Okay, so I'm cheating slightly, but one of the reasons that I wanted to get involved in this thread was to introduce myself to a lot of music that I don't know and in return I'd like to introduce people to some music that they would have been unlikely to have heard...however I'm not great with that because most of the music I know, you will already know.
To provide some context. I had a spell of around 10 years in the formative years of my youth where I didn't really listen to much music at all. None of my friends were 'music' people, none of them were in bands, they mostly just liked popular stuff. My parents were big musical influences, particularly my Dad, but he mostly just got me into The Beatles and stuff from his youth, which I spent years and years obsessing over at the sacrifice of learning about any new music. I grew up through the Brit Pop Revolution, which I loved, but I never really went to any gigs or festivals and was just never really part of the music scene.
Then I started going out with my ex, who had pretty much the opposite experience of music to me. She played in bands, she went to loads of gigs and festivals, she really lived and breathed music. She was also a massive pain in the arse who was phenomenally snobbish about music, but she reinvigorated my love for music and for listening to stuff that I might not have heard of and learning about stuff. She made a spotify playlist with loads of bands and new music that she liked and I used that as a bit of an education of lots of the stuff I'd missed over the past 15 years or so and we started going to gigs together, which was probably the most enjoyable part about the relationship.
One of the bands we saw on a support act was this band called Palace who played a few singles. They were really new, really raw with a cool lead singer with an interesting voice and they played music that I immediately quite liked. I've continued to follow them since. Getting into a band from pretty much the start of their public journey is really interesting, gives you a completely different understanding of how they have progressed. Fast forward 5 years and they've now had 2 albums out, but they haven't hit it big yet, but their profile is definitely growing.
I'd like to take you back to their first two extended singles they had Lost in the Night (5 songs) from 2014 and Chase the Night from 2015 (5 songs again...so in total, just about one full album). They are really basic (early days of finding their style I guess), but mellow, really relaxing, but with a catchy bite. If you like these two extended singles you'll like their two albums So Long Forever and Life After, which I won't link here so as to not fully cheat.
But they are great live...which is my real reason for picking them here. I've seen them 3 times live I think, but now that my ex is my ex, and nobody else knows who they are, I don't have anyone to go and watch them with. But they are playing at the Roundhouse in London on November 9th, so if anyone else likes their stuff and fancies going along to watch them, then game on!
Hope that you enjoy.
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