Sound of Guns have announced their biggest tour to date, touring many venues in the UK and Ireland in support of their upcoming album 'Angles and Enemies' which is due to be released on the 5th of March. Tickets are on sale now. Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Newcastle Academy 2 Wednesday 7th March 2012 - Glasgow King Tuts Thursday 8th March 2012 - Inverness Ironworks Friday 9th March 2012 - Aberdeen Tunnels Saturday 10th March 2012 - [...]
Various Cruelties are doing a UK tour as a follow up to their recent single release back in January this year, 'Great Unknown' ( reviewed here ). The tour dates are below. Tickets for the shows are priced at £8 (£10 in London) and are available now. Tuesday 17th April 2012 - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms Wednesday 18th April 2012- Nottingham Bodega Thursday 19th April 2012 - London ULU Friday 20th April 2012 - Leeds Cockpit Sunday 22nd April [...]
"VIOLET BONES are a rock 'n' roll band from Cambridge — packing an incredible amount of passion, energy, animation and spirit into their sing-along garage-pop anthems. Their fierce DIY ethic and constant touring across the UK has earned them support slots with punk heroes New York Dolls and Ash". Great band on the verge of a debut album release, it`s nice to receive the odd promotional email concerning an artist that will be gigging somewhere near to home. Sure Los Angeles, New York or Sydney all have masses of iconic appeal but The Grinning Rat [...]
Presented by the Last2Leave Music & Video Promotions in association with 2UIBestow , a music blog independently run by Peter Nagle, The Purple Sessions will once again bring a fine selection of music to the intimate and charming venue Boyle's, located in the heart of Ireland's original rock village, Slane. Re-launching on the evening of 24th February with a line-up that includes Dublin band The Riot Tapes , Waterford's Marc O'Reilly , up [...]
After a fun night with Prins Thomas, Animals Dancing is back again, throwing another party tomorrow night at the Mercat with South Korean (now Berlin-based) Hunee , house producer and Systematic Musicology graduate (studying the psychology and sociology of music). Recently appearing on the brilliant Future Times 'Vibe 22 compilation (along with Alexis Le-Tan, Steve Summers, Steve Moore, & more), Hunee has also appeared on various imprints such as John Daly's Feel Music [as Hunch] (see last track posted here), Rush Hour, Internasjonal, Permanent Vacation + more. Hunee also runs a [...]
Foster the People - who were a little-known band when they appeared on TGTF's stage at Brighton Coalition at 20112s Great Escape last May - will be returning to England to do a few precious dates in Manchester and London. A third date at London's Brixton Academy on the 29th of April, just added to this very short tour, will be on sale Friday at 9 AM. Wednesday 25th April 2012 – Manchester Academy (sold out) Friday 27th April 2012 – London O2 Brixton Academy [...]
There are bands that go well with a drink, and then there are bands that turn even the lightest drinker into a nonstop, unapologetic booze machine. To have two bands of the latter kind on the same bill is kinda genius and also kinda dangerous. Our livers were quivering in fear when we set off for this one. Six things we learned when Thin Lizzy and Clutch played in London 1) Clutch seem stronger than [...]
The Black Keys by Julia Stryj By Julia Stryj February 4, 2012 Last Saturday I woke up with a huge smile on my face in anticipation of what should be a fantastic gig by The Black Keys and Band Of Skulls in the evening. When it started snowing just before lunch time I was getting worried I might not make it up to Edinburgh for the evening, but gladly the snow stopped and I set off early to get there in time for doors [...]
We've said it before, and we'll say it again - as far as touring line-ups go, the combination of Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang has set the bar for 2012. Given that Mastodon put out the Thrash Hits Album of 2011 , The Dillinger Escape Plan put out the Thrash Hits album of 2010 , and Red Fang are one of our favourite up'n'coming crushers, it's gonna take one heck of a tour to top this. When the tour arrived in Manchester, our man [...]
All photos by Michael Rickard ( Twitter ). There's no formula for hype but if you wanted a modern example of how to bottle it, Azealia Banks is it. In 2010, she was knocking out club rap tunes like 'L8R' . Like Rye Rye and Yo Majesty! before her, it was fun but lacked a punch to take it to the next level. Well that level hit 18 months on, when Banks debuted '2122 with the backing of a slew of producers like [...]
