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Gravenhurst plays 'Flashlight Seasons' - Ten Year Anniversary Tour
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To celebrate a decade of work on Warp Records, Gravenhurst announces a UK and European tour playing the album 'Flashlight Seasons' in full.
The first release with Warp was 2004's 'Flashlight Seasons' and for these special shows, Nick Talbot will be joined by Claire Adams and Rachel Lancaster, who form the regular Gravenhurst live band, to perform 'Flashlight Seasons' in its entirely, followed by material picked from the other albums.
The tour accompanies the reissue of the two classic albums, 'Flashlight Seasons' and 'Black Holes In The Sand', and an additional new album: 'Offerings: Lost Songs 2000 – 2004', a compilation of unreleased material from that period. Released on 1st December 2014, the three albums will be pressed on vinyl accompanied with digital download codes and essays by Nick reflecting on this early material after a decade of progress. A triple CD release will comprise all three albums. All available HERE
20 Nov – VIENNA, Bluebird Festival (tickets)
27 Nov – ROME, Chiesa Metodista (tickets)
28 Nov – RAVENNA, Bronson (tickets)
04 Dec – LEEDS, Belgrave Music Hall (tickets)
07 Dec – NEWCASTLE, Cluny (tickets)
08 Dec – MANCHESTER, Gullivers (tickets)
09 Dec – LONDON, Scala (tickets)
10 Dec – BRISTOL, Fleece (tickets)
Ex Hex UK Dates
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Washington DC based Ex Hex play their debut U.K. dates in February next year:
Feb 10 Oslo London
Feb 11 Brudenell Social Club Leeds
Feb 12 The Soup Kitchen Manchester
Feb 13 Broadcast Glasgow
Feb 14 Louisiana Bristol
Feb 15 The Green Door Store Brighton
Tickets are on sale now from usual agents
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - Acorn Man
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Wild Billy Childish & CTMF are back Hot on the heels of their recent ‘Punk Rock Enough For Me’ single is the band’s second long player, Acorn Man.
Billy Childish is an international cult figure, painter, poet and novelist. He has released over 120 independent albums and influenced a vast range of musicians over that time. He has also painted 2,000 odd paintings, written 4 novels and penned 40 plus collections of his poetry.
His latest band is CTMF. Billy’s description of their sound holds true - “the epitome of modern” and their sound as “the sound of yesterday, tomorrow.” All of their records are released under the moniker CTMF.
Acorn Man has been described as one of Billy's most accessible LPs to date, so now may be the time to 'dip your toes in the water'. Acorn Man will be released on 8th December 2014 via Damaged Goods.
Black Label Society - 2015 UK Tour Dates
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Following on from their highest ever UK charting album ‘Catacombs of the Black Vatican’ via Mascot Label Group earlier this year, Black Label Society, have announced their 2015 tour dates.
Zakk Wylde along with Dario Lorina (Guitar), John DeServio (Bass) and Jeff Fabb (Drums) will play eight dates in the UK next year.
WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY- O2 ABC, GLASGOW Tickets
THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY- THE INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM Tickets
FRIDAY 13 FEBRUARY- THE ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON Tickets
SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY- O2 ACADEMY, BRISTOL Tickets
SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY- O2 ACADEMY, LEEDS Tickets
TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY- UEA, NORWICH Tickets
WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY- ROCK CITY, NOTTINGHAM Tickets
THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY- MANCHESTER ACADEMY Tickets
Sleater-Kinney - Boxset - New LP & UK & Ireland dates
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The legend that is Sleater-Kinney returns to action in 2015 with the band releasing a new album , 'No Cities To Love' on 1th January. A career-spanning vinyl box set 'Start Together' is also released this week.
The big new however is that the band will also undertake a U.S. & European tour with the UK and Ireland dates shown below;
London, Roundhouse 23rd March
Manchester, Albert Hall 24th March
Glasgow, O2 ABC 25th March
Dublin, Vicar Street 26th March
The Crookes UK Tour & Low remix
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Low have put together a remix of The Crookes' 'Echolalia', "It's a great tune," said Alan Sparhawk of Low, "we figured we had to go somewhere completely different to do it justice". The song is from the band's third LP, Soapbox, released earlier this year on fierce panda records.
The Sheffield quartet are currently on a U.S. wrapping in New York this week at the annual CMJ Music festival..The Crookes perform Tuesday, October 21 at Rough Trade for the "Music is GREAT/Ben Sherman" showcase (11pm) and play Fontana's, Wednesday, October 22 in the afternoon, at the Pirate Radio CMJ party (2:45pm).
Following that comes a UK tour in support of forthcoming single 'Howl' / 'When You're Fragile', out Monday 24th November.
UK TOUR DATES
Sun 23th Nov - Jericho Tavern, Oxford - tickets
Mon 24th Nov - The Ferret, Preston - tickets
Tue 25th Nov - Arts Club, Liverpool - tickets
Wed 26th Nov - Norwich Waterfront Studio, Norwich - tickets
Thu 27th Nov - Sound Control, Manchester - tickets
Fri 28th Nov - Wardrobe, Leeds - tickets
Sat 29th Nov - Westgarth 2, Middlesbrough - tickets
Sun 30th Nov - The Victoria Inn, Derby -tickets
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