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Apparently on the night of 9th October, Leeds-based artist LeeSun went to bed feeling unwell. She awoke at midnight with the haunting melody from We’re All Made Of Stars already in her head.

A few days later, the Canadian-Korean-British songwriter recorded the song adding just double bass and strings - in essence, she says, ‘it is a simple expression of both profound loneliness and deep interconnectedness between all people.’

This beautiful song only bodes well for LeeSun's future output, that's for sure.

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Richmond Fontaine will release new album 'You can't go back if there's nothing to go back to' on 4th March through Décor Records​ and the band are trailing the ​announcement​ with this​ new​ track lifted from the album, 'Wake Up Ray'​...​

{https://soundcloud.com/decorrecords/02-wake-up-ray} 

2016 UK / Ireland Tour with Fernando supporting:

April 15 – Brighton – Bleach 
April 17 - Winchester –The Railway 
April 18 - Bristol – The Tunnels 
April 19 – Birmingham – Hare & Hounds 
April 20 - London – Dingwalls 
April 21 – Oxford – The Bullingdon 
April 22 - Bedford – Esquires 
April 23 – Manchester – The Deaf Institute 
April 24 – Leeds – Budenell Social Club 
April 25 – Sheffield – The Greystones 
April 26 – Newcastle – The Cluny 
April 27 – Glasgow – The Art School
April 29 – Dublin – Working Man’s Club 
April 30 - Kilkenny Festival 
May 1st - Kilkenny Festival 

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Richmond Fontaine will release new album YOU CAN'T GO BACK IF THERE'S NOTHING TO GO BACK TO on 4th March through Décor Records​ and the band are trailing the ​announcement​ with this​ new​ track lifted from the album, 'Wake Up Ray'​...​

{https://soundcloud.com/decorrecords/02-wake-up-ray}

 

Richmond Fontaine made their name with classic albums Post To Wire and The Fitzgerald, which​ picked up standout press &​ found their way onto several Best Of Year lists, kick-starting an underground following for the band. Vlautin is often tipped a​mongst​ the most literate lyricists in rock, with comparisons made to the likes of Springsteen, Lou Reed and The Replacements' Paul Westerberg. ​No slouch outside of Richmond Fontaine, ​Vlautin is also a published author via Faber & Faber, and last year the debut record from his other project The Delines, Colfax Avenue​,​ made Rough Trade's Albums Of The Year list.

The release of YOU CAN'T GO BACK is backed by Richmond's first tour since 2011- an extensive UK​ & Ireland​ run through April, taking in a London Dingwalls ​headline on April 20 2016. There's a touch more on all this below​,

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A 20th anniversary collectors’ edition of ‘Come Find Yourself’ by Fun Lovin’ Criminals will be released on the Edsel label through Demon Music Group on the 19th February 2016.

Available as a 3CD expanded edition and collectors’ Deluxe Edition box set, the release features rarities, live recordings, alternate mixes, and much more from the vaults of this landmark record. Bringing a unique collection together from this seminal era for the very first time.

Speaking about the new edition, Huey Morgan said, “It’s a very unique record for the times, and remains so today - it’s not dated. It burned a path for crossing genres that we now take for granted. Looking back, it was a good start for a career in music that was uncompromising. You can tell listening to it, it was exactly the way we wanted it to be. There's still a lot of love out there for ‘Come Find Yourself’.“

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album which features 3 UK top 30 hits: “The Fun Lovin Criminal” “King Of New York” and “Scooby Snacks”, Huey Morgan, Brian ‘Fast’ Leiser and Frank Benbini will be playing the record from start to finish for the very first time on their world tour throughout 2016.

UK Dates as follows:

January 

Thursday 04 Ireland Vicar Street Dublin

February 

Thursday 04  Leeds O2 Academy
Friday      05  Newcastle O2 Academy
Saturday  06  Nottingham Rock City
Thursday 11   Oxford O2 Academy
Friday      12   Worthing Pavilion Theatre
Saturday  13   Norwich UEA LCR Norwich
Thursday  18  Cardiff Y Plas (formally Solus)
Friday       19  Exeter Great Hall
Saturday   20  London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Thursday  25  Birmingham The Institute
Friday       26  Manchester Cathedral
Saturday   27  Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom

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1.  Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear

 

2.    Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell

3.    Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit

4.    The Decemberists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World

5.    The Staves - If I Was

=6.  Du Blonde- Welcome Back To Milk

=6.  Tame Impala – Currents​

7.    Ezra Furman -Perpetual Motion People

=8.  Jason Isbell -​ ​Something More Than Free

=8.  Maccabees - Marks To Prove It

9.    Kendrick Lamar – to Pimp a Butterfly

10.  Admiral Fallow - Tiny Rewards

Next up came:

Blur- The Magic Whip

Low – Ones and Sixies

Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin' Down

Lau - The Bell That Never Rang

Julia Holter – Have You in my Wilderness

This is the Kit – Bashed Out

Gengahr – A Dream Outside

 

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Happy New Year!

 

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A Facebook Page has been created to share stories and leave condolences about a true Rocker, Lemmy. Click here 

Our own man at Glastobury saw the band for the first time this June, "The sun came out for Motorhead who were up next. Classic heavy rock experienced (and a first for me) from the front rail of the Pyramid Stage with a constant flow of crowd surfers passing over my head"!


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