After wowing crowds at the Reading and Leeds festivals, TV On The Radio are set to return to the UK in November to play a few gigs in support of their album Return To Cookie Mountain. To check them out, get to one of the following:
November
8th – Glasgow ABC2
9th – Manchester Club Academy
10th – London Koko
Capdown are back with a new track, Home Is Where The Start Is, which wil be made available as a free download from their website on Wednesday September 19th.
Their new album Wind Up Toys will be out in 2007, a year which be preceeded by the release of physical single Keeping Up Appearances in November of this year.
To get the free track from Wednesday onwards, visit www.capdown.net.
The View are to release their second single, Superstar Tradesman, on October 23rd, as the follow up to Wasted Little DJs, which flew into the charts at number 15! On top of this, the group have announced a number of UK dates running until the end of 2006, many are selling out so if you wanna check them out, snap up those tickets fast!
The dates are:
September:
Fri 15th – Manchester Night And Day SOLD OUT
Sun 17th – Preston 53 Degrees
Mon 18th – Leicester Charlotte
Tue 19th – Cambridge Soul Tree
Wed 20th – Aldershot West End Centre SOLD OUT
Fri 22nd – Glasgow Strathclyde University (NUS only)
Sat 23rd – Ullapool Loopallu Festival SOLD OUT
Mon 25th – Stornaway Pointers
Tue 26th – Inverness Raigmore
Wed 27th – Fort William BA Club
Thu 28th – Paisley University (NUS only)
October:
Tue 3rd – Stoke Sugarmill
Wed 4th – Brighton Engine Rooms SOLD OUT
Thu 5th – Coventry Colleseum
Fri 6th – Perth Ice Factory SOLD OUT
Sat 7th – Manchester The Warehouse
Sun 8th – Derby Victoria Inn
Tue 10th – Nottingham Social SOLD OUT
Wed 11th – Warwick University
Thu 12th – Bedford Esquires
Fri 13th – Birmingham Barfly (MTV2 Gonzo Tour)
Sat 14th – Cardiff Barfly (MTV2 Gonzo Tour)
Sun 15th – London Barfly (MTV2 Gonzo Tour)
Tue 17th – Newcastle Cluny SOLD OUT
Wed 18th – London Kings College SOLD OUT
Fri 20th – Liverpool Barfly (MTV2 Gonzo Tour)
Sat 21st – York Barfly (MTV2 Gonzo Tour)
Sun 22nd – Glasgow Barfly (MTV2 Gonzo Tour)
Tue 24th – Aberdeen Kef SOLD OUT
Fri 27th – Barnsley Lucorum
November:
Mon 13th – Birmingham Academy (support Primal Scream)
Tue 14th – Newcastle Academy (support Primal Scream) SOLD OUT
Wed 15th – Aberdeen Music Hall (support Primal Scream)
Fri 17th – Glasgow SECC (support Primal Scream)
Sat 18th – Manchester Apollo (support Primal Scream) SOLD OUT
Sun 19th – Manchester Apollo (support Primal Scream)
Tue 21st – Liverpool Academy (support Primal Scream)
Wed 22nd – Nottingham Rock City (support Primal Scream) SOLD OUT
Fri 24th – London Hammersmith Apollo (support Primal Scream)
Sat 25th – Norwich UEA (support Primal Scream)
Mon 27th – Cambridge Corn Exchange (support Primal Scream) SOLD OUT
Tue 28th – Bristol Academy (support Primal Scream) SOLD OUT
Wed 29th – Southampton Guildhall (support Primal Scream) SOLD OUT
December:
Sat 2nd – London Brixton Academy (support Primal Scream)
You can also check out the video by clicking right here.
