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News: Sleeping With Sirens Announce 2016 UK Headline Tour
2016 is set to be a great year for Sleeping With Sirens. After their massively successful 2015World Tour with fellow US band Pierce The Veil, SWS have announced a huge UK and European tour for early next year. With an ever growing fan base on social media, over 115 million album streams and over 720,000 …
See: Lauren Aquilina releases the heartbreaking ‘Ocean’, plus tour dates
You can learn a lot about Lauren Aquilina from her Twitter bio: “nothing makes me happier than writing sad songs.” She’s continuing that trend with new song ‘Ocean’, which is her latest single and the title of her forthcoming EP. Lauren has had an incredible start to her music career, headlining the BBC introducing stage …
News: Funeral For A Friend Announce Final Tour, The Last Chance To Dance
Funeral For A Friend have announced the Last Chance To Dance tour, that will take place next year from February to April. Covering everywhere from Australia to the UK, the band have also announced that this tour will be their last after fifteen years as a band. Vocalist Matt Davies-Kreye explained his feelings on this …
News: Stranglers to tour Black and White album in 2016
The Stranglers Spring Tour has become something of an institution over the last few years. Successive outings have seen the band play to fuller and larger venues, as the they take their unique blend of intelligent, aggressive and down-to-earth sound around Britain. Sometimes the band have a new album to showcase, something an anniversary to …
Psych Insight: News, Fire Records at the Liverpool PsychFest
It is less than two weeks to go until the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia and I must admit that I am feeling a little overwhelmed by the number of bands I want to check out before I get there. While I always come away from the event feeling like I have had a brilliant …
News: Damaged Goods to release Thee Headcoats singles compilation
Formed by the irrepressibly prolific Billy Childish out of the ashes of his previous band Thee Mighty Ceasars, Thee Headcoats – Childish (Git/Vox) Bruce Brand (Drums) and Johnny Johnson (bass), formed in 1989 they’d already released something like 6 albums and 15 singles by 1992. Continuing at a pace, they released handfuls more records – …
News: Bring Me The Horizon announce two album signings at Sheffield and Manchester HMV
Sheffield’s own Bring Me The Horizon have announced two signings in support of new album That’s The Spirit out tomorrow (11th Sept). The signings are to take place at Sheffield and Manchester HMV at 12:30 and 16:30 respectively on Sunday 13th September. After their triumphant sub-headline sets at Reading and Leeds last month, the South …
News: Nordic Giants announce 7 Depths of conciousness tour
Quite why Nordic Giants aren’t the biggest thing in music right now is a mystery to me. Situated somewhere between Mogwai and Sigur Ros, their recent debut album A Séance Of Dark Delusions, released earlier in the year through Kscope showed that the mysterious UK (not Nordic at all) band could make soundscapes and beguiling …
Tour News: Prides announce Autumn 2015 UK tour dates
If you haven’t heard of Prides by now then I’d have to wonder what kind of rock you’ve been living under. The synth-pop band released their debut album The Way Back Up in July, reaching #24 in the UK album charts, then headed out to T in the Park, Belladrum, and Reading and Leeds festivals …
News: We preview Reverence Valada Festival 2015
Tomorrow starts one of the most novel and exciting music events happening in Portugal at the moment, Reverence Valada Festival. After last year’s excellent first edition of the festival, expectations have been overcome with this year’s more ecclectic but equally fresh line up of artists who will be performing on the 27th, the 28th and …