Local lads Mojo Fury are releasing their album on May 9 – we can’t wait! If you want to be in with the chance of partying Mojo style in the Spring & Airbrake next month then just leave a comment below saying “I <3 PANIC DOTS” using your REAL NAME and REAL EMAIL ADDRESS. Winner will be picked at random May 1st!
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Mojo are offering another support slot for this gig, if you’re game email the lads with a link to your music: mojo_fury@hotmail.com
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8pm Doors / 18+ Only
Tickets £16 + Booking Fee go onsale Friday 18th February, available from http://www.shine.net The Kittern Bar, QUB SU, http://www.ticketmaster.ie and Ticketmaster Outlets Nationwide.
Scottise indie-superstars Glasvegas have announced club dates for 2011 taking in a show at Mandela Hall in Belfast on April 27th. These will follow the release of their highly anticipated second album ‘Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\’.
The first single from the album ’Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\’, ‘Take My Hand’ was Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record’ on Radio 1, as was the previously available download ‘The World Is Yours’. The new single is released physically and as a download EP on 28th March and the album follows a week later (4th April).
Their eponymous debut was one of 2008′s breakthrough LPs, featuring hit singles “Daddy’s Gone” and “Geraldine”, and reaching No. 2 in the UK Album Charts. Their new LP is one of this year’s most eagerly anticipated releases.
“If The Libertines defined the start of the decade and Arctic Monkeys its middle, then Glasvegas are almost certainly going to define its end and beyond”. NME.
We have a pair of tickets to ASIWYFA’s Belfast album launch show! All you gotta do is leave a comment below this. The winner will be picked by my mother at random on April 23rd at 9pm.
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Yessss! Cold War Kids are back in Belfast and we have a set of tickets to give away to one lucky person courtesy of the lovely guys at CDC.
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Competition closes Friday 1st May! So you have plenty of time to get your entry in! Good luck to all!
We are lucky enough to have be allowed to offer someone the chance to meet Starboy Nathan and get a signed T-Shirt from him at his In-Store show!
While in Belfast Nathan treating his fans to three performances, not only will be be performing with N-Dubz in the Waterfront Hall, but he’s hosting an aftershow and single release party at Club Eivissa on April 16th. Earlier that day he’s also appearing at DV8, Castle Place, to perform Diamonds and meet fans at a signing.
UK R&B sensation Starboy Nathan is back, primed and ready to burst into the charts to resume his rightful place, after a brief hiatus from the limelight.
New smash-hit single, Diamonds, combines Starboy Nathan’s smooth vocals with a stripped back R&B beat, creating a soul–infused love song which looks to be a surefire hit.
Starboy Nathan commented “I wrote ‘Diamonds’ to express the feeling when you want to do anything and everything you can for the person that you’re with. Less about the diamond itself, ‘Diamonds’ is more of a metaphor for the gesture behind it”
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Bread And Circuses
The new album released Monday 14th March
Having been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2007 with their debut ‘Hats Off To The Buskers’ and then followed that up with their critically-acclaimed sophomore album ‘Which Bitch?’ in 2009, The View will release their third album ‘Bread And Circuses’ on Monday 14th March.
Featuring the free download ‘Sunday,’ complete with a synth/drum machine opening that was made available in November to coincide with the band’s sold out UK tour as well as first single proper ‘Grace,’ a raucous and anthemic tour-du-force that is sure to soundtrack the summer ahead, ‘Bread And Circuses’ sees The View back to their most gripping and exuberant best.
Overseen by producer Youth (The Verve’s ‘Urban Hymns’) – the first two albums having been produced by Owen Morris – this album saw The View decamp to London’s Britannia Studios for the first time with a whole batch of songs ready to go. “Youth had us recording strictly 11am-11pm,” says vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Kyle Falconer. “With Owen [Morris] we created the album in the studio. This time we went in with 30 tracks to work with. We’ve also got an addition to our band in Darren Rennie who’s a childhood friend of ours. He plays keyboards and sings which has enabled us to work with 5 part harmonies on the record. We’ve dreamt of being able to do that.” This is none more evident than on ‘Blondie,’ a thrilling, jaunty, Fleetwood Mac-esque whirl or the final track ‘Best Lasts Forever’ that, as well as including a spoken word intro from the 60s activist, poet and ex-MC5 manager John Sinclair, also finds the band harnessing those vocal harmonies and bringing them to the fore.
It’s not only the addition of a keyboardist to the ranks and vocal harmonies that have changed for The View on this record. With a new producer came new guidelines to the recording process that had previously been absent. Says Kyle: “Youth picked us up on the articulation in the lyrics which beforehand – when we sounded more punky – we didn’t care about. People complained they couldn’t understand us on the second album and so he kept us on our toes with the pronunciation.”
“We’ve been experimenting with sobriety and consciousness on this album, the rest of the band are singing more and the piano has become one of the main instruments of the song writing which opens up a lot of doors,” adds Kyle. “There’s a more consistent sound than ‘Which Bitch?’ as a lot of shit was going on during the recording of that album. Everything just seems to be clicking in the studio, we never had to search for inspiration.
“When we were writing the album we had the idea of being like clowns in a circus, maybe in the same way Kasabian were ‘lunatics in the asylum’ for their last album. This came about when we realised that everyone we meet sees us as entertainers first and normal guys second. It seems obvious now but it’s not something you grow up thinking about necessarily.”
The centre point of the album is ‘Life,’ an epic, orchestral ballad – with the string arrangement coming courtesy of the London Royal Philharmonic – that is undoubtedly the most poignant yet uplifting and heartfelt song the band have ever written. With a sublime and tear-jerking chorus, it shows a tender side to the band that has never been seen before. “That’s dedicated to my mum,” says Kyle. “I actually wrote that before she passed away. My dad died when I was 16 and I used to torture myself with thoughts of my mum meeting another man. When she passed away I got the song back on the go.”
Referring to the title of the album, Kyle explains it came from discovering Tropicalia and the bands associated with the genre whilst on holiday. “They were talking about how politics was affecting their writing and what was allowed to be written about, what would appeal to the masses, what the government allowed. Some bands felt like they were just being used as clowns by the government to get a particular message across to the people and stop them asking any important questions about how the country was being run. The phrase ‘Bread and Circuses’ comes from Roman times. If the powers-that-be can keep the masses well enough entertained and fed then people will generally just get on with dally life and not think too much about how the world around them works.
“We were going to call the record ‘The Best Lasts Forever,’ meaning that no matter what message is in your music, if it’s good enough then in five, ten, 100 years time people will still like it no matter what is happening in the world. There was a thing about having an album track title as the album title so that’s why we decided to have the last minute switch. We can only apologise to the fan that got ‘The Best Lasts Forever’ tattooed on him last week before we changed our minds!”
