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Bands to keep a watch out for in the future: #12: The Sunshine Underground 2007-08-12 06:40:51 In these times of “nu-rave” and mass-marketed hype machines (yes, Kate Nash I’m looking at you), its nice to see a band such as The Sunshine Underground who are doing things on their own terms. Mixing styles between Klaxons, Switches and umpteen other indie/dance bands of the last five years, this band will instantly sound at home whilst distinctly fresh.
Hailing from Leeds, the band specialise in trippy tracks that are the perfect wake up to any cold winter morning - you’ll be up and out of bed quicker than you would know with them on in the background.
Their debut self titled album is one of the few albums of this year that is consistently good throughout - whilst there are stand out tracks, the whole collection is very rewarding to listen in one go.
Heralded by some bloggers as “the sound of 2007″, they’ve sold out dates in their hometown of Leeds and London, and toured with Pigeon Detectives, Happy Mondays and Idlewild.
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Athlete / Tiscali Showcase 2007-08-10 14:46:25 Next week’s Tiscali
Showcase at Soho Revue Bar will be headlined by Athlete
, with support coming from fast, angular Parka and Eugene McGuinness who sounds distinctly like a distinctly wacky Air Traffic, or a slowed down stoned Architecture In Helsinki. They’ll all play the Soho Revue Bar next Thursday, 16th August.
Tickets at £8.50 each are available here to over 18’s only unfortunately. Doors are at 8:45pm.
Photo is taken from Narisa’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License
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Thrills / October tour 2007-08-10 06:36:07 The Thrills
have announced an October
jaunt around the country (as has most of the UK music industry it seems). Tickets are on sale now from See Tickets. Catch them at:
Thursday 4th October - Oxford Carling Academy
Friday 5th October - Bristol trinity Centre
Monday 8th October - Peterborough The Cresset
Tuesday 9th October - London Koko
Thursday 11th October - Norwich Waterfront
Friday 12th October - Nottingham Trent Student
Saturday 13th October - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Sunday 14th October - Liverpool Carling Academy
Thursday 18th October - Manchester Club Academy
Sunday 21st October - Leeds Cockpit
Monday 22nd October - Northampton Soundhaus
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Mum to play special London gig 2007-08-10 03:18:41 Those electro-ambient geniuses Mum have announced a special one off show at London’s Museum of Garden History on August 29th.
This special gig needs you to register on their website to be entered into a draw to be able to buy tickets. Winners will be drawn on Monday 13th (next Monday), and winners will be able to buy tickets immediately.
The band are returning with a new album on 24th September, which going by their previous 7 albums should be pretty immense.
I’ve registered, and hopefully will catch you there!
Photo was taken from Mum’s myspace.
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Live Review: Rosie Oddie at 93 Feet East 2007-08-09 19:15:14 Gigs on Air is coming to the end of their residency at 93 Feet East, but as one of their closing gigs at the Brick Lane venue they put on an eclectic mix of artists, the highlight of which was undoubtedly Rosie
Oddie and the Odd Squad.
After a rather abysmal opener in the shape of “Wrong Animal” (who decided to berate the crowd, and show off their lead singer’s ignorance both within the 20 minutes that I saw of their set), Rosie quietly shifted onto stage at 9:45. The 22 year old shifted through her already impressive back catalogue, showing off her reputation as a Kate Nash for those a bit more left of mainstream, liking something a bit edgier.
Rosie’s famous bird watching father was absent from the proceedings, though it does look like her backing band, The Odd Squad, has had some members picked by Bill himself – a noticeable age gap between the guitarist and the rest of the band, however was clearly picked for his skills.
The crowd was an interesting mix of young and old,
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly for Reading + Leeds Warm up 2007-08-08 13:48:04 The legend that is Sam Duckworth, otherwise known as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. has announced a one off show playing the Coal Exchange, Cardiff.
The political baladeer will play there on Thursday 23rd August, as a warm up for Reading
and Leeds
festivals that weekend.
Tickets are on sale now from here at £12.50 each.
No doubt he’ll take the intimate setting as a chance to try out some new material, which will hopefully be well received. He’ll be supported as ever by his backing band of Mike Glenister on Cornet, Andy Theakstone on Drums and Gavin Fitzjohn on Trumpet and Sax.
Photo taken from neil 365’s flickr stream under the creative commons license.
