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18/7/08 With ltd edition debut single 'Arrows of Eros' all over the radio (being played by everyone from Jo Whiley and Huw Stephens to Zane Lowe and Janice Long), Golden Silvers announce their first UK headline tour for September. September tour dates:
01-Sep-08 Cambridge, Portland 02-Sep-08 Birmingham, Academy 03-Sep-08 Leicester, Charlotte 04-Sep-08 Northampton, Roadmender 05-Sep-08 Stoke, Sugarmill 07-Sep-08 Bestival, Isle of Wight 09-Sep-08 Newcastle, Academy 10-Sep-08 Manchester, Roadhouse 11-Sep-08 Hull, The Lamp 13-Sep-08 Middlesbrough, Arena 14-Sep-08 Castleford, Leeds 15-Sep-08 Glasgow, King Tuts 17-Sep-08 Brighton, Freebutt 20-Sep-08 York, Fibbers 22-Sep-08 Nottingham, Bodega 23-Sep-08 Bristol, Louisiana 24-Sep-08 Hereford, The Jailhouse 25-Sep-08 Sheffield, Fuzz Club (Freshers) 26-Sep-08 Darlington, Club Strut @ Inside 27-Sep-08 Ipswich, Uprock @ The Swan 28-Sep-08 Bedford, Esquires 29-Sep-08 Southampton, Joiners 30-Sep-08 Hertford, Marquee 01-Oct-08 London, Water Rats
16/7/08 Following the release last autumn of their debut album, ‘Sings The Greys’, 2008 has already been a great year for Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit, witnessing further touring (with rave reviews from SXSW Festival) and the release of their sophomore LP, ‘Midnight Organ Fight’. Recorded by Peter Katis (Interpol, Mercury Rev), the album has gained considerable acclaim, with a number of sources citing it already as one of the year’s best. With almost every track on the album feeling like a hit-in-waiting, from start to finish ‘Midnight Organ Fight’ is undoubtedly the catchiest, most hook-filled album FatCat have ever released - able to make insight accrued from personal experience connect on an almost anthemic, universal level.
Retaining that slightly ragged charm that attracted us in the first place, Frightened Rabbit are now vastly improved sonically and have sharpened and honed their craft into a highly efficient, hugely powerful force. With a brilliant grasp of pop songwriting / dynamics, their music is delivered with an absolute economy. Deeply addictive, these are songs / emotions distilled to an essence, that (like all the best pop) end leaving you yearning for more. As the album titles, lyrics and artwork amply attest, Frightened Rabbit’s songs appear utterly rooted in the body and the (overwhelming / confusing / inescapable) physical urges and effects deriving from love / lust and intimate human relationships – not just the nitty gritty of the physical act (though there is plenty of that), but all its associated stimuli - blood-pumping, heart-tingling, stomach-churning, nerve-wracking, head-wrecking, goose-pimpled, swooning, aching. The third single to be taken from the album, the two tracks on this double A sided 7” bear witness from opposing angles / tenses – the first training the lens on a relationship past; the second one potential.
‘I Feel Better’ is 2 minutes 45 seconds of frenetic, pumping urgency, flowering into a thick, surging musical tide. Set in the aftermath of a love lost, its determinedly self-assuring, positive assertation (“this is the last song I write about you”) unravels itself in the telling as paper-thin and plagued with doubt. Not so much an amorous yearning as a stumbling, desperate grope towards the need for human warmth and one night’s postponement of the horror of being alone (“twist and whisper the wrong name / I don’t care and nor do my ears”), ‘The Twist’ revolves around a stabbing piano motif and gradually builds before a vibrant rhythmic injection of drums and an arpeggiating almost house-y piano pushing the track into a swirling euphoric excess of melodies and fluttering texture.
An unconventional four-piece with a defined personality, Frightened Rabbit Comprises brothers Scott (vocals, guitar) and Grant Hutchison (Drums, vocals), Billy Kennedy (guitar, keys), and latest recruit Andy Monaghan (guitar / keyboard). Lyrically ranging from incisive social commentary, to lucid, humourous explorations of interpersonal relationships, Scott’s songs convey candid tales of ordinary folk with a wry, acerbic wit via an eloquent, emotive, modern garage-pop aesthetic. Always a riveting live force the band have recently played dates such as T In The Park, The Big Chill, and Summer Sundae, as well as support slots with the likes of Sons & Daughters, Editors, We Are Scientists, and Idlewild. A full UK tour has been added in support of this single.
