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ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: Erasure announce new album & May tour dates

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‘World Be Gone’ is the follow up to 2014’s ‘The Violet Flame’, and follows the band’s recent 30th anniversary celebrations.

Their new album sees the award-winning songwriters in a more reflective mood, giving the world and recent political upheavals a thoughtful examination and, as highlighted on the painted artwork showing a ship’s masthead rising up from being submerged in the stormy waters, looking forward to the future.

Explains Vince Clarke, “Obviously the current political climate lends itself to lots of ideas”, Andy Bell continues, “I think there’s an underswell of opinion, and people are slowly waking up. I’m hoping that people will take the album in a positive way, that they’ll use it as optimistic rabble-rousing music.”

Watch the trailer for the new album here: http://po.st/ErasureWBGTrailer

The enduring BRIT and Ivor Novello winning pop duo have released a staggering number of albums, including 5 UK Number 1’s and 17 top 10 singles (35 singles charted in the UK Top 40) and their recent best of, Always, saw Erasure entering the Top 10 album charts once again.

Erasure are delighted to have been invited as special guests on Robbie Williams’ 2017 stadium tour taking place in the summer. Ahead of those dates, Erasure perform three headline shows: 27 May in Glasgow, 28 May in Manchester and 29 May at London’s historic Roundhouse. Full details below.

‘World Be Gone’, written, performed and produced by Erasure and mixed by Matty Green, will be available on CD, ltd edition orange vinyl, regular vinyl & cassette and is available to pre-order now. As a special thank you to fans, everyone who pre-orders the album by 7 April (through the dedicated World Be Gone pre-order site) will get their name included in the album artwork. 500 copies of the album will be signed and all pre-orders give access to the exclusive fan ticket pre-sale for the band’s forthcoming headline shows.

Pre-order now: http://po.st/ErasureStore

WORLD BE GONE TRACKLISTING

Love You To The Sky
Be Careful What You Wish For!
World Be Gone
A Bitter Parting
Still It’s Not Over
Take Me Out Of Myself
Sweet Summer Loving
Oh What A World
Lousy Sum Of Nothing
Just A Little Love

ERASURE HEADLINE TOUR DATES

27 May – Glasgow, 02 Academy
28 May – Manchester Albert Hall
29 May – London Roundhouse

Tickets http://po.st/ErasureLive on sale Friday 3 March

ERASURE TOUR DATES WITH ROBBIE WILLIAMS – 2017

2 June – Manchester, Ethiad Stadium
6 June – Southampton, St Mary’s Stadium
9 June – Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium
13 June – Coventry, Ricoh Stadium
17 June – Dublin, Aviva Stadium
21 June – Cardiff, Ethiad Stadium
23 June – London, Stadium (Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park)

Tickets are on sale now RobbieWilliams.com

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TOUR & EP NEWS: Slingshot Dakota announce May 2017 dates & new EP ‘Broken’

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Pennsylvanian two-piece Slingshot Dakota follow-up last year’s all-too-excellent “Break” LP on Topshelf with two more songs recorded in those same sessions. The unreleased songs make up the “Broken” EP, a 7” co-release between Topshelf Records (US) & Specialist Subject (UK) and its A-side, the cathartic, righteous pop of “Grudge” premieres today over at DIY.

Carly Comando, keys and vocals says this of the track, “I wrote “Grudge” as an ode to all of my experiences in which I have been written off, ignored, spoken over, steamrolled and treated unfairly because of my gender. This song is a way to share this anger with others who feel alienated, whether it’s in their music communities or elsewhere, so that we realize we aren’t alone. I’ve learned to cut toxic people out of my life and to spend less energy on situations that make me unhappy, but I am still constantly battling inequality in the scene I spend most of my time in. This song means as much to me now as it did when I wrote it.”

Slingshot Dakota will head to the UK for their long-awaited first dates there since 2012 to play these shows with Petal (Run For Cover Records):

FULL DATES:

May
6th Bristol – Deadpunk Special
8th Manchester – Retro Bar
9th Glasgow – Hug & Pint
10th Leeds – Wharf Chamber
11th Nottingham – JT Soar
12th Southampton – Joiners
13th London – DIY Space For London
14th Brighton – The Hope

Pre-order the new EP here

SINGLE & TOUR NEWS: Cattle & Cane unveil ‘Make Your Vision’, announce May 2017 dates

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Produced by Luuk Cox at ICP Studios in Brussels and mastered by Frank Arkwright (Arcade Fire, Coldplay, New Order) at Abbey Road Studios in London, ‘Make Your Vision’ pictures sun-drenched scenes with the song’s array of luscious synth swells, catchy percussion and driving bass. Incorporating a sound that borders around legendary acts such as Fleetwood Mac and more modern emergents like Laurel and Joseph, ‘Make Your Vision’ radiates around Helen’s soaring vocals.

