The Catenary Wires, Pete Astor at Brighton Prince Albert

The Catenary Wires formed in 2014, initially as a duo.Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey had previously been in Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research and Tender Trap. The first Catenary Wires album Red Red Skies ElefantMatinée Recordings, 2015 was a marked departure from the fuzzy sixties inspired girl group pop of their earlier bands. It was more acoustic, emotive and melancholy.With the release of their second album Til The Morning Tapete, 2019, the band expanded to include Andy Lewis bass, Fay Hallam vox, keyboards and Ian Button drums. While the sound was bigger, the core of the band remained the dual vocals of Amelia and Rob.The band have just completed their third album, to be released in May 2021. The first single Mirrorball is a lovesong inspired by eighties discos. It will be released on Shelflife US and their own new label, Skep Wax UK and rest of world.Pete Astor was the singer and songwriter in The Loft and The Weather Prophets they were on Creation Records from the beginning and helped establish the feel and sound of the label.Pete then made a series of solo records, including Submarine 1990, Creation and Paradise 1992, Danceteria, the latter having recently been reissued on Tapete Records. He then formed The Wisdom of Harry and Ellis Island Sound with David Sheppard and signed to the Matador and Heavenly labels respectively, releasing albums under these guises until the early 2000s.In 2005 he released Hals Eggs on Static Caravan and he has continued to release solo records on a variety of labels Songbox 2011, Second Language, Spilt Milk 2015, Fortuna Pop, One For the Ghost 2017, Tapete and You Made Me 2020, Faux Lux.Supported by European SunSteve Miles writes, sings and plays the songs of European Sun.Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher play, sing and produce the songs of European Sun.Ian Button does the drumming.John Jervis presents the songs to the public.Humble advocates for humanity, equity and justice, European Sun also make music.The bands first single, The Futures Female, was released on the day the UK left the European Union. It was a simple song for the new decade, a rallying cry for progressive people to have hope in a future that threatens to be dark. Several more singles, equally both funny and serious, followed before the debut album was released in the autumn of 2020.All can be found at httpswiaiwya.bandcamp.comalbumeuropean sun