JULY 2021

NEWS JULY 2021

Hi everyone from all at CPWM HQ - welcome to a new magazine.

Excitingly, we’ve just moved to a new studio space in Leeds as we outgrew the last shared space. We’re sharing with brilliant record label Clue Records, who are doing good things (and who I - Tony - also co-run but CPWM’s Scott makes everything happen) Check them out as there is some incredible music coming from there.

We had our first tentative steps back into the live world in June with 3 socially distanced gigs - Spoken:Heard, a commission of 3 LGBTQIA+ spoken word artists with the amazing Shauna (from our Side By Side comp), partnering with Independent Venue week... and sold out events with Polo/Dilettante and Supriya Nagarajan. Lots more to come now that restrictions have lifted... keep an eye on our socials (and please take a lateral flow test before you attend any gigs to protect everyone else).

The first single from our new Boundless compilation premiered in Clash last week from the amazingly talented Laeeqa... we’re very excited to share the rest of the album with you too soon.

Sadly you may have heard that vinyl pressings plants are having big problems this year... a perfect storm of COVID issues mixed with external factors like Brexit, a fire in an acetate factory in North America and even the Suez Canal blockage. It’s all meant that singles we had lined up for Autumn/Winter will now be dropping in early 2022 - but look out for a whole series of new digital releases from us later in the year to make up for that.

It’s exciting times and we’re all cautiously optimistic as we emerge from this difficult period. This presumably won’t be a linear recovery from here- there’ll be setbacks for all of us. So as always, please look out, and be there for, each other.

Tony

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