SKINNY LISTER UK HEADLINE TOUR OCTOBER 2016 // RECORDING NEW ALBUM

One of the best live bands in the country is back with their biggest UK headline tour to date taking place in October 2016. Skinny Lister, who have been performing non-stop across Europe and the United States, return with flagon in hand, party spirit in their bellies and only one thing on their mind: – fun.

You can view dates and ticket links at the XMR listings page. Full dates are also below:

OCTOBER
04 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
05 Manchester, The Ruby Lounge
06 Newcastle, The Cluny
07 Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy
13 Norwich, Waterfront Studio
14 Nottingham, The Bodega
15 Leicester O2 Academy 2
18 Bristol, Exchange
19 Southampton, The Joiners
20 London, The Garage

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2016 has already been an exceptional year for the twelve-legged party machine that is Skinny Lister. Kicking things off was a support tour across Germany, Austria and Switzerland with labelmate, and fan, Frank Turner. Then it was a quick hop across the pond for Flogging Molly’s festival Salty Dog Cruise around the Bahamas, before heading out on their own East Coast headline tour with label pals Beans On Toast and Will Varley in tow. Many of the shows were sold out well in advance and signalled a big step up for the band Stateside, with an ever-increasing fanbase begging for more. 

Since then, concentration has turned to recording the band’s third studio album, set for release in the autumn, on Xtra Mile Recordings. Lorna from the band says: “The last year has been amazing! The Xtra Mile Recordings family has welcomed us with open arms and touring the States, Europe and the UK with labelmates Frank Turner, Beans on Toast and Will Varley has been incredible. The excitement doesn’t stop there though; we’ve not stopped writing and feel very excited about what’s cooking!”

Album number three follows 2015’s Down On Deptford Broadway, a rum-soaked blend of English folk and punk rock anarchy that received rapturous acclaim, with The Guardian, declaring: “It packs enough punch to steamroll a saloon brawl.” More information on the album will be unveiled soon. 

Before the new album and UK headline tour, Skinny Lister will be no doubt at a festival near you throughout the summer. Confirmed so far are: Download Festival, Boomtown Festival, Highfield in Germany, and many more to be announced.

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THE RPMS DEBUT EP 'DIGITAL DISOBEDIENCE' OUT 24 JUNE 2016 // PREORDER NOW FOR FREE DOWNLOAD 'I DON'T LIKE IT'

Brighton based trio The RPMs will release their debut EP ‘Digital Disobedience’ on 24 June 2016 through Xtra Mile Recordings. The EP is released on 12” vinyl as well as digital download. Preorders are available now from the XMR shop or digital download via iTunes, with lead single ‘I Don’t Like It’ available instantly on all digital preorders. Listen to it below.

Lead track from the debut EP 'Digital Disobedience' release on 24th June 2016 on Xtra Mile Recordings. Spotify: http://smarturl.it/TheRPMs-Spotify iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TheRPMs-DD-iTunes XMR: http://smarturl.it/therpmsep-XMR

The four-track EP encapsulates the sound, style, and even smell of The RPMs home-grown gritty, rock tinged sound. Their main track 'I Don't Like It' pitches you the rough and ready anger of youth with tunes you can hum, beats you can tap and lyrics you can sing in the shower. Inspired by the past but built for the future, their sound lends itself a timeless pop feel. 'I Think It's Stupid, But I Think It’s Love' pushes this home with it’s juxtaposition between romance and reality, and has already gained airplay and 'Track Of The Day' on BBC Introducing South. 

Jack Valero (lead vocals and guitar), Miguel Cosme (bass and backing vocals) and Callum James (drums and backing vocals) are The RPMs. Inspired by the classic and enduring music of Tom Petty, The La's, Arctic Monkeys and The Who, with their stripped back sound they describe themselves as a rock band not afraid of a good pop tune. The track 'I Wanna Work In Abercrombie and Fitch' again stays true to this by combining social commentary with a catchy chorus and 'Down That Road Again' is just there for you to dance like no one is watching....and you're ever so slightly drunk. 

The latter track was featured on 2015's Xtra Mile High Club Vol. 6 – the sixth annual label compilation of roster favourites and newer acts – and was promptly picked up by 6Music's Tom Robinson for his Mixtape show as well as bagging them their first BBC Introducing South 'Track of the Day'.

