Indie Revolutions chosen track for Single Of The Week is the nostalgic ‘1963’ by The Rogues.
After releasing three much anticipated singles in 2023 the fantastic Welsh indie rockers THE ROGUES are back with a great new single ‘1963′ and new EP ‘1963 – Live at Rockfield Studios’ on Flip Flop Records.
In October 2023 the five lads from Newport spent two days at the world famous Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, recording a number of live tracks with Nick Brine, who’s recorded with Oasis, The Stone Roses, Bruce Springsteen to name a few. four of these huge sounding tracks will make up their debut EP, which is being released exclusively on CD. If you’ve been to a Rogues gig in recent times, you’ll know these tracks are always a staple of their live performances.
The release ties in with their biggest headline gig to date, at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach, on Friday the 28th of June. Tickets are still available online via ticketweb or on The Rogues social media pages. https://linktr.ee/theroguesofficial
The band have been gigging relentlessly up and down England and Wales building up a loyal army of ever growing fans. ‘1963’ is out now!
Indie Revolution’s Single of The Week is Anglesey born Megan Wyn with her brand new single ‘Waiting For A Reason’.
Megan Wyn has spent the last 12 months building an army of new fans from across the UK, and it all started by arming herself with an inventory of songs well beyond her years.
Earlier cuts, ‘You Don’t Get It’, ‘Familiar Faces’ and ‘Are You Bored Yet?’, made a long-lasting impression on new music scenesters writ-large. With her self-deprecating lyricism, which can be on the nose at times, Megan has developed a wall of sound that can only really be compared to her Welsh elders Manic Street Preachers and Catfish and The Bottlemen.
Already in the last year the young star to be has packed out rooms on the metropolitan festival circuit at places such as Twisterella, Beyond the Music, Stockton Calling, Liverpool Sound City and Focus Wales. She has also sold out shows in her new home of Manchester, as well as Liverpool and London.
Elsewhere, Megan has supported indie heroes past and present in Swim Deep, Little Comets, Sundara Karma, Andrew Cushin, The K’s and others at sold out shows across the UK
There is something authentic building with Megan, the fruits of her labour after years of playing the circuit from the early age of 16 are starting to rear their heads and as her sound is blooming, it is no surprise that her fanbase is too.
At radio, Megan has already had playlist support from Radio X alongside a live session with John Kennedy. Amazing Radio also added previous single, ‘Familiar Faces’ to their A-List which saw the track get to a top 20 placement on their chart. She also did a live session with BBC introducing Manchester, whilst gaining repeat support at BBC Radio London and BBC Radio Merseyside including a live session for the latter.
Wyn was also Huw Stephens‘ Artist of The Week on BBC Radio Wales and added to the station’s playlist. Wyn also had support at Spotify UK with placement on tastemaker playlists such as Proper Belters & Fresh Finds UK & IE.
On the brand new single, the Welsh artist shows that age really is just a number and talent is something that is unimpeded by that number. The track swells in the introduction prior to exploding into life and feeding first time listeners with the ultimate payoff of raw, undeniable talent. Rare that an artist is effortlessly cool whilst calling upon pop sensibilities relentlessly. Wistful but assured in equal measure, it sounds exactly like a teenager figuring themselves out.
Speaking about the song, Megan said: “This song focuses on looking at my own flaws in navigating a relationship and the feelings of naivety, guilt, and loneliness that come with it. It focuses on the polarities of behaviour that we encounter when coping with suffering, and that we always want what is bad for us.”
As the year progresses, Megan is booked for more and more shows, and this summer will be her busiest yet with slots at key festivals such as Kendal Calling, Y Not Festival and Liverpool Sound City in the calendar already. She will also be setting off to Sweden to play her first international show to boot.
2024 promises to be a truly stellar year for Wyn with a headline tour + debut EP to follow later this year, the world truly is the young starlet’s oyster.
‘Waiting For A Reason’, was written with and produced by Alex Quinn (The Royston Club, Lottery Winners, Overpass) over the course of an extensive period of writing in Summer 2022.
Previous years saw Megan play The Great Escape, Truck Festival, Y Not and Isle Of Wight Festival. And she completed her debut headline tour earlier in the year.
An old head on young shoulders, Megan rightly feels that she has reached her starting point. With live experiences already in the bag, it was just a matter of honing her sound and landing on something that was truly representative of herself.
It’s also true that moving from her native Anglesey just off the Welsh coast, to her now home of Manchester at the age of 16, would have helped Megan develop not only as a musician but most importantly as a woman.
Megan grew up wanting exactly what she has now, the ability to put pen to paper and have songs fall out of her, to play shows to packed out venues in Manchester, as well as, elsewhere.
