In October 2025, Field Music will release an expanded 2-disc edition of their self-titled debut, in celebration of the album’s 20th anniversary. The second disc of this new set will include the first ever vinyl release for the 2006 b-sides collection, Write Your Own History, as well as 3 more rare/unreleased recordings from the band’s formative years, brand new liner notes from former NME writer James Snodgrass, and archive material from the North East music milieu which gave birth to Field Music, The Futureheads, Maximo Park and more.
On Sunday 26th October, we’ll be holding a Bandcamp Listening Party to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our debut album (and the newly expanded reissue). We’ll be there in the chat, giving you all the BTS insights (if we can remember any). We might even be able to persuade Andrew to chime in.
Binding Time, our album collaboration with the NASUWT Riverside Brass Band, will be available to stream from 28th March. It was originally released on vinyl only for last year’s Record Store Day so we’re very pleased that more of you will now get a chance to hear it. To whet your appetites, The Death of Blind Davy, is available to stream now. Find it on your favourite streaming service. https://ffm.to/blind_davy
We’re pleased to finally announce some full-band live dates for our forthcoming album Limits of Language. We’ll be hitting the road for a short tour in February next year. Tickets go on sale on Friday 13th September but if you’re on our mailing list (sign up >>) you’ll be able to buy tickets on Wednesday 11th at 10am. We’re also very pleased you can now hear the next track from the album, The Waitress of St Louis’, in all the usual places.
While we’re not quite ready for full band shows yet, we will be doing a fairly extensive run of stripped-down instore shows at some of our favourite record shops. Tickets are on sale now.
Field Music announce new album, Limits of Language
On October 11th, Field Music will release Limits of Language, their first album of new music for almost four years. A special Dinked Edition on blue and white splatter vinyl is available to pre-order now from an array of the very best independent record shops. The Dinked edition comes with an exclusive extra track on flexidisc and a print of the wonderful cover artwork by Paul Summers.
Album-opener “Six Weeks, Nine Wells” and almost-title track “The Limits of Language” are now available on your favourite streaming service.
Field Music have been around for so long now that some of you may need a quick primer. Peter Brewis, David Brewis and Andrew Moore began recording the first Field Music album in 2003 at their own makeshift studio space in Sunderland. Since then, Peter and David have amassed a large and varied back-catalogue (with occasional contributions from Andrew) both as Field Music and in various individual and collaborative guises. A select discography of work where either one or both of the brothers have been a featured artist is shown below. All of these albums were recorded and mixed by Peter and David at the Field Music studio (now onto its third iteration). For a list of non-Field Music production and engineering credits, see Productions.
2005 – Field Music / Field Music
2006 – Field Music / Write Your Own History (collection of b-sides and early recordings)
2007 – Field Music / Tones of Town
2008 – School of Language (David solo) / Sea From Shore
2008 – The Week That Was (Peter solo) / The Week That Was
2010 – Field Music / Field Music (Measure)
2012 – Field Music / Plumb
2012 – Field Music / Play… (collection of cover versions)
2014 – School of Language – Old Fears
2014 – Paul Smith and Peter Brewis – Frozen By Sight
2015 – Field Music / Music for Drifters (instrumental soundtrack to John Grierson’s pioneering documentary)
2016 – Field Music / Commontime
2018 – Field Music / Open Here
2019 – You Tell Me (Peter, with Sarah Hayes) / You Tell Me
2019 – School of Language / 45
2020 – Field Music / Making a New World
2021 – Field Music / Flat White Moon
2023 – David Brewis / The Soft Struggles
2023 – John Monroe and Field Music / Songs from the Shelf EP
2023 – Peter Brewis / Blowdry Colossus
2024 – Field Music and the NASUWT Riverside Band / Binding Time
Field Music and the NASUWT Riverside Band release Binding Time for RSD24
For this year’s Record Store Day, we’re releasing a brand new LP, Binding Time – 10 songs written and arranged for a 7-piece brass section from the NASUWT Riverside Band. The songs were originally written as part of Durham Brass festival, and inspired by Redhills, the home of the Durham Miners Association. So if you’re keen to hear some songs about murder, methodism and running away from home to get rat-arsed with Oliver Reed, bedecked in cornets and euphoniums, get yourself along to your favourite record shop on 20th April.
Peter Brewis will be taking the BlowDry Colossus synthesizer ensemble on the road in November. Come see us in Sunderland, London, Manchester and Glasgow. Ticket links here:
