“What am I to build, if my hands are broken, if I’m not the chosen one?” sings Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight on “Story of An Immigrant”, over a lush, dynamic beat that evokes the sounds of his native South Africa while steeped in the band’s everevolving present. The foursome (Steven, his brother and guitarist Andrew, drummer Richard Wouters and Kevin Dailey on keys and guitar) are living proof of what happens when you stop worrying about being the chosen one and make music built on both the roots that grew you and the love that keeps you thriving every day. Civil Twilight’s songs embrace every corner of human emotion, balancing delicate, poetic lyrics with sweeping arrangements that touch all the senses: a phrase to make you think; a rolling drumbeat you can feel in your bones; a guitar vamp as illustrative as a picture; a shimmer of keys whose light can nearly be seen and heard. Produced by Ben H. Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cut Copy), their third record on Wind-Up is built on this vibrancy, on the permanent dust of a Cape Town youth; on the connection that unites them all as brothers beyond blood and on their new home in America where they pull from the innate, thriving musicianship of Nashville, where they live. When you listen to Civil Twilight, from their self-titled debut, to 2012’s widely lauded Holy Weather to now, it’s easy to understand why the band has topped five million YouTube views and reached historic success with film and television syncs – because it’s music you can’t shake, that translates experience into moments and creates melodies that become imbedded deep under the skin. We’re all immigrants, in some way, and Civil Twilight’s singing our national anthem.

Former north-east alt rock band 2017-2019





Jimi Trimmer - Vocals , Guitar, Lyrics (Bass) 
Aidan McGill - Drums (Guitar)(Backing Vocals)
Lewis Patterson - Bass (Drums)
Issak Patterson - Guitar (backing vocals)

Our new song "Good Old Days" is out now!
https://ffm.to/goodolddays

Solo musician and producer. Soundcloud is used for demos, samples and full song previews. You can buy my music on Bandcamp in the 'donate' link.
For collaboration enquires please contact me through Bandcamp or via the e-mail on my YouTube, thank you.

Hella Mega Tour w/ Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer + The Interrupters coming in 2021 - http://hellamegatour.com

Brileoma is the artist title of composer, producer and musician Brent March. Brent currently resides from his Northumberland based studio, writing commercial music for Film and TV. Brileoma is a solo project that experiments with the fusion of pop, electronica, jazz, classical and rock music. With Brileoma I want to make niche genres more accessible to listeners, and utilise my years of compositional and production education in a new platform.

Cactusman an indie band based in Tyne & Wear, England.
Review in NARC magazine. October 2018.
Cactusman - Love, Life
Some of our older readers may recall Cactusman, a Tyneside troupe who first hit the circuit in the '90s before succumbing to the demands of family life.  Now that their terrors are all grown up, the group have rebooted, with new songs in tow and a pair of fresh-faced additions in vocalists Bethany Walker and Adam Bosworth.  It's the former who fronts Love, Life, a fond, nostalgic reflection of an evening some 24 years ago when guitarist Ian Fawdon met his wife at the Bridge Hotel.  Inevitably, it carries a distinctly '80s vibe, with Walker's crystal-clear voice staged before a cool bed of synths and a melody whose simplicity only augments its charm.  There's even a taste of the pubs' juke box as we suddenly segue into Radio Ga Ga - a turn which could have made for a clunky add-on but is instead incorporated into an evoctive scene-setting conclusion.  Lovely stuff.  
www.facebook.com/cactusmanliveon

Young indie band from the North East of England.

Contact - farpacificband@gmail.com

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