New Acts At Reading & Leeds

The best of the 50 new additions to the line up:

Friday
The Music
Hadouken!
Lightspeed Champion
Cajun Dance Party
Yeasayer
The Metros
CSS
Simian Mobile Disco
Crystal Castles
Lethal Bizzle
Holy Fuck
The Whip
Robots In Disguise

Saturday
Jack Penate
One Night Only
The Duke Spirit
Be Your Own PET
Blood Red Shoes
Make Model
British Sea Power

Sunday
The Automatic
Seasick Steve
The Ting Tings
The Mystery Jets
Santogold
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
Bombay Bicycle Club


Get the full line up at Leedsfestival.com/lineup, or change Leeds to Reading if that's where you're heading.

The Best Of Glastonbury

Thursday
Roisin Murphy
One Night Only
Santogold
Glasvegas
Make Model

Friday
Kings of Leon
The Fratellis
Editors
The Gossip
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
The Enemy
We are Scientists
Foals
Vampire Weekend
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Young Knives
The Holloways
Captain
Team Waterpolo
The Cribs
Reverend and the Makers
The Kills
MGMT
The Ting Tings
Lightspeed Champion
Make Model
The Thirst
Pete Doherty
Dizzee Rascal
The Duke Spirit
Operator Please
Sons & Daughters
Fatboy Slim
Estelle
Infadels

Saturday
Jay-Z
The Raconteurs
Seasick Steve
The Hold Steady
Hot Chip
The Wombats
Neon Neon
Black Kids
The Pigeon Detectives
Biffy Clyro
The Futureheads
Band of Horses
The Black Lips
The Courteneers
British Sea Power
Holy Fuck
The Teenagers
CSS
Battles
Simian Mobile Disco
Metronomy
XX TEENS
Pendulum (DJ set)

Sunday
The Verve
Jack Penate
Elbow
Crystal Castles
Stars
Friendly Fires
The Whip
Yeasayer
Dirty Pretty Things
The Mystery Jets
Does It Offend You, Yeah?


Get the full line up at Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/performance.

Latest Gigs/Festival News

Gigs
There's a free, all ages gig in the basement of Zavvi in the Arndale this Saturday (3rd May) at 2pm. Blueprint To A Downfall, Veils, Skin The Pig and Seiren will be playing.
One Night Only - Friday 24th October - on sale Friday 2nd May at 9am
Paul Weller - Tuesday 18th November - MEN Arena (you can get priority tickets from Ticketline.co.uk/artist/details/paul-weller, but general sale is tomorrow at 9am)




Festivals
Load. Click. Shoot! will be playing the Great Escape at The Water Margin on Thursday 15th May at 1.30pm. It may be early, but they plan to make it a good show. Accidents Never Happen will also be joining them.

Michael Eavis is pointing to thousands of ladybirds taking up residence in Glastonbury as a sure sign of a hot summer, shaping up for much better weather than last year's disastrous affair. The full line up for this year's event was released this week. I've put the highlights in a separate blog due to the sheer volume of acts. Get the full line up at Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/performance.

50 new acts were added to the Reading & Leeds line up this week. For the same reasons as Glastonbury, the best are in a separate blog. Get the full line up at Leedsfestival.com/lineup, or change Leeds to Reading if that's where you're heading.

If you want to go the the festivals for free, Oxfam are now recruiting for festival campaigners. Opportunities are available at Glastonbury, Bestival, Leeds, etc. You have to wear a brightly coloured thing and hassle people for their email addresses, but that's not all the time - you still get to see loads of bands. You can apply at Oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/stewarding.

Bloc Party have announced their playing at the following festivals this year: Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL; Fillmore Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Webster Hall, New York NY; V Festival, Baltimore, MD; Highfield Festival, Hohenfelden, DE; Marlay Park, Dublin; Reading Festival; Leeds Festival; V Festival, Toronto, CA. So a load of foreign dates basically, but still.

Making Waves

The best I've had all week.

MEGATRON
Who?: “One. Sometimes Two. & a laptop.”
Where?: Essex
When?: February 2008
What?: Big, Pendulum style synths, no words, just rhythms. Electro dance.
Listen to: Pull The Trigger
If you like MEGATRON, you might like: Pendulum

Myspace.com/megatronwillkillusall









BANG! BANG! ECHE!
Who?: T’Nealle (bass/synth/guitar), Czarek (guitar/synth), Pez (synth, bass, guitar), James (bass drum / hats / snare /Yamaha dd55c drum machine)
Where?: Christchurch, Auckland,
New Zealand
What?: Synth fun, good basslines, electro
If you like BANG! BANG! ECHE!, you might like: Late Of The Pier

Myspace.com/bandbangeche



JAGUAR LOVE
Who?: J Clark - Drums, Bass, Keyboards. Cody Votolato - Guitar, Bass. Johnny Whitney - Vocals, Piano.
Where?: US
When?: August 2007
What?: “Other” indeed.
Listen to: Bats Over The Pacific Ocean
If you like JAGUAR LOVE, you might like: Billy Talent, Blood Brothers, The Mars Volta

Myspace.com/jaguarloveband

Free Futureheads Downloads

You can download two versions of The Futureheads' comeback single, 'Beginning Of The Twist' from Rcrdlbl.com/artists/The_Futureheads/music.

