Category: Music News

The Kaiser Chiefs have announced that they are going to play a small venue in Glasgow before going on their arena tour of the UK. The show will be on the 17th of April at The Garage in Glasgow before they hit arenas in London, Plymouth, Birmingham, Brighton, Glasgow and Leeds.

The dates are:

April 19 – Glasgow SECC
April 21-22 – London Alexandra Palace
April 24 – Plymouth Pavilions
April 25 – Brighton Conference Centre
April 26 – Birmingham NIA
April 28 – London Brixton Academy
April 29-30 – Leeds Millennium Square

Tickets for the Garage show are available on their website at www.kaiserchiefs.co.uk now.

Pete Doherty is in trouble again? Surely not? This time it is because the Babyshambles singer missed his court appearance yesterday due to being stuck in Paris following his band’s show the night before.

He was due in court for a review of his community order but due to his no-show, the case has been adjourned until May, whilst Babyshambles continue their European tour.

www.babyshambles.com

Remember One Minute Silence? Well lead singer Yap is back with his unique brand of spoken word poetry. His new group Pink Punk will be performing a free show, which will include a poetry slam, on April 20th.

The night will include a free lecture, a slam and a question and answer session with Yap about the absence of philosophy in our society.

The night will begin at 7pm sharp and if you want to get along to see it, then you’ll need to get to the Oliver Thompson Theatre, City University, Northampton Square in East London.

Check out www.ppunk.com for more info.

To celebrate the release of their upcoming debut single Bang Bang You’re Dead, Carl Barat’s Dirty Pretty Things are to play a free show at the HMV in London’s Oxford Street.

The performance will take place on the 24th of April and will start at 6pm with a signing afterwards. 400 wristbands will be given out at 9am on a first come first served basis.

Check out www.dirtyprettythingsband.com for all the official info.

John 5, the guitarist in Marilyn Manson, has revealed that his new band are called Loser. The guitarist, who has just come off co-writing and playing with Rob Zombie, has scheduled an album release for Loser around the beginning of June.

The group, who will feature 5, Charles Lee on bass, Glendon Crane on drums and singer Joe Grah, will move away from darker metal, with John 5 likening it to eating different foods, “it’s good to have a little bit more variety”.

The album will be called Just Like You and tracks featuring on it include Nobody Knows, Without You [Inside Out] and Disposable Sunshine.

Check out their myspace page here.

Reports are going around that Eminem’s right hand man Proof, real name DeShaun Hotlon, was shot dead at a club in Detroit earlier today, with another man wounded with gunshots to the head.

The other man’s identity hasn’t been released but it has been confirmed that it wasn’t fellow D12 memberBizarre after rumours saying it was, and who is in critical condition in hospital. Let’s hope the gangland element of rap isn’t coming back, it’s something no-one needs.

Roy Kerr, whose alter ego is The Freelance Hellraiser, is finally dropping an album, Waiting For Clearance, after his fame has spread thanks to his mash ups, in particular the combining of Christina Aguilera and The Strokes [Stroke Of Genius].

The album, which is due for release on the 26th of June, has Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Iain Archer formerly of Snow Patrol guesting on the album with production coming from Hugo Nicolson who was partly responsible for Primal Scream’s Screamadelica.

A new single from the album, called You Can Cry All You Want, is going to drop on the 12th of June and the album will be available to download on the 29th of June.

Check out the official site at www.thefreelancehellraiser.com

Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz might be “splitting up” as reported previously here at Crossfire, but there are plans to go out with a band, with dates being hoped for in Las Vegas. On top of this, a computer game of the animated group is set to be released, as well as their own film and their work on the Chinese opera “Monkey: Journey To The West“.

Damon isn’t the only member of Blur to be involved in animation any longer though as drummer Dave Rowntree has just finished work on an animated comedy show called Empire Square which he helped to direct the voice talent of, and had major input into the creative process of the show, which is due to be aired in the States this month.

www.gorillaz.com as if you didn’t know.

The Summer Sundae festival, held at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall and Gardens, has confirmed that hyped up-and-comers Guillemots have been added to the bill, alongisde Morning Runner, Gomez, The Boy Least Likely To, The Voom Blooms and Coldcut

This will be the festival’s sixth year and will be taking place on the weekend of August 11th – 13th, with tickets being priced at £75.

The full line up so far is as follows:

Belle and Sebastian
Elbow
The Long Blondes
Delays
Coldcut
Calexico
The Buzzcocks
Gomez
The Boy Least Likely To
Joan As A Policewoman
Martha Wainwright
Guillemots
Morning Runner
Nouvelle Vague
Michael Franti And Spearhead
Plaid
Voom Blooms
M Craft
Jose Gonzalez
Richard Hawley
The Proclaimers
Foward Russia
Brakes

www.summersundae.com is the official site.

Old rockers The Who have returned to their Tommy territory by composing a short mini-opera, which is likely to be released prior to the new album this year.

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey are currently working on a new album, which will be the band’s first in almost 25 years and will be touring this year.

www.petetownshend.co.uk