Track of the week: Low Island - 'Hot Air'

Our friends Low Island recently shared their first full length release. It's not an EP, but not quite an album, more a collection of tracks (an anthology of sorts) from the past couple of years of the band. It's a glorious selection of tracks, with lots of our favourites, and features brand new tune Hot Air which we're making our track of the week! Honestly - if we could make the whole of Low Island 17-18 our track of the week, we would... check it out on Spotify here! 

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Gig of the week: Low Island at O2 Academy Oxford (21st Sep)

If you're in Oxford, you really should get yourselves along to this show on Friday evening. Our pals Low Island are releasing Low Island 17-18, a physical collection of tracks from their three brilliant EPs from the last couple of years. They're launching the EP with a hometown show and one of their biggest shows yet upstairs at the O2 Academy in Oxford. With support from locals Theo and BE GOOD it's a complete certainty to be one of the best gigs of the year in Oxford, we'd say. Three wonderful live acts! You can grab discounted vinyl and ticket bundles through their site here. 

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Gig of the week: WOMAD Festival (this weekend!)

Following featuring Truck Festival last week (which we missed but totally loving the shots that Oxford photographer Helen Messenger has been sharing of the likes of Gengahr, Everything Everything and Friendly Fires on her Twitter page here) we're making another festival our gig of the week... it is Summer after all. This week, we're excited that WOMAD Festival is finally (almost) upon us. With an incredibly diverse line-up featuring artists from all over the globe including the likes of Amadou & Mariam, Omar Souleyman, Too Many Zooz and Django Django, we're particularly excited because (if you missed the news) we were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to handpick some of our favourite new artists for the festival's line-up. We're certain that Seramic, Low Island and MarthaGunn will do us proud!

Grab tickets for the festival here!

Track of the week: Low Island - 'The Whole World Tucked Away'

We've got a tiny throwback for our track of the week this week! One of our favourite bands, Low Island, have just announced Low Island 17-18, a digital and vinyl release featuring tracks from their three EPs. Nestled in the middle of the track list is The Whole World Tucked Away, taken from recent This Other Life EP. We can't wait to have these guys playing for us at this year's WOMAD Festival - they're nothing short of incredible live. They're also launching the collection of tracks with a show at O2 Academy 2 Oxford and just announced BE GOOD and Theo as supports - get yourselves along! Pre-order Low Island 17-18 through the band's site here.

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Gig of the week: Low Island at Scala (26th April)

They're in the midst of a support tour with the mighty Gengahr this month and next across the UK, but our pals in Low Island are making solid use of a night off with their own headline show at London's Scala this Thursday, which happens to be their biggest headline show to date! In our eyes, there's not really much competition against this show for our Gig Of The Week, especially if their shows at Corsica Studios in November are anything to go by. With some cracking support acts, art pieces and DJs it should be a really fun evening - grab the last remaining tickets here (this will sell out!)

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Track of the week: Low Island - 'I Can See Through'

It's no secret that Team Tigmus utterly adore Low Island and we're very excited to share news that their latest EP, This Other Life, is out now. If we could make the entire EP our track(s) of the week we would do... but for now, the brand new tune I Can See Through will do! You can listen to that, and the rest of the EP, on Spotify here. The guys filmed a short documentary with DIY Magazine on the road last year, check that out below. Finally - catch them live at Scala in London on 26th April, we'll see you down at the front!

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Track of the week: Low Island - 'Too Young'

With a brand new Low Island track surfacing last week we could hardly pick anything else as our track of the week today! Too Young was wonderful when we saw them play sold out London dates back in November and we're digging this studio version of the track! It's taken from their upcoming third EP which we can't wait to hear in full... Team Tigmus also can't wait to catch the guys at their debut hometown headline at The Cellar in Oxford this weekend which recently sold out - if you need to get your live fix and missed out on tickets for this show you can catch them at London's Scala on 26th April (tickets.) 

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Track of the week: Low Island - 'I Know You'

With another beautiful new tune released this week we had to choose Tig faves Low Island as our track of the week today! Following up recent tunes The Lines and Tomorrow, they've shared the latest track from their upcoming EP I Know You. Check it out on Spotify and Soundcloud and watch the beautiful session they've performed below for Mahogany in a 1930s art deco cinema. 

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Gig(s) of the week: Low Island at Corsica Studios (8/9th Nov)

Our gig(s) of the week this week come in the shape of back to back headline shows from some of our favourite chaps Low Island at Corsica Studios this Weds/Thurs. After team Tigmus caught their set at The Great Escape together we can't wait for these shows - see you down the front if you've got tickets, as the shows have recently both sold out (keep an eye out online for return tickets though!) Take a watch of their new video for the absolute tune The Lines below!

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Track of the week: Low Island - 'The Lines'

They were our first track of the week once we started the feature on this blog back at the end of May, and Low Island are back again, this time with new track The Lines. The first to be taken from upcoming seven track EP, it's a corker, a tune to dance to - and you'll get the chance if you head to a live show later in the year across October and November. Alongside a performance at Oxford's inaugural Ritual Union all-dayer on 21st October and back to back headline shows at London's Corsica Studios for Parallel Lines on 8th and 9th November, Low Island play Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester. Grab your tickets here and dig out your dancing shoes!

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Tig Digs: Low Island - 'In This Room'

They were our track of the week just a couple of weeks ago with their latest single That Kind of Love but the wonderful Low Island are back on the Tigmus blog with their second EP, In This Room. As well as some already released tracks the EP features two entirely new tracks, That's Right and (Pause) - get listening over on Spotify or iTunes!