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Calvin Harris wants you to trash your home 2007-08-08 13:26:07 Calvin Harris
has been having fun with the press. He’s been running a competition to have him DJ at a house party in the future (details here), however the press have taken it completely the wrong way, slating him as irresponsible. Recently he posted a myspace bulletin:
GMTV wanted me to go on this morning to answer various probing mumsy questions but the label thought it would be a bad idea as i would be unable to cope with Ben Shepard’s tough line of questioning, which is a shame as that would have been a life ambition fufilled.
Anyway, they want me to do a video blog explaining how to ‘party responsibly’ in a most patronising tone, because apparently you don’t know that its a REALLY stupid idea to invite people you don’t know into your house for a party because i can GUARANTEE they will be pissing on your sofas and shitting in your cupboards within 5 minutes.
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Kate Nash for one off show 2007-08-08 13:10:43 Kate Nash has announced that she’ll be doing a one off gig at Highgate’s Boogaloo tomorrow night in support of Stables Market.
Stables Market is under threat from property developers, who wish to build a shopping centre on the site.
Support will be coming from Graham Coxon and further acts to be confirmed.
DJ sets will come courtesy of Team Disgusting, the DJ collective who are currently making waves in the London scene. The six female DJs Rach Rohypnol, Melanie Speaking, Lady Bird, Lucie The Specalist, Starz and Good Alan can reportedly count Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne and Amy Winehouse amongst their fans.
Photo of Kate Nash taken from Drama Queen Raj’s flickr stream.
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Newton Faulkner / November 2007 Tour 2007-08-06 13:58:29 He’s ginger, dreadlocked, does a Spongebob Squarepants cover when performing live, and is at number 3 in this weeks album chart. Who is it? The one and only NewtonFaulkner
. He’s just announced a new tour in November
and early December when he’ll be touring all the usual haunts around the UK.
Tickets are on sale for the below dates now.
Thursday 15th November 2007 - Glasgow ABC
Friday 16th November 2007 - Newcastle Tyne Theatre
Saturday 17th November 2007 - Sheffield Plug
Monday 19th November 2007 - Brighton Corn Exchange
Tuesday 20th November - Nottingham Rock City
Wednesday 21st November - London Shepherds Bush Empire
Friday 23rd November - Bristol University
Saturday 24th November - Manchester Academy 2
Sunday 25th November - Leeds Met Uni
Tuesday 27th November - Norwich Waterfront
Thursday 29th November - Wolverhampton Wulfrun
Friday 30th November - Portsmouth Pyramid
Tuesday 4th December - Cornwall Truro Hall
Picture is taken from Lee Jordan’s (not him of
Amy McDonald / October Tour 2007-08-06 13:58:04 Currently riding high at number 2 in the album charts, Amy McDonald
is set to become one of the CDs of choice for middle aged couples hosting dinner parties in 2007. Listing her influences as Travis and the Libertines you know she won’t be changing the face of music as we know it, sticking to tried and tested formulae. Thats not to say she’s crap though. Check her out at the following dates, which are all on sale now.
Monday 1st October
- Birmingham Glee Club
Tuesday 2nd October - Cardiff Glee Club
Wednesday 3rd October - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Monday 8th October - Glasgow Garage
Wednesday 10th October - London Digwalls
Thursday 11th October - Reading Fez Club
Friday 12th October - Brighton Pressure Point
Sunday 14th October - Nottingham Social
Monday 15th October - Leeds Cockpit
Tuesday 16th October - Norwich Waterfront
Thursday 18th October - Bristol Fleece
Friday 19th October - Wolverhampton Little Civic
Saturday 20th October - Manchester Academy 3
Monday 22nd Octobe
Rodrigo y Gabriela / December UK tour 2007-08-15 13:44:01 Mad Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo
y Gabriela
have announced a three date UK Jaunt to close off their sensational year. Fresh from supporting Muse at Wembley, headlining the 2nd stage at Latitude Festival and the Virgin Mobile tent at V Festival this weekend, the duo are set to travel the length of the country in just five days.
Tickets go on sale on Thursday morning at 9am. Catch them at:
Sunday 9th December
- London Hammersmith Apollo
Tuesday 11th December - Glasgow Barrowlands
Thursday 13th December - Manchester Academy
Photo is taken from JimmyOK’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.
