The record label was started in 2010 to help promote new and upcoming bands in Northampton and to celebrate music from previous generations.
A Northampton record label for Northampton people and Northampton bands. Northampton Under Glass is a re-issue 30 years on of a compilation cassette that was released in 1981 to showcase new Northampton bands. The re-issue features remastered tracks from the Northampton music scene in the early 80's and is the first release from White Elephant Records. So, if you want to find out some more about t
his release or future White Elephant Records activity then please contact us or check out the White Elephant Records facebook and myspace pages.
Great night Friday at The Black Prince, ULV and Joy Disposal Unit playing quality original sets demonstrating this town’s depth of talent. An audience that appreciated this and appeared to thoroughly enjoy the night and then a set from Aliens that put a smile on a lot of faces
Tonight, The Black Prince, Abington Square, Northampton.
There’s no footie, the tele is sh*te so what else have you got to do?
Come spend the evening with some lovely people
Support local music, local venues, local musicians
If you enjoyed this fabulous exhibition, and many of you did, then head for The Black Prince on Friday 12th July when one of the bands that were heavily featured will be performing, Aliens
The first Hushed gig of 2023 at The Lab Club Northampton. The Vincent Vega Band played a cracking set, of which we have shared three.Also featured in #1 The ...
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We are back at The Lab for the first time in a while. Come down and enjoy us open the evening with our swinging melancholia.
It’s got to be livelier than the footie
Coming soon
Out now on all streaming services, All That Glitters, the new single from Northampton's oldest boy band x
Apple
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/all-that-glitters/1731735808?i=1731735809
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/2pw6QFdyy6FnNwzE8gM3eH
Bandcamp
https://thevincentvegaband.bandcamp.com/track/all-that-glitters
A lovely man , so proud to have helped a little bit in the release of his fine album.
The fifth Hushed gig of 2023 at The Lab Club Northampton. This month we combined creative forces with the regular spoken word night 'Raising The Awen' to bri...
Track taken fron the Aliens album ' Nothing much to Lose'on White Elephant Records 2023
A new album from the almost legendary Aliens, shot through with the crashing guitars and nifty riffs that you might expect from the long serving four-piece lo-fi garage band. Though, Aliens always favoured melody with their brand of sonic noise and here it is in evidence from track one through to the end of an album that harks back to a time when ‘songs’ were important. A couple of old numbers sit nicely alongside more recent offerings; it’s a blast from the past and a blast from the future, because Aliens can travel in time as well as space!
The new release from WER, the legendary ‘Aliens’
New release before Christmas, linking in with the excellent Punk Exhibition at the Northampton Museum, more news next week
The VVB at The V&B. The oldest but cutest boy band in town will be performing this coming Sunday at The V&B , St Giles Square, Northampton. They will be on at 4isjh followed by Russell Hayworth at 5.
Come along, enjoy some stripped back Shoetown loveliness, support local music and venues.
The new album 'Sunset Over Stillwater' is officially released on 11th November. I will have some advance copies to sell at up and coming gigs or you can order via Bandcamp (or PM me if you are in the Northampton area - I can get a copy to you). https://paulmcox.bandcamp.com/album/sunset-over-stillwater
Current live dates are:
Saturday 22nd October 2022
The Charles Bradlaugh (Northampton) with Venus Fly Trap and Blackmail Tapes
Friday 11th November 2022 (CD Release)
The Black Prince (Northampton) with Rosalie Cunningham and Khartoum
Review: Pulse Alternative Magazine
PAUL M COX-Sunset Over Stillwater CD
(WHITE ELEPHANT RECORDS)
Those familiar with Northampton’s fertile music scene will recognise the name PAUL M COX as lead vocalist with several blues-based, hard rock bands such as Earthmovers, Heartbreakers and Osiris. This latest project finds Paul taking a far more measured route to deliver 10 acoustic tracks that weave themselves into the album Sunset Over Stillwater.
It seems that we are currently living in a golden age of acoustic singer/songwriters so it takes something special to rise above the melee, and Paul’s unique fusion of folk, blues and Americana does exactly that. With notes shining like stars in a crystalline sky, Sunset Over Stillwater gets off to the best possible start with ‘Silver And Gold’. It’s a confident opener that’s delivered by an artist who has reached a pinnacle, and is taking time to survey all around him. Encased in shades of autumn, ‘Silver And Gold’ (and indeed the whole album) is painted from a palette of rustic reds, burnt yellows and conker browns, and it’s these hues which gives the album its unique texture. Sunset Over Stillwater is an intricately woven tapestry with the songs interconnected to create a fluctuating, fluid, picture.
It’s a strange anomaly, but some of the best Americana is currently being produced right here in the UK, and there’s definitely a West Coast influence on the title track, and it’s the same kind of influence that held sway over many a Led Zeppelin song. However, there’s also a quintessentially English feel to Paul’s song writing, and the following ‘Classical Jazz’ saunters with an eccentricity only found in UK progressive rock acts such as Stackridge; it’s slightly off kilter, but charming nonetheless. There’s also a contemplative melancholy to many of these tunes (which could only come from one who has grown up under slate grey English skies) and ‘Molly’ has all the dark delights found in the Nick Drake songbook, and it’s testament to Paul’s skill that it nestles next to the jaunty ‘Blackbird’ so effortlessly.
Paul’s vocals are very versatile, and (to my ears, at least) occasionally sounds like John Lennon, and sometimes Robert Plant, as he tailors his timbre to suit each song. As with the music his words have an autumnal vibe; it’s as if his vocal cords have been soaked in whiskey, and within an oak cask, and this gives an authoritative air to cuts such as ‘Too Close To The Sun’ and ‘Utopia’. With Beatle-esque harmonies ‘Caroline’s Dreams’ makes for a haunting closer, and it manages to occupy that magical space between wake and sleep, and the sudden stop that curtails ‘Caroline’s Dream’ is the alarm that breaks the spell.
I’m picking up strong “Wicker Man” vibes from the sleeve which houses Sunset Over Stillwater, and any of these 10 tracks would sit happily on that soundtrack. But this album has a magic of its own, and I suggest you submit to its mystical charms.
10 track album
My Beautiful Decays’debut EP is available to pre order on your favourite steaming platform now. If you would like to buy the CD, it is available either by messaging us on this page or the band on their page or via theirBandcamp page.
https://mybeautifuldecay.bandcamp.com/releases
https://ditto.fm/the-spaces-in-between-my-beautiful-decay
Listen to The Spaces In-Between
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the latest release on White Elephant Records. This lovely three track EP by My Beautiful Decay, titled ‘ the spaces in-between’ captures the original song writing talents of Tony Mead, Christian Halls and Hugh Mulligan. Names that might be familiar to local discerning music followers from their previous work in Just Fontaine, One Leaf Falls and The Vincent Vega Band. Working together for the first time as My Beautiful Decay we hope you enjoy the EP as much as we do.
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Great night Friday at The Black Prince, ULV and Joy Disposal Unit playing quality original sets demonstrating this town’s depth of talent. An audience that appreciated this and appeared to thoroughly enjoy the night and then a set from Aliens that put a smile on a lot of faces
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