🗞️ 5 YEARS OF LOBSTER THEREMIN EUROPEAN TOUR

London label Lobster Theremin is celebrating five years of existence by embarking on an extensive European tour. Beginning yesterday in at Bristol venue Marble Factory, the tour will see label head Jimmy Asquith and co. travel from the UK to Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, then Germany again before finishing up in France.

Travelling with Asquith for most dates is nthng and Route 8; Budapest club PAL resident Bobbie* will be at the most important shows. Otherwise the tour is a line-up in constant flux for every date. One of our Lobster Theremin favourites, for instance, Spanish maestro of decayed house DJ Seinfeld will be found at Berlin's Griessmuehle in mid-March.

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☖ CHECK OUT OUR ANALYSIS OF DJ SEINFELD'S
INCREDIBLE TRACK 'TIME SPENT AWAY FROM U' ☖

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Around the time of the label's actual 5th birthday a bunch of special releases commemorating the half-decade milestone will be announced in early spring. For now let's enjoy the sparkling preview of upcoming release Diamond Dust by London newcomer SONIKKU, part of the label's offshoot ambient and experimental Lobster Sleep Sequence series.

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5 YEARS OF LOBSTER THEREMIN EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
20. 01 Marble Factory, Bristol
02. 02 Corsica Studios, London
09. 02 Blitz, Munich
10. 02 Smolna, Warsaw
16. 02 PAL, Hamburg
17. 02 Robert Johnson, Offenbach
02. 03 Shelter, Amsterdam
03. 03 LARM, Budapest
16. 03 Gewölbe, Cologne
17. 03 Griessmuehle, Berlin
24. 03 Concrete, Paris
25. 03 Le Sucre, Lyon

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THE ORWELLS DIRTY SHEETS

Oh The Orwells. The Orwells The Orwells The Orwells. Say it 3x whilst facing a (specifically) bathroom mirror at 3am and see what happens. Well, not to ruin the surprise - cause you WILL be surprised - but what happens is the band fall through your mirror and start trashing the place. So unless you wanna trash stuff with them, I'd recommend quelling your desire to summon The Orwells into your bathroom. But The Orwells are not just things to be summoned through your mirror. They got shit to do as well. They can't be everywhere at once.

And nowadays they're especially busy. Since I first heard about them courtesy of the UK's own Parma Violets, they've been getting busier and busier. They released two EPs this year, the latter release being the Who Needs You EP which includes the eponymous hit single itself. They were even kind enough to have an interview with me. But I expect they're gonna get a whole lot busier; they've recently signed to Atlantic Records and will be releasing a new single on 13th January 2014. That's this song, 'Dirty Sheets'.

Cutting in abruptly with wailing screeches of lead guitar, it's a big sound from the offset. The drums crash cataclysmically, sounding gloriously raw in their swinging rhythm, followed by stabs of guitar chords in the verse. Rough vocals with a rippling echo start with the line: "From the East Coast to the West, we ain't the worst, we ain't the best" - A pre-emptive reply to any detractors, yet at the same time, wonderfully grand with a self-deprecating slur of mediocrity tacked onto it. The drawl of the vocals paint a definitively gritty picture of punk romance. There is a hint of glam to this, perhaps in the theatrical dynamics of the song, or maybe I'm mistaking it for the rockabilly judder of the drums and that general wiggle-to-this vibe. It's a going-places song. If you know what I mean, cool; if you don't, well, sorry.

So that's 'Dirty Sheets' for you. I expect that this means another full length album from The Orwells next year, too; in any case they've announced some UK tour dates for February 2014. I heartily recommend seeing them live if you can, cause, well, it's a crazy show - I can confirm that the energy levels are through the roof.

In other news, you can now download their Other Voices EP for free from their official site.

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CYRIL HAHN SUMMER TOUR DATES 2013

That's right. Cyril Hahn's on tour, wooooeee am I happy about this.

I've been badgering on about this guy for a while now, and what more can I say? His remixes are sublime tokens of awesome inescapable ambient chill pop atmosphere, dripping honey and ice cubes into overflowing cocktails of energetic bliss... bit OTT? Nah never. He really is really good. Really.

You could probably buy tickets from here (and by that I mean clicking anywhere in this sentence because sometimes one can miss a word oh yes).

Psssst. Psssst. PSSSSST! There are more dates to be announced (sorry acronym fans).