Wasting no time in making their mark in 2017, Cattle & Cane are embarking on their own headline tour in May:

Dates

15th April Stockton – Stockton Calling (headlining Georgian Theatre stage)
2nd May Liverpool – Buyers Club
3rd May Glasgow – King Tuts
4th May Gateshead – Sage 2
5th May Birmingham – The Flapper
6th May Leeds – The Wardrobe
7th May Masham – Town Hall
9th May Manchester – Gullivers
10th May Nottingham – Bodega
11th May London – Camden Assembly
12th May Bristol – Louisiana
13th May Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach

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TOUR NEWS: Beans on Toast announces May 2017 dates

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The Down The Pub Tour is a 19-day adventure from Preston to Bridgwater via Plymouth, Hastings and beyond. Paying homage to the classic British mainstay that is the public house and inspired by the song “Down the Pub” from his latest album “A Spanner in The Works” (Dec 2016 Xtra Mile Recordings).

Those who head out for a night down the pub are in for a real treat as the Beans on Toast live show is an odd and unpredictable experience. A singer, storyteller and songwriter his self-deprecating quality is not something you often see, but it breaks down the barrier between musician and audience, creating a sense of equality.

He’s a hippy, a punk, a poet, a drunk, a die-hard romantic and an eternal optimist. Singing simple songs that tackle big issues: Political protest songs for the modern day, honest and open Love songs. Songs that will make you laugh, but also make you think with no holds barred honest lyrics and quick wit.

A fan of touring off the beaten track and visiting some of the country’s overlooked towns, last year Beans on Toast went on his Small Town Celebrations Tour and made a documentary, shining a light on these towns and the local music scenes. The film was premiered at Glastonbury Festival later that year and can now be viewed here: https://youtu.be/IcaA3Ug2CAk

Unfortunately our pubs are under some real stress at present, be it a stupid and completely unrealistic rise in business rates or massive monopoly style corporate buy outs of large breweries, it’s tough times for boozers indeed. This tour is proud to champion the #saveourpubs campaign.

2017 TOUR DATES

4 May PRESTON The Ferret
5 May BRADFORD The New Bee Hive Inn
6 May BOLTON Alma Inn
7 May COVENTRY The Phoenix
9 May MELTON MOWBRAY The Noel Arms
10 May WOLVERHAMPTON Giffard Arms
11 May CARMARTHEN The Friends Arms
17 May IPSWICH The Swan
18 May HERTFORD Dog & Whistle
19 May RAYNE The Swan
20 May HASTINGS The Tub
21 May WHITSTABLE Duke of Cumberland
23 May GLASTONBURY The King Arthur
24 May PLYMOUTH The Junction
25 May WATCHET Pebbles Tavern
26 May BRIDGWATER Cobblestones

Information and tickets for all shows can be found at: www.beansontoastmusic.com

TOUR & ALBUM NEWS: Hayseed Dixie April & May 2017 tour, new album to be released in April

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Hayseed Dixie began one innocent Summer day in 2000 when John Wheeler and Mike Daly drank roughly enough whiskey to float a battleship from the Florida Coast over to Portugal and back and decided to play around in John’s studio. Having spent the previous few years touring around with assorted country hat-acts, John had assembled a proper pile of recording equipment. Thus when he and Mike discovered in their drunken epiphany that the Lost Highway of Reverend Hank Williams and the Highway to Hell of Bishop Bon Scott were indeed the same identical stretch of tarmac, they were well and truly prepared to document this revelation in situ.

East Nashville, Tennessee in the Summer of 2000 was a proper Bohemian party place, and a few friends stopped by, drank some of John’s whiskey, and played and sang on this recording here and there, as was the custom of the times. And ten AC/DC songs were suddenly reimagined and recorded forever anew, entirely reinvented as Appalachian Mountain hillbilly rave-ups. Everyone danced (oh how they danced!) around the studio room and out onto the porch and drank more whiskey. (You should have been there. Really. You should have.)

Now, functioning well as “Exhibit A” in the demonstration of how one’s beginnings rarely know one’s ends, Hayseed Dixie have evolved into a proper force, one that most people either love, hate, or have never heard of. There isn’t really any middle ground, nor should there be. But fourteen albums – consisting of both original material and reinterpretations of previously rendered songs – and global physical *sales in excess of half a million copies, with over 1,200 live shows in 31 different countries testify: Hayseed Dixie are the undisputed creators of the musical genre, Rockgrass. There are many copycats, converts, and disciples out there. Accept no imitations.

