Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy and London based singer-songwriter Manuela Gernedel release their debut album on March 31 via Lost Map. Manuela will be touring in support of the debut album throughout 2017, kicking off with dates in January, and a performance at Field Day in London on Saturday June 3. Further dates will be announced shortly.

Austrian Manuela and her British-born husband Nick have been making music together on and off ever since they first met at a youth club summer party in the late 90s in Bavaria, Germany, where they both grew up. They moved to Glasgow together some years later after Manuela was offered a place at Glasgow School of Art to study painting.

The album was recorded after Nick concluded touring the Franz Ferdinand and Sparks collaboration FFS at Nick’s studio in London and was co-produced and mixed by Sebastian Kellig. The album features players and friends old and new including Jim Dixon (Django Django), William Reese (Mystery Jets), Roxanne Clifford (Veronica Falls) and Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand) among many others.

Listen to Supermarket here

Live Dates:

26 January – London, Sebright Arms – with secret headliner

28 January – Margate, Music Hall – DJ Legend Series night with Gideon Coe

3 June – London, Field Day

BlackWaters are a four piece from the depths of nothingness (Surrey). And yet despite their murky background, they’ve turned aggro and pent-up frustration into rampant, shouty, spit-fuelled, BO-inducing, agitated punk rock’n'roll.

Carl Barât produced their debut single, ‘So Far Out’.  The Libertines frontman and high-priest of contemporary punk was drawn to the immediacy of their fledgling release, which was written as a reaction to Brexit - a decision that will impact the lives of these four lads long after their ancestors are gone. “There’s no inspiration, we’ve got no platform to say anything on. Our age restricts what we can and can’t do.”

Primed and ready to roll, BlackWaters embark upon a co-headline tour with Blackpool trio Strange Bones for fifteen dates of short sharp introductions. New track ‘Down’ will be released next month.

BlackWaters Tour Dates

January 23rd – The Tin Angel, Coventry

January 24th – The Louisiana, Bristol

January 25th – The Bodega, Nottingham

January 26th – The Venue, Derby

January 27th – Boileroom, Guildford

January 28th – The Horn, St. Albans

February 1st – Brudenell Games Room, Leeds

February 3rd – Guildhall, Preston

February 4th – Bootleg Social, Blackpool

February 5th – The Fulford Arms, York

February 7th – The Polar Bear, Hull

February 8th – Think Tank, Newcastle

February 9th – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh

February 10th – The Leadmill, Sheffield

February 11th – The Sugarmill, Stoke on Trent