This Friday, August 26, The Anaesthetics will release their debut album 1080. This will only be available digitally at first. It will also be released on CD and vinyl on Friday, September 16.

1080: an album full of idiosyncratic and unpredictable Modern New Golf from Horst aan de Maas (Limburg). The Anesthetics developed danceable elements with orthodox guitar parts and romantic influences, based under the name Modern New Wave.

The band has already targeted several milestones: various major shows in the Netherlands, support acts for Other Lives (US) and Flying Horseman (BE) and the (just not) winning various band competitions (such as Nu of Nooit, Grote Prijs van Nederland).

So it’s time for a debut album. That is why the four gentlemen wrote more than a hundred songs in one year! A job that could only be done with an arsenal of instruments and a high work ethic. Armed with synths, guitars and software, they produced track after track. Not only during rehearsals, but also at home: living rooms and bedrooms were transformed into real music studios. A mega project that is finally bearing fruit, because the ten tracks form debut album 1080 from now on.

1080 will be available on all streaming platforms from Friday, August 26, and can now be pre-ordered via the Gentlemen Webshop. CD and Vinyl will be released on Friday September 16th.

We are delighted that the Dutch indie band The Anaesthetics signed a record contract with us. First single will be released soon!

We are going to release a first single withing 2 months, followed by a number of singles and later an album. More to be announced!

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We are delighted that the Dutch rockband Grenadeers signed a record contract with us. First single ‘Single Filter Exit’ will be released in March, followed by an album later this year!

Grenadeers is an alternative rockband from Utrecht. In 2016 they released their first EP Chasing the Stereotype. In 2019 they came with their first full length album How To Fit In. In that same year they played the after party for Smashing Pumpkins in AFAS Live in Amsterdam. From that show they made a live album called Live Wires. Also in 2019 they had four shows at ‘Popronde’, the biggest traveling music festivals in The Netherlands.

Their first EP and album clearly show inspiration from Queens of the Stone Age. With their new EP they will create their own sound. We are really looking forward to give that one a boost!

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From now on Gentlemen Recordings and L’Asset are working together! We are delighted that the Dutch art/synthpop act signed a record contract with us. First single ‘Nomad’ will be released on February 26, followed by an album later this year!

L’Asset is a radiant, brisk, art-/synthpop act with a gorgeous triphop feel, fueled by the 28-year old Tessa Lamers, that explores undiscovered feelings through music. Personal, heartfelt and with a slight eccentric touch, L’Asset creates non-boxed music through her assets: the musicians, producers and the songs.

Her first single on Gentlemen Recordings is called ‘Nomad’, and will be out on February 26^th. An album is scheduled for later this year.

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From now on Gentlemen Recordings and Jack Francis are working together! To start with his new single ‘A Little Love’ which will be released on Friday October 30th. Jack is a folk & americana artist. He is an old soul, a performer who commands the respect of all who see him play. A truly great craftsman of song and a voice that stands out from the rest.

In little over a year, Jack has gone from playing small local gigs in his hometown of Southampton to appearing at major UK festivals such as the Isle Of Wight, Victorious and Stone Free Festival at the O2 Arena.

Beginning to attract the attention of the industry, his debut EP ‘The Van Wyck Expressway’ has been championed by BBC Introducing as well as a number of other unsigned platforms. His self-titled second EP was released at the start of 2017.

With plays on Tom Robinson’s BBC Radio 6 show, Jack goes into the next phase of his musical career with what is believed to be a “game-changing” song for anyone who has been lucky enough to hear it so far.

“Hauntingly wonderful acoustic tunes tinged in old school Americana.” – Southampton Music Magazine
“Brilliant voice and amazing songwriting talent!” — BBC Introducing

This single comes out on Friday October 30. Pre save now!

Tomorrow Big Baby releases their debut single ‘Shine On’, a cheerful melodic pop song. Good for these crazy and depressed times!

Big Baby is a new project by several great artists. We won’t tell you who is behind this project yet, but we assure you that they are professional artists who have all written several great songs.

Big Baby was born in lockdown with a smile on its face and the determination to create cheering andoriginal music at a time of global depression. Big Baby knew from the start that these were strange times and that new rules would have to apply. There were no festivals. And Big Baby loves festivals. So it set out to write new festival songs for the summer. Grand, melodic guitar pop. If there had been a Glastonbury in 2020, Big Baby’s first single Shine On would have been a perfect festival anthem.

