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BBC Introducing in the West celebrates the life and music of Bristol musician Nick Talbot, who passed away 12 months ago.

This Saturday night (5 Dec) at 8pm BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Somerset and BBC Wiltshire broadcast a special programme: “Hourglass”, celebrating the life and music of Nick Talbot, aka Gravenhurst.

Presented by BBC Introducing’s Richard Pitt, this 60 minute programme will include contributions from friends, fans of Nick’s music from all around the world, plus musicians & respected broadcasters, including BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne and Gideon Coe.

Under the alias Gravenhurst, Nick was supported by BBC Introducing for 10 years whilst making music in Bristol. The programme will feature tracks from the three sessions that Richard Pitt recorded with Nick over the years. Richard, presenter at BBC Introducing in the West said: “Nick was an incredible musical talent with a cult following in the city and beyond”.

The show will be available on the iPlayer for 30 days after the original broadcast, so please do have a listen.

Thanks go to the following people for contributing to this programme: Adam Burrows , Suzi Gage, Sam Wisternoff, Nathaniel Cramp, Jeffrey Alexander, Paul Smith, Sophie Harris, Ali Chant, Julian Owen, Phil Rickman, Jeff Johns, Kit McKenzie, Lauren Laverne, Gideon Coe, Rich Radford, Rob Barnaville, Kit Thomas, Rachel Lancaster and Claire Adams.

You can listen to a short clip from the programme below; 

{https://soundcloud.com/bbcintroducinginthewest/a-celebration-of-the-life-and-music-of-nick-talbot-aka-gravenhurst} 

Here is our interview with Nick from 2014

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Cage the Elephant have unveiled their new track ‘Trouble’. Taken from the band’s new album ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’, out through Columbia Records on 18th December, ‘Trouble’ is released today as an instant free track with the album pre-order.

LISTEN TO 'TROUBLE' 

‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’, is the band’s fourth album and was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys & The Arcs, mixed by Tom Elmhirst and recorded at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, TN, near the group’s hometown of Bowling Green, KY.

“With this record, we wanted to be more transparent,” said lead singer Matt Shultz. “We wanted to capture the sentiment of each song, and whatever emotional response it provoked, to be really honest to that.” The results are the band’s most forceful and focused songs yet. They recorded most of the songs on the 10-song album on the first take, capturing the band’s raw and frenetic onstage energy.

Cage The Elephant consists of singer Matt Shultz, guitarist Brad Shultz, bassist Daniel Tichenor, and drummer Jared Champion.

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Australian shoegazers (NuGaze?) Bloodhounds On My Trail have signed to Texas-based Moon Sounds Records, and are set to release an epic sounding new EP called Escape II. Their debut EP will also feature a remix of Jolly by dreampop duo Ummagma.

'Jolly' is the first single off this EP. "Jolly is about having a good moment when you've been having a bit of a difficult time and wanting to not let it go to waste. Happy for people to enjoy our music and take what they want out of it. How it makes them feel. The message is in the ears of the listener," said Bloodhounds guitarist Chris Donaldson.

Bloodhounds are Johnny Green (guitar, vocals), Chris Donaldson (guitar), Nik Donaldson (drums) and Ché Walden (bass).

TRACKLIST:
1. Dreamless
2. Jolly
3. Old Fools
4. Silence, It's Golden
5. She's In My Plans
6. Jolly (Ummagma Remix)

Bandcamp

 

{https://soundcloud.com/shameless-promotion/sets/bloodhounds-on-my-trail-escape}

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Texan shoegazers Ringo Deathstarr return with their fifth studio album, ‘Pure Mood’ out via Club AC30 tomorrow (20th Nov)

"We have never spent as much time on any album before, but it was only a few hours a day maybe 3 times a week...sometimes less. Waiting for the album to be released is the hardest part because we are ready to get out there and show it to the world!"

Tracklist

Dream Again
Heavy Metal Suicide
Stare At The Sun
Show Me The Truth Of Your Love
Big Bopper
Guilt
California Car Collection
Frisbee
Boys In Heat
Never
Old Again
Acid Tongue

Order ‘Pure Mood HERE

The Band

Elliott Frazier
Daniel Coborn
Alex Gehring

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The band cover ‘Heart And Soul’ by T’Pau

{https://soundcloud.com/club-ac30/heart-and-soul}

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Formed in 1993, Space are now back with a new single 'Strange World' and the band are midway through their extensive UK tour of the same name. The release a new album follows on 22nd February to coincide with an Irish and European tour.

Watch the video for Strange World

Tour Dates

Nov:

Fri   20  WIGAN - OLD COURTS
Sat  21  CREWE - THE BOX
Sun 22 MANCHESTER - FAC 251
Tue  24 SWANSEA - SIN CITY
Wed 25 CARDIFF - THE GLOBE
Thu 02  READING - BOWERY
Fri   27  BRISTOL - FLEECE
Sat  28  COVENTRY - KASBAH
Mon 30  SUNDERLAND - THE POINT

Dec:

Tue 01  EDINBURGH - ELECTRIC CIRCUS
Wed 02 ABERDEEN - TUNNELS
Thu  03 GLASGOW - CLASSIC GRAND
Fri   04  LIVERPOOL - EPSTEIN
Sat  05  LONDON - BRIXTON JAMM
Thu 10  TUNBRIDGE WELLS - FORUM
Fri   11  WOLVERHAMPTON - SLADE ROOMS
Sat  12  LINCOLN - PLATFORM
Fri   18  GLOUCESTER - GUILDHALL
Sat  19  NORWICH - UEA

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Nadine Khouri is a composer, musician, lyrical poet and singer.

Lebanese-born but displaced by the civil war as a young girl, Khouri moved to England with her family and later to New York, where she first began performing her songs in small clubs in the East Village. She is currently based in London.

The first track to be released, id the beautifully fragile 'You Got A Fire' which features Nadine on vocals & ukulele, Huw Bennett on double-bass, Jean-Marc Butty (PJ Harvey, Raincoats) on drums, John Parish on acoustic guitar, and long-time collaborators Ruban Byrne on electric guitar & backing vocal & J Allen on keys, respectively.

There is also a live show on 27 November at London’s Water Rats at 7.30pm which is free admission.

Website

 

{https://soundcloud.com/nadine-khouri/you-got-a-fire-nk}

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