Stunning production, absolutely love this.

Lovin this luke, Dunno if you remember me, it's Pablo from PorcelainCoins, I too ended up going solo, such a shame about the band dude you guys were awesome. This is really cool, I also saw you're doing a gig with Luke sital singh how'd you nail that, I'd really appreciate some advice/tips if you wouldn't mind :)

‘I Write’ is the first single from Surrey native Luke Barham aka Uncle Luc. The songs from his debut album were conceived in a Hollywood garage over the Christmas period and hark back to a time when pop music was grand, something he likes to call “baroque and roll” On returning to the UK, Luke met Finnish producer Henri Växby  whose family one by one joined the recording sessions eventually becoming his backing band. Taking hints from Surrey hometown hero Nick Lowe, his songs are loaded with rich melody and vivid story telling.


Luke will be previewing songs from his debut album. Catch him at the following venues-


March 31st –The Borderline, London 
April 4th –Birthdays, Dalston
April 11th –West End Centre, Aldershot
April 19th -Banquet Records, Kingston
April 19th –Notting Hill Arts Club, London (matinee)
April 19th –The Old Blue Last, London
May 4th -Brit Week, Third Promenade, Los Angeles, USA
May 24th -The Windmill, London
May 28th -The Boileroom, Guildford
June 5th -Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham
June 13th -Cavendish Arms, London
June 22nd -The Lock Tavern, London
July 4th -The Tooting Tram, London
July 5th -The Windmill, London
July 18th -The Sebright Arms, London
July 21st -The Lock Tavern, London
August 2nd -Westival, Aldershot
August 3rd -Staycation Festival, Godalming
August 7th -The Black Heart, London
September 20th -Southsea Festival, The Wine Vaults, Southsea
September 20th -Southsea Festival, The Atrium, Southsea 
September 23rd -The islington, London (ALBUM LAUNCH)
October 15th -The Boileroom, Guildford

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Phone Call

Moody is taken from the self-titled EP from Queen of Jeans. Out now on Super Fan 99.

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Queen of Jeans 'Moody'

COTILLON RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM ‘THE AFTERNOONS’ OUT 21.04 ON SUPER FAN 99.

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Those who have followed Super Fan since the early days will no doubt remember the brilliant debut from Cotillon, if there was one artist to light our ticker tape Jordan Corso’s band was it. A now highly sought after clear 8” sold out in just a couple of hours with a critically acclaimed album following soon after that Spin Magazine among others heralded as one of 2015's best. Since then Jordan has upped sticks from the west coast and now resides in New York City which is where LP two came to fruition. 

"The time was right for me to make a New York album. I moved in to a small apartment with my girlfriend and began getting to know the city"

After collecting demos recorded in his flat the first person he played them to was old acquaintance Shane Butler of the band Quilt who would eventually produce the record.

“When I got the demos I felt like they were a pretty good metaphor for Jordan as I knew him. One of the things I really like about Jordan is that he is caught in this interstice between high-culture & low-culture; between the cleaner aspects of life and the grittier”

Butler called his friend Al Carson who had previously helped craft St Vincent’s sound and also recorded the likes of Wild Nothing and Ariel Pink and booked time in Greenpoint’s classic Gary’s Electric Studio which Carlson calls home. From there over a summer they would realise Jordan’s demo’s in to full band recordings with the help of Jon Nellen (Ginla) on drums and with John Andrews (Woods, Quilt) adding piano.

The Afternoons will be released in five alternate sleeved cassettes exclusively designed for Super Fan while a vinyl release comes via Modern Sky Entertainment in the US. As with the debut it will also be available via Burger Records. Cotillon will be touring the US, Europe and Asia this spring/summer with dates to be announced shortly including a first ever London date.

"Jordan Corso makes intricate, textured rock music that will sweep you up, entagle you in its grip, and lay you gently back down again."  NYLON

"It’s a blend of sounds old and current, mainstream and underground, all tied together with the frontman’s confidently deadpan delivery, impressively honed sense of songcraft, and effortless cool."  SPIN

"An ambitious diary swells with the diversity of songs on offer but is held together by Jordan’s strong sense of voice" DIY

