Chris Helme 's Upcoming Gigs
Fri 19 Dec, 14 
Solo Show, St Peters Church, Sudbury, United Kingdom

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Chris Helme, who first rose to prominence as the front man of John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band ‘The Seahorses’ will release his brand new solo album on August 27th. Still rightfully remembered for the anthemic Britpop classics Love Is The Law and Blinded By The Sun - songs that evoked everything the 90’s stood for, the excitement, the culture and the bands that provided a voice in a period of political and social imbalance. Present day societal context may well in fact mirror those times but the man himself, now, appears cut from an entirely different cloth. 

Helme’s is an enviable back catalogue, bolstered further by his acclaimed works with The Yards, but it’s The Rookery’s knack for melody and imaginative, intricate, three-way guitar interplay that brings each track to such lush, blossoming, climaxes. Add to this Helme’s keen ear for arranging and those brooding string passages resonate even more deeply. 

Recorded in just 9 days at The Rookery, a country hideaway nestled in the wilds of the Yorkshire Dales, the album reveals a beguiling vulnerability in both Helme’s voice and lyrics. The wonderfully restrained Darkest Days’ somber refrain, ‘Following you, leads me astray’, rings out with the sentiment of changing direction, putting paid to past misdemeanors, while on the forthcoming single Long Way Round, Helme is found resolute in his plaintive cry, ‘Now you’ve found yourself, you’re on your own’.  An apt lyric indeed as his solo path turns this dramatic corner. 

There is plenty on offer here as Chris and producer Sam Forrest (Nine Black Alps) showcase their depth of sonic understanding as fuzzed out guitars are married with distorted Mellotron, melting strings, whistling feedback and haunting orchestral vocals. Melodies rooted in traditional folk structures are vividly reimagined on an album of startlingly rich variation. Even the Rolling Stones’ stomp of Daddy’s Farm bookended between the blues filth of Pleased and the gorgeously mellow Summer Girl, doesn’t stick out, testament to Helme’s most powerful weapon – his voice. 

This aspect to his music was never in question. From the earliest days of his career, his voice always commanded attention, and The Rookery’s variation is seemingly bound by this one continuous thread. File next to CSN&Y, Led Zeppelin 3, Buckley, The Coral, and enjoy. 

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www.chrishelme.co.uk


The Lake Poets is Martin Longstaff, a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Sunderland. 

Inspired by artists such as Feist, Warren Zevon, Carole King, Kings Of Convenience, John Martyn, Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, and Neil Young, Martin’s output as The Lake Poets is as haunting as it is beautiful. 

Stunning audiences in support of Willy Mason, Ben Howard, Daughter and Jake Bugg, Martin has also played sold-out shows at prestigious venues such as Union Chapel, Roundhouse and The Sage Gateshead, as well as major festivals such as Glastonbury and T in the Park. Martin's music has seen steady daytime airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, XFM and BBC 6 Music.

Most people here know me as the creator/ promotor of http://soundcloud.com/groups/deep-disco. Call it a genre, conspiracy, movement: It's something I truly believe in.

I'm a product of the eighties (although born way before that) and a sucker for undergound disco and space funk.
I have been collecting and mixing music since the days of Greg Wilson and Ben Liebrand and was right there at the start of Nu Disco way before Daft Punk.
<b>I've only one mission in life: discotize this beautiful planet! </b>
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Starting at just the age of 14, Andrew was inspired into the world of house music through his brother’s friend who had a very in-depth vinyl collection. Labels like Defected, Z Records and Southern Fried got the juices flowing, inspirational groove and upbeat flavours you can still expect to hear in many of his sets today.

Andrew’s first residency came on his home soil Sunderland at local bar ‘Substance’ every Thursday, playing everything from nu-disco to funk and sometimes even the occasional urban jam. At only 17 years old this was the perfect gig to grow as a DJ and to develop his style. 

Andrew swiftly found his feet and walked them in to DJ booths across the Northeast, mixing his sounds at Onyx (Middlesbrough), Bar No. 28 (Newcastle) and Lola’s Bar (Sunderland) to name a few. His regular set at Lola’s Bar transpired in to a three year residency where Andrew played alongside DJs such as Graeme Sahara (Pacha), Jason Bye & Andy Baxter (Café Mambo), Mark Jenkyns (Hot Creations) and Lauren Lo Sung (LoLife). Taking inspiration from deep, tech and bass fuelled tracks, Andrew developed and deepened his sets, moving with the times and transformations of house music.

In 2012 Andrew’s talents ensured him a place as The UK finalist in the Mixmag, Burn Studios Residency Competition after successfully defeating over 1000 entries. Andrew was signed to Spin Start Artist Management in 2013 where he developed in to a brand, not only playing local clubs but also supporting Spin Start’s organised events and nights. Andrew continues to up his game and will be producing some belters in 2014.

Booking Contact: 
Andrew.atkins.dj@hotmail.co.uk

From early breakout hit "Phat Dope Shit" in 2002 to "Heavy Heart", a new collaboration with Skrillex and Fireboy DML, Dice has always been in the headlines. After his debut album "7 Dunham Place" on his own now long-running and well-regarded Desolat in 2008, came the major label follow-up "Underground Sound Suicide" on Ultra Music with guests like Giggs, Just Blaze, and Neneh Cherry, then the agenda-setting and club-focussed house and techno showcase that was "Love Letters" in 2018. 

Add in tens of EPs on Ovum, Minus, Cocoon, to name a few, and his remixes from everyone from Kevin Saunderson to Moby, Black Coffee to Disclosure, Warren G to Basement Jaxx, Loco Dice has always been at the beating heart of the electronic scene. 

His DJ sets, too, always brim with personality, whether in a small underground basement or on an iconic main stage at some of the world's top festivals like EDC Ultra, Tomorrowland and Coachella to name a few, playing to thousands. He has had era-defining residencies at iconic Ibiza super clubs like Circoloco at DC-10 and on the Amnesia Terrace as well at Space Miami. 

His lockdown move has been to unveil En Coleur, a label reserved exclusively for his own music produced at that time. SB Recordings followed. A new label open to all styles of dance music.

Since day one Loco Dice constantly pushes the boundaries of techno and house music production, from his appearance in 2004 PlayStation2 game "Decks & FX" to cooking up his own ideal fusions of hip hop and electronic music with his FKD side project or writing critically acclaimed runway soundtracks for Italian fashion designer Marcelo Burlon during Men’s Fashion Week in Milan for both FW20 and SS20.

Dice's distinctive fashion sense and strong visual aesthetic manifest in his collaborations with Amsterdam fashion label Daily Paper, pro sports hat purveyors New Era and in his own clothing brand Seran Bendecidos. 

All of this and his longevity prove that Loco Dice is undoubtedly an insatiable creative force most interested in the uncharted territory between genres and styles, the elements that link everything together.

Grammy-nominated producer / DJ.  
Mgmt: funkfarmproduction@gmail.com  
Bookings: james@epikaartists.com

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