Feral Five ft: Sisteray 'Algorithm Prison - Video Of The Week

Brian's favorite video this week is Feral Five ft: Sisteray 'Algorithm Prison' Reconstructed, and it's one of the best single releases I've heard in the last two years! Post Electro Punk at it's absolute best!

Feral Five profess to playing Electro Punk Dance Music with snarling guitars, stabbing synths and ferocious beats, which they do in spades and this release is a tribute to that!

Fellow Londoners Sisteray (who were on the bill at the Ralph's Life CD launch in Proud Camden as were Feral Five) bring a fresh punky attitude to this single)





Sisteray are an in your face post-punk live band who from the first chord dominate from the stage and take the crowd on a whirlwind journey of musical joy and a perfect match for Feral Five on this single release.

Video Of The Week then for week commencing Monday 20th August. After a lifetime of listening to Pop Pap this is the real deal and deserves to dominate the airwaves and needless to say it's getting a spin on Brian's Next Radio KC Indie Show of Sunday 26th August 20th.

Apollo Junction

Leed’s natives Apollo Junction are set to release their new single Begin on May 18th via self release. The track is a masterful re-working of the original release of Begin five years ago, bringing us a fuller, rounder more radio friendly single that's a guaranteed floor-filler.

The original is on their Bandcamp but you'll be able to hear a pre-release spin of the track on Brian's Radio KC Indie Show of April 1st and that is no joke I promise you.

Apollo Junction write songs that capture the euphoria of electro-dance music mixing with strong indie guitar hooks, driving bass and passionate vocals. From New Order through U2, to The Cure, The Charlatans and Daft Punk, Apollo Junction use their influences to write insanely memorable and uplifting tunes.

With their big-hearted indie pop electronica, they are poised to make a real impact in 2018. Having spent 2017 writing and recording a now completed debut album alongside putting DIY demos and videos out into the web, and in doing so gathered plaudits far and wide.

A recently signed publishing deal with Wipe Out Music (Sleaford Mods/ Coquin Migale /Stone Foundation) has led to Apollo Junction songs featuring on MTV’s U.S. hit reality show Are You The One and in the upcoming movie The Big Promise. They’ve also had plays on Good Morning TV, MTV and BBC Look North.

Consistent gigging by Apollo Junction has led to a strong live following, and the band were described as ‘The best new band we have had in years!’ when they played the Dublin Castle recently.

This fanbase, radio play and critical acclaim also helped them play a series of festivals including the Main Stage at Bingley Music Live, and the Hard Rock stage at the Isle of Wight Festival.

They’ve supported Shed Seven, Cast, James and Sex Pissed Dolls. A recent pre match show at Leeds United Elland Road ground has led to them being invited to play at the Player of The Season Awards as guests of the team.

Brian's Indie Show Replay - as played on Radio KC - 21.1.18

Ralph's Indie Show Replay

As played on Radio KC

Sunday 10th December from 5-7pm GMT

Internet Radio on rkc.noip.me

Played in 162 countries 

Worldwide on 2 satellites

Website: ralphslife.co.uk

Music Blog: fruitbatwalton.blogspot.co.uk

Submissions: ralphslife@mail.com

Twitter: @fruitbatwalton

PLAYLIST :

Click the band's name to follow them if they're on on Facebook:

One Last Thrill - If Leaving Was An Option
SHEAFS - This Is Not a Protest
Sweat Threats - Hermit
The Della Grants - Red Mist
The Seamonsters - Wonderland
Kidsmoke - And Mine Alone
Pyramid Park - Born To Be Brave
SKJØR - Living Without You
CHILDCARE - Put Down Your Pen
The Pitchforks - Headlock
Megalomatic - Cesspit
Sea Girls - Heavenly War
folda - Aurora
Demons of Ruby Mae - Someday
Multiplier - Shake Me Up A Fever
Luna Rosa - The Fire Inside
Palmes - For You And I
BurningAstronomers - Superficial Swirling
Megan Henwood - Join The Dots (Ash Howes Mix)
Empathy Test - Safe From Harm
Edits - Don't Speak
The Honeymoon Suite - Poser
Salt the Snail - Coffee
The Broken Orchestra - Blinded
John MOuse - Bunkbeds And Broken
Little Sparrow - Tender

Crooked Teeth - Video Of The Week

Video Of The Week on Ralph's Life this week has been chosen by our new cub reporter Brian and it is Mirrors by London electro-popsters Crooked Teeth.

The video was shot and edited by Crooked Teeth member Joseph Martin-Kelly.

You can listen to the track via Spotify.

We'll be playing Mirrors on the Radio KC Indie Show this Sunday 5-7pm GMT.

Tooting Tram & Social‎Lost in the Manor: Crooked Teeth / DOTE / The Statue Thieves

The Slow Readers Club - Video of The Week

Ralph's favourite video this week is for the newly released single Lunatic by The Slow Readers Club. 

The Slow Readers Club are a Manchester based four piece who specialise in indie electro doom pop and who are currently selling out shows throughout the UK on their Through The Shadows tour.

Lunatic The New Single from The Slow Readers Club
Video by: croftwerk.co.uk Spotify: spoti.fi/2zlNUY1 iTunes: apple.co/2gwNYk7 Apple Music: apple.co/2gwNYk7 Deezer: bit.ly/2gSdld0 You can catch them on tour at the following dates: 21st October - The Button Factory, Dublin 4th November - Academy 2, Birmingham 10th November - The Garage, London [SOLD OUT] 17th November - Thekla, Bristol 23rd November - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham [SOLD OUT] 24th November - The Albert Hall, Manchester [SOLD OUT] 9th December - King Tuts, Glasgow [SOLD OUT] Plus catch them supporting The Charlatans on 30th November at O2 Academy Sheffield

HVNTER

After the release of his debut Ghost EP, the second single The Game by HVNTER is set to hit the mainstream airwaves next month and if you like CHVRCHES you're going to love this (and not just because of the V instead of a U) sublime little electro gem .

