Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Guest Blogger , Road Report U.K. rockers Maximo Park are hitting festivals around the world this summer and are keeping a diary for Spinner. In the fourth entry, frontman Paul Smith falls in but recovers to play Fuji Rock and experience all Japan has to offer. I've spent the best part of the last two weeks in the wonderful world of Japan, battling illness and humidity to not only play the Fuji Rock festival, but to try [...]
If you've been around a bit, you'll know that Noah and the Whale are one of Radio Exile's fave acts [ Evidence ]. Once we heard news of their new album, The First Days Of Spring , out August 31 via Mercury, we figured that we should share what we have with those we find dearest to our hearts, our readers (or just Holly , we aren't picky). One of the tracks from said album is "Blue Skies", a dreamy soundscape that while not particularly fitting for our [...]
U.K. rockers Maximo Park are hitting festivals around the world this summer and are keeping a diary for Spinner. In the third entry, singer Paul Smith does his best DiCaprio impression before the band falls victim to Mother Nature's fury at the Benicassim festival. It feels like we're weekenders at the moment with a few days in midweek to gather our thoughts and launder clothes. Flying into Barcelona on Thursday allowed me the opportunity to visit the excellent modern art galleries of the MACBA and browse my way through the book shop. I saw [...]
After a soggy June for all of us in the northeast, summer is now fast approaching. This means your pasty white ass is going to grace the world with its presence, whether it be at a beach, a water... [[This is an excerpt. The pages look just silly here, you know? Why not just hit up the article, homes? We'd appreciate that!]]
The horror stories just keep coming flooding in from yesterday's act of God. Tents blown away, tents stuck in trees, hundreds of passports scattered across the campsite and tales of near decapitations as tent poles flew through the air and violently pierced through neighbouring tents. Kudos though to the organisers who were quick to act as thousands of people were evacuated to sleep in a nearby school. Again, a festival in Spain – who would have thought so much could go wrong weather wise? The morning began with rumours that Kings of Leon and Maximo Park [...]
Jennifer Tzar So I got an email last week from a fellow at the BBC asking me if I wanted to offer up some thoughts and/or predictions on the shortlist for the UK and Ireland's Mercury Prize , which is set to be revealed next Tuesday. Having been largely off the mark in what I expected to make the shortlist for Canada's Polaris Music Prize last week, and actually knowing how that process works, I figured I couldn't possibly do any worse with the Mercurys - a prize whose process was almost [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive , Guest Blogger U.K. rockers Maximo Park are hitting festivals around the world this summer and are keeping a diary for Spinner. In the second entry, frontman Paul Smith battles travel issues, rain, and the trials of the band's first gig from the middle of a lake. I write on a train, my twelfth of the week. Today's train ride is borne of my own carelessness. Having been back and forth to my family home [...]
The police have a blimp which floats above T IN THE PARK with their cameras trained on the chaos below. What they'll see from up there is as accurate a snapshot of Scotland's youth as you could find - teenagers running about like maddies, personal hygiene non-existent and alcohol consumption levels that make a mockery of the RDA. That may seem a little intimidating, but T in the Park is generally very safe, incredibly good-natured and, this year certainly, rammed full of the biggest bands walking the planet. [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive , Guest Blogger U.K. rockers Maximo Park are hitting festivals around the world this summer and are keeping a diary for Spinner. In the first entry, frontman Paul Smith overcomes the craziness of his band's sets at Glastonbury, mourns the death of Michael Jackson and worships at the feet of Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen . Britain is gripped by its first heatwave of the season. As I type, clear beams [...]
by charles poladian Enough talk of the summer, I figure I am jinxing it. Let's talk turkey, or BBQ, and fireworks. Are you booked? Any plans? If you do, or even if you don't, music will be prevalent no matter where you go. With that being said, I think I have said enough and the Blitz needs to progress forward. To get us going, here are three fresh tracks for your firework brain. [...]
L'équipe de Grandcrew était au Trabendo le 3 Juin dernier pour filmer en intégralité le concert enflammé de Maximo Park. Dans cette performance composée en partie d'extraits de 'Quicken The Heart' leur dernier album, le meilleur groupe anglais du moment se montre comme d'habitude à la hauteur de son excellente réputation... 1. Graffiti 2. Wraithlike 3. The Penultimate Clinch 4. Now I'm All Over The Shop 5. Your Urge 6. Roller Disco Dreams 7. I Want You To Stay 8. Books [...]
As skin cells fade from fluorescent to mild tan and gallons of mud are soaked away from tents, tipis and T-shirts, the grim reality of Glastonbury disintegrating away into the Somerset hills for another three hundred and sixty days becomes harrowingly apparent. The world of Worthy Farm was rocked by the devastating news of the demise of the King of Pop, the first major musical loss perhaps of this Millennium and bar the odd sour jab (largely spurted from the overtly foul mouth of the John Peel Tent's druid compère), a sombre note resounds within Glastonbury's walls. R.I.P. Michael Jackson. [...]
Every year on the first of July, Faronheit celebrates a milestone. July 1st is the official birthday of this site, back in 2006. So Happy 3rd Birthday to the site! But besides that, my first post started a tradition I have continued to do every year since. As we're finished with half the year at the end of June, I like to take a look back at what the previous 6 months have brought us in terms of albums, and select a few to single out as both "surprises" and "disappointments". The process takes two days, and the list is [...]
Every year on the first of July, Faronheit celebrates a milestone. July 1st is the official birthday of this site, back in 2006. So Happy 3rd Birthday to the site! But besides that, my first post started a tradition I have continued to do every year since. As we're finished with half the year at the end of June, I like to take a look back at what the previous 6 months have brought us in terms of albums, and select a few to single out as both "surprises" and "disappointments". The process takes two days, and the list is [...]
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Maximo Park's 2005 debut A Certain Trigger was a revelation. Catchier, edgier and more intelligent than anything on the British indie scene at the time, it seemed to have made a mere formality of the Newcastle natives' coronation as the latest great British indie band. As fate would have it, they had the immense misfortune to headline the 2006 NME Tour above Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys - probably the only band around that could outgun them in each of the catchiness, edginess and intelligence stakes- and were unceremoniously dumped from their briefly occupied pedestal. 2007's Our Earthly Pleasures [...]
EXCITING NEW MATERIAL: Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart by Nick Parker Maximo Park's Paul Smith The Stage is Set: Rarely has there been so much controversy about an album in the RSL writer's team than about this one. Long-standing friendships have ended, bitter words have been thrown, violence has ensued, lawyers have been called… well, a few of us have sent some sarcastic emails [...]
As you may or may not already know, Maximo Park are officially opening Glastonbury Festival in high style this year. But what you probably didn't realise is this: in a move that is certain to be a Glastonbury first, Maximo Park - one of the UK's most cherished bands - are inviting fans to select the songs they want to hear by voting for the entire setlist that the band will play when they kick off proceedings at the legendary festival on 25 June, 2009 . Playing at the Queen's Head Stage [...]
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