Category: Music

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.

www.rhino.com

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.

www.thepaddingtons.net

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.

www.bjork.com

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.

www.rhymesayers.com

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.

www.manicstreetpreachers.com

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

www.brianjonestownmassacre.com

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!

www.uxfest.com

Clor, who released a self-titled debut last year which brought the singles Love And Pain and Good Stuff, have split up.

The band’s manager released a statement saying that the group decided to split after not being able to be “wildly creative and chart-bothering”.

The band have called it a day just as their album is to be unleashed on America, but it is likely to that the two main men, Barry Dobbin and Luke Smith, will continue making music in the future.

www.clor.co.uk

Just when we thought Pete Doherty had completely lost it, we get another stunning example of his cultural expertise.

The Babyshambles singer is to display his works of art at a London gallery, works of art that will depict his life on tour and he plans to sell them for £1,000 each.

However, what makes these just that little bit more Doherty-esque is the fact that they are all painted in his blood. Lovely.