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!

Season 1, Episode 2

Big Baby comes with a new, second, single. Following on from the highly acclaimed, and RTE Radio 1 playlisted not once but twice, debut “Shine On”, “Talk About Us” is the second episode from Big Baby, the musical collaborative born in lockdown. This single was recorded by a number of artists in studios from London to LA. “Talk About Us” has hip hop flavours and a sunshine melody to keep your spirits up this fall.Everyone needs more sunshine melodies during these rainy autumn days. Big Baby is a good medicine, for the whole world ;).

We still don’t know who Big Baby are. All we know is that they had a good musical education ;). The world is gonna enjoy this new single. It is a headphones on, volume up, and stroll through the city song. “Talk About Us” will be released on October 30 and available to pre save now!

Cronin have just dropped a new ‘snipe mix’ of the single “Several Perceptions”. It’s a taster of their upcoming mini album, A View From The Next Room, due out July 3rd.

The brand new album delivers the band’s “most experimental and diverse” set of songs to date. On the making of A View From the Next Room, Mick Cronin says: “Some of these mixes have been about for some time and others are relatively fresh. With us unable to work in the studio we thought now would be a good time to release these as a mini album. “It’s a diverse mix compared to our releases so far, it shows another side of what we have in our heads.”

The album title is a reference to the Henry Scott Holland poem Death Is Nothing at All. Following their work on Cronin’s critically acclaimed debut album The First Kiss of Love, Karl Odlum (Glen Hansard, The Frames), Ger McDonnell (U2, Manic Street Preachers) and Mick Cronin return as producers.

Cronin have also brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests like The Waterboys, whose violinist Steve Wickham features on two tracks. In addition, Damien Rice cello player Vivienne Long features on track Need and Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk) on the remix of Little London.

Across the album’s six interrogative tracks the band displays inspired lyrics, deep orchestral arrangements and lifting hooks.

For the album artwork, the band enlisted DJ, photographer and Oasis brother Paul Gallagher.

Today, Cronin announce A View From The Next Room. Out July 3rd on Live Transmission Records. The brand-new album delivers the band’s most experimental and diverse set of songs to date. It was recorded at Transmission Rooms Recording Studio in Longford, Ireland. Following their work on Cronin’s critically acclaimed debut album The First Kiss of Love, Karl Odlum (Glen Hansard, The Frames), Ger McDonnell (U2, Manic Street Preachers) and Mick Cronin return as producers. Cronin have also brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests like The Waterboys, whose violinist Steve Wickham features on two tracks. In addition, Damien Rice cello player Vivienne Long features on track Need and Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk) on the remix of Little London. Across the album’s six interrogative tracks the band displays inspired lyrics, deep orchestral arrangements and lifting hooks. 

On the making of A View From the Next Room, Mick Cronin says:

“Some of these mixes have been about for some time and others are relatively fresh. With us unable to work in the studio we thought now would be a good time to release these as a mini album. It’s a diverse mix compared to our releases so far, it shows another side of what we have in our heads.”

You can pre-order the album soon!

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