Here’s our T shirt collaboration which we’ve just finished for our friends Millionhands based in Berlin. 6 months it took us! We might have missed the boat on festival season but I think the months of deep conceptual thought, the hours of studied pen craft (when was the last time you had to draw something almost properly?), the minutes of computer wizardry might have actually paid off. This iceberg of a creation can now be yours if you so wish to own one – they’ve been designed to look bloody ace on everyone & there’s only 50 in the whole wide world! Hope you dig x
Check out the excellent Millionhands blog & shop
& this is part of a Q&A we did for em . . .
Tell us how HJ began: Born out of the Heavenly Recordings label 20 years ago, The Heavenly Jukebox allowed a group of different selectors to mix and match musical styles in the same night; a broad selection of tunes – crucial, essential. Pop music. And it’s the capers we’ve been up to ever since.
What new projects are in the pipeline? A HVN JBX Christmas party at the Glinlik, a monthly residency at The Social next year, some Jukebox parties in Brighton and Hackney… and our clothing range ‘Heavenly Casuals.’
Your favourite records: Here I come by Barrington Levy, Stop that Girl by Vic Goddard and Love Action (I Believe in Love) by League Unlimited Orchestra.
What tune are you most playing? Answer to Yourself by Soft Pack.
What’s on your radar? Caught by the River, Le Gun Magazine, Billy Childish, Absolute Beginners, Kruger, Grace Collins, Paul Laffoley, Country Bizarre, T.C Lethbridge, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Peter Ackroyd, No.1 Village Bakery, Soul Power, New Judas, Autodisco, Edwyn Collins, Time & Space Machine and Fox Base Beta.
Describe your look: Red with purple flashes.
. . . You can read the rest of the Q&A by going here to the:
check out the rest of their T’s & collaborations here:
& pick yourself up one of these ltd edition T’s from here:
Millionhands v Heavenly Jukebox – T shirt
Many full moon’s ago we ligged a party on the promise of free vodka & a performance by a talented Murphy Kid. We came away from the show with a bottle of vodka in one pocket & a new friend Al Murphy in’t other & a screenprint of his work with no pocket to fit in which subsequently got lost to the night.
Al’s since designed the iconic ISM house bag sleeve for us (Sesame Street meets Disraeli gears), a series of flyers for The Social, some T-shirts, painted the Heavenly mural that span 2 floors of our old office (back in the day when record labels could afford 2 floors) & been the only artist unfortunate to have a pice of his work stolen from his exhibition at The Social (YO THIEF FOOL IF YOUR READING THIS THERE IS AN AMNESTY CLAUSE ON THAT PIECE IF RETURNED)
You will no doubt recognize some of his handywork if you go to his website & there’s a cheeky piece in the Guardian’s G2 section today.
Excellent stuff Murph! Happy Halloween x
HAND OVER THE PACKET!
‘PROTECTION RACKET’ is available as a FREE download from here as from today.
FIONN REGAN – ‘PROTECTION RACKET’
“Protection Racket” is the irresistible new single from Fionn Regan, and the first track to be lifted from his sublime second album, “The Shadow of An Empire,” released in early 2010 on Heavenly Recordings.
It’s been an interesting couple of years for Fionn Regan… Never one to take the easy route, Fionn could easily have made a safe and predictable follow-up to “The End Of History”, his 2007 Mercury-nominated and critically lauded debut… He could have simply recorded another collection of beguiling acoustic beauties… He could have made The End Of History part Two… But that would have been too easy… Instead Fionn has returned with a very different second album bursting with ideas and a set of dazzling new tunes which are sure to reaffirm his reputation as both maverick genius and one of the most talented contemporary singer-songwriters around… If The End of History was the sound of the countryside and woodland lanes The Shadow Of An Empire is the sound of towns and dimly lit streets; heartfelt and with a ragged edge. Regan has ploughed himself a new furrow.