A couple of Friday nights ago we demolished every character-staining suspicion that we were having a "Sober January" in the Unicorn in Camden. There were also a couple of bands playing - Carpathia and Bleeding Oath - so we wrote about them. Six things we learned while trying to get our noggins round this noodling prog metal extravaganza 1. Bleeding Oath are young. Like... really, REALLY young. Like... statutory rape young. Which makes them very [...]
D'Angelo By Joel Stagg February 3, 2012 Back last autumn when I purchased tickets to see D'Angelo at the slightly generous price of £40 a pop, the normal feelings of excitement and anticipation rubbed shoulders with some less usual ones. D'Angelo's so-called sabbatical since the year 2000 when he dropped Voodoo, inhabited by well-publicised dalliances with drugs, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation in Antigua and dalliances on the wrong side of the law, led to a certain morbid curiosity and also a sense of trepidation. It [...]
Tribes will be touring the UK and Ireland in April and May. Tickets are on sale now. Saturday 21st April 2012 - Brighton Haunt Sunday 22nd April 2012 - Norwich Arts Centre Tuesday 24th April 2012 - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms Wednesday 25th April 2012 - Bristol Thekla Friday 27th April 2012 - London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire Sunday 29th April 2012 - Leeds Cockpit Monday 30th [...]
Today we're taking a pause from new music blogging to bring to your attention news of a show that is happening tomorrow (Tuesday 7th) evening in Breaking More Waves home city of Southsea, Portsmouth, UK that we have a small amount of involvement in. In conjunction with the recently resurrected all female gig promotion team of Hong Kong Gardeners Club we're putting on a free show at The Edge of the Wedge (the compact 100 capacity sister venue [...]
If you've followed me on Facebook before you know that I enjoy cooking (understatement!) and like to post pictures of whatever food I make. In the RV it's a little bit more challenging to go on any culinary adventures. I try my best but work space is limited as well as cupboard space and having lived in this thing for about two months I'm not quite stocked up on spices and tools either. We're also on a budget whereas at home we almost never got around to eating those leftovers. But as someone said - musicians tend to [...]
Going to see the lovely Tiny Ruins today . Looking forward to that. Especially since it almost didn't happen. We had a train booked to go down to London last night and we missed it… by seconds. Our taxi got caught up in traffic and by the time I picked up our tickets, the man in the hat had already blown his whistle. And apparently there is no turning back once a whistle is blown. Even if you are standing right there beside the train before it starts to move. Catching a bus down today. [...]
Working again with Nathan Horrorshow Tunes under our Zeitgeist banner, we'd like to present you our third show - and our first of 2012. We wouldn't call our last two shows tame. We enjoyed them alot. But in comparison to our forthcoming third - again taking place at Kingston pub The Cricketers , on Friday February 17 , for £3 - they could seem it a little. We're taking things a little 'heavier'. Guitars will be louder, voices will be angrier, and the audience probably smellier. [...]
This weekend (yes, it starts tomorrow night, in case you haven't noticed!) sees a trio of charity gigs in memory of the late, great hip hop producer J-Dilla who passed away in 2006 at age 32 from lupus-related complications. The three events - happening in Manchester, Brighton and London this weekend - will raise money for the J-Dilla Foundation , founded to help fund inner-city music programs and provide scholarships to high-achieving music students, and Lupus UK , the only national registered charity in the UK supporting [...]
Sofia Talvik live on the Drivin' & Dreaming Tour I'm two months into touring and it's been a great experience so far. I have some really nice upcoming gigs that I wanted to share with you. These first few days of February I'm doing three shows in New Orleans, Louisiana. The first tonight at Neutral Ground Coffee House at 10pm, tomorrow February 2nd at Chickie Wah Wah at 8pm and on the 4th Fair Grinds Coffeehouse at 7.30pm. It's my first time in New Orleans and all the shows are [...]
Authors of one of the most interesting leftfield rap records of 2011 in Black Up , Shabazz Palaces are coming to Cork for a show at The Pavilion on May 19th. More info as it happens. I suspect a Dublin date is also imminent. A new video is above while live footage and a album short film are below to give you an idea of what to expect.
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