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Cotillon - Black Sea

EDMONTON, ALBERTA NATIVE CALVIN LOVE JOINS SUPER FAN FOR RELEASE OF NEW EP ‘ECDYSIS. OUT 07.04

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Canadian songwriter Calvin Love returns with a follow up to his acclaimed Arts & Crafts release with new EP ‘ECDYSIS’ You may not yet of heard of him but his myth is fast growing beyond his Alberta roots. Calvin is a self-proclaimed student of David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch soundtracks which clearly bleeds through his songs that explore the darkest corners of the human psyche while still maintaining a pop gloss.
Suave and imposing he casts a long trench coated shadow as if he were Gambit or Rick Deckard. While his hometown contemporaries Mac Demarco and Sean Nicholas Savage sometimes seem unavoidable in the music press Calvin has become something of a best kept secret. Title ‘Ecdysis' is the process of shedding an old skin to facilitate growth. Calvin explains;

“During the demoing process, I pulled five songs from a batch that comprises my next LP and I decided to release them as an EP. I envision these songs like a bridge from my previous methods of working, to a path to something new and evolved"

 It’s songs capture something of that mid 80s magic when a turning of the musical tides saw artists experimenting with synths and transitioning from their comfort zones of old equipment to a bold new world. There's a nostalgic air to the melodies and instrumentation which takes us back in time while still feeling utterly contemporary and essential. It comes at possibly the richest point in his songwriting career;

"This is my absolute best work. It was a very terrifying process but now it is done it was all worth it"

Fans of Sean Nicholas Savage, George Harrison, Split Enz and golden hour drives on the west coast in 1985 will be instantly charmed by this record.

ECDYSIS will be released on limited cassette in the UK by Super Fan 99 and vinyl in the US via Modern Sky Entertainment. European live dates are being planned for this Summer.

"His omnivorous interests, which span from punk to soft rock, are ripening into something lush and satisfying" THE FADER 

"He pulls a dark veil over his pristine pop compositions, capturing the feeling waking up after an all-night bender or eating in an empty diner at 4am" NOISEY

"A gently loping slice of psychedelia with spiderwebbed guitars and Love’s easy croon presiding over all" STEREOGUM 

UPCOMING LIVE DATES

02.25 - Toronto, ON @ Baby G
03.02 - Hamilton, ON @ Biltmore House
03.08 - Columbus, OH @ Space Bar
03.13 - Memphis, TN @ The High Tone
03.14 - Dallas, TX @ The Crown & Harp
03.15 - Austin, TX @ Barracuda 
03.19 - Austin, TX @ Beerland - Panache Hangover Fest
03.23 - Chattanooga, TN @ The Open Chord
03.27 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's 
03.28 - Baltimore, MD @ The Metro Gallery 
03.30 - NYC Residency @ Berlin 
03.31 - NYC Residency @ Berlin 
04.01 - NYC Residency @ Berlin 
04.03 - Montreal, QC @ TBA
04,28 - Beijing, CN @ Sound of The City Festival 
05.04 - Shanghai, CN @ Strawberry Music Festival
 
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Calvin Love 'Warm Blindness & A Cool Breeze'

BOY SCOUTS ‘HOBBY LIMIT’ GETS EUROPEAN RELEASE. LIMITED CASSETTE OUT 02.03.18 ON SUPER FAN 99.

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Boy Scouts is the project of songwriter Taylor Vick. Her latest EP ‘Hobby Limit’ was recorded in various houses across the Sunset district of San Francisco. Borrowing drum kits and other gear along the way it was also in part recorded at her Parents home and is her most complete set of songs to date.
 
Fragile, textured and instantly endearing, it shares that rare type of intimacy that makes the records of Frank Ocean, Sparklehorse and Elliott Smith so celebrated. Vicks has a true voice of her own unlike many of the bedroom artists finding their feet as writers. These songs will stick with you long beyond their three minute confines and we predict a bright future ahead.
 
Having initially been released on local tape label ‘Processional Cross’ Super Fan are thrilled to be re-releasing Hobby Limit with bonus track ‘Ruin’ on cassette next month in Europe.
 
TRACK LIST
 
1.Full Bloom
2.Not In Yosemite
3.My Orchids Are Dying
4.Queen
5.Ought 2
6.Nike
7.St.Francis Fountain
8.Ruin (Bonus Track)
 
“Hobby Limit EP is a tender and meaningful undertaking, a seven-track collection of evocative guitar-pop songs all led by Taylor Vicks’ tender, engrossing voice.” GOLD FLAKE PAINT
 
“The warm and fuzzy feeling of watching old home movies. As if it was written in a language only Vicks and the listener speak, creating something immediately personal and endearing” THE GREY ESTATES
 
“This one may still reside inside my skull a decade or so down the line”
DOTS AND DASHES
 
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Boy Scouts 'Queen'

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POWERPOP BAND SEPARATED BY 5000 MILES.
INTRODUCING LONDON AND CALIFORINIA DUO ‘BORN FIGHTERS’ 
DIGITAL RELEASE OUT 05.07.19 ON SUPER FAN 99.

