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Calaboose

Live Trio (excerpt)

I Feel The Need To Be An Actor

Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Dimitri from Paris Re-Edit)
Tribute from Radio-Hotel Djs!!
R.I.P master of soul
Radio-Hotel.com

Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Dimitri from Paris Re-Edit)

Ltd 7" Vinyl; http://handsomedadrecords.bigcartel.com/product/aldous-rh-sensuality-ltd-7

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Aldous RH - Sensuality

Taken from Irma Vep's forthcoming LP 'No Handshake Blues', released January 13th 2017 via Faux Discx and Comfortable on a Tightrope.
PRE-ORDER: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/irma-vep-no-handshake-blues
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Irma Vep is a loner, a joker, a roamer, a ribald construct riddled with both earnest anxiety and mercurial songwriting talent birthed by a young Edwin Stevens in Llanfairfechan, North Wales. Having since fully grown into Irma Vep and now residing in Manchester, Stevens' discography has expanded to document every aspect of his music, from ecstatically free group experiments to bare, sparse songwriting that cuts to the quick, shorn of ornament or pretence. No Handshake Blues is a homage to Llanfairfechan (Transylfechan to the locals).

Having bedded down into Manchester's bourgeoning DIY scene, Stevens moonlights in several other groups (Sex Hands, Klaus Kinski, Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura, Yerba Mansa…), bringing with him an instantly recognisable guitar language. However it's in Irma Vep that his most life-affirming, troubling and thrilling music is made. Much Irma Vep feels like what "classic" music should feel like if it weren't so Classic. Each record, each song and each performance exists as an evolving drama.

Edwin has toured the West Coast of America after being invited by Chris Johanson to play his Quiet Music Festival of Seattle and Portland. BBC 6 Music regularly spin his work. He tours the UK and Europe “butt loads”. Somehow he also finds time to run a tape label and put on gigs in Manchester under the ”Very Bon" moniker. Irma Vep performs solo, and also expands to a full band that includes Manchester legends DBH, Andrew Cheetham, Dave Rowe, Kiran Leonard and Dylan Hughes.

No Handshake Blues

IRMA VEP – Still Sorry

Taken from "Sandgrown", the debut solo album from Ultimate Painting's Jack Cooper. Released August 25th, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Jack Cooper "Gynn Square" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Produced & recorded by Tomas Dolas

Ltd Vinyl; http://tinyurl.com/yafh4ddn
Digital; https://awal.lnk.to/FeelinBlue

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Aldous RH - Feelin Blue

Lost and looking to get found
Walk in darkness through the hottest summer in history 
Till you are all I see

I see you fight your secret fight
This beat you take before you say “yeah alright” 
It’s like you don’t even know
You was made to glow

Fireflies in Brooklyn
I’m right where I want to be
Fireflies in Brooklyn
I’m with you
Whoever you are
(we are alive)
Fireflies in Brooklyn

Lights of lives refract in your eyes
Far from home but under the same sky 
Tears of clouds run to the sea
We’re still young and now your free

Fireflies in Brooklyn
I’m right where I want to be
Fireflies in Brooklyn
I’m with you 
Whoever you are 
(we are alive)
Fireflies in Brooklyn

GOD exists inside this kiss
Amidst a sea of atomies
We are one in our own constellation

Fireflies in Brooklyn
I’m right where I want to be 
I’m with you
Fireflies in Brooklyn

fireflies in brooklyn

They: Runaway
I: Run a Way


Vocals From: Jac Starling
Written By: Jac Starling
Produced By: Jac Starling
Mixed By: Kevin Carafa, Jac Starling
Mastered By: Kevin Carafa, Jac Starling
Art Work Made By: Jac Starling
Art Work Shot By: Tyler Donnay

Run a Way

Calum Jones - MirrorGlass

Icecapades is turning ten this month! An incredible feat for our small Manchester label eternally operating within tight constraints. I’d originally planned a run of anniversary shows to celebrate reaching our decade, but they've obviously now been shelved for the foreseeable future. In it’s place though, is this absolute monster compilation featuring Twenty Eight of our favourite artists from the last decade and beyond. I'm really proud of all of the releases that we've been involved in over the past few years, and this comp stays true to our to ethos of quality over quantity.

Proceeds from this digi only release are going to safety 4 sisters, a Manchester based charity who do good work with refugee women encountering domestic abuse, legal fees etc.. Huge thanks to everyone who’s contributed to this project, please keep supporting and here's to the next ten years!

Safety 4 Sisters website: www.safety4sisters.org

Add Up

Picture House is a song about a cinema, and it's influence on a young person as they grow up in a small town which they are inspired to leave.

By Andrew Pankhurst and Robert Kennedy from the debut EP 'Peer Review available on carrollsmusic.bandcamp.com

Picture House

Taken from my new EP of the same name. Available on all digital platforms now

Ripples

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