Sound City 2012

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What an honour to be performing alongside some great artists!! Hope you can make it- more info here:

http://www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk/

Who’s announced for 2012 so far?
∆ Alt J / Ahab / Alex Hulme / Algiers / Alkaline Trio / All We Are / Anna Anna / Arcane Roots / Artwork & MC Pokes / Barbieshop / Be Forest / Bear In Heaven / Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers / Ben Salter / Bendal Interlude / Bird / Bleached / Bleeding Heart Narrative / Blunt Truth / Bonfire Nights / Bow & Arrow / Broken Lungs / Bwani Junction /By The Sea / Catfish and The Bottlemen / Cazadores / Charli XCX / Cheap Thrills /Chelcee Grimes /  Chew Lips / Clock Opera / Clutter / Coffee and Cakes For Funerals / COMA / Common Tongues / Concrete Knives / Crash Of Rhinos / Crusades / D/R/U/G/S /Dan Croll / Daniel Kuhle / Dave Hause / Daytona Lights / Dead Cities / Dead Wolf Club / Death at Sea / Death In Vegas / Dinosaur Bones / Django Django / Don Broco / EJ /Electric Guest / Elmo and the Styx / EmmaLouise / Esco Williams / Eugene McGuinness /Ex Easter Island Head / Faceless Nation / Farryl Purkiss / fiN / Fine Young Firecrackers /Fitz. / Fixers / Flat Back Four / Flip Grater / Folks / Forest Swords / Fossil Collective / Funeral Suits / Get Back Colquitt / Ghost Outfit / Ghostpoet / Golden Fable /  Goodnight Lenin / Gush / Heartbeat Parade / Hey Carrianne / Hey Sholay / Hideaways / HighFields /Hot Panda / Hugh Keice / I am Dive / I Dream In Colour / Iktsuarpok / Inland Sea /Invaders / Ironside / Jackson Firebird / Jake Bugg / James Vincent McMorrow / Jay Stansfield / Jazzhands / JeanClaudeGoddamn / Jessie Rose / Jethro Fox / Jinja Safari /Johnny Sands / Jonquil / Jordan Cook (Reignwolf) / Kasst / Kazimier Krunk Band / Kestrels / Kids In Glass Houses / Kites / Lake Poets / Last Dinosaurs / Like Spinning /Lilliput / Long Finger Bandits / Low Roar / Lower Than Atlantis / Luke Fenlon / Lulu James / Mammal Club / Man Get Out / Manuka / Mele / Michael Kiwanuka / Midnight Youth / Milla & The Geeks / Millions / Mind Mountain / Miss Stylie / Monkey Pilot / Mont Blanc / Mugstar / Mystery Jets / Niki & The Dove / Ninetails / NOKIES! / Oliver Tank / Owls* / Oxygen Thieves / Patterns / Peace / Peggy Hsu / People In the Box / People Of K / Pete and the Harmonics / Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies / Pikachunes / PINS /Pond / Post War Years / Princess Chelsea / Professor Green / Ratty Little Fingers / Reptile Youth / Revere / Roosevelt / Said The Whale / Salem / Rages / Samuel Mason /Scams / Secret Rivals / Seward / She’s So Rad / Sheepdogs / Shields / Sietta / Silent Sleep / Silverclub / Sissy & The Blisters / Slow Club / Slow Down Molasses / Some Community / Southern / Space / Spring Offensive / Stafraenn Hakon / Stealing Sheep /Step Panther / Stephen Langstaff / Still Corners / StillFlyin’ / The Strangers / STRIKE /Sun Drums / Sunless 97 / Sweet Billy Pilgrim / Sweet Lights / Swiss Lips / Tall Ships /Tea Street Band / The Big Sleep / The Bowers / The Brownies / The City Walls / The Computers / The Daydream Club / The Dead Class / The Grande / The Heartbreaks / The History Of Apple Pie / The Hummingbirds / The Jezabels / The Kill Van Kulls / The Lake Poets / The Likely Lads / The Lunar Fields / THE MARGINALS / The Night / The Red Suns/ The Royals / The Second Grace / The Suicide of Western Culture / The Sums / The Temper Trap / The Thespians / THE UNION DOLLS / The Valkarys / The Vermin Suicides/ The Wedding Present / Theme Park / This Is Two / Thomas J Speight / Thunderbird Gerard / Tibi & Her Cello / Tim Hecker / Tina In The Green Dress / Tiro Lark / Towns / TOY / TRUDI / Vasco Da Gama / Vukovi / Waa Wei / We Are Animal / Wet Nuns / White Arrows / White Denim / Willis Earl Beal / Willy Mason / YAST / Young British Artists /Yukon Blonde