Confirmed Tourdates:
Fri 5 Sep MANCHESTER NIGHT & DAY CAFE Sat 6 Sep LONDON 229 (supporting Camera Obscura) Sun 7 Sep BRIGHTON FREE BUTT Mon 8 Sep SOUTHAMPTON ORANGE ROOMS Tue 9 Sep READING SOUTH STREET Wed 10 Sep LEICESTER FIREBUG Thu 11 Sep NEWCASTLE THE END BAR Fri 12 Sep SCOTLAND RAPAL (Radio Show) Sat 13 Sep NOTTINGHAM TBC Sun 14 Sep DUBLIN HWCH FESTIVAL Tue 16 Sep DUNDEE UNI STUDENTS UNION Thu 18 Sep ABERDEEN BARFLY Fri 19 Sep ULLAPOOL LOOPALLU FESTIVAL Thu 25 Sep EDINBURGH THE CAVE Tue 30 Sep GLASGOW THE ARCHES Thr 2 Oct LONDON HOXTON BAR AND GRILL (Headlining Show - Concrete and Glass Festival)
“one of 2008's truly great indie-pop albums.” 9/10 - Drowned In Sound “ ...hail the first truly great album of 2008.” - The Daily Star “Frightened Rabbit will leave you stunned.” - The Independent on Sunday “Utterly beautiful.” 8/10 - NME “...bracing, startling, infectious and often brilliant.” - The Sunday Times “Midnight Organ Fight more than delivers on its promise: tons of spiky energy, proper tunes and a real lyrical bite...” - Q “their product is one-of-a-kind, as their consistently great second album attests.” 8.1/10 – Pitchfork
16/7/08 Everyone's favourite American indie carnival Vampire Weekend have revealed that they will return to the UK for a new tour this October. Here are the dates:
20 Oct: Birmingham, Academy 21 Oct: Manchester, Academy 22 Oct: Sheffield, Academy 24 Oct: London, Forum 25 Oct: London, Forum 28 Oct: Newcastle, Academy 29 Oct: Glasgow, Barrowlands 30 Oct: Liverpool, Academy 31 Oct: Bristol, Academy
16/7/08 Rolo Tomassi have announced full tour dates to promote their debut album, 'Hysterics', which will be out on 22nd Sept on Hassle. As if that wasn't already exciting enough, the tour kicks off with two free London shows in the same night on album launch day! Here are the dates:
22 Sep: London, Old Blue Last + The Macbeth - FREE 23 Sep: Bristol, The Croft 24 Sep: Birmingham, Sanctuary 25 Sep: Leeds, Brudenell Club 26 Sep: Glasgow, Barfly 27 Sep: Nottingham, Bodega Social 28 Sep: York, Junction 29 Sep: Cambridge, Portland Arms 30 Sep: Leicester, Firebug
16/7/08 The Rascals, the band fronted by Miles Kane from the Last Shadow Puppets, have announced tour dates to promote their debut album, 'Rascalise'. Tour dates:
17 Sep: Liverpool The Picket 18 Sep: Liverpool The Picket 19 Sep: Glasgow Garage 20 Sep: Ullapool, Loopallu 22 Sep: Edinburgh Liquid Rooms 23 Sep: Newcastle The Other Rooms 25 Sep: Coventry Kasbah 28 Sep: Norwich Arts Centre 29 Sep: Cambridge Junction 30 Sep: London Scala
14/7/08 UK hip-hop grandmaster Roots Manuva will be heading out on a fifteen date UK tour in October to promote his new album 'Slime & Reason'. The shows will focus more on electronics, dub and crashing beats than the live band sound he employed last time out. 7 Oct: Gateshead, The Sage 2 8 Oct: Edinburgh, Liquid Room 9 Oct: Glasgow, Arches 11 Oct: Manchester, Warehouse 12 Oct: Nottingham, Rock City 13 Oct: Coventry, Casbar 15 Oct: Preston, Club 53 16 Oct: Sheffield, Plug 17 Oct: Birmingham, Academy 2 18 Oct: London, Shepherds Bush Empire 21 Oct: Brighton, Concorde 22 Oct: Cambridge, The Junction 23 Oct: Bristol, Anson Rooms 24 Oct: Exeter, Lemon Grove 25 Oct: Plymouth University
14/7/08 Earlier this year fans gushed over the unaffected indie of The Wave Pictures first label released album ‘Instant Coffee Baby’. Taken from that album, the lead single ‘Just Like A Drummer’ is accompanied by 5 new songs; blessed with the extraordinary song writing of lead singer David Tattersall and gorgeous vocal appearances from Rebecca Slow Club (on Dust Off Your Heart), and long standing Wave Pictures collaborator Lisa Li Lund. Existing fans will be unsurprised to hear that songs pour out of The Wave Pictures. So much so that albums two and three are already ‘in the can’, with their sophomore album set for release before the end of the year. The band has recently appeared alongside contemporaries Darren Hayman, Slow Club, and Laura Marling in recent weeks and will headline a 6Music-curated show at The Borderline, on 30th July.