It was during a period of great global upheaval, whilst touring his debut album for two years worldwide, and in particular across the US, as Fionn puts it – “seeing the world, the bone structure, the pulp” – that he began work on its follow up. It seems natural that his response was to become more outward looking and in The Shadow of an Empire this manifests itself in a collection of songs that are peopled with characters and conversational dialogue. The often witty vignettes are used to facilitate more complex soul-searching.
Fionn again produced the album himself but the journey to this end wasn’t as straightforward this time around… Fionn parted company with Lost Highway last year when it became apparent that they had different ideas for the album… So Fionn bought himself a trident desk and a tape machine, set up in a small, disused factory space in Co. Wicklow, Ireland and set about making the album without interference. Never short of champions, Jeff Barrett was bowled over by the results and quickly signed him up for what will be Heavenly Recordings first release of 2010…
The good news is we’ll have a chance to sample “The Shadow Of An Empire” way ahead of release as Fionn will be playing a number of intimate live shows for the fans in November… Dates/info below… The London dates sold-out within a few hours of going on sale…
Monday 9 November – GLASGOW – Captain’s Rest (£7)
Tuesday 10 November – MANCHESTER – Deaf Institute (£7)
Wednesday 11 November – LONDON – Luminaire **(SOLD-OUT!)**
Thursday 12 November – CARDIFF – Iforbach (£7)
Friday 13 November – BRIGHTON - Jamm (£8)
Monday 16 November – LONDON – The Social **(SOLD-OUT!)**
Here’s a must see Doves performance captured in all it’s glory by the BBC when they played the Roundhouse last Thursday 22nd October for the BBC Electric proms series of events.
The gig was made all the more special as the boys were backed by a 40 strong ensemble of London’s Bulgarian choir for the whole show & then joined by North Indian classical musician Baluji Shrivastav for ‘Birds Fly Backwards’. The choirs input on the already beautiful track ‘Firesuite’ is something else & throughout the gig they shine new light on the bands back catalogue. An inspired piece of music programming!
DOVES ON BBC iPLAYER CLICK HERE
SET LIST:
‘Snowden’, ‘Winter Hill’, ‘Firesuite’, ‘10.03′, ‘Pounding’, ‘Jetstream’, ‘The Storm’, ‘Black And White Town’, ‘Sea Song’, ‘The Greatest Denier’, ‘Kingdom Of Rust’, ‘The Last Broadcast’, ‘Catch The Sun’, ‘Birds Fly Backwards’, ‘Cedar Room’, ‘There Goes The Fear’
www.londonbulgarianchoir.co.uk
DOVES – BIRDS FLEW BACKWARDS (Alternate version)
Download The Soft Packs new single ‘Answer to Yourself’ from the NME’s daily download. The track will also be getting a physical release as a 7″ on November 2nd. Keep an eye out for the black bull & anchor in a discerning record shop near you soon!
How Liam Maher from Flowered Up changed my life
Before their single Weekender became an anthem for hedonists, Flowered Up inspired me to put on my first ever gig
Thinking about it now, I owe my career to Liam Maher, the frontman of Flowered Up who died yesterday.
Back in 1990 I was just another a teenager in thrall of the music press itching to leave my hometown of Newport. There were no clubs in South Wales playing acid house or its low-slung rock’n'roll counterpart, “baggy” (not yet a term of derision). Flowered Up were part of that new breed. They had graced the cover of the Melody Maker before releasing a note. They embraced a club culture that seemed utterly vital from my voyeuristic standpoint on the wrong side of the Severn Bridge. I put a call in to Flowered Up’s record label – Heavenly Recordings – and asked whether I could book them to play “the legendary TJ’s”. I had never promoted a gig before – I didn’t even know what a rider was. With a float that I’d cobbled together doing summertime odd jobs, I set about learning.
