Name: Pink Dogs by Cross Wires in Weekend Showcase 2.22
Duration: 4 min 19 s
Description: Recorded at Lightship 95. Produced by Rory Attwell. Written and performed by Cross Wires.

cool sound - vocals remind me of Joey Ramone

The Weekend Showcase 2.22 edition includes 47 songs by artists from 10 countries, including: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States.

Find more information here: http://therevue.ca/2016/06/12/weekend-showcase-2-22/
Enjoy the great music and discover music's hidden gems.

Weekend Showcase 2.22

Saytr play are an indie-pop outfit known for their electric live shows, in iconic venues (gorilla, broadcast, ebgbs...) And the festival circuit (great escape, ynot, neighbourhood, 110above...) alike. 

Sharing influence with Circa Waves, the strokes, sundara karma and cage the elephant, and recieving playlisting from radio x, Spotify (New Music Friday, Hot New Bands, Indie List) Amazing Radio and bbc introducing, the band have racked up over a million streams on Spotify & a dedicated fanbase. 

Following their hiatus, Saytr Play came back this year with 'The Butterfly Stitches EP', amassing over 150,000 streams, Editorial support on Spotify's Fresh finds and New Music Friday, playlisting on XS Manchester and national radio coverage on Radio X. Off the back of this success, Saytr Play sold out their headline show at Manchester's Deaf Institute a month in advance. 

Saytr play release 'Brother' on 1st September and headline Manchester's Canvas on the 8th September.

Brother (YKTDY)
Is a very nostalgic song for me. Most songs touch on the subject of love, the only difference here is that I wanted to write a song about how much I love my mates. I wanted to share some of the story’s and memories we lived through in our younger years. Growing up in Moston (Manchester). The good times. The bad times. It’s celebrating he family we choose, in our case our brothers. Life is never plain sailing but I like to think that is about who you are with not where you are. In this industry iv met a lot of privileged people but I honestly wouldn’t change our upbringing for the world. I’m proud of where I’m from & I love my mates so I wrote a song about it. Enjoy.

Brother (YKTDY)

Emma Gatrill has shared her new single ‘Seed’, a poignant and uplifting moment from her upcoming album featuring  stellar contributions from Rozi Plain and Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), Rachael Dadd and more. The Brighton-based harpist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s new album ‘Come Swim’ arrives 24th November 2023 via Willkommen Records. 
   
A manifesto for kindness, ‘Seed’ speaks to the challenging times we find ourselves in, suggesting ways we can all make a difference by sticking to our principles and striving to be the best possible versions of ourselves - “Help a stranger out like a friend in need…Don’t be frightened to stand up for what you believe”.

Aided by co-producer and partner Marcus Hamblett, though new album ‘Come Swim’ was produced and recorded at home (or Bear Mountain Studios, as the credits have it), Gatrill was able to call on a truly impressive cast of collaborators for the album. Along with Stables, Plain and Dadd, other guests include Conor O’Brien (Villagers), Mark Lockheart (Polar Bear, Radiohead’s Kid A), Rachel Horwood (Trash Kit, Bas Jan), and Thom Mills (Skinny Lister). 

Since 2017’s acclaimed Cocoon, Gatrill has steadily earned her place as one of UK music’s best-kept secrets. From singing on Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ film soundtrack ‘Wind River’, to playing a remarkable range of instruments for others (including Lucy Rose, Broken Social Scene, Samantha Crain, David Thomas Broughton and more), Emma has distilled this wealth of experience into creating a captivating sound entirely of her own; a logical progression that culminates in the fervent beauty and wonder of ‘Come Swim’. 

Emma Gatrill on ‘Seed’:
“‘Seed’ attempts to represent how tough life can be. We may sow a thousand seeds but only one may survive and grow, but that one can be everything. That one idea can blossom if we nurture it. That one kind gesture from a stranger can change how the whole day goes. Stay strong, stand up for what you believe and don’t feel afraid to ask if you need help. That’s how we all learn. It was an honour to have Kate, Rozi and Rachael all add vocals to this tune. I’ve enjoyed playing music with all three of them so much over the years and learnt a lot musically from them. I really wanted this song to have a feeling of camaraderie and a sense of togetherness.  Kate's wild recorder and ocarina also sonically embody one aspect of the song's meaning for me - the continual cacophony of life perhaps! To find answers we have to ask questions. To find kindness we have to be kind. To grow we have to learn. Seed is about trying to be the best possible version of us in a world which is tough.”

Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) on ‘Seed’:
“Emma Gatrill is one of the most talented people I know. We've played together a lot in various projects and so I was very happy and honoured to be asked to contribute to this track. I especially loved having the freedom to add whatever I felt like and anyone who knows me beyond my own band knows I love adding ocarinas and recorders - which is what I did and which Emma generously left in! This track is filled with so many people that I love. Plus, I just can't get enough of "out of the dark into the light, into the light of the morning". A message we all need to remind ourselves of on a daily basis. Good one, Gatrill!”

Rachael Dadd on ‘Seed’:
“This song is like a glorious seed sprouting towards golden sunlight. I’m so happy to hear Emma bringing her third album into the world in all its harmonious joy and honoured to sing here, and massively grateful to Emma for all she’s brought to my music over the last 12 years”

Emma Gatrill - harp, clarinet, bass clarinet, mellotron

Kate Stables - backing vocals, ocarina, recorder
Rachael Dadd - backing vocals
Rozi Plain - backing vocals

Marcus Hamblett - cornet, synths
Andrew Stuart Buttle - violin
Dan Harding - drums

Seed

Thawed

George Boomsma - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Bass, Piano
Ally McDougal - Drums, Percussion

Music & Lyrics by George Boomsma
Recorded & Mixed by Adam Gorman, Pinhole Sound Studios, Manchester
Mastered at Raretone Mastering, Leeds
Photo by Sam Wood
Design by Chris Good, Things On Fire

Fallen (Radio Edit)

we're so incredibly excited for this track - after a huge year releasing our debut album and so many gigs, here is "it's our time"!

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it's our time

In a world so vast and empty, illusions fade.
Whispers in the silent night, lost in dreams, lost in silence.
Truth lies in dreams
Looking for a box to put my nightmares in 
Searching for what cannot be found,
In your eyes shines a world not quite as it appears.

Truth Lies In Dreams

After spending the better part of two years on the road opening for La Dispute, Tegan and Sara, and more, Chicago based Pictoria Vark revisits her debut single, "I Can't Bike" from The Parts I Dread, with a remix from Get Better Records label mate, Teenage Sequence. The London-based artist puts a lighthearted, New Wave spin on the breezy lead single.

 

"Pictoria Vark is such a great storyteller, and 'I Can’t Bike' instantly captivated me. I totally fell in love with the track and the bass line — it’s so powerful and driving, but holds everything together perfectly, almost like something Peter Hook would do, which led to me thinking, 'what if New Order wrote this song?' and that’s what I tried to do,” says Dewan-Dean Soomary, aka Teenage Sequence, on the inspiration for this remix.

I Can't Bike - Teenage Sequence Remxi

I Can't Bike - Pictoria Vark - Teenage Sequence Remix

Driving at night

'Jupiter' is the second single from Pocket Sun's debut album 'Mirror in Blue Light'.
Released 1st December 2023.

~ Credits ~
Produced by Josh Best-Shaw at Small Hours Studio
Mastered by James Trevascus
Artwork by Gina Marie Tratt

Official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcXo753-CM

~ Video Credits ~
Alien played by Laurence Fazakerley-Buglass
Directed by Gina Marie Tratt & Laurence Fazakerley-Buglass
DOP & Editor - Gina Marie Tratt
Make Up & Assistant - Tarryn van Biljon

Jupiter

See Me

The Mystery Lights' self-titled debut album is out June 24th on Daptone Records' new rock subsidiary, WICK Records. 

Pre-order at iTunes - http://found.ee/OFAaI 

The Mystery Lights "Follow Me Home"

RELEASED ON 25 HOUR CONVENIENCE STORE ON 1/7/16

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PRODUCED BY JONNY HUCKS AT GRAND CRU

COVER ART BY KERRI LACEY

Thick Skin

The debut album from occult blues singer-songwriter Breanna Barbara, out July 22, 2016 on No Roads Records.

01 Sailin' Sailin'

Recorded at Lightship 95. Produced by Rory Attwell. Written and performed by Cross Wires.

Pink Dogs

Lyrics:

You bet it on hope and now I know there is one
If you're ready I will see the moment is done
Is it of you though, I'm not buying I feel what you're settling on

You were running down the hall and I stayed slow enough
Every minute I was stinging I saw 'em
Is it of you though, I'm not buying I feel what you're settling on
Here I hear no one

You bet it on a hope and now I know there is one
If you're riding on a hope sit down
Is it of you though, I'm not buying I feel what you're settling on
You were running for a house in the fire
Push'em ready and a heartbeat's enough
You're sleeping with a hand in the fire
They say I'm nervous, oh am I

Don't you notice I had a lung full, I had a song for you
And I breathe in you
You were running down the hall and I stayed slow enough
Every minute I was singing I swear I could give up
Don't you notice I had a lung full, I had a song for you
That I break, It's you.

