The Briggs are coming to play some UK dates as part of their European tour, and are currently finishing the recording of their new album. Check them out at any of these shows:
July
7th – Swindon Furnace
8th – Camberley Camberley Town Football
9th – Ashton Under Lyne The Witchwood
10th – Hull The Ring Side
Humanzi are back in the UK playing alongside Battle before they continue touring through June with the White Rose Movement in preparation for their upcoming debut album Tremors, due out in July. A single, Diet Pills And Magazines, will come out on July 3rd.
The dates are:
May
20th – Northampton Soundhaus
21st – Manchester Club Academy
22nd – Leicester Charlotte
24th – Hampshire West End Centre
25th – Preston 53 Degrees
26th – Ipswich Drum & Monke
27th – Middlesbrough Empire
29th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
30th – York Fibbers
31st – Newcastle Academy
June
1st – London Kings College
3rd – Stoke Sugarmill
Scottish legends, The Jesus And Mary Chain are to re-release some of their classic albums on July 11th. The albums in question will be: Psychocandy, Darklands, Automatic, Honey’s Dead and Stoned & Dethroned and will be re-issued by Rhino Records. The re-issues will also feature DVDs with videos from that specific album. They are:
Psychocandy: Just Like Honey, You Trip Me Up and Never Understand;
Darklands: April Skies, Darklands and Happy When It Rains;
Automatic: Her Way Of Praying, Head On and Blues From A Gun;
Honey’s Dead: Almost Gold, Reverence and Far Gone And Out;
Stoned & Dethroned: Come On, Snakedriver and Sometimes Always.
Upstarts The Paddingtons, who rocked the Crossfire/Relentless boat party off its moorings, are back with new material, which can be found on their upcoming Back To The Bus compilation. The series is to show fans what groups listen to when they’re on their tour bus and the Paddingtons’ version is due out on June 26th, with a new track from the sessions for their 2nd album put on it.
The tracklisting hasn’t been released by it’ll feature songs by the likes of Iggy and the Stooges, Joy Division, The Clash and The Housemartins. The compilation will end with a chat with the band about their experiences on the road, called Tourbus Tales.
PJ Harvey and Nicky Wire have announced they are to be part of the Guardian Hay Festival, which is held at Hay-On-Wye between May 26th and June 4th.
Wire’s set will be a solo acoustic set and he will play in the festival cinema on the final day with Harvey playing the opening night.
Other performers will be Katherine Jenkins and comedians Gina Yashere and Jimmy Carr.
Icelandic pixie Bjork is going to release a box set of her albums, which will span 1993’s Debut to 2005’s Drawing Restraint 9. This box set will be out on June 27th. Of these 7 albums, 5 will contain promo videos:
Debut will have the videos for Venus As A Boy, Play Dead, Human Behaviour, Big Time Sensuality and Violently Happy;
Post will include Isobel, It’s Oh So Quiet, Army Of Me, Hyper-Ballad, I Miss You and Possibly Maybe;
The videos for Hunter, Joga, Bachelorette, All Is Full Of Love and Alarm Call will be found on the Homogenic album;
Vespertine will hold the videos for Cocoon, Nature Is Ancient, Its In Our Hands, Hidden Place and Pagan Poetry and finally Medulla will have videos for Who Is It, Where Is The Line, Oceania, Triumph Of Heart and Desired Constellation.
Crossfire favourites and underground kingpins Atmosphere are returning to the UK to play 2 shows in July, following their packed out shows last February.
The Minnesotan act will be playing in Nottingham and London with albino labelmate Brother Ali once again taking on opening act duties. The shows are:
July 10th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
July 11th – London Koko.
If you know what’s good for you, and we think you do, then make sure you get along to these shows. Mindblowing stuff.
Manic Street Preachers band member, James Dean Bradfield, is to release a solo album in July. The record, entitled The Great Western, is due out on July 24th with lead single That’s No Way To Tell A Lie preceeding it on July 10th.
The album is mostly self-played, but Bad Boys And Painkillers did have lyrics written by Nicky Wire, who is also working on his own solo project. They have made it clear, however, that these solo projects don’t mean the end for the Manics.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre, who are now the infamous band from the film Dig! are to re-release their Bomp! Records back catalogue, spanning the years 1995 to 2003. The albums that will be reissued are:
Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request (1995), Methodrone (1995), Take It From The Man (1996), Thank God For Mental Illness (1997), Give It Back! (1997), Braveryrepetitionandnoise (2001) and Spacegirl & Other Favourites (2003).
Anton Newcombe’s group will be touring May, the dates being:
May
14th Birmingham Bar Academy
15th Dublin Vicar Street
16th Belfast Mandela Hall
18th Liverpool Bar Fly
19th All Tomorrow Parties
21st Nottingham Rescue Rooms
23rd Glasgow ABC 2
24th Leeds Cockpit
25th Sheffield Leadmill
26th Manchester Academy 3
28th Stoke On Trent Sugarmill
29th Oxford Zodiac
30th London Kings College
June
28th London Koko
Uxfest is back for 2006! Kicking off with “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Uxfest”, followed up with an Uxfest fundraiser and then Uxfest itself.
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Uxfest” is on May 14th, at Camden’s Barfly and is completely free! The line up is: Reculver, Outcryfire, No Warning Shot and Ella. Tickets for Uxfest will be on sale for £10.
The fundraiser on May 13th is at the Crown And Treaty in Uxbridge and runs from midday til 8pm, with the following playing: Impinge, Sevendays later, Phema, Neon Leroy, Action And Action, Cato Street Conspiracy, TNO, Centiment and more.
And then the big one, Uxfest 2006. It’ll take place on Sunday August 6th and the Carling Islington Academy and Bar Academy. The acts are: Bring Me The Horizon, Engel, Profane, Shellshock, Fireapple Red, Eths, Head-on, Biomechanical, Murder One, Kingsize Blues, Inner Rage, Mumrah, NWS, Sylosis, Forever Never, Outcryfire, PDHM, Architects, B*Movie heroes.
With 2 more acts to be announced.
If you know what’s good for you, you’ll be there!