Category: Music News

Young Melbourne based songstress Vanessa Eve and her 3-piece punk rock outfit Jaed will release their debut album ‘Dirty Days‘ through Instant Karma in the UK on March 13th.

A childhood spent listening to Veruca Salt, L7, Hole and the Pixies is echoed in her music, but it’s Vanessa’s disarmingly honest and personal lyrics that make this debut release so undeniably unique and exciting. Laced with a wicked black humour, her songs betray an insight into the struggle of a young woman who, at the age of 16, was forced out of home by an abusive father and left to live on the streets of Melbourne with a drug habit to feed.

Track listing:

1.Catherine / 2. My Way / 3. Gutter Girl / 4. Scream / 5. Dream Hair / 6. Waiting / 7. Someday /8. Kiss me (Mickey) / 9. Up In You / 10. This Way / 11. Sleeping Beauty

The band’s line up is completed by a British rhythm section that is comprised of two childhood friends Matt (drums) and Greg (bass), who grew up playing together and provide a solid, energetic backdrop for Vanessa’s guitar and vocals. Jaed are set to play a the following UK shows:

Sat Feb 25 – Reading- Purple Turtle – £6

Wed March 1st – London – Arts Theatre Club, Frith Street – £5

Thu March 9th – London – Dublin Castle – £6

Check out Jaed’s website at www.Jaedmusic.com

Mogwai, one of the UK’s most respected bands, are back with a new album, Mr Beast, following up from 2003’s Happy Songs For Happy People. Recorded in the band’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow last year with producer Tony Doogan, the new album will feature bone-crushing volume, an army of guitars and unbelievable intensity.

The new album will have guest spots from Tetsuya Fukagawa [from Japanese hardcore band Envy] and the composer/arranger Craig Armstrong.

A special CD will be released including a DVD of The Making Of Mr Beast and the band will be touring extensively in 2006 touching places such as Coachella, SXSW, Mexico City and what promises to be a breathtaking set at the Royal Albert Hall.

The band have been busy outside of the album too, providing the soundtrack to a film on footballer Zinedine Zidane, remixing for the likes of Boom Bip and Bloc Party and are released a digital download of their live ICA session online.

2006 WORLDWIDE TOUR DATES
[with Growing]

01 March – Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago, IL, USA – http://www.emptybottle.com
02 March – Wexner Centre For The Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
03 March – The Dame, Lexington, KY, USA
04 March – Satellite Ballroom, Charlottesville, VA, USA
06 March – Avalon, New York City, NY, USA http://www.rondelsenerpresents.com/venue_detail.html?venue_id=10054
07 March – Sonar, Baltimore, MD, USA
08 March – Cats Cradle, Chaple Hill, NC, USA
09 March – Orange Peel, Asheville, NC, USA
10 March – Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN, USA
11 March– Whirlyball, Atlanta, GA, USA https://www.ticketalternative.com/TicketSelection.aspx?ScheduleKey=2187

[with Torche]
14 March – Numbers, Houston, TX, USA http://www.superunison.com/

15 March – TBA, Austin, TX, USA SXSW show
17 March – Nafinsa , Venustiano Carranza 25, Centro , Mexico City

UK Dates

29 March – Bristol, Academy, 0117 929 9008 / www.seetickets.com
30 March – Southampton, Uni, 0115 912 9000 / www.seetickets.com
31 March – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall, 0115 912 9000 / www.seetickets.com
01 April – Oxford, Brookes Uni, 01865 484750 / www.wegottickets.com
02 April – Cardiff, Coal Exchange, 029 20 494 917 / www.ticketline.co.uk
04 April – Cambridge, Junction, 01223 511 511 / www.junction.co.uk / www.seetickets.com
05 April – Liverpool, Carling Acdemy, 0870 771 2000 / www.liverpool-academy.co.uk
06 April – Newcastle, Northumbria Uni, 0191 261 2606 / 0191 233 0444 / www.seetickets.com
07 April – Sheffield, The Plug, 01142 492 208 / www.the-plug.com