This is certainly not a band in a conventional sense, though it does includefive keyindividuals scattered around the world. More could easily be added, for the idea is that anyone can be invited to join, and there will be none of the pressures that exist with conventional bands because “we’re trying to foresee the way bands are going to be in the future”. An utopian vision? All the best babies are born optimists.

It’s known that babies respond well to music heard before they are born, and Big Baby has gloriously unexpected eclectic musical taste. Asked about favourite albums, Big Baby will tell you that it’s a fan of individual songs rather than individual artists, but if pressed, will admit to a love of everything from Stereolab and Daft Punk through to Yacht Rock, the sense of liberation that came with Acid House, and even Boz Scaggs.

Big Baby has plans for a virtual festival that’s “open and happy and bright and gorgeous, to cheer people up”. And when live music does eventually return, Big Baby plans to be there with a “a big production”. A huge party with lots of people.” As a warm-up, it rather fancies the idea of playing on a rooftop in Saville Row, London, like the Beatles. Those listening on the street below couldn’t see the faces, but they could hear some great music. And whoever they are, Big Baby are certainly great musicians and have written some great songs. All may eventually be revealed, but for the moment it’s those songs that matter.

Pre-order the digital single now via https://www.gentlemenrecordings.com/product/big-baby-shine-on-digital-single/

Friday 10th of July we released Versari’s single ‘Plus de Tristesse’. Now this single has a wonderful videoclip!

Friday 17th of July we released Versari’s new album Sous La Peau. We already got some really interesting and enthousiastic responses on this album. Mainly for the single ‘Plus de Tristesse’. Yesterday we released the video for this single, and we’d love to share it with you!

Songwriter Jean-Charles Versari about the single:
“Plus de Tristesse” (No more sadness) is the most contemplative song of the album. It was important for me to have it as a closer. If I think about it I picture myself on a bench in a park, life stories unravelling around, it’s daytime and a mixture of snox and ashes is falling from the sky. No more sadness is a decision, not an observation.

How the video got together:
Jean-Baptiste Deucher and Marie Catry, who both directed the video, are long time friends of us. They wanted people to see us play in a very bare place. I missed some storytelling in the simple fact that we would be playing, so I suggested we had a dimension that would say something. You can see us being the sole audience to our own performance. Ghostly figures of ourselves are around us, and it’s all a reflection on who we are and what we do and what our story has been.

Now the band wants to get touring. “We miss live performances. Also we’ll be happy to get out of France – it is interesting to see how many foreign connections we have with this record, and we have all intentions to make the best of them!”

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Last week we signed post-punk / rock band Versari from Paris. We’re gonna have a great music time together! To begin with, they release a new album on Friday 17th of July!

We are happy to have Versari new in our warm family. The band is mainly about songwriter and vocalist Jean-Charles Versari from Paris. The other two band members are from Angers and Rennes. Their songs are in French, we think that’s really interesting and unique for post-punk bands.

Friday 17th of July Versari release their new album called Sous La Peau. Gentlemen Recordings takes care of sales and distribution in the Benelux. The album can be described as a powerful and provocative album. It proudly features guest musician Adrian Utley (founding member of the iconic trip-hop band, Portishead). After ‘Jour Après Jour (2007) and Ostinato (2013) this will be their theird album in 13 years.

The debut single video, Des Images, features objective, subjective and fugitive images. What you see, what you think you understand, and what you feel like you’ve seen isn’t necessarily what it is. This single came out two months ago, and it already has got more than 11,000 views.

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Anemone belongs to the Gentlemen Recordings family now! We are very happy to announce we signed the Dutch Psychedelic Britpop band.

Anemone from Rotterdam was formed in the summer of 2017. Rotterdam was introduced to a new sound with raw edges, psychedelic soundscapes, Manchester grooves and drawn-out brit pop songs. That summer the band dived into the studio to record Silver Star, the debut album that is released a year later. The fall of 2018 was dominated by dozens of shows during the Popronde, including the closing party in the Melkweg.

The band members are influenced by bands like The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Pavement, The Feelies, Oasis. During Anemone’s shows people whisper about The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. Anemone plays mercilessly hard and will make you sweat during their dirty live shows. You must have seen them live before you die!

We are looking forward to doing great things with these beautiful people. More info about the first release soon. For now: be safe everybody!