Following the release of his ‘Let It Go’ EP and a sold out show at Dingwalls, James Bay announces his next London headline show at St Stephens Church in Shepherds Bush.

Tickets on sale Thursday 17th at 9am HERE

George Ezra today celebrates a top 3 chart debut for his album Wanted On Voyage by announcing a full UK tour for October. The dates follow sold out tours in February and June, including a recent show at London’s Electric Ballroom that sold out in a week. See below for the full list of upcoming UK tour dates, with new shows in bold. Tickets for the October shows go on sale at 9am on Friday 11 July, see georgeezra.com for details:

George Ezra – UK shows

12 July – Balado – T in the Park

20 July – Southwold – Latitude Festival

10 August – Newquay – Boardmasters

16 August – Chelmsford – V Festival

17 August – Stafford – V Festival

16 October – Leeds Met University

17 October – Newcastle University

18 October – Queen Margaret Union

20 October – Manchester Ritz

21 October – O2 Academy, Bristol

22 October – Pyramids Centre, Portsmouth

24 October – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London BUY

25 October – The Institute, Birmingham

26 October – Cardiff University Solus

 Last weekend, a year after his debut festival performance on Glastonbury’s BBC Introducing Stage, Ezra returned to headline the same tent to a capacity crowd, before a set on the John Peel Stage the following day which, according to festival organisers, brought in the most people for an afternoon gig on that stage ever. His debut album Wanted On Voyage was released the following day. Recorded late last year in Clapham with producer Cam Blackwood, Ezra plays guitar, bass and keyboards on the album. The record’s lead single Budapest is currently in the top 10 in 10 European countries and spending its third week in the UK top 5.

Free and edgy, operatic and immediate, Sound Mirror sees Syd Arthur lighting out for the territory, reconfiguring contemporary psychedelia with a harmonic interplay of deeply felt songcraft, collectivist performance, and limitless invention.

Their second full-length outing, the album sees traditional borderlines obliterated as elements of free jazz improvisation, floor-filling funk, and bucolic folk fuse with the band’s most concentrated and emotionally direct songwriting thus far. From the tantalizing “Garden of Time” to the prophetic “Sinkhole,” Sound Mirror expands and refines Syd Arthur’s already uncommon sonic multiverse into a brave new space where focus and concision is as essential as freewheeling abstraction and genre-shattering creativity.

MOJO called them “Canterbury’s dazzling new sons.”

www.sydarthur.co.uk

Following his first sold out show at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 2nd October, we’ve added a second date on 3rd October.

Vance Joy recently received the Apra Song Of The Year award for his catchy break through hit ‘Riptide’.

Tickets go onsale tomorrow Thursday 3rd July HERE

Following details of their forthcoming album  ‘Sleeping Operator’ due for release on October 6th. The Barr Brothers have announced a competition where you can win entry to a special performance at a secret North London location on the evening of 16th July 2014.

To be in with a chance to win entry to this special evening where the band will be previewing songs from their new album ‘Sleeping Operator’ , just click through the link  HERE and fill in your details.

Winners get 2 tickets, signed poster + download of ‘Even The Darkness Has Arms’, from the new album. Competition closes 9th July at midnight. All successful entrants will be notified via email.

Fyfe‘s forthcoming single ‘For You’ sees release on July 21 and has already been Zane Lowe’s Next Hype on Radio 1 and gone top 3 on Hype Machine. He has also signed with Believe Recordings, and is currently putting the finishing touches to his self-produced debut album. This follows a breakout year for 24-year-old Paul Dixon, with tracks like ‘Solace’ and ‘Conversations’ picking up over one million plays on Soundcloud, a hat trick of Top 10s on Hype Machine, and additional support across Radio 1, 6Music and XFM. Having supported the likes of London Grammar, Foxes and Cloud Control, Fyfe will headline The Social on July 21.

‘For You’ is a thrilling step-up in the musical evolution of Fyfe. A prodigal young talent, his childhood was spent learning the violin, piano, trumpet and playing in youth orchestras. Having gotten his hands on his brother’s Logic set-up, Dixon shifted from classical compositions to writing his own songs under the alias of David’s Lyre whilst studying Economics at University.

  “Paul Dixon might be a name familiar to some…but none [are] finer than this new project, Fyfe” NME 

“Grandiose…erupts into a warm, forceful patter and swelling horns like the onset of a tropical rainstorm” Pitchfork

“Fyfe is rapidly blossoming into something quite special…off-kilter pop music with a bittersweet heart” Clash

“Tugs at the heartstrings before becoming more rhythmic and symphonic…[Fyfe] is still proving hard to categorise”  Guardian

“All of a sudden, London has become a hotbed for additive, glitchy R&B…our favourite purveyor happens to be Fyfe” Nylon

www.thisisfyfe.com

Tickets on sale Friday 19th June at 9am HERE

Following the success of debut album Built On Glass, Australia’s Chet Faker releases 1998, on 28^th July through Future Classic and Opulent.