You can read the rest of the story on the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/oct/21/liam-maher-flowered-up
& here’s the last recording the band made for Heavenly back in 1994, a fitting way for Liam to be remembered
DOWNLOAD THE NEW TRACK
‘HURT SO GOOD’ FOR FREE BY CLICKING HERE!
The Magic Numbers have put together a nation-wide tour of some of their favourite
small pubs and clubs in the UK which runs from mid-November to mid-December. Wherever possible, tickets have been kept to a special price of £10 for these intimate shows where they will be debuting new material. The band, currently putting the finishing touches to their third studio album, due for release in spring next year, are eager to get back out on the road and play for everyone. “We’ve had some of our best memories doing shows like these, when everything is up close and personal, the atmosphere can be so intense and beautiful”, says Michele.
Details of the tour are below and tickets can be bought via links on the band’s website, www.themagicnumbers.net, where the free download is also available.
YOU HURT SO GOOD TOUR
| SATURDAY | 21ST NOVEMBER | OXFORD | JERICHO TOWN |
| SUNDAY | 22ND NOVEMBER | MANCHESTER | BAND ON THE WALL |
| MONDAY | 23RD NOVEMBER | PRESTON | 53 DEGREES |
| TUESDAY | 24TH NOVEMBER | LIVERPOOL | MASQUE LOFT |
| WEDNESDAY | 25TH NOVEMBER | WREXHAM | CENTRAL STATION |
| FRIDAY | 27TH NOVEMBER | LONDON | ST ALOYSIUS |
| SATURDAY | 28TH NOVEMBER | GLOUCESTER | GUILDHALL |
| SUNDAY | 29TH NOVEMBER | EXETER | CAVERN CLUB |
| MONDAY | 30TH NOVEMBER | CARDIFF | CLWB IFOR BACH |
| WEDNESDAY | 2ND DECEMBER | TUNBRIDGE WELLS | FORUM |
| SATURDAY | 5TH DECEMBER | CORK | CORK OPERA HOUSE |
| MONDAY | 7TH DECEMBER | NEWCASTLE | CLUNY |
| WEDNESDAY | 9TH DECEMBER | GLASGOW | ORAN MOR |
| THURSDAY | 10TH DECEMBER | EDINBURGH | BONGO CLUB |
| FRIDAY | 11TH DECEMBER | LEEDS | BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB |
| SUNDAY | 13TH DECEMBER | NORTHAMPTON | ROADMENDER |
| MONDAY | 14TH DECEMBER | NOTTINGHAM | BODEGA |
| TUESDAY | 15TH DECEMBER | YORK | FIBBERS |
Hear yee! hear yee! a night of bohemian song & dance cometh to thee!
Brought to you by the label that sells out all of its releases so in true philanthropic whimsy they can pish & snoogle every one of its pennies back onto the streets of Fitzrovia in support of the local economy.
The belly of The Social beast will be awash with a super drinks promotion for those who arrive early & an all night special on the Fitzrovian Sloe Gin cocktail that will have Hogarth dashing for his pen & ink as the consequences unfold.
Live performances from the old school Fitzrovian bounder himself – MR DAVID VINER
Alley scamps – EX LOVERS perform a rare & what will be beautiful acoustic set & first on making her Fitzrovian debut miss SOPHIE MADELEINE.
& a last minute addition of THE CHEEKS (formerly Cheeky Cheeky & The Nosebleeds) who will be rolling in for a ground trembling electro acoustic performance to round the evening off inappropriately.
& of course there’s musical plate spinning from the Fitzrovian Knights playing gems unearthed from the flower bed of their Fitzrovian allotment along with Mr Nasty McQuaid (playing records not unearthed from the allotment).
www.mrdavidviner.com
www.myspace.com/weareexlovers
www.myspace.com/sophiemadeleine
www.myspace.com/wearethecheek
Monday 10th August @ THE SOCIAL
5 Little Portland St
Entry is FFFFFFREE all night & doors are from 7pm.
Hopefully see you at one of these fine fine events this weekend! x
1.
