Get a free Gigulate account now Login Signup
×

Join Gigulate,
it's free!

Start tracking your favourite bands and get access to automagical music news!
or login
RSS

Every story, every source. Never miss a thing.

Gwilym Simcock live session: How I wrote ... These are the Good Days

4876 days ago
Guardian MusicJazz pianist Gwilym Simcock performs a track from his latest solo album, Good Times at Schloss ElmauBen KapeAndy Gallagher more info

Huw Stephens launches Welsh music prize

4888 days ago
Guardian MusicRadio 1 DJ announces new award to celebrate the year's best album by a Welsh artistRadio 1 DJ Huw Stephens has announced a new award to celebrate the year's best album by a Welsh artist. Modeled on Scandinavia's Nordic Council music prize and Canada'... more info

This week's new live music

4895 days ago
Guardian MusicWarm Brains, LondonThere are a million shades to a British indie rock occasionally thought of as uniformly grey, and whether as producer or musician, Rory Attwell has roamed across this spectrum. A one-time member of the shortlived Test Icicles and l... more info

Click to Download: Mercury shortlist, Bill Ryder-Jones and Wugazi

4904 days ago
Guardian MusicOf the 12 albums on the Mercury shortlist, 11 can be listened to in full, for free, on SpotifyThese days, as soon as the Mercury shortlist is revealed, you can go online and decide whether the judging panel is talking nonsense or not. Of the 12 album... more info

Gwilym Simcock Nominated For 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize

4905 days ago
AltsoundsGwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize – An Album of the Year Pianist Gwilym Simcock's solo album Good Days at Schloss Elmau has been nominated for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize as one of the 12 best... more info

The Impossible Gentlemen: The Impossible Gentlemen - review

4938 days ago
Guardian Music(Basho)Last year, this world-class Anglo-US quartet (touring the UK until 23 June) first unveiled the breadth of its appeal – from byzantine contemporary bebop to raw, Hendrix-like guitar blues by way of Pat Metheny's lyricism and Gwilym Simcock's... more info

Impossible Gentlemen – review

4939 days ago
Guardian MusicPizza Express, LondonThe word is that every night of the current UK tour by the Anglo/US quartet the Impossible Gentlemen has been different so far, and given the technical firepower of the individuals and their swashbuckling confidence, it seems lik... more info

This week's new live music

4944 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Horrors, On tourIt was obvious when they appeared on NME's cover in 2006 in Victorian gaoler chic that the Horrors had something, although what that might be wasn't clear from the endearingly rubbish garage-goth rumble of their debut. However, th... more info

The Impossible Gentlemen: The Impossible Gentlemen – review

4950 days ago
Guardian Music(Basho)When you're dealing with this level of accomplishment, generations mean nothing. The Impossible Gentlemen are four musicians: pianist Gwilym Simcock (30), guitarist Mike Walker (48), drummer Adam Nussbaum (55) and bassist Steve Swallow (70).Ea... more info

Iiro Rantala: Lost Heroes – review

5050 days ago
Guardian Music(ACT)Gwilym Simcock is an admirer of the remarkable Iiro Rantala, Finland's best-known jazz pianist, and you can hear why. Like the younger Simcock, Rantala's solo work draws on classical music as much as jazz, and fizzes with glittering contrapuntal... more info

Recent news history

Recent postings in the past month

30 days ago
Yesterday
Build a customised Gwilym Simcock widget

Explore

About

What's Gigulate?

  • Find all the bands everybody is talking about in news and blogs. Then see them live. Faster.
  • The sharpest music minds plugged into the world's greatest music machine.
  • Find out more