We're using a different Soundcloud account now, just head over to www.soundcloud.com/loose_joints

The Weeknights are a band consisting of four individuals, a band of brothers or, rather, two sets of doppelgangers. 

Hailing from two tiny villages either side of the fourth smallest city in England and having a 'penchant for tight trousers and checked shirts', the boys play catchy indie-electro music with a 'highly original sound'. Described as 'one of Harrogate's finest (and youngest) hidden gems', The Weeknights can offer an 'innovative' and 'blistering' live performance. After placing 3rd in Harrogate's AMP Awards, The Weeknights have gone from strength to strength, playing Yorkshire's top venues and supporting indie favourites Field Music and 'have the potential to be a great success'. 

Their music has been loosely compared to early Bloc Party and is said to have parallels with Two Door Cinema Club and Vampire Weekend, but cannot be categorised with ease... ...a suggestion: Listen to them - 'Young lads but they don't sound it'.

BIWFY / TWWFNO / Sour Lemon / Violet Street / Sunlit Youth / Hummingbird / Gorilla Manor

Slumberland began operations in 1989 as a collective effort consisting of members of DC area bands Velocity Girl, Big Jesus Trash Can/Whorl, Black Tambourine and Powderburns. We were inspired by such musical happenings as C86, early Creation, Postcard, K, Bus Stop, lower East Side noise, and also the renegade art aesthetics & methods of people like Cage, Burroughs and Duchamp. The explosion of punk had left behind a thriving network of 'zines, labels and distributors and we felt that there was room for our noise-loving, pop-obsessed aesthetic. While there were loads of US indie labels releasing a steady stream of 7"s, there wasn't much pop going on. Notable exceptions included Bus Stop, K and Picture Book, and we hoped to join that group and help chisel out some space for melodies amongst the noise.

Early releases from Velocity Girl, Whorl and Black Tambourine struck a note, and we found like-minded popsters getting in touch from all over the world. As we expanded the label roster and our own horizons, the goal was always to share great songs and interesting sounds from a range of styles. Our first burst of activity through the 1990s and early 2000s brought seminal records by legendary bands like Stereolab, Rocketship, The Ropers, Lorelei, The Aislers Set, Hood and Boyracer.

By the mid 2000s we were seeing a resurgence of interest in guitar pop and the start of the ongoing vinyl revival: the perfect environment for Slumberland! We launched into our latest phase of activity with as string of classic releases from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Joanna Gruesome and so many more.

2025 is our thirty-sixth (!) year we are still at it, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like The Laughing Chimes, Humdrum, The Cords, Autocamper, Jeanines, The Umbrellas, Neutrals, Artsick, Kids On A Crime Spree, Papercuts, Lightheaded, Tony Jay, Chime School, Lunchbox and many, many more. Indie fashions come and go but we're still thrilled by great songs and the new ways that pop can be rejuvenated to fit the times.

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
-Khalil Gibran-

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.

Hello, it's me.

My new album "The Work" is out now on City Slang. 

thanks x

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