With country festival attendances soaring and US artists selling out tours, Britain is having its Nashville moment. #countrymusic #ukmusic #culturaltrend

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/26/how-country-music-is-taking-over-the-uk-state-fayre?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Grab your Stetsons! How country music is taking over the UK

With country music festival attendances soaring and US artists selling out tours, are British and Irish audiences ready for “the full Southern experience”?

The Guardian

Freedom by The King Blues.

#Lyrics :

Can we keep up with
The speed we’re devolving?
Like prehistoric fish
Crawling back in the ocean
The whole thing’s broken
The price of freedom?
To be a human buying
Not a human just being
We’re not supposed to live like this.

To work and consume has
Become our life’s meaning
Stacked up the same
From the floor to the ceiling
But if everything is
A fucking H&M then
That is not freedom

The way they treat culture
It’s like it’s a war
If it don’t make money
They ask what it’s for
The planet is dying
As still we are buying
All dressed in fast fashion
With a tsunami at the door

To work and consume has
Become our life’s meaning
Stacked up the same
From the floor to the ceiling
But if everything is
A fucking H&M then
That is not freedom.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtPfn3QGXqE

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The King Blues - Freedom

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Released today 47 years ago:

🇬🇧 Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" – 1979

The music is both restrained and intensely emotional. Ian Curtis’ voice sits at the center detached, vulnerable, and hypnotic giving the songs an enduring sense of unease and beauty.
One of the most important debut albums ever recorded.

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🇬🇧 Bauhaus "Lagartija Nick" – 1982

Captures Bauhaus at a transitional moment, moving between post-punk intensity and a more rhythmically driven gothic rock sound. Built on a tight, propulsive bassline and fractured guitar textures, the song carries a restless, almost theatrical energy...

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Bob Vylan hitting the festivals much to the chagrin of the Zionists who want to control the UK Music industry in the name of the nation state of Israel.
Why does the British Music industry allow this to happen, it's weird...

https://www.festivalinsights.com/2026/05/shambala-announces-full-line-up-for-2026/

#Shambala #BobVylan #Zionism #FreePalestine #UKFestivals #UKMusic

Shambala announces full line-up for 2026 - Festival Insights

More than 260 new additions have been unveiled for the Northamptonshire festival.

Festival Insights
The artwork for Patriot Games by Gunshot features a cinematic, dark photographic scene framed by an atmospheric haze of smoke and shifting, shadowy light. Three individuals are gathered in a tight circle, hunched over a burning tire rim that emits a fiery, red glow. The figure on the left sits on an inverted blue plastic crate, clad in a red T-shirt and black beanie, holding his hands together in a tense, gripping gesture. The central figure, wearing a black cap and T-shirt, stares directly forward while gripping a dagger, and the figure on the right looks onward in profile, clutching his own weapon. Across the top, the text "GUNSHOT : PATRIOT GAMES" is rendered in a prominent, blocky, stencil-style font with a white outline. This tense, underground imagery of tactical preparation and survivalist warfare directly symbolizes the grim narrative arc found in the track "Mind Of A Razor (Crime Story 2)".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTy_kDzOQ1c

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Jacob Alon on working with “hero” Kae Tempest and being “endlessly inspired by those that use their voices to speak out”

Jacob Alon has spoken to NME about working with “hero” Kae Tempest, and feeling “endlessly inspired” by those who use their platform to speak out

NME

Released today 39 years ago:

🇬🇧 The Cure "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" – 1987

A sprawling and stylistically diverse double album where The Cure embrace excess, experimentation, and pop ambition all at once. Despite its breadth, the album maintains a distinctive emotional intensity throughout...

#thecure #robertsmith #80smusic #alternativerock #gothicrock #newwave #ukmusic #vinylcommunity #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening