Barely Worth A Mention

Telegram From The Queen have a new track up at Myspace.com/telegramfromthequeen called 'Scream'.

This is The Courteeners' new video for 'That Kiss':

Latest Gigs

Peter Doherty - Friday 3rd October - Ritz
The Research - Saturday 1st November - Roadhouse
Duncan Lloyd (Maximo Park) - Thur 11th December - Night & Day
The Ting Tings - Thursday 26th February 2009 - Apollo (on sale Friday 19th September)
The Enemy - Saturday 21st March & Sunday 22nd March 2009 - Academy 1 (on sale Friday 19th September)

And Rolo Tomassi have been announced as supports for Blood Red Shoes.

Channel M Sessions

Channel M have the following bands in for sessions in the next few weeks:
Johnny Foreigner. Wednesday 24th September, 2:00pm - 3:00pm.
Fujiya And Miyagi. Thursday, 25th September, 2:00pm - 3:00pm.
Jeremy Warmsley. Thursday, 9th October, 2:00pm - 3:00pm.

You can go down to the studio in Urbis and be the little huddle of awkward-looking people watching them perform for free if you email guestlist@channelm.co.uk saying you want to come along.

Hadouken! Intice Voters

Hadouken! have been nominated for ‘Best Electronic Artist or DJ’ and ‘Breakthrough Artist of the Year’. If you vote for them at BTDMA.com/index.php/dma08/voting/ they’ll send you the Noisia remix of ‘Crank It Up’.
It's a bit of an effort though. You have to take a screen shot of your voting confirmation and send it to Hadouken@atlanticrecords.co.uk, then they’ll email you the track.

Whoopsadaisy

Yannis, lead singer of Foals, posted a blog at Myspace.com/foals about Las Vegas and good (+) and bad (-) things that happened over the summer, entitled 'Whoopsadaisy'... Here it is:


hi wider world,
and our semi-concerned parents who may / may not be reading this
we are in Vegas. right now..i'm up $150 everyone else is down.

watching The Karate Kid and thinking that i'd kinda wanna be him..
rather than me.
i mean he learns banzai
while we eat American fastfood for real.


with a bag of whitewidow and Tago Mago amd Jimmy's playlists blasting on the speakers we drove yesterday through the Nevada desert...it was one of the best times.


we're all looking and feeling a bit harrowed as documented in Jack's FOALSFOTO blog (Myspace.com/foals) yesterday.

but we met some lovely people in Salt Lake City and Colorado and besides we play better tired.


up until h e r e proves i can't really write real sentences so i'm gonna do a digest:

+ All the festivzls we've played at this summer. You've been lovely.. we've been unhinged.


- Bestival weather.
and my search for a 'friend' through the campsite-cum-disaster area
where i dropped my phone and my soul. picked them up. wiped them on my sleeve.
you
get the idea...

+ My Bloody Valentine from side of stage. My Bloody Valentine at Electric Picnic. My Bloody Valenine out front. My Bloody Valentine period.


- our hair pact growing thing. it just fucking sucks really.


+ covering Holy Fuck's "super inuit" for a split limited 12". i think they're doing "balloons".


- getting heckled as "The Jonas Brothers'

+ AAAAHAHAHAA

- Sarah Palin attempts to ban " Brave New World".
are you SERIOUS?

+ writing more and more and more new stuff.


- all of Britain's bees, both bumble and regular, dying out.


+ UK tour. almost here.....!!

anyway i'm gonna go back down and play some more blackjack.
wish me luck
same as ever
yannis

p.s. the men in suits would probably like me to plug our new last single from antidotes. Olympic Airways. yeah buy it. and then we can make another record. peace.



Currently listening :
Live 1974
By Harmonia
Release date: 2007-10-01

Johnny Foreigner Videos

Here is a serious of videos Johnny Foreigner have stuck up at Myspace.com/johnnyforeigner, in celebration of their tour with Dananananaykroyd:

This is a wildly hysterical video of the band discovering, and singing, 'Eyes Wide Terrified' on Japanese karaoke. It's good for if you want to learn all the words.



This is a video for 'Camp Kelly Calm', made by friends of the band with old footage from gigs and practises and stuff.



This is their performance of 'Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes' at Summersonic festival, Japan.



This is the video for 'Salt, Peppa and Spinderella'. It's very good and centres around the lyrics being stuck on their mouths.

In The City Showcases

Here are the line-ups for most of the In The City showcases, though some are yet to be announced.

BBC Introducing
Full line-up TBC

Heavenly Recordings
Cherry Ghost
Edwyn Collins
Loose Salute
Romeo Stodart (The Magic Numbers)
John Head (Shack)
Pete Greenwood

NME (More TBC)
Little Boots
The Joy Formidable
Apes & Androids

Piccadilly Records
‘Great Pop Supplement’
Woodcraft Folk
Beach Fuzz
DA Jaycock Quartet

‘Switchflicker Records & Redbricks’
Magic Arm
Colorama
The Real Dolls

‘Red Deer Club’
Sophie’s Pigeons
Down The Tiny Steps
Sara Lowes

The Warehouse Project & Eat Your Own Ears: The Official ITC Opening Party
Reverend & The Makers
Tricky
The Whip
Late Of The Pier
Midnight Juggernauts
Simian Mobile Disco
Four Tet

