The Prodigy have added an extra date to their UK tour.
The sold out ‘Run With The Wolves’ tour will now finish in Glasgow at the O2 Academy on January 31, with the band claiming they wanted to hit places where fans don’t “often get a chance to see us”. The full run in January is:
21st – Doncaster Dome
22nd – Bridlington Spa
23r – Blackpool Empress Ballroom
25th – Plymouth Pavilions
26th – Southend Cliffs Pavilion
27th – Bournemouth Intl Centre
31st – O2 Academy Glasgow
Vivian Girls have announced the initial dates for their UK tour.
The band will be supporting their latest album Everything Goes Wrong, which came out last month. The dates are:
January:
15th – Oxford Jericho Tavern (January 15)
16th – Birmingham O2 Academy 3 (16)
17th – Manchester The Deaf Institute (17)
22nd – Leeds Brudenell Social Club (22)
24th – Southampton Joiners (24)
Athens, Georgia’s mind-blowing psych-rock 5-piece Dead Confederate and to announce the release of their debut album, they’re giving away a free track!
Signed by the same man who discovered Nirvana, Gary Gersh, they made their UK live debut earlier this year with A Place To Bury Strangers and some of you may have seen them supporting Dinosaur Jr on their recent UK dates.
Before returning to the UK in December to play at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen on December 1st, their debut album ‘Wrecking Ball’, which has already been a huge success on the other side of the pond, will see it’s long awaited UK release on November 9th.
Incredible track “All The Angels” is available exclusively to the UK for free download here:
Check out this acoustic version of single ‘The Rat’:
Amsterdan Acoustics – Dead Confederate : The Rat from Mokummercials on Vimeo.
The Vans Off the Wall makes its return this year.
October 30th will see the following bands lining up at the O2 Academy in Birmingham:
Off the Wall stage:
Funeral For A Friend
Fightstar
Kids in Glass Houses
Attack! Attack!
Slam Dunk stage:
Farse
Blakfish
Me vs Hero
All or Nothing
UK Now stage:
Saving Aimee
Out of Sight
Young Guns
Prego
A DVD of Nirvana‘s Reading Festival set from 1992 will be released in November.
The set, ranked by Kerrang! as the number 1 gig that shook the world and by NME as Nirvana’s greatest moment ever, the 1992 set is one of the most bootlegged gigs ever. However, only two of the 25 performances have ever been released so it’s a huge deal, especially when you see the tracklist below:
1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. tourette’s
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. Love Buzz*
23. The Money Will Roll Right In
24. D-7
25. Territorial Pissings
Check out some footage here:
Peter Beste‘s “True Norwegian Black Metal” photo series is to open in London.
The infamous series, which caught some of the pioneers and most well known faces in Black Metal, will be showing at Chapter One in London from December 3rd to January 10th. Crossfire’s mate French will have his illustration up there as well.
Grizzly Bear are set for a one-off London show for next year.
The band, who release an expanded version of their album Veckatimest on November 2, will play The Roundhouse March 13 next year. Tickets for the show go on sale on October 16th.
Tragically Hip are playing some UK dates at the end of the year.
The band will support their album We Are The Same, released on November 17th, on the following dates:
November:
30th – London HMV Forum
December:
2nd – Manchester Academy 3
3rd – Glasgow The Garage
4th – Dublin The Village
Twin Atlantic have announced some UK dates supporting The Fall Of Troy.
The Glaswegian band, who release What Is Light? Where Is Laughter? on December 7th taken from their recently released Vivarium mini-album, will play the following gigs:
October:
20th – Manchester, Moho Live
November:
15th – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach (w/ The Fall Of Troy)
17th – Belfast, Mandela Hall (BBC Introducing Event)
18th – Manchester, Academy 3 (w/ The Fall Of Troy)
19th – Birmingham, Academy 2 (w/ The Fall Of Troy)
21st – London, Garage (w/ The Fall Of Troy)
Check out the video:
Animal Collective release EP, take a break from touring
Having already released one of the most widely acclaimed records of the year, Animal Collective are set to follow up Merriweather Post Pavilion in November with a five track EP entitled Fall Be Kind. Band member Avey Tare (a.k.a Dave Portner) explains in an interview with pitchfork, “the melodies are definitely darker. It’s not abrasive dark or anything, but I think the mood of it has just a little bit more of a nighttime, kind of dark, sad vibe.” The tracklist reads as follows;
1. Graze
2. What Would I Want? Sky
3. Bleed
4. On A Highway
5. I Think I Can
The band have had an extremely productive few years, and look set to take a break from touring in 2010. Portner continues, “We’ve done a lot of it in the past two years. At this point, it’s time for us to take a break.”