UPCOMING LIVE DATES:
July 15th London Luminaire supporting Coming Soon 16th Bristol Fleece supporting Coming Soon 17th Brighton Engine Room supporting Coming Soon 20th Latitude Festival 26th Indie Tracks Festival 28th Brixton Windmill supporting Toby Goodshank 30th Headline show @ 6music night, London Borderline
“…charming, witty pop songs shot through with Jonathan Richman’s gawky glee and Suede’s doomed provincial romanticism…..” THE GUARDIAN ****
“Lyrically they can turn on a dime…zipping from richly observed into amusingly confessional into a Lewis Carroll flight of fancy” NME 8/10
“The Wave Pictures’ naked, bookish pop songs, exude their own special king of screw-you confidence. …too charming, true and heartfelt not to fall in love with.” TIME OUT *****
Four months on from their critically acclaimed debut album, The Wave Pictures release a six track EP of ceaselessly inventive song writing and scrappily virtuoso Rock ‘n’ Roll. The ‘Just Like A Drummer’ EP is released on 4th August on Moshi Moshi.
10/7/08 “This 37 minutes of music is the end product of two years’ inspiration, frustration, toil and passion. We set out to merge heartfelt, romantic songwriting with our love of the dancefloor and blissful shoegaze guitars” Friendly Fires, July 2008, September 1st sees the release of Friendly Fires’ eponymous, self-titled debut album via XL Recordings. Most will probably have heard of them already - the band gained a huge amount of popularity over the past 18 months playing clubs and venues up and down the country and releasing three much lauded limited singles - they were the first unsigned band to appear on Channel 4’s Transmission show and Radio 1 DJs Zane Lowe, Colin Murray and Rob Da Bank are all fans. Last year, the St Alban’s trio released a super limited seven-inch, Paris, which was judged to be the single of the week in both the NME and The Guardian. Now signed to XL, they count Radiohead, The White Stripes and Adele as their labelmates.
Creating their own unique sound, it’s not hard to see what all the fuss is about. The debut album which has been two years in the making, is a heady mixture of dance-floor friendly monsters, amidst beautiful washes of understated lo-fi pop music. Album highlights include the aforementioned Paris - a deft combination of clattering percussion and a blissed out, hum-along hook, whilst In The Hospital combines a driving punk funk groove with an unstoppable pop melody. Macfarlane’s joyous vocals in the chorus of Skeleton Boy give the song such a lift you could dust under the band’s amps. Then there’s the brilliantly wonky waltz-like rhythms on White Diamonds, which point to their love of German techno label Kompakt, while the Paul Epworth-produced first single Jump In The Pool (the only track on the album which is not self-produced) is an inspired collision of loose Liquid Liquid drums and My Bloody Valentine atmospherics. It’s all the more impressive when you consider that they recorded it entirely themselves on a laptop, laying down one instrument at a time and using a “crappy microphone gaffer taped to a mic stand”. The band tried working with various producers, but in the end opted for the same lo-fi, DIY aesthetic they’ve always perused. The recording sessions took place in the studio they’d always used: the garage of Macfarlane’s parent’s house. Paul Epworth and the band hooked up last minute to produce the first single ‘Jump In The Pool’ as Epworth is a big fan of the band’s previous work.