And now, holding up their own idiosyncratic mirror to an unsettled and unsettling 2017, Hayseed Dixie offer up their 15th studio album, a collection of both original songs and reinterpretations of R&B and Soul classics. Dance with them as they probe the queries: “Why do we still believe there is such a thing as ‘race’?” “Are concepts like ‘nations’ and ‘nationality’ really useful to people who lay bricks or perform kidney stone surgeries?” and “Why does every song always sound better with a banjo in the mix?” The boys are seeking after the root core categorical commonality that runs like an eternal golden braid throughout all of humanity. Then they will buy it a drink!

Free Your Mind And Your Grass Will Follow is released worldwide on April 14th on Hayseed Dixie Records.

Tracklisting:

Buffalo Soldier (lead track out 7th April)
What’s Going On
Oliver’s Army
Move It In The Night
Ball Of Confusion
So Quickly We Forget
The Ballad Of Curtis Loew
Black Or White
Vom Selbern Stern
A Change Is Gonna Come
When The World Gets Small
Love Train
Ain’t No Country Big Enough

Hayseed Dixie will play the following UK dates throughout April and May:

April

17th Princess Pavilion Falmouth
18th Globe Cardiff
19th Fleece Bristol
20th Concorde2 Brighton
21st The Junction Cambridge
22nd The Garage London
24th Waterfront Norwich
25th Arts Centre Colchester
26th Chinnerys Southend
27th Club Academy Manchester
28th O2 ABC Glasgow
29th Ironworks Inverness
30th Bonfest Kirriemuir

May

2nd Wylam Brewery Newcastle
3rd Welly Hull
4th Brudenell Social Club Leeds
5th Hanger34 Liverpool
6th The Sugarmill Stoke
7th Slade Rooms Wolverhampton
9th Roadmender Northampton
10th The Venue Derby
11th The Plug Sheffield
12th Picturedome Holmfirth

FESTIVAL NEWS: Tramlines Festival 2017 announces official after party lineup

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Tramlines – Sheffield’s inner-city music festival – has revealed the lineup for its official after-parties. Serving up speaker-shaking drum & bass, funk, grime, disco, house and garage are grime MC Bugzy Malone, the flawless Sister Bliss (Faithless DJ Set), three-time MOBO winner Fuse ODG, garage royalty TQD and Artful Dodger, Austrian duo Camo & Krooked, The Streets’ Mike Skinner, drum & bass legends Marky and Zinc, and tons more talent in the form of Coco, Barely Legal, DJ Target, Gotsome, Kideko, Deadbeat, Lowqui and more. From 10pm on Friday 21 July and Saturday 22 July, the Tramlines after-parties can be found at the o2 Academy, The Octagon, and Fusion & Foundry. Tickets are onsale at tramlines.org.uk for just £12 per day or £20 for a weekend pass, while stocks last.

Tramlines is well-known for its genre-busting live music programme, showcasing internationally acclaimed talent alongside the hottest emerging bands. When the sun sets over Sheffield, though, Tramlines is transformed as it takes over the city’s best clubbing spots for two consecutive nights of unadulterated fun.

TQD

For all things garage and grime, head to the o2 Academy on Friday 21 July. The lineup includes TQD – better known individually as Royal-T, DJ Q and Flava D – who will bring a high octane set of classic garage and bassline to the dancefloor. Joining them will be MOBO nominee Bugzy Malone, Sheffield’s own MC Coco, UK garage legend Artful Dodger and DJ Barely Legal. Meanwhile, Sheffield’s finest, including Deadbeat, DR Cryptic and Forca will be appearing in support.

Saturday night at the o2 Academy sees Fuse ODG heading up the bill, as the multi-platinum Ghanaian-born party-starter unleashes hits like Dangerous Love and Light It Up. After road-blocking the o2 Academy at Tramlines 2015, The Streets’ Mike Skinner returns with a record box full of everything from old-skool to hip-hop. Also touching down is Radio 1 Xtra DJ and Roll Deep cornerstone DJ Target and Gotsome, whose edit of Kayne West’s Fade has been spun by Pete Tong and Gorgon City to name just two. Cause & Affect will showcase a blend of tech-house, bassline and garage, while producer/rapper Donaeo will hype up the crowds with his latest single Black, which features JME and former Tramlines headliner Dizzee Rascal.

Mike Skinner

At Sheffield University’s Octagon, festival-goers can get lost in more sensational DJ performances, with Faithless founder Sister Bliss demonstrating an impeccable selection of house and tech-house, and new kid on the block Kideko turning out big tunes such as Crank It (Woah) on Friday night.

Saturday night at The Octagon is a melting pot of sounds headed up by Camo & Krooked, who returns to Tramlines by popular demand. Drum & bass royalty DJ Marky will spin his unique, funk-laced style, as heard on the likes of It’s The Way and Silly. DJ Zinc, an artist who has sold over 1,000,000 physical records, including the era-defining Super Sharp Shooter, also appears. ‘Producers’ producer’ and one-time DJ Marky collaborator S.P.Y joins the lineup, alongside Ram Records’ Loadstar (formerly known as Xample & Lomax), and the globally recognised MC Lowqui, whose razor sharp lyrical delivery will show why he’s the MC of choice for the Metalheadz family, DJ Marky and S.P.Y.

