Sunderland’s finest four-piece, The Futureheads, top off a fantastic major-label-free twelve months with a full UK tour.
Not only are they touring, but in a Pearl Jam fashion, the Futureheads are releasing a number of live shows which fans will be able to buy as digital and actual CD albums from The Futureheads’ online store. The first of which, recorded at 2004 Quart Festival in Norway, is already available from this very link.
The tour dates are as follows:
November 29th London Astoria 30th Whitehaven Civic Hall
December 2nd Glasgow ABC 2 3rd Glasgow ABC 2 5th Cardiff Point 7th Norwich Waterfront 12th Sheffield Academy (Pet Sounds) 19th Gateshead Sage 20th York Duchess
DIY music may have had a massive boost from Radiohead this year but it's still alive and well at grassroots level.
Black leather clad Bolton rockers To The Bones (pictured above) release their debut album Duke Type A on 29 September although that's not the story. On the same day they'll release the single 'Rex' through Medici Records.
The label had a very humble birth not long ago when Conor McGloin, the head of the imprint and formerly of Kinesis fame, decided to use the rest of his student loan to fund the band's forthcoming releases, tour and video. And with some success to.
To The Bones are about to embark on an 11 date tour in and around the releases and the video to 'Rex' looks as professional as anything Coldplay could throw at you.
Filmed during a house party, it cost nothing to make hiring only one cameraman, four lights and got every drunk for atmosphere.
They must be doing something very right for their high octane riot rock, endorsed by Manics and Idlewild producer Dave Eringa, has been deemed fit for a showcase slot at Manchester's music industry do In The City at the beginning of October.
You can watch 'Rex' below but the list of tour dates are as follows:
10th September - London Notting Hill Arts Centre
19th September - Grimsby The Matrix Club
3rd October - Bolton Kico Club
7th October - Manchester Cellar Vie (In The City Showcase)
9th October - Basingstoke Light Lounge
10th October - Oxford The Wheatsheaf
11th October - Chelmsford Barhouse
16th October - London The Metro
17th October - Brighton The Freebutt (w/ Killa Kenada/The Horse)
24th October - Derby The Venue
31st October - Salisbury The Barn
This news story can be found on Drowned in Sound with other pieces by Dean Samways.
Glorious Canadian pop rockers The Stills have announced a handful of UK live dates for November this year.
The tour will coincide with the UK release of the quintet's third LP Oceans Will Rise. In shops on 20 October through Arts & Crafts the statement from The Stills' press people insist the 'new album showcases a reinvigorated band armed with a razor-sharp sense of melody and a wholly rejuvenated sense of itself.' DiS agrees.
Only a couple of months ago the band found themselves opening for Paul McCartney at the Quebec City 400th Anniversary concert in front of quarter of a million people so this mini-tour is sure to bring them back down to Earth.
The dates for The Stills November UK tour are as follows:
25th November - London Cargo
26th November - Manchester Night & Day
27th November - Glasgow Stereo
28th November - London Koko Club NME
This news story can be found on Drowned in Sound with other pieces by Dean Samways.
Comeback kings of the concrete jungle, The Prodigy have announced their biggest UK tour in three years.
After a series of festival shows this summer the band are spending December taking in Carling Academy venues up and down the country on what is being called ‘The Invaders Academy Tour’.
The dates of the shows are as follows:
7th December - Carling Academy, Liverpool
8th December - Carling Academy, Glasgow
9th December - Carling Academy, Birmingham
11th December - Carling Academy, Sheffield
12th December - Carling Academy, London Brixton
13th December - Carling Academy, London Brixton
Tickets will go on general sale on Thursday 21st August with prices between £27.50 and £30. For the die hard fans, website members will be able to bag pre-sale tickets 24 hours earlier at www.theprodigy.com.
The greatness of The Prodigy’s greatness direct to your eyes below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
After exciting fans with a little teaser of new material, The Streets have announced a full nationwide tour for October.
