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January 2021

For Perth-via-Busselton trio Pretty Uglys, 2020 remained a fairly fruitful year even though the party/live music opportunities elsewhere around the country came to a screeching halt. Out on the West Coast, the band dedicated the year to the preparation of their forthcoming EP Party Friends, releasing two tracks in ‘Soak It Up’ and ‘Dreamland Delusion’ - both further establishing the band as one to watch. And now, as 2021 kicks off with hope, excitement and much anticipation for a return to normal, the Pretty Uglys guys kick this new era off with the EP’s title track, releasing ‘Party Friends’ in January from their forthcoming EP set for release in 2021.
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WA’s Pretty Uglys return for the new year with amped tune ‘Party Friends’

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For Perth-via-Busselton trio Pretty Uglys, 2020 remained a fairly fruitful year even though the party/live music opportunities elsewhere around the country came to a screeching halt. Out on the West Coast, the band dedicated the year to the preparation of their forthcoming EP Party Friends, releasing two tracks in ‘Soak It Up’ and ‘Dreamland Delusion’ – both further establishing the band as one to watch.

And now, as 2021 kicks off with hope, excitement and much anticipation for a return to normal, the Pretty Uglys guys kick this new era off with the EP’s title track, releasing ‘Party Friends’ in January from their forthcoming EP set for release in 2021.

A track that demonstrates the band’s strong dynamic, a love for some classic surf rock influences and a lean further into confident new sounds and lyricism, ‘Party Friends’ is the quintessential Pretty Uglys vibe that that band is charging ahead into the New Year with.

“‘Party Friends’ is a track about the connection often made during those not-so-sober times with friends that leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside. It’s also about feeling accepted by your mates, staying true to yourself and the importance of having friends around.” Pretty Uglys

Writing and recording the track as a collective out of Perth’s Sumo Studios, Pretty Uglys approached their latest single with this overarching theme of bonds and connection well in mind, as well as their eventual return to touring. With dates locked in for Western Australia throughout January, Pretty Uglys are gonna be out on stages and back with fans very soon.

“We couldn’t be any more stoked to be playing the run of shows in January. 2020 was a strange year for everyone and it feels amazing to have heaps of shows on the horizon again; even better to have so many of our mates’ bands joining us for the ride.” Pretty Uglys

PRAISE FOR PRETTY UGLYS

“Big fans of Skegss, Tired Lion and Violent Soho have found themselves a new favourite band!”
Triple J, Claire Mooney

“These dudes always deliver…”
Triple J Unearthed, Dave Ruby Howe

“Pretty Uglys have come forward to keep a future for infectious surf-rock in a way that feels authentic and properly surf-rock, comparable to long-time pioneers in the sound from FIDLAR to Skegsss, but with an edge that keeps it distinct to them.”
Pilerats

“They belt out an infectious brand of surfy garage with an energy that most bands take years to develop.”
Happy Magazine

PRETTY UGLYS TOUR DATES

Saturday, January 9th Mojo’s Bar Fremantle
w/ Hotsand, Teen Angst

Thursday, January 14th Lucy’s Love Shack Northbridge
w/ Lounge Tourist, Sunsick, Old Mervs

Friday, January 15th The River Pub Margaret River
w/ Skycave, Between Spleens

Saturday, January 16th Prince of Wales Bunbury
w/ Skycave, Between Spleens

Saturday, January 30th Indi Bar Scarborough
w/ Ra Ra Viper, King Brown, Star Arcana