Always at the vanguard, Ralph's giving it a pre-release spin on the Radio KC Indie Show Sunday October 29th. Tune in 5-7pm UK time.

HVNTER is the musical project of South Wales singer-songwriter and producer Jamie Willetts. His debut track Blood quickly racked up over 30,000 plays on Soundcloud within the first few weeks and recently he released his Ghost EP.




 

The Game is the second track to be taken off the new EP and is a showcase of Willetts’ ability to craft incredibly hook-heavy electronic music with outstanding pop sensibilities, peppered with hints of contemporary dance music for good measure.

The story is a tale we’re all familiar with and, as HVNTER states, “The Game is about figuring out slowly someone is kind of playing a game with you and working out what they've been doing all this time. But still being stupid enough to go along with it.”

Benbo

Multi-instrumentalist and cartoonist Benbo is set to release his new single Gravity Pulls Me Down 22nd September via PKLZD.

Tipped by Pigeons & Planes, Eddy Temple Morris and BBC Introducing, and co-signed by Cooking Vinyl, the former London resident has flown the capital to somewhere in the north of the UK that he will only describe as ‘The Bunker’, where he has amassed over four days worth of unreleased music over a vault of various hard drives.

Gravity Pulls Me Down, the first cut off his forthcoming mini-album Everything Is Fine is an off-kilter, psychedelic tinged alternative pop wonder and Ralph will be playing it on the Radio KC Indie Show on Sunday 13th August.

Speaking about the track, Benbo said, “It’s about depression I think, how you can be feeling high because for once everything is going lovely and then something happens to puncture your happy feeling and you’re on your way back down to the ground. Also there’s something in there about true love, I used to think it was about true love winning in the end but upon listening to it again I’m not sure whether it’s actually about the love in question being unrequited.”

Breaking off from a long-time quest to complete the perfect debut album, the reclusive artist Benbo will release his his new 9-track mini-album Everything is Fine – a meticulously-crafted 20-minute alt-pop journey through space-fuelled plans to escape personal and global disaster - on the 29th September. 





Also included on the promo CD’s is Bleep This aka F This one of the album’s most radio friendly tunes (in edited form) that highlights just how caustic a ninety second pop fix can be, when you put your heart and soul into it.

The release will feature collaborations from the likes of long-time Ralph's Life favourite Kat Five of Feral Five fame, writer A.K. Benedict (Doctor Who) and audio collector Gr3n (Cathay Tapes); plus production/mix by Marta Salogni (Frank Ocean/MIA) and mastering by Grammy-winner Mandy Parnell (Björk) and Bob Macciochi (DJ Shadow).

Sacre Noir - Video Of The Week

Ralph's favourite video this week is Rebels and Loners by Edinburgh's Sacre Noir.

Having played tracks previously on Ralph's Radio KC Indie Show it's a bitter-sweet choice as Sacre Noir is in the process of winding up the musical journey and this will be the last video offering. However, Sacre Noir is going out in no small amount of style with this final offering.





Sacre Noir (aka Carrie Beattie) had this to say... 

"Rebels & Loners is a ballad (a little different for us but a fitting goodbye) about dealing with personal difficulties; loss, depression, anxiety and the lyrics were inspired by stories from those affected by these issues."

Rebels and Loners by Sacre Noir - dark electronica from Scotland.

The third single from the 3rd LP by Sacre Noir - Nothing Falls Apart.

Track produced and performed by Sacre Noir at savage studios, mixed by Leonora Winstanley / Sacre Noir and mastered by Lucius Lowe at Boogs Music

Buy the track on Bandcamp



Buy the track on iTunes

Filmed & edited by Sacre Noir

Hair & Make-up by Erin Culley 

Band:

Carrie Beattie 
Alexis Beattie
Phil Lock

Actors:

Lyndsey Buchanan
Emma Thorburn
Niamh Shirley
Aimie McKee

Solo Dancer:

Lisa Ritchie

Intro Dancers:

Dana
Francesca
Kenzie
Sarah M
Sarah P

Choreorgapher:

Lauren Brown


Special Thanks to the ASDS senior dance troupe


Shot on location by Savage Recordings at The Wee Theatre, St. Margaret's House Edinburgh.

           SHOWS

• Jul 27th

  Thursday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  New Cross Inn
  London, UK

• Jul 29th

  Saturday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  Dublin Castle
  London, UK

• Aug 3rd

  Thursday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  Culture Rapide
  Paris, FR

• Aug 6th

  Sunday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  Le Bistrot des Artistes
  Paris, FR

• Aug 6th

  Sunday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  la cave café
  Paris, FR

• Aug 9th

  Wednesday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  Le Bistrot des Artistes
  Paris, FR

• Aug 14th

  Monday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  The Blueberry Bar
  London, UK

• Aug 19th

  Saturday at 6:00 PM
  Details ›
  SIPS pop up bar
  Edinburgh, UK

• Aug 26th

  Saturday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  SIPS pop up bar
  Edinburgh, UK

• Oct 6th

  Friday at 8:00 PM
  Details ›
  The Monarch Bar
  Dunfermline, UK