I am delighted to announce that @virginorchestra (vo) will be undertaking a small UK tour between 7-17 July. From Reykjavík, Iceland, vo combines post-punk with electronic music, dreampop and noise to create their distinctive sound.
Since playing our music festival 24:1900 in December 2025, I have been working with vo arranging this tour. Along with the fantastic @stilltraffico (who support in Cardiff and Brighton), the rather ace @hauspoints will be the main support act for the tour. @psylhouette , and their joyful brand of krautock meets shoegaze, will also be supporting in Brighton
vo have just returned from playing a successful showcase in Poznan, Poland. They have also been selected to play @icelandairwaves again later this year.
With tickets available for Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and Cardiff (link in bio), vo are definitely worth catching up with now. London and Brighton tickets will be available soon.
I'll be tour managing from Manchester onwards. Hope to see you somewhere on the road for a pint.
Mark
#uktour
#postpunk
#icelandmusic
#icelandairwaves
FFS is now available to stream, download and buy on a limited run lathe cut 7"
(LINKINBIO)
Catch it live this Sunday 03/05 at @theferretpreston for the Crackedankles Weekender, or Friday 08/05 at Manchester's iconic @deafinstitute for @fifthfloor.uk and @diymagazine 's sprawling 5 band bill (and @timburgessofficial on the wheels of steel).
#matchfit
@lancsmusic presents:
LANCASHIRE SOUNDS with special guests - @itsbritishbirds + @hauspoints + @pyramideyes_
🗓️Tuesday 19th May
⏰Doors 7pm
📍The Ferret, Preston
🎫FREE ENTRY - TICKETS REQUIRED - see below…
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An evening of live music celebrating Lancashire's world class music scene, featuring special guests British Birds, Hauspoints + Pyramid Eyes. This edition of Lancashire Sounds focuses on the music coming out of one of the county's former industrial hubs, Chorley.
British Birds:
Hatched in 2023 via tape loops and cheap nylon stringed guitars, Chorley-based British Birds soar from the depths of psych-tinged melancholy to the heights of disco-doused dystopia and back. From within the precariously soundproofed walls of their inconspicuous makeshift arthouse they meticulously craft their sound; dedicating themselves to the whole craft from recording, producing and releasing their records, to screenprinting their merch.
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Hauspoints:
Exploring a distinctly northern viewpoint on modernity, Hauspoints’ songs are like a love letter to popular culture, finding beauty in the mundane minutiae and celebrating the quirkiness of human existence.
Established on a dilapidated industrial estate at the foot of an overgrown hill in darkest Lancashire, their debut album, Eel Feeling, is a beat-heavy rasp that treads an unfurrowed path aside multiple genres without straying too far into the obscure.
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Pyramid Eyes:
Pyramid Eyes combines ambient textures with minimal, glitchy beats to create a dreamlike sound. Everything from cinematic soundscapes to mind-bending polyrhythms.
Influenced by experimental electronic artists like Boards of Canada and Plaid, his use of quiet / loud dynamics have also drawn comparisons to post-rock acts like Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
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👉FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM Skiddle: skiddle.com/e/42434722
Made possible thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through @aceagrams .
To become a Lancashire Music Association member today FREE OF CHARGE, go to
#preston #theferret #lancashireevents #northwestmusic #britishbirds
NEW RELEASE DAY!
First new music from Hauspoints in a couple of years, and this is well worth the wait.
‘FFS’ is released on limited edition of 100 copies on white lathe cut vinyl over at their bandcamp page. Also up for streaming, DL and a very clean video over at their YouTube channel.
Hauspoints play the Crackedankles Weekend this sunday at the Ferret, onstage about 8.30. Saturday is completely sold out, and there are less than 20 tickets left for Sunday, so don’t hang about and head over to Skiddle for tickets.
Plus it’s Bandcamp Fee Free Friday, so the artists and labels get to keep 10% extra of anything you buy today.
Aye, aye ippy ippy aye!!!
#bandcampfriday #preston #lancashire #whitevinyl #vinylrecords
⬆️ Read & Play in Magazine - @hauspoints - Here we go again. Every decade or so, British guitar music strips itself back to something more instinctive, more confrontational, more human. Not a revival, not nostalgia, but a reset. British indie rock has always worked in cycles like this, shedding excess and returning to a raw nerve that feels culturally timed rather than musically planned. Hauspoints are right on cue…
#altrock
If you want to be a kind and all round good human being, with lots of mates and respect from co-workers and colleagues, please pre-save our new single 👍
Unless you've been dragged up... your choice.
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