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Seasick Steve

A Trip, A Stumble, A Fall Down On Your Knees

    It's been almost 20 years since Seasick Steve's celebrated appearance on Jools Holland's Hootenanny launched the unknown American singer-songwriter to worldwide fame, and his beat-up three-string Japanese guitar and old wooden stompbox made musical history. The overwhelming response surprised nobody more than Steve himself, and was like a lightning strike; the impact of which is still being felt close to two decades later, as he has gone onto play almost every major festival in the World, rack up over 2 million album sales, and release three UK Top 10 albums.

    His new record A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees is released on 7th June 2024 via So Recordings and available to pre-order now. It's a record he proudly says is his favourite to date, and is announced alongside a run of UK instore and outstore shows. Steve says: “This album was made by mistake, as the title suggests we just tripped and stumbled into it, and it became my favourite album ever and the piece of work I’m most proud of to date. There’s not a week goes by that I don’t thank my lucky stars for that night on the Hootenanny which has brought us here to this record”.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Move To The Country
    2. Internet Cowboys
    3. San Francisco Sound '67
    4. A Trip And A Stumble (For Leya)
    5. This Way
    6. Backbone Slip
    7. Let The Music Talk
    8. Funky Music
    9. Cryin' Out Loud
    10. Elisabeth

    BIG SPECIAL

    POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES

      Words are not to be taken for granted. Especially when they’re being bellowed, full blast, by a broad-shouldered poet with the brimstone fire of a preacher and the honesty and wisdom of a layman, over ground-shaking live beats and between anthemic blasts of melody and rousing riffage.

      Words matter. History matters. People matter. And BIG SPECIAL matter.

      For BIG SPECIAL - Joe Hicklin (vocals) and Callum Moloney (drums) - their sound is one that comes from vital, frustrated young working-class voices that don’t always get heard on the scale they should do. It’s a frustration that comes to the fore through a voice that is at times coarse and raw, but sensitive, desperate and soulful at others. Hicklin's brimstone-fired voice marches from guttural punk barks and serrated spoken word to soaring soul and back again, arriving siphoned from their forebears, crushed under the weight of history, and retooled for a new generation. It’s wrought, raw and angry at a world lacking options, the thinning of the common understanding between the social classes of England, exasperation at repeating cycles, and the feeling that you’re watching your own life unfold from the outside.

      These are songs that channel that voice you hear when you look in the mirror and see your true self – fight songs for a world gone wrong.

      TRACK LISTING

      01. BLACK COUNTRY GOTHIC
      02. I MOCK JOGGERS
      03. DESPERATE BREAKFAST
      04. SHITHOUSE
      05. THIS HERE AIN’T WATER
      06. MY SHAPE (BLOCKING THE LIGHT)
      07. BLACK DOG / WHITE HORSE
      08. BROADCAST: TIME AWAY
      09. ILL.
      10. MONGREL
      11. BUTCHER’S BIN
      12. DUST OFF / START AGAIN
      13. TREES
      14. FOR THE BIRDS
      15. DiG!

      Enter Shikari

      A Kiss For The Whole World

        Enter Shikari are a rock band from St Albans, UK. In 2020, they released their sixth album - Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible - which also gave them their sixth album to debut in the UK Album Chart top 5. Frequently collecting Best Live Artist awards, Enter Shikari’s seventeen-year career thus far has seen them rise from teenagers touring the UK grassroots venues, to festival main stages and arena headliners worldwide.

        It was in the Spring of 2022 that the band descended to the coastal town of Chichester, and a delipidated farmhouse, to rebuild their studio setup and capture their renewed momentum on record. Using only solar power to track the album–in what Reynolds says was to “bring back some sense of naivety” – the life-giving properties and Technicolor palate of A Kiss For The Whole World were made real. Reynolds continues: “Back to basics. This band - my best friends - bundled into an old farmhouse, miles away from anywhere.

        Off-grid, and ready to rediscover ourselves. This album is powered by the sun, the most powerful object in our solar system. And I think you can tell. It’s a collection of songs that represent an explosive reconnection with what Enter Shikari is. The beginning of our second act”.

        TRACK LISTING

        Side A
        01. A Kiss For The Whole World X
        02. (pls) Set Me On Fire
        03. It Hurts
        04. Leap Into The Lightning
        05. Feed Yøur Søul
        06. Dead Wood

        Side B
        01. Jailbreak
        02. Bloodshot
        03. Bloodshot (Coda)
        04. Goldfĭsh ~
        05. Giant Pacific Octopus (i Don’t Know You Anymore)
        06. Giant Pacific Octopus Swirling Off Into Infinity…

        Hundred Reasons

        Glorious Sunset

          Acclaimed Brit quartet Hundred Reasons return with album number five ‘Glorious Sunset’ (their first studio album in fifteen years). The path to the first Hundred Reasons album in a decade and a half may well have taken many detours for the Aldershot quartet as lives, roles and responsibilities diverged but ultimately their route back to one another came as something of a natural process. The creative urge seemingly never left the band - Colin Doran (vocals), Larry Hibbitt (guitar, vocals), Andy Gilmour (bass), Andy Bews (drums) – and their first sessions back together became less about re-capturing the magic of their previous four studio albums, or addressing unfinished business, and more satisfying a growing urge to be creative together once more. They set about fanning the flame of a spark that was never truly extinguished, aiming to capture spontaneity in its rawest form, and later hone and perfect their work with the band’s own Larry Hibbitt on production duties. Consequently, Glorious Sunset is as vivid, exciting and as fresh a collection as they have ever produced - distinctly Hundred Reasons and full of fire. Lead singer Colin Doran says of the first writing session; “I came away from that session not just feeling closer to the other guys, having not seen them for some time, but thinking the music was f****** awesome. We all looked at each other and knew it was a go.”


          TRACK LISTING

          1. Glorious Sunset
          2. New Glasses
          3. It Suits You
          4. Replicate
          5. Done
          6. Right There With You
          7. Insultiment
          8. So So Soon
          9. The Old School Way
          10. Wave Form

          Colin Macleod

          Hold Fast

            Tradition, community and the rugged ways of the island life: it all soaks into Hold Fast by Colin Macleod, his first album for SO Recordings. From the plangent, spacious Americana of the string laden opener Queen of the Highlands to his heartfelt love letter to home This Old Place, Hold Fast tells the tale of a man returning to the island where he was born after trying to make it in the world. Contrasting parts — Springsteen-style widescreen rock on The Long Road and Sleep, introspective acoustic folk on Made of Stone and 33 (one of two tracks on the album featuring Sheryl Crow) — contribute to a poignant whole.

            And although it may sound like a story culled from Macleod’s own experience, being a singer songwriter who indeed left his tight-knit island community in search of glory, it is a work of fiction. It just happens to be fiction embedded in truth. "The stories in this album are a culmination of a mis-spent youth. Although the tales are fictional, there not a million miles from the truth, or from my own story, but hopefully more of a cautionary tale. What goes on in the shadows of an island? what happens when the summer light is replaced by long winters? Beautiful places often have a sorry tale to tell, but also a community to help pick you up if you fall by the roadside. This album is the story of one such journey. " - Colin Macleod

            TRACK LISTING

            1. Queen Of The Highlands
            2. The Long Road
            3. Warning Signs
            4. Old Soul*
            5. Sleep
            6. Made Of Stone
            7. 33*
            8. Runaway
            9. Looking For God
            10. This Old Place


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