‘Party Friends’ is released January 5th
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After looking ahead to an exciting 2020, where they would play their biggest shows to date in Manchester and London, pick up arena tour dates with Blossoms and accept the invitation from Paul Weller to open his UK-wide run of shows, The Lathums nimbly swerved the wreckage of the Coronavirus pandemic to remain stubbornly on the rise. They made their first impression on the UK Album Charts, settling at Number 14 for their vinyl-only EP compilation, The Memories We Make and took top spot in the UK Vinyl Chart later in the year for their Island Records debut, All My Life. Formed of Moore (vocals/guitars), Scott Concepcion (lead guitars/vocals), Johnny Cunliffe (bass) and Ryan Durrans (drums/vocals) – The Lathums look forward to a brighter 2021 filled with already SOLD OUT, landmark shows including dates at Manchester’s O2 Ritz and London’s Electric Ballroom, celebratory festival appearances, including Sound City and Neighbourhood Weekender, and their first, ever European dates. All currently confirmed UK and Ireland dates for The Lathums are: Thu 22 Apr Hull, Social – SOLD OUT Fri 23 Apr Manchester, O2 Ritz – SOLD OUT Sat 24 Apr Stoke, Sugarmill – SOLD OUT Thu 29 Apr Glasgow, Garage – SOLD OUT Fri 30 April Sheffield, University Foundry – SOLD OUT Sat 1 May Newcastle, Riverside – SOLD OUT Sun 2 May Liverpool, Sound City Tue 4 May Nottingham, Rescue Rooms – SOLD OUT Wed 5 May Birmingham, O2 Institute 2 – SOLD OUT Fri 7 May Leicester, O2 Academy 2 – SOLD OUT Sat 8 May Leeds, Beckett Students Union – SOLD OUT Sun 9 May Cardiff, Globe – SOLD OUT Tue 11 May Oxford, O2 Academy 2 – SOLD OUT Wed 12 May London, Electric Ballroom – SOLD OUT Sun 30 May Warrington, Neighbourhood Weekender Tue 1 June Edinburgh, Liquid Room – SOLD OUT Thu 3 June Dunfermline, PJ Molly’s – SOLD OUT Fri 4 June Dundee, Fat Sam’s Sat 5 June Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree Tue 8 June Belfast, Limelight 2 Thu 10 June Dublin, The Academy Fri 11 June Galway, The Róisín Dubh Sat 12 June Limerick, Dolan’s Warehouse The Lathums’ story began just two years ago with the band making swift graduation from Greater Manchester pubs to festival stages including Kendal Calling and Neighbourhood Weekender. The breathless pace at which their popularity has escalated has been captured in upbeat recording sessions for their debut album at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool with producers, James Skelly and Chris Taylor. For future release news and updates about sought-after tickets for The Lathums’ live shows, connect with the band online at: https://twitter.com/TheLathums https://www.facebook.com/thelathums https://www.instagram.com/thelathums
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The Lathums meet Joker on the seafront as the buoyant four-piece embrace the surreal in the widescreen video for: FOOLISH PARLEY

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The Lathums – Foolish Parley
OUT NOW as part of the Ghosts EP on Island Records“.. prodigious projections of hope, passion and drive” – CLASH
“The Lathums really are top of their class” – MUSIC WEEK
“There’s shades of Arctic Monkeys in their rise and in the spine-tingling ‘All My Life’…
but the fun is only just getting started” – NME

Wordy and worldy indie four-piece, The Lathums, land somewhere between Bowie’s famous stroll across East Sussex sands in Ashes To Ashes, the heart-stopping catatonia of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker and the monochrome menace of A Clockwork Orange in the absorbingly surreal, widescreen promo for their track, Foolish Parley. Cut to a distinctly conceptual, arthouse feel in deep black and white and interspersed with live footage from beneath the baroque splendour of Blackpool Tower, the Wigan band reveal their theatrical poise with brooding, poker-faced performances in full, rain-smudged make-up.

The growling, tremelo-warped Foolish Parley originally appeared on The Lathums’ Ghost EP in October, an essential cut from the band’s 2020 soundtrack, a year that saw them honoured with a place on the BBC Sound Of 2021 longlist, appearing on Later… With Jools Holland and enjoying a week-long BBC Radio One residency on the BBC Introducing Playlist. The new, James Slater-directed video finds the barely twenty-somethings nudged into noir and embracing the surreal, losing all sense of time and reality along the rugged, sea-lashed, British shoreline.

Inspired by traditional customs out at sea, in which warring factions would set down arms to negotiate, Foolish Parley’s lyrics open a door once more into the old soul of bookish front man and lyricist, Alex Moore. Of the track, he says: “Being honest, this just came to me out of nowhere, I can’t pinpoint from exactly where or why. Like a lot of songs, it was something that flowed freely, working first time and, sometimes, it takes no more thinking about than that.”

After looking ahead to an exciting 2020, where they would play their biggest shows to date in Manchester and London, pick up arena tour dates with Blossoms and accept the invitation from Paul Weller to open his UK-wide run of shows, The Lathums nimbly swerved the wreckage of the Coronavirus pandemic to remain stubbornly on the rise. They made their first impression on the UK Album Charts, settling at Number 14 for their vinyl-only EP compilation, The Memories We Make and took top spot in the UK Vinyl Chart later in the year for their Island Records debut, All My Life.

