Anorak London

FLUME

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:36:45 +0000

Harley Streten – or Flume to you and me – is an Australian DJ/producer you should be listening out for right now. We’re already seeing a great response to previews of his upcoming debut release, also called Flume, out on 18^th February. Read the BBC review below, which suggests Flume is “welcome breath of creative fresh air” on the EDM scene:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/b5m5

He’s currently packing out venues across Australia – I’m afraid you’ve just missed him if you’re in Europe – and we’ll be enjoying the album for a long time to come yet.

http://flumemusic.com/

Motel Mozaique

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:59:31 +0000

We have just started working with a great festival in Rotterdam, 36 hours of music and art over the first weekend of April.

Line up announced so far includes AlunaGeorge, Sinkane, Daughter, Jah Wobble & The Modern Jazz Ensemble, Ethan Johns, Brasstronuat, Submution Orchestra, TEEN.

Plus select punters can buy tickets for cheap accommodation with a twist- remarkable locations within the city are specially designed into a real motel, where guests can enjoy a night’s rest plus breakfast. Past locations include a church, tree huts, shop windows, a construction site and the roof of a national monument. The location for this year’s Sleeping Project is Rotterdam’s renowned concert hall de Doelen.

http://www.motelmozaique.nl/en/

Teleman

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:26:00 +0000

Yesterday, saw the release of the debut single from new London three-piece Teleman.

Coinciding with the relaunch of Moshi Moshi Singles Club and produced by Bernard Butler, ‘Cristina’ and B-side ‘In Your Fur’ has attracted attention from the likes of BBC 6Music, Radio 1, Xfm, Sunday Times, The Guardian, NME, Clash, Noisey, Daily Star.

Hear ‘Cristina’: https://soundcloud.com/moshimoshimusic/teleman-cristina

You can also buy the 7” from Rough Trade http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=357744

Glitterbombed

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:27:13 +0000

Here it is, Charlotte Church’s new track, and what a glorious song it is.

Listen to it here: http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/blog/listen-charlotte-church-glitterbombed-best-fit-premiere-114914#

Don’t miss her on Jonathan Ross’s Christmas Special - ITV1, Saturday 22nd from 9pm.

The Power of Money

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:46:08 +0000

What does money mean to you?

How do you put a value on the things you care about?

Is money the same thing as worth?

Gaggle’s new single is out now, it will cost you £3000, and we’re pretty sure it’s the most expensive single ever https://bleep.com/release/41111

You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZwAZcEnZ4

Bobby is back

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:56:05 +0000

Bobby Tank - the new wunderkind of glitchy electrofunk has announced his new EP ‘The Way’ will be released in February on MofoHifi Records.

Bobby released ‘Afterburn’ earlier this year to much acclaim, it received over 60 plays on Radio 1 and Xfm and made it into the iTunes Top 10.

We can’t wait to hear ‘The Way’ in all its glory.

Sweet Baboo

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:33:00 +0000

We are very pleased to tell you we have started working with the Welsh musician Stephen Black aka Sweet Baboo.

His fourth album ‘Ships’ will be coming out in Spring 2013 through Moshi Moshi Records. You can get a taster for the album via a free download of ‘Let’s Go Swimming Wild’ here: https://www.facebook.com/sweetbaboomusic

The Next Big Thing

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:52:00 +0000

Haven’t you heard? Segwaying is the next big thing, everybody at Anorak is at it. Well, we are when Emily & Laura make us go Segwaying for our team building day. The Anorak Ladies owned it as we can see from the clip below.

The boys looked particularly fetching in their hairnets and Laura Anorak went incognito.

Did I mention it was at the RAF Museum and we also went to a 4D cinema? You can’t say we don’t know how to have fun.

Quote of the day: “Are you a school trip?” - Lady in the RAF Museum cafe

Our favourites of 2012

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:23:00 +0000

We thought we’d better get involved and share the Anorak team’s top three albums of the year, in no particular order of course.

EMILY ANORAK

Yeasayer - Fragrant World

The Music Tapes - Mary’s Voice

The Magnetic Fields - Love At The Bottom Of The Sea

LAURA ANORAK

Maccabees – Given To The Wild

Lianne La Havas – Is Your Love Big Enough

Django Django – Django Django

OLLIE ANORAK

Django Django - Django Django

Kindness – World, You Need a Change Of Mind

Frank Ocean – Channel ORANGE

SARAH ANORAK

Chromatics – Kill For Love

Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes

Matthew Dear – Beams

SINEAD ANORAK

Chromatics - Kill for Love

Alt-J - an Awesome wave

Kanye West - Kanye West Presents Good Music

TOMMO ANORAK

Egyptian Hip Hop - Good Don’t Sleep

Flatbush Zombies - D.R.U.G.S.

