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Here are all the winners from the Grammys 2022 – rolling list

The Grammys 2022 takes place tonight (April 3) in Las Vegas, with performances from the likes of Silk Sonic, BTS, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo and more lined up. The main bulk of the awards will be handed out at the pre-telecast ceremony, which will be broadcast on the Grammys website and YouTube channel. Then, at 8pm EST (1am BST), the main ceremony will air and hand out the biggest trophies of the night, including Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Album Of The Year and Best New Artist. Advertisement Going into the event, Jon Batiste leads the nominations with 11 nods, while Justin Bieber follows on eight. Doja Cat, Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish all have seven nominations each. Jon Batiste CREDIT: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy A tribute to Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins will also be staged following the iconic musician’s death last week (March 25). Foo Fighters were scheduled to perform at the ceremony, but have since pulled out, as well as cancelling their planned touring schedule. The full list of nominees for the Grammys 2022 is below – winners will be highlighted in bold as they are announced. Record of the Year ABBA… Read More →

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Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers perform on ‘Kimmel’ and ‘Fallon’ for April Fool’s stunt

Red Hot Chili Peppers played both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live! in one night as part of an April Fool’s joke. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Red Hot Chili Peppers: “We feel fresh, like a new band” Kimmel and Fallon swapped places, hosting each other’s shows for the evening as part of the elaborate prank. The Chili Peppers were able to join in on the fun by performing simultaneously on two different networks. The Los Angeles group, who formed back in 1983, returned with their 12th studio album ‘Unlimited Love’ last Friday (April 1). Advertisement For Kimmel, the band performed ‘These Are The Ways’ atop the Roosevelt Hotel in a pre-recorded segment that was filmed earlier in the week. Meanwhile, for The Tonight Show, they played ‘Black Summer’ live from NBC Studios in New York. During the broadcast of the shows, it appeared as if the band were playing live on both ABC and NBC at the same time. Watch the videos below. Speaking about ‘Unlimited Love’ during a Big Read cover interview with NME, Anthony Kiedis explained: “I really didn’t want to tell the same old story that we’ve been hearing for the last 50 years in rock music. “I liked… Read More →

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Joni Mitchell to present at the 2022 Grammys

Joni Mitchell will be making a rare appearance at this year’s Grammys, where she is due to present an award. READ MORE: Grammys nominations 2022: Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo and J. Cole lead with most nods The singer-songwriter, who has largely kept out of the public eye since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015, is also nominated for Best Historical Album for ‘Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)’. On Friday (April 1), Mitchell was named Person of the Year at the 2022 MusiCares gala. The special event took place at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas, raising funds for the charity MusiCare’s programmes and relief efforts. Advertisement A number of of musicians took part on the night to pay tribute, including Beck, St. Vincent, Jon Batiste, Mickey Guyton, Leon Bridges, Herbie Hancock, Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, Lauren Daigle, Chaka Khan, Angélique Kidjo, Cyndi Lauper, Pentatonix, Billy Porter, Stephen Stills, Black Pumas, and Allison Russell. During the event, there was a group singalong of ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, with Mitchell taking to the stage for the first time in nine years to deliver the final line: “Put up a parking lot”. Mitchell said in her acceptance speech (via Pitchfork): “Everybody was splendid; it… Read More →

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A$AP Rocky on the Will Smith Oscars slap: “He emasculated another black man”

A$AP Rocky (aka Rakim Mayers) has weighed in on the row between Chris Rock and Will Smith at this year’s Oscars ceremony, where after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, being bald, Smith walked up to the stage and slapped Rock. READ MORE: The story of Slapgate: Will Smith and Chris Rock’s relationship through the years The joke in question saw Rock – midway through a monologue he gave in presenting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature – point to Jada (who has long been vocal about her struggles with alopecia) and quip: “G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it!” Smith later said in a statement, in which he also formally apologised to Rock, that the joke “was too much for me to bear”. In a forthcoming episode of the Drink Champs podcast, Mayers chimed in to offer the theory that Smith’s assault on Rock was the result of “some built-up shit that probably wasn’t really targeted at Chris Rock”, adding that “it just seemed like more than a G.I. Jane joke”. Advertisement Prior to offering that speculation, Mayers – who made sure to clarify that he’s “a fan of Will, Jada, Chris, all of… Read More →

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Failure feature Hayley Willams, Maynard James Keenan and more in documentary trailer