Formed of Moore (vocals/guitars), Scott Concepcion (lead guitars/vocals), Johnny Cunliffe (bass) and Ryan Durrans (drums/vocals) – The Lathums look forward to a brighter 2021 filled with already SOLD OUT, landmark shows including dates at Manchester’s O2 Ritz and London’s Electric Ballroom, celebratory festival appearances, including Sound City and Neighbourhood Weekender, and their first, ever European dates. All currently confirmed UK and Ireland dates for The Lathums are:

  • Thu 22 Apr          Hull, Social – SOLD OUT
  • Fri 23 Apr            Manchester, O2 Ritz – SOLD OUT
  • Sat 24 Apr           Stoke, Sugarmill – SOLD OUT
  • Thu 29 Apr          Glasgow, Garage – SOLD OUT
  • Fri 30 April          Sheffield, University Foundry – SOLD OUT
  • Sat 1 May             Newcastle, Riverside – SOLD OUT
  • Sun 2 May            Liverpool, Sound City
  • Tue 4 May            Nottingham, Rescue Rooms – SOLD OUT
  • Wed 5 May           Birmingham, O2 Institute 2 – SOLD OUT
  • Fri 7 May              Leicester, O2 Academy 2 – SOLD OUT
  • Sat 8 May             Leeds, Beckett Students Union – SOLD OUT
  • Sun 9 May           Cardiff, Globe – SOLD OUT
  • Tue 11 May          Oxford, O2 Academy 2 – SOLD OUT
  • Wed 12 May         London, Electric Ballroom – SOLD OUT
  • Sun 30 May          Warrington, Neighbourhood Weekender
  • Tue 1 June           Edinburgh, Liquid Room – SOLD OUT
  • Thu 3 June           Dunfermline, PJ Molly’s – SOLD OUT
  • Fri 4 June             Dundee, Fat Sam’s
  • Sat 5 June            Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree
  • Tue 8 June           Belfast, Limelight 2
  • Thu 10 June         Dublin, The Academy
  • Fri 11 June           Galway, The Róisín Dubh
  • Sat 12 June          Limerick, Dolan’s Warehouse

The Lathums’ story began just two years ago with the band making swift graduation from Greater Manchester pubs to festival stages including Kendal Calling and Neighbourhood Weekender. The breathless pace at which their popularity has escalated has been captured in upbeat recording sessions for their debut album at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool with producers, James Skelly and Chris Taylor.

For future release news and updates about sought-after tickets for The Lathums’ live shows, connect with the band online at:

https://twitter.com/TheLathums
https://www.facebook.com/thelathums
https://www.instagram.com/thelathums

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FOLK SINGER-SONGWRITER RYLAND MORANZ RELEASES NEW SINGLE 'WHERE ARE MY BLUE EYES'
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FOLK SINGER – SONGWRITER RYLAND MORANZ RELEASES NEW SINGLE ‘WHERE ARE MY BLUE EYES’ 2nd SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM OUT ON JANUARY 15th

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Alberta-based singer-songwriter Ryland Moranz has always been a firm believer that the old ways are the best ways. So when he set out to create the video for his latest single ‘Where Are My Blue Eyes’, the self-professed ‘analog snob’ decided they should shoot it on 16mm film.

After the filming the video in Lethbridge and Edmonton with director Evan Uschenko, the film was processed, developed and scanned.  The developed film was then augmented by applying paint, ink, and by scratching with the needle from an old CBGB’s pin.  Each frame was painted by hand, a process that took over 40 hours.  The result is an intriguing piece of art in which all the luck, trial, and mistakes can be seen in earnest.  Not everything in this video is perfect, and that’s exactly the point.

“‘Where Are My Blue Eyes’ is the most honest thing I’ve ever written, and the video reflects that,” says Ryland.  “All the imagery; musings on love, the fallacy of humanity and the salvation that is found in the temporary nature of the universe is at the heart of who I am as an artist and as a growing human being.  This song came to me as a revelation, and it revealed that nothing is ever really forgotten and that I am as I am just as you are as you will be.  And if that’s the case then all is right in the universe.”

Following the October release of ‘If I Had Wings’, ‘Where Are My Blue Eyes’ is the 2nd single from Ryland’s new album XO, 1945, which will be out on January 15th. A song that Ryland calls his favourite song he’s ever written, ‘Where Are My Blue Eyes’ actually came about by accident.

“I was on tour with Leeroy Stagger in California and we had a day on in San Rafael,” says Ryland. “I was in a music store and found an amazing banjo that dated back to 1890. It was the real deal from its handcrafted inlay to its ivory tuning pegs; an equally stunning and sinister feature.  It was in a tuning I didn’t recognize, which turned out to be open C, an old timey sort of tuning that evokes the tectonic cultural tone of the instrument.  I became obsessed with the tuning and over the next afternoon developed what became the bones of the song.”

Ryland Moranz’s new single ‘Where Are My Blue Eyes’ is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. His new album XO, 1945 will be released on January 15th, 2021 through Tonic Records.

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