Parlophone have launched an online demo submission tool which will allow unsigned bands to submit demo recordings over the internet, rather than emailing mp3s or having to physically mail CDs.
Artists can send music and artwork in and will get an email confirming their submission was received. Junior A&R staff will monitor the submissions and pass on those with promise to the more senior A&R staff.
After already having supported Reel Big Fish, The Slackers and The Sunshine Underground this year, Big Hand are going out alone on their headlining Black n White tour. The dates are as follows:
November:
7th – Viva Viva, Hornsey
8th – The William Cobbett, Farnham
9th – Dingwalls, Camden
10th – Bar Lisboa, Peterborough
11th – Moles Club, Bath
17th – Callaghans, Cardiff
18th – The Barfly, London
20th – Berzerk @ Zest, Princes St
22nd – Gellions, Inverness
23rd – Nice N Sleazy’s, Glasgow
24th – Teviot House, Edinburgh University
25th – Cafe Drummonds, Aberdeen
26th – PJ Molloys, Dunfermline
30th – Metros, London
December:
1st – Mr Wolfs, 33 St. Stephens Street, Bristol, BS1 1JX
3rd – Korova, 39-41 Fleet Street, Liverpool, Northwest L1 4AR
Check www.thebighand.co.uk for more details.
Bloc Party have announced the tracklisting for their 2nd album, called A Weekend In The City, which is due out in February next year.
They will support the album with a UK tour too. The tracklisting and dates are below:
Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Hunting For Witches
Waiting For the 7.18
The Prayer
Uniform
On
Where Is Home?
Kreuzberg
I Still Remember
Sunday
SRXT
January 2007:
27th – Southampton, Guildhall
28th – Norwich, UEA
31st – London, Astoria
February:
1st – London, Astoria
2nd – London, Astoria
3rd – Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall
5th – Reading, Hexagon
6th – Cardiff, University
7th – Bristol, Academy
9th – Exeter Great Hall
10th – Birmingham, Academy
11th – Nottingham, Rock City
13th – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
14th – Manchester, Academy
15th – Dublin, Ambassador
17th – Glasgow, Barrowland
18th – Aberdeen, Music Hall
20th – Edinburgh, Usher Hall
21st – Newcastle, Academy
22nd – Sheffield, Octagon
Good Shoes have come up with a way to get their fans even closer to their music – By devising a competition that allows you to appear on their artwork for the forthcoming single The Photos On My Wall, which is due for release on January 1st 2007.
The band will be touring in November at the following dates:
21st – Oxford, Zodiac
22nd – Cambridge, Soul Tree
23rd – Manchester, Night and Day
24th – Liverpool, Korova
26th – Birmingham, Bar Academy
27th – Glasgow, King Tuts
28th – Leeds, Brunel Social Club
29th – London, Kings College
30th – Bristol, Academy II
Photos for the competition should be texted to 07834 741000 along with the key word ‘Good’ or emailed to photos@thephotosonmywall.com. Closing date is November 6th.
Kurt Cobain is officially the largest earning dead person. The former Nirvana man has come top of the Forbes.com poll of top deceased earners. Between October 2005 and October this year, he has earned $50 million, much of which came from the sale of 25% of the band’s catalogue to PrimeWave.
This has meant that Elvis, who is normally top of the poll, is 2nd, with a figure of $42 million.
Jimmy Chamberlain, the drummer for the Smashing Pumpkins has blogged on the band’s MySpace about the new material, saying the band have been working with Terry Date and Roy Thomas Barker. He said:
“Great things are on track for the future. As some of you know we are indeed creating music again. Music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it.
We have arrived at a place in our lives where truth and honesty prevail and we are creating from that place. The universe has a way of letting you know that things are right by introducing people like RTB and Terry into the fold. It’s all part of one big cosmic journey, in so that everyone reading this is hitching their silver chord to the Great Pumpkin Space Train! Hope this helps clear some things up for you.”
The Datsuns have recorded a cover of Life’s A Gas by T Rex as the B side to their forthcoming download only single Waiting For Your Time To Come, which is to be released on November 6th. The band are over on tour soon, the dates are:
October:
25th – Manchester Academy 3
26th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
27th – Hull University
28th – Carlisle Brickyard
29th – Glasgow ABC2
November:
1st – Nottingham Social
2nd – Peterborough Park
3rd – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
4th – Sheffield Leadmill
5th – Norwich Waterfront
6th – Southampton University
7th – London Electric Ballroom
Mobb Deep, now of G Unit fame, were involved in a scrape with death last weekend after the plane they were travelling in with Sam Scarfo and 40 Glocc, lost an engine.
They were flying to Chile on Saturday and we forced toland in Tampa after the engine was lost. Havoc, of Mobb Deep, said:
“All I can say is God was on our side. It could (have) turned out the opposite way! It makes you look at many things in perspective.”
Snoop looks likely to face weapons charges after he tried to bring a police baton onto a flight from California to New York last month. He was found with a collapsible nightstick which can expand to 21 inches and is classified as a dangerous weapon.
Snoop denied he knew the weapon was illegal and said he was planning on using it in an upcoming video.
Norma Jean have announced they’ll be hitting the UK on a tour in early 2007 in support of their new album Redeemer, which will be out on January 15th. The UK version of the album will carry a bonus track, The Longest Lasting Statement. The dates for the tour are:
January 2007:
16th – Birmingham, Academy 3
17th – Manchester, Academy 3
18th – Sheffield, Corporation
19th – Glasgow, TBA
20th – Leeds, Cockpit
21st – Stoke, Sugar Mill
22nd – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
23rd – Oxford, Zodiac
24th – London, Islington Academy