How charming! You can watch the real thing by Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains here...

Eugene McGuinness plays White Heat on 7th February 2012 - keep up to date with our forthcoming gigs via the PLAY category to the right of this page.

Teenage Fanclub (Domino Publishing) singer, songwriter and bassist, Gerard Love releases a new album on 2nd April 2012 under the moniker 'Lightships'. Love has also collaborated with Domino's own The Pastels (Geographic/Domino Publishing).   

Deciding that the key to the sound of the record would be tremolo, delay and flute, Glasgow-based friends were brought together to play on the record: Dave McGowan (guitar, Teenage Fanclub), Brendan O'Hare(drums, from the first incarnation of Teenage Fanclub), Tom Crossley (flute,International Airport and The Pastels) and Bob Kildea (bass, Belle & Sebastian).

Electric Cables is an album of tender, observational songs, played with an invigorating and easy sense of purpose; the sound of friends enjoying one another’s company and allowing ideas and experiments to flourish.   

Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains 'Les Plus Beaux' (currently playlisted at 6 Music) filmed by Edward DeVere, WATCH IT HERE.

Click HERE for a video of Francois performing a live version of album track, Slow Love, in the band’s rehearsalspace inSaintes,France.

UPCOMING UK LIVE DATES:

22/01: Glasgow - Oran Mor (Celtic Connections)

25/01: London- Slaughtered Lamb (release party) – SOLD OUT

26/01:Brighton- Green Door Store (Vive la France Festival) – free

27/01: Bristol- Motocycle Showroom (+ acoustic session at Rise in the afternoon)

28/01: Gateshead- The Sage Gateshead (Hall Two)

29/01: Manchester– The Castle Hotel

30/01: Liverpool– Leaf on Bold Street

31/01: Preston– The Continental

01/02: Reading– South Street Arts Centre  

02/02: London- Shepherds Bush Empire (supportingKing Creosote &Jon Hopkins)

03/02: London– Barfly (HMV Next Big Thing)

To celebrate 10 amazing years with the release of the beautiful new single ‘The Last Goodbye’, The Kills premiere the video for the track today with The Nowness, see here www.nowness.com.  Directed by the Oscar nominated actress Samantha Morton shot in monochrome on crisp, silvery 35mm:

I love the fact that when you used to go to a photo booth, you used to have wait sometimes a good twenty minutes. It could be 8 minutes, 9 minutes. Sometimes, I remember, if they were really crap, you'd have to wait forever and you'd go off for a cup of tea and you'd come back to get your passport pictures and they were there. Also, it was quite expensive when we were young. It was like a real treat but now, it's still expensive but you just get these crap images of yourself. They're just horrible and they won't last in the same way. So in a way a think the song was incredibly nostalgic and I think made me feel nostalgic. (Samantha Morton)

'Pigs' directed by Black Dice | Mp3: http://soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/black-dice-pigs/

RibbonMusicispleasedto announce the new full-length album from BlackDice 'Mr. Impossible', to be released on April 9th 2012. 

For over fifteen years, the New York based trio of Eric Copeland, Bjorn Copeland and Aaron Warren have released on various iconic labels (Gravity, 31g,Troubleman, dfa, Paw Tracks) leaving a trail of music from raw brutal thrash to inside-out pop anthems. Using videos, live projections, and printed ephemera, the band has developed an over the top psychoactive audio-visual aesthetic that twists the useless pop sights and sounds we are bombarded with into infectious new strains of music and imagery that ooze a rock and roll spirit. Mr. Impossible is the band’s sixth full length, and their first release on Ribbon Music - an irreverent, aggressive, hand-made aesthetic that simultaneously revels in and reconfigures the whole of popular culture.

A special versionof 'Mr. Impossible' has been hand-numbered and individually screenprinted personally by the band, this edition is limited to 350 copies.

[Hand painted watercolour animation for 'Be Water (Je Suis De L'eau)' from the album 'Plaine Inondable' by Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains.]

Fránçois Marry of Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains dropped us a line to let us know that 'ROYAN' and 'SO MANY NOS'
had been used in Skins series 4 and that he'd made a couple of animations himself. Which led to an afternoon spent gawping in awe over his creations up on YouTube. As well as 'Be Water (Je Suis De L'eau)' (featured above) Fránçois handpainted 'Hold On Twice' from the album Brother. Another remarkable Fránçois related film is a video of John Lee Bird painting Fránçois. Fránçois also made a stop frame animation which was shortlisted for the Bristol Depict short film festival in 2005 - an extract of which can be found on YouTube. 

Other videos made for his songs can be gawped at on his website here.