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Mandrake Handshake
Friday 21st February
at Banquet Records, 6:00pm
Admission will be via order number, please bring yours to the shop.To celebrate the release of the new album 'Earth-Sized Worlds', Mandrake Handshake visits Kingston to play an in-store set.The concept tying together every last note and lyric of ‘Earth-Sized Worlds’ - the debut album from the London/Oxford self-dubbed ‘Flowerkraut’ collective Mandrake Handshake - is an awfully simple one: ‘Welcome to Space Beach’. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi-limbed organism - varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members - it’s an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against the warm nostalgias of home. Full of surprise, leftfield turns and closeted experimentations, tape-soaked Brazilian Sambas morphs into Kosmische Kraturock crusades, and shimmering avant-pop electronics melt into sweetened psychedelic bliss… “Welcome to the Spacebeach - the new era of the Mandrake. Here, where the sea joins the sky, and where the trees touch the stars and where we will have you stay a while”.With news of their biggest UK headline show to date at London’s No90 (Hackney Wick) on February 28th next year, Mandrake Handshake are certainly firing on all cylinders as their debut album release draws ever closer. Having already showcased lead singles ‘Charlie’s Comet’, ‘King Cnut’ and ‘The Change And The Changing’ as they experiment further with their eccentric brand of ‘Flowerkraut’: a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia.-In-store Grade C. Performance expected to start shortly after time shown.There's no need to buy the album to gain entry, but you're very welcome to, Anyone who orders will get guaranteed and priority entry.Priority will be given to anyone who orders a copy of 'Earth-Sized Worlds' from us. If there's space on the day for more people, we'll let you know!
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Signing Session / WUNDERHORSE
Thursday 5th September
at Banquet Records, 6:00pm
To celebrate the release of the new album 'Midas', Wunderhorse visit Kingston for a signing session.With rugged hooks, unfltered noise, and ferce melodic sensitivity, Midas rips up the script of traditional second albums and establishes the band as an endlessly addictive and rousing generational talent.In late 2022, the release of their debut album Cub saw singles 'Purple' and 'Leader of the Pack' dominate radio airwaves. Landmark performances flling Glastonbury's Woodsies Tent (FKA John Peel Stage) and selling out London's Kentish Town Forum months in advance followed tours with Pixies and Fontaines D.C. and stadium appearances with Sam Fender, signalling the band's arrival as one of the most prominent and exciting new guitar acts in the UK.With Grammy Award- winning producer Craig Silvey (The Rolling Stones, The National, Florence + The Machine) on board for their sophomore record, the band looked to do something different. Their goal - in the very same studio that Nirvana put In Utero to tape and PJ Harvey recorded the Mercury Prize-nominated Rid of Me - was to push themselves outside of their comfort zones."There's absolutely no faking on this record," ends Slater, "it's not supposed to be perfect; it's supposed to be a snapshot, even if it is a bit of an ugly portrait. That's how it was then, and that's how you're gonna see it." And it sounds like you're right there in the room with them.-6:00pm start with all ages welcome.Albums will be for collection at the signing. Admission will be via order number, please bring yours to the shop.
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Signing Session / Enter Shikari
Sunday 7th July
at Banquet Records, 3:00pm
If you've already ordered Dancing On the Frontline from us, you can upgrade to attend the signing. One upgrade per album.To celebrate the release of the new companion album 'Dancing On The Frontline', Enter Shikari return to Kingston for a signing session.Almost a year to the day since the release of their UK #1 album A Kiss for the Whole World, Enter Shikari are announcing a new companion record Dancing On The Frontline. The new record brings together remixes, non-album singles (featuring the likes of Wargasm, Cody Frost, AViVA and Fever 333’s Jason Aalon Butler), plus live recordings from the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show and Future Sounds shows. The record's opening track 'Goldfish (Shikari Sound System remix)' is out now.Dancing On The Frontline also comes with a Blu-ray of the band's headline performances at Slam Dunk Festival 2023 and Germany's Vainstream Festival. Their much-lauded live show has since been all around the world, covering the USA, Australia, Europe, UK, Ireland and more. Audiences in the UK also witnessed the band's biggest ever headline tour to date of the country's arenas, an audio- visual spectacular that The Guardian awarded four stars and heralded as "the beginning of Enter Shikari’s greatest chapter."-4:00pm start with all ages welcome.Albums will be for collection at the signing. Admission will be via order number, please bring yours to the shop.