Following a recent run of dates supporting The Beat, The RPMs will tour the country and beyond throughout 2016. Continuing to win over audiences, as they've done already at Glastonbury, Brighton's The Great Escape, opening XMR's summer party at The Monarch in July 2015 and supporting Wolf Alice and Rudimental at Pilton Party at the behest of The Godfarmer himself, Michael Eavis. 

Confirmed tour dates so far: 

APRIL
16 Lewes @ Union Music Store (Record Store Day)
21 Brighton @ Prince Albert

MAY
13 Camden @ Monarch
27 Brighton @ Zooberon

JUNE
4 Camden @ The Hawley Arms (Camden Rocks) 
 
“Blending rock’n’roll with a little pop, don’t be surprised if you see more of them very soon” - Redrospective

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SAINT LEONARD'S HORSES SIGN TO XTRA MILE RECORDINGS // NEW SINGLE 'RISE UP' OUT 13 MAY 2016

Xtra Mile Recordings are thrilled to announce the signing of the ever intriguing and compelling Saint Leonard’s Horses to the roster. The deal was inked in the shadow of William Blake’s grave in London before decamping to one of the capital’s oldest city pubs to hatch a plan for the album which will be out in the autumn. More information on that will follow but by way of an introduction here’s the first single, ‘Rise Up’.

In the past few years Leonard has toured the UK and USA supporting and playing shows with Ryan Adams,  Father John Misty, Bob Dylan, The Strokes, Beck, The Libertines, Billy Bragg and Wolfmother, to name a few. Then, early last year he was invited to work on music at Stanley Kubrick’s family estate in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The intention was to harness the creative forces at work in the Kubrick house and record new material as 'live' as possible with the five-piece band playing together in the same room and even lead vocals being laid down live with each track. 

They then further honed their skills and the songs through extensive touring and festival appearances (including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, The Great Escape, SXSW and British Summer Time in Hyde Park). By the end of a busy 2015, Leonard had left London for the USA, only surfacing again in late December in the Mojave Desert, after a transcendental mystical experience. This marks the start of Saint Leonard, a culmination of two years work in search of a new recorded sound, citing the experience of the Kubrick estate, and several bizarre episodes in the isolation of stays on the Yorkshire moors and the Californian desert, as the grounds for this shift in artistic identity.

Two London shows have been confirmed so far with further touring news to come soon. 

21 April – House of St Barnabus acoustic solo show (invite only)
12 May - Servant Jazz Quarters – full band

Speaking of the signing, Charlie Caplowe MD of Xtra Mile Recordings says: “Hugely excited about working with Saint Leonard’s Horses; it's an amazing album and they're a fantastic live band too. Unique signing venue as well – that was a first!”

Leonard from Saint Leonard’s Horses adds: “Xtra Mile Recordings just felt like the perfect fit, the strong home that I was looking for to allow me to reach a growing international audience, without having to compromise on message or integrity. I love what they represent and the team, headed by Charlie, filled me with confidence that they would know how to deliver this bleeding odyssey of a record. The journey of this record so far has taken me from a gothic church on the moors of Yorkshire, to the Hollywood Hills, to a remote cabin in Nashville and ultimately to Stanley Kubrick's estate. Xtra Mile seemed like they understood what that journey meant and were very much up for where it was headed next.”

"Hot new artist…definitely worth a listen!” – Daily Mirror
"The musical bastard love-child of  Beckett, Orwell and Ted Hughes." Huffington Post
"Sonically lying somewhere between Dylan and Lennon…quietly charismatic.” GodIsInTheTV

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CHRIS T-T NEW ALBUM '9 GREEN SONGS' OUT 3 JUNE 2016 // PREORDER NOW // '#WORSTGOVERNMENTEVER' VIDEO AND FREE TRACK FOR PREORDERS

Chris T-T returns with 9 Green Songs, his long-awaited follow-up to 2013's The Bear and a pseudo-sequel to his classic 2005 album 9 Red Songs. It's out 3 June. You can preorder now from our shop, from Amazon or download via iTunes. '#WorstGovernmentEver' is available instantly with digital preorders.

Watch the video for this prime cut of precise, sardonic anger, powered by austerity, bad leadership and porcine interactions.

