Parallel Lines

Parallel Lines presents William Tyler at St Pancras Old Church on Monday 2nd September 2013

William Tyler’s 2010 debut album under his own name, Behold the Spirit, was celebrated by Pitchfork as “the most vital, energized album by an American solo guitarist in a decade or more” and established him as a critical favorite, the picker who, according to his friend and tour mate M.C. Taylor from Hiss Golden Messenger, “connects the dots between Sandy Bull, Richard Thompson, Bruce Langhorne, and Reggie Young.”

His new album, Impossible Truth, released in March of this year, was born on tour as William was reading two books: Barney Hoskyns’ Hotel California and Mike Davis’ The Ecology of Fear. Both center on the promise and psychosis of southern California, albeit from very different angles: Hoskyns tackles the naïve and narcissistic Laurel Canyon scene of the early seventies, while renowned social scientist Davis deals with the history of the destruction of Los Angeles, both in real and imagined disasters. The synchronistic tackling of these tomes inspired Tyler to compose a story rooted in apocalyptic expectation and bittersweet nostalgia. Or as Tyler puts it, this is “my ’70s singer-songwriter record; it just doesn’t have any words.”

Tickets for the show at St Pancras Old Church will go on sale on Saturday 25th May here.

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Parallel Lines presents La Femme at Sebright Arms on Wednesday 18 September 2013

La femme is a mess. A resounding expression. An episodic band with various faces. La Femme shows up and it’s all of her grimy spleen that stains the city’s grey pavement of Paris, in a synthetic rain beamed by livid burstings. 

La Femme was born in Biarritz on the French Atlantic coast, and developed and enhanced in Paris as the group grew in style and members. They released their debut album “Psycho Tropical Berlin” in April this year.

Watch La Femme classic “Sur la Planche” and more recent epic 11 minute video “Hypsoline”.

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Rock and pop, rococo-bauhaus, fed from multiple influences (Krafwerk, Elli & Jacno) La Femme just want to please you. Generous and welcoming, she stretches you her white hand in the dark, if you grasp it, it could be the shiver of your life.

Parallel Lines presents Parquet Courts at Village Underground on Monday 28 October 2013

After selling out shows at Shacklewell, Sebrights and 100 Club (can’t wait), Parquet Courts have announced an October show at Village Underground in Shoreditch, London.

If you haven’t heard it already, you should definitely be listening to their debut album, Light Up Gold.

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Parallel Lines presents Crushed Beaks at the Lexington on Thursday 19 September 2013

London duo Crushed Beaks, comprised of vocalist and guitarist Matt Poile and drummer Alex Morris, will release their debut EP on 16th September through ASL Records, with the title track streaming online.

The ‘Tropes’ EP follows last year’s single ‘Breakdown’ which found the band amazing support from the likes of BBC Radio One’s Huw Stephens, 6Music’s Tom Ravenscroft and Marc Riley, NME Radar and many more. Featuring four brand new tracks and proving a brash step forward in the band’s ever-growing canon, ‘Tropes’ sets a new benchmark for Crushed Beaks inimitable, blood-pumping sound.

Crushed Beaks and ASL Records will celebrate the release of the Tropes EP with a headline show at The Lexington in London on 19th September.

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Parallel Lines presents Vlks at Sebright Arms on Thursday 26 September 2013

Described by the Guardian as an indie chamber pop group, with a neat line in elegiac melodrama and camply overblown lyrics with the accent on narcissistic melancholia…

Vlks will bring their “quality indie gloom” to the Sebright Arms for a one-off show on Thursday 26 September.

Listen to their track “Days of Bees” and more here.

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Parallel Lines presents The Amazing Snakeheads at Sebright Arms on Monday 20th May 2013

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Parallel Lines presents Loved Ones at Sebright Arms on Tuesday 25 June 2013

Loved Ones have announced the release of their debut album, The Merry Monarch,which will be released through Liverpool based record label Baltic Sub on Monday June 24th 2013. 

Back in 2011 Fierce Panda released Are You Hiding Out In Hell? (hailed by the NME as ‘dubby psyche brilliance’) the first results of a collaboration between Wirral musicians Nik Glover and Rich Hurst under the name of Loved Ones. 

Early shows with Liars and Django Django marked the band as ones to watch in a developing Merseyside scene, reflected by the award of a new local music prize, the Get Into This Award, dubbed by the national press as the ‘Scouse Mercury Prize’.

A year of writing and recording sessions followed and their ranks were swelled by the arrival of Jay Freeman on bass and multi-instrumentalist Ben Shooter. The first single from the album, Weekends Are Ours, was released in November 2012 on Witchfinder Records.

Listen to Loved Ones here and follow them on Facebook

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