Macfarlane (vocals, synths, bass), Gibson (guitar) and Savidge (drums) met at school. They played a hybrid of Fugazi-inspired post-hardcore with lots of math rock guitars and no vocals. “I think we took everything a little too seriously back then,” says Macfarlane. “Obviously, it’s changed a lot since then. Writing a pop song wasn’t very high on our agenda, but now we definitely want to write songs with a pop edge.” Which is exactly what they have done.
Friendly Fires; born of commuter belt boredom, now one of the most exciting new bands in the country.
Tracklisting: 1. Jump In The Pool// 2. In The Hospital// 3. Paris// 4. White Diamonds// 5. Strobe// 6. On Board// 7. Lovesick// 8. Skeleton Boy// 9. Photobooth// 10. Ex Lover
The band will tour the UK in September/October this year, and also feature at various festivals throughout the summer
Live dates:
July 11th Ireland, Oxygen Festival July 19th Germany, Melt Festival July 23rd UK, Tunbridge Wells, Forum July 24th UK, London, Soho Revue Bar July 25th US, Philadelphia, Making Time July 26th US, NYC, Santos Party House July 28th US, NYC, Mercury Lounge July 29th US, Los Angeles, Mayan Theatre (with Bloc Party) July 30th US, LA, Space lands (Club NME)
August 1st US, LA, Echo August 7th Japan, Tokyo, Duo (with Hot Chip) August 9th Japan, Tokyo, Summersonic August 10th Japan, Osaka, Summersonic August 14th France, St Tropez, Plage de Rock August 22nd Reading Festival (Carling New Band) August 23rd Leeds Festival (Carling New Band) August 30th Hydro Connect Festival, Inveraray Castle, Loch Fyre
9/7/08 Lykke Li is certainly more deserving of that oft-misused term ‘hotly tipped’ than most. By the admission of anyone who has witnessed the 22-year old Swede perform in the flesh, or had her debut album ‘Youth Novels’ on rotation since it was released last month, she is box-fresh and supremely talented. As rare, and as otherworldly a find as Bjork was 15 years ago, Lykke Li has - in 9 short months - marked herself out as a powerful creative force, and a captivating performer of global appeal and huge potential. Continuing the upward march of her career trajectory thus far, she will release new single ‘Breaking it Up’ on LL Recordings next month.
Though already a defining artist of 2008 for many, Lykke Li doesn’t sound ‘of a time’ – she’s in no danger of being written off in 6 months’ time for sporting day-glo hoodies, asymmetrical haircuts, or any other here-today, gone-tomorrow passing fad…because she’s an artist of depth, grace, class, and most importantly substance. Sure, there’s a joyful pop-swayed abandon in what LL does…but in truth, her influences splinter everything from hip-hop (she’s been known to treat crowds to a rendition of A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Can I Kick It?’ when she performs), to folk and blues. Lykke Li has been as absorbed by the music of Karen Dalton and Edith Piaf as Suicide, Salt-n-Pepa, Kate Bush or Grace Jones. She is an enigmatic, multi-faceted character sure enough - perhaps a little schizophrenic by nature - but she’s all the more wonderful for it.
To this effect, ‘Breaking It Up’ is hallmark Lykke Li. A reluctant breakup anthem (complete with sing-along-inducing all-girl choir formed with Japanese rock band, The Suzan), it articulates her own restlessness as much as it’s a literal re-telling of another youthful bout of heartbreak and romantic disillusionment:- “It’s about me always being the one to leave someone in order to pursue my dreams,” Lykke Li admits. “It’s about how my creativity is keeping me from having a steady relationship because I'm always thinking about new ideas. I do feel bad for beginning things with people when I know it’s never gonna last. I’ll stay a while, but never for long...”