Hayley Williams and Maynard James Keenan are among several artists to feature in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary centred on Failure. The as-yet-to-be-named documentary has been in the works since 2018, when the cult alt-rock outfit asked fans to send them live footage of themselves from the ’90s. Yesterday (March 31), Failure released a seven-minute extended trailer for the film, which includes talking head snippets of Paramore frontwoman Williams, Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman Keenan, Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe, Butch Vig of Garbage, Troy Sanders of Mastodon, actors Jason Schwartzman, Margaret Cho, Troy Van Leeuwen and more. Advertisement Interspersed with video clips of some of the band’s best-known songs – ‘Stuck On You’ (1996), ‘Another Space Song’, ‘Counterfeit Sky’ (2015) and ‘Hot Traveler’ (2015) to name just a few – each artist talks about how the music of Failure impacted their own work, Failure’s relationship with one another and more. Check out the clip below: “A lot of guys from my era were like ‘Ah, this is bullshit’,” Lee can be heard saying. “I never saw it like that. I saw it as ‘Fuck, finally, some new blood injected into this sport!’” “It just made more… Read More →

01APRNews

Listen to Foals’ effervescent new single ‘Looking High’

Foals have shared their latest single, ‘Looking High’ – you can listen to the new track below. The song is the latest preview of the trio’s upcoming new album ‘Life Is Yours’, which is set for release on June 17. READ MORE: Foals: “Life is something to be cherished and enjoyed” Having originated as a demo by guitarist Jimmy Smith, ‘Looking High’ came to life after Smith reunited with Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis and drummer Jack Bevan post-lockdown. Advertisement Produced by John Hill (and featuring co-production by Miles James and additional production by A.K. Paul), ‘Looking High’, Philippakis explains, “is looking back to a more hedonistic time in my life, and a more innocent time in society in general, pre-pandemic and before the existential threat of climate change”. “It takes place in an alley in Oxford with two clubs – The Cellar and The Wheatsheaf – that all the city’s nightlife gravitated towards,” the singer added. “It was before clubs started to close down and our cities started to change into more corporate, arid places. There’s an element of being haunted by nightlife that’s no longer there.” Speaking to NME back in February about their new LP, Philippakis said that “this… Read More →

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Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers receive star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Red Hot Chili Peppers have been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame to mark the band’s four decades in music. The Los Angeles group, who formed back in 1983, returned with their 12th studio album ‘Unlimited Love’ today (April 1). READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Red Hot Chili Peppers: “We feel fresh, like a new band” On the eve of the record’s release, the Chilis’ current line-up – Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante – were in attendance to receive the 2,717th star on the coveted Walk Of Fame. Advertisement Taking to the podium first, guitarist Frusciante – who returned to RHCP in 2019 after almost a decade – recalled first moving to Hollywood as a teenager in 1987 before thanking “everybody in the world who our music means something to”. Flea then looked back at his longstanding connection to Hollywood Boulevard, telling those in attendance that he “panhandled” there as a youngster and played trumpet at the nearby University Of Southern California. “I know this street inside out, and this street knows me,” he said. “And whenever we’ve travelled around the world, this street has always been a part of me. I’m… Read More →

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Listen to Liam Gallagher’s stomping new single ‘C’mon You Know’

Liam Gallagher has shared a new single called ‘C’mon You Know’ – listen to it below. The song serves as the title track from the former Oasis frontman’s third solo album, which is out on May 27 via Warner. He’s already previewed the record with its lead single ‘Everything’s Electric’. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Liam Gallagher: “I sound good. I look cool. I talk from the heart” “C’mon, you know it’s gonna be alright/ And we’re gonna dance all night/ C’mon on you know/ Get up, stand up if you feel alive/ I only wanna see you smile/ C’mon on you know,” Gallagher sings in the first verse. Advertisement Later, he calls on the listener to “start living, be thankful” and “show love” before the slow-burning single introduces gospel backing vocals, synthesisers and experimental elements as it builds to a stomping finale. Tune in here: Last week, Gallagher and his band were spotted filming the ‘C’mon You Know’ music video on the rooftop of a Manchester hotel. He previously described the track as “the sound of the summer”. LG will showcase the upcoming ‘C’mon You Know’ album on a string of huge headline shows this summer, including a two-night billing… Read More →

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Sky Ferreira delays second album: “Wrath and death threats – pause until April”

Sky Ferreira has revealed that her second album ‘Masochism’ is now due in April, after her mother previously said that her daughter’s new album was set for release in March. READ MORE: The art of disappearing: why Sky Ferreira’s ‘Masochism’ took the slow road In an Instagram story late last year, the singer said that her long-awaited follow-up to her debut LP ‘Night Time, My Time’, which came out in October 2013, is “actually coming out this time”, after more than half a decade of teasing. In November 2021, she teased the arrival of some new music on Instagram while she was celebrating the eighth anniversary of ‘Night Time, My Time’. Advertisement “NEW MUSIC RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED. let’s just say…uh… ~it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb~,” she wrote, an idiom that references the month of March and the weather changes. Ferreira’s mother Tonia Lamere appeared to confirm this release date when she shared an image of Ferreira on her Instagram Stories in January with the caption “new album coming March”. Last night (30 March), Ferreira wrote on Instagram: “Wrath and death threats pause until April!” likely referring to the many spam messages she and… Read More →

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Liam Gallagher teases new single from ‘C’mon You Already Know’

Liam Gallagher has teased a snippet of a new track, noting that it will be out this Friday (April 1). READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Liam Gallagher: “I sound good. I look cool. I talk from the heart” The former Oasis frontman is set to release his third solo studio album, ‘C’MON YOU KNOW’, on May 27. He has so far previewed the project with its lead single ‘Everything’s Electric’, which came out last month. “C’mon You know. Friday,” he captioned his Instagram post which was made up of a spray-painted graphic of the title track’s name and a 20-second snippet of the yet-to-be-released pounding track. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) Advertisement This announcement comes after LG recorded a new music video on “a roof top up North” last Wednesday (March 23). As Radio X noted, some fans speculated at the time that the next release from LG will be the ‘C’MON YOU KNOW’ title track – the name of which is said to have been briefly listed on Apple Music this week. Doing a video shoot up NORTH tmoz for new single we’re gonna be on a roof so keep… Read More →

30MARNews

Doja Cat once again reiterates retirement plans in new tweet

Doja Cat has reiterated her plans to quit music once more. It comes after the musician revealed that she was planning to quit music in a series of tweets following a festival appearance, before later retracting those comments to say she would continue. The rapper and pop star is currently on tour in South America, and was scheduled to play at the Asunciónico festival in Paraguay last Tuesday (March 22). Advertisement After the festival’s opening day, set to feature Doja Cat, was cancelled due to high winds and weather warnings, fans online expressed their disappointment at the star not meeting them outside her hotel. In response to that, the musician tweeted: “it’s gone and i don’t give a fuck anymore,” she replied. “i fuckin quit i can’t wait to fucking disappear and i don’t need you to believe in me anymore. Everything is dead to me, music is dead, and i’m a fucking fool for ever thinking i was made for this this is a fucking nightmare unfollow me.” yes the fuck i am — mike penis (@DojaCat) March 29, 2022 Then, on March 27, she apologised for the tweets, seemingly dealing back her comments on retirement. However, now, the musician… Read More →

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The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett to score new horror film, ‘Choose Or Die’

The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett has scored a new horror film for Netflix called Choose Or Die – watch the trailer below. READ MORE: Keith Flint, 1969-2019: the twisted face of rave, the beating heart of The Prodigy Previously titled CURS>R, the film stars Sex Education‘s Asa Butterfield, Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Robert Englund and Sherlock Holmes‘ Eddie Marsan. According to a synopsis, the film follows a young coder who reboots a video game from the 1980s. Doing so unleashes a curse that starts to “tear reality apart.” Advertisement This will be Howlett’s first time scoring a film although his music with The Prodigy has featured in a number of films over the years including The Matrix, Kick Ass and Repo Men. The film will be available from April 15 – watch the trailer below: Earlier this month, The Prodigy announced details of a live tour for 2022 – check out the dates below and buy your tickets here. The group will return with a run of live dates in England across July this year to coincide with the 25th anniversary of their iconic album, ‘The Fat Of The Land’. Writing on social media, the group said: “We can’t wait to get back onstage to play… Read More →

30MARNews

Sadie Jean Found Out ‘WYD Now?’ Was A Streaming Smash While In Class

Sadie Jean never expected any of this. Her breakout hit “WYD Now?” boasts over 40 million streams on Spotify, a natural outgrowth of its organic viral beginnings on TikTok with views in the millions. The far reach has shown that the song’s aching piano sound and message of heartbreak have resonated deeply. She didn’t expect this from a lovelorn track she penned with her friends and fellow students Grace Enger and David Alexander on a creative weekend getaway. But that doesn’t mean she didn’t work hard to make it happen. “That was the craziest experience of my life,” she tells us in the premiere episode of MTV News Presents: Rising. As the 19-year-old tells it, ending up here feels wild, even if she’s been preparing for it for essentially her entire life. https://youtu.be/5ImDRvA3kP4 At 3, she would enlist her sister to jot down song ideas down for her because, well, she hadn’t learned how to write yet. That means she boasts a personal songwriting portfolio that dates back to elementary school and spans, as she said, “drama on the playground.” The drama of “WYD Now?,” though, stems from a much more mature experience. “I was so sad about my ex-boyfriend,”… Read More →

