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Mogwai

One of the finest post-rock bands to ever do it, Scotland’s finest Mogwai’s long illustrious career has never dipped in quality since Young Team arrived in 1997, and their most recent album, As the Love Continues topped the UK album charts in 2021.

Mogwai continue to find new paths and textures in their majorly instrumental music, and live sets of late, include songs from their chart-topping album, 2022 single ‘Boltfor’ and Mogwai classics ‘My Father, My King’ ‘Mogwai Fear Satan’ and ‘2 Rights Make 1 Wrong’.

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This Is The Kit

Kate Stables’ folk project is one of the most fruitful of recent years from England, and This Is The Kit already has a long-established connection with Irish audiences across the last decade.

The Bristol band are now four albums deep, offering a well of lilting full-band folk music, that nods to alternative band and jazz sounds, as heard on 2023’s Careful Of Your Keepers album.

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Black Country, New Road

Since the English alternative band arrived on the scene with their debut album For The First Time in 2021, it’s been all constant evolution.

When vocalist Isaac Wood left upon the release of their Ninja Tune studio album Ants From Up There 12 months on, the band have carried on with a relentless experimentalism that has seen them move from art-rock to chamber pop to a singular entity of their own. Frankly, who knows what they’ll sound like by June, but that unknowing is part of the fun with a band like Black Country, New Road.

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