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Art Brut
Friday 26th July
at Banquet Records, 6:00pm
To celebrate the releases of 'A Record Collection, Reduced To A Mixtape' and 'And Yes, This Is My Singing Voice! New Cross and Beyond 2003 - 2008' - an Intimate live set and Q+A with Eddie Argos, Ian Catskilkin and Jasper Future.CD Set: ‘And Yes, This Is My Singing Voice! New Cross and Beyond 2003 - 2008’Banquet all-time faves (and one of the all-time great indie pop bands) Art Brut release this first edition of a two-part set: a comprehensive compilation spanning their early discography, demo takes, alternative mixes and live recordings between 2003 – 2008. Includes a 24 page zine, with a 2,000 word liner note from frontman Eddie Argos and exclusive photography of the band. ALSO includes a signed print of an original Art Brut artwork, painted by Eddie Argos!LP: 'A Record Collection, Reduced To A Mixtape'Art Brut release a double LP set, with tracks taken from the albums Bang Bang Rock and Roll, It’s A Bit Complicated, Art Brut vs Satan, Brilliant! Tragic!, We Are Scientists Art Brut International and rare live and alternate takes, compiled by the band. It's the first comprehensive career retrospective of Art Brut since the Top of the Pops album in 2014.-In-store Grade A.Priority will be given to anyone who orders a copy of either of the releases from us. If there's space on the day for more people, we'll let you know!Admission will be via order number, please bring yours to the shop.
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Signing Session / FEROCIOUS DOG
Friday 17th May
at Banquet Records, 1:00pm
To celebrate the release of the new album 'Kleptocracy', Ferocious Dog visit Kingston for a signing session.“There’s a celebratory barrel full of crowd singalongs from their impressive, furious and thoughtful Celtic folk-punk cannon” - Vive Le RockFerocious Dog paved the way for what is possible by selling out the iconic 2000 capacity Rock City venue in Nottingham. After a phenomenal live set at Beautiful Days festival Ferocious Dog signed to Graphite Records in 2021. Later that year released their critically acclaimed album The Hope. The album reached 31 in the official album charts topped the UK folk charts at number 1, due to an unfortunate delay with vinyl pressing the band were robbed of a place in the top 20.Ferocious Dog are the UK’s number one Folk/Punk band and as such have amassed over nine thousand sales of The Hope album. Several recent headline shows include O2 Academy, Leeds, The Barbican, York and three nights at The Victoria Hall, Settle. They have become a fan-favorite at a wide variety of festivals such as; Bloodstock, Glastonbury, Bearded Theory, Hellfest and Rebellion Festival.Kleptocracy will be their sophomore album on Graphite Records and promises to be bigger and bolder than any previous entry in their catalogue. Kleptocracy has multiple themes, whilst it does lean into antidisestablishmentarianism heavily, it also intertwines a duality of grief and hope. Such a powerful yet provocative message is conveyed by Ferocious Dog that you will struggle to come away feeling anything less than inspired.-1:00pm start with all ages welcome. All albums will be for collection from the shop.
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Signing Session / Lucy Rose
Friday 19th April
at Banquet Records, 1:00pm
To celebrate the release of the new album 'This Ain't The Way You Go Out', Lucy Rose returns to Kingston for a signing session.British musician Lucy Rose released a fourth album, No Words Left, back in 2019. It garnered the strongest critical acclaim of her career and culminated in a sell-out show at London’s Barbican theatre. It was a record that ruminated in a sort of hushed reverence, emotionally charged and deftly delivered.Lucy had planned to spend some well-earned time at home in the record’s aftermath, having toured relentlessly since her late teens. She’d balanced that precariously spinning plate by forming her own record label too, Real Kind Records, putting out new records by artists she admired and thought deserved her due care and attention. With both plates spinning, she managed to catch them just before the pandemic ensured her plan for some rest and recouperation became an enforced reality. She welcomed her first child, Otis, in the summer of 2021. All was well until she was diagnosed with a rare form of pregnancy induced osteoporosis. With a life being lived upside down, and only now without the indignity of excruciating pain, making music wasn’t seeded top of Lucy’s priority list. Any fleeting thought of writing a new record, or even sitting down with a guitar or at a piano, took a back seat to building up the strength to walk and care for Otis. As her confidence started to rebuild, so did her usual inhibitions in the making of music. Inspired by a trip to America with friend and rapper Logic, she later worked with renowned producer Kwes to finish the record. This Ain’t The Way You Go Out is an album constructed from the ashes of despair, nurturing the tiniest of green shoots and giving life to something that had looked otherwise spent. It’s a new era for Lucy, and an era in its purest, truest sense. An artist re-awakening herself to the power of music, and having a lot of fun in the process of its discovery and delivery.-1:00pm start with all ages welcome. All albums will be for collection from the shop.
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