Three members of Blood Brothers are in a new band.
The trio, whose rpevious band split earlier this year, have taken the name Past Lives and have launched a MySpace page though there is no music on it as yet. The band stated:
“We are currently holed up in a Belltown sublet, getting songs together for our first release. We’re all quite excited to be playing music together, and hopefully we’ll have songs up for you to hear soon.”
www.myspace.com/pastlivesmusic
Portishead previewed some new tracks recently.
The band played Bristol Academy for the first time in almost 10 years and followed their All Tomorrow’s Parties Nightmare Before Christmas shindig which they curated in Minehead. The band will use the new tracks on their upcoming album which is expected around April 2008.
Minus The Bear have arrived in the UK for their headline tour.
The band will be supported by 27 as I Was A Cub Scout have had to pull out of the tour due to illness. The dates are:
December
17 – PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
18 – COLCHESTER Arts Centre
19 – BRISTOL Fleece
20 – LONDON Mean Fiddler
Bob Mould will release his new album next February.
The former Husker D frontman will put District Line out on Beggars Banquet and has pencilled in a one-off show at The Roundhouse on January 21st. The first single from the album, The Silence Between Us, will hit the shops on January 28th with the album coming out on February 11th.
That’s what Reuben say, the funny bastards.
Slayer are planning a new album for 2008.
Reports suggest that the band are to started working on new material for their new album, and will support it by touring the world. The band recently recieved their 3rd Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance, to following their win for Eyes Of The Insane last year.
Cat Power will play Shepherds Bush Empirewith her full band, The Dirty Delta Blues.
The London date is the only UK date planned for this year to showcase her upcoming release Jukebox. Chan Marshall will hit Shepherds Bush on January 27th and you can check out some in-studio footage below:
Dizzee Rascal is back touring the UK in February.
Dizzee will play 6 dates, including 2 NME Awards Shows to support his Mercury Prize nominated album Maths & English. Check out the dates and then watch the video to his new single Flex, because it’s nanas.
15th – Preston 53 Degrees
16th – Newcastle Academy
17th – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire (NME Awards Show)
18th – Sheffield Leadmill
19th – Manchester Academy (NME Awards Show)
23rd – Portsmouth Pyramid Centre
The Go! Team have announced UK tour dates.
You can check the Brighton sextet’s show at:
February
23rd – Bristol, Carling Academy
24th – Southampton, University
25th – Cambridge Junction
28th – Stirling, Fubar
29th – Inverness, Ironworks
March
1st – Aberdeen, Moshulu,
2nd – Dundee, Fat Sams Live
4th – Oxford, Carling Academy
5th – Leeds, Metropolitan University
6th – Sheffield, Plug
7th – Nottingham, Trent University
Arctic Monkeys are planning to record new material soon.
Drummer Matt Helders went on to explain that the band want to record new songs and release them as one-off non-album singles including Sandtrap which was debuted live on their recent tour. Helders said:
“There’s really nothing planned. It just depends how it goes, which is a nice change. We can go into the studio and not necessarily have to have something done by, like, the end of the month. It’ll be like, ‘Just see what happens'”