Friday 17th
BBC Introducing/Lake stage @ Latitude festival
All day playing rekkids in between the bands:
Golden Silvers, We Have Band, Post War Years, Speech Debelle, Chew Lips, Bishi, The Brownies, The Agitator, The Late Greats
- DIVE!
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2.
Lovebox, Victoria park
1.30 – 3.30pm @ the Rizla arena with special guest Man Like Me
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3.
Saturday 18th
Lovebox afterparty @ London Fields, 137 Mare St
Heavenly Jukebox takes over London Fields pub with guests:
Jon Carter & Man Like Me
FREE ENTRY!
London Fields, 137 Mare St
9 – 2am
- DOH!
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4.
Sunday 19th
Lovebox, Victoria Park
Lunchtime & early afternoon in the Lovebox Vip area
- OOH!
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5.
Sunday July 19th 10pm-3am , £5
East Village’s Lovebox Afters
A stone’s throw from Victoria park and with some of the days dj talent heading for an afters 5 minutes up the road for a right old carry on at East Village..
2 floors of music from Justin Robertson, Lovebox All-Stars, Stuart Patterson + Leo Elstob, Bob Jones, Heavenly Jukebox and a very special guest.
- CRASH!
As we hurriedly finish everything off that needs doing before we loon ourselves in a field for 4 days our bands are mostly 1 step ahead of us & are already down at Glastonbury languishing in the green carpet of field that is Worthy Farm for the most part of the year, hopefully the 169,995 people that will have arrived before us & the – is it, will it, wont it, yes it will – blah blah rain wont have churned the site into a battlefield before we’ve even started.
Here’s where our bands will be playing in the UK this Summer;
DOVES – ‘Doves lift us up where we belong’:
26th June – Friday headline – John Peel Stage @ Glastonbury
5th July – Hop Farm Festival, Kent
11th July – Oxygen festival, 02 stage, co Kildare, Ireland
12th July – T in the Park, radio 1/NME stage, Scotland
18th July – Latitude festival , Suffolk
19th July – Lovebox, London
LOOSE SALUTE – Hopefully the lovely Lisa will still be sporting her MOR US highway 78 era fringe & ting:
26th June – Friday 16.50 on the Q snug stage – Glastonbury
25th July – Saturday Port Elliot – 4.30 – Caught by the River Tent
MAGIC NUMBERS – will be sneaking in some new tracks off their forthcoming 3rd album:
27th June – Hyde Park Calling
28th June – Secret show @ Glastonbury, Sunday evening
25th July - Port Elliot Festival
PETE GREENWOOD – Perfick way to start the weekend – in a field on a thursday :
26th June – Thursday @ Glasto, 4pm Snug stage beside Q stage
SAINT ETIENNE – Get the London look! they’ve been performing the whole of Fox Base Alpha recently, keep an eye out for a girl with a placard, she knows where its at :
July 4th – Wireless
July 19th – Sunday @ Latitude, Suffolk
August 15th – Summer Sundae, Leicester
August 29th – Beachdown festival, Brighton
August 4th – Mosely Folk Festival
THE ROCKINGBIRDS – Vintage!:
June 28th – Sunday 3pm Park Stage – Glastonbury
SOFT PACK – Plug in, Tune out & drop in – ESSENTIAL!:
June 28th – 4.45pm – John Peel Stage – Glastonbury
August 29th – Leeds festival
August 30th – Reading festival
HEAVENLY JUKEBOX – Idiot boys:
27th June – Glastonbury -11pm – 2am in the Q tent
28th June – Glastonbury – 11am – 1pm in the Guardian tent
17th July – Latitude – all day in between bands on the BBC Introducing stage
18th July - 2 – 4pm in the Rizla Arena – Lovebox
6-9th August – Rizla Arena – Big Chill
11 – 13th September – Rizla Areana -Bestival
Here’s the PADDED CELL disco noir reworking of DOVES ‘COMPULSION’ to download:
