a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

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Indie / Rock ’n’ Roll bringers ‘Candidates’ are standing up to deliver uplifting songs, in a time when there is much noise – but not enough said!

It’s with great pleasure we’d like to announce a headline show at Roadmender on May 18th with the incredible, hugely exciting The Keepers joining us as main support! The brilliant high energy indie rockers Block 33 also join the night & the excellent Britpop inspired The Relights open up the night in style! We can’t wait to play this date and with a full line up of great #IndieRock #Britpop #BritRock #IndieMusic to enjoy, it’s a date you need to secure in the diary!

The band are – Steve Wells (Lead Vox/Rhythm Guitar), Jimi Cook (Lead Guitar), Paul Pugh (Bass), Neil Kenton (Drums) and Antony Baker (Keys).

With a mutual appreciation for hard hitting beats, rumbling bass, soaring guitars and meaningful words sung with passion, and a relatable vulnerability, these lads have quickly become a band with a fierce purpose, combining influences such as Oasis, The Verve, The Stone Roses, The Cribs et el. to put Indie Rock’n’Roll back where it belongs.

With a busy end to 2017 bringing plays on BBC Introducing: Northampton and 3 Counties for their debut single ‘A Better Way’, Candidates look forward to a big 2018 with new music coming and dates already confirmed at O2 Academy: Oxford (Supporting Space), Camden’s Dublin Castle and Fiddlers’ Elbow, Northampton Roadmender and festival slots at The Grey Dog Festival and The Unsigned Marquee at Tribfest!

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GENRE:

Indie rock.

MEMBERS:

James Hope

BIO:

Growing up, the first band James Hope ever listened to was The Cranberries; being from an Irish family they were a big influence on him. As he entered his teens, the first album he bought was ‘Never Mind’ by Nirvana which he still listens to now. His favorite band of all time is Oasis. He loves the attitude, emotion and soul, particularly in their first three albums. James Hope started writing music at the age of 15 and joined a number of bands over his teens and early twenties. At home, his dad played a little bit of guitar and bought James one along with a library of Oasis chord books and he taught himself how to play from scratch. Bitten by the bug, he then also taught himself piano, bass and a little drums. After being forced in to taking singing lessons to avoid detentions in school, he stuck with it and rather learned to enjoy them! At 23 years old, he became rather disheartened by the state of the music scene and the issue of children from working class backgrounds losing access to music lessons and tuition in schools and decided that he needed to record his music and become a voice for those around him. Hailing from Leeds, he feels very passionately about the demise of opportunity for kids in his area and wants to redress this and be a social commentator for his community. His main influences are bands from the north of England especially those established Manchester bands of the 1980’s and 1990’s: Oasis, Stone Roses, James and so on. Harking back to his formative years, he also loves the melodies played by certain Irish bands such as The Pogues and The Cranberries. James’ lyrics reflect growing up in a working-class community in Leeds and the issues he’s faced in his own life. ‘Every lyric I have ever written means something to me and even if it doesn’t make sense to the listener there is a hidden meaning in there somewhere. I love this way of writing because it gets them to picture the story of my life which I’m trying to portray in my music. I also know many of my circumstances other people will have faced so it’s also relatable. James is currently working on his debut album and dates for gigs which will be announced soon.

‘The aim of this album is to inspire kids to pick up a guitar and start writing their own music and hopefully I can show them it’s still cool to be in a band.’ James Hope

TOUR DATES:

Coming soon

'Every lyric I have ever written means something to me and even if it doesn’t make sense to the listener there is a hidden meaning in there somewhere. I love this way of writing because it gets them to picture the story of my life which I’m trying to portray in my music.'

i hope he calls his first album paint a confusing picture

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today's selection is particularly depressing to me

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This lot looks slightly 'off', like a band you see in a gritty drama on iPlayer starring Tamsin Outhwaite.

xxp got a problem with REAL music, do you?

The previous lot, I'm surprised Ratface and Chinny were persuaded to go for the Brian-Jones-meets-Justin-Bieber hair.

