The Holidays - Golden Sky 7"

The Passport Label - 7”/download
23 August 2010

The Passport Label is thrilled to be teaming up with Sydney band, The Holidays, for its latest 7" release in 23 August.

Having emerged from their Sydney studio just in time for the British summer, The Holidays present Golden Sky - a sun-drenched tune that channels warm nights and cloudless skies. The song blends wild percussion, sing-a-long chant choruses, falsetto vocals and squawking guitars into an action-packed, yet equally sublime journey.

B-side “Heavy Feathers” complements the lead track perfectly. A little more downbeat than the elation of “Golden Sky”, “Heavy Feathers” is a dreamy, hazy come-down evoking the relaxed atmosphere of The Caribbean.
The Golden Sky single consolidates The Holidays' foray into an exciting new direction that genuinely stakes their claim as one of the most exciting new bands in the Australia. Remixes of their track “Moonlight Hours” by Modular new kids on the block Jonathon Boulet and The Swiss have also attracted generous lashings of hyperbole in the blogoshere. The latter recently appeared on an exclusive NME download Mixtape complied by UK disco/electro wunder-kid Grum, and made much-loved Belgian remixers Aeroplane’s February Chart podcast.

Golden Sky will sit comfortably on The Holidays’ forthcoming debut album, which is nearing completion and has been self-produced by the band and mixed by Tony Espie (Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy, Avalanches). The album is shaping up to be a thrilling musical ride traversing a myriad of influences and genres that ultimately will see light of day as a groove-based record full of summer vibes, elec-tropical dance floor anthems and mellow, breezy melodies.


http://www.myspace.com/theholidays

WRECKLESS ERIC & AMY RIGBY

WRECKLESS ERIC & AMY RIGBY

Two-Way Family Favourites

30 August 2010 – Southern Domestic Recordings


Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby are a two-piece rock and roll group who have individually been making distinctive and original music for decades: he a British iconoclast and wild-card survivor of the early Stiff Records, she as a long-standing heroine of the New York pop scene. Their 2008 debut album Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby and their live show have enjoyed rapturous critical acclaim in the US, UK & Europe. Now they're back with Two-Way Family Favourites, a shimmering collection of songs written by other artists - to be released 30 August 2010 on their own Southern Domestic Recordings label and supported with a UK tour.

"When we started playing together, we hoped to get work as a covers band playing in bars in France – but when people heard our version of playing covers they were confused. So we knew we were on to something."

Wreckless Eric recorded the legendary single “Whole Wide World” back in 1977. Since then he has made countless albums in different guises, moving between bubblegum, pop, grunge, psychedelia and techno, but always remaining true to the DIY spirit of his early days on Stiff.

Amy Rigby started a country band in eighties New York City, went on to form girl group The Shams, and began her solo career in 1996 with the US hit album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. Her five solo albums embrace pop, country, folk-rock, psychedelia and the indefinable.

With Two-Way Family Favourites the duo continue to develop their warped, harmony-rich sound. There are no other musicians involved – Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby accompany themselves with electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, keyboards and percussion.



"... their loopy, layered approach, keenly turning conventional boy/girl pop-group convention on ear, sinks in deep." UNCUT

"The static-riddled spiritedness highlights their individual quirks as well as the easy chemistry between the pair." Pitchfork



UK Tour Dates (more dates to be announced probably)

Friday 20 Aug Bedford Rhythm Festival

Saturday 21 Aug Coventry Taylor John's House
Friday 10 Sept Nottingham Rescue Rooms

Friday 17 Sept Glasgow Stereo

Saturday 18 Sept Hyde, Cheshire The Verge

Friday 24 Sept London The Lexington

Saturday 25 Sept Bury Lancs The Met

Tuesday 28 Sept Winchester The Railway



http://www.myspace.com/wrecklessericamyrigby


http://www.amyrigby.com/wrecklessericamyrigby.html

Cours Lapin - twisted French pop - Gigs this week!

Just thought I'd alert you to a couple of gigs this week from the band COURS LAPIN. The album isn't out til September but it'd be great if you wanted to pop down and check them out. They play at Notting Hill Arts Club on Wednesday and at Rough Trade East on Thursday.

COURS LAPIN are four Danish film score composers who make twisted pop fairytales drawing from the old 'chanson' tradition, inspired by the films of Tim Burton and David Lynch.

Live concerts in London:

Death Disco @ Nottinghill Arts club, wednesday july 7th at 9pm.
21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11

Rough Trade East, in-store gig, Thursday july 8th at 7pm.
'Dray Walk' Old Truman Brewery 91 Brick Lane

UK release, September 13th.

