"Whitney K is the musical vehicle for Canadian born songwriter Konner Whitney. He is known for his agile lyricism, unpolished yet luminously resonant recordings, and a gritty baritone that balances cool detachment with profound emotional undercurrents.

For years, Whitney K existed as an amorphous moving target, as restless as the man behind it. After a string of cassette releases, the band focused its vision on their highly praised 12” debut, Two Years (2020; Maple Death Records), a pivotal period during which band-member Josh Boguski’s role solidified as primary collaborator and producer. Together with multi-talented musicians Avalon Tassonyi and Michael Halls, their synergy has since yielded two more acclaimed albums on Maple Death: Hard to be a God (2022), an immersive orchestral EP, and Vivi! (2023), a frenetic live album preserving their first international tour.

Now the group have returned to Boguski/Halls’ makeshift home-studio in Montreal to craft their first album for Fire Records. Stripping back and pushing forward, the band is conjuring their most raw yet refined work to date—an honest, sonically paradoxical collection that finds fresh possibilities in the familiar shapes of rock, pop, and folk with the same unfiltered energy and poetic gravity Whitney K fans have come to expect.

FFO: Lou Reed, Harry Nillsson, Fred Neil, Cass McCombs, Smog, Silver Jews, Beck

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Hailing from Bristol, Eva May spent her childhood singing in choirs which has left a mark on her musical style with lush ethereal vocal arrangements. Her debut single, Where Does The Time Go, was released in June 2024 on Full Time Hobby. She has recently collaborated with local hero Memotone for his latest LP 'smallest things'.

She supported WK the first time he was in town and it was such a perfect pairing, we can't help but do it all again! Full band show, joined by Caio Wheelhouse and Louie Lewlands.

FFO: Carole, Karen, Judee, Joni, Sandy, Linda
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"Will Yates has made music as Memotone since 2007. He operates in the tradition of what Robert Fripp has called 'a small, independent, mobile, and intelligent unit.' If you book him, he will come. When he arrives, he will have everything he needs to make his complex, engaging music: a clarinet, a guitar, synths, samplers and pedals, quickly unpacked in the corner of a club, gallery or village hall. Starting small, he will build layer upon layer of melody, accompanying himself and cutting across himself, creating a music that avoids cliche and moves beyond easy description. His recordings have followed the same trajectory.

Moving quickly, he has released fifteen or so albums across various labels. Taken together, these recordings are the sound of a skilled, inventive composer pushing at the edges of what he wants to listen to himself. It is possible to hear a variety of influences in his music: folk and jazz forms, the textural inventiveness of British DIY electronica and Chicago post-rock and the blurred sci-fi brass of Jon Hassell are all discernible. But mostly, Will's work seems to stem from a constant drift between long hours in his home studio, and time spent outside in the woods and hills around his home in Wales.

For his latest album 'the smallest things on World of Echo, he invited Eva for the beautiful album closer, 'In Dreams', hovering in the same space as Janet Sherbourne's work with Jan Steele or Julie Tippetts' Sunset Glow."

FFO: Basil Kirchin, Tenniscoats, Movietone, Burt Bacharach.

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