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Alison Moyet Reimagines the Past with Reworks Album ‘Key’ plus Australian Tour in 2025 – Backseat Mafia
Alison Moyet’s voice has always been a force of nature—raw, grounded, and unapologetically human. With the release of her reworks album ‘Key,’ Moyet takes the songs that have formed the backbone of her storied career and shifts them through a lens sharpened by decades of experience and evolution. This isn’t just a greatest hits collection; it’s a reclamation. Moyet, working alongside producer Sean McGhee, tears into the familiar fabric of her back catalog, reexamining and reframing songs, unearthing fresh life from beneath the surface. Her upcoming Australian tour in 2025 is poised to be more than just a performance; it’s a reckoning, a chance for fans to see these songs…
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Bywater Call Release ‘Now And Never’ Single And Music Video Ahead Of Headline UK Tour – Backseat Mafia
Canadian roots, rock, and soul band Bywater Call have shared a new single ‘Now and Never’ taken from their acclaimed third studio album ‘Shepherd’ which is out now. The video was filmed and edited by Gokul Chakravarthy (Uktopia Creations) over the course of a day in Washington, DC, where the band played at The Hamilton Live just steps away from the White House. The song comes two weeks ahead of Bywater Call’s second Headline UK Tour which starts Wednesday October 16th and covers 11 cities. Tickets for all shows are available from www.bywatercall.com and www.thegigcartel.com. See below for the dates. The tour includes Planet Rock’s “Blues Power LIVE” event at Dingwall’s in London’s Camden Market on Friday October 25th. Hosted and curated by blues maestro Bernard Doherty,…
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Balancing Act – Tightropes and Limericks – Backseat Mafia
The second EP from these guys continues the great work they demonstrated with Malice In Tone (read our review here). Recorded across multiple studios, the band self-recorded sections at Studio Alouette in France, some parts with Joshua Rumble (Gang of Four, Black Country, New Road) at Big Red Studios in Cheshire, and also spent time recording with Richard Woodcraft (Radiohead, Liam Gallagher, Rachel Chinouriri) in London. “The EP is announcing the next chapter of the band, we know what Balancing Act is and where it can go, this body of work is another teaser of what that could be. We’re tighter than ever and far more sure of ourselves, we’re…
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Oasis Heading Down Under Dates Announced – Backseat Mafia
The seismic shockwave of Oasis‘ return now lands on Australian shores. For fans, it’s a moment to transcend time, to slip back into the mid-’90s and remember why Britpop once ruled the world. Oasis have today unveiled the Australian leg of their OASIS LIVE ’25 world tour. This isn’t just a tour, it’s an invitation back into the mythos of rock ‘n’ roll, where stadiums will be filled with thousands of voices shouting along to songs that have been woven into the cultural DNA. Oasis will headline a stadium show in Melbourne, on 31 October 2025 and then move to Sydney on 7 November. Produced by Live Nation, the band…
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The ethereal Cloud Tangle is ‘Dreaming Again’ and the result is an album of enticing sonic bliss. – Backseat Mafia
The Breakdown False Peak/$000 Records – 9.0 Meanjin/Brisbane’s Cloud Tangle, the nom de plume of the glorious Amber Ramsay, is releasing her third album ‘Dreaming Again’ this week, and you can get an early listen of this exquisite album premiering here thanks to the dynamic duo of 4000 Records and False Peak Records. Cloud Tangle creates sonic architecture that lives up to the name – delicate cotton wool balls that float in a glacial world: shimmering and ethereal. In fact the latter word seems to have been created with Ramsay’s music in mind. As I’ve written before, there is something Antarctic and distant about Ramsay’s vocals, antithetically warmed by the…
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Cannibal Corpse / Municipal Waste / Immolation / Schizophrenia, O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 27.09.2024 – Backseat Mafia
A colossal billing is a thing of beauty and this was certainly one to tempt me over the Pennines without even a second thought. The venue, the O2 Victoria Warehouse, was one that I had never had the pleasure of patronising before but once the trauma of the parking demographics was navigated and I had made my way inside I was amazed, the interior was a thing of beauty and it was huge, the stage was probably as wide as the Main Stage at Bloodstock (or certainly it came very close) and the stripped back brick exposed walls only added to the natural charm and decadence of the venue. First…
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Float Along Festival, Sheffield 28.09.2024 – Backseat Mafia
Float Along Festival was back again this year, with its biggest and most adventurous programme to date. Taking place across several venues across the heart of the Sheffield city centre and promised another encompassing mix of post-punk and psychedelic rock, as well as the best in indie and alternative music. And it sure delivered. Having hotfooted it over on the train, the first band on my agenda are a local band with clever alliteration Faint Paint, who play the Factory stage at Sidney & Matilda. Describing their sound as “shimmering, cinematic, and tinged with a Lynchian uncanny” their live set has a lot to live up too, and it does…
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Frank Sultana proves his legacy to the Oz blues scene and beyond with release of powerhouse new album, Have Band Will Travel. – Backseat Mafia
The Breakdown Independent Release – 9.5 Still riding on the coat-tails of his win in the 2023 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, Frank Sultana has kept busy writing and recording, with the resultant The Ghosts of Sun 2023 being quickly followed up by this masterful release, Have Band, Will Travel. While largely steeped in blues tradition, this album also nods to styles on the periphery of modern blues. As for the music, there are classic acoustic, and modern electric elements which combine seamlessly, whilst elsewhere, within the lyrics, there are trains and railways, there are broken hearts, there are disasters (floods), there is intoxication, there is love…..but most of…
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Ocean Grove Brings A Night of Chaos and Connection to Manning Bar – Gadigal/Sydney, 05.10.24 – Backseat Mafia
Ocean Grove’s Saturday night at Manning Bar was a collision of intensity, hitting early and not letting up. With a lineup of local and international acts primed to rattle the building’s foundations, the crowd knew exactly what was coming—and they were ready. The word “Oddworld” (a nod to Ocean Grove’s signature universe of weirdness and rebellion) dotted the audience, as fans fully embraced the band’s offbeat ethos before the first note even hit. Eora/Sydney’s own Inertia wasted no time igniting the room, unleashing a whirlwind of chaos that had the crowd roaring from the start. Their electrifying blend of post-hardcore, soaring melodies, and bone-crushing breakdowns created an unbreakable bond with…
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Belgian black metal band KrvL Unveiled Their Upcoming Opus ‘Donkere Paden’ In A Full Album Stream Via Black Metal Promotion – Backseat Mafia
Belgian black metal band KrvL (pronounced as Kravaal) have unveiled their upcoming opus “Donkere Paden” in a full album stream via Black Metal Promotion. The band’s second full-length album will be released on 11 October 2024 via These Hands Melt in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats and is available to pre-order. Listen to “Donkere Paden”: Pre-order the album: Pre-save the album via digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/album/krvl-donkere-paden Following on from their debut “Kravaal” (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” will bring even more darkness and despair which will be divided into seven chapters. The album features guest vocalists H. from Oerheks and Shazzula from the revered Wolvennest. The band states: “We’ve poured our souls into crafting an atmospheric black metal album that will transport you…
