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by James Moore
Aereogramme play a few shows in August.
Aereogramme release the 'White Paw' E.P on Chemikal Underground on 20th August, and play a few gigs to promote it, including Idlewild's warm up gig for V2001.
The band play:
August
2nd - Brighton, Pavillion (w/ Dirty Three)
3rd -»
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by James Moore
Well here's your chance. Seafood will be filming a video for 'Splinter' this Friday in South London and they want you to be there!
Kev, Seafood's bassist emailed Drowned in Sound to ask "If you know anyone that wants to appear in a video for 'Splinter', this Friday, South london, sitting round a sw»
Review
by James Moore
Despite being dismissed by some as being a Sonic Youth tribute band, to me Seafood's strength has always been their variety. Having said that I was a bit surprised when the band announced they were going to record this album in New York as surely this would act as more ammunition for the press. But now I'm glad they we»
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by James Moore
Wauvenfold release E.P and play free gig.
Wauvenfold who release their 'On The Blink' EP through Wichita Recordings on 6th August. Play their first ever live gig that very night at The Social in their home town of Nottingham. Support comes in the form of DJ Mie and Laboratoire »
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by James Moore
Hefner announce details of the follow up to their 'We Love The City' album.
Hefner release their new album entitled ‘Dead Media’ on 24th September through Too Pure. ‘Dead Media’ features 15 new songs, all songs written by Darren Hayman, with the exception of ‘Junk’, written by Darren H»
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by James Moore
RocketGoldStar release a 4 track E.P next month, with their debut album coming out shortly afterwards.
In support of their forthcoming debut album release 'Soft Eject' which is out on the 3rd September, RocketGoldStar will be releasing a 4-track EP featuring the lead track 'Steamboat to Nowh»
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by James Moore
Super Furry Animals tour the UK this September.
SFA who release new album 'Rings Around The World' on 23rd July through Epic Records, kick off a thirteen date UK tour, beginning in Southampton on 26th September before finishing in Cardiff on 12th October. Oh and yes they do play Brixton»
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by James Moore
Stephen Malkmus releases a second single from his fantastic self titled debut album.
'Jenny & The Ess-Dog' will be released on the 30th July through Domino Records. The single is released on 4-Track CD & 2-Track 7". The B-sides are all live tracks from The Jicks recent Cologne show, a se»
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by James Moore
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci have been confirmed as the support on Manic Street Preachers upcoming Welsh dates.
The band will support the Manics on the two warm-up shows for the Carling Festival appearances in Reading and Leeds (24th-25th August). The shows take place on:
August
20th »
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by James Moore
Forget The Strokes, go see White Stripes.
These dates are suspected to sell out fast so you better be quick if you wanna catch Detroit's White Stripes.
July
26th - London, 100 Club
27th - Brighton, TBA
28th - Bristol, Louisiania
29th - Oxford, The Point
30th »
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by James Moore
Although Welsh is his first language, SFA's singer Gruff Rhys has defended claims he's slow when using the English language... bless him.
The told Planet Sound, "It irritates me when journalists write that I speak slowly because I supposedly can't speak English too well. I'm totally bilingual. My f»
Review
by James Moore
The Forum started to fill up with Furryheads, and a bewildered young man came to the stage with his acoustic guitar in hand and sat down on a stool. His name was Teflon Monkey aka Rhodri Viney, a Bargoed boy who plays lush folk music, in a style unlike no other in the 00’s. He introduced himself to the audience and swi»
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by James Moore
Mercury Rev have confirmed a one-off show in the Big Smoke, preceeding the release of their upcoming album.
Mercury Rev have confirmed a one-off show at London's Electric Ballroom on 9th August. They will be previewing tracks from their forthcoming album 'All Is Dream', scheduled for rel»
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by James Moore
A mini Reading festival... well kinda.
Saloon and Amberley Records are putting on a Happy Robots summer spectacular at the Rising Sun Arts Centre in
Reading. The event called 'A Weekend of Happy Robots' is taking place on the weekend of 20th-22nd of July.
The line up is as follows:
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by James Moore
Caretaker tour the UK to promote long awaited mini album.
