Flyte is the project of English songwriters Will Taylor and Nick Hill. The pair met at secondary school and take their name from Sebastian Flyte of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.
After the release of two critically acclaimed albums, 2017’s The Loved Ones and 2021’s This Is Really Going To Hurt, they are back with new music. The upcoming album is their most confident and collaborative work to date, featuring artists such as Laura Marling, Bombay Bicycle Club and M Field.
Join The Royal Institution for an evening of jazz, every Wednesday at 8pm till 10.30pm, with a trio of professional musicians.
Crosstown Studios, a leading Liverpool recording studio, is thrilled to announce a special 15th-anniversary celebration.
The milestone event will be an unforgettable evening of music, nostalgia and community, as the studio commemorates a decade and a half of creative excellence. The much-anticipated happening takes place August 12th 2023 at EBGBS, located in the heart of Liverpool.
“We are thrilled to celebrate 15 years of Crosstown Studios,” says Crosstown owner and producer Jon Lawton. “The milestone is testament to the incredible talent and passion that our artists bring to their work and we are honoured to have been a part of those journeys.”
Crosstown Studios has been at the forefront of Liverpool’s music scene since its establishment in 2008. The studio has played an instrumental role in shaping the sound and success of numerous talented artists and bands over the years.
To pay tribute to this remarkable journey, a lineup of exceptional musical acts who have recorded at Crosstown Studios will take to the stage to deliver captivating performances throughout the night.
Featured artists include Mr Ted, Visions of Albion, RUINS, Dorothy Bird, The Family Wash, Marc V, and Joseph Roberts. These popular acts represent a diverse range of musical genres, showcasing the studio’s commitment to supporting and nurturing talent across different styles and backgrounds. The event will be a remarkable gathering of artists, music enthusiasts and industry professionals alike.
Crosstown Studios invites everyone to join the celebration and revel in an evening of live music, camaraderie, and the shared passion for creativity that has defined Crosstown’s success story for 15 years. The anniversary celebration takes place at EBGBS, a renowned and vibrant venue with a commitment to promoting emerging artists.
“We invite everyone to join us for this special occasion as we showcase some of the incredible acts we’ve had the privilege to work with over the years,” says Lawton.
Doors will open at 7pm and attendees will enjoy live music throughout the night. This is an opportunity for music lovers and supporters of the local arts scene to come together and commemorate an important milestone for Crosstown Studios.
As one of the most impressive live acts the UK has seen in recent years, Miles Kane’s showmanship has gained him a loyal following since the release of his debut album, ‘Colour of the Trap’ back in 2011.
Now, more than a decade on and three albums later, he returns with fourth LP, ‘Change The Show’, as well as a brand new tour.
Live Nation & SJM Concerts Presents The Murder Capital, Plus Special Guests.
Amorphic Music & Parrjazz proudly present…Get The Blessing
Award-winning Bristolians Get The Blessing have been serving up their unique brand of jazz-rock for more than 20 years now.
The group featured Jim Barr (bass) and Clive Deamer (drums), best-known for their work with the band Portishead, alongside the distinctive twin horns of Jake McMurchie (saxophones) and Pete Judge (trumpet).
Open, hypnotic and loopy, the music gives yet another fresh twist to the unmistakable sound of Get The Blessing that has seen them hailed as one of the scene’s most exciting live acts, and amass a truly international fan-base.
Get The Blessing’s members have also worked in various capacities with Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Beck, Alison Moyet, Siouxsie Sioux, Roni Size, Hawkwind & Robert Plant’s Strange Sensation.
Amorphic Music presents… Helen Money (Thrill Jockey), The Ladies In The Radiator + more tbc.
Helen Money stands as one of the most unique and versatile cellists working today. Composer Alison Chesley uses the instrument to access and channel the extremities of human emotion, employing extensive sonic manipulation and an array of plucking and bowing techniques to summon an astonishing breadth and depth of sound. A prolific collaborator, Chesley is equally at home in both New Music and Metal circles. Past albums saw her collaborate with Jason Roeder (Sleep/Neurosis) and Rachel Grimes (Rachel’s), and she has toured extensively with Shellac, Russian Circles, Earth, Bob Mould and MONO.
In April 2023 Thrill Jockey released the new Helen Money album “TRACE” (in collaboration with Will Thomas).
Amorphic proudly presents: Salami Rose Joe Louis.
Brainfeeder records signee Salami Rose Joe Louis headlines an intimate show at Invisible Wind Factory Substation, bringing her unique blend of Jazz infused hypnagogic pop to the city for the very first time.
Rhys Chatham is a composer, guitarist, trumpet player and flutist from Manhattan, currently living in Paris, who altered the DNA of rock and created a new type of urban music by fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of the early 60s with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones — the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock.
Starting with Guitar Trio in the 1970s and culminating with A Crimson Grail for 200 electric guitars in 2009, Chatham has been working for over 30 years to make use of armies of electric guitars in special tunings to merge the extended-time music of the sixties and seventies with serious hard rock.
Parallel with his rock-influenced pieces, Chatham has been working with various brass configurations since 1982, and recently has developed a completely new approach to collaborations, improvised and compositional pieces involving trumpet through performances and recordings that started in 2009. Chatham’s trumpet work deploys extended playing techniques inherited from the glory days the early New York minimalist and 70s loft jazz period. Starting in 2014, Rhys has been touring a solo program featuring an electric guitar in a Pythagorean tuning, Bb trumpet, and bass, alto and C flutes.
Rhys was introduced to electronic music and composition by Morton Subotnick in the late 60s, and in the early seventies he studied composition with La Monte Young and played in Tony Conrad’s early group. These composers are, along with Terry Riley, the founders of American minimalism and were a profound influence on Chatham’s work.
Chatham’s instrumentation ranges from the seminal composition composed in 1977 entitled Guitar Trio for 3 electric guitars, electric bass and drums, to the epoch evening-length work for 100 electric guitars, An Angel Moves Too Fast to See, composed in 1989… all the way to Chatham’s recent composition for 200 electric guitars, Crimson Grail, which was commissioned by the City of Paris for La Nuit Blanche Festival in 2005. A completely new version of the piece was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre Outdoor Summer Festival in 2009.
What does a composer do after mounting many performances with forces of 100-200 electric guitars? The composer gets back to basics, at least that’s what Rhys does! Along with the G100 and G3 programs, Chatham is currently offering a solo program, an evening length work with the composer performing himself on electric guitar, trumpets and bass alto and C flutes.
Showcasing his G3 (Guitar Trio) piece, his band will be made up of an army of local guitar heros, line up tba.
Mick Harvey is renowned as a musician, record producer and composer and is perhaps best known as a member of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds and for his long term collaborative work with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave.
In 2023 Harvey will be presenting material from his new album of duets with Mexican singer Amanda Acevedo at a series of concerts alongside Berlin’s ’Sometimes with Others’ and J.P. Shilo.
Sometimes with Others are a musical collective performing a fine mixture of rock, drone, minimalism, jazz and blues – all blended on their debut “Nous” out on Hamburg based art vinyl label Grand Chess.
Shilo is know for his work in The Hungry Ghosts and with Rowland S. Howard and will be presenting songs from his album ‘Invisible You’. Together as ‘The Invisible Blue Unicorns’ they will form a unified ensemble for a big showcase experience while delving into their individual catalogues.