I reckon I can guess the bass player in about 80% of these shots.

at least they're not having their picture taken in their mam's front room like the helmet-haired guitar-gesticulators a bit upthread xxp

Jack: I’m 18, the singer and guitarist, I’m never on time, and always just round the corner (laughs).
Connor: And I’m the quiet one, but not when I’m with the lad’s (laughs).
Dave: And I’m the one with the brains and in this band someone has to have them (laughs).
Connor: Told you he was the clever one (laughs).
Matty: I’m 16, the drummer and ladies’ man (laughs).

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Local band The Harrington Blues back the Posh with new tune…

Darren Ferguson’s men have reached the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final and Peterborough United and they’ve teamed up with The Harrington Blues to bring you the official song for Wembley, ‘The Posh Have Got The Fire’, which is now available to download on Soundcloud.

The band approached the football club about the possibility of putting their track into production and the club have also produced a video for the song, which can be viewed below. Club Press Officer Phil Adlam told ESP – “The football club are very pleased to be working with The Harrington Blues. Not only are they a talented local band, but they are also big Posh fans.

“They are regulars at London Road and two of the band actually met at a Posh game, so when they approached us about a track they had written, we were very keen to hear it. Everyone at the club loves the song and I am sure that it will prove very popular with supporters.

“Reaching the final has captured the imagination of the city with over 16,000 tickets already sold and we believe this song will definitely resonate with supporters and tells the story of how the club came through that semi-final at Swindon. It is the band’s own take on a Billy Joel classic.”

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Ben Gooch from The Harrington Blues said: “The inspiration for the song came from a football song the Rifles once did and our love of Posh. We wanted to do a football song without it being cheesy. We thought by telling a bit of a story, the fans could relate to it and it would be more appealing.

“We wanted a chorus that the fans could adopt and could be sung in the terraces. The video was good fun, it was strange being at an empty London Road and having a kick about. It’s brilliant, the club have been fully behind it – even Bob Symns popped down and was bopping away.

“It’s a great for us as a local band to be involved with the local team, particularly as we are all big fans. We’re hoping the fans will get on board. The thought of being at Wembley, seeing Posh lift that trophy and hearing 20,000 fans singing ‘Posh Have Got The Fire’ gets us just as excited as promotion at Hereford, Colchester and Old Trafford.”

The Harrington Blues are a 5 piece indie/Britpop band from Stamford/Peterborough. The lads have a strong local following and over the past year have played all over the country supporting some big names such as Ocean Colour Scene.

That last sentence is cold.

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the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final

oh god the bathos, i can't take it

Dream on dreamer life gets in your way
If the life you live is a spinning top of pain

lol waht

my favourite thing about that press release is that it's never made entirely clear which club 'the posh' actually are

Oasis chord books

I'm guessing these are quite short.

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Southampton five-piece The Rising have gained a huge fan base across the city with their Brit pop-cum-60s rock ’n’ roll swagger. Renowned for their catchy indie guitar sound, they were soon snapped up by Detour Records after sending material to Alan McGree, the founder of Creation Records. The band release their new double A-side single, Free My Soul Tonight and If You Get With Me, at a launch gig at The Joiners later this month.

Alan McGree

admit it, you're making these up aren't you

Halfway between laughing and feeling legitimately mean

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The track is pure rock ‘n’ roll and is the follow up to their debut single released back in November, ‘Dancing ‘Til The End Of Time’. It’s a confident track from a band still relatively new, using their classic blues and rock influences and updating into modern day indie complete with sonic guitar riffs and singer Luke Shield’s comfortable vocal.

Paves came together last year and whilst still unsigned, the band have gathered a solid following on social media already helped by first single ‘Dancing ‘Til The End Of Time’, with its wah-wah pedalling guitar and Jim Morrison-esque vocal. The band look to be bringing back that 60s/70s retro sound, much like Kula Shaker did in the 90s, but making it fresh for the current climate.

