The monthly XS Noize Spotify playlist brings together the essential new music of the last month featured on the website. The March 2021 edition features tracks from James, Paul Weller, Richard Ashcroft, Imelda May, Noel […]
Ahead of the release of her new album, The Art of Losing, The Anchoress unleashes a brand new duet with James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers. ‘The Exchange’ is the fourth track to […]
‘The Art of Losing’, the second album from Welsh multi-instrumentalist The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies), will be released on March 12th 2021 (via Kscope). Written and produced by Davies, ‘The Art of Losing’ navigates […]
The monthly XS Noize Spotify playlist brings together the essential new music of the last month featured on the website. The February 2021 edition features tracks from The Coral, Hello Cosmos, Teenage Fanclub, King Gizzard and […]
Ahead of the release of her second album on March 12th, The Anchoress has announced her new single, the title track from ‘The Art of Losing’ out Jan 22nd, following its premiere by Steve Lamacq […]
Ahead of the release of her second album, The Anchoress is releasing a track a month and revealing more details of ‘The Art Of Losing’ due for release on 5th March 2021. ‘Unravel’ is the […]
‘The Art of Losing’, the second album from Welsh multi-instrumentalist The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies), will be released on March 5th 2021 (via Kscope). The first single ‘Show Your Face’ is available from today, […]
Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete Paphides, is proud to announce the very first release of brand new music on the label. Released on September 18th, In ‘Memory Of […]
Just before the Manics took to the stage at Manchester’s Arena last Saturday night large neon words were lit up: “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul” which led to […]
Ex-lead singer of 90s cult band Mansun, Paul Draper is due on stage. It’s his second gig in fourteen years and the air is charged. Last night it was Leeds, tonight Manchester. The crowd are […]
Paul Draper releases his long awaited debut solo album, Spooky Action, on Kscope this summer. Paul Draper was the frontman of Mansun – one of the most iconic bands of the late ’90s. Over the […]
Each week we will be putting together Spotify playlists featuring music from artists and bands that we have been swinging our pants to at XS Noize Towers. Since this is our first playlist we have included […]
The Anchoress will play 15 live dates at some of the UK’s finest concert halls (opening for Simple Minds on their acoustic tour) as well as supporting the Manic Street Preachers at a huge outdoor […]
Paul Draper – former frontman of Mansun, one of the ’90s most forward-thinking and iconic rock’n’roll bands – has announced details of his first solo live shows. Paul will tour the UK in September with […]
Welcome to episode #28 of the XS Noize Music Podcast. On This weeks show Mark Millar is joined by former Mansun front-man Paul Draper for an in depth chat about his role on the production side, […]
Following the release of his first new music in twelve years (this summer’s acclaimed EP ONE), Paul Draper releases a second four track EP on Kscope. EP TWO features four new recordings: Friends Make The […]
On 11th November, Simple Minds will release ‘Simple Minds Acoustic’ via Caroline International. To celebrate the album release, Simple Minds will be taking to the road to perform their career spanning collection of songs acoustically […]
Hailing from Wales Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress is a woman of numerous talents; a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and PhD holder. She lists among her musical credits co-producing with Paul Draper, being a member of […]
Former Mansun front-man Paul Draper recently released his first solo recording ‘EP ONE’ on Friday 10th June on KScope. Paul recently had a chat with XS Noize Editor-in-Chief Mark Millar to talk about the new […]
After a 12 year break from releasing his own material, former Mansun frontman Paul Draper’s 4 track EP, EP One is released today. The hiatus hasn’t seen him leave the music scene at all, but […]
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