Category: Tour

Film & Tour Dates – Goat Girl

Posted in Film, Tour

Goat Girl – The Making of Below The Waste

Goat Girl have shared a new short film about the making of their critically-acclaimed third album Below The Waste, The record was co–produced by the band & John Spud Murphy, and released via Rough Trade Records in June. The film, which offers a glimpse into the behind the scenes making of the album and the thought processes involved, was shot, directed and edited by Reality Breakdown and premiered at last week’s Doc’n Roll Film Festival.

The band will be playing live dates in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Southampton and London later this month – tickets available here.

Check out Goat Girl – The Making of Below The Waste below

Header image © Ella Harris

Feature added by Callum

Published 13th November 2024

Tour dates – Oasis

Posted in News, Tour

Oasis today end years of feverish speculation with the confirmation of a long awaited run of UK and Ireland shows forming the domestic leg of their OASIS LIVE 25 world tour.

Oasis will hit Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin in the summer of 2025. Their only shows in Europe next year, this will be one of the biggest live moments and hottest tickets of the decade.

The Oasis live experience is unlike anything else. The roar that greets them as they step on stage. A set full of wall-to-wall classics. The spine-tingling sensation of being in a crowd singing back every word. And especially the charisma, spark and intensity that only comes when Liam and Noel Gallagher are on-stage together.

The brothers have flourished with their own projects since the band split in 2009, with ten UK #1 albums between them as well as countless festival headline sets and stadium and arena shows. But Oasis is something else. There has been no great revelatory moment that has ignited the reunion – just the gradual realisation that the time is right. Yet the timing must be a subconscious influence. This Thursday represents thirty years to the day since their electrifying debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ was released, while 2025 will see the equally essential second record ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ reach that same anniversary.

Oasis commented,
“The guns have fallen silent.
The stars have aligned.
The great wait is over.
Come see.
It will not be televised.”

Plans are underway for OASIS LIVE ’25 to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year.

They remain a huge draw in the streaming era, with 21.5 million monthly listeners at Spotify alone and a total of 12 billion streams to date. This Friday will also see the release of the Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition of ‘Definitely Maybe’, which is available to pre-order here.

Tickets for the UK dates go on sale from 9am on Saturday, August 31st and will be available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk, www.gigsandtours.com and www.seetickets.com. Dublin tickets will be available from 8am that same day from www.ticketmaster.ie. The shows are:

JULY 2025
4th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
5th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
11th – Manchester, Heaton Park
12th – Manchester, Heaton Park
19th – Manchester, Heaton Park
20th – Manchester, Heaton Park
25th – London, Wembley Stadium
26th – London, Wembley Stadium

AUGUST 2025
2nd – London, Wembley Stadium
3rd – London, Wembley Stadium
8th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
9th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
16th – Dublin, Croke Park
17th – Dublin, Croke Park

Header photo by Simon Emmett

Live Sessions + Tour Dates – Spielmann

Posted in Live Session, News, Tour

It’s been a busy year for Spielmann (aka Ben Lewis), with the release of his debut EP Fifteen Minutes With Spielmann and a smattering of festival dates providing the opportunity for his music to reach a wider audience. With some more intimate live dates planned during September, today sees him share a series of live sessions with full band.

We caught up with Spielmann back in March, lured in by his standing on the Leeds music scene and some impressive new electro-pop tunes. The sessions, recorded at Evoke studios, offer an insight into what to expect if you have the chance to see him fronting the band next month, early indicators being that if Georgio Moroder had been from Yorkshire he might well have slotted in here nicely.

His own view is, “It’s amazing to hear these songs in this context. So far it’s been me in my attic recording and then playing live shows on my own, running around like a madman to try keep people entertained, with the band there’s now 5 of us trying to keep people entertained, and the songs sound like the biggest, baddest versions of themselves. We can’t wait to get out and play it and thought releasing the sessions into the wild was the perfect way to get people as excited as we are”.

Check out the sessions here; tour dates below.

