Yep, another rapper has been a naughty little boy at Heathrow Airport. This time it’s DMX who verbally abused the cabin crew on a flight to England.
Police have said that the rapper refused to buckle up during the final descent and after it had landed he continued to verbally attack the crew and was promptly arrested when he got off the plane.
DMX was released with a caution which he can add to his history of arrests. Seems like Heathrow is the place to be if you’re a rapper that wants a ruck!
Radiohead’s frontman Thom Yorke has announced he’ll be releasing a solo album called The Eraser in July of this year, and describes it as having “elements [that] have been kicking round now for a few years.”
The album will be produced by Nigel Godrich and reports say Yorke wrote all the tracks and played all instruments.
The album will be put out on XL and Yorke insists there is no chance Radiohead are splitting up.
A Japanese Music Showcase tour is being brought over by It Came From Japan, with support from British Underground, Pixelsurgeon and Manga Entertainment UK. A special free sushi brunch will be laid on in Brighton too. The three bands involved are “grrrl-punk” Bo-Peep, ska punks Puppypet and J-pop Shinonome. Check them out at:
May 16th
On The Rocks, London.
8pm, £4 entry.
25-27 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London E2 8AA
May 18th
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth.
5-8pm, invite only [ email daniel@itcamefromjapan.co.uk for free invites ]
Manga book launch! ‘The Japanese Drawing Room – Victorian Travellers In Japan’
East Cliff, Bournemouth BH1 3AA
May 20th
Departure Loungue @ The Prince Albert, Brighton.
1-4pm, free entry!
The Prince Albert, Trafalgar Street, Brighton BN1 4ED
Plus individual shows:
Bo-Peep only
May 21st, Dublin Castle, London
8pm (on stage 10.40pm), £4.50 with flyer/£5 without
94 Parkway, Camden, London NW1 7AN
Puppypet only
May 21st, Barfly, London
12noon (on stage 3.30pm), £3 with flyer/£4 without
49 Chalk Farm Road, Camden, London NW1 8AN
Flogging Molly are back! July sees the return of the group along with the release of Whiskey On A Sunday, a new CD with 5 live tracks, 4 acoustic songs, a new studio track and a feature length documentary DVD with bonus footage. Make sure you grab yourself a Guinness and check them out at:
July
10th – Birmingham Academy 2
11th – Manchester Academy 2
12th – Bristol Academy
13th – Brighton Concorde 2
25th – London Mean Fiddler
26th – Reading Festival
27th – Leeds Festival
Neo-gothic Punks American Eyes are hitting these shores for the first time as they support Thursday and Taking Back Sunday. The quintent from LA will also play their own headline show at Camden’s Barfly, where the first 50 people through the doors will get a free copy of their EP and the Warped Tour’s 2006 compilation that features one of their tracks.
Check out an unedited version of their new video on their site here.
Their dates are:
May
26th – Oxford Zodiac w/ Thursday
27th – Liverpool Uni w/ Taking Back Sunday
28th – Manchester Academy w/ Thursday
29th – Glasgow Garage w/ Thursday
30th – Birmingham Academy w/ Thursday
31st – Portsmouth Wedgwood Rooms w/ Thursday
June
1st – London Electric Ballroom w/ Thursday
6th – London Barfly
The Briggs are coming to play some UK dates as part of their European tour, and are currently finishing the recording of their new album. Check them out at any of these shows:
July
7th – Swindon Furnace
8th – Camberley Camberley Town Football
9th – Ashton Under Lyne The Witchwood
10th – Hull The Ring Side
Hunter S. Thompson was a journalist ahead of his time, and before the fame that was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter caught people’s attention with Hells Angels- a hell ride with one of America’s most feared gangs. Hunter infiltrated the biker crew and actually became good friends with a few of the burly men and women, partying together and rolling of course.
However, the relationship came to a halt when a few misinformed and disgruntled Angels gave Hunter a beat down he wouldn’t forget. You see the Angels were a bit of a phenomenon back in the day, but the media hardly ever gave them a good rap. With a head full of booze and pills, the Hells Angels got confused and decided Hunter was no longer a on their side…
What does all that have to do with Emerica and their plans to tour through Middle America on their Harley Davidson’s for the Wild Ride Tour? Not much apart from the motorcycles, I suppose. Check these dates and cities and see if you want to hit the road and tag along:
June 11: Denver, Colorado
June 12: Hays, Kansas
June 13: Wichita, Kansas
June 14: Kansas City, Missouri
June 15: Columbia, Missouri
June 16: Manchester, Missouri
June 17: Springfield, Illinois
June 18: Driving day–head toward Milwaukee, Wisconsin
June 19: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Visit www.emericaskate.com/features/wild-ride for more info.
Humanzi are back in the UK playing alongside Battle before they continue touring through June with the White Rose Movement in preparation for their upcoming debut album Tremors, due out in July. A single, Diet Pills And Magazines, will come out on July 3rd.
The dates are:
May
20th – Northampton Soundhaus
21st – Manchester Club Academy
22nd – Leicester Charlotte
24th – Hampshire West End Centre
25th – Preston 53 Degrees
26th – Ipswich Drum & Monke
27th – Middlesbrough Empire
29th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
30th – York Fibbers
31st – Newcastle Academy
June
1st – London Kings College
3rd – Stoke Sugarmill
Scottish legends, The Jesus And Mary Chain are to re-release some of their classic albums on July 11th. The albums in question will be: Psychocandy, Darklands, Automatic, Honey’s Dead and Stoned & Dethroned and will be re-issued by Rhino Records. The re-issues will also feature DVDs with videos from that specific album. They are:
Psychocandy: Just Like Honey, You Trip Me Up and Never Understand;
Darklands: April Skies, Darklands and Happy When It Rains;
Automatic: Her Way Of Praying, Head On and Blues From A Gun;
Honey’s Dead: Almost Gold, Reverence and Far Gone And Out;
Stoned & Dethroned: Come On, Snakedriver and Sometimes Always.
There’s only so much you can say about a pair of Jeans, so I’ve racked up as much information as possible for the “dedicated followers of fashion”.
First off, these have a simple design and are very comfortable…super comfortable actually! The waist is pretty low and they sit nice and relaxed around your middle. No creeping up your belly or dropping off your ass, they fit well! The legs are 100% straight and have enough room for movement. They seem to be a relaxed fit, not Boulala (drain piped), nor Penny (baggy). They remind me of 501’s really, with a slightly wider opening at the bottom. They come button flied and sport the usual 5-pocket regime, with a cute I-path logo embroidered on each bum-cheek for the OG Look!
They are extremely lightweight with 55%/45% cotton-denim running together. These are perfect for the up and coming summer, trust me, it’s like skating in cords! Only thing is, they don’t rip like cords. I recently attended my aunts wedding and ran across the room, sliding on my knees for most of the evening and they haven’t ripped at all, nor have they gone white like my previous playground ones. They are bang on and I am really impressed by them!
These were designed for the summer, so go and get your sweats on…
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