Loss

LTG 012 //   Release Date: June 17, 2016  Ali Beletic // Legends of These Lands Left to Live

https://midheaven.com/item/legends-of-these-lands-left-to-live-by-beletic-ali#.V1iAzpMrIUE

"Beletic's debut album, Legends of These Lands Left to Live, takes its emotionally raw energy from the wells of transformation and mystery. At times, the record recalls Patti Smith's ragged and desperate punk, the Flat Duo Jets' animalistic rockabilly played super slow, or Cat Power's cigarette-chewing soul — yet, even with such high-profile reference points, Beletic holds her own…Ali Beletic’s debut album is one of the most refreshing rock albums I’ve heard in a while.” - NPR

"I spent several years in the desert crafting this record.  It's a very emotional, raw and inspired record.  It took a lot to get there."

Ali Beletic is best known for her work as an installation artist, creating beautiful symbolic art stunts as far flung as hiking in and installing mahogany and glass Judd-like sculptural pools into remote desert, throwing parties with drummers hidden throughout backcountry, lighting up an entire boulder field you can hike through or riding vintage motorcycles backcountry to create beautiful lines of fire.  

Legends of These Lands Left to Live is her long anticipated debut record, written and recorded during her time spent in the raw American landscape of the Sonoran Desert, after having left the art/punk scene and saturation of Brooklyn to explore concepts of transformation, personal rebellion, and that which exists out on the boundaries of our humanity. Filled with mysterious and emotional songs, Legends is the anthem of that journey, tracing rock n roll's ancient history off road through personal incantations of vanguardism, and telling her vogue rebel stories from the artist streets of New York and the vast Southwest.

Legends was recorded and produced alongside Lightning co-founder Seth Olinsky (Cy Dune, Akron/Family, Angels of Light) in the art/music studio they set up in the Sonoran Desert.  They finished the record in several different studios in Los Angeles and New York with drummers Danny Frankel (Lou Reed, Fiona Apple) and Mike Horick, and are releasing the record on Lightning Records, the label the two founded alongside Lightning Magazine to bring the badass, rock n roll spirit of fun havery back into the world. 

THERE ARE LEGENDS OUT HERE THAT THIS CULTURE DOES NOT PARTAKE IN: LEGENDS PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, TOLD BY GREAT ARTISTS, LEGENDS OF WILDNESS, ARCHETYPES OF OUR OWN HUMANITY, EXPERIENCES, JOURNEYS, SENSIBILITIES, PASSIONS, LIVING LEFT UNDONE AND UNEXPLORED.

Ali Beletic | Ends Of The Earth

Cross Wires are an East London based four piece consisting of Jonathan Chapman (vocals) Peter Muller (guitar/vocals) Matt Lazard (bass) and Ian Clarke (drums)

The debut full length album from the band ‘A Life Extinct’ was released on Culture War Records ‪on Friday 1st November‬ on Vinyl as well as digitally. 

It was recorded at Kluster Rooms in Limehouse, East London and produced by Rory Attwell (The Vaccines, Telegram, Traams, Palma Violets, The Goa Express)

‘A Life Extinct’ is not a concept album in the traditional sense but the theme of extinction looms large across the 11 tracks. Tracks from the album have received airplay from John Kennedy on Radio X,  Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music, Jess Iszatt on BBC Introducing and American Punk Music and Black Flag legend Henry Rollins on KCRW over in the US.

The second LP ‘Yesterday In Mourning’ was released on 5th May 2022. Again produced by Rory Attwell. It received great reviews and Radio plays from Louder Than War, Artrocker, Radio X and Amazing Radio.

Cross Wires have built up a great live reputation playing across some of the best venues and festivals - Tramlines (The Leadmill Stage) Shiiine On, Camden Rocks, The Great Escape (Alternative Escape) and The Old Blue Last, The Shacklewell Arms, Sebright Arms, The Victoria, The Windmill, and Ramsgate Music. 

Cross Wires have been featured on a host of well respected blogs and websites including - Fred Perry Subculture, Tom Robinson’s Fresh On the Net (Fresh Faves) Little Indie Blogs, God Is in The TV, Killing Moon and The Devil Has The Best Tuna.


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