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Telefís - Mister Imperator

London-based Dimple Discs will release the debut album from Telefís (the Irish Gaelic word for Television, pronounced

Tele-feesh), a collaboration between producer/ mixer/ composer Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, R.E.M., Modest Mouse, The

Cars, The Killers, Snow Patrol, Crystal Castles, Editors, Taylor Swift) and singer-songwriter Cathal Coughlan

(Microdisney, The Fatima Mansions and many acclaimed solo works) on February 11.

In the meantime, these two acclaimed Irish iconoclasts present the 'Mister Imperator' EP, which includes the latest 'Mister Imperator (Dub Mix)' and two more remixes, as well as the original version of their recently-released 'Mister Imperator' single.

Titled 'a hAon' (Number One), this is a highly unique 13-track album that is part celebration, part satire, in which Telefís explores nostalgia, as experienced in the present day, by natives of what was formerly a culturally sealed-off small country on the very fringes of Europe. It also points a critical finger at today’s global hierarchies, an inspiration for the strange characters and caricatures that spring from Coughlan's fertile imagination. Stark forms of imagery, bizarre to the modern eye and ear but treated as routine in the pre-globalization world, are pushed at the listener and viewer.

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November 21 2021

Simon Bromide ‘Following The Moon’ LP

Lead track ‘The Waiting Room’ is out now

Simon Bromide (aka Simon Berridge), perhaps best known as the frontman of South London indie

pop / power pop outfit Bromide, has released 'The Waiting Room', the lead track from his solo album

'Following The Moon' in late autumn via Scratchy Records with distribution by Cargo Records. The

animated video, cleverly crafted using plastercine figures and model train sets, was directed, shot,

animated, modelled and edited by Ben Pollard.

"The song is about the things that didn’t happen for one reason or another. Simple twists of fate or just

stepping back from the edge.. in particular the lyrics refer to a letter proposing marriage sent to my

mother many years ago. The letter never arrived and the sender presumed the lack of a reply was his

answer. Things were different back then.. as it says in the song 'The Postal Service Saved My Life'," says

Simon Berridge.