Jazz chat time. Miles Davis' post-Coltrane, pre-Shorter era is hugely underrated. This record is sensational (as are the live recordings with George Coleman on tenor).

We've been figuring out how to play those old songs again, ready for our 3 shows in November. Ahead of that we invited a few friends along to our local to witness us bash through some oldies. watch If Only The Moon Were Up (Locked-in at The Bridge Hotel Vaults) right now. youtu.be/gba47SajbUA?...

We’re very pleased to announce that on the 24th October, we’re releasing a specially-expanded 20th anniversary version of our self-titled debut album. fieldmusic.ffm.to/fmstore.XQL

If anyone's after one, I've got a spare ticket going for this sold-out show tonight, as I bought one before later being asked to host it.

Now with yours truly involved as the host/inquisitor...

The Kane Gang are thrilled to announce that they will be performing on Frid 01/08/25 at @TheFireStation.bsky.social as part of their #FireStationSummerParties Aided & Abetted by @fieldmusicmusic.bsky.social & Special Guest TBA (Tickets ➡️ The Fire Station - Live Music, Theatre & Performance Venue

Another one of those mad schemes where everything that makes an area desirable from a developer's point of view is threatened by their development. A few days left to let them know that this is a terrible idea.

On Wednesday the 14th May, we'll be at @poprecsltd.bsky.social for Sunderland Shorts Film Festival talking through the ups and downs of the vast Field Music videography. sunderlandshorts.co.uk/ssff2025/sch...

August 2025 marks twenty years since the release of Field Music's self-titled debut album. To celebrate this momentous and terrifying anniversary, we’re reconvening the original Field Music trio for three special shows playing songs from that first, formative incarnation of the band.

D: The songs I contributed to Washington Heritage Partnership and We Make Culture's "The Ballad of the Crocodile and the Underpass" project are now available to listen to and buy on Bandcamp: wemakeculture.bandcamp.com/album/the-ba...

Apologies to anyone who'd been planning to travel to Glasgow for the Kane Gang show at St Luke's. We've had to postpone it - it'll now be on Sunday 6th April. Wishing Martin all the best as he gets back to full fitness.

😂 "too long". Anyway, our brass album will be widely available soon.

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As Friday night was our first ever trip to Dingwalls (backing up The Kane Gang) and in a couple of weeks it'll be our first ever visit to the Union Chapel, we had a bit of a laugh in the van trying to remember every venue we've ever played in London. Monarch, Falcon, Enterprise, Koko, 93 Ft East...

A big thank you to @stuartmaconie.bsky.social for spinning (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing on BBC 6Music on Sunday and for mentioning our upcoming Celtic Connections show. Our run of gigs starts on Thursday in Sunderland and goes through til the 8th Feb in London. Info here: field-music.co.uk

Less than 20 tickets left for FM @ Pop Recs - if you wanna come, get on it tout suite.

ANNOUNCEMENT: We've added a Sunderland warm-up show to the tour itinerary. We'll be at @poprecsltd.bsky.social on Thursday 30th Jan, supported by Oldman. Tickets on sale now. www.musicglue.com/pop-recs-ltd/

Well, this was unexpected. Thanks so much to Justin Hawkins for devoting a chunk of his time to our music. What a lovely, lovely fella. www.youtube.com/watch?v=99of...

It's now less than 4 weeks til our UK tour kicks off, taking in Glasgow, Carlisle, Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and London. We'll be joined for all shows by The Golden Dregs. Ticket links for all shows are on our website: field-music.co.uk/.../limits-o...

In April we'll have the privilege of helping our pal Ross "Futureheads" Millard perform the music for this grand theatrical collaboration with the National Theatre at @thefirestation.bsky.social.

Happy New Year everyone! Before I get down to real work of touting all the gigs we've got coming up, I'm going to recommend (again) an alternative to the big streamers. I've been using Qobuz for a while - it's like having a record collection on your computer. I love it. www.qobuz.com/gb-en/discover

Two more gigs with The Kane Gang coming up in the new year!

If you haven't quite had your fill of me and Peter talking about stuff, you can now listen to our interview with Birthday Cake for Breakfast. It's daft but detailed - everything from dodgy knees to metal to the SNES to harmonic research: birthdaycakebreakfast.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/l...

