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The third single to be taken from the latest album from The Bongolian ‘Bongos For Beatniks‘

‘Leaving For A Day’ is the brand new fourth single from Swedish indie-pop 8-piece Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck. It will be taken from a new edition of their debut album ‘Days Come and Go‘ which will shortly be rereleased in an expanded form to include additional tracks. The album made the top five list of albums of the year for Sweden’s national newspaper Sydsvenskan.

Check out the video for “Leaving For A Day” here, a compilation of footage filmed during the bands last visit to the UK, including a Rough Trade East in-store, an appearance at Dot-To-Dot Festival Bristol, a support slot with Camera Obscura at King’s College, a show at the Blow Up Metro Club on Oxford Street and an acoustic session at the V&A.

‘Let’s Watch The Sunrise’ is the third single from Swedish indie-pop 8-piece Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, and taken from their debut album ‘Days Come and Go‘.

‘Moves On The Screen’ is the second single from Swedish indie-pop 8-piece Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, and taken from their debut album ‘Days Come and Go‘.

The debut album from Newcastle-under-Lyme (nr Stoke) based five piece Alfa 9. The group honed their skills on the live circuit, cemented by supports slots with The Coral, Sunshine Underground, The Charlatans, and Edgar Jones, before siging to Blow Up in August 2005, and the same month walked straight into The Charlatans’ Big Mushroom studio in Cheshire with Liverpool producer Mike Cave (The Coral, Ian McNabb). They recorded the album in under two weeks, with additional production and mixing in the Autumn in Liverpool. The completed album was mastered in Devon by Simon Heyworth (co-producer of Tubular Bells), the end result being the psych masterpiece that is Then We Begin.

DEADMAN is the follow up to Alfa 9’s debut single ‘For Your Bones’ which received support including Steve Lamacq on Radio 1 and Janice Long on Radio 2 who liked the band so much she booked them in for a session. It was taken from their debut album Then We Begin, which was recorded in The Charlatans’ Big Mushroom Studio in Cheshire with Liverpool producer Mike Cave (The Charlatans, The Coral, Ian McCulloch). Alfa 9 supported The Charlatans at an intimate Xfm Manchester ‘home-coming’ gig, and were introduced on stage by Clint Boon as “the best new band in Britain”, and Clint has already played the full-length version of ‘Deadman’ on his radio show, and the single went on to be playlisted by Xfm Manchester.

The debut single from Alfa 9, released as a very limited seven as part of the Blow Up 45 Series. Whilst the A-side ‘For Your Bones’ featured on their album debut ‘Then We Begin‘ that followed, the B-Side ‘Little Girl’ was available om the single only.

The second single to be taken from Big Boss Man‘s third album ‘Full English Beat Breakfast‘.

The first single to be taken from Big Boss Man‘s third album ‘Full English Beat Breakfast‘.