If you hadn’t heard, Ladylike are back, with their first full length EP, the six track It’s a Pleasure of Mine, to Know You’re Fine. It sounds like the Ladylike you might have been familiar with if you’d have seen them a year ago, but bigger and better, like the difference between watching a film on television vs watching at the cinema. Burning Heather is split into two parts which appear non consecutively on the EP. Rome (In Progress) starts off like a folk song then gets huge by the end. Fresh Linen clocks in at almost seven minutes, but with not a second wasted. If you haven’t listened yet, do yourself a favour and remedy that right away.
They’re playing a short tour, which kicked off last night at Green Door Store.. Click through to view the photos large:
If you’re anything like me, you probably aren’t really aware of Tinderbox. Maybe if you were paying attention you might have seen a poster for this week’s Human Interest gig at the Hope & Ruin and thought they were promoters. Actually, Tinderbox is a non profit artist development and music production house, based in Sussex and funded by the Arts Council. In their own words the “exist to make sure cool, diverse music keeps getting made by cool, diverse working artists, who increasingly can’t afford to get into the studio”. The team behind Tinderbox are made up of Lucy Sheehan from Projector, producer / engineer Ben Hampson, who’s been involved an impressive list of bands from Brighton and beyond, and Suzi Ireland, a music industry professional with decades of experience across management, promotion and journalism.
On Friday the 25th, Folklore release their second showcase EP, Folklore Vol. 2, so I caught up with Folklore head honcho Jacko Hooper to get the low down on the acts and the accompanying launch gig. Volume one was a 7″ record, but for this release (and probably future releases in the series) they’ve switched to the 10″ format. Initially driven by the length of the songs, which wouldn’t have sounded as good with the physical constraints of a 7″, there’s something alluring about the slightly larger format. Jacko talked me through each of the bands on the EP:
It’s worth noting at this stage that a fair amount of time has passed between volume one – which appeared in 2018 – and volume two. “Yeah, volume one was a while ago! But it’s gonna be a bit more regular from now on. The plan was always to do them slightly more regularly than that anyway but with Covid and then opening the venue it just fell down the list in terms of having the time and resources to do that. Basically trying to keep a venue alive is like a very much full-time job but now we’re in the rhythm of things and volume three is already done. I’m trying to stay like a record ahead of myself. We keep moving forward with the 10 inch releases and we’re looking at one or two a year”
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