A snowboard film production company called “Hungerpain” are about to release their second film as a covermount with Whitelines Snowboard Magazine and are looking for new music for the soundtrack.
30,000 copies will be on the shelves so if you are in aband and want your track heard by loads of people, then
email jonw@theprogram.com.
Yet again, 3 innocent lives have been taken in another car accident after a music event.
The accident, involving six people in their late teens and early 20s, occurred around 3am on August 21 on the M25 in Essex closing the motorway. According to police, the vehicle left the motorway between junctions 28 and 29 and overturned after hitting a small ditch.
Servicemen and women tried desperately to save the festival goers who were on their way home from the Staffordshire festival. The three people who died were thrown from the vehicle, while two passengers received minor injuries. The driver remained trapped in the car for an hour until emergency services managed to cut her out.
Do yourself and others a favour and click this link here that will take you to the Make Roads Safe wesite and sign the petition as Western governments are being urged to increase the amount of aid for reducing road accidents around the world. The Commission for Global Road Safety says it is a “global epidemic”, killing 1.2m a year, sign up now..
Pop singer and DJ Boy George has started his 5-day community service in the US this week.
Cocaine was found in his New York apartment last year by cops after the 80’s star reported a burglary at his luxury Manhattan home last year.
If you are reading this and indulge in a bit of “schwingy” now and then, you may want to make a note of this alarming self tragedy of how to not get yourself busted!
Lambchop are released tour dates for October in the UK. These dates will be in support of their upcoming album Damaged, which is out on August 14th. The dates are:
October:
23rd – London, Shepherds Bush Empire
24th – Liverpool, Philharmonic
25th – Bristol, St Georges
26th – Dublin, Vikar St.
27th – Belfast, Mandela Hall
28th – Glasgow, ABC
29th – Reading, Concert Hall
Peter, Bjorn And John formed in Stockholm in the late 90s. They have released two albums prior to the forthcoming album ‘Writers Block’ which is released on 14th August on Wichita Records.
If you have not heard the single ‘Young Folks‘ yet, you should check your ears, as it’s the is the first single to be taken from the new album and is released in the UK on Wichita Records this week.
The track stands out like a sore thumb with it’s catchy whistling hook and is a duet featuring Swedish songstress, Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes on vocals.
Watch the video here:
Dashboard Confessional will be performing a special acoustic set and signing copies of the new single ‘Don’t Wait’ at Fopp in central London on August 21st at 1pm to plug their new single Don’t Wait which is out on the same day.
August 17th sees the opening of The Big Chill House in Pentonville Road, King’s Cross. The building will be the base for everything from live music, clubnights, digital media and art and has been designed by The Big Chill team themselves.
The venue will have 4 floors, 2 balconies, a basement bar and an outdoor terrace. Can’t really beat that can ya?!
The upcoming events are:
17th – 7pm-1am – The Big Chill House Launch
Bent live, Pete Lawrence, Ben Mynott and Michael Cook in the main bar & Mixmaster Morris presenting ‘Loft in Space’ upstairs.
18th – 9pm-4am ‘Keeping The Faith’
Andy Smith (Portishead) and Ady Crosdale. They will join residents Will Nicol, Dean Rudland and Si Fane
20th – 9pm-4am ‘Nice Up!’
21st – ‘Hazy’
All day Sunday session. Alucidnation (aka Bruce Bickerton), Mondo (SoxaN), Fuggles & guests.
22nd – 7pm-midnight – paris-london.org
Laura B
23rd – 7pm-Midnight – Fluid Nation
24th – 7pm-1am – If Music present You Need This
25th – 9pm-4am – Disco Sucks
26th – 9pm-4am – Lemon Entry
27th – Midday-Midnight – Sunday Session
28th – 2pm-Midnight – Bank Holiday Special
29th – 7pm-Midnight – Balling The Jack
30th – 7pm-Midnight – Sound & Vision feat. Information
31st – 7pm-Midnight – The Local
Police in Atlanta have launched a murder investigation after an assault at a Korn show. Andy Richardson was left beaten by two other concert goers after he asked them to be careful not to bump into his pregnant girlfriend and a mentally ill child that was with them.
He was declared brain dead once in hospital and the life support machine has now been switched off. Police claim to have “persons of interest” regarding the assault but no arrests have yet been made.
Did you know that in the time it takes to listen to ‘Bang Bang You’re Dead‘ yet another child will have died on the world’s roads?
3000 people die every day on the world’s roads, only HIV/AIDS kills more young men worldwide than road crashes. Every 3 minutes – the average length of a song – a young child is killed and four are permanently disabled.
Sorry for this shocking news but this is why Dirty Pretty Things have backed a campaign to Make Roads Safe coordinated by the FIA Foundation and RAC Foundation to raise public awareness about the impact of road crashes in developing countries.
‘Dirty Pretty Things’ commitment to the campaign is motivated in part by a recent tragedy in which three teenage girls were killed. Two sisters, Claire and Jennifer Stoddart, and their friend, Carla Took, died in a car crash in July while driving home from a concert in Ipswich where the band had just performed.
Calling on fans to sign the Make Roads Safe online petition at www.makeroadssafe.org Carl Barat, lead singer of Dirty Pretty Things, said: “It is unbelievable that around the world a child is killed every 3 minutes on the road, yet almost nothing is being done to prevent this. The recent deaths in Suffolk of Claire, Jennifer and Carla were so sad, such a waste of young lives, and this is happening to families every day. This is why Dirty Pretty Things are supporting the Make Roads Safe campaign.”
The band will support the campaign with a special one off gig with special guests at The Coronet, in South London, on September 13th.
Two hundred pairs of tickets to the concert will be given away free by the Make Roads Safe campaign and Dirty Pretty Things to supporters in a prize draw on the Mke Roads Safe website.
Phil Stoddart, the father of the two sisters killed in the crash, said; “I hope that the Make Roads Safe campaign will help other parents avoid the pain we have been going through as a result of the tragic loss of Claire and Jennifer”.
Do your bit and sign the petition NOW at www.makeroadssafe.org. It will take 1 minute of your life and could save many more.
Kasabian are to release their new album, entitled Empire, on August 28th. The lead single, which has the same name as the album, went into the charts at number 9 this week.
After a number of sold out shows, the group were writing the album right up to the wire, and the album only took 5 weeks to record. So make sure you keep an eye out for it at the end of the month.