Brighton’s Great Escape Festival will take place on the 17th-19th of May this year.
2006’s festival was a sell out and saw over 4,000 people turn up. With 180 artists playing 20 venues spread over 3 days it was a big success and 2007 promises to be just as good.
The line up has already started to take shape with the likes of CSS, Mumm-ra, Hadouken, Help She Can’t Swim, I Like Trains and Willy Mason all on board with plenty more to come.
For more details visit www.escapegreat.com
Felt have released their first ever video, by putting it on youtube.
The duo of Slug from Atmosphere and Living Legends’ Murs have put out a video for the song Early Mornin’ Tony.
The track is taken from Felt 2: A Tribute To Lisa Bonet which was produced entirely by Ant of Atmosphere and the video plays on the Felt 2 comic book which accompanied the album, drawn by Jim Mahfood.
Check out the video here.
A Cage show was thrown into chaos in Michigan recently.
The Def Jux rapper was due to perform at the Blind Pig venue in Ann Arbor when it was announced over the PA that Cage wasn’t coming on and the show was over.
As Security began moving people out of the venue, a chant of “Fuck the Bling Pig” started up and security apparently got violent, forcing people to leave.
On his MySpace page, Cage said that he didn’t get into the venue because he’d left his wallet in the hotel with his ID but that he’d never had a problem like this before. He went on to say:
“I would like to applaud the meat head security team and management that ruined everything and could later be seen flinging teenagers into walls when they began shouting fuck the blind pig and refund. I have never seen anything like this in my life.
I want to apologize to everyone that paid to get in and or were attacked by the blind pig security. Young college kids are great to beat on eh pigs? A Fucking Shame it was packed.”
Australian rockers Wolf and Cub are out on tour in the UK soon.
After just having supporting Wolfmother on some dates to great acclaim, Wolf and Cub are hitting the road again in support of their forthcoming single This Mess which is out on March 5th. The album, Vessels, will follow on April 2nd. The dates are:
February:
19th – London Luminaire
20th – London White Heat
21st – London Water Rats
22nd – Sheffield Fuzz Club
23rd – Newcastle Rattled By The Rush
24th – Nottingham Liars Club
27th – Leeds Joseph’s Wells
28th – Bradford Love Apple
March:
2nd – London Macbeth
US new wave punk-pop quintet The Epoxies will be returning to UK shores for a handful of shows next week. Dress in bright colours and get ready to dance at the following:
February:
19th – London, Boston Music Room
20th – Poulton, The Royal Oak
21st – Liverpool, Roadkill
22nd – Exeter, Cavern Club
23rd – Bristol, Junction
24th – Brighton, The Engine Room
Check www.the-epoxies.com for more info
White Stripes have signed a deal with Warner Bros.
The Detroit band, who were signed to V2 and were one of the many bands let go recently, signed a one album deal. Their last release came in February 2005 when they released Get Behind Me Satan.
The deal with Warner Bros will not extended to the Third Man label, which is Jack White’s imprint that has put out the Raconteurs.
There’s less than a week to go until February’s Klub Kerrang! at Koko in London and we have tickets up for grabs.
If you want to come along and witness first hand the carnage that was had at the January event, then head on over to the competition page and get your name down for a ticket for the event on Saturday [17th].
The night will see The Blackout and The Ghost Of A Thousand bringing the live music with DJs James Sherry, Emma Johnston and Zac Slack spinning the tunes.
So, stop wasting time and get over here now!
Stones Throw Records are following up Chrome Children with a download sequel.
The original album featured a CD and DVD and was a very popular record in 2006. So with the new one coming out for free, you can’t really complain can you? Head on over to the link at the bottom, to grab your free download. The tracklisting is:
1. Madlib the Beat Konducta – Chrome Dreams
2. MED & Dabrye – Rhymes With An L
3. Roc C – Living For The City
4. Chocolate Star – Stay With Me
5. Percee P & Koushik – Reverse Part Two
6. Oh No – Gitback
7. Guilty Simpson & Four Tet – Money Motivated Movements
8. Madlib the Beat Konducta – Selah’s Children
9. Baron Zen – Theme (Danny Breaks Remix)
10. Aloe Blacc – Happy Now?
11. J.Rocc – Bubbha’s Dance
12. Gary Wilson – Soul Traveling
13. Clifford Nyren – Keep Running Away (Egon’s Edit)
14. The Jazzistics – Marcus, Martin and Malcolm
15. James Pants – Murder
16. Arabian Prince – Strange Life
Kaiser Chiefs will be playing a competition winners only show in London.
The band, who have a new single called Ruby all over TV, will play the Gibson Guitar Studio in London on February 17th as part of a competition. The event is in association with Gibson Guitars and will be recorded for Virgin Radio.
It is likely that material from their upcoming album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob, will be showcased. The album is out on February 27th.
Yo La Tengo will be co-headlining All Tomorrow’s Parties.
The May event – ATP vs You (The Fans) – will be curated by promoters and the ticket buyers, who have voted who they want to perform. Yo La Tengo were the popular band and will be playing at the event which takes place from the 18th to the 20th.
Another band to get the vote was Brightblack Morning Light.