9 Green Songs captures the vulnerable fury that bore the grassroots, folk-influenced approach of 9 Red Songs (an album that still resonates 10 years later), adding a modern Twitter feed tick-list of ideas, charged by the energy of his recent work with the Hoodrats. If anything T-T is becoming lyrically more radical. 'Love Me, I'm a Liberal' brutally indicts clicktivist sensibilities and “me, me” sensitivity of hipsters on social media, displaying their colours and doing not much else. 'Cutting A Longbow' recalls the spoken word live favourite ‘M1 Song’, in sound if not in content. Even then, this vocal diatribe is driven by pummeling percussion, giving it a rare menace. This contrasts wonderfully with 'A Garden On The Motorway’; an upbeat fairytale of green-fingered warfare on concrete commuting. But whether he's looking inward at his own faults or loudly gesturing at how we can all do better with less, T-T has put melodies to his disappointment, textures to our hypocrisy and, perhaps, a little hope in his hurt.

Chris hasn't been sitting on his hands all this time while conservatives (yes, small c) do their darnedest. Since The Bear he's toured extensively; released a gorgeous duet album of cover songs with folkie friend Gill Sandell (Walk Away, Walk Away); and even became the first Creative Fellow at a National Trust property – The Workhouse in Southwell – where in between tours he’ll compose new ballads of Victorian poverty.

After two excellent, tonally different albums – the treatise on the heart and gorgeous wordplay of Love Is Not Rescue and the full-tilt tumultuous 90s alt-rock instrumentation (with the Hoodrats) of The Bear – with 9 Green Songs we finally get more of what brought a lot of people to his music in the first place: Chris T-T stands up to shout loudly again, looks outwards, like a warm, terrible, friendly menace, who sees both dystopia and redemption on the horizon.

9 Green Songs tracklisting:

#WorstGovernmentEver
Love Me I'm A Liberal
Hallucinating
Cutting A Longbow
A Hard Rain
This Is What Drowning Is Like
A Garden On The Motorway
Anyone's Song
Admit Nothing
The Border Crossing

Live dates confirmed so far (new dates will appear on our gigs listing pages, including ticket links soon):

APRIL
16 99% Festival 2016

MAY
01 Handmade Festival 2016
06 Devizes The Lamb Inn
07 Sheffield Festival Of Debate At Eten Café
22 Winchester Railway Inn
27 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
28 Glossop Defiance Sessions At The Labour Club

JUNE
03 Somerset Barton Inn
04 Lewes Union Music Store (Instore)
05 Bristol Café Kino
08 London Free Fringe Benefit At The Bedford
09 Birmingham Tba
10 Manchester Star & Garter
11 Nottingham Tba
12 Glasgow Hug & Pint
18 Brighton Big Green Gig At Green Door Store

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THE RPMS SIGN TO XTRA MILE RECORDINGS // DEBUT EP SUMMER 2016

Xtra Mile Recordings are proud to welcome Brighton-based trio The RPMs to the roster and plans are already forming for an incredible year for the young band.

The RPMs are Jack Valero (lead vocals and guitar), Miguel Cosme (bass and backing vocals) and Callum James (drums). Taking the classic and enduring sounds of Tom Petty, The La's, Arctic Monkeys and The Who, with their stripped back sound they describe themselves as a rock band not afraid of a good pop tune.

Their track 'Down That Road Again' (produced by Tristan Ivemy – listen on Spotify) was featured on 2015's Xtra Mile High Club Vol. 6 – the sixth annual label compilation of roster favourites and newer acts – and was promptly picked up by 6Music's Tom Robinson for his Mixtape show and BBC Introducing South as Track of the Day.

After that success, Tristan and the band teamed up again to record four tracks for a debut EP due out in the summer. More information on that to come!

Image of The RPMs (2018) by Debbie Ellis

Speaking on the signing, Managing Director of Xtra Mile Recordings, Charlie Caplowe says: “Ever since we discovered The RPMs, adding them as an unsigned favourite to our last Xtra Mile High Club compilation, we’ve been beavering away madly behind the scenes to get to this moment. We are over the moon to announce the signing of the lads to the Xtra Mile family.”

And of their signing, The RPMs said "We're incredibly excited to be given the opportunity to work with the fantastic Xtra Mile team. We are proud to take our place on the family tree and can't wait to see where it takes us!"