Born Fighters are from London and California. Perhaps it wasn’t the wisest choice for two friends with 5000 miles between them to form a band but sometimes you have to follow your instincts and that’s exactly how this band was born. 

Having met briefly at a show in London a couple of years prior, Luke was on vacation in LA when he decided to see if Peter was around for a beer. With a shared love of guitars and powerpop the two got on famously and a plan was hatched to write, rehearse and record a single all inside the three remaining days of Luke’s trip. Little Green Tree was the resulting tune and it beams with the west coast sunshine it was written under while retaining a dry British wit. 

Named after a Nick Lowe song ‘Born Fighters’ are Luke Barham and Peter Maffei. Mike Deluccia joins on drums and the session was engineered by Neil Wogensen in Highland Park. Art (as always) by Shaun Miller. A full EP is planned for this December as soon as Luke has saved money for a flight.

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Mastered by Kostral One.

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Born Fighters -Little Green Tree

INTRODUCING ROOFTOP GARDENS
LATE 70s INDEBTED MELODIC POWER-POP LUSHENESS
DEBUT SINGLE ‘CIRCLES’ OUT 28.01.20 ON SUPER FAN 99

Rooftop Gardens transports us to a time of 8-track players, flared jeans, AM Radio and Creem magazine. The perfect backdrop to a lazy 70s California afternoon daydreaming of your high school crush. In fact, lead track ‘Circles’ wouldn’t feel at all out of place sound tracking Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. Swirling guitar parts bring to mind Chris Bell Big Star while the forlorn vocal could be Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub making this a must for all power-pop fans. 

Originally from the Bay Area, Peter Maffei AKA Rooftop Gardens now lives in LA. As a gun for hire he has lent his guitar talents to Sugar Candy Mountain, Pearl Charles and The Blank Tapes among others. He currently plays in Cosmo Gold and is the USA half of transatlantic duo Born Fighters. 

Circles is backed by the equally heartfelt ‘Never Let Me Go’ which features a slide line straight out of George Harrisons pocket. Rooftop Gardens sits comfortably with the Super Fan back catalogue and we can’t wait to hear more later this year. The single is released digitally worldwide on 28.02.20.

Circles

Rooftop Gardens 'Circles'

POWER POP FOR SENSITIVE SOULS
‘SHADOW’ THE SECOND SINGLE FROM TRANSATLANTIC DUO
OUT 08.04.20 ON SUPER FAN 99

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Luke is from London and Peter is from California. Not so long ago the pair were strangers but through a shared love of 70s music, vintage guitars and their pets (Denny the cat and George the dog respectively) the universe brought them together in 2019. The two quickly became best of mates making light work of the 5000 miles that separated them. They describe the project as a “transatlantic power pop postal service” sending demos back and forth over the net and chipping away at song ideas from a distance. As you can imagine, organising a band practice is a little different than for most bands but not to be deterred they return this month with a follow up to debut ‘Little Green Tree’ titled ‘Shadow’. Lead vocal duties are shared on this bittersweet kicker which ruminates on the idea of trying to reclaim one’s identity post break-up. 

Who knows if an album will ever materialise but for now the project is something of an open book/sweet left hook which the two plan to work on whenever in the same country whether that be England or the USA. 

The somewhat ironically named band are Peter Maffei and Luke Barham. Mike Deluccia once again joins on drums and the session was engineered and mixed by Neil Wogensen in Highland Park, L.A. Art as always by the ace Shaun Miller and photography by Brittany Matyas.

“Charming and warming, filled with catchy hooks and dreamy sonics” Far Out Magazine

"The spirit of ’70s guitar geekery flourishes, a jangling, hooky, post-breakup song" Buzz Bands LA

“Somewhere between Conor Oberst’s solo material and early Oasis B-sides”  Spectral Nights

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Shadow

Born Fighters 'Shadow'

“Surrey’s number one son” DERMOT O'LEARY- BBC RADIO 2

"Measured and assured" GOLDFLAKEPAINT

“Uplifiting” THE 405

“When a great band splits up you always hope they will continue to make new music. This is Uncle Luc” Huw Stephens- BBC RADIO 1

"Very enjoyable. Sounds great!" JOHN KENNEDY -XFM

“Completely irresistible” ARTROCKER

"Acid-drenched guitar, and wonderfully witty lyrics combine to make each song something special" CLASH

"A bright record full of feel good gifts that shine with the luster of the midday sun’s ray." IMPOSE

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