Fresh from an impression-making turn at Glastonbury (her debut at the festival), and winning over new fans by the day as she tours Europe and the US throughout the Summer (all festival dates listed below), Lykke has just announced a new UK tour for the Autumn. The tour, which will include a headline show at The Scala, is mapped out over following dates:-
October tour 29/9 Sheffield The Plug 1/10 London Scala 2/10 Brighton Concorde 2 5/10 Birmingham Glee Club 6/10 Bristol Thekla 8/10 Liverpool Liverpool Academy 2 9/10 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire 10/10 York The Duchess
UK Summer festival dates 19/7 Lovebox festival 20/7 Latitude festival 27/7 Secret Garden festival 2/8 Big Chill 10/8 Summer Sundae 5/9 Bestival
Lykke Li - ‘Breaking It Up’ Single – CD, 7” & Download LL Recordings August 18 2008
NME "Lykke's combination of simple style with breathless minimalism is untouchable" MixMag “Scandinavian torch-song sensation” 4/5 Guardian “A delicious treat” 4/5
9/7/08 You Me At Six’s constant touring for the past 12 months has paid off. The band can now confirm some very exciting upcoming live dates. They will be headlining a Kerrang! Awards show at the London Barfly on August 18 and later that week, performing at the Reading & Leeds Festival on the Festival Republic Stage. Having just completed a 21-date, sold-out UK headline tour and gearing up for their performance at this year’s T In The Park, You Me At Six are also thrilled to announce the dates for their next UK headline tour, this October. The tour sees the band play the Astoria in London, which has been a dream of theirs since the band started. Lead singer Josh Franceschi states,
“Obviously we can't wait to play the Astoria as it's something we've wanted to do since we became a band. We are all petrified as to whether or not we'll be able to fill the venue, but we've never done things the 'normal' way so we'll just have to see!”
The band is also thrilled to offer their fans a low ticket price of £9.00 on all regional dates and £10.50 for the Astoria. From Franceschi,
“Keeping the ticket price low was a huge thing for us. Would our fans think it was reasonable if our ticket prices went from being cheap to really expensive? No, probably not. We wanted to keep it low so people could afford to come see us play live. We're not fussed about making loads of money, just enough for us to fund touring.”
OCTOBER HEADLINE TOUR
15.10.2008 MIDDLESBROUGH EMPIRE 16.10.2008 NORWICH WATERFRONT 17.10.2008 NOTTINGHAM RESCUE ROOMS 18.10.2008 WOLVERHAMPTON WULFRUN 19.10.2008 NORTHAMPTON ROADMENDER 21.10.2008 LEEDS MET UNIVERSITY 22.10.2008 GLASGOW ABC 1 23.10.2008 MANCHESTER ACADEMY 2 24.10.2008 LIVERPOOL ACADEMY 1 25.10.2008 SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY 26.10.2008 OXFORD ACADEMY 27.10.2008 LONDON ASTORIA 28.10.2008 CARDIFF SOLUS 29.10.2008 BRIGHTON KOMEDIA 30.10.2008 EXETER PHOENIX
You Me At Six’s debut album is due for release this October through Slam Dunk Records. The first taster for fans will be the first full-release single, Gossip, out July 28 through Slam Dunk Records. A straight up pop rock track complete with sing-along choruses and catchy guitar riffs, Gossip is only the beginning of what’s to come.
8/7/08 21 year old songwriter and producer Micachu is fast becoming one of the most talked about and exciting new artists in the country. Since the release of debut ltd edition 7" single 'Lone Ranger' in May, Micachu has been making big waves everywhere from clubs and parties (her grime mixtape has become a word of mouth, underground, must-have) to the Royal Festival Hall (where the London Philharmonic Orchestra recently played one of her original compositions). Quite simply, there is not another young musical artist in the country like Micachu: equally at home making brilliant leftfield pop, as she is composing for orchestras and making urban mix tapes.
Micachu's newest fan is Bjork, who came to a recent London gig and was so overwhelmed by the show she rung Mica up afterwards to tell her how incredible she thought her music was. Other new fans include Bat For Lashes and Saul Williams who both asked Micachu to support them.
Brand new single 'Golden Phone' harnesses a multitude of sounds - vocal looped beats, Mica sighing, electro-static squawks, keyboards being dropped - and fuses them into 24 carat pop gold. A track that magically, sounds as fresh as it does melodic.
