Category: Listen
Celeste wins the BBC Sound of 2020 poll
Celeste, who was first featured on Alfitude back in summer 2014, has topped one of the UK music industry’s most prestigious polls. On a personal note this is a pretty great choice and I’m looking forward to seeing how the year pans out for this talent.
Celeste 2020 UK/EU live dates:
January
16 – Eurosonic Festival
March
2 – O2 Southampton Guildhall, Southampton^ 3 – O2 Academy, Bournemouth ^5 – O2 Academy Brixton, London^ 6 – O2 Academy, Birmingham^ 7 – O2 Apollo, Manchester ^ 9 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge^ 10 – De Montford Hall, Leicester^ 12 – O2 Academy, Leeds^ 13 – O2 Academy, Newcastle^ 14 – Barrowlands, Glasgow^
April
21 – Belleville, Paris* 22 – Printemps De Bourges, Bourges* 24 – Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam* 25 – BIRD, Rotterdam* 27 – King Tuts, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)* 28 – Deaf Institute, Manchester (SOLD OUT)* 29 – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (SOLD OUT)*
May
1 – Les Nuits Botanique, Belgium* 5 – Standtgarten, Cologne* 6 – Kranhalle, Munich* 8 – Pitchfork Festival, Berlin
^supporting Michael Kiwanuka
*headline shows
Tyra Chantey – Never Had You
Polly Money – Roommate
“This song is the undeniable need to spend all of your hours lost in the person you love. Their place or yours it doesn’t matter as long as you are waking up next to them. It’s the surprise late night turn ups, it’s the falling head over and it’s wanting to build a home together. This song is for the hopeless romantics.”
Lianna – Trabajo Sucio
RAYE – Please Don’t Touch
Joel Ansett – Cadillac
“The idea for this song started while sitting at a red light and singing over the rhythm of my turn signal. It turned into a beat with some mumble lyrics about the strong feeling of missing something and the subtle sadness of not knowing what that thing is. My cure for this feeling is endless distraction but I’m starting to realise that’s a highly short term solution, and ultimately a way to avoid dealing with myself. To capture all those thoughts and emotions, I tried to write lyrics that were vague and specific at the exact same time.”
Lorentz – Intro (feat. Duvchi)
Julie Bergan – Kiss Somebody (with Seeb)
Tinashe – Stormy Weather
Skip Marley + H.E.R. – Slow Down
The Mowgli’s – Wasting Time
Stevie Wolf – Substances
Awinbeh – fever
Dotter – Dive
Mountain Bird – 5 Years
“I felt it had something youthful and cinematically beautiful about it…to realise that you love someone but the timing isn’t right is such a youthful ideal.”
Gabrielle Aplin & Nina Nesbitt – Miss You 2
Chef’Special – Trouble
This Dutch ensemble have already racked up 150 million Spotify streams with previous works and I just see them exploding even further with this sound.