Rocksound Magazine
Attack! Attack!
To The Bones
Vessels
The Computers

Channel M
Josh Weller
Jose Vanders
Robots in Disguise
Cheeky Cheeky and The Nosebleeds
The All New Adventures of Us
Situationists
Polly Scattergood
The Molotovs
Stars and Sons
Run Toto Run

FIERCE PANDA
The Spinto Band
Dutch Uncles
Laymar
Airship
Acres Of Lions
Capital

Fear And Records
Data.Select.Party
Dash Delete
ABC Club
¡Forward Russia! DJs
GoodBooks DJs

Clash Magazine
Baddies
Lesser Panda
Innercity Pirates
My Toys Like Me
Clash DJs

Clubland UK
At The Ritz: Line-up TBC

Drowned In Sound (More TBC)
White Denim
Grammatics
Skeletons
Prego

Twisted Nerve
The Liftmen
Sam and The Plants
Andy Votel
Dom Thomas
Doug Shipton
Special Guests

Popjustice
Daggers
Little Boots
Antigone
V V Brown
Tommy Sparks
Red Blooded Women & Popjustice DJs

Lucky Number
Keith
Your Twenties
Micachu and The Shapes
Horsemeat Disco DJs

Brighton Institute Of Modern Music
Mascara
Catapult
Riot Riot

360 Degree Music
Roses Kings Castles
Mozzy Green
Rum Shebeen
Readers Wives
No Picasso
Krakatoa

Circular Productions
A Joker’s Rage
Talk To Angels
D’Nile

Saash Arts
The Scratch
The Molotovs
Verra Cruz

NIMIC (Northern Ireland Music Industry Commission
Panama Kings
Ed Zealous
Cashier No. 9

Big Multimedia And UKBands.net
Ravenface
Kings Parade
Sylva Tha Poet
Phubus

XFM Breakthrough: XFM X-posure Live
Full line-ups TBC

Babycakes
Henry Homesweet
Sabrepulse
Unicorn Kid
Casio Kid
Wroooaar!
Girljoy

Alan McGee’s New Favourite Band: The ITC Closing Party
The Grants
The Sessions
Infa Red
Death Disco DJs



You can now get a limited run of ITC wristbands, which get you into every event for free from Wegottickets.com/inthecity2008. It also gets you 10% off at Piccadilly Records, an iTunes custom card so you can download the ITC Unsigned Album 2008 for free, and a load of other discounts throughout the city.
(Excludes ITC opening party at The Warehouse Project. Entry to all venues is subject to capacity. All line-ups subject to change. ITC Unsigned Album 2008 – containing 45 of our bands - available exclusively on iTunes from September 28th.)

Bands With Videos

Arctic Monkeys have announced a one night only screening on Tuesday 14th October of 'Arctic Monkeys at The Apollo', filmed on the last gig of their 2007 world tour at their Manchester Apollo show in December. Locally, there will be screenings in Blackburn, Bury, Cheshire Oaks, Manchester and Preston. A load of Vue and other independent cinemas in the UK will be hosting the one night only screenings in High Definition with full surround sound and will feature an exclusive, filmed introduction by the band.
Tickets for Vue cinema screenings will go on general sale at 9am on Tuesday 16th September at: Arcticmonkeysattheapollo.com. Tickets for Independent cinema screenings will go on sale at 9am on Monday 22nd September. There's more information at Arcticmonkeysattheapollo.com.
Tracklisting:
Brianstorm
This House Is A Circus
Teddy Picker
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Dancing Shoes
From The Ritz To The Rubble
Fake Tales Of San Francisco
Balaclava
When The Sun Goes Down
Nettles
D Is For Danger
Leave Before The Lights Come On
Fluorescent Adolescent
Still Take You Home
Da Frame 2R
505
Do Me A Favour
A Certain Romance

There is a video of Foals' Yannis backstage at Reading talking about the new tracks and the band's forthcoming new album for 2009 at http://streamos.warnermusic.com/qtime/wmiuk/foals/yannisnewalbum_hi.mov.

This is the video by Maximo Park's Duncan Lloyd for 'Nightfly':



This is Rod Thomas' new video for 'Same Old Lines':

'Same Old Lines' by Rod Thomas

Bands With New Songs

General Fiasco have a new song up at Myspace.com/generalfiasco.

CityLights have two new songs up at Myspace.com/citylightsarecoming. 'This Kite' is quite soft, but still has that bouncy, happy feel. 'The Tale Of The Fool And The Fox' is all off-beat with fast-paced lyrics, and actually sounds quite like The Holloways.

Ice, Sea, Dead People's new song, 'I'm Cat' is on the smalltown america 'blogcast' at Smalltownamericarecords.blogspot.com/2008/09/public-service-blogcast-episode-1_02.html. It's the first song, so it's easy to find, and is packed with the usual noisy guitars, shouty vocals and unexpected bits.

Foals have an exclusive preview of their new B-side 'Glaciers' up at Myspace.com/foals. It has a very ambient feel, with lots of distant vocals and strange noises.

New Releases

Singles
Estelle – Pretty Please
Flobots – Handlebars
Iglu & Hartly – In This City
Jeremy Warmsley – Dancing With The Enemy
Tilly & The Wall - Beat Control / Too Excited

Albums
Captain – Distraction
The Coral – Singles Collection
Little Man Tate – Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy
The Metros – More Money Less Grief
The Streets – Everything Is Borrowed