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.
It’s nice to see an implanted yank company taking things seriously inre: their Euro roster. Click over to www.matixclothing.com and watch a sweet little promo of the Euro team:
Chewy Cannon – whose interview with Crossfire is incoming! – Daniel Kinloch, Joey Pressey, Jody Smith, Josh Perret and Joe Lynsky.
Crossfire have been name-dropping this young Belgian ripper for a while now, and when big companies like Etnies are stoked to have her riding for the team, you know there must be proof in the pudding.
16 year old wonderkid Evelien Bouillart has found a place on the official Etnies Girl team alongside heavy weights Elissa Steamer and Lauren Perkins. If you want to see why, get yourself to one of the main Euro contests this summer and witness the sickness!*
* We’re currently working an interview with Evelien, so keep connected to Crossfire to hear what’s up!
When Etnies opened their brand new New York store, they figured a mini ramp couldn’t go amiss on the studio roof. Well, the snobbish neighbours didn’t take too well to Etnies idea and have currently taken it as their God-given duty to remove the construction from the site ASAP. Party poopers!
Here is a clip of Ronnie Creager, Eric Fletcher and Jimmy Boyes (!) riding the deathtrap. Judge for yourselves, but it doesn’t look like a problem to us..?
Damn! Stoke has already blown minds with it’s avant-garde and on-point skate plaza design, but things just got better with the inclusion of new rails dotted around the area.
When you think London can’t get itself organised to mix a bag a concrete properly…
There is a mini ramp jam happening in a warehouse on Sunday 22nd May (yep, bloody soon) with prizes from Death Skateboards and other sponsors that have poroduct that will fall off the back of a lorry on the day.
It’s at the Seager Distillery in Deptford, travel to Deptford Bridge DLR.
If you want more info email Dave Chesson at info@rampjam.co.uk as he has all the details you need.
Click the image to visit the Ramp Jam site.
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
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!
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.
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.