The single's second track 'Turn Me Weller' is a breathtaking, warped, 3am lullaby and hints at the sonic inventiveness we can expect from Micachu's, Matthew Herbert produced debut album. Syncopated beats clash with vacuum cleaners revs, before Mica beautifully sings "I was told I had a sell by date / Where I was rotted and altered but still remain".
After touring with The Mystery Jets in April, Micachu embarked on the Convoy to Cape Town in May: a week long road trip through South Africa (in aid of The White Ribbon Alliance charity) which brought musicians from the UK together with those from all over Africa as they played together every night of the tour in different villages, towns and cities.
For live shows Micachu plays with her band The Shapes: a three-piece fronted by Mica (vocals, guitar, electronics and Hoover), Raisa Kahn (keys) and Marc Pell (drums).
Micachu and the Shapes play Glastonbury, V Festival, Bestival and Secret Garden Party amongst other UK festivals this summer.
The debut album is scheduled for October 2008.
Live dates:
10 Jul: Touch (Long Leave Room) @ Sin, London 18 Jul: NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE @ The Last Days Of Decadence (Shoreditch) 19 Jul: Camp Bestival (solo show), Lulworth Castle, Dorset 25 Jul: Rockfeedback club London 26 Jul: Secret Garden Party, Cambridge 31 Jul: Dirty Bingo vs Loud & Quiet @ The Macbeth, London 11 Aug: Durr @ The End, London 15 Aug: 93 Feet East-free show London 16 Aug: Loop festival, Brighton 17 Aug: V Festival, Stafford, 6 Sep: Bestival, Isle of White
Band: Mica Levi (Vocals, guitar and electronics) Raisa Kahn (Keys) Marc Pell (Drums)
Micachu 'Golden Phone' @ The Social, Mixtape Launch:
8/7/08 On the 11th of August 2008, Bloc Party will release their brand new single 'Mercury' which was played for the first time last night on Zane Lowe's Radio One show. Speaking live on the show about the new song and the on-going recording session for the band's third album Kele said "we're in the middle of it. We're still writing and working on it so it's quite hard to have an overview really, we are making the record I always wanted us to make so we just can't wait for it to be done." You can listen to the track again no the BBC's Radio One page here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/zanelowe
The video for the track is here:
The single is available to pre-order now in a very special limited edition disc-set which includes heavyweight 12" and heavyweight 7" and a maxi CD which all comes in a metallic gatefold sleeve:
7" heavyweight vinyl A. Mercury B. Idea for a Story
12" heavyweight vinyl A. Mercury (12" version) B. Mercury (12" instrumental version)
CD 1. Mercury 2. Mercury (Herve is in disarray remix) 3. Mercury (CSS remix) 4. Mercury (Flosstradamus remix)
Bloc Party will be playing at this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals after their US headline tour in August. Full dates are:
July 28 - The Glass House, Pomona CA 29 - Mayan Theater, Los Angeles CA 30 - Fillmore, San Francisco CA
August 01 - Lollapalooza, Chicago IL 02 - House of Blues, Chicago IL 05 - Fillmore at Theater of Living Arts, Philadelphia PA 06 - Webster Hall, New York NY 07 - Webster Hall, New York NY 09 - V Festival, Baltimore MD 15 - Highfield Festival, Hohenfelden DE 21 - Marlay Park, Dublin IE 23 - Reading Festival, Reading UK 24 - Leeds Festival, Leeds UK
September 05 - Royal Oak, Detroit MI 06 - V Festival, Toronto CA 09 - Edmonton Events Centre, Edmonton CA 10 - MacEwan Hall, Calgary CA 13 - Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, Fredricton CA 14 - The Marquee Club, Halifax CA 15 - The Marquee Club, Halifax CA 17 - Metropolis, Montreal CA
8/7/08 Following a reshuffle in the band’s ranks since their double gold-certified debut album, The Automatic return with a brilliant new single ‘Steve McQueen’. It's the perfect embodiment of the The Automatic sound. The lead single from forthcoming second album ‘This Is A Fix’ (out 25th August), it’s a white-hot epic, featuring a brilliantly addictive chorus and crunching guitars, while lyrically it’s a romantic reference to growing up in Cowbridge and dreaming of the Great Escape. It’s also the first track to feature The Automatic’s new line up. While founding keyboard player Alex Pennie has left to pursue other projects, in – though not as a direct replacement – is former Yourcodenameis:milo frontman Paul Mullen, adding another flank to James Frost’s guitar assault, and providing melodic counterpoint to Rob Hawkins’ vocals. All built upon Iwan Griffiths’ pummeling drums, it makes up for a bigger, fatter sound, just as dynamic, just as melodic, but simply ’more’
Produced by Steve Harris (Kaiser Chiefs), ‘Steve McQueen’ will feature three brand new tracks across CD and two 7”s while the digital download will also feature live and acoustic versions of the single. It is also accompanied by a Paul Minor (Muse, Editors) directed video, shot recently in the Mojave Desert.
