Alt Pop. 
Liverpool.

"Gloriously carefree piece of indie-pop, which feels unequivocally summery."  Drowned In Sound  

"Fawless slice of indie-pop to keep the spirits up until the sun returns.” - Generator Tipping Point  

Contact: 
collectorsclubmusic@gmail.com


DJ Bookings:
<a href="mailto:jim@tfabookings.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jim@tfabookings.com</a>
Management: &amp; Remixes:
<a href="mailto:sean@runboyrun.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sean@runboyrun.co.uk</a>

Stephen Flavahan is a 25 year old singer and songwriter.

"One of the most exciting new voices in Scottish music" - Evening Times 

Stephen has put together an energetic four-piece live show and used it supporting Bombay Bicycle Club, The View, Frightened Rabbit, Dog Is Dead and Baxter Dury.

Born in Dundee and singing songs about girls and more recently that feeling you get when you realise everything is dying.

His debut EP ‘Memories + Tragedies’ was  recorded with Marcus Mackay (Snow Patrol/Frightened Rabbit) and came out in 2011.

"A very, very good record" - Dauphin Mag

 Look out for the follow up in 2012.

We're Fine Line, Bright Colour. We love a lot of things, music and books being our top two perhaps?

We love:

2manyDJs, Aeroplane, Alan Braxe, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Bag Raiders, Beach House, Bibio, Blonde Redhead, Blondes, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bon Iver, Bonobo, Booka Shade, Boy 8-Bit, Boys Noize, Caribou, CBEAT, CFCF, Chromeo, Classixx, Com Truise, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Datarock, Death From Above 1979, Deerhunter, Delorean, Digitalism, El Guincho, Erol Alkan, Fake Blood, Flight Facilities, Foster The People, Ghosts of Venice, Gigamesh, Glasser, Gold Panda, Golden Bug, Gonzales, Groove Armada, Hercules & Love Affair, Hey Champ! Hey Today! Holy Ghost! Interpol, Is Tropical, Jacques Renault, James Blake, James Curd, John Talabot, Johnny Flynn, Juan Maclean, Junior Boys, Late of the Pier, LCD Soundsystem, Local Natives, Memory Tapes, Metro Area, Metronomy, Miami Horror, Moderat, Moonlight Matters, Munk, Mystery Jets, Neon Indian, Pantha Du Prince, Passion Pit, Patrick Wolf, Phoenix, Pnau, Pony Pony Run Run, Prince, Rainbow Arabia, Ratatat, Retro/Grade, Ruby Suns, Say Yes To Another Excess, Seal, Siriusmo, Stopmakingme, Taragana Pyjarama, Teen Daze, Telepopmusik, Tensnake, The Aston Shuffle, The C90s, The Maccabees, The Magician, The National, The Strokes, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Twelves, The Whitest Boy Alive, Toro Y Moi, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Treasure Fingers, Tronik Youth, Twin Shadow, Villa, Warpaint, Washed Out, White Hinterland, Whomadewho, Wild Beasts, Wolf Gang, Yeasayer, Zero 7.

And more… but it’s hard to list EVERYTHING

OkCorrel are a 4 piece band from around the south of England, mainly around Basingstoke. We formed in late 2009, creating upbeat melodic songs that we hope people will enjoy.

The Macanoes are an indie/rock band from hertfordshire. We ultimately aim to have a laugh but also try to get some good music done while were going along.
Influences: Arctic Monkeys, Bombay Bicycle Club, Foals, Two Door Cinema Club, Mumford and Sons etc. etc.


LOOK AT MY NEW PAGE WITH ORIGINAL SONGS ON IT. https://soundcloud.com/user-782705815

Black Market Empire are a four piece from Birmingham, England and are renowned in their hometown for their storming live shows. 

They have played with The Temper Trap, Bombay Bicycle Club, Viva Brother, The Bluetones, Nine Black Alps, DOGS, The Lines and Steve Cradock.

Comparisons to an eclectic range of influential artists have been made from Buzzcocks to Strokes to 1960's producer Joe Meek's strange sounds and more.

New management Chicks Dig Jerks have put the band on hiatus for a month while concentrating on songwriting and recording but watch this space for exciting shows across the UK.

Single release on limited CD 16 June 2012 (available from shows) and available on itunes from Monday 2nd July.

Got a tumblr? Follow us here... http://blackmarketempire.tumblr.com/


Got twitter? Here's where we're at.. http://www.twitter.com/BMEuk

The band have just released a new album ‘The Phantom Forest’, produced by Gareth Parton (The Go Team, Foals, Breeders) on Fortuna Pop (Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts).

They toured the UK in February and March 2011, before heading to SXSW to play a showcase slot curated by Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1), The British Music Embassy and The Guardian, alongside Bombay Bicycle Club, Little Comets, Esben and the Witch, and Gallops.

The band have just played at Primavera (Spain) and Liverpool Music Week and will be touring Europe this summer, with festivals including Contempopranea and  Razzmatazz (Spain) and the Cosy Den Festival (Sweden).

Bearsuit have previously played various festivals including Latitude, Bestival, The Great Escape and Offset, as well as several abroad including SXSW, Emmaboda (Sweden) and CMJ in New York, where they were voted ‘Best Breakthrough Act’ in a New York Times poll of badge-holders and received shining reviews, including Pitchfork.

The band have also supported the likes of Factory Floor, Crystal Castles, Melt Banana, Future of the Left and Hot Chip.

They have previously released records on Fantastic Plastic Records (Ash, Ikara Colt, Futureheads, The Guillemots)

Bearsuit have been championed by BBC radio DJs including Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, Zane Lowe, Rob Da Bank, Phill Jupitus, Marc Riley, John Peel, Tom Ravenscroft, Tom Robinson, Colin Murray, Gideon Coe and John Kennedy on XFM.

Accolades include scooping ‘Vinyl of the Week’ in the NME, ‘Pick of the Week’ in The Guardian, and ‘Album of the Fortnight’ in Artrocker, as well as reviews in Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.

As well as touring extensively in the UK, the band completed a 16-date tour of the US in 2008, taking in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Grand Rapids, St Louis and Pittsburgh.

“Twelve tracks of fevered pop glory” CLASH MAGAZINE
“A colourful pop hotchpotch” NME
“Louder than an explosion in a fireworks factory” ARTROCKER
“Cinematic doodlings, screamy art punk, and many twists and turns” THE INDEPENDENT

Instrumentation
Lisa Horton – vocals, keyboard
Iain Ross – vocals, guitar, keys
Jan Robertson – guitar, keys, vocals
Charlene Katuwawala – bass, keys, vocals
Joe Naylor – drums, percussion, vocals

Discography
ALBUMS
- Cat Spectacular! (Fortuna Pop!, 2004, UK & Micro Indie, 2005, US)
- Team Ping Pong (Fantastic Plastic, 2005)
- Oh:io (Fantastic Plastic, 2007, UK & Happy Happy Birthday To Me, 2008, US)
The Phantom Forest (Fortuna Pop!, 2011)

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