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 has built an impressive fan base including Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy, Lauren Lavern, Mark Richardson (Skunk Anansie/Feeder), Billy Lunn (The Subways). They have supported Wolfmother, The Kooks, The Subways, Pete Doherty, The Rifles and The Joy Formidable on tour.

2011 sees Bleech releasing a 4 track EP and expanding their tour to the States. The band has been named the new face of Kangol Headwear’s AW11 global campaign. Their debut album ‘Nude’ will be out early 2012.

Bleech’s energetic, powerful live performances along with melodic catchy songs make this hotly tipped band one to catch.

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Agent – Colin Keenan

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.

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Agent – Lee Taylor

The Brute Chorus are quiffed and moustachioed Vicar’s son James Steel (Vocals, Guitar and
Harmonica), Cumbrian Nick Foots (Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard and Stuff), Hampshire country boy
and son of a Dylan-fanatic Mark Austin (Vocals, Drums and Percussion), and Essex born Dave
Ferrett (Vocals, Bass). The band all live together in Whitechapel, East London.

Love, religion, fables, mythical beasts and the odd Greek Tragedy – they’re all here. The Brute
Chorus blend a writhing mix of pop, circus burlesque and, most noticeably, rockabilly that you will
not be able to stop tapping your toes to. It’s a fairy tale, a fable and a hoe-down!

With a nod and a reference to rock n roll, blues, post punk and even a good measure of ramshackle
folk thrown in, The Brutes deliver the goods with one of the most exciting live sets this side of the
Atlantic.

“..Tom Verlaine and Jonathan Richman gone rockabilly..” – Clash Magazine

Starting out with a residency at London’s infamous The Hawley Arms, The Brutes put out their first
two singles on the pub’s label Bumpman. After a year of relentless touring and widespread acclaim
from radio men like Steve Lamacq and Zane Lowe, the Brutes decided to record their debut album
in front of a live audience at The Roundhouse in Camden. It received a host of 5 star reviews from
Clash, Artrocker , BBC and Drowned in Sound amongst others.

The Brutes recently recorded their second album in a freezing hall in the Lake District. The album
‘How the Caged Bird Sings’ will be released very soon and singles ‘Could This Be Love’,
‘Heaven’ and ‘Birdman’ have already received extensive radio including a live session for Marc
Riley on 6music, single of the week on Kerrang Radio and Ar tist in Residence on XFM.

Live, the band are brimming with energy and replete with confidence built on an impressive gigging
schedule, they strut, stutter and howl their way through their live sets. They have toured with Martha
Wainwright, Rumble Strips, Ida Maria and even a trip to the seaside with Peggy Sue and The Pirates
as well as numerous headline UK and European shows.

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Agent – Colin Keenan

The Neat “Unquestionably, they’re the finest new guitar band we’ve seen in an age!” says The Fly and they are not wrong, after a busy year supporting Warpaint and The Young Knives The Neat are a not only fresh and hip but they are a tour de force live due to an abundance of wild yet controlled energy. Praise has come from high places as these BBC 6 darlings were joint winners with the Mercury prize winners the xx on Steve Lamacq’s ‘Roundtable Music Of The Year’ and have gained single of the month twice by Artrocker Magazine for ‘in youth is pleasure’ and there most recent single ‘Hips.’ Undoubtedly this band are on the rise so do not miss them before they are off again!

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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