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The Telescopes announce new London date

Stewart — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:17:10 +0000

The Telescopes have announced a one-off gig in London next week at Corsica Studios on Sunday 27 November.

The gig is followed by some Japanese dates in early 2012.

You can find a Facebook event page for the gig by clicking here.

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Ride and Swervedriver feature in new Oxford film

Stewart — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:00:02 +0000

For a city of its size, Oxford seems to produce a large amount of bands. A film now has set out to give the history of the city’s music scene from Talulah Gosh in the 80′s to currently successful bands such as Radiohead and Foals. Along the way there were many other bands such as Five Thirty, Supergrass, Ride and Swervedriver.

To celebrate the films release there’s a UK tour lined up for November 2011 including a Q&A with Ride lead singer/guitarist Mark Gardener and video director Jon Spira. The dates are as follows:

4th – London BFI Southbank SOLD OUT
9th – Hereford Courtyard Arts Centre
15th – Oxford Phoenix Picturehouse
17th – Sheffield Showroom Workstation
18th – Nottingham Broadway
22nd – Preston Continental
25th – Leeds Hyde Park Picture House
26th – Bristol Watershed
29th – Edinburgh Cameo

The film is narrated by cult comedian Stewart Lee and was made completely independently by film-maker and music video director Jon Spira over the course of three years.

For more information visit the Anyone Can Play guitar website.

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BBC to host Creation Records night

Stewart — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:53:55 +0000

BBC Four is to host a Creation Records night next Friday (28 October 2011). Alongside ‘Upside Down’ there will also be a ‘Creation at the BBC’ compilation featuring performances from many of the labels acts. There will also be a repeat of the 2009 documentary about Rough Trade.

The schedule for the evening is as follows:

21:00 – Upside Down: The Creation Story Profile of the UK’s most inspired and dissolute independent record label, Creation. Repeated at 3am

22:40 – Creation at the BBC With My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Oasis, Ride, Boo Radleys and Teenage Fanclub. Repeated at 2am

00:30 – Do it Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade Documenting the history of Rough Trade, from small record shop to successful record label. (R)

You can view the full schedule for the evening on the BBC website by clicking here.

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Mani returns to The Stone Roses

Stewart — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:48:06 +0000

After 15 years Mani is set to return to The Stone Roses as the classic line-up of the band reunite for a new album and world tour next year.

From their press conference this afternoon in Manchester, Granada Reports has tweeted that Mani has stated “it’s heart breaking to leave Primal Scream, but they’ve allowed me to follow my dream. I’m so grateful.”

The band have so far announced two dates in Manchester at Heaton Park on June 29th and 30th next year.

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Lawrence from Felt interviews Pete Astor

Stewart — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:14:50 +0000

Following the release of his sixth solo album ‘Songbox’, Pete Astor (The Loft/Weather Prophets) was recently interviewed by Lawrence from Felt and this has been made into two short films by director Paul Kelly. You can watch the interview below.

The new Pete Astor album marks a change in direction from his more experimental, post-Creation work in groups such as Ellis Island Sound and the Wisdom of Harry. Backed by the woodwinds of Keiron Phelan (State River Widening, Phelan-Sheppard) and Jenny Brand (Kluster Ensemble), together with layers of guitars, drums and keyboards from David Sheppard (State River Widening, Ellis Island Sound) and supported by the harmony vocals of Angèle David-Guillou (Piano Magic, Klima), the eleven essays on Songbox offer an abundance of lushly arranged, timeless chamber-rock, brimming with wry lyrical insight and haunting melodic hooks.

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Pete Fijalkowski and Terry Bickers announce debut London date

Stewart — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:37:05 +0000

Pete Fijalkowski (Adorable) and Terry Bickers (House of Love) are playing their debut London gig on October 22nd at Club AC30 @ Wilmington Arms, Clerkenwell, London. Doors 8pm Tickets £7 adv. Support from ‘&’ (who is the ‘&’ from Fujiya & Miyagi) + Club AC30 Djs. Tickets are £7 available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/129949 or details from www.clubac30.com.

2 days before on the 20th October, they’re also playing a warm-up gig with ‘&’ again in Brighton, supporting Hollow Moon at The Latest Music Bar, Brighton. Tickets are available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131719.

At the time of writing this post, the duo are adding the finishing touches to the album with mixing to start this week. As soon as there’s any news on a release date we’ll let you know.

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Explore the new Jesus and Mary Chain reissues

Stewart — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:21:33 +0000

Click on the interactive image below to view the booklets and listen to the new Jesus and Mary Chain reissues, very, very good they are too.
You can order the albums by clicking here.

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Creation albums to be reissued on vinyl

Stewart — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:48:50 +0000

Several albums have been reissued this summer on vinyl from the likes of Slowdive, Teenage Fanclub and Primal Scream.

The albums have been repressed on 180-grams audiophile vinyl by Dutch record label Music On Vinyl whom have previously repressed classic albums from other acts such as Sly & The Family Stone, The Clash and Bob Dylan. These releases will be a great relief to many people as some of these have been hard to find for many years.

The first two albums by Slowdive are available to order. ‘Just For A Day‘ has just been released and will be followed on August 1st by ‘Souvlaki‘.

Teenage Fanclub’s 1991 classic ‘Bandwagonesque‘ was released last month.

Finally, ‘Exterminator‘ and ‘Vanishing Point‘ by Primal Scream have been released alongside the bands 2002 major label debut ‘Evil Heat‘.

All albums can be ordered by clicking on the album titles above.

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Pete Fijalkowski contributes to Kratzke album

Stewart — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:37:59 +0000

Ex-Adorable lead singer Pete Fijalkowski features on a track from German Electronica artist Kratzke which is due for release next month.

The track (which is below for you to hear) is taken from the album ‘Bäume ragen in die Fahrbahn’ (which translated means Trees Looming Over The Roadway) and is described as “27 minutes with closed eyes along guardrails, under pylons, on roadways and hidden in the surrounding forests and fields”.

The album is to be released as a CD Digipack which is strictly limited to 100 copies and can be pre-ordered by clicking here.

BÄUME RAGEN IN DIE FAHRBAHN by KRATZKE

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart name Creation bands as influences

Stewart — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:58:38 +0000

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart recently spoke to Stereogum about their influences and Adorable and the House of Love were two of the bands featured. The band recently released their second album ‘Belong’ which was produced by Alan Moulder who worked with Ride, My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver in the early 90′s.

Extracts of the article are below:

01 Adorable – “Homeboy”
While most of their British contemporaries were busy layering guitars with innumerable effects, perfecting gentle falsettos and otherwise causing the word “ethereal” to be one of the great cliche adjectives in music journalism, this English band seemed to draw (some) inspiration from the rugged dynamics and vulnerable howls of The Pixies. I can see merit in both schools of thought, but this song is pretty undeniable. Bonus points for the least appropriate appropriation of the term “homeboy.” Also, this track was mixed by Alan Moulder – nice!

03 The House of Love – “Destroy The Heart”
This is another dubious Creation Records band, but at least early on,they were incredible. “Christine” and “Shine On” are hits, sure, but “Destroy the Heart” is probably an accidental influence on any good song we ever wrote (if there are any). It’s weird to cite them as an influence, as they were super hyped and tore up the indie charts, then tried to be the next U2 and made a series of disastrous decisions that found themselves critically and commercially obsolete faster than you can say, “The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.”

Oh well, we don’t reside on a mountain made of Class A narcotics and take limos on the label’s dime to the recording studio/corner store/everywhere. We should be ok, right?

You can read the full article by clicking here.

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