WhatsOn’s music editor, Adam Humphries, offers you some uplifting songs that has recently released. Make a playlist with the music and dance the rest of the week away. Here is the melodious playlist of the week!
Stream Holly Henderson’s sophomore album “The Walls” now!
Need the Fight, Pride Can Wait, Head Full of Soil, The Walls and Gold, that’s just a few songs from upcoming British artist Holly Henderson from her new album, The Walls, which is out now.
Holly’s album is both an interesting and eclectic mix of guitars, piano, and smooth vocals.
In a way, this is Holly’s way of taking you, the listener, on an audio journey in which the artistic imagination fills in the visuals.
As an artist, Ms. Henderson is in a similar music vein to Kate Bush in that she creates her own world using her own self-created style of music.
Holly has been able to deconstruct her current path in music and recreates it in another way for us to enjoy
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS to play ‘Flood’ in full at new UK dates!
American legendary rockers are taking their latest tour to the UK later this year. With shows in the North, South, and the South West
Grammy award-winners and alt-rock legends, They Might Be Giants are returning to the UK with shows in Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol, and London this November.
The tour will consist of new and old classics including the ever-infamous Birdhouse in Your Soul.
The Flood tour starts on the 14th of November 2023 and goes on for 5 consecutive dates ending in London at the Roundhouse on the 18th of November 2023
Tour dates >
November 2023
Tues 14 Manchester O2 Ritz
Wed 15 Leeds Beckett Students Union
Thurs 16 Nottingham Rock City
Fri 17 Bristol O2 Academy
Sat 18 London Roundhouse
Mieko Shimizu releases thought-provoking ‘John’s House’ from ‘Write To Be’ charity EP
By London-based Japanese artist Mieko’s single from the charity album, Write to Be. John’s House came from a real-life experience that she experienced one day in London. She came across a homeless man living on a doorstep on a city street.
The song itself can just as easily be a testimony of someone’s life from being on the streets just living one day to the next. Ironically this isn’t the first time the topic of homelessness has been covered in music. American single Crystal Walters did similar for her song Gypsy Woman.
Narcotic Thrust – Safe From Harm
Released back in 2002 and featuring the vocals of British lead and backing singer Yvonne John Lewis and has since become a recognized dance classic. Yvonne’s smooth vocals fit effortlessly into the electronic backbeat.
Safe From Harm is one of those songs that is somewhat catchy and easy to sing along to. Even though Yvonne’s been both background and foreground this track shows why she’s an amazing lead woman worthy. Safe From Harm has an additional hidden twist in the message as the song is about the mental issues of drug addiction, just listen carefully and closely to the lyrics