Btw Qobuz who pay their artists the most per stream are doing a 30 day free trial atm

The first in a series of mini-Field Musicasts is now live. We're going to go through the new album track by track, lyrics and music and general wanging on. Here's Six Weeks, Nine Wells: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

By sheer coincidence, or possibly terrible planning, things are about to get extremely podcastastic around here. Today our chat with Matt Royal for the Sending Signals podcast has gone live, next week we're featured in a Birthday Cake for Breakfast and, if that wasn't enough,...

Well, that was a really fun thing to be involved in - raising loads of money & playing amazing songs with our best pals (and some new pals too). Big love to @frankiefrancis.bsky.social, @thelakepoets.bsky.social and to the Fire Station and Sunderland Music City for making it happen. 📷 Thomas Jackson

I can say definitively that the set list for the show on Sunday is God tier. I can't say definitively that we'll play everything right.

Super proud of the whole Young Musicians Project team (esp my missus) and of YMP alumnus Isabel Maria, who won cute little wooden trophies at #necultureawards last night. They made it happen by slogging away, embracing their community and always trying to make it good. 😘

Once again, by accident mostly, it looks like we're going to be Sunderland's House Band™️- this time with lots of lovely folk raising money for the Love, Amelia charity. The theme is Live Aid. So, which Live Aid performance should we tee up for Dec 8th? www.thefirestation.org.uk/whats-on/295...

Check it out in @electronicsound.bsky.social. Thanks @bobfischer.bsky.social!

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Wow. It's great that so many of you are over here now. Would be a good time for me to come up with A grade material. But until then, Hold Me Now by the Thompson Twins is a really cool record.

Farewell Quincy. youtu.be/hUIpNOBinm0?...

As well as everything else going on, today is also the release day for FM keyboard darling Liz Corney's debut album. I had the pleasure of helping her put together these 34 minutes of pure Liz-ness and I'm overjoyed it's finally out in the world: lizcorney.bandcamp.com/album/we-nee...

It's now a week since Limits of Language escaped into the world. Thanks to everyone who's given it a listen and to everyone who's bought it or who's been to see one of our instore shows. We only have 2 instores left to go before we put the drum machine away for a while...

If you'd like an insight into the workings of our brains, this piece on @thequietus.bsky.social might be one of the best ways to get it: Snapshots from our whole "career", up to and including the new album. Huge thanks to Jonathan Wright for making some sense of us. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

It's now just one week til our 9th (or 12th, or 21st, depending on how you're counting) album Limits of Language hits the shelves. We're doing a fairly extensive run of in-store shows starting in Letchworth on Thursday: buy the record, get a pass for the show.

We've been so busy with Limits of Language activity, we've neglected to tell you all about two further (and final) dates aiding & abetting The Kane Gang for their first live performances since, gulp, 1984. On 24th Jan, we'll be with them at Dingwalls in Camden axs.com/events/67956...

Treat yourself to a frothy coffee - BBC 6Music have kindly included The Waitress of St Louis' on the #newmusicfix playlist: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 📷 And don't forget tickets for our Feb tour go on sale this morning at 10am. Details at field-music.co.uk 📷 @martintype.bsky.social

New song: The Waitress of St Louis', streaming now New tour: Feb 2025, go to field-music.co.uk for info Sign up to the mailing list for early access to tickets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMG...

If you fancy hearing our new single (and a little bit of behind the scenes info on how we made it) get tuning into BBC 6Music now.

Can someone please dissuade me from giving away midi files for the new album via bandcamp. I think the venn diagram between our audience and the kind of people who would get a kick from a goofy midi file is basically a circle.

Made a facetious comment about the new album sounding like Avalon with Billy Strayhorn harmonies, but maybe it wasn't so facetious after all.

I come to Bluesky when I don't want to have some guy's dreadful production "advice" shoved in my face.

As well as making a new Field Music record, we've also had the crazy privilege of helping with this 40-year-in-the-making Kane Gang reunion. We'll be their backing band for a show at the Fire Station in Sunderland in November. Tickets on sale at 10am Fri 16th.

On October 11th, Field Music will release Limits of Language, our first album of new music for almost four years. Available to pre-order now (including a special Dinked Edition on blue and white splatter vinyl with extra track on flexidisc) ffm.bio/limitsoflang...

See that? That's the first Field Music show for two years, alongside a whole bunch of excellent musical artistes at the 10th anniversary edition of Summer Streets Festival in Sunderland. Haven't got a clue what we're going to do but it'll probably be canny.