b&w booking
We represent a small, focussed, roster of emerging talent for live bookings, co-ordinating their shows and tours in the UK & Europe. The Artists below are a selection of some of our acts available for bookings and currently touring.
If you would like to contact us to book one our our acts, or regarding an exciting new act looking for representation, feel free to get in touch with us at info@bwmusic.co.uk
FEATURED ARTISTS (Live Bookings)
BANG BANG ECHE (New Zealand) Dance Punk
Bang Bang Eche were never going to let being from New Zealand’s South Island impede their success. For a band not long out of their teens the distance covered by their tour bus is as impressive as their blistering impassioned live shows. Taking in global tours covering USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Australia and New Zealand, the band are still unsigned. Their first EP debuted at No. 1 on the hugely influential U.S. alternative commercial speciality show chart, with their second EP’s title track being NME’s Song of the Day. Showcasing their unique sounds at industry events all over the world including SXSW, The Great Escape, CMJ & Liverpool Sounds City to name but a few, the band are playing all over Europe again for the summer of 2010 and are available for festivals and club shows.
MIDIMIDIS (UK) 8-Bit Punk
MidiMidis are two tuneful brothers-in-law gifted with an 8-bit view of the world. Imagine the Strokes in Tron. Or a Speak and Spell with a broken heart. After a crazy 2009 – encompassing European tour shows, In The City, performing onstage with Losers at Glade Festival and supporting Tinchy Stryder for Radio 1, to their jaw-dropping set at Secret Garden Party, it comes as no surprise XFM’s Eddy-Temple Morris started his New Year show by proclaiming MidiMidis as his “One to Watch for 2010”. From here, it’s been a rapid upward trajectory, as a BBC Maida Vale live session was quickly backed with Huw Stephens making their April 5th single “No1” on his show. Interviews, features and reviews have followed in Drowned in Sound, Channel 4 Planet Sounds, The Fly, BBC, and Artrocker. It’s going to be a massive year.
POLKA PARTY (UK) Art-Rock
With unanimous support from the BBC new music DJs including Tom Robinson & Huw Stephens, it was Steve Lamacq who really got behind art-rockers Polka Party and their December single “Serbian Tennis” which made the BBC 6 Music playlist for a full month. Having toured the UK in November, Polka Party have shared their stage with acts such as Black Kids, Lightspeed Champion, Art Brut, Dananananaykroyd, and appeared at Club NME Koko. “Polka Party are serial art school sceptics and they trash out their droll vocals and angular guitars with panache. Genius” Artrocker
“With his don’t give-a-f*ck vocals, there’s some serious spunk in the mix. Like a (better) more antagonistic version of The Rakes with added bass stutter. Ace” NME
theCOLOURS (UK) Electro Pop
Following two full UK tours, European shows and festival spots, electro pop three-piece theCOLOURS release their debut single this April, ‘Tonight I Let You Go’ and undertake a full UK tour. It was only whilst touring at the beginning of 2009 the band began to develop the sound that they now seem very at home with. Earlier incarnations of theCOLOURS evolving work saw their very first EP Aurora Borealis making the front page of the itunes store, with John Earls (Channel 4 Planet Sounds) exclaiming they were “superior to most signed bands out there”. The follow up EP Something New inspired Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman to select one of the tunes to soundtrack her website. And along the way the band have shared stages and backstage dressing rooms with the likes of The Noisettes, The Wombats, and Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip.
INTRAVERSE (UK) Alternative Rock
Phenomenal live act Intraverse have just come out of the recording studio with acclaimed producer John Mitchell (You Me At Six, Enter Shikari, Funeral For a Friend) and release their track ‘Lay Your Cards’ as a free download for May. The band have featured on Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq’s Radio 1 shows , with accomplished lead guitarist Andy Vickery being profiled in Total Guitar magazine as ‘one of the most gifted players of his generation’. Intraverse will be hitting the touring circuit in the autumn after some select festival performances for the summer. “Front man Max turns in as engaging a performance as we’ve seen all weekend. Occasionally you hear a song from a little-known band which you can instantly imagine all over daytime radio; ‘Little Old You’ is just such a tune. New band find of Guilfest 2009?” Room Thirteen
WHITE SUNDAY (UK) Rock n Roll
Already with two 25 date UK tours under their belt, and airplay on BBC and XFM radio shows, Reading rock’n'roll act White Sunday are touring again shortly, having been in the recording studio over the last year working on their debut album (and enough new material for the next two!). With their first single release due in the autumn, and a short UK tour, the band’s long player is due for release at the end of the year.
“This is class!” Clint Boon XFM
“White Sunday created joyous new rock’n'roll chaos in the Nokia tent” London Metro at Reading Festival
BATTLE CIRCUS (New Zealand) Alternative Rock
Although based in Auckland and having toured New Zealand relentlessly for years, Battle Circus has always had one foot in and one foot out of the country. The frequency and variety of their international jaunts abroad have garnered the group a diverse and widespread international following. The band has left audiences stunned at their hometown Big Day Out, Taiwan’s Spring Scream Festival and CMJ Music Marathon in New York City; and they will be debuting in Europe in the autumn this year.
“They sing songs about the French Revolution and ‘love in a fall-out shelter’, and could turn in to something pretty special given some time, an artillery of lazers and Matt Bellamy’s brain on a silver platter.” NME.com