Smashing Pumpkins have announced a new string of UK dates for next year.
Billy Corgan’s band will return to support this year’s album Zeitgeist by playing the following four shows in February 2008:
12th – Glasgow SECC
14th – Nottingham Arena
15th – Manchester MEN Arena
16th – London 02 Arena
Plans for an $800 million rock and roll theme park in Arizona have been announced.
The park is to be called Decades, and will be divided into separate regions that represent decades from the 1960s to the present. The 1960s section, for example, will emphasise the British Invasion and Motown, while the 1980s would focus on the rise of the music video.
Park attractions may include The Beach Boys wave pool, the Grand Funk Railroad and the Hotel California. Developers hope to complete the park by 2012 and expect approximately six million visitors a year, according to the Arizona Star.
Coachella organisers have announced the dates for next year’s event.
The festival will run for 3 days instead of 2 and will take place from April 25th to 27th at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. The line up won’t be announced until 2008 but rumours are My Blood Valentine will reform to headline.
Sufjan Stevens has launched a Christmas song exchange.
According to reports, the singer-songwriter’s Great Sufjan Xmas Xchange will see fans writing an original Christmas song, recording it and emailing the song to the label.
Asthmatic Kitty will then pick a winner and “that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan song…Sufjan Sufjan’s song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter’s first Christmas video, or share it for free on your website. No one except Sufjan and you will hear his song, unless you decide otherwise. You get the song and all legal rights to it. We get the same rights to your song.”
Legal details can be seen here.
Illness has blighted what is rumoured to be the last ever Hell Is For Heroes tour.
Citing “recurring illness” the London post hardcore quintet have cancelled the last 3 dates of their tour. Last night’s Cardiff dates, tonight’s show at Islington Academy and the November 14th show in Tilburg are casualties in what the band have described as their last tour until their “reunion tour of 2037”. The band explained in an email to fans that they’d be working on other projects and potentially a fourth Hell Is For Heroes album.
If you had tickets for any of the cancelled dates you can request a refund from the ticket agent, or hold tight and wait for the shows to be rescheduled in the new year.
Get better soon guys!
Check out the Dubbledge ‘Lips 2 Da Floor‘ video below for pure entertainment!
One of Oxford’s finest producers of intricate noise, Foals have a video for new track Balloons, out on Dec 3rd on Trangressive Records.
Yannis and the lads are on tour soon as well so try and get yourself tickets to what is a fantasticly intense show.
Click here for the Balloons video
The UK tour, including dates with Bloc Party are:
23rd Nov Club EVOL @ Korova, Liverpool
25th Nov Charlotte, Leicester
26th Nov Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff
27th Nov Wedgwood rooms, Portsomouth (+14)
28th Nov The Works, Kingston
1st Dec Warehouse Project w/ Liars & Kieren Hebden, Manchester
3rd Dec Central Station (14+) Rescheduled from 6th Oct, Wrexham
4th Dec Brickyard (14=) Rescheduled from 11th Oct, Carslile
12th Dec SECC w/ Bloc Party, Glasgow
13th Dec G-Mex w/ Bloc Party, Manchester
14th Dec Alexandra Palace w/ Bloc Party, London
15th Dec Alexandra Palace w/ Bloc Party, London
Another band touring are The Sword.
The band, who have a new album in the works for an early 2008 release, have announced the following UK run for early next year:
March:
25th – Nottingham, Rock City
26th – Oxford, Carling Academy
27th – Birmingham, Carling Academy II
28th – Manchester, University
30th – Stoke, Sugarmill
April:
1st – Newport, TJ’s
2nd – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
3rd – London, Camden Underworld
The Enemy will be hitting the road in March 2008.
The Coventry band will play a huge hometown show at the football club’s Ricoh Arena to finish off the tour. The full dates are:
March:
19th – Manchester Apollo
22nd – Dundee, Caird Hall
23rd – Edinburgh, Corn Exchange
24th – Glasgow, Academy
28th & 29th – London, Astoria
April:
5th – Coventry Ricoh Arena
Paramore have announced their biggest headline shows to date for early 2008.
The band, who will be supported by New Found Glory, will play the following gigs:
January:
29th – Manchester Apollo
February:
1st – London Brixton Academy
4th – Birmingham Carling Academy
6th – Bristol Carling Academy
8th – Portsmouth Guildhall
9th – Nottingham Rock City
10th – Glasgow Academy
12th – Newcastle Academy
13th – Leicester De Montfort Hall