Author: Crossfire

James Yorkston is going out on a UK tour in support of his upcoming album, The Year Of The Leopard and the dates are:

October:

6th – Newcastle Cluny
7th – Stockton Georgian Theatre
8th – Leeds Faversham
9th – Manchester Matt & Phreds
11th – Bristol Trinity Arts
12th – Birmingham Glee Club – studio
13th – Reading south street
14th – Norwich Arts Centre
16th – Southampton Joiners
17th – Cardiff Point
18th – Nottingham
19th – Hull The Lamp
21st – Aberdeen Lemon Tree
22nd – Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
23rd – Glasgow ABC2
25th – Dundalk Spirit Store
26th – Galway Roisin Dubh – strange brew club
27th – Cork Cypress Ave
28th – Dublin Sugar Club
29th – Belfast Auntie Annies

www.jamesyorkston.co.uk

21 bands have come together with the help of KOI Records to show their support for the SPCA, who are tackling major animal welfare problems in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. KOI Records hope to be able to make a big donation to the SPCA with the help of the compilation. The tracklisting is as follows:

Side A

1. Bloodjinn – See Through (unreleased demo version)
Courtesy: Forsaken Recordings
2. Nine Days To No One – So My Inferior This Ends
Courtesy: Engineer Records
3. Cipher – Privilege
Courtesy: Uprising Records
4. H20 – Family Tree
Courtesy: Blackout Records
5. Kill Your Idols – Skinhead Girl (recorded live 9/05)
Courtesy: Sideonedummy Records

Side B

1. Fifty Stars Anger – Mordechai Vanunu
Courtesy: Fifty Stars Anger
2. Killed By The Bull – I, The Crooked Hero
Courtesy: KOI Records/Dick Harris Recordings
3. Spitfire – Life & Limb (previously unreleased)
Courtesy: Goodfellow Records
4. Ensign – Where’s The Unity
Courtesy: Blackout Records
5. Deathcycle – No RNC in NYC
Courtesy: Chainsaw Safety Records

Side C

1. The Chariot – Dialogue with a Question Mark
Courtesy: Tooth & Nail Records
2. Thirty3 – Let’s Keep This Joke Going
Courtesy: State of Grace Records
3. My Shining One – Dance of the Ghost
Courtesy: Engineer Records
4. The Fire Still Burns – Insert Motivation Here
Courtesy: Blackout Records
5. Know Your Enemy – Stop Beating Your Meat
Courtesy: Teishu Records
6. Celebrity Murders – Jealous Again (recorded live 9/05)
Courtesy: Chainsaw Safety Records

Side D

1. Most Precious Blood – Damage Control Freak
Courtesy: Trustkill Records
2. Cattle Decapitation – Long Pig Chef & The Hairless Goat (recorded live at
KXLU)
Courtesy: Metal Blade Records
3. Worlds Between Us – Red Eye Figures Follow Black Cats
Courtesy: Engineer Records
4. Static Radio – Who’s Laughing Now
Courtesy: Static Radio
5. Farewell – Manilla
Courtesy: Forsaken Recordings

The Scream For Help compilation will come out on 2 10″ coloured vinyl LPs and will be hand numbered.

Check out www.koirecords.com and www.myspace.com/screamforhelp for more info.

Online outfitters Everything But The Music are running a comp with Roadrunner Records for one lucky winner to get his or her hands on a guitar signed by Trivium, Opeth and Chimaira. Runners Up will get signed photos of Trivium.

If you want to win, then go to www.ebtm.com and register to win.

In other news, the site has launched a range of t-shirts for kids featuring the likes of AC/DC, Blondie, The Ramones, G&R, The Clash, The Stones and many more. You can peep the catalogues by clicking here and here.

Clinic‘s first single, Harvest (Within You), from their new album Visitations, is to be released on October 2nd. And in support of this single, a video has been put up on Youtube for you to check out.

If you want to watch the video, then just click here.

Bonnie Prince Billy is to release his new album The Letting Go on September 18th and to prepare everyone for this amazing record, a 3-part album trailer has been put onto youtube. The 2nd part has just gone up and you should check out both the 1st and 2nd parts by clicking the links below.

Part 1.

Part 2.

Bonus Video Recording Session for the album feat. Jim White.

Keep your eyes peeled for part 3 which will be coming soon!

Darkest Hour have announced they are to tour the UK in December for their biggest headline tour yet and will be bringing Between The Buried And Me, who will be making their debut in the UK. The dates are as follows:

December:

8th – Manchester Academy 3
9th – Stoke Sugarmill
10th – Glasgow King Tuts
11th – Liverpool Academy 2
12th – Yeovil Ski Lodge
13th – London Islington Academy
15th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
16th – Oxford Zodiac
17th – Birmingham Academy 2
18th – Newport TJs
19th – Sheffield Corporation

www.darkesthour.cc

Only days after his Paris Hilton prank had been revealed, Banksy‘s new work was shown. Whilst revellers went to Disneyland in Anaheim, California to see Mickey and Pluto, the artist made sure they saw something a hell of a lot different.

Dressing a blow-up doll in an orange jump suit, with a sack over its head and its hands and feet manacled, Banksy placed this statue of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner next to the Rocky Mountain Railroad. The figure stood there for an hour and a half before being taken down.

www.banksy.co.uk

Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote, is releasing an EP entitled You Are Could I on September 18th, which will follow his album KC Rules OK. You can download You Are Could I for free from their website here. In support of this upcoming EP, King Creosote is to play some headline shows in autumn. The dates are:

October:

21st – Glasgow ABC
22nd – Sheffield, Plug
24th – Birmingham, Academy 2
25th – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
26th– London, Shepherds Bush Empire
27th – Brighton, Audio

Check out www.myspace.com/kingcreosote for more details.