Liam Gallagher and John Squire by Tom Oxley
The much anticipated first collaboration between Liam Gallagher and John Squire was the biggest of last week’s headlines.
Oasis legend and solo star Liam Gallagher has teamed up with ex Stone Roses guitarist and influential songwriter John Squire to release the first single of their collaboration.
Liam explains: “I think John’s a top songwriter. Everyone always bangs on about him as a guitarist, but he’s a top songwriter too, man, no two ways about it as far as I’m concerned.”
“There’s not enough of his music out there, whether it’s with the Roses or himself. It’s good to see him back writing songs and fucking good ones. The melodies are mega and then the guitars are a given. But I think even when you take all the fucking guitars off, you can play the songs all on acoustic and they’ll all still blow your mind.”
Cast have unveiled their latest single Faraway with the new album Love Is The Call set for release on February 16th – John Power has said:
“Faraway is a classic pop song, all jangling guitars with an instant hook line and melody that lifts off from the word go. The song is about trying to find your voice in a world that doesn’t care or seem to want to listen.”
“As the world turns into the shadows, the sun still burns so far away, and the dreams you keep until tomorrow, they sometimes feel so far away.”
The Prodigy, Yungblud, The Offspring, Enter Shikari and Soft Play are some of the new additions to the Rock For People festival which will take place in the Czech Republic later this year.
The Prodigy top the line-up after ending 2023 with a UK arena tour which reached Cardiff back in November:
“The tragic loss of Keith Flint back in 2019 must have cast doubts over the future of the group, but based on this evidence their assessment must have been: let’s keep doing it in Keith’s name, but harder. Where Maxim and Flint used to prowl and pounce around the stage in conjunction there is undeniably a void, but the former MC takes on the added responsibility with both aplomb and respect,” our review reads.
The Last Dinner Party by Cal McIntyre
The Last Dinner Party have started the new year with Caesar On A TV Screen ahead of the release of their hotly anticipated debut album Prelude To Ecstasy on February 2nd.
“Ecstasy is a pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion, from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain, and it is this concept which binds our album together,” the band have said.
“This is an archeology of ourselves; you can exhume our collective and individual experiences and influences from within its fabric. We exorcised guitars for their solos, laid bare confessions directly from diary pages, and summoned an orchestra to bring our vision to life.”
Sprints have shared Heavy, the final single from their imminent Letter To Self LP.
“If Ticking is the sonic iteration of anxiety, then Heavy is its literal counterpart,” Karla Chubb said.
“The brutally cacophonous sound communicates how it feels to be paralysed and inspired by anxiety, pairing intrusive thoughts, panic and intensity with that anxiety inducing build. Heavily inspired my early Bauhaus records and PJ Harvey’s Is This Desire? it draws a heavy influence from 80s gothic-the purposeful space reflecting the isolating nature of panic.”
Sea Girls have confirmed the details of their third album Midnight Butterflies.
Due out on June 14th, it’s set to feature previous singles Weekends & Workdays and Young Strangers, and is described by frontman Henry Camamile as sounding like, ‘a fledgling band making their energetic untainted debut’:
“It’s super optimistic and euphoric. There was a huge freedom in making this record. It’s an exciting time for music across genres, and who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?”
