Homesick Records - Label Homesick Records is an independent record label based in London.
It is fully independent and is here to help aspiring bands and performers get their feet off the ground in the world of music. It was founded by John McIvor and now with the addition of new staff members and the pressing development of artists on the label, it is time we shared it with all of you beautiful people. Homesick Records has already released two EP's for it's artists, and with many other
s in the pipeline it will certainly not be the last. So come join us and support us in our aim to promote and help unsigned talent in the UK and beyond...
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Check out The Amarylas NEW VIDEO! We got our Guerrilla Cam Man to follow the band around when they played The Vintage Festival 2011!
Video diary of The Amarylas trip to Vintage Festival. Summer 2011. The Amarylas are a London-based band with "a classic sound, Victorian-inspired lyrics, and...
John McIvor GIG TONIGHT
Looking forward to playing and seeing everyone at the The Luxe this evening! Weather has held out... I'll be at the venue from 5pm so come have a drink....
Check out NEW Miss Neeks & the Masquerades Fan Page VIDEO from Latitude Festival 2011
CONGRATULATIONS to The Amarylas - Band Of The Week!!!
The Amarylas | mySpoonful - a taste of new music
A classic sound with Victorian-inspired lyrics and an undeniably modern sensibility, The Amarylas are a band out of time. With lilting vocals and gritty instrumentation, these glam troubadours spawn forth tunes sometimes uplifting, sometimes trippy but always, always fascinating. Perhaps the most co
our people are coming home in boxes, but f**k it because X Factor is on...??
I dont get it, how can the general public support such a disgraceful show when there's a war on, papers are phone hacking, youths are rioting. Can't we see how they try to keep us occupied...?!
"Plastic Land" live @ The Hideaway
August 2011, John McIvor performing in North London at one of the Stroke Your Beard nights (www.strokeyourbeard.co.uk). John McIvor (www.johnmcivor.com) is a...
The Amarylas live TONIGHT at The Vintage Festival! http://www.facebook.com/TheVintageFestival?sk=app_103822229704881
Vintage celebrates the 20th century music, fashion, film, art, design and creativity that has made Britain a world cultural hotspot.
John McIvor LIVE TONIGHT I Folk Modern IV @ The Servant Jazz Quarters
JOHN MCIVOR LIVE TOMORROW NIGHT Folk Modern IV @ The Servant Jazz Quarters
Blank Jack Davy LIVE TONIGHT at The George Tavern, London!
**NEW SHOW ANNOUNCED** Blank Jack Davy at The George Tavern this SUNDAY 5TH JUNE. Visit: BOXCAR JOE'S JUKE JOINT for more info...
**NEW ARTIST** added to Homesick Records! Come and have a listen to The wonderful Psychadelic / Pop group - The Amarylas. Listen to them here...
Homesick Records - Label
John McIvor's story starts when he began writing his own songs at the tender age of twelve. John (born in Dublin, Ireland) was influenced by a diverse range of artists and soaked all of this influence up through his teens, until finally moving to London in 2005, aged eighteen. John played all kinds of music during his time in college, trying anything and everything. It wasn't until the summer of 2008 when things started to pave the way. John moved into a new house with friends and it was at this time that he set up a band around him, being accompanied on guitar by Tom Hill. Long nights were spent in a conservatory in Acton (London), listening to records, drinking red wine, and playing music. The influence of this period, the consideration and patience that it fostered, is at the heart of John’s music. After a long gestation, John was shown the open air at the Golden Cannon in Brighton on the 21st of February 2009.
With the aim of injecting something new to the sound that was already starting to solidify, John recruited drummer Boris Baumeister. Boris brought a voice all of his own, a dynamic range, and a rhythmic playfulness that lifted the songs by their bootlaces, taking the music to new territory (though one entirely sympathetic to the sound already defined by John, in that conservatory in Acton).
With the addition of Baumeister, hard work began on the first EP. Self-recorded and self-produced, it is a testament to the subtlety and emotional depth that some music can sometimes achieve. It has been described as “possessing qualities which are perfect for the genre; addictive, introspective and positively calming..." (Shelley Hanvey - eFestivals). The opening track, Heroes has found a particularly warm reception, especially live. From its opening chords, it builds, dragging the listener through deeper and deeper water, finishing with a wild, emotional crescendo.
The EP was released to an eager public and a sold-out Whelans (Dublin) in March 2010. Extensive gigging followed, including appearances at Isle of Wight Festival (headline act – Paul McCartney), Manchester's M.A.P.S. Festival, Little London Fields Festival, and the Flowerpot in Camden, London. The EP was aired on various radio broadcasts, including Tom Robinson's Introducing on BBC Radio 6Music, and other various online stations, followed by a performance on Balcony TV (London) in the summer 2010. Throughout the proceedings, new songs were being written, a tour of the UK and Ireland planned, and work began on a second EP planned for release in early 2011.
Soon after this the tour was on the brink. In his white transit van, John traveled with the band across the UK and Ireland. They covered 12 dates in three weeks, sowing their music where it would take root (notably, Islington's O2 Academy 2, the Troubadour in Earl's Court (London), Manchester’s Night and Day Café, and Dublin's The Palace).
While on tour in Ireland, the band entered Windmill Lane Studios (Dublin) for the last intensive recording session, resulting in their second EP, Institutionalised that was released April 1st 2011. The new material shows a maturing of John's distinctive sound; the same subtlety and emotional depth, but crystallized in a man now thoroughly comfortable in his own skin, confident, and uncompromising. With the addition of this EP to his catalogue, Johns music has now been aired on various digital and FM radio stations all over the world (including London, Manchester, Wales, Germany, Russia, and a couple of stations in America amongst others…).
2011 is set to be a big year for McIvor, with the release of Institutionalised, and two more EP releases planned for later in the year, including his long-awaited solo EP (due June 2011). John is also featured playing one of his songs on the Communion Records / Flowerpot compilation (due for release under Island Records in May 2011). The compilation also features artists such as Lissie, Damian Rice, The Staves, Angus and Julia Stone, and Alan Pownall.
Two months ago a rock like loganberry the size of a million huddled men shouldered its way past stars and ships to fester in our ocean, and from its rotten flaking shell seeped a new colour…a colour never before seen to our eyes and when the 6 o clock news showed pictures of it spitting and gurgling within our ocean it gave us all the sense of blindness.
Some people had started cracking up already over this early stage of the colours intrusion, overwhelmed to the point of despondency they walked their ailing streets and more were following suit with each passing hour.
The Amarylas on the other hand were thrilled....
The visions influenced from the tales of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells & Reece Jones, our great grandfathers victorian visions & inklings of the future and space travel whilst fusing the Glam, Punk, Pop, Blues, Grunge & Psychedelic yawns modern music has developed over the last half a century...
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