Label Mates 2016: Burger Records, Trouble In Mind Records, Fortuna Pop

Label Mates Festival is just around the corner and we've got loads of great acts from each label lined up to play shows at The Shacklewell Arms, Moth Club, The Waiting Room and more.

We've gathered some tunes from some of the acts lined up for Burger Records, Trouble In Mind and Fortuna Pop:

The Burger Revolution @ The Shacklewell Arms | 4/3/2016

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Thee MVPs

The Whig Whams

The Hipshakes

Song about coming home from a killer holiday and not regretting a damn thing!

Story about a stalker with mad game

The Hipshakes' second album The Hipshakes here are: Andrew Anderson - Guitar, Vocals Dan Russell - Guitar, Vocals Bruce Sargent - Drums, Vocals Recorded by Mr Jason at Old School Studios, Norfolk, over 3 days in December 2008 Mixed by Mr Jason with the band Mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory

Trouble In Mind All-Dayer @ The Shacklewell Arms | 5/3/16

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(Special guest)

Soft Walls

Primitive Parts

Al McKay (Dick Diver)

3108

From the forthcoming album "No Time" available July 29th on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

from their debut album "Parts Primitive" - out Sept 18th on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Fortuna Pop All-Dayer @ Moth Club | 5/3/16

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The Spook School

Fever Dream

Evans The Dream

Night Flowers

Pete Astor

Beds In Parks

Suggested Friends

Bleurgh

The first single from the debut album 'Dress Up' by Edinburgh quartet The Spook School is the brilliant “I’ll Be Honest”. ‘Dress Up’ is out in October on Fortuna POP! You can read funny things about them on their website here: http://thespookschool.com/ Inspired by the post-punk-pop of Buzzcocks, Lou Reed’s ‘Transformer’ and the films of Buster Keaton, with a dash of 60s pop for good measure, The Spook School are Nye Todd on guitar with Adam Todd also on guitar and Anna Cory on bass, not forgetting Niall McCamley who plays drums, tells jokes and takes his clothes off. They all sing and shout and write the music together. There is no leader and no ‘frontperson’. They’re a band. “I’ll Be Honest” is written by Nye and is about spending time with a group of about ten or so friends and realising that some of them knew a lot more about him than others. Of course, the ones he felt he knew best were the ones that he tended to go out and get drunk with. There’s something nice about late-night/early morning confessions that might not even be remembered in the morning. The line “I’m making excuses for myself again, to make things easier for you” - holding things back because you don’t want to cause hurt or even inconvenience to other people, creating excuses ‘for their own good’ that really don’t help anyone.

Feted for the urgency and unrest of their live presence, London three-piece Fever Dream have now committed their dark and brittle post-punk-shoegaze noise to tape in the form of debut album, Moyamoya, out April 26th from Club AC30. The first single from Moyamoya, Serotonin Hit is a potent introduction to the sound of this young London band. Building to a steady forward charge, punctuated by stinging guitars yet keeping intact a core connection to melody, Serotonin Hit reaches a liminal communion of transitory mental state, the glow that you get from a sudden rush of distant memories and the fog of images: people and places of the subconscious. Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Adey Fleet, bassist Sarah Lippett, and drummer Cat Loye, Fever Dream make music which stalks the unsettled territory between MBV and PiL: suffused with melody and discordance, unhinged. Via the twitching fragility and freneticism of Fleet’s guitar and vocals, Lippett's stormy bass, and the propulsive dark heart that is Loye’s drumming, Fever Dream pitch tumultuous swathes of noise against irresistible pop hooks and gentle febrile tonality, arriving at a sound which sharply articulates a disorientating world of panic attacks, tender allegiances, and sweet perversions. Drawing from shoegaze, slowcore, and alt-rock - basically any form of music that favours distorted guitars and never really had its “moment” in indie rock post-1995 -- and for that reason, never really went out of style – Fever Dream manages to successfully sound genreless -- despite being referential of half a dozen genres at once -- and a seamless, coherent listening experience that remains in memory long after the last note has faded. FEVER DREAM – TOUR DATES MARCH 27th BRIGHTON: The Joker / 29th CAMBRIDGE: Portland Arms APRIL 5th BRISTOL: Roll For The Soul / 6th NOTTINGHAM: The Maze / 7th LEEDS: Wharf Chambers / 8th EDINBURGH: Henry’s / 9th NEWCASTLE: Lit & Phil Library / 10th MANCHESTER: The Castle / 11th YORK: Fulford Arms MAY 1st LONDON: Shacklewell Arms (Album Launch / Oddbox Weekender) / 31st LONDON: The Lexington

Free download - http://nightflowers.bandcamp.com/releases www.facebook.com/wearenightflowers www.twitter.com/Night_Flowers_ vimeo.com/nightflowers www.instagram.com/wearenightflowers Written and performed by Night Flowers Additional keys by A.Jaffrey and A. Hubley Recorded by Adam Jaffrey (March 2013) All songs Copyright Control ℗ + © 2013 Night Flowers

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