The first is live from King's College, London. It starts off quite funny sounding and quiet, but pretty much turns into a more enthusiastic version of the single.
The second is 'The Futureheads vs. Atephoald' - so a mash up. It's a bit overwhelming with noise and percussion, and by the end the vocals are all fused together and jumpy, but certainly worth a listen if you're curious on that sort of thing.

Good Shoes Blog

A man called Carl told Good Shoes to start a blog, so they did.
The unusually titled 'Boxers Baby' will feature clips of new songs, videos, photos and whatever else else occurs from their song writing and recording ventures. Rhys put a picture of his feet and some green... stuff up there last night.
Have a look at Goodshoes-theboxersbaby.blogspot.com.

Ting Tings Soundtrack iTunes Ad

iTunes have selected "Shut Up and Let me Go" as the song for their new advert - so local kids, The Ting Tings, are all over American TV.
Katie says: "It's really exciting, we love the iPod adverts, they look great. It's really funny how we got it... we played South by South West in Austin, Texas and I fainted onstage. We had another gig an hour later and we almost pulled out of it because I was so ill. We managed to play three songs and by the last one I was shaky again, but apple loved it. We so nearly didn't play that gig. So glad we did now ( : "

Does It Offend You Video

Here's a video from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, California, that captures some of the madness that is 'We Are Rockstars' live:

Cajun Dance Party B Side

You can now listen to 'The Parachute', the B-side to Cajun Dance Party's new single, 'The Race', (in full and everything) at Cajundanceparty.com/releases by scrolling down a bit and clicking on the little pink speaker next to the track.
It's all pianos and soft; a slow song to contrast the faster single I suppose.

Charity Single Featuring Drew McConnell

Babyshambles bassist, Drew McConnell, recently performed on the 'Consequences' track for the homeless charity Crisis, and the single is out now as a CD, limited edition 7" picture disc & download. The track features all sorts of people, including Paul Weller, Beth Ditto, Supergrass, The Enemy, Graham Coxon, Ed Harcourt and New Young Pony Club, and is built around the parlour game ‘consequences’, in which participants write a story or draw a figure without seeing each other’s input, so each part of the song – drums, bass, guitar, vocals, etc. – was recorded by artists unaware of what had been laid down before (however it seems very unlikely that all of these parts weren't made to fit together afterwards). The song itself isn't all that great, but all proceeds from the record go to Crisis – (Crisisconsequences.com).
Here's a very "Hello, my name is...", Live Aid-style video:

Hadouken! Live Album Stream

Yesterday, there was a live streaming of Hadouken!'s debut album from a secret location in London, accompanied by a live webchat. So you could have gone to Myspace.com/hadoukenuk from 7pm to watch it. However, if you're as slow as I am, you probably missed this short notice announcement. But never fear, you can watch it again and read the webchat here:

New Releases

Singles
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Look For The Woman
The Delays – Hooray
Ebony Bones – Don’t Fart On My Heart (7”) [Limited]
Hadouken! – Declaration Of War
Los Campesinos! – My Year In Lists (7”)
One Night Only - It's About Time
Pendulum – Propane Nightmares
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It (7”)
White Lies - Unfinished Business (7”) [Limited]


Albums
Cajun Dance Party – The Colourful Life
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
Duels – The Barbarians Move In
Portishead – Third

Friendly Fires Street Team

For the upcoming NME New Noise Tour, featuring Friendly Fires, the band are after a street team for the Manchester Academy 2 show on 12th May. You just have to go round collecting email addresses and generally harrassing the queue, and in return you and a friend get free entry into the gig. Email Stephanie@cecmanagement.com with your name, mobile number, age and where you would like to street team if you're interested.

Johnny Foreigner Drop Out Of ¡Forward, Russia! Show

This is a bit late, but provides an explanation of absense.
"We're not playing Manchester with Forward Russia! tonight [27th April]. Because we lost our passports. Because were dicks. We've spent the whole day making broken English with various little hitlersssss in order to get some photocopy of a fax of a form to allow us back into our own stupid country. Kerrang! bizarrely counts as photo-id. Sorry manchester people. If you bought a ticket to come see us, tell us and we'll somehow make it up to you."

Babyshambles Roses Kings Castles - Second Chance

Due to popular demand, Adam (Ficek - drummer) has kindly pressed another 500 Roses Kings Castles CDs. These are extremely rare, and free, so get a move on if you want one.
To get one, send a stamped, self addressed envelope (an envelope inside an envelope - strong enough for your cd) to:
Roses Kings Castles
PO Box 55152
London
N12 0YJ
Make sure you have enough postage to get your cd sent back to you.

Write Lyrics For Pull Tiger Tail

There is a competition on Bebo where you could win the chance to get your lyrics made into a song for Pull Tiger Tail - you write the words, they write the music - as well as £100 worth of Penguin Books. The lyrics should be on the theme of friendship lost and the writer of best entry will travel down to London to watch the song being recorded. To enter, send your lyrics by Bebo mail to Bebo.com/blackrabbitsummer by 20th June.
There are lyric-writing tips from the band and the author of the book the whole competition is in celebration of, at Spinebreakers.co.uk.