Tour dates as follows – tickets available on DICE

Thursday 19th Sept – The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle
Friday 20th Sept – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
Sunday 22nd Sept – The Lanes, Bristol
Monday 23rd Sept – The Grace, London

Spielmann is also set to play Beyond the Music (Manchester), SWN (Cardiff), Mutations (Brighton) and Live At Leeds this autumn.

 

Words by Siobhan
Header photo © Thandiwe Zivengwa

Published 20th August 2024

Tour: VLURE, United by Music Tour, August 2023

Posted in Gallery, Live Music, Tour

VLURE, United By Music Tour, August 2023

For the third year The National Lottery has partnered with Music Venue Trust to help support the grassroots music sector by underwriting the full touring and production costs of the artists taking part in the United By Music Tour. This takes The National Lottery contribution to grassroots venues through the United By Music Tour to £1.5m, and the tireless work of Music Venue Trust continues to highlight and support independent venues across the country, and their communities.

And if you were to pick an artist to represent the importance and impact of live music right now, you couldn’t find a better subject than VLURE. The last few years have seen them grow into a band whose from the heart performances are intoxicating, momentous and life-affirming. The experience is the musical equivalent of Pulp Fiction’s adrenaline shot scene.  People talk about the songs that saved their lives – come and find yours here in their ever growing catalogue of perfectly produced future anthems, this year’s releases Cut It and This Fantasy paving the way for what’s next, a cover of Faithless’ God is a DJ slotting into the set like it was always meant to be there.

I don’t know that the extent of this can be captured in pictures but I’ve had the best time trying, and met some great people along the way. Couldn’t make it to Manchester and Belfast, but the rest are here. Don’t miss this band, they really are something special.

 

Oporto, Leeds – 21st August 2023
(Support from Trunc)

 

The New Adelphi Club, Hull – 22nd August 2023
(Support from Ketamine Kow)

 

Bermondsey Social Club, London – 23rd August 2023
(Support from Human Interest)

 

The Hope & Ruin, Brighton – 24th August 2023
(Support from Shrimp Eyes)

 

Strange Brew, Bristol – 25th August 2023
(Support from Mollie Rush)

 

Future Yard, Birkenhead – 30th August 2023
(Support from Nova Deus & Arch Femmesis)

 

Photos © Siobhan at 16 Beasley St Photography

Published 1st September 2023

Tour News – White Lies

Posted in Live Music, Tour

There’s been a buzz of expectation emanating from the White Lies’ camp lately, as the band have posted teasers for new music and live dates. Yesterday saw confirmation of a new album As I Try Not To Fall Apart, due for release in February 2022, plus a string of UK & Ireland tour dates in March before heading across Europe.

The band have also shared the title track from the album, saying, “We wrote this song quickly, late one night, and often the songs which come quickest are written from the gut and the heart, not with the head. We wanted the melody to feel like a hymn, to give the confessional lyrics weight despite being wrapped up as a pop song. It’s about accepting vulnerability as a man, and knowing it’s ok to be broken. There’s never been a more pressing time to spread the message that it’s ok to not be ok”.

UK/Ireland tour dates are as follows:

10.03.22 – NOTTINGHAM – Rock City
11.03.22 – MANCHESTER – Academy
12.03.22 – NEWCASTLE – Boiler Shop
13.03.22 – BIRMINGHAM – Institute
15.03.22 – GLASGOW – SWG3 TV Studio
16.03.22 – LEEDS – Stylus
18.03.22 – BRIGHTON – Chalk
19.03.22 – BRISTOL – Academy
21.03.22 – DUBLIN – Vicar Street
22.03.22 – LIVERPOOL – Grand Central Hall
24.03.22 – NORWICH – UEA
25.03.22 – OXFORD – Academy
26.03.22 – LONDON – Hammersmith Apollo

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 10am Thursday 30th September
Pre-sale tickets are exclusively available from 10am today via www.whitelies.com/live

The album can be pre-ordered here

28th September 2021