Gabby Young HUGE Koko show announced!

Gabby Young has long been a favourite of TOW ever since she came and did an early solo and acoustic session on Resonance FM many moons ago. It was the mournful ballad We're All In This Together which had us smitten and she's gone from strength to strength ever since. Gabby plays a headline show at London's Koko on October 13th and it's something quite extraordinary as can only be expected: stalls, an illustrators' corner, dressing up areas and more - The Sunday Times style wrote a piece about it last year.

Gabby's style has always been completely one off, it makes sense that she's being filmed by The Independent's new fashion TV channel. Gabby and her stylist Katie Antoniou have been working with up and coming designers who just showed at LFW to create some amazing stage looks, you can read more about Gabby's style on her blog here.

See you there! 

NEW VIDEO FROM PINEY GIR: OH LIES

Yes, we thought we'd shout that title at you! It's big news and we love Piney Gir's new DIY super 8-tastic zombie vid with blood 'n guts 'n gore and all those lovely things. Also that it accompanies a track from her excellent new album Geronimo, Oh Lies, which has to be the loveliest on there - complete with castanets and everything. Gernonimo is out on Damaged Goods on 24 October, preceded by Oh Lies on October 10th. TOW is digging every track, sheer pop psych rock genius from our favourite country gal, who has since ditched the 'Country Roadshow' and gone all rawk. Nice.

6 Music: Silver Fox & Trogons our picks for Introducing

Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show... you can listen again here. 


Silver Fox - Waves On In

 Daniel Robson

We are utterly smitten with this four piece from Newcastle. From the woozey, lazy psychedelia of Waves On In to the short, sharp punk of Capital Kiss. We found them via Upset The Rhythm's excellent line up for the Yes Way festival last month, where we also spotted this lovely lot:

Trogons - Awakenings

    

Trogons release Awakenings very soon on X Ray Recordings, we love the urgency in the track and Gemma Fleet on vocals is ticking all our boxes.

Thanks to UTR for some ace tips!

Gaggle choir leader Deborah Coughlin spills the beans

 

As anarchic all-woman choir Gaggle prepare for their performance of The Brilliant and The Dark at London's Royal Albert Hall on 27 September, TOW catches up with leader Deborah Coughlin about the who, what, when, where and why's and it's really not what you might think!

The opera, which is about the history of women from Middle Ages to World War II, was first performed in 1969 with a cast of 1,000 women volunteering at the same venue.

Deborah and Gaggle have brought the subject matter right up to the present day in their reworking of the piece. Amazed that such a historic event could have been lost from the history books Gaggle are looking to give it it's rightful place in cultural her-story.  


The Brilliant and The Dark from Open Music Archive on Vimeo.

INBOX: Daughter, Laura Gibson, Love Inks, Lyna Galliara

Every week press releases ping into the TOW inbox, here's a selection of the recent highlights:

Daughter - Free download and The Wild Youth EP

   

Download Elena Tonra's track Love for free now from the player above. We're super excited about the imminent arrival of her The Wild Youth EP on 21 November. Look out for a Daughter & Friends show near you in December too... In 'Love' Daughter channels her inner Sinead O'Connor - there's a plaintive sadness that builds and builds, bring on the rest of the EP!

Laura Gibson - Free download and signs to City Slang

   

Portlander Laura Gibson recently wowed crowds at Peggy Sue's album launch and found herself a home with the excellent City Slang. Fans of 2009's Beasts of Seasons will be please to know that follow up La Grande drops in January 2012... Help yourself to the rollicking, bar brawl of a title track for free.

Love Inks - 'Rock On' video

Married couple Sherry and Kevin make sun drenched Texas-pop. They're album was recorded on an 8-track in their bedroom and is making waves in all the right places, according to the band: 'the less digitized the better'. If this cover of David Essex's seventies classic Rock On is anything to go by, we love it.

Lyna Galliara - Summer Sun

 
TOW is pleased to meet this new singer-songwriter-producer-musician... she's had praise from music industry big whigs (according the press release - Jamie Cullum's management is a fan)... well all that aside, we like what we hear: fresh, confident and catchy as hell.

6 Music: Wild Flag & Elan Tamara our picks for Introducing

Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show... you can listen again here.

Wild Flag - Glass Tambourine


Wild Flag performs Glass Tambourine at The Rock Shop, Brooklyn from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.

 
Bloomin' brilliant to have Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein back in the saddle with a fierce line up of Mary Timony (Helium), Janet Weiss (Quasi, Sleater-Kinney) and Rebecca Cole (The Minders). Takes TOW back to the mid-nineties, an indie disco night called Lipgloss and wishing to all hell we'd not given up playing guitar. Wild Flag rrrrrrock, a welcome relief from all the flimsy-hipster-electro trash knocking about.

Elan Tamara - Don't Know Why

Original songwriting and a talented musician, Elan Tamara has everything going for a young upstart. Especially when up and coming producer Kwes (DELS, The Invisible, The XX, and now of Warp Records) gets involved and Ninja Tune put out her Organ EP. The kind of artist that makes TOW's blood boil when watching the fawning praise over the numpties on X Factor who knock out pretty good rendition of a Christina Aguilera tune or two. Sigh. They look for clones, we look for uniqueness and Elan has that in spades.

TOW favourite 2diceproductionz made this EPK for Elan last year, in our hood - Walthamstow Marshes:

MADAM Someone In Love: new video

Gosh darnit, she's done it again. Sukie Smith, fronting her ragged band of psychedelic folk rock troubadours, has released Someone In Love as the latest video from her second album Gone Before Morning. The video sees Sukie looking suitably glam in a fluffy cape and trademark sequined trousers... singing our favourite line: 'Aren't you big enough to know, when you don't fit your clothes...?' If this is your introduction to Madam then head here to listen to the whole glorious album and PURCHASE:

Brigid Power-Ryce & Micropixie - BBC 6 Music Introducing

Brigid Power-Ryce - The Waves Were Wild
 
   


Brigid Power-Ryce is a TOW success story... back in May 2009 we played Wild Grin for Tom on the show and he loved it, we loved it and then it all went silent. Until we got an email a few months back from Brigid with new songs, a six month old son and a support slot with Tune-Yards and Beirut at Brixton Academy on September 16th - yeeeeha! The  new stuff is as captivating as what we heard before - eerie, haunting and beautiful. See you on the 16th!

*Micropixie - Testosteronica

    
  
Micropixie sent us this little disco-funk gem a few weeks ago, from her album 'The Good, The Beige & The Ugly' (An Intergalactic Feminist Spy Thriller) on One Little Alien. Micropixie has made the track with UK-based, Grammy nominee Paul Horton and it's massively groovy. Micropixie says of herself: 'Made in Bombay, born & raised in the UK, and based in SF-Oh!, Micropixie aka MPX is the extra-terrestrial alter ego of writer, fillum-maker and fulltime human being, Single Beige Female.'

The song is about Micropixie's experiences in the music industry - 'Testosteronica', ah hem, a sentiment that's right up our street! Also, 10% of the sales from Testosteronica will go to Women's Audio Mission, a San Francisco based, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and the recording arts. Here here!