The Coral's Ian Skelly releases debut album Dec 10th

British singer / songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Ian Skelly releases his debut album, Cut From A Star through Watertown Records on Monday December 10th 2012.

This is Skelly’s first solo long player having previously drummed for The Coral for over a decade. The self produce 11-track album, inspired by a dream / hallucination Skelly had while suffering with a severe fever in 2009, was recorded over the last couple of years at The Coral’s rehearsal space, The Coral Caves, on the Wirral using a vintage Tascam tape cassette machine. The music combines influences from the spiritual side of psychedelia and emulates the techniques of 60′s and 70′s recording.

It includes appearances by James Skelly featured playing bass on ‘Cut from A Star’, Paul Duffy and Nick Power feature throughout the whole album contributing bass and keyboard parts. The album also includes Sundowners on backing vocals and guitar and bass for the song ‘I See You’.

Lee Southall plays lead guitar on the track ‘Time’. Bob Pickin is on double bass and harmonica for the tracks ‘DNA’ and ‘Cut From A Star’ and Miles Kane is on guitar for the end track ‘It’s Only Love’. All sessions were hands on recorded by Ian Skelly.

http://www.facebook.com/IanSkellyMusic

GIT awards 2012 - The review

GIT awards 2012 in Liverpool

Last night saw the first GIT awards. The Get Into This Award, named after a music blog run by writer Peter Guy, was set up to celebrate the new and emerging talent in Liverpool and has been dubbed the "Scouse Mercury" after the Mercury Music Prize.

As proponents of new talent, MusicMafia were proud to attend this event, and what an event it was.Bringing together the best of the new talent and the cream of publicists,music bloggers, promoters and general music folk  under one roof for what turned out to be a great celebration of Liverpool's emerging artists.

The setting for this was the Leaf Cafe. The room made up of glitter balls, screens and comfy sofas for those weary feet. The whole ambiance was perfect for the awards.

With  the night being hosted by journalist and Stone Roses biographer, John Robb, each act played live to the enthusiastic crowd.Each receiving a memento of their occasion and finally leading up to the winner which was given to The Loved Ones, who also received a day's free recording time at the Sandhills Studio and will be added to the bill at next year's Liverpool Sound City and Liverpool Music Week.

Former The Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones, who was nominated for the award, gave an exclusive preview of his latest film score also.

The event as a whole was well choreographed and went more or less without a hitch. It was good to see so many great people coming together and supporting what has been one of the best events we have been to in a long time.

It's about time recognised and celebrated the wealth of talent Liverpool has to offer and I feel Peter has done this with remarkable aplomb. He has managed to bridge the gap between struggling artists and established music luminaries to bring them closer together in what is their main goal...to make an impact on the music scene here in Liverpool and further afield.

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This Feeling comes to Liverpool this March

This Feeling comes to Liverpool's The Magnet this March

This Feeling comes to Liverpool...

The Magnet Liverpool March 17th - The Coral (DJ), Janice Graham Band (live), SULK (live), The Sundowners (live). The Wicked Whispers (acoustic - live)

‘London’s most rock ‘n’ roll night out’ and ‘where to see future next big things in advance’ The Evening Standard

"Like a mad 60's carnival" Serge Pizzorno "A colossal club night" Noel Gallagher

The infamous London club night This Feeling, a favourite with Kasabian, Noel Gallagher, Noel Fielding and many more, has been flying the flag for guitar music over the last five years, earning a richly deserved reputation as the best place in the capital to see some huge bands play intimate one of shows or bands on the cusp of greatness and is set to branch out nationwide throughout March hitting London, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Dunfermline with monthly nights set to be added in Brighton, Southampton, Birmingham and Edinburgh later in the year.

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THE CORAL will be on the decks in all six cities, cranking out their favourite floor fillers during an exclusive live DJ set whilst Manchester's JANICE GRAHAM BAND (picture attached), who've been compared to The Specials, The Happy Mondaysand The Coral, have bagged the Inspiral Carpets tour support, an XFM play-list with 2nd single "No Money Honey" (watchhere) and headline the first This Feeling UK tour are clearly a band on the rise. Their debut album "It's Not Me" drops Feb 27th, is earning rave reviews and has done close to 10,000 pre-sales.

SULK, who are earning comparisons with The Stone Roses and The Charlatans, recently released their 2nd single "Back In Bloom" (watch here) to critical acclaim winning them fans and radio play across the UK and as far afield as Japan and the USA. With a big radio friendly 3rd single and debut album due later in the year, these are their first shows outside London and look set to win the band an army of new fans.

Support across the run of dates includes relatives of The Coral, THE SUNDOWNERS, THE DRAYMIN', SELECTIVE SERVICE, DAYSTAR and WHERE'S STRUTTER?

The Vibe Bar Feb 24th - Janice Graham Band (live)

Sheffield Leadmill March 15th - The Coral (DJ), Sulk (live) and Janice Graham Band (live)

FAC251 Manchester March 16th - The Coral (DJ), Janice Graham Band (live), SULK (live), The Sundowners (live) Where's Strutter? (live)

The Magnet Liverpool March 17th - The Coral (DJ), Janice Graham Band (live), SULK (live), The Sundowners (live). The Wicked Whispers (acoustic - live)

PJ Malloy's Dunfermline March 30th - The Coral (DJ), Janice Graham Band (live), SULK (live), Selective Service (live)

Chambre 69 Glasgow March 31st - The Coral (DJ), Janice Graham Band (live), SULK (live), Selective Service (live), The Draymin (live)

Queen of Hoxton London April 14th - SULK (live), Murray James (live), Selective Service (live), Where's Strutter (live), Howard Marks (DJ)

All adv tickets, info and exclusive free downloads from all the above bands at www.thisfeeling.co.uk

The bands...

JANICE GRAHAM BAND - ‘Like the mutant offspring of The Specials and The Happy Mondays’ This Feeling

http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/49-janice-graham-band/

SULK - ‘Pretty damn catchy’ NME

http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/52-sulk/

THE SUNDOWNERS - ‘There’s something otherworldly about them, great tunes’ Music-news.com

http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/71-the-sundowners-/

DRAYMIN - ‘Nailed on hits’ Gordon Smart, Bizarre (The Sun)

http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/14-the-draymin/

SELECTIVE SERVICE - ‘Expert fusion of soul, rock and reggae, gloriously well done’ This Feeling

http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/77-selective-service/

WHERE’S STRUTTER? - ‘Pure rock and roll delirium’ NME

http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/72-wheres-strutter-/

MURRAY JAMES - ‘Soul and reggae, expertly fused, with truly unique lyrics’ This Feeling

http://www.facebook.com/murrayjamesmusic?sk=app_241142185917751