Nick Mulvey: Last News

Dermot Kennedy has been announced as the final headliner at this year’s All Points East festival in London.The Irish singer will close out out the bash at Victoria Park on Sunday, August 27 alongside SG Lewis, Olivia Dean, James Vincent McMorrow, Nick Mulvey, Novo Amor, Moncrieff, Rachel Chinouriri and Áine Deane.Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT this Thursday (April 6) – you’ll be able to purchase yours here. A pre-sale is also due to go live at 9am today – sign up here.All Points East 2023 is also due to host performances from The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (August 25), Jungle (26) and Haim (28).Additionally, APE will stage this year’s Field Day in Victoria Park on August 19.

The Damned have been forced to cancel their Glastonbury 2022 set this weekend after a number of positive COVID-19 tests were recorded in the band’s camp.The band had been due to headline the festival’s Avalon Stage on Friday (June 24) following sets from Sugababes and Nick Mulvey.The Damned previously told their fans on Saturday (June 18) that a member of the band had tested positive, forcing the cancellation of their planned gigs on Saturday and yesterday (June 20).The latest update from the band has been issued this afternoon (June 21). “Further to our previous updates, there have been more positive COVID tests in the Damned camp and consequently we’re having to withdraw from all remaining June appearances, including Bath, Glastonbury and the Die Artze show in Germany,” they wrote on Twitter.Apologies to all the fans who were looking forward to seeing The Damned, we were looking forward to seeing you all too ! Until the next time..— The Damned (@thedamned) June 21, 2022“Apologies to all the fans who were looking forward to seeing The Damned, we were looking forward to seeing you all too! Until the next time..”The Field of Avalon team have subsequently confirmed that Reef will now headline the Avalon Stage in place of The Damned.“With massive regret, The Damned have been forced to withdraw from Glastonbury due to COVID,” organisers said in a statement.

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Nick Mulvey has shared his new single ‘A Prayer Of My Own’ – watch the lyric video below and buy tickets for his upcoming North American dates here.The track is the second single to be released from his third album ‘New Mythology’, which is due on June 10 via Fiction Records.Mulvey released his Mercury Prize-nominated debut album ‘First Mind’ in 2014, following it up three years later with a second full-length called ‘Wake Up Now’.‘Star Nation’, ‘New Mythology’’s first single, was released in February along with a video directed by Kate Bellm.New single ‘A Prayer Of My Own’ was written during the first wave of the pandemic and recorded in Paris with producer Renaud Letang. The track explores the process of grief and redemption, with Mulvey asking listeners to think more about the future of our planet and society.“I do it for my own, my little boy, my little girl. And we do it for our home, if we do it for the world,” he sings as the track builds around a soaring backdrop.“I want to provide refuge for listeners,” Mulvey said about ‘New Mythology’, “refuge in these times.

AURORA, Max Richter, and more have been announced as guests on Fay Milton’s Sounds Like A Plan podcast, where they’ll discuss how the music world is responding to the climate crisis.The podcast – hosted by the Savages drummer and activist, along with journalist Greg Cochrane – is set to return for its third season today (March 30) and is set to share 10 new episodes of conversations with music and climate change-makers.The series will explore a broad range of topics including, bringing veganism to the live music experience, visiting one of the UK’s only “carbon positive” music recording spaces, the innovative collaborations happening between climate scientists and musicians, and how music can play a role in mainstream climate communication.A post shared by Sounds Like A Plan (@soundslikeaplanpodcast)The podcast also plans to dig into the threat to indigenous people and culture in the regions most severely affected by extreme weather and the links between climate, mental health and songwriting.“It’s easy to get dragged into feeling hopeless about the world, but there are also so many positive and beautiful things coming out of the challenges we face,” Milton said.The music world is full of creative minds and when those minds get turned to environmental and social causes, all manner of wonderful things come out. Each interview has left me with a head full of new ideas.”Other upcoming guests include Nick Mulvey, Ugandan rapper Jaspher Ewany, and climate communication and storytelling specialist, Nicky Hawkins.Milton has been heavily involved in climate activism for some time.

Nick Mulvey has shared a cinematic new short film – watch Begin Again first on NME below.The film expands on the themes set out in the singer’s 2020 EP of the same name, which came out back in July.“I see chaos but I also see the opportunity for a new world, and a more beautiful one,” Mulvey says of the short film, which tackles the idea of a fresh start following the coronavirus, as well as topics such as nature, sustainability and family.“We are living through an incredible shift.