James Skelly: Last News

Blossoms have shared their new single ‘To Do List (After The Breakup)’, inspired by the viral poetry book Milk And Honey by Rupi Kaur.The track features Manchester singer Findlay and was produced by James Skelly. It marks the first new music since their 2022 LP ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb‘.

The Coral have shared their latest song ‘Oceans Apart’ featuring Cillian Murphy from their forthcoming album ‘Sea of Mirrors’.‘Oceans Apart’ serves as the forthcoming album’s closing track. The Peaky Blinders star provides a vocal cameo towards the end of the song. Murphy’s collaboration with the band stemmed from the LP’s co-producer Sean O’Hagan.The band have described the track as “The ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Queen would’ve written if, instead of touring the world, they stayed in watching cinecittà studios films and listening to Gene Clark’Speaking to NME about the unlikely team-up, The Coral frontman James Skelly recalled: “Sean was like, ‘Oh I know someone.

The Coral have shared a new single this week that features actor John Simm – listen to it below.Recently, the band spoke to NME about how Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy and Life On Mars lead actor Simm hooked up with the band for the release of two new albums in 2023.The new song, ‘Drifter’s Prayer’, is the first track to be taken from ‘Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medical Show’, which will be released on September 8. Another album, ‘Sea Of Mirrors’ will also be released on the same day, and is inspired by ’60s Italian spaghetti western films. The first track from that, ‘Wild Bird’, was shared last month. The latest song release features narration from Simm.

The Coral have shared their cinematic string-laden new single ‘Wild Bird’ – and spoken to NME about how Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy and Life On Mars lead actor John Simm hooked up with the band for not one, but two albums in 2023.Inspired by the dusty desert landscapes of ’60s Italian spaghetti westerns, the band’s 11th studio album ‘Sea Of Mirrors’ finds the Liverpool five-piece crafting their own “surreal” gun-slinging soundtrack.“I was watching this documentary about Italian westerns and I liked this idea that they were a vehicle for creativity,” frontman James Skelly told NME. “I thought I’d love to use that medium to make an almost surreal western, but as if [late Italian director Frederico] Fellini had directed it.

The Coral have announced plans for a UK book tour entitled ‘The Making Of The Debut Album’ next month.Frontman James Skelly and keyboardist Nick Power will hit the road at Chester Storyhouse on March 8 before wrapping up at Lytham St Annes Lowther Pavilion on March 20.The tour will see the pair in conversation about the book which “shares the story of their journey as childhood friends right through to the making of their remarkable debut album” according to a press release.The show will also feature a short acoustic performance of songs from their 2002 self-titled debut album. Tickets for the shows, which you can view below, go on sale this Friday and can be purchased here.In 2024 we will embark on some more of the debut album book tour with @JamesSkellyBand and @Holynowhere.

The Coral have released a remastered version of their 2002 hit ‘Dreaming Of You’ to mark its 20th anniversary this year.The track is also part of the forthcoming reissue of the band’s self-titled 2002 debut album, which is set for release on March 4 via Run On Records in association with Modern Sky.Coral frontman James Skelly said in a press release that ‘Dreaming Of You’ “nearly didn’t make the album” 20 years ago.“It was a song we hadn’t yet recorded during the main studio sessions, but when [producer Ian] Broudie heard it, he said it had to be on there,” Skelly recalled. “We went back into the studio to get down this angular version that fitted the rest of the album.“I’d had the song since meeting [Shack founders] Mick and John Head for the first time, and they said they really liked our stuff.

The Coral have shared the latest taste of their forthcoming 10th album ‘Coral Island’, in the form of new psychedelic pop track ‘Vacancy’.You can watch a lyric video for the organ-led new single below, which is the third taste of the Wirral band’s upcoming double album, which is released on April 30.“We boarded a ghost train with T. S.