Birdengine

Posted on 03/12/2012 by brightonmusicblog

Lawry Tilbury III, aka Birdengine, is a Brighton institution who’s been purveying his unique brand of gothic folk for more than five years now. His last album ‘The Crooked Mile’ is a masterpiece and essential listening. This year he’s been quietly gigging and working away at some new songs, in preparation for a much-anticipated new album in 2013. In the meantime, you should check out his website and take a look at the amazing video for the single ‘No Arms’ below.

Words and Picture by Jon Southcoasting

Four Videos – Jennifer Left, Abi Wade, Fear of Men, Curxes

Posted on 06/11/2012 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s four videos to keep you entertained. Two for new songs, two for some not so new songs. Jennifer Left and Abi Wade released their new singles yesterday (and Jennifer Left is having a launch party for hers at the Blind Tiger on Thursday). Mosaic by Fear of Men and Spectre by Curxes both came out earlier in the year, but the videos have only just appeared:

Jennifer Left / Diggory (itunes link)

Abi Wade / Heavy Heart (itunes link)

Fear of Men / Mosaic (Resident link)

Curxes / Spectre (itunes link)

new media from Al Chamberlain, Omega Male, Ital Tek and The Maccabees

Posted on 21/10/2012 by brightonmusicblog

Before we head out to the Dome Studio bar for the Oxjam Brighton Takeover tonight, here’s a few bits and pieces for you to listen to and watch.

We mentioned Al Chamberlain’s Train Song in our review of september’s Bleeding Hearts Club, and since then it’s turned up as a free download on Soundcloud. Go and grab it now – it’s one of my favourite tracks of the year.

Next is a new video by Omega Male, half of whom is Fujiya & Miyagi’s David Best. Take a look at Testosterone here:

Then we have Ital Tek with the eponymous title track from their new album Nebula Dance, which comes out tomorrow:

Finally, we have beautiful, trippy video Ayla by the Maccabees

New Union / Without You video

Posted on 09/10/2012 by brightonmusicblog

We wrote about the New Union single a few weeks ago, but when we did, it was a weeks before it was released, and it was before the video up. The single came out on monday, so to remind you of the fact that it’s out, here’s the video:

New Union are launching the single at a free gig at Fitzherberts on Friday Night.

Bits and Pieces

Posted on 02/10/2012 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s another blog post of a couple of assorted media that have come to our attention that we’d like to share.

First up we have the b-side to the upcoming Fear of Men single coming out on Too Pure that we wrote about a few weeks ago. Mosaic, which is already getting airplay on BBC 6Music, is out two weeks today and the flip Your Side sounds like this:

Next is a remix of one of the tracks from Cate Ferris’ Deep Breath, Ready, Get set GO EP. Condensation has been remixed by Talking Books, and doesn’t feature on the cd:

Finally we have another video for the next single from Bat For Lashes upcoming album The Haunted Man. This is the video to accompany All Your Gold, which also comes out on October 15th:

Jennifer Left / Diggory

Posted on 29/09/2012 by brightonmusicblog

In case you haven’t seen it, the video for the new Jennifer Left single has landed. Diggory is the second release to come from her forthcoming album Hushabye, which has been produced by Tim Bidwell, and the video has been made by Thom Undrell, who also put together the fantastic video for Black Dog earlier this year. Diggory hits the shelves on 5th November, and Jennifer is having a launch party at the Blind Tiger on the 8th November. See you there!

Milk & Biscuits / White Noise

Posted on 24/09/2012 by brightonmusicblog

A new song and accompanying video by Milk & Biscuits has turned up on Vimeo (via Brakes Facebook page). It’s lovely stuff – it starts off as lovely pastoral pop before rocking out for the second half. The video is rather beautiful too:

Friday Video roundup with Ingrid Plum, Cordelia Gartside, Astro Physics and The Kingsmiths

Posted on 31/08/2012 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s a few videos that have come our way recently – it’s been barely a week since the last one, but they keep rolling in. There’s some folk from Ingrid Plum, who’s playing at the Bleeding Hearts Club on 10th September and Cordelia who’s supporting House of Hats at the Brunswick tomorrow night, then some Hip Hop from Astro-Physics, and some indie rock from The Kingsmiths, so there’s definitely something for everyone there:

Ingrid Plum / Early

Cordelia Gartside / Fathoms Deep

Astro Physics / Chances

The Kingsmiths / My Best Error

New videos : Fragile Creatures, House of Hats, King Porter Stomp, and King of Cats

Posted on 22/08/2012 by brightonmusicblog

We’ve come across a few videos in the past week or so which I thought I’d share. First up is Dear Michael by Fragile Creatures, which we wrote about back in June. They’ve finally got a video to go with their debut single. Next up is House of Hats with their next single Rivers Will Run. We interviewed them about their previous animated video not long ago. Then we’ve got the video for the new King Porter Stomp single which is out on Monday. Finally, we’ve got a new offering from King of Cats. We meant to write about his cassette that came out on Reeks of Effort a little while ago, but somehow got a bit distracted:

Fragile Creatures – Dear Michael

House of Hats – Rivers Will Run

King Porter Stomp – The Shuffle

King of Cats – Swelling Up

Woodpecker Wooliams ‘Sparrow’

Posted on 10/08/2012 by brightonmusicblog

Charming video by her sister for this song ‘Sparrow’ from the new Woodpecker Wooliams album due to drop in September. It’s called ‘The Bird School Of Being Human’. Can’t wait!