Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck - Rough Trade East In-Store - Sunday 7th June 2009
The second of 2 one-off UK dates for Blow Up’s swedish indiepop 8 piece Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (the first being the night before at the Blow Up club, supporting Lucky Soul).
This will be an acoustic show, and entry will be free – so what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon – on stage at 2pm.
Big Boss Man - BBC Radio 2 Session for Mark Lamarr - Saturday 18th September 2009
Big Boss Man have been invited to record a live session for Mark Lamarr at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale studios, including tracks from Full English Beat Breakfast – hear the session this Saturday 18th September on BBC Radio 2 at Midnight
New Big Boss Man Album 'Full English Beat Breakfast' out now!
New Big Boss Man ‘Full English Beat Breakfast’ – out now!
The long-awaited 3rd album fromBig Boss Man
Blow Up is pleased to announce that the long awaited third album from Big Boss Man – ‘Full English Beat Breakfast‘ is now out. Its another superb spaced-out selection of prime 60’s inspired dancefloor tracks– available on CD, a lovely vinyl LP and as a download from all good retailers.
- In Session with Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2, Sat. 18th Sep.
Big Boss Man have been invited to record a live session for Mark Lamarr at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale studios, including tracks from Full English Beat Breakfast – hear the session this Saturday 18th September on BBC Radio 2 at Midnight more details
“Excellent” Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2
“The Sgt Pepper of boogaloo – and you can’t go without breakfast, can you?”
music 4/5, sonic 4/5 Hi-Fi Choice
“It’s one of those albums where you wished you were the drummer, or had thought of the concept first!”
5/5 Drummer Magazine
“Effortlessly hip” 4 stars – Echoes
“Their best album yet ” 4 stars – Record Collector
“Big Boss Man are back and groovier than ever. If Charlie Croker from The Italian Job was still alive – he would be dancing to this, and recommendations don’t come any better than that!” 7/10 Clash
“We’ve got 14 scorching hot tracks here. It’s all good I promise you, and then some. This is an album you most definitely should own and one which other musicians will be jealous of” Scootering ‘Recommended Listening’
“Will knock you flat on your back and boogaloo a victory lap”
7/10 Loud & Quiet
“Perennial party starters Big Boss Man are back with their third album. For loud’n’proud modish club soul, this is it!” Shindig!
“Big Boss Man — returning to blow our minds with an excellent dish on Blow Up Records! The Boss has been tearing it up for years now with a blend of organ heavy grooves, funky drums, vamping guitars and even some occasional vocals — and Full English Beat Breakfast is as loveable as anything they’ve done to date” Dusty Groove
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Big Boss Man Spain & France Tour Dates 2010
Big Boss Man return once again to Spain with an 11 date tour this March including Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante, Leon and more. See all dates here to see if they’re coming to a town near you. They’ll also be paying a visit to France in April (St. Nazaire) and June at the annual ‘Riviera Affair ’60s Mod Weekend’ in Nice.
They’ll be performing tracks from their first 2 albums Humanize and Winner, and from their critically acclaimed new album Full English Beat Breakfast!
“Excellent” Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2
“The Sgt Pepper of boogaloo” music 4/5, sonic 4/5 Hi-Fi Choice
“Effortlessly hip” 4 stars – Echoes
“Their best album yet ” 4 stars – Record Collector
“Big Boss Man are back and groovier than ever” 7/10 Clash
“14 scorching hot tracks here” Scootering ‘Recommended Listening’
“Will knock you flat on your back and boogaloo a victory lap”
7/10 Loud & Quiet
“Perennial party starters Big Boss Man are back with their third album. For loud’n’proud modish club soul, this is it!” Shindig!
“Big Boss Man — returning to blow our minds with an excellent dish on Blow Up Records! As loveable as anything they’ve done to date” Dusty Groove
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Neon Plastix 'Awesome Moves' - debut album May 2010
Neon Plastix release their long awaited debut LP “Awesome Moves” after taking one hell of a siesta. The album is chock full of electro tinged dancefloor pop, including On Fire, Gentlemen’s Gold and ten other future smashes. Album will be preceded by single Gentlemen’s Gold.
