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Oceansize - Catalyst 

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Album Review: Vennart - In The Dead, Dead Wood

Album Review: Vennart – In The Dead, Dead Wood

Words: Ben Forrester

After unleashing the seething glitch-rock punch of single ‘Dick Privilege‘ earlier this year, we had hoped that more new material from songwriter/guitar hero Mike Vennart was on the way. Thankfully (at the time we need it most), Vennarthas sprung upon us the extremely welcome release of his third solo full-length. Though rooted in the progressive flamboyance that shot his…

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Charlie Barnes & Steve Durose play ‘Let It Be Me’ by The Everly Brothers

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Album Review: To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea by Vennart

Album Review: To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea by @Vennart

Vennart release their new album To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea’on 14th September via Medium Format. The brainchild of former Oceansize and British Theatre front man and current Biffy Clyro live guitarist Mike Vennart the album is a varied and ambitious slab of alt rock going from pop rock to prog rock and everything in between. The record was produced by Mike Vennart and Steve Durose, once…

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Steve Durose my beloved

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Charlie Barnes: Wasn't it a good year?  As 2017 stumbles towards its grand finale (hopefully not a TV show president incited nuclear warhead bringing us all to total annihilation, but rather a couple of delicious premium stouts over Jools' Hootenanny), I'm busily putting together all of the bits and pieces that make up the formal submission of my recently (finally) completed follow up to MORE STATELY MANSIONS. Not least of which is the final album master that dropped into my inbox yesterday evening. Biased as this view may be, I think it sounds fucking amazing. Big love to the masterful Steve Durose for steering it all to the finish line with absolute finesse. I don't want to go on about it too much just now, so all I'll say is that this collection of songs marks, for me, a serious level up in songwriting, coupled with a slight (only slight) sidestep in style. I'm also keen to point out to anyone who'll listen that track 5 is, I'm fairly sure, my fucking MASTERPIECE. (You'll probably hate it...) As with the preceding couple of years, I've had an absolute hoot clinging onto the coat-tails of Bastille as they've traversed the world in aid of their (absolutely fucking amazing) Wild World album. I spent just over TWO MONTHS of this year in the USA; both trips were heaps of fun. I visited NASA, saw Mount Rushmore, white-water rafted in Idaho, and fell ever more head over heels in love with the Pacific Northwest, amongst a million other things I can't remember without trawling through Tom Middleton's beautiful tour diary videos. Maybe I'll watch all of those after writing this and have a big cry or something. Speaking of having a big cry, the highlight of this year's touring was, without a doubt, playing at the Zenith in Paris with my Dad in the audience. I spent hour after hour in the living room when I was 13 or 14 playing along to Muse's Hullabaloo VHS tape on my guitar, copying all of Matt Bellamy's big, flashy rockstar moves, dreaming that one day I too might get to jump around that stage playing a guitar that doesn't always sound that much like a guitar. It was fucking incredible. Other highlights this year include: meeting Fred Armisen, seeing Jimmy Eat World play 'Hear You Me' and having a big cry in a field, seeing Local Natives twice in a week at Coachella, finally discovering the joy of Marmite on a train in Russia (thanks Dick, brekkers will never be the same again), that great ravioli place we found in Turin, and singing THAT Aerosmith song on Radio 2 for Dermot O'Leary. At the start of this year I didn't really know what I thought about 'Charlie Barnes' any more. I couldn't really see how the next album was going to shape up, and was feeling sort of despondent about the whole thing. I needed to do something else to take the pressure off it a bit. So, in addition to making the heaviest thing I've ever made in a new project called County Champion (which I'm pretty sure you all missed...check out @StagePresenceVR and do some digging), I started a new band with my good friend Ben Wall called The Society Pages. We've written about 16 songs this year, a few of which are out and about to be found online. It's been such a breath of fresh air writing in a completely different way to how I normally would. It also gave me the space to write a few sneering songs that were directed straight at that whining miserable shitsack Charlie Barnes, who was finding getting his next album done such a giant woe-is-he struggle. We'll be releasing more music soon, and hopefully we'll find the time to play some more live shows; the ones we've done this year have been spectacularly fun for us. Anyway, I'd better get back to collating all of the bits and pieces for that album I shan't be shutting up about for the next year or two, and start sorting out some live shows to celebrate the thing. If there's anywhere in particular that you'd like me to swing by with my SHINY NEW LIVE SHOW, let me know in the comments and I'll pass it on to the powers that be. Merry Christmas, don't forget to watch 'It's a Wonderful Life'. CB xx Snap by Two Evils Coffee co-founder Bryan Warner. Love ya buddy

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AcrylicsWorks 5 Competition Winners Announced

Congratulations to the 110 artists selected for North Light Books’ 2017 acrylics competition AcrylicWorks 5: Bold Values! If you see your name below, please check your email for instructions on next steps. You will receive an email from us with the subject line “AcrylicWorks 5 Winner Notification.”

