An independent record label based in Manchester
We’re pleased to announce that our library super-group recording on 14th May at Manchester After Hours will consist of T. E. Yates, Fran Lydiatt (Shyfinger, Bedlam Six), Tom Cleghorn (Bedlam Six, Fanny deRuiter (Snowapple), Richard Barry and Felix Hagan. Event takes place between 5.30pm and 7.30pm at Manchester Central Library.
Already a pretty doggy (or is that dogged?) band, Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six have a new music video for “Year Of The Bitch” that proves their admiration for man’s best friend has not peaked yet.
Our first signing and house band The Bedlam Six has announced that they will be taking a break for an unspecified length of time once they’ve returned from their next tour. This is partly due to guitarist Matthew Cleghorn (who is also a member of Richard Barry’s backing band The Chaps) relocating to Brighton. A hiatus had been on the cards for a while though. Louis wrote about some of the other reasons for this decision in a blog on his personal website.
The remainder of 2014 live dates include shows in Germany, Holland, Austria and Switzerland. Their final UK show will be in Emsworth (trombonist Biff Roxby’s hometown).
Tour details and ticket links can be found on The Bedlam Six’s official website.
The new album by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six is now on general release in 12” vinyl, compact disc and assorted digital formats from the band’s online shop and all the usual download sites.
A special website devoted to the making of the album is also available.
Though not as evergreen as the trees they are sung around, Christmas carols can survive a bit of reinterpretation from time to time. So it is with great pleasure that we announce a compilation of classic Yuletide numbers on one record, released in the second (Bleak Mid-)Week of December.
All proceeds from the release will go to the wonderful charity Music In Hospitals, an organisation that a number of our artists work with.
The album includes the choir-rock stylings of Felix Hagan & The Family’s “Gaudete,” T.E. Yates’ “Little Drummer Boy,” The Bedlam Six’s sleazed-up “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” Alabaster dePlume’s “Away In A Manger” and many other aural stocking fillers from our roster of artists.
Music In Hospitals (MIH) is a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life for adults and children with all kinds of illness and disability through the joy and therapeutic benefits of professionally performed live music in hospitals, hospices, day care centres, special schools, nursing and residential homes.
Needless to say, Christmas is a time when people in hospitals need as much cheer as possible.