The Reveurs

Mancunian indie-rockers The Reveurs are releasing their new single Take a Bow to coincide with a string of gigs across the north of England that will see them playing in their home town as well as Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool.

The Reveurs recorded Take a Bow in Salford's Blueprint Studio, made famous by Elbow as their recording studio of choice.  Blueprint has also played host to a multitude of other bands and artists such as Duran Duran, Smokey Robinson, Justin Timberlake and The Courteeners.


Take a Bow is a storming new track from The Reveurs who are committed to writing and performing intense, unique and lyrically engaging indie-rock tracks. Released on March 16th Take A Bow uses the anthemic repetition of the title to make the track stick in your head...this weeks earworm!









Formed in late 2013, The Reveurs consists of Gary Nelson (Vocals/Guitar), Iain Brewster (Guitar/Backing vocals), Adam Molyneux (Bass) and Ben Devenport (Drums).

Channeling musical influences such as Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes, The Reveurs have found strong support in Manchester and are ready to take their music beyond their home city to further add to their already expanding fanbase.


"They played to arguably the biggest audience I’ve seen in Night and Day since the end of last year as well, bringing with them many fans who got right behind them."           

 Mancunian Ways  







Live Dates


14th March - Manchester Academy 3

16th March - West Steer Live - Sheffield

27th March - Verve Bar - Leeds

3rd April - Sound - Liverpool

25th April - Etihad Stadium (City Square)

3rd May - Castle Hotel - Manchester

6th June - Carpe Diem - Leeds

Dan Solan

Always one for checking out the local radio stations to find out what's hot music-wise in the North West, Ralph's had his ears on WA12 Community Radio Station in St Helens.  One of their top recommends currently is Warrington born singer songwriter Dan Solan and his band as they've just released an album of fine tunes.

Dan was raised between those two great capitals of the music scene, Manchester and Liverpool. From an early age music became the main focus in his life.  Composing his own songs at the age of 15, the musicality of his songwriting, strength of his arrangements and the power of his performances were apparent.





Extraordinarily prolific and imaginative, he is constantly evolving his art and continues to write new music at an impressive rate, while gigging across the North West of England both as a solo artist and as part of a band.  Dan's influences include Coldplay, Radiohead, Elbow, Snow Patrol, Jeff Buckley and Ed Harcourt, but his style is truly his own.  The new album has been produced by Mercury Award nominated producer Andy Ross and the new cuts are already creating something of a stir.

BBC Introducing Manchester will be featuring some new tracks and Dan has recently been interviewed by ALL FM's Sophie Svennison on her new drivetime show, as well as appearing on a live radio show for Storm FM in Bangor, Wales.  With rapturously received gigs, ever expanding crowds, and over 3000 plays on soundcloud within 2 months, this is an artist whose trajectory is rising inexorably to greater recognition and success.







With well crafted, often poignant and soul searching tracks like 'Give Me Today' Dan Solan will take you on a musical journey with the new album that you wont want to end.  

Whilst you can hear traces of his musical influences in his music, he's very much his own man.  There's gigs upcoming and the line up of Dan's band is Dan Solan - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Steven Kent - B/Vocals, Lead Guitar, Chris Bright - Bass Guitar and Karl Hand - Drums.

	Date	Venue	Location	Tickets
	May 29	Thirsty Scholar	Manchester, United Kingdom		RSVP	Share
	Jun 09	Friars Court	Warrington, United Kingdom		RSVP	Share
	Jun 18	Leaf	Liverpool, United Kingdom		RSVP	Share
	Jun 20	The Jakalope	Chorlton, United Kingdom		RSVP	Share
	Jun 22	Heebie Jeebies	Liverpool, United Kingdom		RSVP	Share
	Jul 26	Friars Court	Warrington, United Kingdom		RSVP	Share
	Aug 03	Newton Social Cub	Newton Le Willows, United Kingdom		RSVP	Share

The Folk Remedy

Getting tired of Mumford and Sons churning out the same ole same ole? Then do what I did and take a look at The Folk Remedy from Manchester whose diversity and musicality is as refreshing as it is highly listenable.  These three musicians have merged their own different musical backgrounds into one sound, which brings out their individual personalities whilst staying true to their folk roots. 



 

Sirens is a retrospective, wistful, catchy, head nodding, foot tapping piece of musical loveliness.  The violin adding to the poignant lyrics of the track and the guitar adding to the foot tapping!  They're musicianship is constantly matched by their songwriting ability, bringing us authenticity, warmth, sorrow and joy without 'cloning' previous tracks.

The Folk Remedy are.....Matt Whoriskey, Maria Bonner and Rob Ryle.  Matt and Maria hail from Derry City in Northern Ireland and have been friends for more than a decade.  Matt, got to know Boltonian Rob, who had previously been in bands and played all over the North West. 

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There's blend of folk, blues and traditional Irish music in their approach.  Harmonies remain vital to songs, as does the violin and soothing guitar solos so eventually things clicked into place and through various comings and goings from each other’s homes in Manchester, Stockport and Chorlton, combined with many of the open mic nights that Matt runs in The Bay Horse pub in Manchester’s Northern Quarter The Folk Remedy was born and has seen performances on BBC Radio Manchester’s Introducing and The Liam Bradford Show.



 

You can get to know The Folk Remedy here on this Soundcloud of their interview and live session with BBC Radio Manchester presenter Michelle Hussey. it gives a fascinating insight into the band and their musical roots and inspirations which include Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan, Elbow, Neil Young, The Postal Service, Damien Jurado and many more.

 






Your chance to catch The Folk Remedy live.....


Tour dates



The Ninth Watch

After a hectic and successful years gigging in 2012, Manchester four piece The Ninth Watch are hibernating in the studio with a view to bringing you a host of new tunes and if they're as strong as the tracks they produced last year, we're in for a real treat.










The Ninth Watch are vocalist/guitarist Stephen Ahern with Mike Fieldhouse also on guitar, Ian Holden on bass and Matt Ryan drums.  


They're quintessentially Manchester in their music styling but they can be subtle, like the thoughtful and melodic 'Brave Bombardier' or in your face in true Manc style as with the classic 'Concrete Boots'.  










Brave Bombardier' has a folk-like feel to it, almost in the vein of Elbow.  It's moody, wistful and lyrically strong.  Soft strings and strong words make it a track that will hold your attention and stay in your head for a long time to come with it's tale of battles past.  












'The Optimist' however is a more anthemic track suited for radio play and festivals alike.  With hints of early Coldplay it's an appealing track with very strong drum and guitar work that builds throughout the track.










The final track to tempt you with is the ballsy 'Concrete Boots' an Indie classic in the making.  It grabs you from the opening line and doesn't let go with it's 'the end of me' chant throughout...a fans favourite...definately!  I'll be plugging this track for the next Online Festival compilation album Indievidual Vol 2.

Watch this space for news of any new releases or gigs with tunes like these the promoters wont be able to resist them) as this is going to be a great year for The Ninth Watch.....