Bad Friday / Love Letters / Firestations

Not sure how this is the first blog post of the year but that's where we're at. 

Our Bad Friday all-dayer has been announced and this year features an incredible mix of bands from Bristol, Belfast, Brighton, Liverpool, Cambridge and Hastings - details below, be a part of it! 

I also played some viola on James Pickering's new band Love Letters' new EP which is out now! It's full of life.

Firestations have a new album on the way but it's not the album that we recorded at Otterhead in January it's actually a Mike solo record, something he craftily crafted on his own whilst away in Scotland last Summer and it was made with half broken instruments and field recordings and is quite a beautiful thing. 

Bad Friday is a bbq all-dayer featuring eight electrifying bands - from Belfast's garage punk trio Jock, channeling the energy of riot grrrl icons, to the feminist garage-rock of The Baby Seals, and the math-rock-made-sexy sounds of Brighton's SLAG. Also joining the bill are the alt-rock energy of alright (okay), the raucous alt-rock of Bristol’s Deadheading, the gothic darkwave pop of Border Widow (featuring ex-members of Big Joanie), the powerful storytelling of Dogviolet, and the fuzzy, nostalgic indie rock of woon.

18 April, Windmill Brixton

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Thick Terrain by Firestations OUT NOW

I am one of the apparently dwindling numbers of people who still really value the album as a format for expressing the thing(s) you want to express. 

Today is an exciting day because our album Thick Terrain is out via Lost Map records, it's an eclectic mix of dream-pop, indie-rock and electronica, it's an album that imho flows beautifully, and an album I'm proud to be a part of with the good people of Firestations. 

The album is out now via all the usual streaming places.

We're also playing a show at the Shacklewell on Saturday. 

Thanks for listening.