The tour is expected to showcase new songs from the forthcoming album Everything Is Borrowed.
The Quietus was among the first to announce a medley of new music taken from the album which was made available on Mike Skinner’s mySpace earlier this month.
Skinner and the gang kick things off in Glasgow on 4th October and finish things up in typically raucous fashion in Leeds in the 19th.
The Streets’ fourth LP is due for release around the same time as the live dates.
The tour will take in the following cities:
4th October - Glasgow Barrowlands
5th October - Manchester Academy
6th October - Sheffield Plug
9th October - Birmingham Academy
10th October - Newcastle Academy
11th October - Oxford Academy
13th October - Southampton Guildhall
14th October - Preston 53 Degrees
15th October - Norwich UEA
17th October - Bristol Academy
18th October - Nottingham Rock City
19th October - Leeds Academy
Or click here to be taken straight to the See Tickets website.
The Streets new video 'Escapist', complete with intercontinental wanderings that would make Ian Botham proud, can be seen below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
Cunning linguists Sigur Ros have announced that they are to play their biggest UK shows ever in November.
The Icelandic quartet have only just touched down on earth again after playing to the biggest crowd ever assembled for a Latitude festival headline act on Saturday 19th July.
Now they’re celebrating the success of that show by returning to these shores for five more dates towards the end of 2008.
The venues and dates are as follows:
4th November – Wolvehampton Civic
5th November – Blackpool Empress Ballroom
7th November – Bristol Colston Hall
20th November – London Alexandra Palace
21st November – London Alexandra Palace
The band’s latest album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly) went into the Top 5 upon release earlier this month.
A special deluxe edition of the album is available to pre-order from the the Sigur Ros website now. It is officially released in September.
Have a look at the much talked video for 'Svefn-g-englar' by clicking below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
Brazilian party pixies CSS are to tour the British Isles once again later this year.
Current star of our friend’s The Lipster’s first TV feature, Lovefoxx is giving her catsuits another airing throughout October.
The tour will no doubt cement the new album Donkey into the hearts and minds of the die hard fanbase, alongside classics ‘Alala’ and ‘Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above’.
Yesterday the NME reported on a somewhat chaotic end to Wednesday’s Brian Jonestown Massacre gig.
The show is said to have come to an abrupt conclusion after an argument broke out between lead singer Anton Newcombe and guitarist Frankie Emerson.
After police were called and rumours of knife injuries sustained by Emerson began to circulate, the label and management of the band today released a statement announcing that no such events occurred.
The statement read as follows:
“There was no knife or knives involved in any shape or form in this incident. The cuts to Frankie Emerson were caused by some glass splinters.
“Emerson’s injuries were superficial to his arm and stomach and he was treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London. These injuries were caused by horseplay by the band in their own changing room after the gig.”
Whether or not the injuries were caused by glass or "horseplay" is still up for debate as the announced remains somewhat shady with these details.
“Anton Newcombe was questioned at Kentish Police Station to help the police with their enquiries and was released with no charge or caution. Frankie Emerson did not press any charges on Anton Newcombe.
“Any comments by anyone within or outside the media to the contrary are completely false. The band will continue with their successful European tour.”
The London Forum gig on July 16th may have started well but it soon descended into some pretty laughable scenes inner-band dysfunction.
Apparently an inebriated Emerson swung a microphone in a fit of showmanship and damaged it during the evening.
Newcombe reacted by telling him, in front of the crowd, that he would have to pay for the broken equipment to which Emerson responded by sarcastically blasting "testing, one two, one two" into the mic before the band’s encore.
Drummer Joel Gion attempted to settle matters by saying goodnight to the crowd but Emerson trumped up again shouting: “Don't shut front of house man, you fucker.”
After returning to complete the encore the alleged confrontation took place backstage, and police were called to diffuse the situation. No arrests were made and the band is continuing on their UK tour.
