Lovely, original track, great sounds & vocals.

This is soooo beyond beautiful. Absolutely will be in my top 5 for 2022........speechless.

Big fan of Test Card Girl! Check out "Don't Go" - music video - on YouTube! It's a proper 90s video game throwback!

Another cracking tune from Test Card Girl

this song is so unique and cool as hell. such a special mix of sounds

love this!   so many layers and textures.   lovely engaging vocals.  😊

What Else

Fly is the 2nd single from Manchester artist Test Card Girl's debut synth-folk EP due out in July. Written during the long hot days of lockdown, the song is about feeling trapped inside, whilst jealously watching a fly explore the 4 corners of the room and then fly off through the window to freedom. Sonically, it is a result of hearing Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' playing in the background while half-watching a programme about colliery bands in British mining towns. It's a rallying cry to stand up and walk to nowhere.

The track was produced by Seadna McPhail at Airtight Studios in Manchester and features I Am Kloot drummer Andy Hargreaves. Production was funded by an Arts Council England grant gratefully received in 2021. Test Card Girl will be releasing another single at the end of April and her debut EP in July 2022. She was recently chosen as one of Manchester International Festival's MIF Sounds 2022-23 artists and will be performing regularly in and around the North of England and beyond this year.

Fly (Full Release 25.02)

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Not About To Die (Studio Demos 1977-1978)

Being Sucked In Again (5th Demo)

A Fingerprint On The Lens Of The Sky

The world is falling apart but Bazooka are here with their fourth album. They take us by the hand on a journey to a world above the earth, a world somewhere else.

With 10 songs and their stories captured via the album artwork designed by Australian artist Montero, they transport us to the dreams and nightmares of modern life.

''Kapou Allou (Somewhere Elsewhere)'' is clearly the band's most entertaining and versatile album, their own truth. Bazooka's craziness and instictive energy are still there, but accompanied by a great appetite for experimentation and situations that lead the band to an absolute letting go without any restrictions. The final result is the closest that a studio album can get to the band's live performing sound and that's what makes this arguably their best album to date.

Out on black and green vinyl LP, CD, Cassette and Digital album via Inner Ear.

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Ο κόσμος γκρεμίζεται αλλά οι Bazooka είναι εδώ με τον τέταρτο δίσκο τους. Μας παίρνουν από το χέρι και από τα μούτρα και μας ταξιδεύουν σε έναν κόσμο πάνω από τη γη, έναν κόσμο κάπου αλλού.

Με 10 τραγούδια και την ιστορία τους που αποτυπώνει σχεδιαστικά ο Αυστραλός Montero, μας μεταφέρουν στα όνειρα και τους εφιάλτες της σύγχρονης ζωής.

Το ''Κάπου Άλλου'' είναι ξεκάθαρα το πιο διασκεδαστικό και πολυσυλλεκτικό άλμπουμ του συγκροτήματος, η δικιά τους αλήθεια. Η τρέλα και η πηγαία ενέργεια των Bazooka βρίσκονται ακόμα εκεί, αλλά πλαισιωμένες από μεγάλη όρεξη για πειραματισμό και καταστάσεις που οδηγούν την μπάντα στο να αφεθεί τελείως ηχητικά χωρίς κανέναν περιορισμό, με το τελικό αποτέλεσμα να είναι ό,τι πιο κοντά στουντιακά έχουμε από τον ζωντανό ήχο του συγκροτήματος και αυτό είναι που το κάνει αναμφισβήτητα το καλύτερο συνολικό τους άλμπουμ μέχρι τώρα.

Κυκλοφορεί στις 21 Οκτωβρίου σε μαύρο και πράσινο βινύλιο, CD, κασέτα και digital album από την Inner Ear.

