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EDINBURGH hot-shots Bwani are hitting Celtic Connec-tions tomorrow night and they’ll be playing Paul Simon’siconic album Gracelands, to celebrate it’s 30th anniver-sary. Some of the Africanmusicians who appeared on thealbum will join them on stage at Glasgow’s Old Fruitmar-ket. Get ticket info at celticconnections.comO

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NEWMUSICBy JimGellatly

DE ROSAWHO: Martin John Henry (vocals/guitar), James Woodside (bass/synths) and Neil Woodside (drums).WHERE: Bellshill/Uddingston.FOR FANS OF: The Blue Nile, NeilYoung, Radiohead.JIM SAYS: Nearly seven yearssince their second album, Lanark-shire favourites De Rosa are backwith a stunning new record, Weem.

They split in 2009 after touringtheir Prevention album but got backtogether in 2012 to work on newmaterial.

Singer Martin said: “We hadworked constantly for a few yearsand were mentally exhausted. Basi-cally we let that manifest itself bynot being very good friends to oneanother for a while.

“However in 2012 we all reunitedand decided to rekindle our friend-ships and make a new De Rosaalbum. The whole process hasbeen amazing, and it shows howmuch of an important part musicplays in my personal life, that it canhelp to heal broken friendships.

“I feel really close to my band-mates these days and we’re havinga great time.”

The band decamped to Highland

Perthshire to record, renting a cot-tage in the village of Weem, nearAberfeldy.

Martin said: “We recorded ourfirst albums in traditional recordingstudios with producers at the desk.

“With Weem we wanted to havesome fun and also to not have thepressure of expensive studio rateshanging over us. We had a greattime, writing, playing, recording anddrinking into the wee small hoursevery day. Once we had the tracksrecorded, we sent them to producerAndy Miller to mix at his studio inHamilton.”

The break seems to have servedDe Rosa well, creating a beautifulcollection of songs that comple-ment the early material perfectly.

Launching the album with a sell-out show last Saturday as part ofCeltic Connections in Glasgow, DeRosa play Beat Generator Live inDundee tomorrow night, Edin-burgh’s Summerhall on January 30and The Lemon Tree in Aberdeenon January 31.

Weem is out today through Mog-wai’s Rock Action label.MORE: facebook.com/derosabandlJim presents a weekly showcase of NewMusic on Amazing Radio Sundays 2-4pm.amazingradio.com jimgellatly.com

BILLY Bibby reckons hecan learn from his mis-takes and make aname for himself in themusic world.

The lad from Llandudnoin Wales was the lead gui-tarist for rockers CatfishAnd The Bottlemen, above,but quit do his own thing.

But now he realises his expe-riences can shape his future. Heis now billed as Billy Bibby &The Wry Smiles and he is mak-ing up for lost time.

He said: “You’re learningthings all the time doing this.

“With Catfish, we really didand you see where it got theband to now. If you make mis-takes, you need to correct themas soon as possible.

“I’ve taken that onboard andbrought it into what I’m doingnow. It makes it a lot easierwhen you’ve had those experi-ences — when you come upagainst something you’vebeen through before andknow the answer.

“It’s helping to fast-track things at thisstage.”

Billy has only put outone single so far, thewell-received Waitin’ ForYou, but there’s an EP tofollow early next month.

And he’s confident it’ll con-nect because of the reaction toCatfish songs.

Billy, 25, right, admitted: “Iwas mainly writing the lead gui-tar parts for them.

“But with this, I’ve taken onthe songwriting. It’s different butit does give you the confidencethat you can write somethingpeople will like.

“At the same time, the musicis quite different.

“I didn’t want to follow whatCatfish are doing, I wanted toput my own stamp on it.

“And the track we brought outseems to be going over well.

“Now it’s about getting the EPout and that gives people moresongs to engage with.

“The last three gigs we didbefore the end of the year wentso well and were busy. Thefeedback was brilliant. I want topush this as hard as we can.”

Right now, Billy is firmly theman in control, but he’s keen to

great musicians. I feel like thisis it now, it’s properly movingforward.”

The band makes its Scots debuton February 12 at Sneaky Pete’sin Edinburgh then Inverness Iron-works the following night.

Billy said: “We’ll go whereanyone will have us. I startedtouring from a young age withCatfish. We hardly turned downa gig as we wanted to get outthere and play in front of any-one, really. It’s the same sort ofmindset with this. We want to

squeeze as many gigs as we caninto a short period of time —and do as much as we can.

“Obviously I’m going to get afew who know me from theCatfish days. I have mates andconnections from those gigs too.

“But there will be people out-side of that circle who willcome down and see us.

“I want to encourage morepeople to come out and hope-fully it just snowballs.”lTo hear the single and get tour info,go to facebook.com/billybibs20

I’m learningall the time

open things up. He added: “I’mnot going to say to the otherguys, ‘I don’t want to hear whatyou’ve got’. At the moment, it’sall been my stuff. We’ve had toget songs ready for the tour.

“But in future and over thenext year, we’ll bring in all sortsof ideas. That’ll make for bettersongs if everyone is chipping in.

“All the magic happens in thestudio. If you get everythingtight and you practice hard, youcan enjoy it on stage.

“The three lads I’ve got in are

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STING’S wee girl Eliot Sumner has a really distinctivevoice, just like her old man.And she seems to have his knack for a funky beat too.Her album Information is released today. It’s an inter-esting blend of her high-pitched vocals with electrorhythms banging away. Hear it at eliotsumner.com

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HEARTHETEMPERANCEMOVEMENT White Bear 4CONTRARY to the tea-totalling name,these hard rocking, bluesy Brits crackopen their second albumwith the barn-storming Three Bulleits – an ode totheir bourbon of choice.And it’s this infectious, heady swag-ger that permeates White Bear, mark-ing it as a confident step forward.Channeling The Black Crowes in theexceptional Get Yourself Free and jig-ging-out withOh Lorraine, they’ve a fewnew, surefire live faves here too.While the soulful yet restorative IHope I’m Not Losing MyMind closes this chaptertwo with a good dose ofdepth and resonance.

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WINWE’RE celebrating the arrival of TheTemperance Movement’s secondalbum White Bear by giving away aniconic Fender Standard Telecastersigned by the band. And four runners-up will get a signedcopy of the new album.

The British rock band,currently on a UKheadline tour which finishes on January27 at the O2 Forum in London, releasedtheir self-titled debut album to criticalacclaim.

They have been compared to thelikes of The Rolling Stones, Led

Zeppelin and The Black Crowes andyou can see our verict on their latestalbum, left.

So to be in with a chance to winningthe signed Fender Standard

Telecaster, email yourcontact details towin@the-sun.co.uk withTEMPERANCE in the

subject line.l T&Cs: Over-18s and UK residents only. Oneentry per person. Closing date midnight Sunday,January 24, 2016. Winners selected at random.No cash alternative. Not transferable. Promoteris News Group Newspapers Ltd. Not open tostaff of the promoter or promotional partner.

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