    First Name Last Name Title Côtyne Martine Côté A mother Nature’s succession (Une relève pour dame nature) Christine Alfery Falling Waters Christine Alfery The General Sherman Tree – Sequoia National Park Cher Anderson Fancy Feathers Scott Anthony Sonoma Coast Bloom Scott Anthony Tomales Barn Angela Bandurka Pouring Peppermint Chantel Barber Rising Above RICHARD BELANGER The Observer Gabhan Berry Looking Back BIJAY BISWAAL GREY RAINBOW Darien Bogart Keep Moving Forward Henry Bosak Fleeting Beauty Kim Brandon-Watson Bogie-Jumping(tryptic) Susan Brandsema Wednesday Morning William Brody Blue Sunday David Caesar Sharleen – Arctic World Construction Scene #3 Laara Cassells “Jessica Ford and Lucrezia Panciatichi (after Agnolo Bronzino)” Paul Chapman The Nature of Light: Ice Blue JACYNTHE COMEAU Remnants Jean Cormier The Gillie Ray-Mel Cornelius Fourplex Laura Crabtree Hollenbeck Gene: Portrait of an Artist Ron Craig Ron_Craig_Shop 11 Shipfitters Lynne Cunningham City Looks Pretty to Me Elaine Daily-Birnbaum To the Very Edge shi dong Nostalgia Edward DuRose Crossing the Bitterroot Edward DuRose Teton Sunset Nancy Eckels Autumn Whirl Pamela Edevold Emeralds Pamela Edevold Heart In His Hands Marney-Rose Edge Unknown wayne edwards Sunrise, Coles Beach Tasmania Shannon Fannin 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Debilynn Fendley Ghost Rider Ellen Fuller Wood 1 Lynn Garwood Leaving Lynn Garwood The Magic Shell Shelley Gentry Windows to the Soul – Chimpanzee Nancy Haley You Go Girl Ray Hassard Morning after the Snowstorm Jennifer Heine Steves’ Den Kenneth Hershenson Jack of Diamonds Kathy Hildebrandt More Reasons I Was Tardy Randy Honerlah Emergence Peggie Hunnicutt Kitchen Table Dalliance Michelle Iglesias Tight Rope Walker John Jaster Lady in the Mask Jean Sbarra Jones Orange dress, beach, rocks Jean Kalin Innocence Valentin Katrandzhiev Caressed by the Sun Kitty Kelly Iris – Messenger of the Gods Kitty Kelly Teacher’s Pet Diane Kline 24 Karate Gold Bob Kling “Early Morning Floral Leaves” Bob Kling A Pasture Landing Katie Koenig Baseball and Peanuts Aili Kurtis Effervescence Deborah Leonard Crystal Blue Persuasion TaiMeng Lim Blessed Presence Ober-Rae Starr Livingstone Speaking Softly Diana Madaras Girl on the Couch Marissa Madonna Hair Piece Yael Maimon Storm Angela Martinez Maze of Straws Jim Martinez Utility Pole Darice Machel McGuire Honu At Rest Catherine McMillan Nassau Street Vickie McMillan Nose to the Ground Vickie McMillan Rivalry Thomas Mewborn Cloud Clipper 1 Lilianne Milgrom Le Rouge et le Noir Thyra Moore A Posh Event Andrew Morrison Chinatown Kaleidoscope Andrew Morrison Soirée alla Prima Timothy Mulligan Sacramento River #3 Timothy Mulligan West Coast Pier Geoff Musseau Yes Buoy Mike Nagatani A grand downtown Mari O’BRIEN “Flame Dancer” Kari OConnell Between Two Worlds Sandrine Pelissier Slice of Life- Sisters Bob Petillo Sedona Anne Peyton Stepping Out Anne Peyton The Boys Tony Podue Philippe’s BRENDA POLLREISZ MORNING PATROL BRENDA POLLREISZ SILENT WATCH Nancy Polsky Japanese Alley Tricia Poulos Leonard Discovering a Hole in the Universe Christina Ramos The Critic Christina Ramos The Lookout Scott Ramsay Mellow Yellow #1 Kathryn Repas Nora April Rimpo Lanterns April Rimpo Movement Linda Rossin Big Sky Country Linda Rossin Spring Celebration John Schaeffer Ruby Veronica Schmitt Bike Squad Fred Schollmeyer Frozen Ford Fairlane Dan Simoneau Who’s Next (#whosnext) Jerry Smith Harbor Alliance Carol Staub Desert Plateau Robert Stebleton Florida Gators Peggy Steffens Driving Desire Robert Sweeny las ventanas de san miguel #2 Robert Sweeny oaxaca series #5 Jessica Tookey Be Free Lorraine Ulen Storm Watch Randy Van Dyck Bird Watch Michael Wagner Bill Pat Wagner Distant Gaze Michael Wagner Floppy Hat Marty Walker Alliance Bakery Jingyi Wang Artificial nature Henry Washington All About Line Akiko Watanabe Golden Light Lynn Welker Beneath Iron Mountain David Wicks Blues and Boats Steve Wilda Final Catch Robert Winfree Family of Musk Ox Dale Wolf Evening Snowfall in England Yelena York Butterfly Effect Marsha Zavez Blue Moon Katia Zhukova Frances (PORTRAIT SERIES #5)

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Oceansize, I Am The Morning

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Charlie Barnes: In the latest installment of my track by track interview I discuss The Departure, and the excitment at hearing an early demo from my producer, Steve Durose.

Oceanography is out TOMORROW! Get the album here: https://charliebarnes.lnk.to/Oceanography

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Operate by Mike Vennart Listen/purchase: Operate by Mike Vennart

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A couple of weeks ago I posted a photo of Steve Durose and now people have started to reblog it, thinking it's Chris Wolstenholme...

Oh Tumblr, please never change!

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Oceansize - One Day All This Could Be Yours

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Oceansize, I Am The Morning