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Scoop
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
The Teskey Brothers' 'Live At The Hammersmith Apollo' Is Out Now
In celebration of three triumphant sold-out shows at London's iconic Hammersmith Apollo last year, The Teskey Brothers release new album Live At The Hammersmith Apollo – out on digital, CD & vinyl today. The release comes off the back of the band's biggest single headline show to date in London last night at Alexandra Palace, playing to 10,000+ fans to mark the final chapter of a world-conquering, two-year-long tour in support of their acclaimed #1 ARIA-charting album The Winding Way. Live At The Hammersmith Apollo is an immersive extension of the band's rich and beloved catalogue, featuring songs from, The Winding Way, a powerful cover of Otis Redding's 'Try A Little Tenderness' and for the first time on vinyl/CD, one of the band's early hits, 'Forever You and Me'. 'We always love recording to tape and we wanted to make this live album special, so we wheeled a big old tape machine into the Apollo for three nights. The sound is exactly what we wanted: a warm, lively snapshot of some very fun shows in London.' – Josh Teskey In keeping with the band's love for analogue, Live At The Hammersmith Apollo was recorded entirely to tape, just as live albums by Bruce Springsteen ('75), David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust '73) and countless others would have been recorded in the same room. London-based producer/engineer Declan Gaffney was tapped to handle the technical side, having previously engineered and mixed live albums for U2 and The Rolling Stones. Gaffney set up a makeshift studio behind the stage curtain where the tape rolled through a StuderA80 borrowed from the famous Metropolis Studios just down the road. Nostalgia aside, the record is above all an ode to the brothers' famed chemistry and dynamics onstage, bolstered by band members Olaf Scott (keys), Fabian Hunter (bass), Audrey Powne (trumpet), Nick Lawrence (drums) and Lily Shaw (sax), who have all been touring with The Teskey Brothers since 2023. Live At The Hammersmith Apollo is The Teskey Brothers' sixth album. Most recent release The Winding Way debuted at #1 on the ARIA Chart, won Best Blues & Roots Album at the 2023 ARIA Awards and Best Record of 2023 at the Rolling Stone Awards. Following its release, the band played sold-out shows across the world and a prime set on The Other Stage (3pm Sunday) at Glastonbury in 2023. The Winding Way was the highly anticipated follow-up to Run HomeSlow - a colossal success by anyone's standards, reaching #2 on the ARIA charts, winning 3 ARIA Awards and saw Sam Teskey earn a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album - all watering the grass for sold-out headline tours across the world. More significantly, Run Home Slow fulfilled the promise of their highly acclaimed debut record, 2017's Half Mile Harvest, cementing The Teskey Brothers as a classy modern band with an appetite for classic soul and R&B music. Live At The Hammersmith Apollo is available now on limited edition red & white marble vinyl, CD & digital services. DIGITAL & CD TRACKLIST 1. Man Of The Universe 2. Oceans Of Emotions 3. Take My Heart 4. London Bridge 5. Carry Me Home 6. Paint My Heart 7. What Will Be 8. Try A Little Tenderness 9. Forever You And Me 10. I'm Leaving VINYL TRACKLIST Side A Man Of The Universe Oceans Of Emotions Take My Heart London Bridge Carry Me Home Side B What Will Be Forever You And Me
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sly & the Family Stone's Earliest Known Live Recordings to Be Issued on New Album
Close to 60 years since they were committed to tape, the earliest known live recordings of Sly & the Family Stone will be released this year. Dubbed The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967, the collection of unearthed live cuts will be issued on July 18 via High Moon. More from Billboard The Weeknd Wanders Through Purgatory in 'Baptized in Fear' Music Video Miley Cyrus Says Madonna 'Was Down' to Mud Wrestle in a '4x4' Music Video, But Her Label Said No Belinda's 'Indómita' Album & More Best New Music Latin They'll be available as digital, vinyl and CD editions, with physical copies being issued with a booklet featuring never-before-seen photos, interviews with Sly Stone and original band members, and liner notes from producer Alex Palao. The CD edition will also feature their cover of Otis Redding's 'Try A Little Tenderness' as an exclusive bonus track. Recorded on March 26, 1967, the live set sees the influential group performing as part of their four-month residency at the Winchester Cathedral club in Redwood City, California. Recorded by first manager Rich Romanello, the tapes were soon shelved, but later rediscovered in 2002 by Dutch twins and band archivists Edwin and Arno Konings. 'The Winchester Cathedral recordings showcase a one-of-kind outfit that was already at the peak of its powers, long before it became internationally famous,' said Palao in a statement. 'Sly is fully in command, while the unique arrangements and tighter-than-tight ensemble playing point clearly to the road ahead, and the enduring influence of Sly & the Family Stone's music.' Alongside the announcement of the package, a preview of the record has been released by way of final track, 'I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Floor)/Funky Broadway.' Despite being recorded in March 1967, the live set features no tracks which would appear on their debut album – A Whole New Thing – when it arrived in October of that year. Largely comprising cover songs, only the opening track, 'I Ain't Got Nobody (For Real),' would be issued on one of the band's albums, appearing on Dance to the Music in 1968. Sly & the Family Stone would release a total of ten albums across their 19-year career, with the band coming to an end in 1983, and later being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Stone would release a solo album in 1975, with his most recent full-length release being 2011's I'm Back! Family & Friends. Earlier this year, Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson directed the film Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), which provided a deeper look into the life and legacy of its titular musical mastermind. 'I wanted to investigate and interrogate the idea of Black genius. How is it different from the idea of genius in general? What is the effect of being saddled with that label? How much promise is built into it, how much fear and how much unreasonable expectation?' Questlove said in a statement. 'Sly wanted to take you higher — I hope that this film also takes you deeper.' Listen to 'I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Floor)/Funky Broadway' below: Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
