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ake room in your Christmas diary, Dork’s teaming up with Leeds promoters Pizza For The People for their annual Christmas Indie Banquet. The gig will take place at Wharf Chambers in Leeds on Saturday 15th December, with five top new bands and some mouth-watering grub from local vegan fried chicken pop up, VFC. Playing are Fat White Family offshoot Warmduscher, South London quintet Hotel Lux, Hull up-andcomers Lumer, and super newbies Wilted and Polevaulter. We tackled Warmduscher’s Lightnin’ Jack Everett to find out more about his band. Hey Lightnin’ Jack Everett, you guys have just got back off tour haven’t you, how did it go? It looks like you’ve been all over the place this summer?
It went really well, everyone’s still speaking to each other, and no one
got bottled. We’ve been to a few festivals in Europe and the UK and done two UK tours. We’re going to SXSW next year and possibly more, but it’s a secret. We just want to experience as many time zones as we can and sample the tap water in bars all over the world.
How are you all feeling following the release of your second album, happy with how it’s been received? Has everything gone to plan?
I can’t speak for everyone, but I think it’s gone pretty well. Everything is going to plan, we’ve already started on the next one.
What’s your favourite thing about the record, have your feelings towards it changed since you finished it?
The recording process, that was a lot of fun. It was great working with Dan Carey and his style of recording/producing worked really well with us, so we’re gonna work with him again in the future. It’s one of the only albums that I can listen to without getting bored
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after a few repeats, so that probably counts for something.
You guys are playing Pizza To The People’s Indie Banquet this December, if Warmduscher were a pizza, what would your toppings be?
LIVE AT LEEDS returns in 2019 for another day of top bands, and the first few names are out. The spring all-dayer will host headline sets from Sundara Karma, Metronomy and Tom Grennan, alongside the likes of Swim Deep, Dream Wife, Black Honey, Sports Team, Goat Girl, Gengahr, Marsicans, Easy Life, Gently Tender, Thyla, Another Sky, Swimming Girls, Fuzzy Sun, Zuzu, Saltwater Sun, Heavy Lungs, Squid and more. The main event takes place on 4th May at various venues across Leeds.
Fentanyl, sand and a little bit of PCP.
What’s the best thing about a Warmduscher live show?
The tantric release. A lot of people come up to me afterwards with a renewed sense of well-being and enhanced virility. Some have compared our live shows to an audience with the Bhagwan.
What else do you have coming up?
The new album will be ready in the near future; apart from that, many, many exciting secrets, shows and surprises. My lawyer has advised me to make no further comments.
P For more info, visit pizzaforthepeople.co.uk.
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PANDA BEAR has announced his new album ‘Buoys’. The record marks Noah Lennox’s sixth solo album and is out on 8th February, preceded by lead single ‘Dolphin’. “The last three records felt like a chapter to me, and this feels like the beginning of something new,” he explains of the release. ‘Buoys’ was co-produced and comixed by collaborator Rusty Santos in Lennox’s adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal.
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THE CELLAR in Oxford - a favourite of local bands like Foals, pictured - is once again under threat of closure. Having narrowly avoided redevelopment this time last year, it now needs to raise funds for renovations necessary to comply with new fire regulations. “Sadly, with the extent of the renovations we’ve been asked to make, we simply don’t have the money to pay for them,” explains venue manager Tim Hopkins. “Which is why we’re calling on people power again with this crowdfunding campaign. As well as our own passion to keep going, we owe it to all our amazing supporters to give this one last try.”