McGree Hee Hee

The band look to be bringing back that 60s/70s retro sound, much like Kula Shaker did in the 90s, but making it fresh for the current climate.

febrezing the corpse of pompous psychedelia one more time

on the plus side, the current cultural climate probably is gonna be a bit more accommodating if they decide to go down the crispian mills route of attempting to reclaim the swastika

"febrezing the corpse of pompous psychedelia one more time"

a very popular thread on ilm iirc

Brit pop-cum

sonic guitar riffs and singer Luke Shield’s comfortable vocal

love sonic riffs & comfortable vocals

The band look to be bringing back that 60s/70s retro sound, much like Kula Shaker did in the 90s, but making it fresh for the current climate.

much like tame impala did in the 10s?

these guys no doubt view tame impala as beyond the pale due to the addition of verboten innovations such as computers and effects pedals that make sounds beyond 'guitars, but slightly more distorted'

much like 98.6 percent of indie bands from 1986 onwards did in the 1986 onwardses

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TiTORS iNSiGNiA do not only prove a great sense of music by offering a varied and complex compilation of songs on ‘Fair City Riots’, they do also showcase an unaltered and enthralling sound which is distinctive of dynamic drum (Ste Swift), thrilling and skillfully staged guitar (lead guitar: Rob James, rhythm guitar: Stu Oggy) and emphatic bass (Peter Murphy) cooperation, and also marked by powerful vocals (Stu Oggy), at times edgy, at times rather soft in sonority yet constantly bearing a raw and sharp timbre. The band knows that the music genre they shine most, is pure and intense Rock’N’Roll, a tribute and revival to classic rock anthems, and that’s why their music is convincing to such an extent. It shows that the band members are experienced and firm musicians and that their overall sound is an established and expressive one, a sound TiTORS iNSiGNiA can identify with, moreover a sound TiTORS iNSiGNiA feels comofortable with. It’s this confidence and charisma that wins the listener over, that has convinced me the very first time I listened to the band’s music.

FUCK YOU BRIT AWARDS YOU PILE OF SHITE #britawards

— TiTORS iNSiGNiA (@TiTORS_iNSiGNiA) February 22, 2017

all the broken pic-links upthread have left me strangely melancholy

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What would you say is your key influences?

Rob: Everything you can think of, I was brought up listening to the Beatles, Oasis and Ocean Color Scene. For me I think my key influence is Paul Weller and the music of the Jam. I also am very interested in the classic soul roots of Mod music-particularly Eddie Floyd.

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The Universal - Britrocks Best Dressed Band

"As sharp musically as they are in attire, Liverpool quartet The Universal apply timeless values of upbeat melodic British rock songwriting to a sharp-dressed 2012 model."

It's certainly not just the dress sense that's pin sharp with these guys from Merseyside. The Universal's music is bursting with enough quality to make a Saville Row suit. Like a guitar driven mix of Paul Weller, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, and The Reel People, you cannot help but be impressed by the four pieces musical prowess. With T3rry Sh@ughn3ssy pulling, as well as strumming, the strings, his songwriting equals that of Mssrs Weller and Gallagher, (big boots to fill!!), and thats as well as singing and playing guitar. Is This England is almost a tribute to what the British music and other industries used to be, before the likes of X-Factor (excuse my language) became such an unfortunate influence on todays record sales. Satellites is a much slower but equally strong track. I fact, I'd stick my neck out and say that there is not a 'weak' track that I've heard.

It's difficult to say anything else other than to stronlgy advise you check these guys out as soon as you can, like NOW!!

Like a guitar driven mix of Paul Weller, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, and The Reel People

this is the literal worst shit ever

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i too am bursting with enough quality

sorry pete townsend, quadrophenia was okay but it's no...

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"The Universal's music is bursting with enough quality to make a Saville Row suit"

What does this mean? Are they trying to compare the music to fabric? Do people describe really good fabric as "bursting with quality"?

always good in a song abt history to specify which history you mean viz "past history"

xp
they're talking a load of bloody shoddy mungo!

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SOUTHAMPTON band Cassava will realise their ambition of playing alongside their heroes on Wednesday when Sheffield indie-stars Milburn come to town.

okay now i know you’re definitely making these up