08 April – Splendid, Lille, France www.fnac.com / 0033 (0)892 683 622 www.ticketnet.fr / 0033 (0)892 390 100
09 April – Laiterie, Strasbourg, France www.fnac.com / 0033 (0)892 683 622 www.ticketnet.fr / 0033 (0)892 390 100
11 April – SDF, Toulouse, France www.fnac.com / 0033 (0)892 683 622 www.ticketnet.fr / 0033 (0)892 390 100
12 April – Cooperative de Mai, Clermont-Ferrand, France www.fnac.com / 0033 (0)892 683 622 www.ticketnet.fr / 0033 (0)892 390 100
13 April – Bataclan, Paris, France 0033 (0) 892 683 622 / 0033 (0) 892 390 100 www.fnac.com / www.tickenet.fr
14 April – Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 0031 (0) 10 411 8110 / 0031 (0) 10 413 9175 www.ticketservice.nl / www.schouwburg.rotterdam.nl
15 April – Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany www.brosch-tours.net / 01805 9690000
18 April – Flog, Florence, Italy www.ticketone.it
19 April – Qube, Rome, Italy http://www.ticketone.it/newsComplete.jsp?idCat=52&cdNews=7521&idCatPT=529&cdProductSelected=INDI2006MO0419
20 April – Rolling Stone, Milan, Italy www.ticketone.it
21 April – New Age, Treviso, Italy www.ticketone.it
23 April – Elserhalle, Munich, Germany www.brosch-tours.net / 01805 9690000
24 April – Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany www.brosch-tours.net / 01805 9690000
25 April – Gruenspan, Hamburg, Germany www.brosch-tours.net / 01805 9690000
27 April – Edinburgh, Usher Hall (Triptych Festival), 0870 903 3444 / www.ticketweb.co.uk
Mogwai’s Queen’s Hall date is part of this year’s Triptych festival which runs from April 26-30 in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. This year’s full programme will be announced on March 1st. See www.triptychfestival.com for details.

30 April – Coachella festival in California, USA http://www.coachella.com/ for ticket information.

22 September – London September, Royal Albert Hall
Venue box office – 0207 589 8212 www.royalalberthall.com
We Got Tickets – www.wegottickets.com
See Tickets – 0115-912-9000 or www.seetickets.com
Stargreen – 0207-734-8932 or www.stargreen.com
Rough Trade Covent Garden 020 7240 0105

Milwaukee-based BEATALLICA (a satirical mashup act whose hilarious schtick marries the songwriting prowess of the BEATLES to the deep-throated rock growl of METALLICA) and THE PUNKLES (a German band who perform songs by THE BEATLES in punk style) will be teaming up for the European “Beatles Trash Night Tour 2006” beginning in late April. The tour will include just 1 UK show schedule to take place at Camden’s Underworld club on April 26th.

BEATALLICA made headlines early last year when received help from METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich in their dispute with the Sony Corporation over BEATALLICA’s “unlawful use” of the group’s compositions “without authorization or license.” The case has since been resolved, with BEATALLICA being allowed once again to operate their web site, Beatallica.org, and continue performing their patented blend of BEATLES tunes in a METALLICA style.

For more information, wander over to www.beatallica.org and www.punkles.com

One-off show announced

Primal Scream will showcase material from their forthcoming new album at a one-off London show.

The band will play the Astoria on April 6. Tickets are on sale now from here.

The Scots stars’ as-yet-untitled new album, the follow-up to 2002’s ‘Evil Heat’, is set for release around the same. The first single from the album is expected to be ‘Country Girl’.

Primal Scream have already confirmed summer festival appearances at Isle Of Wight on June 10 and T In The Park on July 9.

All your Primal needs can be found here: www.primalscream.net

Aiden do an exclusive intimate acoustic set at the brand new FOPP in Camden on Saturday 11th February. Be there from 11:30am and come hang out with Kerrang! Magazine’s newest cover stars!

FOPP
Camden High Street
Camden Town, London, UK
Saturday 11th February
11:30am

www.aiden.org for all the band news.

The heaviest of heavyweight UK Hip Hoppers, The Blacknificent Seven, release their second single U-Wot on 13th March 2006. Featuring the vocal talents of such hip hop luminaries as Roots Manuva, Est’elle, Rodney P, Skeme, Karl Hinds and Jeff 3, the single is out on Seanie T’s Dark Horizon Rekordz imprint, with an album to follow later this year.