The band have achieved a cult following both in the UK, Europe and USA, despite having only released 2 singles to date (Neon Invasion/Prick Tease, On Fire/Dream), and secured deals along the way with E.A Games ‘Need For Speed’ and Sony Eriksson for use of their music. Neon Plastix have played multitudes of dates across Europe, even including a spot at Glastonbury, as well as touring with Late Of The Pier amongst others (who they also remixed). After they declared an inevitable hiatus whilst some members finished college courses and such, the band have woke up and rubbed their eyes, dusted themselves down and are ready to release their debut album “Awesome Moves”
“These new-wave songs force a grin regardless of gender. An impassioned and feel-good statement of intent” NME
“This one’s sure to go mental. Think pop-punk new wave disco floorfiller” Rough Trade
“Doesn’t it just conjure up the pungent whiff of hair gel and cheap fluorescent spirits?” Drowned In Sound
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Neon Plastix “Awesome Moves”
Cat. No. BU054CD/DD
Release Date: Mon 10th May 2010 (UK)
Neon Plastix “Gentlemen’s Gold”
Cat. No. BU055DD
Released: tbc
Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend Volumes 1 & 2 Go Digital
For the first time ever Volumes 1 & 2 of the Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend Series are available for download from iTunes, Amazon, Napster, eMusic and more….
VOLUME 1….
VOLUME 2 ….
Don’t forget, both have recently been reissued on LP (& CD) too if you’d rather get your hands on some vinyl – from all good stores, as well as Blow Up Records mail order
Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend Volume 1 sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. Originally released in 1996, the Blow Up Exclusive Blend series were one of the first commercial introductions to Music Library and the twilight world of the session man. Volume 1 features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson, From the pounding up-tempo of ‘Move, Move, Move’ through the Hammond-heavy ‘Beat Me ‘Til I’m Blue’ and ‘Rocky Mountain Runabout’ (versions of both featuring on the legendary Mohawks ‘The Champ’ album) to the sitar 60s club sound of ‘Delhi Discotheque’ and ‘Come here Calcutta’. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend Volume 2 sees Blow Up’s Paul Tunkin entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album’s release. Originally released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke’s Wild Elephants to the world, which was later retitled ‘Blow Up A-Go-Go’ as a thankyou from the writer and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation ‘Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club’. This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Syd Dale, and Alan Moorhouse.
Hipper-than-hip selection of TV/film music from Blow Up Uncut
Cool, punchy rarities. Dance music for Get Carter fans Musik
A musical goldmine
The Independent On Sunday
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Neon Plastix 'Awesome Moves' - Debut Album Out Now
Neon Plastix release their long awaited debut LP “Awesome Moves” after taking one hell of a siesta. The album is chock full of electro tinged dancefloor pop, including On Fire, Gentlemen’s Gold and ten other future smashes. Album will be preceded by single Gentlemen’s Gold.
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The band have achieved a cult following both in the UK, Europe and USA, despite having only released 2 singles to date (Neon Invasion/Prick Tease, On Fire/Dream). They’ve played a multitude of dates across Europe, even including a spot at Glastonbury. After an inevitable hiatus whilst some members finished college courses and such, they’ve woken up and rubbed their eyes, dusted themselves down to release their debut album… What they’ve said previously about Neon Plastix….
“These new-wave songs force a grin regardless of gender. An impassioned and feel-good statement of intent” NME
“This one’s sure to go mental. Think pop-punk new wave disco floorfiller” Rough Trade
“Doesn’t it just conjure up the pungent whiff of hair gel and cheap fluorescent spirits?” Drowned In Sound
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New Silvery Single The Naked & The Dead Out Now
‘The Naked & The Dead‘ – the first single from Silvery’s forthcoming 2nd album ‘Railway Architecture‘ is released week. The single was recently up for Steve Lamacq’s Rebel Playlist on BBC 6Music and the band have just recorded another BBC 6Music Session for Marc Riley (12th July) as well as being invited by Lamacq to play at his new monthly club ‘Going Deaf For A Living’ (invite here) on Thursday 29th July.
Download ‘The Naked & The Dead’…
Don’t forget to check out the video for the single (below), by the same team behind the award-winning ‘Horrors’ video.
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Silvery Live Rough Trade East In Store
Silvery will be playing an exclusive live in-store at Rough Trade East this Friday 6th August at 7pm (facebook invite) get down early to buy a copy of their new album ‘Railway Architecture’ which is out this Monday 9th August.