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James Murphy

hot chip 2019
touring 

Hot Chip ready for the floor again with new album and tour

August 21, 2019September 7, 2019 Andrew Gutteridge 2 Bears, About Group, All Points East, Bluedot, Cassius, EMI, Glastonbury Festival, Greco-Roman, James Murphy, Jon Coxon, LCD Soundsystem, Mercury Music Prize, Moshi Moshi Records, O2 Institute, Philippe Zdar, Phoenix, Raf Randell, Rodaidh McDonald, Saman Kesh, Spiritualized, The XX

In June, the London based five-piece released their critically acclaimed seventh studio album, ‘A Bathfull of Ecstasy’ which NME described as ‘a celebration of life in full technicolour’.

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releases 

Hoopla Blue’s ‘Fire Alarm’ is a delightfully weird outing for the cult Brummies

November 5, 2018November 6, 2018 Luke Charnley Birmingham, Fire Alarm, Hoopla Blue, James Murphy, single, Slug, Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam

Hoopla Blue deal up a slice of electro-funk that marks them out as one of Birmingham’s most unique young acts

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  • Editors, Happy Mondays & Friendly Fires to play new Wolverhampton festival October 16, 2020
  • Dorcha talk app design, the fifth dimension and new single, Last Minute October 15, 2020
  • Film review: The good lord offers little salvation in the horrific Saint Maud October 12, 2020
  • Interview: Bryony Williams discusses the ‘State I’m In’ October 12, 2020
  • Feature: Are the Cineworld closures the end of cinema as we know it? October 8, 2020
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  • Film review: Tenet dresses lean spycraft up with a messy cerebral flourish September 3, 2020
  • Birmingham anti-pop quartet Y!KES discuss the release of their new single and forthcoming EP August 18, 2020
  • How creative association Lock Down Brum has kept the community connected August 7, 2020
  • Review: Mike Skinner’s The Streets provide a glimmer of hope with ticketed live stream gig August 7, 2020
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  • Feature: The morality of screenwriting your trauma in I May Destroy You August 1, 2020
  • 10 tracks that got us through the coronavirus lockdown July 25, 2020
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