A Great Day In Newcastle: Vinyl LP BF20 and Betamax’s newest effort finds

and Betamax’s newest effort finds the Mercury Prize-nominated trio creating a musical landscape that is equally cerebral as it is physically enthralling

Signing Off

the recording engineer who revolutionised the sound of jazz

The four new ROCMIX versions originally date from his prolific recording output in the 1970s too

Three Flowers

A Great Day In Newcastle: Vinyl LP BF20 and Betamax’s newest effort findsA Great Day in Newcastle is a musical documentation of the North East working class experience. Through a storytelling approach, with the addition of new member and poet Cooper Robson, the record explores darker themes such as substance abuse, crime and toxic masculinity within a distinct Geordie jazz noir soundscape. Despite this, it retains a light, playful tone that fully embodies classic Northern optimism. With Coopers poetry combined with Stans