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From June 21 – if all goes to plan – all restrictions will be lifted on social interaction which means a return for gigs.

Welcome to another episode of A Touch Of Pink, your one-stop shop for rainbow pop. As usual, all tracks tonight have rainbow content. Tune in this Saturday on JOY 94.9 from  5-6 pm for a whole hour of wonderful explorative listening. 14 new or recent tracks tonight featuring rainbow artists from the USA, England, Canada and Australia. Wonderful new tracks from Aussies Prudns, Larry Macqueen and Dirty Versachi, plus remixes from Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell, plus interesting covers from Art d’...

Listening to Jehnny Beth’s collaborative album Utopian Ashes is to hear both artists as never before – a Scottish-French union that, in its exploration of classic male-female dynamic sees Gillespie channel the emotional articulacy of the 70s songwriters he loves and finds Beth confronted with a newfound revelation of melody. If you like the sad country soul of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris’s  Grievous Angel and We Go Together, you’ll like this. And that’s not the algorithm talki...

Luke Turner , May 4th, 2021 10:29 We slip furtively down a dank London alley this week as Dale Cornish comes on the podcast to discuss Soft Cells finest album In this month’s Low Culture podcast we remember a time when Soho wasn’t full of over-priced coffee shops and guffawing advertising executives as musician, Croydon evangelist, and saviour of electronic music twitter Dale Cornish joins Luke Turner and guest presenter Jennifer Lucy Allan to discuss Soft Cell’s sleaze pop masterpiece T...

Though not intended as such, in some respects Leviathan and its creators represent between them one version of the history of British electronic music. In 1973, the curiosity of a significant chunk of the King Crimson and Roxy Music fan bases, along with an attractive price, propelled Fripp & Eno’s “No Pussyfooting” into many thousands of homes where no such recording had previously registered a single sleeve, much less a gatefold. By the early 80s Dave Ball & Marc Almond’s Soft Cell we...

  Article Contributed by Glass Onyon PR | Published on Monday, May 3, 2021 Though not intended as such, in some respects Leviathan and its creators represent between them one version of the history of British electronic music. In 1973, the curiosity of a significant chunk of the King Crimson and Roxy Music fan bases, along with an attractive price, propelled Fripp & Eno’s “No Pussyfooting” into many thousands of homes where no such recording had previously registered a single sleeve,...

“I remember thinking, ‘What the fuck have we made?’” Danny Hyde says of Coil’s ‘Love’s Secret Domain’ — known as ‘LSD’ — which turns 30 years old this spring. As a producer and engineer, Hyde worked with the band’s permanent members John Balance (Geff) and Peter Christopherson (Sleazy) throughout the mid-1980s and onwards; a key figure in the rotating cast of artists who contributed to Coil’s visionary sound. Originally released on Wax Trax! Records in 1991, ‘LSD�...

Luke Turner , April 28th, 2021 10:35 The Australian artist collaborated with the likes of Nick Cave, Einstürzende Neubauten and lots more across her career Anita Lane has died, aged 62, a representative for her label has confirmed. Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1959, Lane was a classmate of the Birthday Partys Rowland S. Howard, and co-wrote several tracks for the band with Nick Cave. After the Birthday Party split, she co-wrote Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds From Her To Eternity, and Stranger Th...

Join One of the most frequently discussed movements in the history of modern music is The British Invasion of the 1960s. Sparked, of course, by The Beatles, the Invasion saw a wave of musical acts storm the U.S. charts from across the pond. The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, The Who, The Kinks, and many more became household names and radio staples. They influenced fashion, inspired social commentary, and, some say, widened the generation gap. While it’s generally agreed that the initial...

Senbla Takes A Stake In Netherlands Promoter GEA Live Posted on LONDON (CelebrityAccess) — Senbla, a London-based concert promoter and production company backed by Sony Music, announced it has expanded into the lowlands with the acquisition of a controlling interest in Amsterdam-based concert company GEA Live. Founded in 2003, GEA Live has produced shows such as official legacy tours like Elvis Live on Screen, or career highlights productions with composers like James Newton Howard and Giorg...