Catch Megan Live: 07.07 – Cheshire – Britfest 19.07 – Deadwax – Birmingham (What’s Happening Weekender) 20.07 – Glastonbury – Godney Gathering 27.07 – Preston- Rock AM River Festival 02.08 – Derby – Y Not? Festival 04.08 – Kendal Calling 30.08 — Llandudno – Pine Festival 06/07.09 – Bridlington Spa – By The Sea 20.09 – Manchester – Deaf Institute 23.09.2024 – Newcastle – Three Tanners Bank 24.09.2024 – Sheffield – Sidney & Matilda 25.09.2024 – Birmingham – Dead Wax 26.09.2024 – London – The Grace
Indie Revolutions Single Of The Week is Derbyshire band Marseille with their brilliantly nostalgic single ‘She Can Fly’.
Marseille are consistently upping their game, reaching goal after goal with their blistering sounds.
Marseille are the Derbyshire based five piece band consisting of Will Brown on Vocals/Rhythm Guitar, Joe Labram on Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals, Lennon Hall on Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals, Will Sabey on Bass and Tom Spray on Drums/Percussion.
Marseille started 2024 by being named as one of This Feeling’s “Big in 2024” acts and performing as part of their showcase in Manchester.
Marseille shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon with gigs, festivals slots and tours already booked in for them throughout the year and with plans to release their ‘Godiva’ EP; 2024 is without doubt, going to be the year of Marseille.
The second single to be lifted from the upcoming EP is the harmonious and melodic ‘She Can Fly’. A certain love song that starts off slow and measured with gentle strumming guitars and a sense of soft romanticism that quickly gives way to the building of crashing drum rhythms and loud distorted guitars before ebbing away once more to allow the genteel nature of the delicate vocals to come into play, before the track takes a turn once more building into a euphoric crescendo with contrasting melodies and mesmerising guitar solos.
Singer and songwriter Will Brown had this to say about the track:
“She Can Fly was bizarrely written so effortlessly for a song that’s so euphoric. It’s just that chorus that came to me when singing over some inversions on my guitar and the rest really wrote itself. A song about being visited by a girl with similar qualities to that of an angel, now that’s a topic for a song! Especially for an EP titled GODIVA.”
The ‘Godiva’ EP from the band is due for release later this year.
Indie Revolutions Single Of The Week is the transcendent ‘Tide’ by Sister Envy.
Following on from their warmly received debut single ‘Mourning Sickness’ North Wales band Sister Envy grace us with yet another captivating single, the extraordinary ‘Tide’.
‘Tide’ lures you in with soothing guitar tones and cinematic psychedelia, it grows from enveloping heart on the sleeve melodies, decorated in a carousel of psych tinged guitars into a sprawling epic anthem.
‘I’ll be the one to save you’ promises Joliffe in a track that’s woozy, romantic, mysterious yet with a sting in the tail. Gradually swelling into a fuzz laden chorus that has elements of the shoegaze anthems of Ride. Verve or the grungy gaze of early Smashing Pumpkins. It’s another fascinating glimpse of Sister’s Envy’s sonic arsenal and world of intrigue and ambition that looks at the horizon beyond their North Walian homes.
Vocalist and guitarist, Kameron Jolliffe says: “Tide is the first song we recorded together as a band, I wrote it whilst severely hungover one sunny afternoon, it was one of those days where the moon was visible.. I wrote it about someone I used to see, a toxic relationship that still pulls you in just to inevitably throw you back.”
Sister Envy hail from the North Wales coast, a place of mystery, harshness, and beauty, a place where opportunity is blocked for younger people yet dreams can break through. It’s here that Sister Envy met at college. This fast-emerging Alternative Psychedelic rock quartet are a brand new signing to North Wales label Yr Wyddfa Records Snowdonia (home to Holy Coves).
Sister Envy are Kameron Jolliffe (Vocals and Lead Guitar), Matty Waring (Guitar), Callum Jones (Bass) and Ryan Roberts (Drums). The band are a new signing to North Wales label Yr Wyddfa Records Snowdonia.
They have crafted their sound in the studio with Welsh producers Owain Ginsberg (Hippies Vs. Ghosts) and Scott Marsden (Holy Coves).
The lunar single ‘Tide’ is out now on all streaming platforms.
This weeks selection for Indie Revolutions Single Of The Week is Twin City’s latest track ‘I Feel Alive’. Twin City are undoubtedly one of the UK’s most exciting Indie Rock ’n’ Roll bands on the new music scene right now.