Meanwhile, following a headline performance on the Love Music Hate Racism Stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, The Automatic have been confirmed to play the main stage at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals before embarking on a full UK tour at the end of September:
23rd August - Reading Festival 24th August - Leeds Festival 28th September - Oxford Academy 30th September - Birmingham Academy 2 1st October - Northumbria University 2nd October - Manchester Academy 2 3rd October - Glasgow Garage 4th October - Nottingham Rescue Rooms 6th October - Sheffield Academy 7th October - Bristol Trinity 8th October - London Scala
3/7/08 After the release of The Devil’s Crayon and of their superb debut, Limbo, Panto, Wild Beasts have just announced a tour for July and August. The tour will include a home-coming show at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal on July 25th and a date at London’s 100 Club on July 29th. They will also perform a handful of festival dates including Latitude, Underage and Green Man. Full dates are as follows:
04/07/08 - LEEDS The Cockpit 06/07/08 - PORT LYMPNE ZOO8 Festival 19/07/08 - SUFFOLK Latitude Festival (Uncut Stage) 25/07/08 – KENDAL The Brewery Arts Centre 26/07/08 - GLASGOW King Tut’s 29/07/08 - LONDON 100 Club 08/08/08 - LONDON Underage Festival @ Victoria Park 08/08/08 - BRIGHTON Concorde 2 09/08/08 - LONDON Field Day @ Victoria Park 16/08/08 - GLANUSK Green Man Festival 18/08/08 - EDINBURGH The Corn Exchange
Some recent press about Limbo, Panto…
‘It exists in its own eccentric, unique universe, and that is the best thing that any debut album can do.’ – NME 8/10 .. the band are about to chuck a mad, brilliant debut album , Limbo, Panto, at a music scene crying out for something different.’ – Sunday Times Culture ‘…as fiery and kaleidoscopic as a Catherine wheel.’ – Guardian – 4* ‘…music that both wrong steps and delights the listener in equal doses.’ – The Sun – 4* ‘Their MO is a kind of toppling music-hall melodrama, filtered through Orange Juice’s poised, preening pop.’ - Uncut – 4* ‘…the bewilderment gives way to admiration and, finally, an embrace of their apartness. Years ago, John Peel – who, you suspect, would have loved Wild Beasts – would have nursed us through the whole process.’’ – The Times – 4* ‘Domino’s new signings prove it’s anything but grim up north […] panoramic lounge music at its most theatrical.’ – Music Week ‘…a debut of real daring and vision.’ – Financial Times – 4*
2/7/08 The Ting Tings have announced their biggest UK tour to date, with fifteen shows planned for September and October this year. Tour dates:
20 Sep: Liverpool Carling Academy 21 Sep: Glasgow Barrowlands 23 Sep: Newcastle Carling Academy 24 Sep: Nottingham Rock City 25 Sep: Southampton Guildhall 26 Sep: Sheffield Carling Academy 28 Sep: Norwich UEA 29 Sep: Lincoln Engine Shed 30 Sep: Leicester University
2 Oct: Manchester Academy 4 Oct: Birmingham Carling Academy 5 Oct: Cardiff University Great Hall 7 Oct: Bristol Carling Academy 8 Oct: London Shepherds Bush Empire 9 Oct: London Forum
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name @ Glastonbury '08:
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