Summer 2025

SUMMER OF 2025 – Today: English Guitar Pop Indies PALE WAVES Covering ‘ZOMBIE’ Last Weekend At READING/LEEDS

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British indies PALE WAVES are making, eh, waves since 2014, mostly in their home country with darkwavish pop tunes. So far, they released 4 albums, with last year’s Smitten as the most recent.

Last weekend they took the stage at the Reading Leeds Festival. As many acts do at festivals, they also did a cover. Their version of The Cranberries‘s classic anthem Zombie (more than 1,5 billion streams on Spotify) is copied/pasted, but it works, so does the crowd think.

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One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: JAMES

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2 July 2025

Band: JAMES (UK)
Who: Veteran indie pop luminaries fronted by Tim Booth.
So far they released 18 albums with Yummy as their most
recent one (2024).

Track: Laid 
Released: 1993

I played/watched this euphoric live version – Isle Of Wight Festival
in 2015 – for years now and every single time it felt/feels like a
carefree summer.

“This bed is on fire with passionate love, the neighbours complain
about the noises above, but she only comes when she’s on top”

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