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Looking through the early batch of festivals that are taking place this year, The Wood Festival has competed its main stage line up and with Day Tickets now on sale, this looks an nice event to stretch your festival legs at.

The festival takes place on the 15th, 16th & 17th May at Braziers Park, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire Headliners are Tunng, Songhoy Blues & Treetop Flyers.  Gill Sandell/Chris T.T , Hans Chew, The Dreaming Spires, Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou and Thomas Truax are all appearing  along with a host of other fine musicians.

Tickets for this celebration of music and nature are now available HERE Tickets are also available from the Truck Store, Oxford.

For information on all the bands you can go to the festival Facebook page

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Formed in early 2012 and named after Grace Slick’s mother, Virginia Wing combines the talents of Alice Merida Richards (Vocals, Synths, Organ), Samuel Pillay (Synths, guitar, noises, bass) and Sebastian Truskolaski (Drums, percussion). 

The band’s debut album Measures Of Joy is out now on Fire Records and well worth checkin’ out!

Following a UK tour with Hookworms, the band are now on tour in Europe;

25.03.2015 Liege (BE), La Péniche InsideOut

26.03.2015 München (DE), Alte Kongresshalle

31.03.2015 Lyon (FR), Sonic

01.04.2015 Paris (FR), L'Espace B

03.04.2015 Schaffhausen (CH), Tap Tab Club

05.04.2015 Vienna (AT), Rhiz

06.04.2015 Prague (CZ), Palác Akropolis

07.04.2015 Berlin (DE), Acud

10.04.2015 Rotterdam (NL), Motel Mozaique

11.04.2015 Ghent (BE), Kinky Star

 

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Nadine Shah has now sold out her show at London's Oslo on 16th April and has also announced her biggest headline performance to date at the Union Chapel on 1st October 2015.

Tickets for the show will be available on Friday 27th March via Communion Music. 

Nadine has also announced a handful of festival slots including Latitude and End of the Road. 

New album Fast Food will be available 13th April  on vinyl, CD and via digital download (AMB1506). You can pre-order the album via Nadine's website as well as iTunes here.

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SXSW is done and dusted and the festival season is about to kick off in earnest for 2015. As we get towards the end of summer, the wonderful End of the Road Festival take place in Dorset.

Latest announcements for the festival include Laura Marling , Mac DeMarco, Metz, Low and Slow Club. 

Each year, EOTR gives new and/or unsigned artists the chance to perform at the festival. This year they received over 2000 applications and have chosen three new acts from an incredibly talented pool of submissions:

"Opening the Woods stage will be the exuberant, Paul Russell led, orchestral ensemble Human Pyramids. Glaswegian lo-fi electro-pop duo Miracle Strip will feature on the forthcoming End of The Road x Rough Trade Shops compilation. London garage-pop purveyors LOVE L.U.V have been invited to join the 10 year celebrations too, bringing with them a combination of 60s era Beatles pop and raw, raucous energy".

 

New Additions: Laura Marling - Mac DeMarco – Low –Slow Club – Metz -Nadine Shah –Delines -Ryley Walker- Euros Childs – Gulp-  Kiran Leonard - Julie Bryne -This is The Kit - Dolores Haze –Oscar - Human Pyramids - Crushed Beaks - Meilyr Jones -The Vryll Society  - Love L.U.V - Miracle Strip & Holy Crutches

Full details and tickets can be found HERE

 

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Emily Barker's new album is a collection of solo versions of her songs, recorded live to 2-track tape at Toerag Studios in London with grammy-winning producer Liam Watson and, it sounds just beautiful.

In the album's sleeve notes, Emily explains how the idea came about: "over the last few years, in between touring with my bands The Red Clay Halo and Vena Portae, I've played lots of solo shows. Often people will come up to me at the end of those shows and ask if there is any way to get hold of recordings of the songs as they've just heard them - just me, my guitar and my harmonica".

The songs on the album go right back to her first UK band the-low-country, through all her albums with The Red Clay Halo, and including a brand new song, 'Anywhere Away', written last year as the theme to the forthcoming British movie Hec McAdam (starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen).

The Toerag Sessions is released on Easter Monday, 6th April and there are various options to pre-order via Pledge Music

UK Tour:

With Gill Sandell  as a duo;

Tue 24 Mar - Cambridge Portland Arms 

Wed 25 Mar - Burnley Mechanics 

Thu 26 Mar - Wakefield Unity Works 

Fri 27 Mar - Bury The Met 

Sat 28 Mar - Morecambe Hothouse 

Sun 29 Mar - Halifax Square Chapel 

Emily Barker solo:

Wednesday 8th April, 8pm - Exmouth Market Centre, Clerkenwell Pledge Music presents... Emily Barker -The Toerag Sessions album launch, with all profits going to Shelter From The Storm -Tickets exclusively from Pledge Music

In-stores appearances:

9 Apr - STROUD Trading Post

10 Apr - MARLBOROUGH Sound Knowledge, 6.30pm

11 Apr - LEWES Union Music Store, 3pm

18 Apr - Record Store Day

SOUTHSEA Pie & Vinyl, 1pm

BEXHILL Music's Not Dead, 5pm

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Danny & The Champions Of The World are proud to announce the release of their fifth studio album, What Kind Of Love, via Loose Recordings, on 1st June 2015.

The band has spent much of last year on the road touring the planet but they did find time to head for the studio to record ten new songs with Champs bass player Chris Clarke as the producer at his north London studio Reservoir Sound.
 
The first single, title track "What Kind of Love' is released on the 13th April and there is a UK summer tour in June!  Now all that is GREAT NEWS!

 
09 Jun – CAMBRIDGE Junction
10 Jun – BRISTOL Louisiana
11 Jun – LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
12 Jun – READING South Street Arts Centre
13 Jun – OXFORD Bullingdon Arms
16 Jun – COLCHESTER Arts Centre
17 Jun – NORWICH Waterfront
18 Jun – WAKEFIELD Hop
19 Jun – PRESTON The Continental
20 Jun – GLASGOW Broadcast
21 Jun – NOTTINGHAM The Maze
26 Jun – BRIGHTON Bleach

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