Built on Glass, which came out early 2014 melds Faker’s luxurious RnB vocals with analogue instruments and sounds of early dance music. Last single Talk is Cheap enjoyed extensive media support including BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music plays, plus the video has had over 2.5million views on YouTube. New single 1998 pulsates with soul-fused vocals coupled with the sounds of early house records – bringing to the table substance with style, rather than style aching to be considered substance. Check out the video for 1998, which nods to the role Keith Haring played in early house graphics and features a morphing Chet Faker moving through the passage of a relationship. http://youtu.be/EIQQnoeepgU

Chet has had a dream run since the release of his Gold-selling EP Thinking in Textures; sell-out shows across Australia, the US, UK which included London’s KOKO and a series of heralded collaborations with Say Lou Lou, Kilo Kish and Flume. He has also been nominated for two Rolling Stone Awards for Best New Talent and Best Independent Release, winning Best Independent Release. His Flume collab, single ‘Drop the Game’ and Lockjaw EP, was certified Gold within weeks of its release and polled at #5 in the 2013 Hottest 100.

Faker will be performing at countless EU / UK festivals this summer before headlining a tour in November.

DATES

11^th July – Bilbao – BBK Live

12^th July – Lisbon – Optimus Alive Festival

13^th July – Montreux – Montreux Jazz Festival

17^th July – Dour – Dour Festival

18^th July – Berlin – Melt! Festival

19^th July – Ostrava – Colours of Ostrava

20^th July – Salacgriva – Positivus Festival

8^th August – Haldern – Haldern Pop

10^th August – Oxfordshire – Wilderness

14^th August – St. Polten – Frequency Festival

16^th August – Biddinghuizen – Lowlands

17^th August – Hamburg – Dockville

19^th August – Frankfurt – Zoom

20^th August – Kassel – Kulturzelt Kassel

21^st August – Katowice – Nowa Muzyka Opening in Cathedral

10^th November – Berlin – Astra

11^th November – Brussels – Botanique/Orangerie

12^th November – Amsterdam – Paradiso

15^th November – Strasbourg – La Laiterie

16^th November – Lille – Le Grand Mix

18^th Novembet – Dublin – Academy

20^th November – London – The Coronet TICKETS

21st November – Manchester – The Ritz

22^nd November – Glasgow – Art School

www.chetfaker.com

South London bred Kimberly Anne has that enviable social quality, the ‘gift of the gab’. She has a story for everything, an anecdote for everything else, and the ability to make a late entry on your Christmas card list after a mere ten minute introductory chat. It’s infectious.

Musically, she grew up fascinated by the story-telling qualities of Billie Holiday and Tracy Chapman, and indeed the narrative rapping of Lauryn Hill. She started out performing at the local South London poetry nights, but a tender word from an encouraging booker broke the news to Kimberly that performing with a keyboard is, really, more musician than poet, forcing her to admit she had quite accidentally become a songwriter.

Following a series of UK shows with HAIM, Jake Bugg, John Newman, Lewis Watson, Bipolar Sunshine and Hudson Taylor, Kimberly Anne’s is a name that is beginning to stick. Time spent with this EP, and a night in the company of her compelling live performance, and that name will have truly stuck.

After a sold out show at The Social back in March celebrating the release of her EP “Hard As Hello’ Kimberly now headlines St Pancras Old Church.

Tickets on sale now HERE

Communion, Propaganda and XFM announce second ‘Electric Monkey’ club night

At the end of last month the live arm of Communion teamed up with Propaganda, the UK’s biggest indie club night and XFM Radio to bring you a brand new night in Brixton which featured special guest DJs The Horrors and Bombay Bicycle Club.

Now Electric Monkey announces its second night, taking place on 5^th July at Electric Brixton with DJ sets from The Libertines’ Gary Powell straight after their headline Hyde Park show and Gus Unger-Hamilton from Alt-J. They will be joined by resident Propaganda, Communion and XFM DJs.

For more information and to buy tickets, priced at £8 head to http://electricbrixton.uk.com/ , www.thepropaganda.com and www.communionmusic.co.uk/live

Dan Croll is a fabulous new solo artist with enough facets for a whole band. He’s the electro boy with links to the folk scene (Communion Records discovered him and included one of his tracks on their New Faces compilation), a multi-instrumentalist whose songwriting prowess has impressed everyone from former Beatles to legends in the world of fashion and design. He started 2012 with one of his demos (Marion) as a Q Essential Download and another (Home) picked up by Steve Lamacq on 6 Music and ended it with his debut single From Nowhere being hammered by Radio 1.

Half troubadour, half techno whiz, Dan is a latterday Beck, and the missing link between Jake Bugg and Joe Mount. No wonder he’s becoming the prime mover of the city’s first movement of note since the heady days of The Coral and The Zutons, one that also includes the critically lauded Stealing Sheep, Outfit, Kankouran, Jethro Fox, The Staves, Eye Emma Jedi, Mikhael Paskalev, Vasco Da Gama, Ninetails, Neon Lights and many others, bands and singers with ambitions to break out nationally.

Having recently inked a global deal with Universal Music, who are releasing him through Capitol Records in the US and Deram Records in the UK, Dan Croll’s music has already found its way onto The Grand Theft Auto 5 and FIFA 2014 soundtracks, has featured on a Dreamworks animated advert and taken over the internet, airwaves and venues around the world. You don’t have to wonder to know that 2014 could be Dan Croll’s year.

www.dancroll.com

Tickets on sale Friday 6th June at 9am HERE