Things
are kicking off for the Official Stuart Cable Memorial
Single and it will be released on the 25th July
2010 and ALL proceeds going towards Teenage Cancer
Trust and Ty Hafan, Wales.
Click the banner below to find out all about it.
Bloodstock
- Festival
We
have teamed up with the fantastic people at Bloodstock
Festival, the festival is due to take place on August
13th, 14th and 15th and currently the line up is
looking very strong with bands such as Children
Of Bodom, Twisted Sister, Fear Factory, Evile, Black
Spiders and many others playing the event, for more
information click the banner below to be taken to
the Bloodstock website.
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Charlatans
October Tour And New Album Date Set. Thursday 29th July 2010
With a career that has already spanned two decades,
The Charlatans - Martin Blunt (bass), Jon Brookes
(drums), Tim Burgess (vocals), Mark Collins (guitar)
and Tony Rogers (keyboards) - release their new
album ‘Who We Touch’ on September
6th 2010 through Cooking Vinyl. A 2 CD limited
edition package, including exclusive early versions
of tracks and additional tracks that never made
it onto the album will also be available.
Their eleventh studio album, ‘Who We Touch’
was produced by Youth (Paul McCartney, Primal
Scream and The Verve) and was recorded at Britannia
Row in London, on the same desk that saw the creation
of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’.
Featuring eleven tracks, the album must surely
rank as their boldest to date, radically broadening
their aesthetic remit. It is, says Burgess, “a
soulful voyage”, a journey through moods
uplifting and profound, dark and delirious and
ultimately concluding in blissful optimism. Its
sound is inspired by many heroes, yet always sounds
like no-one other than The Charlatans themselves.
Album opener, ‘Love Is Ending’ is
the first single to be taken from the album and
is available on August 2nd on limited edition
7” vinyl. The Horrors have also done a remix
of the track which will be exclusively available
through itunes.
The video to ‘Love is Ending’ was
directed by The Jesus & Mary Chain’s
Douglas Hart, who wanted something very simple
yet visually striking to compliment the energy
of the track. The ballet dancer/choreographer
Aisling Cook was selected due to her influences,
style and understanding of Michael Clarke’s
work, who is famous for his unique and pioneering
style of contemporary ballet with a 'punk' edge
whilst maintaining the fluidity and grace of classical
ballet.
Further into the album ‘Oh!’ is a
beautiful song of reconciliation, as complex as
its shifting time signatures. ‘You Can Swim’,
an exquisite ooze of ambience, reminiscent of
‘Another Green World’-era Eno, with
whose creative ideas the album began. Lurking
at the end of the album is hidden track ‘I
Sing The Body Eclectic’ featuring Crass’s
Penny Rimbauld on vocals. Gee Vaucher who did
the iconic artwork for all of Crass’s releases,
also provides ‘Who We Touch’ with
it’s eerie collaged cover image.
The Charlatans play the following shows in October:
5th Hatfield, The Forum
7th Newcastle, O2 Academy
8th Edinburgh, HMV Picture House
9th Dundee, Fat Sam’s Live
11th Liverpool, O2 Academy
12th Nottingham, Rock City
14th Leeds, O2 Academy
15th Sheffield, O2 Academy
16th Manchester, Apollo
18th Oxford, O2 Academy
19th Bristol, O2 Academy
21st Norwich, UEA
22nd London, O2 Academy Brixton
23rd Birmingham, O2 Academy
StringerBessant
- Ever since Reef did their comeback shows
earlier in the year I caught news that Gary
Stringer and Jack Bessant from Reef had
formed a side project called StringerBessant
and a few months later the band have put
the finishing touches to their debut album
‘Yard’ which is due for release
on the 12th July.
‘Yard’
is an fantastic album but it is one of
those albums that you have to listen to
a few times over to start to enjoy it,
I will admit on the first listen I didn’t
like the album at all but something made
me want to listen to it again and it happened
to be a great decision as the album has
totally grown on me. The album is extremely
stripped down and beautifully sounding,
Gary Stringer and Jack Bessant take it
in turns to cover lead vocals throughout
the majority of the songs on the album
and they both have such stand out distinctive
vocals with Gary’s standing out
the most due to his vocals reminding me
of the more mellow sounding Reef songs,
the instruments used within the album
are acoustic guitars and harmonica’s
and that’s what adds to the beauty
of the album.
To coincide with
the release of ‘Yard’ StringerBessant
are heading out on tour from the 14th
July to play 5 dates in venues that they
have not played in years due to the massive
popularity of Reef, so the whole StringerBessant
side project is helping them go back to
their roots in more ways than one, the
tour starts at Exeter and passes through
Newquay, Falmouth, Bristol and finishes
off at Swindon and I would recommend anyone
to head out to one of the shows if you
can because the shows promise to be intimate
shows that you will never forget.
If you are
still undecided about StringerBessant
head to www.myspace.com/stringerbessant
now and listening to the beautiful sounding
‘Hey girl’ which is available
for streaming from the page.
The
Rooks are a new band on the horizon made up from
members of Phinius Gage, Not Katies and Second Monday,
they are based in the Brighton area and play fast
paced aggressive punk rock and we are currently
hosting the video for their brand new single 'Bet
It All On Black', however you have been warned do
not watch the video if you have a weak tummy as
it has been banned from TV, the song is fantastic
and the video is controversial, happy viewing.
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