James Yorkston is going out on a UK tour in support of his upcoming album, The Year Of The Leopard and the dates are:
October:
6th – Newcastle Cluny
7th – Stockton Georgian Theatre
8th – Leeds Faversham
9th – Manchester Matt & Phreds
11th – Bristol Trinity Arts
12th – Birmingham Glee Club – studio
13th – Reading south street
14th – Norwich Arts Centre
16th – Southampton Joiners
17th – Cardiff Point
18th – Nottingham
19th – Hull The Lamp
21st – Aberdeen Lemon Tree
22nd – Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
23rd – Glasgow ABC2
25th – Dundalk Spirit Store
26th – Galway Roisin Dubh – strange brew club
27th – Cork Cypress Ave
28th – Dublin Sugar Club
29th – Belfast Auntie Annies
21 bands have come together with the help of KOI Records to show their support for the SPCA, who are tackling major animal welfare problems in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. KOI Records hope to be able to make a big donation to the SPCA with the help of the compilation. The tracklisting is as follows:
Side A
1. Bloodjinn – See Through (unreleased demo version)
Courtesy: Forsaken Recordings
2. Nine Days To No One – So My Inferior This Ends
Courtesy: Engineer Records
3. Cipher – Privilege
Courtesy: Uprising Records
4. H20 – Family Tree
Courtesy: Blackout Records
5. Kill Your Idols – Skinhead Girl (recorded live 9/05)
Courtesy: Sideonedummy Records
Side B
1. Fifty Stars Anger – Mordechai Vanunu
Courtesy: Fifty Stars Anger
2. Killed By The Bull – I, The Crooked Hero
Courtesy: KOI Records/Dick Harris Recordings
3. Spitfire – Life & Limb (previously unreleased)
Courtesy: Goodfellow Records
4. Ensign – Where’s The Unity
Courtesy: Blackout Records
5. Deathcycle – No RNC in NYC
Courtesy: Chainsaw Safety Records
Side C
1. The Chariot – Dialogue with a Question Mark
Courtesy: Tooth & Nail Records
2. Thirty3 – Let’s Keep This Joke Going
Courtesy: State of Grace Records
3. My Shining One – Dance of the Ghost
Courtesy: Engineer Records
4. The Fire Still Burns – Insert Motivation Here
Courtesy: Blackout Records
5. Know Your Enemy – Stop Beating Your Meat
Courtesy: Teishu Records
6. Celebrity Murders – Jealous Again (recorded live 9/05)
Courtesy: Chainsaw Safety Records
Side D
1. Most Precious Blood – Damage Control Freak
Courtesy: Trustkill Records
2. Cattle Decapitation – Long Pig Chef & The Hairless Goat (recorded live at
KXLU)
Courtesy: Metal Blade Records
3. Worlds Between Us – Red Eye Figures Follow Black Cats
Courtesy: Engineer Records
4. Static Radio – Who’s Laughing Now
Courtesy: Static Radio
5. Farewell – Manilla
Courtesy: Forsaken Recordings
The Scream For Help compilation will come out on 2 10″ coloured vinyl LPs and will be hand numbered.
Check out www.koirecords.com and www.myspace.com/screamforhelp for more info.
Online outfitters Everything But The Music are running a comp with Roadrunner Records for one lucky winner to get his or her hands on a guitar signed by Trivium, Opeth and Chimaira. Runners Up will get signed photos of Trivium.
If you want to win, then go to www.ebtm.com and register to win.
In other news, the site has launched a range of t-shirts for kids featuring the likes of AC/DC, Blondie, The Ramones, G&R, The Clash, The Stones and many more. You can peep the catalogues by clicking here and here.
Clinic‘s first single, Harvest (Within You), from their new album Visitations, is to be released on October 2nd. And in support of this single, a video has been put up on Youtube for you to check out.
If you want to watch the video, then just click here.
Bonnie Prince Billy is to release his new album The Letting Go on September 18th and to prepare everyone for this amazing record, a 3-part album trailer has been put onto youtube. The 2nd part has just gone up and you should check out both the 1st and 2nd parts by clicking the links below.
Bonus Video Recording Session for the album feat. Jim White.
Keep your eyes peeled for part 3 which will be coming soon!
Darkest Hour have announced they are to tour the UK in December for their biggest headline tour yet and will be bringing Between The Buried And Me, who will be making their debut in the UK. The dates are as follows:
December:
8th – Manchester Academy 3
9th – Stoke Sugarmill
10th – Glasgow King Tuts
11th – Liverpool Academy 2
12th – Yeovil Ski Lodge
13th – London Islington Academy
15th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
16th – Oxford Zodiac
17th – Birmingham Academy 2
18th – Newport TJs
19th – Sheffield Corporation
Only days after his Paris Hilton prank had been revealed, Banksy‘s new work was shown. Whilst revellers went to Disneyland in Anaheim, California to see Mickey and Pluto, the artist made sure they saw something a hell of a lot different.
Dressing a blow-up doll in an orange jump suit, with a sack over its head and its hands and feet manacled, Banksy placed this statue of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner next to the Rocky Mountain Railroad. The figure stood there for an hour and a half before being taken down.