Gigs Announced This Week

Mystery Jets - Night & Day - 13th April
Hadouken! - Academy 1 - 5th May
Dirty Pretty Things - Ritz - 20th May
The Wombats - Apollo - 29th May

More soon!

Cajun Dance Party - Two Albums

It seems that the release of one album in 2008 simply will not suffice for Cajun Dance Party. Their debut, 'The Colourful Life', which features such wonderful songs as 'The Next Untouchable', 'Amylase' and 'The Race', is due on 28th April, and is soon to be followed up by a second album later this year. The boys, who are still finishing school, apparently had such a good time recording that they simply couldn't wait to start laying down and playing new tracks. Their eagerness to be forever releasing new material has them sounding a bit like Alex Turner if you ask me.

Hadouken!'s 'Aerials'

Now I'm not the world's biggest Hadouken! fan, but this got my attention. It seems that if you pre-order their new album in limited box set form with a picture book and the possibility of it being signed, you also get yourself a year's membership to something they are, for some reason, calling 'Aerials". Basically you get free tickets to fan club gigs and their own festival (which is intriguing), priority on normal tours and a pile of limited edition merchandise and rare tracks.
This sounds like a pretty good deal, particularly if, like me, you can't resist free stuff, but for £24, an incomprehensible amount of money to one as poor as myself, it's difficult to see anyone who isn't a major groupie going for it. An interesting attempt at distracting the illegal downloaders, but it seems unlikely that pre-ordering will be much of a hit with a generation growing up with free and instant music.