1965 Records Xmas: Man & the Echo, Sink Ya Teeth, Raf Rundell

South London-based 1965 Records celebrate the end of the year with a banging line-up.

**MAN & THE ECHO**

On hearing Man & The Echo there’s two things that first strike. The first is being impelled to move; the other is the gravity of their message. Behind their smile are a band with no fear of having the rarest things in pop music; an opinion, with stories of species, spaces and other places with tight, lean arrangements that sound somewhere between Wigan Casino and Salford Lads Club via a collection of detours.

Signed to James Endeacott’s hugely respected 1965 Records, been invited to play Billy Bragg’s leftfield stage at Glastonbury, enjoyed lots of airplay and had influential BBC DJ Steve Lamacq call Gaz “a great northern storyteller”, comparing him to Jarvis Cocker and their gigs to the first time he saw Pulp.

There is a bit of Sheffield’s finest’s era-defining mix of smart, observational pop and musical glam about Man & The Echo. But there’s also a bit of ABC, The Smiths, the Divine Comedy, Dexys, Super Furry Animals, blue eyed soul, 50s/60s crooning, literary references, social commentary, humour and much more, as they have arrived at a sound that isn’t retro so much as ricocheting through pop’s many decades and landing squarely in the post-Brexit, conflicted, chaotic UK of the here and now.

http://www.manandtheecho.com

https://www.facebook.com/manandtheecho/


**SINK YA TEETH**

Dance-infused post-punk minimalism from Norwich. Just back from nationwide tour with !!! (Chk Chk Chk).

https://www.facebook.com/sinkyateeth/

https://soundcloud.com/sinkyateeth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iTg21_Awz8


**RAF RUNDELL**

1 of the 2 Bears.

Album coming soon on 1965 Records.

Full band show.

https://www.facebook.com/RafRundell/