelorn video, filmed in Holywell near St Ives, Cambridgeshire where Frank grew up and you can catch the video and upcoming tour dates below!

Also, be sure to check out the interview we did with Frank back in June over at our sister site The Sound of Confusion.

September/October Headline Tour

20.09.13 - The Cluny 2 - Newcastle

21.09.13 - The Arches - Glasgow

22.09.13 - 53 Degrees - Preston

23.09.13 - Rescue Rooms - Nottingham

25.09.13 - Plug - Sheffield

26.09.13 - Sound Control - Manchester

27.09.13 - Cockpit 3 - Leeds

28.09.13 - Sugarmill - Stoke

29.09.13 - Junction 2 - Cambridge

01.10.13 - Waterfront - Norwich

02.10.13 - Institute - Birmingham

03.10.13 - The Garage - London

05.10.13 - Thekla - Bristol

06.10.13 - Boileroom - Guildford

07.10.13 - Komedia - Brighton

08.10.13 - Joiners - Southampton

10.10.13 - Clwb Ifor Bach - Cardiff

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Video: Phantom Runners - 'It Takes Me Away'

 

With an abundance of  generic start up indie bands floating around, sometimes it feels like it's getting increasingly harder to filter those who are worth getting excited about from the repetitious kind that leave you feeling lukewarm at best.  Fortunately, Brighton newcomers Phantom Runners are an exception who are developing a well deserved buzz about them throughout the UK with their wistful lo-fi/dream pop sound reminiscent of 80's English Indie Rock bands such as The Smiths, The LAs, and The Stone Roses.

'It Takes Me Away' is an airy, apparitional track thats contagious pop melodies, easy listening lyricism,  uplifting guitar hooks and refreshing bassline all fantastically fall into place in such a way that leaves you feeling rejuvenated, refreshed and revitalised. Check out the VHS tinged video that accompanies the track below.

 

 

Debut single ‘It Takes Me Away’ released through Stray Cat Records on September 23^rd 2013.

Phantom Runners London dates

19th September at Tipsy (single launch party)

5th October at The Nest

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Music News: The 1975 stream their self-titled debut album in its entirety on Soundcloud

Just when we thought we couldn't be any more into The 1975, they go and do something completely brilliant like, oh, I don't know... Stick their whole highly awaited debut album up on the internet for free streaming!

The 1975 also had a little something to say about what the album stands for:
"This album is the soundtrack to our formative years. The culmination of our adolescence and the cornerstone of our material thus far. That's exactly what it is. I held the album in my hands for the first time yesterday. To physically hold something that you have emotionally and creatively invested so much in is a very rewarding and humbling feeling - but it's also twinned with a level of uncertainty and fear of exposure. I dunno exactly how I feel about releasing this album, the fact that it's such a personal statement and creation hinders me from having an objective opinion. All I know is that it's an uncompromising and honest depiction of who we are and what we're about  and I'm very proud that we've had the opportunity to make an album like that."

Nothing like a bit of unabashed honesty to make you smile eh?  Catch the free stream at the bottom of the page!

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Films4Peace celebrates World Peace Day, 21st September 2013, with a unique global film project

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Now in its third year films4peace is an annual, unique short film commission by PUMA , which explores the subject of peace via the medium of film for the purpose of forthcoming World Peace Day on 21st September. The project is curated by Mark Coetzee, ex-Director of the Rubell Family Collection, supported by PUMA and produced by Shooting People. and features some of today’s most innovative contemporary artists all of whom are asked to visually interpret the subject of peace.

 These short films are released annually, on World Peace Day, both physically at cultural and educational venues globally, and online via websites, blogs and media channels. The films are live screened at hundreds of cultural venues, from Human Rights Festivals to major museums public spaces, youth leadership conferences and new media centres, from Dakar, Senegal to Miami, USA to Kashmir, India - in 2012, screenings spanned across 23 countries.

  World Peace Day is an international United Nations day of ceasefire, and a day for individuals, organizations and countries to demonstrate acts of peace. This year, 6 acclaimed artists have been commissioned to create short films around the subject of peace. Each artist will visually interpret the subject of Peace to create a short film, which, in keeping with the spirit of the commission, will be gifted to the world, within public domain and free from screening fees, as tools for peace. By releasing these short films as broadly as possible, on multiple live and virtual platforms, the aim is to effect positive social change and broaden the discussions around peace globally.  