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Kelly Lee Owens announces new album ‘LP.8’ and shares two tracks

Kelly Lee Owens has announced her new album ‘LP.8’ and shared two new tracks – you can listen to ‘Sonic 8’ and ‘Olga’ below. The producer and musician will release the follow-up to August 2020’s ‘Inner Song’ digitally on April 29 before a physical release follows on June 10 via Smalltown Supersound. READ MORE: Kelly Lee Owens says post-Brexit touring mess is “doing serious damage to individuals” ‘LP.8’, as a press release explains, was “born out of a series of studio sessions” in Oslo and “created with no preconceptions or expectations: an unbridled exploration into the creative subconscious”. Advertisement The record was made along with the avant-noise artist Lasse Marhaug, who has previously worked with the likes of Merzbow, Sunn O))) and Jenny Hval, and inspired by such artists as Throbbing Gristle and Enya. “For me, ‘8’ meant completion – an album that will ripple infinitely with me personally,” Owens has said of ‘LP.8’. You can hear two previews of the forthcoming record, ‘Sonic 8’ and ‘Olga’, in the above and below visualisers. You can see the tracklist and album artwork for Kelly Lee Owens’ ‘LP.8’ below. Pre-order is available here. Advertisement 1. ‘RELEASE’ 2. ‘VOICE’ 3. ‘ANADLU’ 4. ‘S.O… Read More →

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Swedish House Mafia sell their masters and publishing rights to Pophouse Entertainment

Swedish House Mafia have sold their master recordings and publishing rights to Pophouse Entertainment. The Swedish trio have struck a deal with the Stockholm-based entertainment company, which was co-founded in 2014 by ABBA‘s Björn Ulvaeus, over the rights to their back catalogue for an undisclosed fee. READ MORE: Swedish House Mafia: “Dance music is freedom – that’s our language” The deal also includes a full acquisition of the masters and publishing of Axwell & Ingrosso, the duo formed by SHM’s Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso. Advertisement SHM and Pophouse will now form “a joint venture… to develop and amplify the Swedish House Mafia brand worldwide”. ”Swedish House Mafia is a ground-breaking trio that brought club music to stadiums around the world, and they continue to pave the way in contemporary electronic and dance music,” Pophouse said in a statement. “We are so excited to be partnering with them to tell that story for generations to come. Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia (Picture: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) “While our landmark agreement with them involves the acquisition of the recordings and publishing of their back catalogue, it is our first-of-its-kind joint venture with the band’s members that exemplifies the types… Read More →

29MARNews

Listen to ‘Everything Everything”s new disco pop single ‘I Want A Love Like This’

Everything Everything have shared their new disco pop single ‘I Want A Love Like This’ – you can view the video for the track below. READ MORE: Everything Everything: “It’s like all these biblical plagues conflating at the same time, with us right in the middle” It follows previous singles ‘Teletype’ and ‘Bad Friday’ from their forthcoming new album ‘Raw Data Feel’, which will be released on May 20. You can pre-order the record here. Speaking about their new single, the band said: “This song started as a challenge Alex set Jon to demo a ‘4-chord banger’ that he could put through a particular rhythmic processor on his home-made modular synthesiser. It’s another very instinctive and impulsive composition, talking about a new relationship and a feel of optimism and possibility.” Advertisement The group have used A.I. to help them create some of the songs on the new album. They created a programme using “the entire terms and conditions of LinkedIn, the ancient epic poem Beowulf, 400,000 4Chan forum posts and the teachings of Confucius,” according to a statement. The result has helped to form the album’s lyrics, artwork and aesthetic. Alongside the new album drop, the group are releasing a new… Read More →

29MARNews

The National announce 2022 North American tour

The National have announced dates for their 2022 North American tour. Tickets will be available here. READ MORE: Aaron and Bryce Dessner on their Cyrano film soundtrack: “They’re National songs in a way, and have an interior, intimate feeling” “We are excited to finally share our full tour itinerary for summer 2022,” the National said. “The last couple years have given us ample time for reflection and rejuvenation. Summer 2022 is a time for reunion. We look forward to gathering with friends, old and new. United in music and light, suspended in time. We hope you can join us.” See the band’s full tour schedule below. We are excited to finally share our full tour itinerary for Summer 2022. We look forward to gathering with friends, old and new. United in music and light, suspended in time. We hope you can join us. pic.twitter.com/lsHVnJV5yh — The National (@TheNational) March 29, 2022 Advertisement Tickets are set for sale Friday (April 1) at 10 am local time. The band will be partnering with Plus1 to donate $1 from each ticket to the PLUS1 Ukraine Relief Fund and also Buffalo String Works. Marika Anthony-Shaw, co-Founder and CEO of PLUS1, told NME funds raised for the Ukraine… Read More →

