It’s December again! That means it’s time for the annual Real Gone countdown to xmas!
Each day between the 1st and 24th December, there’ll be a new video here to discover…or perhaps rediscover. Hopefully you’ll find something to entertain.
HOUSE ABOVE THE SUN – House Above The Sun EP
In 2014, the London-based DIY blues-rock outfit The Healing released their debut EP ‘Childhood Home’. A year later, three quarters of the band resurfaced under the name House Above The Sun, seemingly having had a musical rethink. While still recognisable as the core of the same band, House Above The Sun favour a much rootsier sound, placing vocalist Jim Moreton’s voice over music that’s arguably more thoughtful than before.
SAVAGE GOTH – Savage Goth EP
Savage Goth is concrete proof that you can’t judge things by name alone. Such a judgement led to one of the band’s first gigs being support to a tech metal band – their choice of music somewhat lost upon the receiving audience. Led by songwriter Matthew Kenworthy, the name was a tongue-in-cheek throwback to a slur dating back to his school days in the north of England, where anyone who admitted to liking guitar based music was labelled a “savage goth”.
BLOOD RED SAINTS – Speedway
Vocalist Pete Godfrey first came to the attention of the melodic rock community as frontman of the short-lived (but very promising) In Faith. Realising that being part of a full band would have better career prospects, he formed Blood Red Saints with Rob Naylor (previously of Angels Or Kings) and then enlisted the talents of Gary Hughes’s sometime guitarist Lee Revill. The result is a debut album with some hugely enjoyable melodic hard rock tunes – tunes that constantly hark back to the golden age of 1985-1989 – which should very much appeal to a cross-section of melodic rock buffs.
New video from Get Inuit & first 2016 tour dates
As part of the ongoing promotion for their 2015 EP release ‘Luge Lessions’, indie-rockers Get Inuit have released a new video, which you can see in full below.
The band have also announced their first run of live shows for the new year, which begins with a gig at The Gulbenkian in Canterbury.