Ratking - Wiki93

AOIFE ANORAK

Grimes – Visions

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Sharon Von Etten – Tramp

LIBBY ANORAK

Lower Than Atlantis – Changing Tune

Deftones – Koi No Yokan

Don Broco – Priorities

BECKY ANORAK

Alt J - Awesome Wave

Beach House - Bloom

Plan B - Ill Manors

KITTY ANORAK

Bjork - Bastards

Micachu and the Shapes - Never

Death Grips - The Money Store

JULIAN ANORAK

Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It

Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE

Lana del Rey - Born To Die

LUCY ANORAK

Joey Bada$$ - 1999

Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE

Alt J - An Awesome Wave

Cave Painting Tour 2013

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:03:07 +0000

Cave Painting have just announced a set of headline dates for 2013. The Brighton band will be playing across the UK just in time for your New Years Eve hangovers have just about faded.

Visit their site HERE for ticket links.

JANUARY
Friday 25th - BIRMINGHAM - Rainbow
Saturday 26th - GLASGOW - Broadcast
Sunday 27th - EDINBURGH - Sneaky Petes
Tuesday 29th - NEWCASTLE - Cumberland Arms
Wednesday 30th - MANCHESTER - Soup Kitchen
Thursday 31st - NOTTINGHAM - Bodega

FEBRUARY
Friday 1st - STOKE - Sugarmill
Saturday 2nd - CARDIFF - Buffalo Bar
Monday 4th - SHEFFIELD - SOYO
Tuesday 5th - HULL - Fruit
Wednesday 6th - LONDON - Lexington
Thursday 7th - BRISTOL - Start The Bus
Friday 8th - SOUTHAMPTON - Joiners

New Foals Track

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Foals debuted the first taster of their new record ‘Holy Fire’ yesterday. The video for ‘Inhaler’ not only sounds great but also looks amazing too. We really can’t wait for more.

Head over to Foals’ site (which is HERE), where they have set up some sort of weird code to break. Let us know if you get anywhere with it.

Pitchfork Festival Paris

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:23:56 +0000

A gang of Anoraks have just returned from the Paris leg of Pitchfork’s festival series. With the overall review of the city event as “amazing” the (Extensive) highlights include Grizzly Bear, Rat King, Death Grips, Purity Ring, Liars, Rustie, Robyn, Disclosure, Julio Bashmore, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Isaac Delusion, and Breton.

You can read more about the festival with links to content on the Pitchfork site HERE.

Vote O Children

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:36:00 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that O Children have been nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ at this year’s Artrocker Awards Show. ’Apnea’, the follow-up to their self-titled debut album, has seen the band gain widespread support, as well as being hotly tipped for 2013.

To vote for the band, and other categories, click HERE.

Laura talks to Record of the Day

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:18:00 +0000

Anorak London Director Laura Martin recently spoke to Record Of The Day about the music industry, digital trends and 10 years of Anorak. You can read the full text below.

“2013 sees 10 years of Anorak’s existence and over the past decade there have been numerous significant changes in the world of PR: print magazines closing, (others starting), the rise of digital media and therefore publications, introduction of the pay wall, the rise in value of the blogger, and of course from a financial perspective, a significant shift in revenue streams behind the scenes.

Thinking back to 2003/4, we were hired solely by record labels to promote their artists. We were paid a fee to do the work. Slowly over the course of time, this has changed. Over the past five years the independent PR has become something of an A&R resource itself. It has meant sharing tips with scouts, attending buzzy gigs, shoulder barging other PRs to sign up new acts prior to any deal being done. It has become the norm for PR companies to become part of a deal before any record, publishing or live deal is done. Often we are the first port of call for managers.

A few of the acts we worked with prior to them being signed (some even before management) include Foals, Friendly Fires, James Blake, more recently Angel Haze, Michael Kiwanuka and Lianne La Havas. there is of course great value to be had in securing media coverage for an act which then generates leverage for a record deal, or if not a record deal, a financial deal of sorts. However despite the integral nature of what we are doing, PRs are often not paid at this point – various deals are done; backpay, working for free until the band gets signed (which requires loyal and trusting relationships) or working for greatly reduced rates. Whilst it is a positive model for the bands and artists, the fallout is that PR companies are struggling to survive. Couple this trend with the fact record labels are making less money than they used to therefore PR fees have reduced by 50% over the past 5 years, there now exists a problem for the music Pr industry. A handful of excellent, noteworthy PR companies have closed in the past two years as they simply cannot survive on the new model especially when competing with the flux of one-man band Pr people who charge smaller fees and dilute the marketplace.

