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Graham Coxon live video

admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:02:16 +0000

2012 is going to be yet another a huge year for Graham Coxon – he’s already released his 8th solo album ‘A+E’, just completed a massive solo tour, and in August he and fellow Blur members will playing a gig in Hyde Park.

This track ‘Ooh, Yeh, Yeh’ is the closing track on A+E and the closing track on his recent tour and perfectly demonstrates why Graham’s songwriting style continues to lead the pack.

For more tracks and interviews please go to www.youtube.com/o2academytv

Motion City Soundtrack to play 4 albums back to back

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:44:53 +0000

Motion City Soundtrack will playing four of their albums across two nights at London’s XOYO – on 18th April they will perform ‘I Am the Movie’ and ‘Commit This To Memory’, then on 19th April it’s the turn of ‘Even If It Kills Me’ and ‘My Dinosaur Life’. Manchester’s MCS fans won the Songkick competition to have the band play in their town, pipping Nottingham, Brighton and Bristol to the post, and the band appear there at the Ruby Lounge on April 20th.

UK dates are below, the band also play a bunch of European dates including Groezrock Festival in Meerhout, Belgium on 29th April.

APRIL 2012
Wed 18 Apr        London XOYO *(SOLD OUT)
Thu 19 Apr         London XOYO
Fri 20 Apr          Songkick Detour Jam Tour! Ruby Lounge, Manchester

MAY 2012
Sat 26 May         Leeds SlamDunk Festival @ Leeds University
Sun 27 May        Hatfield SlamDunk Festival @ Uni of Hertford
Mon 28 May      Cardiff   Slamdunk Wales @ Cardiff Uni.
Tue 29 May        Glasgow Slamdunk Scotland @ Glasgow ABC

YOU could design the official Slam Dunk Festival 2012 t-shirt!

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:02:42 +0000

A MESSAGE FROM TEAM SLAM DUNK:

“To all those budding graphic designers and fashionista’s out there!

We have THE competition for you. After the success of this competition last year, we are doing it all over again and handing over the duties of designing one of the official Slam Dunk Festival 2012 t-shirts to you, the public!

To be in with a chance of winning email your design to competitions@slamdunkmusic.com, clearly stating T-SHIRT COMPETITION as the subject. Include your design as an attachment and put your contact info in the body of the email. The finalists will have their designs displayed on our Facbook page and will under-go a public vote to decide the winner!

All finalists will recieve free tickets to this year’s Festival and the winner will have their shirt go into production to be on sale at the Festival!

Closing date for entries is Friday 4th May. The finalists will be choosen and put to a public vote on Tuesday 8th May, lasting until Friday 11th May. The winning design will go into production that very weekend!

Special Guests Funeral For A Friend Added To Lineup

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:33:44 +0000

Funeral For A Friend have been announced for this years Slam Dunk festival- “This years’s Slam Dunk is gonna be full on. We’re beyond excited for this, we’ve been itching to play since our last shows at the end of 2011 so be prepared for some in your face FFAF action!” says Matt (vocals)

Also added to the bill are 2 of the most hotly tipped upcoming UK bands. Current DIY magazine cover stars Canterbury will be performing songs from the forthcoming album Heavy In The Day, and math-core merchants Marmozets.

Headliners Announced For Acoustic & Dance Stages

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:07:57 +0000

The brilliant Charlie Simpson will headline the Acoustic stage. He will be performing an exclusive stripped down intimate show which will be a must see for any fans. Other performers on the acoustic stage will include the story telling prowess of Into It Over It, Shane Henderson formally of US pop punk band Valencia, and UK underground hero Rob Lynch. There will of course as usual be secret surprise acoustic performances by bands from the other stages.

Credit: Charlie Simpsons facebook Page

A Hadouken DJ Set will headline the Dance Stage at both sites. The band, notoriously known for bringing the party will make no exception with their DJ set. More acts to be announced over the coming weeks.

Ringo & The Roundheads Live DVD set for release

admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:27:22 +0000

Ringo & The Roundheads Live was filmed at this historic Genesee Theatre in Waukegan, Illinois – this one-night-only event presents Ringo Starr performing five Beatles classics along with his greatest solo hits in a career-spanning set with The Roundheads. Captured in high-definition this DVD truly represents the former Beatle’s energy and ability to stir a crowd.

The DVD featues:

It Don’t Come Easy, Octopus’s Garden, Choose Love, I Wanna Be Your Man, Who Can It Be Now? (with special guest Colin Hay), Don’t Pass Me By, I’m The Greatest, Give Me Back The Beat, Memphis In Your Mind, Photograph, Back Off Boogaloo, Yellow Submarine, Act Naturally, With A Little Help From My Friends

It will be released on DVD and Blu Ray on March 19th.

There is a copy winging its way to us as I type so expect a review soon.

Union sound set – Hiding places

C.J. — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:15:00 +0000

With a sound very similar in it’s complexity to a band I really like, the engineers, hiding places goes a long way to making me want to look further into this band, as an opening introduction to this band for me this draws me in. Having a long list of CD’s to review has it’s benefits, as soon as I’m done with this single I’m picking up it’s album Start / Stop and filling my boots such is it’s pull. This song will be released on the 27th of September and I urge you do go and listen, I’m sure you won’t be let down.

Dead confederate – Giving it all away

C.J. — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:13:44 +0000

Released on the 16th of August as a pre-cursor to album ‘Sugar’ set to follow a week later, giving it all away is stated in it’s press release as ‘one of the bands most upbeat songs to date’ it’s a very mellow song for it’s genre and when listening to it I can’t help but think of the Beatles, I am the walrus era, which in all honesty can not be a bad comparison for anyone, this track may not have done enough to whet my appetite for the album, but it’s certainly a keeper.

Beatsticks – Jane became insane

C.J. — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:12:08 +0000

The music in this song isn’t very remarkable, although it does all fit together well, it starts well, but doesn’t really build into anything more than noise at times. This song seems more like an album track to me, and i’d be interested in getting my hands on the album .Limbo Messiah. which was launched on 12/07/10 just to see if i’m right, because it may be that they have much much more to offer. Not the kind of track you’d skip past on an album, but not one you’d single out as a favourite either.

Young Guns – Crystal Clear

C.J. — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:10:58 +0000

From the beginning of the intro there is a feeling that this band has a very clear idea of what they want to be. The intro itself has traces of the needlessly epic in a similar way to Biffy Clyro. However, the vocal stylings lean more toward the pop punk invasion of bands like You Me At Six, or All Time Low, yet Young Guns do not come off as pop punk at all despite this, the reason for this is due to the heavier riffs in the bridge and chorus, which allow them to retain that epic undertone first spotted in the chorus. The lyrics themselves are easy for the masses to relate to; if they stick to this idea, Young Guns every opportunity of becoming something very big indeed.