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Fresh Juice 17th November 2025
The Wave Pictures – Alice As ever the news of a forthcoming Wave Pictures album is gladly received here at Fruit Tree Records. This newly available song is teasing us ahead of a Bella Union album due for release in late February 2026 called ‘Gained / Lost’. It is a classic sounding rocker with that… Read more
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Tiger Lillies – Wilton’s Music Hall, London 1st November 2025
Just as the extremities of freezing cold can feel like burning, so too when a musical act plummets the depths of death, drugs, doom and despair so thoroughly they uncover light, irony, absurdity and humour, albeit of the gallows variety. The Tiger Lillies delight in the underbellies of life, they dig a pathway to empathy… Read more
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Fresh Juice 10th November 2025
Big Thief – Grandmother Taken from the bands sixth studio album ‘Double Infinity’, the now three piece Big Thief are seen here with a recent live TV performance of one of the stand out tracks from the album. It is the first song in the bands catalogue to feature a co-writing credit for all three… Read more
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Scott Lavene – Cambridge Portland Arms 29th October 2025
Scott Lavene is a modern-day Essex likely lad, a unique music vessel and a stylish composite of Mod, Two-Tone ska boy with a hint of Where’s Wally. He is an individualistic UK voice who belongs somewhere in the Ray Davies, Steve Marriott, Billy Bragg, Ian & Baxter Dury lineage. Singing cartoon snapshots of his storied… Read more
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Fresh Juice 3rd November 2025
Josienne Clarke – What Do I Do? Josienne’s latest album ‘Far From Nowhere’ is a record created and recorded in the isolation of a remote Scottish cabin. Deliberately lo-fi and intimate, it is a fine piece of work that sits together well as a suite of songs wrestling with questions, anxieties and motions that play-out… Read more
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November 2025 Playlist
The cover star for this playlist is Scott Lavene, whose show at the Portland Arms in Cambridge last week will be reviewed on this site later this week. A lot of my time this past month has been spent diving into music documentaries and cinematic biopics. For my documentary fix I watched the whole of… Read more
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