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Hard-Fi / September UK Tour 2007-08-15 06:02:58 The Staines Massive is back in just a few weeks with another tour. Hard-fi are doing a quick 8 date jaunt of some smaller UK theatres, which looks to be a key warm up for a major tour (Arenas maybe?) to finish off the year no doubt.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Catch them at:
Friday 31st August - Portsmouth Southsea Pier
Saturday 1st September
- Birmingham Irish Centre
Monday 3rd September - Glasgow ABC
Thursday 6th September - London Hippodrome
Friday 7th September - Coventry Coliseum
Saturday 8th September - Bristol Trinity
Sunday 9th September - Cardiff University
Monday 10th September - Worthing Pavillion
Photo from sarahphotogirl’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.
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Mumm-Ra October Tour announced 2007-08-15 05:50:08 Mumm-Ra has announced an October
tour of the UK, stopping at all the places you’d expect them to around the UK. These dates aren’t set in stone, but shouldn’t move around too much (according to their myspace). Tickets go on sale soon… though not 100% sure when!
Catch them at:
Monday 1st October - Brighton, Concorde 2
Tuesday 2nd October - Manchester, Club Academy
Wednesday 3rd October - Bristol, Thekla
Thursday 4th October - Middlesborough, Empire
Friday 5th October - Cambridge Junction
Saturday 6th October - Exeter, Phoenix Arts Center
Monday 8th October - Leicester, Charlotte
Tuesday 9th October - Southend, Chinnerys
Wednesday 10th October - Leeds, Cockpit
Thursday 11th October - London, Kings College
Saturday 13th October - Sunderland, Independent
Sunday 14th October - Glasgow, Oran Mor
Monday 15th October - Nottingham, Trent Uni
Photo taken from tallkev’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.
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Wilco / Short November UK Tour 2007-08-14 15:22:07 Wilco have announced a short tour of the UK in November
. The alternative country band as fronted by Jeff Tweedy will stop at three cities around the UK as part of their quick European jaunt.
Tickets are available now, and are £23.50 for Manchester and Birmingham, and £25 for Brixton.
Friday 2nd November - Manchester University
Sunday 4th November - Birmingham Academy
Monday 5th November - London Academy Brixton
Photo is taken from Damon Green’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.
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Jamie Cullum / One off show 2007-08-14 15:11:03 Jamie Cullum has announced a one off show in London in September.
The jazz superstar who reguarly plays throughout the world with all sorts of well renowned orchestras and musicians will play the London’s Forum on Friday 7th September - thats just four weeks away.
Tickets are on sale now for what is sure to be a memorable night - seats are £19 each and standing tickets (downstairs) are £17.50.
Photo taken from grünes Fiet’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.
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Groove Armada / November tour 2007-08-13 14:48:54 Those crazy crazy Electro kids Groove
Armada have announced a tour of the UK throughout November
. Expect more dates to be added to this list.
Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, 15th August at 9am reportedly.
Thursday 1st November - Sheffield The Octagon
Tuesday 6th November - Birmingham Carling Academy
Wednesday 7th November - Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Thursday 8th November - Lincoln Engine Shed
Friday 9th November - Manchester Apollo
Saturday 10th November - Brighton Centre
Monday 12th November - Bournemouth Solent Hall
Thursday 15th November - London Brixton Academy
Friday 16th November - London Brixton Academy (late show: 8pm - 2am)
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McFly / October theatres tour 2007-08-13 14:22:52 One of the UK’s most successful boy bands, McFly
, have announced their autumn “Greatest Hits Tour” of smaller theatres across the UK in September and October
.
The dates are sure to get the girls excited, so be sure to get your tickets quickly - they go on sale this Saturday 18th August at 10am, though it may be 9am by the time the ticket companies get their acts sorted out.
McFly play at:
Thursday 27th September - Wolverhampton Civic
Saturday 29th September - Brighton Centre
Sunday 30th September - Southampton Guildhall
Tuesday 2nd October - Leicester De Montfort Hall
Wednesday 3rd October - Croydon Fairfield Hall
Sunday 7th October - Plymouth Pavilions
Monday 8th October - Torquay Riviera Ctr
Thursday 11th October - Port Talbot Afan Lido
Friday 12th October - Telford Intl Ctr
Monday 15th October - Ipswich Regent
Tuesday 16th October - Eastbourne Congress Theater
Thursday 18th October - London Astoria
Sunday 21st October - Nottingham Royal Ctr
Monday 22nd October - Ha
Kanye West for secret London show 2007-08-13 11:39:18 Kanye West has announced that he’ll be playing a special secret show in London next Monday, 20th August.
