Popular Workshop have been keeping busy. They followed up a nationwide tour with Art Brut in February by flying to Chicago the next day to record their debut album with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio studios, which will be officially birthed unto the world in September, entitled ‘We’re Alive, And We’re Not Alone’. The first fruits of this work will be the single ‘PopSong’, released on July 7th.

The band embark on a mini tour to support the release, the dates of which are:

JULY
05 Wakefield, Escobar
06 Brighton, Freebutt
08 Cambridge, Barfly
11 Southampton, The Joiners
12 Manchester, Joshua Brookes
15 London, Artrocker @ The Buffalo Bar

 4 or 5 Magicians did an interview today for Steve Lamacq’s 6 Music show because not only are they his New Favourite Band, but ‘Change The Record’ is his Single of the Week!

You can listen to the interview online for a week at http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/

We Are The Physics will be recording a Mark Riley session later on today, playing three songs from ‘OK At Music’.

If you can’t catch it today fear not, you’ll be able to listen to it for a whole week over here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/brain_surgery