Imperial Wax are the longest serving and last line up of legendary Manchester band The Fall. The 11 year veterans Keiron Melling, Dave Spurr and Pete Greenway have teamed up with singer Sam Curran and released their debut album "Gastwerk Saboteurs" on US based Saustex Records. The album is produced by Mat Arnold (Noisettes, The Coral, Peter Gabriel, The Fall) Ex in-house engineer at Real World Studios. The album gained 4 star reviews in MOJO magazine and i-Newspaper and a 7/10 review in UNCUT.

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January 2019 Louder than War website wrote in their '50 new bands for 2019' list - "Hector Gannet - Rising stars of the North East combine enthralling songwriting with magical live performances. A much-anticipated debut release is on the cards for 2019"

Hector Gannet, aka Aaron Duff, writes and performs both solo and with his band. In 2017 he wrote original music to be performed live alongside vintage archive film footage of the north east of England as part of a wider project with BFI and North East Film Archive.

Since then the band have been working with Paul Gregory (Lanterns on The Lake) and are recording for release in 2019 (further info to follow). Hector Gannet full band are; Aaron Duff guitar/vocals, Jack Coe drums, Martin Wann guitar/korg, Joe Coady bass.

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Headclouds is a project by Tyneside's Albert Smith. After cutting his teeth in various local bands, Albert settled on Headclouds as his main project to showcase his beautiful and melodic songs. Smith's writing recalls qualities of Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti and Teenage Fanclub.

Headclouds band are Albert (vox/guitar), Johnny (keys), Caius (bass), Snowy (drums) and Al (guitar/ backing vox). The band recently completed recordings for release on These Bloody Thieves Records in August 2019.

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Joe Gideon was one half of the acclaimed sibling duo Joe Gideon & The Shark. After JG&TS called it a day in 2013, Joe called on the assistance of friend, neighbour and drummer Jim Sclavunos (Grinderman/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) to try out an arsenal of songs, and to see if Joe could even play the guitar again, after a wrist injury put him out of action for the best part of a year. (Jim and Joe became friends after JG&TS toured with the Bad Seeds on their Dig Lazarus Dig tour back in 2008).

Together they laid down the foundations of ‘Versa Vice’, recorded by Rich Matthews, and finished by Joe at home, after further assistance by friends Ed Harcourt (piano/organ) and Duke Garwood (horns) on a handful of tracks. The album was mixed by Head (PJ Harvey, Smoke Fairies).

Recently, Joe and Jim began working together again, along with Gris De Lin. Their first single Expandible Mandible released on Bronzerat Records in June 2019. *Album news to follow!

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James Leonard Hewitson is a Composer/Singer/Songwriter from Hartlepool, England. After the demise in 2015 of his first band Arcs & Trauma, who played Reading & Leeds and got backing from BBC 6 Music, James played trumpet and toured with prominent north east bands Kingsley Chapman & The Murder, and Frankie & The Heartstrings, the latter included an Academy tour supporting The Charlatans. In 2016 the first proper 'James Leonard Hewitson' recordings were given online exposure and subsequently gained TV sync (Made in Chelsea, Tattoo Fixers), radio play, and extensive blog interest.

In 2018 James decided to make a larger body of work to bring into 2019. Having since acquired a publishing deal, live agent and record label, the single 'Deader' was released on 'Butterfly Effect' records June 2019, with news on a full album in Autumn 2019 to follow.

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