GEORGE GADD. Photo Credit: Unknown.
Yaaayyy it’s November, which means it’s basically Christmas right? Ok, perhaps that’s a l i t t l e premature but it may as well be Christmas freakin’ Day with the awesome selection of live music and new material releases this week. We’re sparking a music-induced robot uprising, venturing across Scandinavia and digging out our hareem pants.
FRIDAY
EYRE LLEW are fresh back from Korea and will be playing Glee Club on Friday to launch their new album, ‘Atelo’ (you can read our review for the album here). The band’s genre defying music is tricky to describe – it’s hopeful, it’s melancholic, it’s you wondering through the snowy Norwegian countryside with nothing but a note for guidance… Speaking of the band’s videos (props to everyone who got that reference), we got together with Jack, Jack and Sam a couple of weeks back and had a go at making some new, genre defying tunes with edible instruments, here.
Desert Mountain Tribe from London will also be playing.
Glee Club
Friday 10th November
Doors: 6:30pm
Entry: £5.50
SATURDAY
GEORGE GADD is also launching new material this week. He’ll be playing at Rough Trade to celebrate the release of his new single, ‘Not Human’. The single, much like the rest of George’s music, reminds me a bit of that meme that went viral a couple years back of Ed Sheeran standing by some Autumn leaves, but then you look closer and it’s made of multiple Ed Sheerans. What I mean is, his music has many layers that give a little more with each listen.
Supporting George is CAMERON SINCLAIR HARRIS, who you may remember from our Future Session a while back. His music has got a Frank Turner vibe to it, filled with interesting observations about society, such as ‘24 hour news machine, tell me what to buy to make me beautiful, teach me how to feel, god save the queen’.
KATIE COOPER will be turning up the chill factors to about 98% with atmospheric, cosmic R&B tracks such as ‘Say’, which makes us wanna kick back all cosy and watch the world go by.
ANWYN WILLIAMS is back playing after a while away. She’ll be charming us all with hypnotic, folksy melodies and stories that make us feel like we’re sitting around a campfire with our best mates, having a moment bonding over music and life (cheesy but true. Sometimes cheesy is just FTW ok?! Gawd).
Rough Trade
Saturday 11th November
Doors: 7pm
Entry: £4 adv, £5 otd
SATURDAY
UNKNOWN ERA are bringing us the second edition of Misfit Fest, this time articulately called ‘Rise of the Rejected’. Not sure why exactly, but that name reminds us of some sort of Iron-man style robot uprising. Just a thought. Anyway, their music is far from anything stiff or robotic- think Fat Freddy’s Drop meets early Scissor Sisters with dreads making us all wanna have a dance and light up our… cigarettes.
You can also catch Phattfoxx from Derby, Counting Coins from Hull and Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies from Liverpool.
Nottingham Contemporary
Saturday 11th November
Doors: 6pm
Entry: £10 adv
Yours in Love of New Music,
Joti Desour x
