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.

In October 2019 Imperial Wax release a new single, ahead of their second album due out on Louder Than War records in UK and Saustex Records in US in 2020. The single 'Bromidic Thrills' will be available on limited 7' red vinyl.

The band played live dates in EU in October 2019 before returning to tour UK and Ireland in November. 2020 will see a new album from the band. More to follow!

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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"

Aaron Duff, writes and performs both solo and with his band as Hector Gannet. 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.

The band have been working with Paul Gregory (Lanterns on The Lake) and as well as signing a publishing deal with Wipeout Music Publishing, and they released their debut single 'All Hail, All Glory' in November. Hector Gannet have supported Sam Fender on some UK dates, with Aaron doing a number of solo support slots for Sam also during the promotion of his No1 album. The next release is planned for Feb 2020, with more 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. The band self released a couple of singles in 2017/18 and the in 2019 released the single Marmalade on These Bloody Thieves Records.

Headclouds band are Albert (vox/guitar), Johnny (keys), Caius (bass), Snowy (drums) and Al (guitar/ backing vox).

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Ahead of the release of his upcoming new album, due early 2020, Joe Gideon has returned with a brand-new single ‘Expandable Mandible’. The track, produced by Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Grinderman), is available for airplay following its release on 13th September 2019 on Clouds Hill Records.

The new record was written and recorded with Sclavunos whom Joe met on tour in 2012 with his band Joe Gideon & The Shark, and their band mate Gris-De-Lin. Joe, Gris-de-Lin and Jim play all the instruments in the densely layered arrangements, which include an army of saxophones, an antique piano, a cranky old synth-vibraphone rescued from the dumpster, heavenly choirs and a menagerie of percussion instruments. The new single is a statement of intent ahead of the new album release -- the listener can look forward to Joe’s ruminations on, amongst other things, time travel, primordial bliss and reptile people.

The new album 'Armagideon' will be released on Clouds HIll Records at the end of January 2020.

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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. A further single Dance Track was released in October and the album 'Only The Noise Will Save Me' will be released in February 2020.

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