Author: Crossfire

Nicolai Dunger will go on tour with Josh Ritter in Europe in May and will have a “greatest hits” album coming out later this fall.

European Tour with Josh Ritter
May 2006

TUE 09 – Birmingham, Glee Club
WED 10 – Manchester, Academy 2
FRI 12 – Dublin, Vicar St
SAT 13 – Dublin, Vicar St
SUN 14 – Belfast, Empire
MON 15 – Glasgow, Oran Mor
WED 17 – Bristol, Fiddlers
THU 18 – Brighton, Gardener Centre
FRI 19 – London, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
SAT 20 – Paris, Café De La Dance
TUE 23 – Cologne, MTC
WED 24 – Berlin, Club 103
FRI 26 – Copenhagen, Little Vega
SAT 27 – Stockholm, Berns
SUN 28 – Oslo, Bla
MON 29 – Hamburg, Stage Club
TUE 30 – Brussels, Ab Box
WED 31 – Amsterdam, Paradiso

www.nicolaidunger.com

Recent Roadrunner UK signings PE’Z will release their territorial debut ‘Tsu Ku Shi N Bow’ on May 15th.

Founded in Tokyo in 1999 by band leader Oyama ‘BMW’ Wataru, they are veterans in their native Japan where they have already released 3 albums to critical acclaim – their unique brand of ska, samba, jazz and rock helping them on their way to winning New Artist of the Year at the 17th Japan Gold Disc Awards in 2003. Touring plans are expected in the not too distant future.

Keep one eye on the prize at www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/artists/pez

Gibraltar-based metallers Breed 77 will release their new single ‘Alive‘ on June 12th.

The track will mark the first new material for the group since 2004’s breakthrough album ‘Cultura‘, which spawned 3 Top 40 singles and has sold in excess of 30,000 copies to date. A new full-length is set to appear in the following months.

The band were recently nominated in the ‘Best British Act’ category for this year’s Metal Hammer Awards, set to take place in London on the day of release.

See www.breed77.net for more information.

The Futureheads played a secret live show for Steve Lamacq’s show on Radio 1 and previewed five tracks from their upcoming album. The tracks were Back To The Sea, Return Of The Beserker, Cope, Fallout and the new single Skip To The End.

The group are also going on tour to support their new album News And Tributes, and the dates are:

May 29th – Glasgow Academy
May 30th – Liverpool Academy
May 31st – Leeds University
June 2nd – Manchester Academy
June 3rd – Birmingham Rock City
June 4th – Keele University
June 6th – Norwich UEA
June 7th – Bristol Academy
June 8th – Southampton Guildhall
June 9th – Birmingham Academy
June 11th – Cardiff Great Hall
June 12th – London Forum

www.thefutureheads.com

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood took time out from their studio, where they are working on their new album, to play some songs at London’s KOKO in support of Friends Of The Earth. Amongst old favourites like Paranoid Android, Karma Police and No Surprises, they played three band new songs, Bodysnatchers, Arpeggi and Cymbal Rush.

Radiohead fansites have made the tracks available for download, so make sure you mooch onto google and check them out.

The duo’s set list was:

‘Karma Police’
‘There There’
‘Arpeggi’
‘Fake Plastic Trees’
‘Bodysnatchers’
‘Pyramid Song’
‘How To Disappear Completely’
‘No Surprises’
‘Cymbal Rush’
‘I Might Be Wrong’
‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’
‘Gagging Order’
‘Paranoid Android’

www.radiohead.com for all the official business.

It has been revealed that Scottish group Franz Ferdinand were offered $50m to have their music used in an advertising campaign but the band turned it down, because they wanted to keep their integrity.

This comes just a week or so after Jack White’s work for Coca-Cola was premiered and reports are that doing this campaign would have quadrupled sales of Franz’s last album You Could Have It So Much Better. Frontman Alex Kapranos said:

“It wasn’t Coca-Cola or anything like that. It was just a thing that needed some music associated with it. We just had to say no because of the gut reaction.”

www.franzferdinand.co.uk

Victory Records quintet Hawthorne Heights, last seen on these shores supporting Bullet For My Valentine as part of the Kerrang! XXV tour, are releasing their debut UK single ‘Saying Sorry’ on the 22nd May. You can check them out at www.myspace.com/hawthorneheights

Their labelmates The Junior Varsity are also releasing a new record, ‘The Great Compromise‘, at the end of May – but if you can’t wait that long, check out a new track at: www.purevolume.com/thejuniorvarsity