Here's a little bit of information about each of the artists:

Zanele Moholi is a multi-award winning, highly provocative and exceedingly in demand South African photographer. Moholi’s work is mostly about increasing the visibility of gay and transgender culture in the black community and she has drawn considerable attention to the practice of “queericide” – people who are killed via gender related hate crimes.

Fellow South African Athi‐Patra Ruga is fast becoming an exciting rising star in performance art. Ruga himself dresses up in a spectacular array of costumes, inserting himself, or rather the characters he is playing, into challenging situations. He pulls together film, fashion and photography to make thought provoking, striking pieces relating to cultural identity as a hybrid construct.

23 year old Wilmer Wilson (Washington, USA) is a recent photography graduate whose card was marked when the prestigious Conner Contemporary gallery singled him out as one to watch and invited him to debut his challenging first collection. In creating ‘Domestic Exchange’ Wilson found his 3D voice to make live sculptures using every day objects with low cultural value to make poignant points around freedom, choice, race.

Over the past decade, New York based Cuban American Anthony Goicolea has gained a reputation as the consummate storyteller. Having created a significant body of work which has gained great acclaim and found its way into numerous galleries both locally and internationally, Goicolea’s multimedia works are enigmatic, mysterious, ambiguous, humorous, unsettling, and provocative.

Brooklyn-based Englishman Rob Carter has a knack for exposing landmarks and iconic structures from above while using his often comedic but always thoughtful knife (literally and figuratively) to create collages of the original material. Whether its placing the unofficial Church of England (the home of footballers Manchester United) in Canterbury Cathedral, the home of the actual Church of England or placing imagery literally among plants and documenting its growth, his work is thought provoking and engaging.

First initiated by Brazilian-born artist Eli Sudbrack in 1994 as a professional tag, assume vivid astro focus is now a continuously evolving international group of artists known for creating multi-sensational mash-ups of graffiti, disco worship, gay porn and carnival in the form of large-scale installations and performance art. They are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection.

If you wanted to check them out, the films created for films4peace in 2011 and 2012 are available to view via the project's Vimeo page here.  You won't be disappointed!

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Everything Everything - 'Don't Try' (Brandt Brauer Frick Remix)

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Have you heard German experimental techno trio Brandt Brauer Frick's  wonderfully chaotic remix of Everything Everything's single 'Don't Try'?

Brand Brauer Frick explain their reworking of Don't Try better than we could:
"Everything Everything sent us really great material to work with. At first we didn't even notice that some of the vocal tracks they had sent us hadn't even ended up in their final version. So in our remix, you can actually hear some vocal parts that are not in their original song. As always when we remix, we played a lot of new instrumental takes. Here we recorded especially some additional drums, some Juno-106 chords and FX and some Moog bass parts. We wanted to do a more groove-based, dirty and melancholic version of Don't Try."


You can catch the  remix below and remind yourself of the official video for Don't Try, as directed by EE's frontman Jonathan Higgs, here.

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Single Review: The Intermission Project - 'I've Been Waiting'

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Pre-Order ||'Sorry' EP || (out September 23rd)

We featured the wonderful Ashford trio that are The Intermission Project (Jim Rubaduka, Alex Stevens and Charlie Campbell) and their track 'Sorry' taken from their forthcoming debut EP back in July, ahead of their August road trip with the Youth Hostels Association that saw them play a series of gigs at youth hostels in England and Wales, filmed by The Mahogany Sessions.

Absorb their beautiful new track 'I've Been Waiting' taken from the EP below. Warm and rich its jazz meets folk infused sound soothes the soul and is as engaging as watching the sun set over a pleasant summer's evening. 

Tour Dates

21st October Hoxton Bar & Kitchen 

16th November Revelation St Mary's Ashford

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Video: Flyte - 'Over and Out'

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Fancy a slice of alternative indie pop in the purest, simplest form? Meet Hackney four-piece Flyte (Will Taylor, Nick Hill, Jon Supran ,Sam Berridge) who are effortlessly making credible, catchy guitar-pop, pretension-free and with a modesty that makes us wonder if they are aware of how good they really.

 Set to release their 3-track EP 'Live' in the UK on September 16th, Flyte have recently made their debut video for their current single 'Over and Out' which was shot in their bedroom using green screen, the band and an egg. Catchy, chilled out and compelling, these guys have put the fun back into guitar music with a sound that washes over you like a gentle, warm, wave coming home to the shore.

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