The latest album from The Vaccines, Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations, announces the reappearance of a more retro sound for the English dandies, a return to the roots of their inspirations between energetic pop and melodious rock. On the cover, vintage as it gets, we find ourselves passengers in a car wandering down a road worthy of an American road-trip. After the departure of guitarist Freddie Cowan in 2023 for a solo project, the band seems to be slipping back into a nostalgic mood, like a necessary tribute to the past.
Kaktus Einarsson already has a fine career under his belt with the band Fufanu. He has opened for Radiohead and Red Hot Chilli Peppers – no less! Born in Reykjavik, the artist has been developing his solo project since 2021 with Kick The Ladder, an emulsion of styles revisited with a kaktus twist, an indie-electro-alternative-pop-rock so indefinable that you can’t get enough of it.
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A Liveurope concert: the first pan-European initiative supporting concert venues in their efforts to promote emerging European artists. Liveurope is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.