Fresh off Seanie T’s quality hip hop imprint, Dark Horizon Recordz U Wot, the second hotly tipped single from their upcoming debut album, is a massive track that begs for loud, repeated spins. Still reeling from the buzz created by their first single, Ere Comes Da Black, hip hop’s most wanted crew are back in action.

Engerica have just been confirmed as the sole support for the upcoming Yellowcard UK tour. The dates are below:

2nd March London Astoria
3rd March London Astoria
4th March Manchester Academy
6th March Newcastle University
9th March Nottingham Rock City
10th March Birmingham Academy
11th March Norwich UEA
13th March Bristol Academy

The 6th March sees the re-release of The Smell with possibly one of the best videos this year and finally the 13th March sees the long awaited debut album There Are No Happy Endings released on Sanctuary Records.

www.engerica.com for all your Engerica interests.

The Freelance Hellraiser has been announced as special guest DJ at selected NME Awards shows this month. Kicking off with the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah date at KOKO on February 10th, he will be bringing his party starting (record) box of tricks along to gigs by Arctic Monkeys, The Streets, Editors and Goldie Lookin Chain over the course of February.

Since crashing into the public’s consciousness five years ago when he spliced ‘Hard To Explain‘ by the Strokes with Christina Aguilera’s Genie In A Bottle and christened it A Stroke Of Genius, The Freelance Hellraiser has dedicated himself to soundtracking life’s great party. Through a relentless DJing schedule, and remixes for artists as varied as Ian Brown, Shakira, Editors and Christina Aguilera, he has helped bring songs back to the heart of dance music, and a playful glitterball strut back to rock.

No longer content with sprinkling musical fairy dust on the work of others, he has gathered around him a choice selection of collaborators and is about to claim 2006 as his own, starting with the release of a limited edition single on 27 February; Want You To Know is a heart affirming, Sunday morning anthem in the first degree, which is already receiving fevered support from the likes of Zane Lowe, Jo Whiley, Eddy Temple-Morris and Lauren Laverne.

You can hear The Freelance Hellraiser DJ at the following NME Awards shows:

Fri Feb 10th KOKO Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Sat Feb 11th KOKO The Dead 60s
Sun Feb 12th KOKO The Paddingtons
Tues Feb 14th KOKO The Zutons
Weds Feb 15th Astoria Goldie Lookin Chain
Fri Feb 17th Brixton Academy Arctic Monkeys / Maximo Park
Sat Feb 18th Astoria The Streets
Sun Feb 19th Astoria The Cribs
Mon Feb 20th Astoria The Bravery
Tues Feb 21st Astoria Elbow
Weds Feb 22nd Astoria Editors

Go to www.nme.com for more info.

On April 25th 2006 Burning Heart / Epitaph Records release the DVD Refused Are Fucking Dead. Directed by guitarist Kristofer Steen, it will be the first and last word on this most remarkable of bands.

“Refused are fucking dead…” With these words Swedish quartet Refused hammered the final nail into their own coffin and split in 1998 on the cusp of mainstream success. Their final album The Shape Of Punk To Come (sub-title: A Chimerical Bombination In 12 Bursts) transcended the hardcore tag and mixed jazz, socialism, punk, techno, straight edge, ambient and Situationist rhetoric to create a new form of protest music, their interviews, sleevenotes and communiqués littered with references to influences such as Guy Debord, Charles Mingus and Jacques Derrida.

With breakthrough single New Noise gaining substantial airplay the band split in the middle of a chaotic show during a police raid. Shortly afterwards they announced “We will continue to at every attempt, overthrow the class system, burn museums and to strangle the great lie that we call culture” and demanding that their images be burned “so that we will no longer be tortured with memories of a time gone by and the mythmaking that single-minded and incompetent journalism offers us“.

Refused Are Fucking Dead charts the band’s rise and their glorious explosion amid ethical disagreements, realised dreamsand much heat from the authorities. Musical differences? No. Refused slayed until the very last note.

All but overlooked at the time of release The Shape Of Punk To Come is now regarded as one of the most important punk rock records ever. Both musically and aesthetically, the band’s influence is widespread amongst today’s generation of bands – the likes of Funeral For a Friend, At The Drive-In, The Hives, My Chemical Romance and Muse have all cited the band as particular favourites. Meanwhile former Refused band members continue to make music with The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Text, The Lost Patrol and a variety of non-musical projects.

Check www.burningheart.com/refused for more info.