Author: Crossfire

Upstarts The Paddingtons, who rocked the Crossfire/Relentless boat party off its moorings, are back with new material, which can be found on their upcoming Back To The Bus compilation. The series is to show fans what groups listen to when they’re on their tour bus and the Paddingtons’ version is due out on June 26th, with a new track from the sessions for their 2nd album put on it.

The tracklisting hasn’t been released by it’ll feature songs by the likes of Iggy and the Stooges, Joy Division, The Clash and The Housemartins. The compilation will end with a chat with the band about their experiences on the road, called Tourbus Tales.

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PJ Harvey and Nicky Wire have announced they are to be part of the Guardian Hay Festival, which is held at Hay-On-Wye between May 26th and June 4th.

Wire’s set will be a solo acoustic set and he will play in the festival cinema on the final day with Harvey playing the opening night.

Other performers will be Katherine Jenkins and comedians Gina Yashere and Jimmy Carr.

Icelandic pixie Bjork is going to release a box set of her albums, which will span 1993’s Debut to 2005’s Drawing Restraint 9. This box set will be out on June 27th. Of these 7 albums, 5 will contain promo videos:

Debut will have the videos for Venus As A Boy, Play Dead, Human Behaviour, Big Time Sensuality and Violently Happy;

Post will include Isobel, It’s Oh So Quiet, Army Of Me, Hyper-Ballad, I Miss You and Possibly Maybe;

The videos for Hunter, Joga, Bachelorette, All Is Full Of Love and Alarm Call will be found on the Homogenic album;

Vespertine will hold the videos for Cocoon, Nature Is Ancient, Its In Our Hands, Hidden Place and Pagan Poetry and finally Medulla will have videos for Who Is It, Where Is The Line, Oceania, Triumph Of Heart and Desired Constellation.

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Crossfire favourites and underground kingpins Atmosphere are returning to the UK to play 2 shows in July, following their packed out shows last February.

The Minnesotan act will be playing in Nottingham and London with albino labelmate Brother Ali once again taking on opening act duties. The shows are:

July 10th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
July 11th – London Koko.

If you know what’s good for you, and we think you do, then make sure you get along to these shows. Mindblowing stuff.

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Manic Street Preachers band member, James Dean Bradfield, is to release a solo album in July. The record, entitled The Great Western, is due out on July 24th with lead single That’s No Way To Tell A Lie preceeding it on July 10th.

The album is mostly self-played, but Bad Boys And Painkillers did have lyrics written by Nicky Wire, who is also working on his own solo project. They have made it clear, however, that these solo projects don’t mean the end for the Manics.

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