A label spokesman played down the incident, declaring: “These things do happen on tour when the band are tired and been away from home too long.”
Brian Jonestown Massacre video to ‘When Jokers Attack’ can be watched below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
Britpop hero and Quietus guest writer Jarvis Cocker has revealed that he will be roadtesting new material during a short US tour this week.
Speaking to BBC 6 Music today the former Pulp frontman also gave details of his first album since the acclaimed 2006 solo debut and its heavier sound.
“I have been working and I have been writing. I’m doing three shows in America in July where I’m gonna try a lot of new stuff out. I’ll see if I survive that, then I’ll try and get it recorded as soon as possible really.
“I probably won’t get it out this year being realistic. But I’d like to get it out as soon as possible. But I’m afraid I will kill again. There will be another record.”
Elaborating on the new material further, the Artery fan spoke of the more wholesome band sound that will be incorporated into the follow-up to Jarvis.
“It’s hard to say as it’s not all done yet but I think it’ll probably be louder than the last one. The thing was, I wrote that record over a period of time and enlisted the help of Steve [Mackey – bass] and Ross [Orton – drums] and Richard [Hawley – guitar] to help me record it. Then went out and played it, and discovered I had a band that could rock.
“That really made me think. I’d never really had that before. Pulp could be loud, but we didn’t really rock…. Well, maybe occasionally. So what I’ve tried to do with the new stuff, rather than me just sit there and wait for inspiration to come at some point – which takes ages – instead we’ve written stuff together. And it’s a bit louder.
“It’s probably something to do with some kind of midlife crisis as well, y’know? Rock while to still have the ability to do it before your bits start falling off.”
May the testing commence, hopefully with Jarvis’ Cocker full intact. His US tour dates are as follows:
19th July - Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park Chicago
21st July - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
22nd July - Terminal 5, New York
For a live version of Cocker’s ‘Fat Children’ head below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
The folically (and members) challenged Smashing Pumpkins are to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a series of live dates in August.
The opening gig will take place in Hammond, Indiana at the Horseshoe Casino on August 9. This relatively small show will be will be followed by a handful of similarly modest sized dates.
An announcement on the Smashing Pumpkins website gives details of the anniversary tour proper which will take in the cities of Los Angeles, New York and their home town of Chicago. Information on the dates and venues will be given at a later.
In a statement on their website, lead singer Billy Corgan said: “The August tour is going to be a blast... Expect a very loud and raucous show from us...and we are very, very happy to know we will finally be playing our own shows come November in New York, L.A., and Chicago... The 20th Anniversary shows will be magical... We are already working on lots of surprises.”
The anniversary tour has put back the much anticipated Gish tour to early 2009 but fans will be happily consoled by the news that the band will be playing unique sets and songs.
A special box-set re-issue of the Pumpkins’ debut album Gish will also be released next year to accompany the tour.
Watch the ‘Siva’ video from Gish:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
Sabbatical-loving Bristolians Portishead have spoken of their plans for a new album – and revealed that they’ll no longer be setting forth musical nuclear wind in the live auditoria of the world.
Talking to BBC 6 Music this morning guitarist Adrian Utley told fans, “We are thinking a new album, that’s partly why we’re not touring enormously. In 1998 we toured for a year and a bit and it just crashed us. None of us wanted to see each other for a while after that.
“We got together the other night discussing stuff and getting a bit of a plan together.”
But Utley added that these writings will probably hit the cutting room floor before they get to work proper: "I mean we have got stuff, but we'll start again - that's what we want to do.”
With other commitments like families and various side-projects it seems touring will be the first sacrifice made by the band in order to keep writing: “We’re all gonna be doing stuff. We’ve finished our touring for this album for this year because of things that we want to do.
“To be at home with our children, very young children. I mean really, just babies - it is an important time and I don’t want to miss that.”
Watch 'Machine Gun' by Portishead below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
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