Listen to "Cache-Cache" on Soundcloud here: http://soundcloud.com/butilikeyou/cache-cache-by-cours-lapin

www.myspace.com/courslapin

CLOUD CONTROL - UK Tour + Album news

www.myspace.com/cloudcontrol


After sensational reactions to debut single “Gold Canary” released earlier this year, Australia’s Cloud Control are returning to the UK for a brief spell of shows in July having signed to bespoke independent label Infectious Music.

Described by Record Collector as “…somewhere between Animal Collective’s Beach Boys spin and the sophisticated pop shenanigans of The Shins” and having a victorious nomination on BBC 6 Music’s Rebel Playlist, Cloud Control play London’s The Luminare and Brighton’s Freebutt before debuting at Secret Garden Party. This string of intimate gigs pre-empts the bands first single release on Infectious Music this autumn with the bands stunning debut album ‘Bliss Release’ due in early 2011.

Hailing from the picturesque and rugged terrains of Australia’s Blue Mountains, the ethereal melodies and tribal rhythms of the enigmatic quartet drift wonderfully between the psyche-flourishes of Jefferson Airplane and the dreamy vastness of The Go-Betweens.

Since their UK debut at The Great Escape Festival in 2009, Cloud Control have evolved into a thrilling live act, headlining their first sell-out tour of Australia earlier this year after supporting Vampire Weekend on their Australasian tour by special request. Nurtured from the same vein of eccentricity that nourished David Byrne & Nick Cave and loaded with a stellar collection of quirky layered harmonic pop, Cloud Control is sure to excite this summer.

Cloud Control are Alister Wright (guitar/lead vocals), Jeremy Kelshaw (bass) and siblings Heidi Lenffer (keyboards/vocals) and Ulrich Lenffer (drums).


Cloud Control Play :

Fri 16 July London, Barfly - 7.30pm

Tue 20 July Brighton, Freebutt (www.wegottickets.com/event/84977)

Thur 22 July London, The Luminaire (Black Cab Session Presents) (www.wegottickets.com)

Fri 23 July Cambridge Green-Mind, Haymakers (www.wegottickets.com/event/84160)

Sat 24 July Huntingdon, The Secret Garden Party (www.seetickets.com/secretgardenparty2009)

www.myspace.com/cloudcontrol

www.infectiousmusicuk.com

Cours Lapin - debut album from four Danish Film Composers

We're delighted to bring you the debut album from Cours Lapin - Four noted Danish film composers create a timeless French musical adventure with their debut album. Cours Lapin’s unusual combination of words, tones and textures leads us into a theatrical underworld consisting of a French adventure shaped by the old ‘chanson’ tradition. The mood of the album moves from the dark and sensual to naive and hopeful, reminiscent of the atmosphere found in the films of Tim Burton and David Lynch. One minute you are initiated into the mysterious intrigue surrounding a murder scene in the 1950s and the next minute you are following strange creatures on strings in a 20th century puppet theatre.

For a little taster, here's a free MP3 for the song Cache Cache -
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/631249/Cache%20Cache.mp3

JULY DATES

07 Notting Hill Arts Club

08 Rough Trade East Instore


http://www.myspace.com/courslapin

New video from TENDER TRAP

A celebration of indie-hang outs, the new video from Tender Trap begs the question - "Do You Want a Boyfriend?". Well. The answer is quite evidently - YES - especially when one of the contenders is none other than label impresario John Jervis.

The single for Do You Want a Boyfriend comes out on limited edition white vinyl this month, so grab it while you can!!

TENDER TRAP - new album Dansette Dansette from band led by indiepop legend Amelia Fletcher

We're pleased to announce the brand new full-length album from indiepop legend Amelia Fletcher's band TENDER TRAP (also featuring Elizabeth Morris from Allo Darlin'). It is called Dansette Dansette and will be released on Fortuna POP! on 12 July 2010. Just before that there will be a single from the album called "Do You Want a Boyfriend" with the b-side of "The Sum and the Difference". Look out for live shows in July (see dates below)!

A free download single is already available for the track "Girls With Guns" which you can download here http://www.fortunapop.com/girls_with_guns_free_download.php

There's also a fabulous video for this track here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GnEXrEXoY

Gone is the more contemplative pop classicism of recent years to be replaced by a riot-grrrl-esque tale of sisterhood and revenge that wouldn’t be out of place among the punkest moments of Amelia's previous outfits Talulah Gosh and Heavenly. While guitars and drums rush by in a blur, Amelia and her new girl crew swear a cold-hearted vengeance on the unreliable and untrustworthy menfolk of the town.

“In a nicer parallel universe, Tender Trap’s Amelia Fletcher is the most influential artist of her day” (NME)

LIVE:

May 21 New York Popfest, New York, US
May 22 Pilam, Philadelphia US
Jul 3 The Hope, Brighton
Jul 9 The Library, Leeds
Jul 10 TBC, Liverpool
Jul 13 The Wheatsheaf, Oxford
Jul 14 Rough Trade East Instore, London