Category: Music

Legendary band Motörhead are out on tour in the UK this month, bringing the infamous “bomber” rig out of retirement. The gig will feature past and present members of the band, with Lemmy fronting the group, as always. The dates, which will include special guests, are:

November:

7th – Bradford St Georges
8th – Sheffield City Hall
9th – Birmingham Academy
11th – Cardiff University
12th – Oxford New Theatre
13th – Leicester De Monfort Hall
15th – Norwich UEA
16th – Cambridge Corn Exchange
17th – Ipswich Regent
19th – Nottingham Rock City
20th – Bristol Colston Hall
21st – Plymouth Pavilions
23rd – Portsmouth Guildhall
24th – Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
25th – Brixton Academy

www.imotorhead.com

Massive Attack are to play 2 benefit gigs in February of next year in aid of the HOPING Foundation, a charity which is support by private donors and public fundraising events.

The charity supports and gives encouragement to Palestinian children living in refugee camps in the Middle East. The dates for the shows are:

6th February 2007 – Birmingham Carling Academy (0870 771 2000 / 0870 151 4444)
7th February 2007 – London Brixton Academy
(0870 771 2000 / 020 7287 0932 / 0870 151 4444)

Massive Attack will bring some special guests along and are currently working on finishing their 5th album after having toured for most of 2006.

www.hopingfoundation.org

The Cure are putting out a live DVD which has been filmed by the band, their crew and even some fans. Festival 2005 features footage shot during the group’s festival dates in Europe over last summer and will be released on December 5th. The tracklisting is:

Open
Fascination Street
alt.end
The Blood
A Night Like This
The End of the World
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
The Kiss
Shake Dog Shake
Us or Them
Never Enough
The Figurehead
A Strange Day
Push
Just Like Heaven
In Between Days
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
The Drowning Man
Signal to Noise
The Baby Screams
One Hundred Years
Shiver and Shake
End Encores
At Night
M
Play for Today
A Forest
Plainsong
Disintegration
Faith

www.thecure.com

Grime rapper Crazy Titch, who blew up last year with Singalong, has been found guilty of murder and has been given a 30 year jail sentence. The Londoner murdered producer Richard Holmes after he had worked with 16 year old Sabar Shah.

Shah had put out a diss record against Durrty Goodz, Titch’s half-brother, and Titch and Anthony Green killed the producer as a result of what’s been called “mis-placed loyalty”.

Rapper The Game is being sued by 5 police officers in a defamation suit. The rapper was arrested last year when the police were called as he was causing “a public disturbance” wearing a Halloween mask and cursing.

According to reports, when the police, he made no attempt to calm down and his entourage surrounded the police in a threatening manner. He was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

The lawsuit brought the officers is due to his comments on TV comparing his treatment to that of Rodney King and claimed he was arrested for signing autographs. The police claimed that they were libelled, slandered and had their images misappropriated and are currently after over $10,000 in damages.

www.comptongame.com

Gogol Bordello and Bedouin Soundclash are playing the Eastpak Antidote tour and will be appearing at the sold out show on the 4th at Brixton Academy.

If you missed out on tickets for this event, you can see them for free in Selfridges’ Ultra Lounge on Oxford Street in London at 12pm on Sunday 5th.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKfJY-whX0w&eu

Akon, who was filming a video for a track with Eminem, has said a dead body was found at the derelict hotel in LA where the video was being shot. Akon said that the hotel had a spooky vibe and said that he think it is haunted stating:

“Man, that whole weekend was just dark, but the results were incredible. A dead body was found on the floor under us the next day. A real dead body. I was like, ‘wow!’ It was mad that we were right above that body just wiling out, just ‘smackin’, that’s crazy!”

www.eminem.com

Snowbombing have released the first set of acts for their 2007 line up.

So far The Young Knives, Sunshine Underground, Rumblestrips, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, The Cuban Brothers and Kid Carpet have been added to play. DJs on the bill so far include Scratch Perverts, Soul Of Man, Annie Mac, Evil Nine, Rob Da Bank and more.

The event will take place between 9th and 15th of April in Mayrhofen in Austria next year and you can check the website below for more details.

www.snowbombing.co.uk

A year after their debut release, This Is The Generation, Suicide Bid are back, with a new album The Rot Stops Here, which is out on November 6th. The collective will include the likes of The Filaments, Sonic Boom 6, Ex-Cathedra, The Foamers, Black Radio, The King Blues, Inner Terrestrials, P.A.I.N., Deathskulls and The Ambition.

You can check the track Wind Ya Batty, which comes from the album, by clicking here. It features Leila K [Sonic Boom 6], Itch, Al Gumby and Jembe Jem [The King Blues], and Jon Fawkes and Pete Hudson from The Filaments.

www.householdnamerecords.co.uk

The Aggrolites have been brought in as the main support for Madness for their tour in December and will also play some of their own headline shows.

In addition to the touring, The Aggrolites will be releasing a new single, Mr Misery, taken from their debut album. The tour dates are:

Headline shows – December:

8th – High Wycombe Roundabout
9th – Bristol Full Moon
10th – Stoke-on-Trent The Glebe
11th – Sheffield DnR Bar
15th – London Underworld
18th – Southampton Soul Cellar

With Madness:

12th – Glasgow SECC
13th – Manchester MEN
14th – Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
16th – Birmingham NEC
17th – Bournemouth BIC
19th – Brighton Brighton Centre
19th – Brighton Engine Room [live at the aftershow party]
20th – London Wembley Arena

www.aggroreggae.com