It’s a part of Vodafone’s TBA gig series, and to win tickets you’ll need to enter one of two draws: today (Monday 13th) or tomorrow (Tuesday 14th). Winners will be selected at random (though hopefully not BBC random where the winners are decided months before)
If you don’t win tickets, coverage will be available on Vodafone Live! and also on Channel 4 in the near future.
That is of course if you even like Kanye West. I’m not his biggest fan, thus the rather parred down article he’s got!
Photo was taken from the_ml’s flickr stream under the creative commons license.
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Bands to keep a watch out for in the future: #12: The Sunshine Underground 2007-08-12 06:40:51 In these times of “nu-rave” and mass-marketed hype machines (yes, Kate Nash I’m looking at you), its nice to see a band such as The Sunshine Underground who are doing things on their own terms. Mixing styles between Klaxons, Switches and umpteen other indie/dance bands of the last five years, this band will instantly sound at home whilst distinctly fresh.
Hailing from Leeds, the band specialise in trippy tracks that are the perfect wake up to any cold winter morning - you’ll be up and out of bed quicker than you would know with them on in the background.
Their debut self titled album is one of the few albums of this year that is consistently good throughout - whilst there are stand out tracks, the whole collection is very rewarding to listen in one go.
Heralded by some bloggers as “the sound of 2007″, they’ve sold out dates in their hometown of Leeds and London, and toured with Pigeon Detectives, Happy Mondays and Idlewild.
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Athlete / Tiscali Showcase 2007-08-10 14:46:25 Next week’s Tiscali
Showcase at Soho Revue Bar will be headlined by Athlete
, with support coming from fast, angular Parka and Eugene McGuinness who sounds distinctly like a distinctly wacky Air Traffic, or a slowed down stoned Architecture In Helsinki. They’ll all play the Soho Revue Bar next Thursday, 16th August.
Tickets at £8.50 each are available here to over 18’s only unfortunately. Doors are at 8:45pm.
Photo is taken from Narisa’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License
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Magic Numbers / One off London Show 2007-08-16 13:55:32 Those cheeky chappies The MagicNumbers
have announced an exclusive one off gig on Monday 3rd September at Boogaloo in Highgate, North London.
It’s in support of a new 6 track EP, The Undecided EP, which is released on the same day.
Tickets go on sale from Ticketweb at 10am tomorrow morning.
Photo taken from Mr. Ush’s flickr stream under the creative commons license.
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Mum / Five date December UK tour 2007-08-16 07:26:54 Mum have announced a quick five date UK tour in December
in support of a new album. The Icelandic geniuses are set to do the usual venues, plus an excursion over to Dublin which will be very welcome.
Tickets are on sale now. Catch them at:
Monday 10th December - Brighton Concorde 2
Tuesday 11th December - London Scala
Wednesday 12th December - Manchester Academy 3
Thursday 13th December - Dublin Tripod
Friday 14th December - Glasgow Oran Mor
Photo was taken from Mum’s myspace.
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Hives / UK November Tour 2007-08-16 06:50:15 Those crazy swedes The Hives
have announced a quick three date jaunt of the UK at the end of November
. Calling at the usual cities, they’ll be here for just a weekend.
See tickets says tickets aren’t on sale until Friday 31st August, however I have a feeling this might be wrong as its so far away - so don’t hold me to this!
The Hives will be playing:
Friday 23rd November - London Hammersmith Apollo
Saturday 24th November - Manchester Apollo
Sunday 25th November - Birmingham Carling Academy
Photo taken from kentloset’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.
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PJ Harvey / Two September dates 2007-08-16 06:32:00 Polly Jean Harvey
, better known to you or I as the legendary PJ Harvey, has announced a new album along with two new dates
to celebrate her new album release. “White Chalk” is released on Monday 24th September
.
The London date is sold out (it’s been on sale for several weeks now). Tickets for the Bristol date are £25 or £30 a seat dependent on what tier you sit in.
Monday 24th September - Bristol Colston Hall
Saturday 29th September - London Royal Festival Hall
Photo is taken from Plastic Jesus’ flickr stream under the creative commons license.
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Bikini Black Special: Demo Review 2007-08-15 17:28:33 A couple of months ago I featured BikiniBlackSpecial
as a “band to watch in the future”, after I was involved in the judging of the Road To V bands through Virtual Festivals. Now they’ve sent me their first demo CD, which sounds exceptionally professional for a debut effort.
