COAST

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COAST are Brilliant and should be bigger than they are right now, but times are changing and Europe loves their music . The world is for the taking. This album 10.2 is a fantastic introduction and the New song 'Flesh and Blood' shows how this band are evolving and going to be huge, being inspired by the sound of Runrig and Big Country.

Runrig recently said goodbye to the public stage after 45 years in the music business. Since the death of their charismatic singer Stuart Adamson in December 2001, Big Country have been sounding only a shadow of themselves.

In 1995, Dire Straits declared themselves "inactive", which they are to this day. And yet, fans of Celtic Rock don't have to starve. Because there has been a sextet around for 15 years, which combines all the advantages and power of the above-mentioned bands in a truly excellent way, powerful passion, great pathos and atmospherically expansive with songs that you can let yourself fall into, emotionally like an extra cozy down comforter or, optionally, a cozy cumulus cloud.

It is said to have been in 2007 when the two brothers Paul Eastham and Chris Barnes formed the group called COAST with their friend Finlay Wells, in their hometown in Scotland, where they've lived since they were children.

"At first we played in pubs, there were usually three or four people at the counter and encouraged us to keep going," Eastham remembers the early days of his combo. “But word quickly got around that there is a group in the region that has a lot of steam under its bum. Just six months later, we were performing in front of 300 to 400 people. Thanks to word-of-mouth and the internet, our fan base grew rapidly, well beyond the UK's borders. Suddenly, fans from Germany, Scandinavia and even the USA showed up at our gigs."

In such positive circumstances, it made sense to record an album. The nameless first record came out at the end of 2009. "The debut and its two successors were still pretty folk-oriented," recalls Paul. "But when it was time to record our retrospective album “10” on the occasion of our ten-year studio existence, we wanted to go in a rockier direction.

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Website: https://www.coast.band

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KIP MOORE

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“I’ve always felt different, like when other people see blue, I see red,” says singer/songwriter Kip Moore, explaining the thoughtful headspace behind his fourth studio album Wild World. But in times like these – when there’s no denying the world is indeed a wild one – it seems like, perhaps, Moore was right all along.

A revelatory collection written as Moore traveled the globe like a self-described lone wolf, it aims to make sense of a world battling nothing short of an identity crisis. Maui, Costa Rica, Australia, Scotland and beyond became the setting for Moore’s searching, and slowly, through isolation and nature, a simple peace emerged. It wasn’t the first time this blue-collar poet looked within for inspiration, but it’s become the clearest expression of the wisdom he found. And his timing couldn’t be better.

“Music is the one thing where I really try to unveil where I’m at mentally, where my soul is,” the MCA Nashville troubadour explains. “As you get older, you start thinking about bigger concepts and where you fit in the grand scheme of this whole thing, and I’ve always lived my life simple. But the more I’ve lived, the more I understand that all this stuff we crave and seek, I see how much of life is smoke and mirrors. When I strip it down to the bare essentials, that’s when I’m the most happy.”

This hasn’t always been Moore’s approach. He splashed into the mainstream with the double-Platinum “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck” in 2012, then followed up with three more best selling #1s (“Hey Pretty Girl,” “Beer Money” and “More Girls Like You”), a trio of ambitious, critically acclaimed albums and two gritty EPs. He toured the world headlining his own shows, earning acclaim and a fierce following as an all-in performer in each setting. But the Georgia native also found another side to success – the long stretches away, physical and emotional fatigue and the never-ending stress of staying “relevant.” 

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Website: http://www.kipmoore.net

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