Pleasure 2022

This star-studded special celebrates Sir Billy Connolly's anarchic genius and life-affirming humour with unseen performance footage and chats with celebrity fans.

Pre Pleasure is the breath-taking third album from Australian singer-songwriter, Julia Jacklin. Co-produced with Marcus Paquin (The Weather Station, The National), Pre Pleasure sees Jacklin as her most authentic self, delivering the most intimate, raw and devastating ten songs of her career to date. An uncompromising and masterful lyricist, always willing to mine the depths of her own life experience, and singular in translating it into deeply personal, timeless songs.

'Pre Pleasure' is the breathtaking third album from Australian singer-songwriter, Julia Jacklin. Co-produced with Marcus Paquin, the album sees Jacklin as her most authentic self, delivering the most intimate, raw and devastating ten songs of her career to date. An uncompromising and masterful lyricist, always willing to mine the depths of her own life experience, and singular in translating it into deeply personal, timeless songs.

A mandolin for all seasons: accompanied by accordion, harpsichord and a backing band drawn from the strings of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Jacob Reuven brings us Vivaldi’s and Piazzolla’s ‘Seasons’ as you’ve never heard them before.

"The sound of an artist coming into her own, Rebecca Taylor’s remarkable second album as Self Esteem mixes the intimate and conversational with the unabashedly dramatic."

AD 2022 - Live in Manchester is out this Friday Consisting of a 21-song set list drawn from ‘Damned Damned Damned’ & ‘Music For Pleasure’, this audio and visual release shows the reunion of original line up Dave Vanian, Brian James, Captain Sensible & Rat Scabies.

AD 2022 - Live in Manchester is out this Friday Consisting of a 21-song set list drawn from ‘Damned Damned Damned’ & ‘Music For Pleasure’, this audio and visual release shows the reunion of original line up Dave Vanian, Brian James, Captain Sensible & Rat Scabies.

Deluxe re-issue of Girls At Our Best!’s seminal Post Punk album ‘Pleasure’. Including additional A and B sides of their singles, two unissued 1981 live concerts. Plus legendary 1981 BBC sessions for John Peel and Richard Skinner and a 1981 interview. And a previously unreleased 1978 demo ‘Atribute’ by James Alan and Judy Evans’ band The Butterflies who metamorphosised into Girls At Our Best! plus ‘Boys At Our Best’, a demo from their final recording session.
Girls At Our Best! were one of the greatest and most influential bands to emerge in the early 1980s as part of a new wave of independent acts. DJ John Peel championed them, playing their singles repeatedly and inviting them to record a session for his programme.

Semele is a masterpiece. For what else can one call a drama in which the perfect symbiosis of text and music conjures up such suggestive power? ‘To hold the mind, the ears and the eyes equally spellbound’: this recommendation by La Bruyère (Les Caractères: ‘Les ouvrages de l'esprit’) refers to the ‘machine plays’ so adored by the public in the Baroque period. But even without machinery or indeed without sets or real staging, Handel’s oratorio involves us in the tragic fate of his heroine with supreme skill.