Kapou Allou

Bazooka - Δικιά Μου Αλήθεια (Dikia Mou Alithia)

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Familiar Strangers

Let me dive into the whirlpool
Covered in shimmery red dust
Just before the explosions 
Light my eyes
Collapsing with the clouds
Burning, bursting as celestial fireworks


The stellar wind is blowing me 
Where is too dark to tell
Where your fingers end 
And the void begins 


Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm


Lost in space, time cannot cheat us
We'll sense the meaning of it all
Holy radiation will lead us to revelation  

Stellar wind is blowing me away 

Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm

Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm


Credits:

All music and lyrics by Lunar Bird

Recorded by Stefano Manca at Sudestudio
Mixed by Steffan Pringle
Mastered by Charlie Francis

Guest artist: Andrea Rizzo (drums)

Supported by Help Musicians 'Do It Differently Fund'

Firestorm

Music by Tantrum Zentrum
Lyrics by Vaat Dafuq

This song is about falling in love...
With a fascist!

The song was inspired by the 80s Yugoslavian pop tune called "Fa Fa Fašista" (by Plavi Orkestar), which mocked the country's obsession with WWII. While the lyrics are not a direct translation of the original, they still contain a few Bosnian and corrupted German words for emphasis.

Vaat Dafuq – vocals, guitar
Sabine de Rousseau – guitar, vocals
Valhalla Schimmer – bass guitar
Igor Olejar – drums
Steve Evans – backing vocals

Produced by Stephen Evans and Tantrum Zentrum. Recorded at The Fortress, UK by Stephen Evans. Mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos by Stephen Evans.

Additional synth and drum machine samples by punkdIDSCO.

Don't Be A Fascist

Watch the video here: 
https://youtu.be/mORJ_xvne7c

SciFiSky
Song: Water in the Desert
Album: Arduous Journey

Written and recorded at home by Jonathan Carey (guitar, bass) and Evan Witkowski (drums). 

Photography by Evan Witkowski. 

SciFiSky 2021

Water in the Desert

Arranged, performed and produced by Fernando Nuti (vocals, guitars, keys), Andrea Volpato (guitars, synthesizer, backing vocals), Alessandro Boschiero (bass) & Dario Lucchesi (drums, percussion). Guest vocals by Jancy Buffington. Music and words by Fernando Nuti. Recorded and mixed by Andrea Volpato at Fox Studio (Venezia). Additional mixing by Tommaso Colliva at Laboratorio Testone (Milano). Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà (Cesena). Artwork by Fernando Nuti & Laura Gamba.

Life-affirming Mancunian electro-pop"
-  Tom Robinson BBC 6Music
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"That has Manchester's musical heritage running right through it like the writing in rock"
-  Guy Garvey (Elbow)  BBC 6Music

"Lush"
-  John Kennedy  Radio X

Test Card Girl is a solo project by new Manchester indie singer-songwriter Catherine Burgis. Having grown increasingly frustrated with an admin-based existence, and wishing to conquer a life-long fear of singing in public, Catherine embarked on a country-wide tour as a musical comedian in 2018 complete with novelty miniature keyboard. Winning awards (North West Comedian of the Year, Frog and Bucket 2018, Funny Women Semi-Finalist 2019, Beat the Gong Winner, The Arc, Stockton 2019) and growing in confidence as a singer, she performed her first (and last) gig as solo synth-folk artist Test Card Girl in February 2020, with all subsequent gigs immediately being cancelled due to the dawning of a global pandemic.
 
With live performance not possible, Catherine turned her attention to recording and released her first single 'Holds Me Down' in 2020. The single was picked up by BBC 6Music, Radio X, Absolute Radio and XS Manchester and she was named Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 Music 'One to Watch' in January 2021. Catherine was awarded an Arts Council grant to make a further 3 singles in 2021 and is currently working on her debut EP 'Fly' with producer Seadna McPhail at Airtight Studios, Manchester.  The EP is due for release in Spring 2022 and will feature guest performances from drummer Andy Hargreaves (I Am Kloot) and bass player Nathan Sudders (Miles Kane, Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah). Test Card Girl's music ranges from lo-fi bedroom pop to simple indiefolk songs, influenced in equal parts by the standard-issue musical taste of a 90's Manchester teenager; an obsession with the MIDI sounds of childhood keyboards past and finger-picking folk songs of old. In January 2022 Catherine was announced as one of 10 Manchester International Festival MIF Sounds artists​ and will be performing live throughout 2022 (dates TBC).

Fly (Full Release 25.02)

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