Catch Low Island live at Farmfestival Somerset at the end of July and Ritual Union in Oxford on 21st October!

Tigmus at The Great Escape Festival (May 2017)

A couple of weekends ago Team Tigmus headed down to not so sunny Brighton for The Great Escape, a 3-day festival with live music, conferences and all the free brunches and drinks parties our hearts could desire. As well as all this, we were there to run our own stage as part of the Alternative Escape at the wonderful North Laines Brewhouse on the Saturday, but first here's a little rundown of what we got up to on Thursday and Friday!

After kicking off the first day of the festival, a dreary rain-filled Thursday, with brunch at Dead Wax Social which had been taken over by the lovely folks at Music Glue, we caught a couple of panels at Duke's at Komedia for the drugs conference, including 'Music Making & Drug Taking'. A couple of us braved the rain and headed over to the Vevo stage at Wagner Hall to catch the end of Will Joseph Cook's stripped back set, which we followed up by a walk to Queen's Hotel on the seafront, where we dried off and caught one of my favourite sets of the weekend from Fil Bo Riva - check out his track Like Eye Did here. After fuelling up with burgers and catching up with the lovely Low Island chaps we caught some more live music from OUTLYA, The Amazons and another stand out act from the weekend - Leo Stannard, whose performance has already developed so much in the year since I last caught him playing.

Leo Stannard at Harbour Hotel

After drying out in our Airbnbs the sun came out (slightly) on Friday, and a couple of us headed to The Old Courtroom with Dazy Crown's Thomas for a really interesting talk hosted by PRS entitled 'Evolving as an artist with Marika Hackman' where Marika, her producer Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Sivu), radio plugger Claire Collins and Tim Dellow from Transgressive were chaired by Radio 6 Music's Tom Ravenscroft, discussing her career as a musician and the work behind her second record, which is set to be released this Friday. It was really interesting getting an insight into just a small part of the team behind a musician and the different responsibilities that they all have!

Evolving as an artist with Marika Hackman panel at The Old Courtroom

This talk was followed by some great parties hosted by French organisation Oui Love (by bureau export), PRS for Music and Music Glue (with a Bear's Den DJ set, no less!) Once we'd taken a trip to the beach to make the most of the weekend's sun we headed to Komedia to catch MarthaGunn on my recommendation - thankfully the rest of the team enjoyed their set! They were opening up the Communion showcase and have since announced that they've signed to the label, so big congrats are in order! A perfect pairing if ever there was one. Once they'd finished, all our energies went into catching what we anticipated (rightly so) would be the stand out set of the weekend from our pals Low Island. It was a short walk away at Patterns and on the way we bumped into last year's Tigmus stage headliners Strong Asian Mothers who performed a card trick for us on the street... it was my first TGE personally, and a big highlight was all the friends and Tigmus alumni we bumped into across the weekend, walking with The Travelling Band's Jo to the venue and seeing Willie J Healey once we were there.

As we thought, Oxford's Low Island were pretty incredible and seem destined for great things... they've just spent the weekend playing at Dot To Dot Festival in Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham as well as stopping off at Oxford's Common People, and after a successful London show a couple of weeks back they're heading back for back-to-back shows at Corsica Studios in November, finishing up a UK tour, with lots of dates to be announced (tickets for those shows here.) Their latest release is the total tune That Kind of Love which you can check out on Soundcloud here! Once their set had finished we rushed back across town to see if we could get in to Komedia again to catch the Communion headliner, Dan Croll, and we got in just in time to catch his last track, From Nowhere - the perfect party tune. Look out for his new record Emerging Adulthood in July!

Low Island at Patterns

Suddenly Saturday had arrived and we fixed our lack of sleep with a delicious veggie breakfast from Wai Kika Moo Kau (if in Brighton we hugely recommend it) before heading to North Laines Brewhouse to kick off the afternoon session of our stage. From 12-4 we had the wonderful Catgod, Holly Redford Jones, Brudini, Neonomora, Hazey Jane and Valaire, and after a little break Pace, JYLDA, Bare Traps, The Fin., Gutxi Bibang and Little Brother Eli played us through til 11pm! After months of planning it was great to see the stage come together and to see lots of our favourite artists all in one day. The venue was really busy all day so huge thanks if you popped along for a set or two and helped to make it a great day - check out the Tigmus Instagram for photos from each set.

Be sure to also check out our album on Facebook for photos from across the weekend! After another brilliant and sold out show last week at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and The Fusion Project we're going full steam ahead to Wesley Memorial Church (just round the corner in Oxford) for Sam Lee and Duotone today, 1st June (tickets). Keep an eye on the Tigmus site for full upcoming listings for the Summer!

Track of the week: Low Island - 'That Kind of Love'

A collective favourite for Team Tigmus, Oxfordshire's Low Island have recently released their new single That Kind of Love which was premiered by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1 last week. We absolutely adored their set at The Great Escape (more about that in our TGE write-up which we'll be posting soon) and heartily recommend you catch them live soon - they're off on a mini tour at the start of June kicking off with a BBC Introducing show at London's The Lexington tomorrow night (1st), before Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol. After wowing the crowds at this weekend's Oxford Common People Festival they'll be back on 21st October for the newly announced Future Perfect all-dayer Ritual Union on Cowley Road.

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