Felix White: Last News

The Maccabees‘ Felix and Hugo White have announced that they’ve formed a new band with brother Will called 86TVs.As revealed by Felix today (July 15), the band played a debut gig for friends and family at London’s Omeara last night, with new music and further live performances promised before the end of the year. The band is completed by Jamie Morrison on drums.“I’ve been making a record with my brothers for the past few years,” Felix wrote on Instagram alongside footage of last night’s gig.

Noel Gallagher has shared the acts who will be supporting him at his huge upcoming UK shows this summer. Find ticket details below.Announced today (March 8), the newly-announced acts will be the ones joining the singer’s shows with High Flying Birds later this year, including a slot at Robin Park in Wigan and one at Alexandra Palace Park on July 20.The first of the live shows kicks off at Cardiff Castle on Wednesday, July 17, and sees the band joined by special guests The Big Moon.Taking place the next day (July 18), the Wigan show will see the former Oasis member line-up two artists as support: The Lottery Winners – who recently topped the UK album charts with their latest LP ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ – and rising Manchester band The Slow Reader’s Club.As for the performance in London two days later (July 20), Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will be supported by indie legends Echo & The Bunnymen, as well as 86TVs – comprised of renowned indie brothers Hugo, Felix and Will White.The final of the huge headline shows this summer is the upcoming set at The Piece Hall in Halifax.

The Maccabees spin-off band, 86TVs, have announced their debut EP ‘You Don’t Have To Be Yourself Right Now’.Comprised of former Maccabees duo Hugo and Felix White, their younger brother and solo artist Will White, and drummer Jamie Morrison (Stereophonics, Noisettes), the band are set to release their first EP as 86TVs on January 26. You can pre-save it here.‘You Don’t Have To Be Yourself Right Now’ will feature the band’s previously released singles ‘Worn Out Buildings’ and ‘Higher Love’ alongside two brand new tracks, ‘Spinning World’ and ‘Dreaming’.The EP was recorded during sessions split between the band’s own Olympic Studios and The Bunker at 13, owned by Stephen Street (Blur, Suede), who produced all four tracks along with the band.Speaking about the project in a press release, the band shared: “‘You Don’t Have To Be Yourself Right Now’ is our first ever group of songs to sit together in a collection.

86TV‘s Felix White has recalled the time when he chased Noel Gallagher out of an HMV store when he was a teenager.Appearing as a guest on Radio X’s The Evening Show, hosted by Dan O’Connell, The former Maccabees guitarist shared his experience on meeting the Oasis brothers back in the day. “I was completely obsessed with Oasis,” he told the presenter.White went on to explain his perfect encounter with Liam Gallagher and how he met him at age 16 while on his way to see Oasis support Neil Young in Paris during the ‘Heathen Chemistry‘ Oasis era.“Liam was on the Eurostar and I had a disposable camera and I very very very nervously asked for a disposable photo, which he said yes to and did the perfect B-boy stance next to me in a photo as I’m going bright red,” he said.

The Maccabees’ Felix White has spoken about how Johnny Marr helped steer the direction of new music with his comeback band 86TVs.The group – comprising Felix’s brothers Hugo and Will (the latter formerly of mid-noughties indie band Talk Taxis and his solo project BLANc) and The Noisettes’ drummer Jamie Morrison – recently released their debut single ‘Worn Out Buildings’.Speaking to NME in a recent interview about writing post-Maccabees and the direction of the new band, Felix explained how The Smiths guitarist and songwriter gave them some important advice for their new material.The band recalled that for the first year of the project, “it was completely instrumental and we were writing music we thought could be a soundtrack or we’d get someone else to sing on”.However, eventually they were convinced by Marr to sing on the tracks themselves.“I think The Maccabees had just split up, but I’d read Johnny Marr’s autobiography, which I loved, and it was a really striking time to read it because a lot of his life has been about reinvention and change,” Felix recalled.He continued: “So there was a correlation in my head at that particular moment in my life with what Johnny’s book had said. I bumped into him at the NME Awards and said, ‘Can I send you some music? We’ve just been doing some instrumental music and we don’t know if it’s good’.

The Magic Gang are set to host a special live-streamed event to mark the arrival of their forthcoming second album ‘Death Of The Party’.The Brighton four-piece will release the follow-up to their 2018 self-titled debut this coming Friday (August 28), and will be celebrating with their Death Of The Live Stream broadcast next Wednesday (September 2).It will air via YouTube and Facebook Live from 5pm until midnight, with participation from Sports Team, former Maccabees member Felix White, Swim Deep‘s Cavan McCarthy, Spector‘s Fred Macpherson and The Vaccines‘ Justin Young.To celebrate the release of our album, we're taking phone calls from you- the viewer, for 7 hours straight! We'll be live streaming the entirety and will be joined by very

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