News The Neu Bulletin (2nd October 2012)

Neu’s guide to nights out and must hear bands continues, with enough recommendations to render you lifeless - or at the very least, extremely busy. Gigs and tips: We’ve got you sorted.

WHO’S PLAYING WHERE?
Usually our bulletins stay central to the country’s capital and that’s largely because emerging bands see it as a necessity to focus their meteoric rise in London. But today’s recommendation has ‘been and done that’. Azealia Banks draws crowds in the thousands every single time, and to think she’s yet to release an album makes you a) realise how bloody huge ‘212’ was as a single and b) wonder whether she really must release that debut of hers or if she’s better off taking her time and sacking her entourage on a monthly basis. Anyway, Liverpool: Enjoy Azealia.

Azealia Banks plays Liverpool’s O2 Academy tonight.

WHO’S MAKING WAVES? Two of the UK’s best new music blogs went nuts for this new band in the space of one day. First, Dots and Dashes, then The Blue Walrus. Being the suckers for hype that we are, by this point anything could have come out of the speakers and we’d have been swept into the band’s lure, but FEWS make some distinct, perfectly-formed guitar pop, like DIIV with a more cheery outlook. They follow one record label on Soundcloud: Captured Tracks. Listen to the below and tell us the band and label wouldn’t make a perfect match:


FURTHER NEU BUSINESS
Nothing has yet tarnished Flo Morrissey’s reputation as a progressive songwriter. Everything the musician touches under her 9mary guise turns to flourishing gold. Not even singing in French makes a dent in her cause for fame, in fact in only makes us more besotted. ‘Petit Garçon’ is a work of colourful subtlety. Working with Max Pope and Luke Bower, stream 9mary’s latest effort in the video above.