Field Music 20th Anniversary Listening Party

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.

Field Music Debut 20th Anniversary Reissue

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.

Binding Time comes to streaming services soon

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

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 announces new album, Blowdry Colossus

NOTE: Due to a slight delay in the vinyl pressing process, the Blowdry Colossus release date has been moved back to 6th October. APOLOGIES!

On 22nd September, Daylight Saving Records will release Blowdry Colossus, the new solo album by Field Music’s Peter Brewis. The record is Peter’s first solo venture since 2008’s The Week That Was and follows collaborative albums with Paul Smith (on 2014’s Frozen By Sight) and Sarah Hayes (on 2019’s You Tell Me). The album was recorded over the last year at the Field Music studio in Sunderland, and features contributions from Peter’s brother David, Sarah Hayes and Peter’s son Alexander.

The mostly-instrumental album takes cues from the knowing exotica of Yellow Magic Orchestra, the quizzical tunefulness of Thelonious Monk and the pastoral abstractions of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. And like Kraftwerk’s records of the mid and late-70s, this is synthesizer music as art music rather than dance music. But where Kraftwerk took the melodic purity of Schubert and gave it a chilly formality, on Blowdry Colossus, Peter takes the same elevation of melody and plunges it into a kind of playful chaos, heavy with rhythmic ingenuity.

“I wanted to make something where the music was the focus.” says Peter, “With songs, the lyrics tend to carry the meaning: ‘This song is about…’. I wanted the music to be the meaning – the melodies, harmonies, sounds, structures.”

The first track taken from the album is Lemoncadabra. You can hear it now on your preferred streaming service and right here. And you can pre-order the album on CD or vinyl through the Daylight Saving Records Bandcamp and at all your favourite record shops.