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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · 9d

We’ve sold out on Spotify! They’ll have to order some more stock.

Candidate’s empty artist page on Spotify.

Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Aug 1

We're in the process of requesting that all our music be taken off Spotify.
It’s Bandcamp Friday, if you’re interested in getting hold of Candidate’s music and
a) not funding billionaires investing in AI weaponry
b) supporting musicians
Ditch Spotify.
candidateband.bandcamp.com

The band Candidate playing live on stage.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thanks for being smashing, too. What a lovely night.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thanks to everyone who came along to The Harrison last night and to @singingadams.bsky.social for their general loveliness. We’re doing it again tonight with @simonloverules.bsky.social
See you there x

The band Candidate squeezing on the little stage at the Harrison venue in London.

An empty stage, pre gig, with guitars, amps, microphones and that.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Jul 22

See you there if you’re going to be there. If not, we’ll see you next time.

Candidate at the Harrison 24th and 25th July. SOLD OUT.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jul 11

Just two tickets left for the Thursday 24th gig...

Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · May 20

CANDIDATE are playing two nights at The Harrison in King’s Cross, London. COME ALONG.

Thu July 24th…
wegottickets.com/event/660657

Fri July 25th…
wegottickets.com/event/660658/

Flyer for Candidate gigs at The Harrison venue in London on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th July. The flyer shows the band with a forest in the background.

Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jul 8

Rehearsal (Ian out of shot, taking the photo…)

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jun 20

...with Phil on drums, rocking Jack Douglas’ old t-shirt.

Phil in the 6Music studio in a Duke of Earl t-shirt (yellow Cooper Black type on green t-shirt). Splendid.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jun 20

Eighteen years ago today, Candidate doing the 6Music session thing...

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jun 9

Candidate are playing two gigs at The Harrison pub in Kings Cross on the 24th and 25th July. Come along!
Thu 24 July: wegottickets.com/event/660657
Fri 25 July: wegottickets.com/event/660658

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · May 22

Support for these two Candidate gigs is the magicent @singingadams.bsky.social on the Thursday and the magnifical @simonloverules.bsky.social on the Friday.

Much tune. Come along.

Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · May 20

CANDIDATE are playing two nights at The Harrison in King’s Cross, London. COME ALONG.

Thu July 24th…
wegottickets.com/event/660657

Fri July 25th…
wegottickets.com/event/660658/

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · May 20

CANDIDATE are playing two nights at The Harrison in King’s Cross, London. COME ALONG.

Thu July 24th…
wegottickets.com/event/660657

Fri July 25th…
wegottickets.com/event/660658/

Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · May 2

Candidate live shows coming up in July…

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · May 2

Candidate live shows in London, 24th and 25th July. Set your diaries.

Details to follow when we have a ticket link.

But just so you know.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · May 1

Here’s the band in 2002, sitting at the feet of the original Wicker Man in Burrow Head.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · May 1

Happy May Day. Here's a short film we made in 2002 in preparation for making the album Nuada, before someone walked off with the original Wicker Man's legs.
youtu.be/zm-H6lBtqRQ?...

Candidate: Singing and Dancing on a Sunday (HD)

YouTube video by candidateuk

youtu.be

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Jan 1

Hungover?
youtu.be/j9gsytOFwEU

Candidate - Rough As F**k (Official Audio)

YouTube video by candidateuk

youtu.be

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · Jan 1

I've been meaning for ages to do a long thread talking about the stuff I've enjoyed over the last year or two. It's not necessarily new stuff, though some is.

I'll start with what I'm listening to right now, which is @candidatemusic.bsky.social's Point Clear.

candidateband.bandcamp.com 🧵

The cover of Candidate's Point Clear album, which is a lovely woodcut of a fenny waterway, a row of anti-tank blocks running down into the water.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Dec 2

We're playing a Candidate show on February 20th at the wonderful Green Note in Camden, with the wonderful Steven Adams. It will be, we sincerely hope, quite wonderful. Come along!

www.ticketweb.uk/event/candid...

@singingadams.bsky.social

Tickets for Candidate, Steven Adams

Find tickets for Candidate, Steven Adams showing at the Green Note - London, GB Thursday Feb 20, 7:00PM Tickets starting at £15.40

www.ticketweb.uk

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Nov 30

A Candidate gig with the lovely @singingadams.bsky.social in the new year at the Green Note x

Steven Adams @singingadams.bsky.social · Nov 29

This is true. I’m playing a show with my dear old pals @candidatemusic.bsky.social and I’m not sure I’ve ever played a show at the Green Note, but I like it very much. My favourite show I’ve seen there was lush old Mike Heron from the Incredible String Band. Anyway, come all ye and let us rejoice

Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · Nov 29

Nice thing for the new year. Candidate are playing the Green Note with Steve Adams from the Broken Family Band. Book early because it’ll sell out. @candidatemusic.bsky.social @singingadams.bsky.social @greennote.bsky.social

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Nov 22

Post you from a different era.

A photo of the UK band Candidate from Front magazine, December 1999.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Nov 19

A very early Christmas present (from 24 years ago)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e5e...

Christmas Came Early - Candidate (2000)

YouTube video by candidateuk

www.youtube.com

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Sep 13

Our new Tom and Tracy EP hits the streamers today with two new tracks, so you can grab an earful for nowt on Sp*tify or A**le Music. If you like it, why not purchase a download from source?
candidateband.bandcamp.com
(Point Clear CD albums back in stock, too)

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Sep 11

An intimate, and rare outing for Candidate on 25th Septmber in that thar London at the lovely Harrison venue near King's X. Big, double length set of tunes, incuding songs from our Tiger Flies/Nuada/Under the Skylon/Oxengate and Point Clear albums (+ others)

Tickets available from the link below.

Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Sep 6

A Candidate gig in London. Acoustic line up.
September 25th.
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wegottickets.com/event/632128

Poster for a Candidate gig on the 25th September at The Harrison pub, WC1H 8JF. The poster features a woodcut style colour picture of a young couple getting married in front of a 1960s pub.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Sep 6

A Candidate gig in London. Acoustic line up.
September 25th.
x
wegottickets.com/event/632128

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · Sep 4

Twenty-one years ago, yesterday, recording bits for the album ‘Under The Skylon’ in East End bedrooms (as usual). I don’t think Alex M had any curtains at that point. Must be the brightest recording session ever. This is recording Mountain Snow and Fatal Dose, we would guess.

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