Let’s hear from Fat White Family.
 
Tomorrow (19th April) they celebrate their third album with what they present as a “Pop-Up Boutique Experience” in downtown Peckham.
 
The invite reads:
 
Don’t miss out on our yummylicious cupcakes, bric a brac, political lectures, antiques EXPERIENCES, lectures, quasi-poetical immersive EXPERIENCES, commercial openings, music and so much more…

It kicks off at Noon – 5pm at 91 Peckham High Street.
 
I spoke to Lias on the phone for BBC 6 Music while they were in rehearsals to discuss the event tomorrow and what they’ve described as their “cryptic masterwork” the new record Serf’s Up...

For BBC 6 Music I had the pleasure of speaking to ex-Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe about his new single and album Diviner. The record out May 24th on Domino Records was launched today, along with a new single called Love Crimes.
 
Hayden had left a bitter winter in the Lake District behind, where the decision had just been made for Wild Beasts to go their separate ways after over a decade, and he escaped to the perpetual blue skies of California to write new music.
 
Returning to London he continued to write on his piano and the album slowly came together… Here we are...