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NEWS
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TURIN BRAKES
AT THE FIRE STATION, SUNDERLAND
Following a run of festival appearances across the summer, folk-rock favourites Turin Brakes are now embarking on an extensive UK tour. Their only North East date before the end of the year sees them call in at Sunderland’s Fire Station where they will showcase their latest album, ‘Wide-Eyed Nowhere’. The South London four-piece, formed initially by Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, now also comprises of Rob Allum and Eddie Myer. They formed back in 1999 and quickly rose to prominence, finding themselves Mercury Prize shortlisted in 2001 for ‘The Optimist’ LP, followed by a top-5 hit single in ‘Pain Killer (Summer Rain)’ from their second album, ‘Ether Song’, released in 2003. The band, known to change their sound from record to record, has since moved on to rack up seven top 40 singles, seven top 40 albums and more than a million record sales worldwide. ‘Wide-Eyed Nowhere’ is their ninth studio album. The quartet worked on the release over the summer of 2021, recording in Olly’s garden studio, and they’ll be releasing it later this month. By working in Olly’s studio, they say this gave them the opportunity to let time infuse into the music and mature in a way it couldn’t in a pressurised commercial studio setting. The result was ‘a sweeter, groovier set of songs in no hurry to be anything but themselves’. They added: "Friends would visit, kids would add a voice or two, bees would buzz and we'd get to sit in the South London sun while the music poured out of the speakers and floated across the lawn. Sometimes, we decided it's okay to just let it happen naturally, not to try too hard - just get out of the way and let the songs take shape, and that maybe you don't have to be in a bad place to make the deeper cuts." The Fire Station provides the perfect setting for an intimate auditorium show. The Wearside venue only opened its doors in December 2021 and has already played host to a string of big names. It is certainly making its mark as a cultural icon, having recently won two awards in the National Schuco Excellence Awards for Design and Innovation, run in partnership with Architecture Today. It scooped both the Cultural Building of the Year Award and the ‘Peoples Award’. You can catch Turin Brakes at The Fire Station, Sunderland on Friday 7th October. EMMA CHESWORTH
Tickets: £22.00 Advance | Visit: sunderlandculture.org.uk
WE WERE PROMISED JET PACKS
AT POP RECS, SUNDERLAND
NEWTON FAULKNER
AT WYLAM BREWERY, NEWCASTLE
In the back end of the ‘00s, Newton Faulkner burst into life. With a mentality rooted in an acoustic-driven busking approach, the rhythmic fireworks whizzing off the fretboard were matched by an honest and open vocal, recounting stories of hope and love. A decade and a half later, Faulkner’s hits speak for themselves. With a career constantly tweaking, adapting and furthering his formula, the collection of sounds the artist has amassed is utterly impressive. The fantastic writer is bringing his set of charming, poignant and infectiously elated and life-affirming tracks to Wylam Brewery on Sunday 25th September. CAMERON WRIGHT
Tickets: £27.50 Advance | Visit: seetickets.com
NEWS
Ever since their victory in their High School’s Battle of the Bands competition, We Were Promised Jet Packs have been flying high (no pun intended), with career highlights including charting in the UK and America and supporting Jimmy Eat World on their North American tour. The Glasgow-based band grace Sunderland’s Pop Recs later this month for a night of indie music fit with vocals and instrumentation meant to conjure images of a rainy, miserable day in Scotland whilst still somehow being bright thanks to their melancholic lyrics and positive melodies. ADAM BRACCHI
Tickets: £18.00 Advance | Visit: seetickets.com
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