At Anorak, we have had to diversify. We opened a festival and events department in 2010 which has become a huge success and we now represent five major worldwide music festivals, and seven in the UK. We now (like most) work with brands on their music strategy.

Having won Record Of The Day’s ‘Best Online PR Company’ for the past three years, it’s pertinent to look at the rise of digital over the past 10 years. From a PR perspective, Anorak is fortunate to have witnessed this boom from its infancy to this point. Bill Gates wrote in an essay in 1996, ‘content is king’ and naturally the world took note.

In the music industry, Digital PR does now hold more value to record labels and managers – but it is only over the past five years or so that this has been substantial. it has been a relatively slow transition. the role of digital has become much more international over the past few years, the significance of non-UK relationships such as Pitchfork are integral to uK PR campaigns.

in digital PR ideas are of course paramount - creating engaging content that people want to share is key which leaves people looking to push boundaries in a PR remit. We created a clever viral for Lounge on the Farm music festival – an illustrated, spot the band image with 179 literal representations of artists or bands in it. It went viral and had over 3,000 hits in the first hour. We wanted to get kids and parents aware of The Apple Cart festival so we teamed up with soundcloud to create a national competition looking for ‘young reporters’ to submit demos of them presenting in order to win a chance to become the festival’s own young reporter. We ran the first ever Pinterest tour diary with Neneh Cherry which was so pioneering it was written about in digital tech press. creativity is valuable and paramount to any digital PR campaign – which makes the digital space a stimulating and a fun place to work where exciting things happen in real time.

The importance of digital in today’s markeplace is undeniable not only in the way we consume music, but in the shift in numbers from print to digital consumers. Sadly this is not reflected in digital PR fees yet. It seems the industry is still in a state of flux and is not confident in dedicating equal amounts of a PR budget to digital as it does to print, despite the former’s rapidly growing importance.”

Laura Martin – director, Anorak London

Competition Time

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:53:00 +0000

Heaven’s Basement and Front Magazine have just teamed up to launch what looks like one of the best competitions we’ve seen in a LONG time. They’re flying two lucky fans over to report on the band’s Berlin show: you get accommodation, VIP entry to the show (and to party with the band)…plus €500 in cash to spend on German beer.

All you have to do is click HERE and tell Front why you deserve to go.

OMAM on Graham Norton

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:36:20 +0000

In case you missed Of Monsters And Men on Graham Norton last weekend you can see the performance above. The band’s album, My Head Is An Animal, has been shooting up the charts (again) ever since, and this week peaked at #2 on the iTunes chart. For more info on the release and their tour plans, head over to their website by clicking the image below.

Special Gaggle Show

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:25:00 +0100

Girl super-group Gaggle will be bringing their ‘Lysistrata’ show to Electrowerkz, London, on Thursday November 8^th. The performance – which is part of Rockfeedback’s Illuminations Festival - will be demonstrating how the principles of the Ancient Greek heroine Lysistrata can change our world for the better.

The singers will lead attendees through a range of events and actions in different spaces as the night unfolds. Iceland’s Sindri Eldon and his band will join Gaggle as the house band. For more details on this special show, and the rest of the Illuminations line up click HERE.

Riot's Cry - OUT NOW

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:48:00 +0100

Robert Vincent’s new single Riot’s Cry has just been released. With radio support from BBC 6 Music’s Radcliffe & Maconie, BBC 5 Live’s Dotun Adebayo and Radio 2’s Janice Long; you can now order and download it from his site HERE.

Friday Playlist

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:22:10 +0100

This week’s playlist is an homage to AllSaints’ Basement Sessions. These guys have been steadily churning out a solid supply of quality podcasts and sessions around the corner from Anorak HQ for a while now. To celebrate we’ve picked a couple of videos as well as a playlist of some of our favorite guests from over the years. Enjoy.

We’ve picked one of the recent sessions from Saint Saviour as well as a classic interview from (the hyper charming) Howard Marks.

Stevie Neale

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:30:08 +0100

We are very excited to introduce Stevie Neale; hailing from Cornwall she played BBC’s Hackney Weekend before she had released any music – the booking was made on the strength of her live show alone. Now, her debut single has landed and with Radio 1 plays from Zane Lowe, Rob da Bank and Toddla T already, her name is one you’ll going to be hearing a lot of in 2013.

‘Dangerous’ will be released as a white label through Week of Wonders on November 5^th, it’s a slice of 90s garage complete with punchy piano but Stevie’s huge vocals bring it bang up to date. Have a listen below.