A mix between the urgency of Arctic Monkeys, early Razorlight (before they got shite) and the tales of Hard-Fi, BBS are never going to win innovation and originality awards. However what they lack in originality they more than make up with in style, talent and sheer songs.
Opening with “Easy, Faster” the lads have a fine opening track, combining northern grit with a fine tune, bemoaning how “you’ve got it so easy”. Quickly builds into an unstoppable juggernaut, before plunging straight into the second track, “Cuffs + Kisses“.
Vocalist Stevo sounds like a mixture of Arctics’ Alex Turner and The Enemy’s Tom, channelling his bitterness and anger into the track – calls of “the same
Hard-Fi / Album Launch show 2007-08-22 14:31:07 Things are heating up for Hard-Fi as they announce that they’ll be playing a special one off gig to celebrate their new album launch.
They’ll be playing Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street in London on Sunday 2nd/3rd September at midnight. The band will be performing live as well as signing copies of the brand new album “Once Upon A Time In The West” fresh from release.
To win tickets all you have to do is answer the below question:
What Balearic island did HARD-FI recently play?
Simply email in your full name, address and contact telephone number to competitions@atlanticrecords.co.uk - with the subject title ‘HARD-FI VIRGIN COMP’
I don’t know when the competition closes, but give it a go shortly and you’ll find out!
(As a hint, remember that they recently played Ibiza Rocks festival.)
Photo from sarahphotogirl’s flickr stream.
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Dandy Warhols / One off London show 2007-08-22 14:19:25 The Dandy
Warhols have announced their only UK date of the year. The Bohemian Like You stars have said it will be their only headlining date of the year as they finalise their new album back home in Portland, USA.
Catch them at the Electric Ballroom on Tuesday October 2nd.
Tickets are on sale now and are selling rapidly (See tickets have already sold out their allocation, only those scumbags at Ticketmaster have any left). They’re £22.50 each.
Photo is taken from Justin Kent’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.
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Mumm-Ra October Tour CANCELLED 2007-08-20 17:44:28 No sooner than Mumm-Ra have announced an October
tour than they go and cancel it.
In a statement on their mySpace they say:
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have decided to cancel our October tour.
Now this isn’t because we are splitting up or anything like that. We just feel that the extra 3 weeks we would have by not doing it will give us extra time to focus on writing the second album. We don’t want to be on of these bands who take 2-3 years to release their next album. That just isn’t us. We want a quick turn around. We want to spend the winter months of 07 in hibernation writing and demoing songs. Record the album in the first few months of 08 and be back on our stereos with some new tunes by the start of summer.
We will still be doing the gig in Bexhill on the 31st, and also the gig in Romford on 29th Sept. And possibly a date in london as well.
Conspiracy theorists go wild on this one…
Photo taken from tallkev’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons Lic
Bands to keep a watch out for in the future: #14: Talk in Code 2007-08-20 14:30:39 Few bands sound as polished on their debut demos as Talk in Code. Sounding like an amped up Keane after a night on the lash with the Chili Peppers (could Tom Chaplin manage that without a rehab trip? We’ll leave that to your imagination…), their demo CD may be only three tracks long, but they manage to fit in all of their strengths (and a few weaknesses as well for good measure).
Opener “Dry Emotion” starts off fast paced, and keeps it going throughout, though the last minute could probably have been done away with, as they loop around again… but that could just be me…
“First Mistake” would have passed for an early U2 demo… professional and polished, stadium bound, yet missing that magical something you can’t quite put your finger on. Lyrically they’re one step up from emo teenagers in their room, but still one step down from the abstract story-telling of U2… lyrics such as “Don’t say it all again / I came back from way back when / I’ve made the first mist Read more:Bands
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V Festival 2008 tickets on sale tomorrow 2007-08-20 14:16:42 As can usually be expected, V Festival
tickets for the 2008 event go on sale tomorrow
morning (Tuesday 21st August) until midnight next Tuesday (28th August). This initial allocation is strictly limited, so get there before the touts do!
Tickets will be available priced at £110 for the weekend or £130 for camping, There will also be a limited number of camper van pitches available at £50 per pitch.
V Festival takes place at Staffordshire’s Weston Park and Chelmsford’s Hylands Park on Saturday and Sunday 16th & 17th August 2008.
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