A Flock of Seagulls are back in their original form for the first time since 1984. Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds release “Space Age Love Song”.
LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/aflockofseagulls
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcluFtLtRzipm7CdtERnceA
https://facebook.com/seagullsrunning
https://twitter.com/seagullsrunning
https://instragram.com/seagullsrunning
http://www.aflockofseagulls.org
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Kannika – I’m Watching You
Kannika was born in the south of Thailand and has since relocated to Nakhon Ratchasima in the northeast.
She has been singing from a very young age and as her career began progress she undertook major residencies in Phuket, Kiri Khan, and Hua Hin.
She currently performs in clubs in and around Nakhon Ratchasima in Northeast Thailand. She cites Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner as her favorite artists but says her biggest influence on her has always been her mother who encouraged her from a very young age.
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https://facebook.com/kannikamusic
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Arlo – Rivers
East London based soul/ pop artist ARLO recently revealed gorgeous new pop song, ” Rivers”. Having been featured by Spotify New Music Friday and gaining the acclaim of a variety of publications, ARLO has revealed a stunning Jackson Ducasse directed video for the track.
The past few months have seen the fast riser take big strides forward, with two London sellouts at Camden Assembly and The Waiting Room as well as Mick Jenkins collaboration “Changing” cementing ARLO as an artist to watch throughout 2019. Clocking up over a million Spotify streams as an independent artist and press support from the likes of Complex, Highsnobiety, Nylon, The Independent and more, ARLO has been putting together a stellar catalog of releases and will continue to do so this year. Add him to your ones to watch list.
You can catch ARLO headlining 02 Islington Assembly on June 5th, 2019. Grab your tickets HERE.
LINKS:
https://www.iamarlo.com
https://twitter.com/iam_arlo
https://www.facebook.com/iamarlomusic
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Cathal Coughlan – Owl In The Parlour
Cathal Coughlan has released the video for his new track titled ‘Owl in the Parlour’. Given a dark tone only highlighted by the video, the track has an almost dark alt jazz feeling to it. Almost a cross between Leonard Cohen and Joe Jackson. The chord progressions are brilliant and the originality factor is above ten.
As of February 5, ‘Owl In The Parlour’ is available digitally across online platforms, such as Apple Music and Spotify. Lead track ‘Song of Co-Aklan’ can already be found on these same platforms. The full album, set for release on March 26, can be pre-ordered HERE.
ABOUT CATHAL COUGHLAN
Irish indie music legend Cathal Coughlan presents ‘Owl In The Parlour’, the second single from his forthcoming album ‘Song of Co-Aklan’, his first new music in ten years, to be released via London label Dimple Discs. The accompanying video was created by Andy Golding (The Wolfhounds, Dragon Welding), presenting Co-Aklan in an infomercial of the most hallucinatory and lurid kind, which is nonetheless friendly and persuasive in tone.
“This song is, in part, a survey of the options in personal couture, animal husbandry, and ‘inexpensive’ domestic staffing which are now available to the spry middle-aged man in this era of global communication. In this gilded age, we are simultaneously interlinked and mutually repelled as never before, whether we live in remote settlements in war-torn parts of the world, or in the mosaic of postage-stamp-sized semi-detached fortresses and gargantuan fulfillment hubs that is the English Hinterland in 2021,” says Cathal Coughlan.
Earlier, Coughlan released the title track ‘Song of Co-Aklan’, along with a video that is a hermetic visual feast, created by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker George Seminara.
Best known as co-founder and vocalist for seminal 80s/90s bands Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, who toured internationally with U2, the Cork native has been described as “the most underrated lyricist in pop today” by The Guardian newspaper. DJ John Peel was also such a fan that he stated he could “listen to Cathal Coughlan sing the phone book”.
Recorded in London, this song features Coughlan’s long-time collaborators from the Grand Necropolitan Quartet. Namely Nick Allum (The Fatima Mansions, The Apartments) is on drums, James Woodrow is on guitar, with cello by Audrey Riley (notable collaborator of Lush, The Sundays, The Smiths, Nick Cave, The Cure, The Go-Betweens, Smashing Pumpkins, Catherine Wheel, Moloko and Coldplay). Anchoring the song is Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti) on bass.
This album also features contributions from Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder) on bass and baritone guitar. The eye-catching cover art for the ‘Song of Co-Aklan’ LP is by outsider artist Cristabel Christo and originated by Bruce Brand, award winning designer for The Darkness and Whites Stripes.
Cathal Coughlan is widely considered to be one of Ireland’s most revered singer-songwriters, beloved by fans of caustic literate lyricism and erudite songcraft. Since Fatima Mansions’ demise in the mid-90s, he has released five acclaimed solo albums, taken part in an array of collaborations, and made numerous guest appearances. Along with Microdisney bandmates, he was the first recipient in 2019 of Ireland’s National Concert Hall Trailblazer Award, which celebrates culturally important albums by iconic Irish musicians, songwriters, and composers (for 1985’s ‘The Clock Comes Down The Stairs’).
Feautred image by by Gregory Dunn.
LINKS:
http://www.cathalcoughlan.com
https://www.facebook.com/cathalcoughlan
https://twitter.com/realcathalc
https://www.instagram.com/cathalcoughlan
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazYm7FpGdnSORnFUGqHHtQ/featured