Ben Watt
Tricky lines up live dates and autobiography, Wild Front and Polar States play Liverpool on joint tour, Getintothis’ Lewis Ridley with all the news.
Ben Watt has this week announced the release of new album Storm Damage for the New Year.
Watt is best known as one half of the duo Everything but the Girl, and has since forged a solo career as a producer, DJ and recording artist before picking up where he left off in 1983 and releasing his second LP, 2014’s Hendra.
Now, completing a trilogy of albums since his return to solo, Ben Watt will release his fourth LP on January 31 2020.
“I needed a fresh approach,” says Watt, 56. “The album came out of an intense period of personal anguish and political anger. Sometimes repeating yourself musically feels disrespectful to the sharpness of your feelings. You have to search for a new way to capture the energy.”
The first track to be shared from the new album is Sunlight Follows The Night, which you can watch below.
Tricky has announced two UK live shows for October.
The gigs, in Brighton and London, accompany additional events and signings for his long-awaited forthcoming autobiography Hell is Round The Corner.
He will be performing at London’s South Bank (October 26 as part of the London Literature Festival), and Brighton’s Concorde 2 (October 25) before his book is published by Blink on October 31.
Also in gigs, Wild Front and Polar States will head on a joint headline tour which will culminate with a date in Liverpool.
The bands will head to Manchester, Worthing and Birmingham before playing at Arts Club on Friday, December 6.
Glastonbury Festival has received approval to increase its capacity by 7000 to 210,000 in 2020.
According to reports, the additional spaces will be reserved for people who travel to the event via public transport.
Creamfields has announced that it is investing £2 million to fund improvements at the site of its UK festival in Daresbury, Cheshire.
Next year will mark the festival’s fifteenth anniversary at the venue. It will take place on August 27-30..
In other news, Sound City have again launched their music entrepeneurship training programme this autumn.
Aimed at people keen on getting into and developing within the music industry, from any angle, the course runs for 10 weeks and takes place each Thursday at The Florrie. Applications for limited places are open now.
Eyesore & the Jinx by Dan Hill
Our new track this week comes from Liverpool outfit Eyesore and The Jinx, as the follow up to April’s Swill.
Part of the Eggy Records label that recently played in Russia, Eyesore supported The Claque back in May, and Leisure Time sees the band step away from the franticity of their previous two tracks and into a Clash type jolt, described by the band as: “the most sinister and deeply sexy of the bunch. It’s a delirious, disco ramble.”
Josh Miller from the band says: “From the perspective of an unhinged holiday maker, Leisure Time points a greasy, heavily lotioned finger at the care-free nature of the British expat. Whose enduring commitment to enjoying themselves, at the expense of other cultures, remains as visible and as grotesque as ever. It is, in short, a sun-stroked blather on the most miserable of holidays.”
Leisure Time was recorded at Birkenhead studio Fresh Goods earlier this summer, it’s roduced by Matthew Freeman and Daniel Fox of Girl Band and, mastered by Carl Saff, of Saff Mastering in Chicago.
On Tuesday, noted fan Huw Stephens, sitting in for Steve Lamacq, spun the track on BBC 6 Music, you can listen to it below.
The band next play on Friday, October 4 in London’s Waiting Room with fellow Merseyside artists Beija Flo and Podge.
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