Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory offers the perfect stage for the JARV…IS ensemble, acting as host and multiplier of their seedy, backstreet neon. All limbs and libido, the icon is unmistakable, and instantly enraptures. She’s a Lady, the night’s opener and sole Pulp number, serves up verve, shimmy and strut atop urgent violins. it’s hard to […]
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Richard Ashcroft blessed Liverpool’s M&S Arena with his ultimate sermon of acoustic hymns to a sell-out audience. I have to admit, even as a huge fan of the Verve and Ashcroft’s solo music, I had never seen either live – so when an opportunity see how the main man had reworked his back catalogue for […]
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Lennon Gallagher, son of Oasis legend, Liam Gallagher, features in Tessuti’s latest episode of interview series, Stand Out Stories and reveals feeling vulnerable at castings. Model and musician, Lennon, is the second member of the Gallagher family to be profiled in the series after his brother Gene was highlighted earlier this year. Talking about his […]
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30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR DATES THIS WINTER NEW BEST-OF COMPILATION ‘A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS’, OUT 15 OCTOBER AVAILABLE AS: CD, 2CD DELUXE, 2LP, 3LPX EDITIONS THE CHARLATANS proudly announce their (Covid) delayed release of their 30th Anniversary tour and a career spanning best-of entitled: ‘A Head Full of Ideas’. Released on Then Recordings through Republic […]
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LIVE FOREVER: New tribute tour comes to LIVERPOOL featuring OASIS UK, LAID – A TRIBUTE TO JAMES and STIPE – A TRIBUTE TO R.E.M. Live Forever is a new touring production celebrating “music that will never die” and comes to Liverpool this Autumn with a stellar line up. The show at the Eventim Olympia on […]
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Urbanista Magazine are thrilled to bring you the video premiere Bobby West’s All My Years Watch here: The song came about after my writing partner showed me a rough demo he’d made in our studio — just some chords on the Hammond organ with a glockenspiel melody over the top. My initial thoughts were that […]
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A quote on the single from the band: The song came about after my writing partner showed me a rough demo he’d made in our studio — just some chords on the Hammond organ with a glockenspiel melody over the top. My initial thoughts were that it sounded like a lullaby, and that it would […]
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This was an easy one. This week’s Urbanista track of week is a belter – Creature the second release from your new favourite band, YONAKA’s new EP of the same name out Nov 16. It’s an absolutely huge venue-filling cut from a band that seemingly make nothing but phenomenal, infectious bangers. Groovy basslines, fizzing, infectious guitars […]
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Liverpool lads Life At The Arcade are among the hottest emerging bands in the country. Outstanding live and as new single Wonderland hammers home, damn good in the studio too. It shouts of a band on a real upward curve. A hugely exciting statement of intent – Wonderland excels as Life At The Arcade’s darkest flavour […]
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In the 2016 Urbanista review of Astle’s Live At The Nordic EP Urbanista stated that if the Southport songwriter could take the vulnerability of his live recordings into a studio production, then it would be something special. Safe to say, we were right. The Full of Wonder EP is exactly what it says on the […]
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