Based in Bristol and consisting of Welsh brothers Louis (Vocals/Guitar) and Toby Ellis (Drums), Conor Feeney (Bass), and Pete Refson (Guitars), Twin City were formed in 2021 and wasted no time in releasing their debut single ‘Shake The Walls’(August 2021) with an accompanying music video which gained instant traction receiving over 10k views on YouTube in its first week of release along with multiple airplays on BBC Radio and Amazing Radio UK & US.
A notable timeline event includes Twin City’s debut gig selling out in under 24 hours forcing a venue upgrade which also sold out 24 hours later and the band’s second ever gig being as main support to The Lathums in front of a 1000 strong sold out crowd at Bristol’s Trinity Centre.
The band have said of the track:
“‘I Feel Alive’ is a song about having an undeniable magnetism with someone who ends up being bad for you, and although the process of eventually getting them out of your life is hard, you can’t help but feel exhilarated by it all.
‘I Feel Alive’ was written and composed collaboratively by Twin City and was recorded at J&J Studios in Bristol and was Mixed & Produced by Tom Smith (Holy Youth Movement / The Pleasure Dome) and Mastered by James Trevascus at Invada Studios, Bristol.
With a string of sold out shows, festival appearances, and high profile support slots, including shows with The View, Twin Atlantic, The Royston Club, The K’s, The Coral, Bilk, The Lightning Seeds, Sea Power, Gallus and many more, Twin City are definitely a band worth keeping on your radar.
‘I Feel Alive’ is a track that resonates throughout with its reverberations of fuzzing and snarling guitars, the vocals edgy and provocative drawing the listener in as the drums begin to pound and thrash, the pace building into a crescendo with that blistering rousing chorus hook. This is a stadium sized anthem if ever we heard one!
Indie Revolutions Single Of The Week is Wales’ Hazmat with their powerful new single ‘Pulling Away From Me’. The single screams 90’s nostalgia, induces goosebumps and takes the listener on a beautiful, grungey, shoegazing journey.
Although hailing from the dragons nest in Wrexham, HAZMAT are currently based out of Liverpool. HAZMAT is composed of Iwan Douglas (vocals/rhythm guitar), Luca Visetti (lead guitar), Owen Brown (bass guitar) & Matt Birnie (drums). Drawing inspiration from the classic alternative sounds of the 90’s and infusing it with heavy shoegaze fuzz riffs, the HAZMAT blend creates a captivating and dark dreamscape. Having made a mark on numerous hot venues across the UK scene, HAZMAT has performed in multiple cities across the UK, captivating audiences who share their love for heavy & spacey noise.
HAZMAT’s release ‘Pulling Away From Me’ is the first of eagerly anticipated material from HAZMAT since 2022’s ‘DOOM’ EP. Moving towards a more melodic and ambient sound, Pulling Away From Me’ encapsulates and develops the established HAZMAT sound, with cavernous verses, intricate guitar layers and a gargantuan chorus. ‘Pulling Away From Me’ delivers a message of raw emotion, exposing feelings of being trapped inside a decaying relationship, allowing that person to fade away. The track came to life in Liverpool’s prestigious Motor Museum studio, produced by Ben Harper and mixed by industry heavyweight Al Groves (Bring Me The Horizon, Blanket, The Mysterines) The band’s partnership with Groves is a match made in heaven for this track, with Groves’ passion and ability for larger than life rock productions elevating the band’s sound to new sonic heights.
‘Pulling Away From Me’ marks a sea change in HAZMAT’s artistic journey and captures the energy and sonics presented in their recent live performances across the UK. This release is sure to set the stage for a new, more refined era of the group ahead of what will be an explosive set at this year’s FOCUS Wales, where they will be performing on the main stage in support of The Mysterines.
‘Pulling Away From Me’ is available to listen to now across all streaming platforms!
Indie Revolutions Single Of The Week is Scottish, indie rock band Box Of Trash with their fantastic new Single ‘What She Said’.
The band describe themselves as “Trashy rock n’ roll with a wee bit of psychedelic thrown in,” but the band have shown another side of their talents with ‘What She Said’.
‘Here and Now’ was a taster of things to come, the band have gone from strength to strength with each new release, with the fantastic ‘Spaceman’, the stomping ‘Minnie’s Haberdashery’ and their album ‘Candlewood 230’ an album full of really great tracks.
‘What She Said’ hooks you in from the outset, the picked guitar is uplifting and honest. It’s completely different to anything else they have created and it has to be my favourite track they have released to date. It really is vibrant and gorgeous through its vulnerability. This track shows just how versatile Box Of Trash can be, showcasing their talents. It’s a perfect song for a perfect spring day.
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