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News Baltic Fleet Triumph At The GITs After months of build up and an evening of Liverpool music glitz and razzmatazz, BALTIC FLEET were bestowed with the title of GIT Award winners for 2013. Scooping a cool £1000 first prize will be welcome indeed, but probably even more treasured will be their performance slot at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival, which comes with the award this year. In addition, prodigious young talent TYLER MENSAH scooped the People’s Choice Award, voted for by Liverpool’s music loving public. For a full photo gallery from the awards evening at Leaf, pop along to bidolito.co.uk Psych For Sore Eyes The first wave of announcements for the second LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA has been unveiled for September’s happenings at the UK’s largest celebration of psychedelic sub-culture, housed at Camp And Furnace. This year’s festival will host Trouble In Mind Records’ FUZZ (pictured), Liverpool’s own masked rapscallions CLINIC, New York City’s PSYCHIC ILLS, and Chilean space cadets THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE. Make sure you lovely folks get down there – at a cool £30, and with more kaleidoscopic merriment to come, you’ll go out of your mind if you miss it, and off your barnet if you don’t. liverpoolpsychfest.com The Art of Relaxation New Liverpool-based NuNorthern Soul must be walking on air at the minute as, after the rip-roaring success of BJ Smith’s Dedication To The Greats, comes the latest EP from RAGZ NORDSET. After supporting the likes of Laura Marling, her new EP Sleepdancing fits neatly into the label’s ethos (“quality music suited to the art of relaxation”). It also marks a change in emphasis for the beguiling chanteuse, with an electronic direction making the already ethereal troubadour’s voice sound positively ghostly. There are also remixes aplenty on the horizon from the likes of BJ Smith and Capac. For more info go to nunorthernsoul.co.uk Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival The award winning LIVERPOOL ARABIC ARTS FESTIVAL returns for a 12th year, with some intriguing musical highlights. Born in Damascus to Syrian-Armenian parents, songwriter LENA CHAMAMYAN (pictured) is hugely successful in the Middle East. Her work harmonises old and new, creating a wonderful blend of medieval and renaissance Arab music. Born in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon, KATIBE 5 are one of the Middle East’s most dynamic hip hop bands. Growing up with civil war and facing discrimination has had a huge influence on Katibe 5’s music, which tells the story of how they rose above poverty and prejudice. For listings and details visit arabartsfestival.com Music To Drink By It’s no secret that our second love here at Bido Lito! is proper beer. Not the mass produced, nasty chemically stuff, but the lovingly brewed, independent craft beers that populate the taps and fridges of our favourite hangouts. We’re suitably giddy to announce therefore that we will be curating the music programme at this year’s inaugural LIVERPOOL CRAFT BEER EXPO, from 14th- 16th June. Expect an eclectic array of live performances and DJ adventures, all presented within the surroundings of the Expo’s Beer Barrel Musical Bunker. As ever with alcoholic audio indulgence, please listen responsibly. liverpoolcraftbeerexpo.com Bido Lito! Dansette Our pick of this month’s Sound City wax wonders… Mount Kimbie Blood And Form WARP Ambient dubstep pioneers MOUNT KIMBIE’s new single Blood And Form, from their highly anticipated second album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, is chock-a-block with their trademark dusty sound and spectral imagery which evokes lazy summer nights. Even the primitiveness of the damped drums doesn’t deter this track from being a tantalising hors d’oeuvre to the full album. Savages Silence Yourself MATADOR/POP NOIRE From the opening sample of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night right through to the daringly delicious sax on closer Marshal Dear, Silence Yourself will have you pinned to your seat in sheer awe. As faultless a debut as we could have hoped for, SAVAGES come good on their manifesto that their “music and words are aiming to strike like lightning, like a punch in the face”. Jaw-dropping. Wolf People Fain JAGJAGUWAR Liverpool Calling COMPETITION! Gig Guide and Ticket Shop live at www.bidolito.co.uk Here comes another festival for our fine city (they seem to be multiplying!) as LIVERPOOL CALLING launches in June across two venues: St Luke’s (Bombed Out Church) and the Shipping Forecast. Some of Liverpool’s finest up and coming bands will take part, including Oxygen Thieves, fresh from their debut single release, and the recently Bill Ryder-Jones produced Death Masks in one neat little package. But, it gets even better yet...with the awesome BRITISH SEA POWER (pictured), in support of stellar new LP Machineries Of Joy, returning to the city to headline. Tickets are available from bidolito.co.uk On third LP Fain, WOLF PEOPLE continue to meld classic British rock, blues and traditional Celtic folk in such a visceral way that you can’t help but think that their balls-out fuzz rock is peeling the skin off your face like a blowtorch. Hints of Dungen and Trees infuse the mix throughout, as expertly witnessed on the track All Returns. Baltic Fleet The Wilds THE UNSIGNED GUIDE, ever the emerging musicians’ bible, is ten whole years old this year. That’s ten years of helping grassroots artists, music students and new independent businesses in the digital era. With almost invaluable 9000 contacts from across the music BLOW UP RECORDS biz, from PR companies to publishers, gig promoters to radio stations, and much more, it has proved invaluable in many early careers. BALTIC FLEET’s Paul Fleming is back once And the cherry on the cake? Each month five bands get their songs selected for the Spotlight blog to help their music get heard. For immediate again to release: take you on a journey in to To celebrate this landmark achievement, Bido Lito! have two 12-month subscriptions to the Unsigned Guide to give away. All you The Unsigned the hinterlands Guide of his soul celebrates with this EP. 10 yea chaps and chapettes need to do to be in with a chance of winning is answer the question: Frosklia builds on the relentless, motorik with special offers for bands & artists pulses of The Wilds and feeds them Which Mancunian legend has set up a scholarship and bursary for SSR’s Audio Engineering Techniques & Technology courses in London and Manchester? through an eerie prism of mystery, while a) Bernard Sumner b) Ian Brown c) Johnny Marr “The Unsigned Guide is better than Disinclusion a foot in the sounds door, like it blows it would the door be off a its hinge Tony Wilson, Factory Records co-founder sure-fire dancefloor filler in Kraftwerk’s To enter, e-mail your answer to competition@bidolito.co.uk by 9th May... good luck folks! warped fantasy world. Since publishing their first music industry directory in 2003, The Unsigned Guide has become an essential res for aspiring bands & artists, producers in the making, music students, plus new record labels, promoters star and anyone else working towards a career in the music business. Celebrating a decade in the music industry this March, The Unsigned Guide will be marking this milestone anniversary by doing what they do best – helping independent bands and artists. Throughout the whole of M anyone signing up to The Unsigned Guide’s service will receive an extra birthday bonus in the form of a bund money-saving discounts for a variety of music services vital for any band or artist, featuring exclusive deals fr Ditto Music, UK Music Jobs, Dawsons Music, Castle Rock Studios, Awesome Merchandise, Media Plant and
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