There’s a difference between retro chique and the reinvention of a genre. Bleech manage to give their burning guitars, heavy drums and howling vocals a modern touch of “NOW”. They have breathed new life into the genre, which even Kurt Cobain pronounced dead.

Bleech released their first single ‘Is It True That Boys Don’t Cry’ on Ban*Jam/Island Records on limited edition vinyl. On the week of its release the single was on the NME ‘Songs To Listen To This Week’, NME Radio A- list and
Radio 6 playlist as well as Best of Myspace Number 1.

Their second self released single ‘The Worthing Song’ was Clash Magazine ‘Single of the Month’ and was NME Radio A-listed.

BLEECH are set to release their new single ‘Adrenaline Junkie’ on May 28^th and debut album ‘Nude’on The Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday, June 4^th through Billie Records/ Bucks Music Publishing.

The new single ‘Adrenalin Junkie’ is an anthemic follow-up to recent single ‘Monday’s’, with a catchy melody and mighty chorus that will have you hooked. The single precedes the release of the band’s debut album ‘Nude’, packed with striking stand-alone tracks, which will not disappoint.

Bleech has built an impressive fan base including Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy, Lauren Lavern, Mark Richardson (Skunk Anansie/Feeder), Billy Lunn (The Subways). Having toured with Wolfmother, and supported the likes of  The Kooks, The Subways, Pete Doherty, The Rifles and The Joy Formidable has  helped build a formidable live reputation.

With two Headline U.K and European tours, plus a trip to the U.S of A under their belt, you wouldn’t bet on them slowing down anytime soon!

www.youtube.com/officialbleech
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www.twitter.com/bleechmusic
www.bleechblog.blogspot.com

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Agent – Colin Keenan

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Skint & Demoralised began as a fusion of performance poetry and Northern Soul-inspired grooves when 18-year-old Wakefield lad Matt Abbott began to work with Sheffield-based producer MiNI dOG over MySpace in May 2007. Demos were written and recorded via e-mails, and in November of the same year their track ‘Red Lipstick’ was played by Steve Lamacq and Colin Murray on BBC Radio 1. Lamacq named the band at #3 in his Top 100 New Bands of the Year at the end of ’07, and by the start of 2008 their demos were nearing 10,000 free downloads.

In March 2008 they signed a deal with Mercury Records which saw them flown out to New York City to begin sessions for their debut album ‘Love, And Other Catastrophes’. They recorded with legendary soul session band The Dap-Kings (who also played on Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’) and in November 2008 their debut single sold all 500 copies of a limited 7” on pre-order. The track, ‘The Thrill of Thirty Seconds’, was named as Colin Murray’s Record of the Week on Radio 1.

A headline tour and the release of ‘This Song Is Definitely Not About You’ was followed by a hectic summer schedule – which saw the band become a hit on the major festival circuit – and in July the track ‘Red Lipstick’ was released. Despite heavy airplay on Radio 1, the track failed to make it into the Top 40 and Mercury called it a day before the album was even released.

Matt went back to his performance poetry routes whilst working at HMV, blending his material with stand-up at Latitude and Leeds Festival over summer 2010. Abbott and MiNI dOG decided to record an album of material at their home studio in Sheffield with no budget or solid plans in place, and then in spring 2011 they agreed a deal with independent label Heist or Hit Records. Second album ‘This Sporting Life’ was released on 2nd August as part of a 2CD Bonus Edition alongside the previously unreleased debut. Single ‘The Lonely Hearts of England’ saw them return better than ever and the band are completing 2011 with a full UK tour, including dates with The Crookes and Art Brut.

http://www.skintanddemoralised.co.uk/

Agent – Lee Taylor

So Hull gets tainted by many things, grey stone, burning abattoirs and a dying fish trade; however there has been some spunk of late; Hull’s exciting wild shirt clad hipsters have been seen all over the place and during the last two years they have supported Warpaint on a series of NME Award events, played festivals in Amsterdam, performed in front of a live televised audience in the vaults of BBC Maida Vale and featured on Rough Trade’s infamous Counter Culture CD. Furthermore their previous singles have both been single of the month inArtrocker an achievement which led to the band gaining a best new band nomination at the annual Artrocker Awards(2011) and their debut ‘In Youth is Pleasure,’ was the 2010 winner on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 roundtable single of the year. However that was then and this is now and the now is damn urgent thus The Neat are on the brink of releasing their 3rd official single ’New Kids’ via pop sex ltd a tune that will be spinning from 2nd July 2012 and will be available digitally and from all good independent record shops so in their own words,’It’s what the NEW KIDS do!’

“Latter day Fall jostling with the XX Teens; the drums pound along mercilessly, while the sinewy guitar sounds like it’s been exhumed from 1979 and the dry staccato vocals stab mantras through the flailing body.” Steve Lamacq (BBC6)

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Agent – Lee Taylor

In their strongholds, especially Manchester and southern Europe – in Greece, they play to tens of thousands – Puressence are treated as idols. Elsewhere, they’ve had chart success in the days when the charts mattered, though they’ve never benefitted from being part of any trend. When schoolmates James and Tony Szuminski (drums) met Kevin Matthews (bass) and founding guitarist Neil MacDonald on the bus to The Stone Roses’ legendary Spike Island show in 1989, they formed a band that married the presence and attitude of the Roses to a darkly haunting and molten guitar rock that last hit the heights during the era of Joy Division and Echo & The Bunnymen.

Most recently, reviewing Puresssence’s homecoming show at Manchester’s Ritz in April 2011, John Robb wrote, “This is the real sound of Manchester- just like the Chameleons or the early Roses- those fluid rock bands with imaginative guitar players and charismatic singers building soundscapes- this is the very core of Manchester that has nothing to do with fashion or the much edited lineage that dominates the city’s narrative.”

20 years since Puressence formed, they’re still improving, still refining, still expanding. The clichéd press approach to the band – that they deserve to be much more widely recognised – becomes less relevant as time goes on.

“It makes me laugh when people underestimate me,” a combative James grins. “My appetite for music is just getting whetted. To me, the band is massive because we write massive music, and through word of mouth, we get bigger every year. As long as I can find the germ of an idea and create something from it, and get it across live, with passion, and people tell me they love it, I’ll keep going. And we’ll only stop when we stop feeling that.”

“It’s only a matter of time before the world catches on how earth shatteringly important Puressence are.” The Guardian

“An epic quartet fronted by a voice of rare power & distinction” Mojo

www.puressence.co.uk

Agent – Colin Keenan