Conor Mason – Passing Colours

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Some artists just get me everytime and Conor Mason is no exception. I’ve been following his work for a while now and he just seems to get better and better. Writing songs that are catchy, well written, well produced with a really classic sound akin to some of the slower songs from artists like The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes and Elliott Smith spreading into more upbeat tunes like ‘5AM‘. Man I love this tune- i must have listened to it a hundred times since i first discovered it. I highly recommend you listen to his music more often because he’s going to big and remember folks- you heard it here first…

Here’s the newest Conor Mason offering ‘Passing Colours’ and believe me it’s a crackin’ tune

Sat in the Dark

Gorilla Head

I was sat in the dark with a humming sound above my head,

I thought it was a memory but instead it was a gorilla,

He was floating above me I could sense his weight,

Looking down on me, humming, the instrumental version of ‘Thriller’,

But the lack of light distorted my vision and instead of making appropriate provisions to move away,

The gorilla fell on me and crushed my ribs,

That was the end of my rainy day.

Flume by Bon Iver

This song is so close to the heart in many ways that the decision to cover it was hard to make…the decision, after months of thinking, arrived in the heart and the microphones were taken out of their cases and set up ready to record. So here it is- ‘Flume’ covered by Jay Stansfield. Hope the fans enjoy it- it was lovely to record and if you have never heard Bon Iver or any of their releases then I highly recommend you do so immediately.

Sources: http://www.jagjaguwar.com/ —– http://www.4ad.com/

Review: Zun Zun Egui – ‘Fandango Fresh’

Artist: Zun Zun Egui
Release: Fandango Fresh
Label: Bella Union Records
Year: 2011

I stumbled upon some music the other day in my search for something fresh and exciting and I discovered it on Soundcloud which I just had to share. Bella Union Records have done it again and signed yet another fine musical outfit going by the name of Zun Zun Egui. I asked the guys at Bella Union when the Zun Zun Egui album ‘Katang’ would be out and they said in a couple of months. They meant the 3rd of October 2011 it seems from the fine info over on their website.  So I wait in anticipation of an album which, if this track ‘Fandango Fresh’ is anything to go by, will sound like some of my favourite bands all blended into one.  Sounding like The Ex meets US Maple and a little like Shellac in places with sprinklings of XTC and even Talking Heads I’m hoping this album will be something special. If Bella Union keep this up they may slip into the realms of ‘best label ever’ and rightly deserved at that.

the JAY STANSFIELD ep PREVIEW!!

This is a preview of my brand new EP ‘the JAY STANSFIELD ep’ released on White Label Music on the 30th May 2011, already receiving some great reviews. Out now! Ready to buy, play and dance to. Make love to. Fight to…whatever takes your fancy.

If you haven’t got your copy already (to those who have- I love you!!!) then get yourself over to the White Label shop and grab one for you and one for your friend. Father’s Day isn’t far away now…!!

It is in physical CD and digital formats and features an exclusive bonus track by Electronic wizard ‘Lord NUMB’. ( LORD NUMB )

Please visit the WLM Shop for more info and to grab yourself a copy! You can also click the BUY button to go to the site.

http://wlmshoponline.co.uk/buy/jay-stansfield-ep-2/

All audio in this sampler (C) & (P) White Label Music 2011.

CREDITS:
Recorded at Central Recording Studios, Burnley, Lancashire, UK.

Engineered, Produced and Mastered by Rob Ashworth.
All songs written by Jay Stansfield.
All instruments by Jay Stansfield except drums by Rob Ashworth.
Additional vocals on ‘Maisy’ by Maria Stansfield.

Much Love to You
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