The self titled Caretaker mini album, is set to be released on the
30th July through Fierce Panda, to accompany the release of the album, there are also some
gigs:
July
11th - Freebutt, Brighton (w/ The Oe»
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by James Moore
Seafood announce a string of club nights to promote and preview their upcoming album.
The Eli Janney produced album 'When Do We Start Fighting' will be previewed at the following clubs:
July
21st - Ladyboy @ Big Hands, Manchester (21:00-02:00)
23rd - Mojos, Norwich»
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by James Moore
I thought it was too good to be true!
Despite the reports here on DiS, Super Furry Animals won't be playing at the Brixton Academy on Tuesday 2nd October. Bugger!
A spokesperson told nme.com that "The Super Furry Animals have not announced any forthcoming gigs at the Brixton Acade»
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by James Moore
Domino Records are throwing a midsummer's party.
Domino Records take over 93 Feet East, with Kieran 'Four Tet' Hebden playing his biggest London headline live show so far. Other guests include Cologne's instrumentalists Schlammpeitziger, plus DJ sets from Max Tundra, Cinema»
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by James Moore
San Diego's The Locust tour the UK.
The band who as well as an album, have split singles with Jenny Piccolo, Arab on Radar, and Melt Banana to their name, visit the UK shores in Autumn.
The tour brought to you by Carnyhand, hits the f»
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by James Moore
Furrymania will continue to sweep across the country with a string of launch parties for Super Furry Animals upcoming album 'Rings Around The World'
The parties will give you the chance to hear tracks from the new album before it is released as well winning singles, albums, DVD copies, posters and pho»
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by James Moore
So far the line up for All Tomorrow's Parties 2002 consists of twelve bands
ATP UK 2002 is to be held at Camber Sands Holiday Centre between the 19th-21st April, 2002. The line up features:
Blonde Redhead
The Breeders
Dianogah
The Lonesome Organist
Nina Nastasia
The»
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by James Moore
Ladyfest, Strange Fruit and Kill Rock Stars present the imaginatively titled Ladyfest Tour.
The Ladyfest Tour is to take place after the Ladyfest Festival which is at Glasgow's 13th Note between the 12th-14th August. The Glaswegian event includes the likes of Electrelane, Bis, Bangs»
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by James Moore
Graham Coxon has confirmed details of his third solo album, which was completed in the space of two weeks.
'Crow Sit On Blood Tree', the follow-up to last year's 'The Golden D', is out on 6th August via Transcopic Records, and was played entirely by Coxon, who also produced and mastered »
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by James Moore
Phew! The reports that Brave Captain were due to support the Manics turn out to be bollocks!
Wichita Recording's Mark Bowen posted a message on the Super Furry Animals' Yahoo! group saying:
"Martin was asked to do those Manics shows but unfortunately word that he was doing them got out b»
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by James Moore
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci return with a new album and single this September.
The Welsh folk-popsters release 'How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart' on 17th September through Mantra Recordings. This comes less than a year after their acoustic mini-album 'The Blue Trees'. The album»
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by James Moore
Nina Persson has filmed the video for her debut solo single in New York with new husband Nathan Larsson, who she wed last weekend in Sweden.
Her first single as A Camp is titled 'I Can Buy You' and will be released on 27th August through Polydor, her album is also
set for release in Aug»
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by James Moore
Longtime Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis was injured in an car accident in Sweden on Sunday
According to a spokesperson for the band, Mascis & the Fog were driving at 70mph just outside Halmstad on Sunday (17th June) when they were cut off by a car. Their van skidded, slid off the highway, and fell over»
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by James Moore
Seafood forced to change tour schedule due to mixup.
Due to a double-booking by the promoters the London gig at ULU will be moving dates. The london date is now on the 18th July and not to the 20th as stated on the previous DiS news story. Cardiff has now been moved to Thursday 19th July.
So th»
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by James Moore
FF Vinyl’s Christopher Rees has made history by being confirmed as the support act for John Cale’s gig at Cardiff’s St David’s Hall on 21st June, the first time the ex-Velvet Underground man has had support for ten years.»
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by James Moore
Aereogramme play an one-off date at The Garage, London on the 28th June supporting Modest Mouse. In an email to their mailing list they wrote: "After the gig, the band will probably be found in the kebab shop across the road. Everyone is welcome (to the gig and kebab shop after party) except anyone who»