Following a small run of dates in Brighton, Liverpool and Leicester supporting The Beat late last year, The RPMS will tour the country and beyond throughout 2016. It's in the live arena that hearts are won, which they've done at Glastonbury, Brighton's The Great Escape, and opening XMR's summer party at The Monarch in July 2015. They also supported Wolf Alice and Rudimental at the Pilton Party at the behest of The Godfarmer himself, Michael Eavis.

Confirmed tour dates so far:

MARCH

12 Bishops Stortford @ URC Hall
17 Worthing @ Forty Two
25 Harpenden @ Public Hall
26 Camden @ Barfly(Camden Rocks Presents)

APRIL

07 Dorchester @ Corn Exchange
08 Reading @ Sub89
09 Southampton @ The Brook
16 Lewes @ Union Music Store (Record Store Day)

JUNE

04 Camden @ The Hawley Arms (Camden Rocks)

“Blending rock’n’roll with a little pop, don’t be surprised if you see more of them very soon” - Retrospective

www.the-rpms.co.uk / http://www.facebook.com/TheRPMsOfficial / https://twitter.com/The_RPMs

RECREATIONS NEW ALBUM 'BABY BOOMERS 2' OUT 29 APRIL 2016 // PREORDER NOW // LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE 'NEOPRENE' // SPRING HEADLINE TOUR ANNOUNCED

 Recreations (Sam Duckworth, formerly Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.) will release his first full-length album, Baby Boomers 2 on 29th April 2016 through Xtra Mile Recordings. 

Preorder now on CD, vinyl or download from Xtra Mile Recordings or Banquet Records. All preorders through XMR get an instant download of first single ‘Neoprene’. Listen to it below.

Baby Boomers 2 is a self-produced collection full of wide-eyed, big-dreaming, conscientious pop songs that are undeniably Sam Duckworth, but delivered with looser funk, crisper electronics and notably less tubs to thump on. In more ways than one, it sees Duckworth get his groove back.

Recreations may be a new moniker for Sam, but his work ethic and refusal to stick to a template in either influence or sound is not just familiar but oh-so welcome. Falling half way between Get Cape... and his experiments, Recreations is the product of two years of investigation. Fans of GC.WC.F. will recognise his distinct lyrical nouse, but in his own words Recreations is "more heart on sleeve, bolder, more direct, and a little bit more emo."

'Neoprene' builds the backdrop to an imaginary never-ending night out with swatches of sound and reliable patches of atmosphere while 'Pipe Down' is pumped up by a huge muscular rhythm section but still driven by that infectious steel drum-like sound. Keenly concerned with contemporary society, the album is bookended with two songs that will be most familiar with Get Cape fans in sound (gentle acoustic guitar) and vision, tackling broadly the same themes. ‘Zones 9 and 10’ documents the exodus from London by a generation priced out of the capital, while ‘Lifestyle Concept Store’ laments the consequences of that for the creative community, mourning beloved nights and venues like the Metro and Plastic People. Yet Baby Boomers 2 is not a record about oligarchs and property prices, but something more fundamental.

“I always get tagged as being a political musician,” he says “but most of my songs aren’t political, it’s just that a lot of the stuff I do outside music is. So I wanted to do an album that was sort of both”

Also on the album is ‘Built To Last’ which also featured on Recreations’ Digital Ghettos EP released in February. It’s garnered support from 6Music’s Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq as well as John Kennedy at Radio X.

Headline UK tour with support from Rob Lynch and Sean McGowan

APRIL

22 Middlesbrough @ Green Room
24 Liverpool @ Studio 2
25 Manchester @ Night and Day
27 Colchester @ Three Wise Monkeys
29 London @ The Borderline
30 Aldershot @ West End Centre

MAY

01 Banbury @ Atic
02 Southampton @ The Joiners
04 Glasgow @ The Hug and Pint
05 Birmingham @ Sunflower Lounge
07 Nottingham @ The Bodega
08 Leeds @ Oporto
12 Hebden Bridge @ Hebden Bridge Trades Club
13 Swindon @ The Vic
14 Newport @ Le Pub
15 South Devon @ Kingskerswell Parish Church
17 Exeter @ The Cavern
18 Bristol @ The Louisiana

TRACKLIST:

1. Zones 9&10
2. Red Spex
3. Neoprene
4. Outdoor Type
5. Pipe Down
6. In Good Time
7. Progress
8. Forgiveness
9. Built To Last
10. Life On The Touchline
11. Lifestyle Concept Store

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