29MARNews

Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan unveil cover of new book, ‘Faith, Hope and Carnage’

Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan have today (March 29) revealed the cover for their upcoming book, Faith, Hope and Carnage. READ MORE: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis live in London: Minimal elements for maximum impact The memoir was announced last year and is drawn from more than 40 hours of conversation between The Bad Seeds frontman and Observer journalist Sean O’Hagan. Faith, Hope and Carnage will cover Cave’s perspective and personal life over the six years since the death of his son Arthur, who died in July 2015 at the age of 15. Advertisement “Faith, Hope & Carnage promises to be a thoughtful book about Cave’s inner life over the last six years, a meditation on big ideas including, faith, art, music, grief and much more,” a synopsis for the memoir states. “It is a project prompted by lockdown, and one that sits comfortably alongside Cave’s weekly mailing list The Red Hand Files. “It is at once borne of and in some sense a tribute to the stillness – and imperative period of reflection – wrought by a global pandemic.” Now, publishers Canongate have released the cover design for the project, which you can see below. Faith, Hope and Carnage, the… Read More →

29MARNews

Glass Animals equal Spice Girls’ US chart record with ‘Heat Waves’

Glass Animals have matched the Spice Girls’ best performance on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the US after their single ‘Heat Waves’ topped the chart for a fourth week. The Oxford four-piece are continuing to bask in the success of their 2020 single, which originally featured on their third studio album ‘Dreamland’. READ MORE: Glass Animals on the success of ‘Heat Waves’ and their “Celtic opera” new album ‘Heat Waves’ made it to the top of the Hot 100 earlier this month after completing a record 59-week climb to Number One, and the track is now four weeks into its reign at the top of the US singles chart. Advertisement As Billboard notes, Glass Animals’ four consecutive weeks at US Number One is the longest period spent at the top of the Hot 100 by a British group since the Spice Girls spent four weeks at Number One in 1997 with ‘Wannabe’. The likes of Pink Floyd (‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)’), Queen (‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’) and The Rolling Stones (‘Honky Tonk Women’ and ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’) have also respectively spent four weeks at the top of the Hot 100. The current all-time record… Read More →

29MARNews

Grimes is preparing to release an “intergalactic children’s metaverse book”

Grimes has announced her intention to release an “intergalactic children’s metaverse book”. As Bitcoin.com reports, the musician revealed her plan while speaking remotely at the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona last week. The summit was a conference for developers, researchers and others interested in the blockchain platform Avalanche. The project will be a part of Culture Catalyst, a $100million initiative by the Avalanche Foundation and NFT platform OP3N that will focus on funding Web3 entertainment projects from musicians, filmmakers and other artists. Advertisement “When I first got into Web3, this was the kind of project I was hoping to see,” Grimes, who has two young children, told the audience at the conference while speaking from a video screen. “I’m very excited to be partnering with OP3N to launch a series of educational art for babies and small children with the goal of creating a profound experience for babies that is also deeply meaningful to adults.” READ MORE: Burning Banksys and rubbish tweets: these are the most WTF NFTs so far Last year, Grimes auctioned off a suite of digital NFT artworks through the Nifty Gateway marketplace. During her appearance at Avalanche Summit, she said that she hadn’t released any more NFTs… Read More →

28MARNews

Slaves’ Isaac Holman announces debut album for solo project Baby Dave and shares new single ’29’

Slaves drummer Isaac Holman has announced details of his debut solo album, which will be released under the name Baby Dave. READ MORE: Slaves’ Laurie Vincent and producer Jolyon Thomas on their soft, melancholy new project LARRY PINK THE HUMAN ‘Monkey Brain’ will be self-released on April 22, and features instrumental and production contributions from Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn as well new single ’29’. It follows the project’s first single ‘Too Shy For Tennis’, which was released last summer and was also assisted by Albarn. Advertisement ’29’ was written when Holman challenged himself to compose a track during an uneventful coach journey. You can hear the lo-fi electronic track, along with an appropriately bus-themed video below. “There really isn’t much of a story behind this tune, but that’s kind of the whole point,” Holman said. “It’s about an uneventful bus journey from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells with my mate Lucy. I had my laptop with me and I decided to challenge myself to make a tune on the journey. This is that tune, about that journey.” The musician described the album as “a collection of tunes written from shortly after a debilitating mental breakdown at the start of 2019,… Read More →