Tickets for the Tramlines after-parties can be purchased for individual nights for £12 plus booking fee, or as a weekend ticket for just £20 plus booking fee, while stocks last.

More Tramlines after-party acts are yet to be announced. For further lineup additions and up-to-the-minute information about Tramlines 2017 visit www.tramlines.org.uk or follow Tramlines on Twitter @tramlines

TRAMLINES FESTIVAL 2017 AFTER-PARTY LINEUP (SO FAR…)

Bugzy Malone / Faithless DJ Set / Fuse ODG / TQD / Camo & Krooked

Mike Skinner / Marky / S.P.Y / Zinc / Coco / Loadstar / Cause & Affect / Donaeo / Barely Legal / DJ Target / Artful Dodger / Gotsome / Kideko / Deadbeat UK / Dr Cryptic / Pedram / Andy H / Lowqui / Carasel / Tippa / Inja / Forca

The Tuesday Club / Nice Like Rice / Quality Control / Jungle Jam

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Links

www.tramlines.org.uk
www.facebook.com/tramlines
www.twitter.com/tramlines
www.instagram.com/tramlines
Snapchat: tramlinesfest

TOUR NEWS: July Talk March 2017 tour dates

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July Talk will be returning to the UK in March 2017 for a second UK headline tour in just six months. This follows the recent sold-out success of their European headline tour, including three UK dates, and their support slot with Catfish And The Bottlemen on their UK arena tour, including a date at London’s SSE Wembley Arena in November.

The Toronto five-piece recently released the striking video for their new single ‘Picturing Love’, which premiered with The Independent. Directed by Jared Raab, the video confronts the effects of mainstream porn on sex and relationships and explores our insatiable reliance on screens.

The single is taken from their critically acclaimed second album Touch which has been released in the UK via Caroline Records / Universal. Also featured on the album is the previous single ‘Beck + Call’ featuring Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq and lead track ‘Push + Pull’, which showcases the perfectly contrasting voices of co-vocalists Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay and spent a month at number 1 on the Canadian Alternative Chart.

A phenomenal live band, it’s no surprise that they will be headlining bigger venues across the UK when they return in March. The new tour includes a London date at the Dome in Tufnell Park after their astounding performance at its smaller sister venue The Boston Music Rooms in September sold-out way in advance.

MARCH 2017 – HEADLINE TOUR

Sunday 5th – Edinburgh, Electric Circus (buy tickets here)
Monday 6th – Newcastle, Think Tank (buy tickets here)
Tuesday 7th – Manchester, Night & Day (buy tickets here)
Wednesday 8th – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds (buy tickets here)
Thursday 9th – London, Dome Tufnell Park (buy tickets here)

“He’s gravel and whisky. She’s pinot noir and angel dust. Together, Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay are July Talk – sexy as hell and Canada’s emerging favourite…” – NPR

“July Talk come into their own with ‘Touch’ with intimidating confidence along with their authentic bluesy swagger… It is chock full of the band’s most expansive, vigorous material to date.” – Paste

“The album showcases the band’s multiple musical personalities while still delivering a singular vision. [It] pushes July Talk’s musical vision forward without sacrificing their core elements.” – Exclaim

“Danceable disco…noisey, ambient rock that takes nods at Bikini Kill, Nick Cave or even Arcade Fire.” – New Noise Magazine

“A strange kind of pop…that alternates between catchy and jarring… They have the certain ne sais quoi it takes to be goddamn massive, and my money’s on them headlining festivals across North America within the next five years.”- Consequence of Sound

GIG & SINGLE NEWS: Control of the Going launch new single ‘She’/’Wildflower’ at Gullivers Manchester 4th March

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Control of the Going are comprised of brothers Liam and Ashley Hart who provide the backbone of the band, Liam on vocals and guitar, Ashley on guitar. Stephen Ackley adds another guitar element into the mix, Minesh Mistry on keys, with Matt Byrne and Tom Sillitoe providing the rhythm section on drums and bass respectively.

Having emerged from Manchester in July 2015, they have quickly garnered a reputation as one of the best new bands in town – becoming a ‘One to Watch’ for even the most ardent gig-goers. With a succession of live performances which have seen them placed increasingly higher up the bill and their first dates out of the city boxed off, their reputation proceeds them and the benchmark has been set high for this much anticipated release.

‘She’ is already attracting attention, having premiered on KEXP. The uplifting track offers four minutes of buoyant guitar rhythms, moody evocative lyrics, psychedelic tinge, and a melodic synth undertone. The musical complexity and combination of elements tells of a band much older than 18 months. B Side ‘Wildflower’ is a prominent feature in their live set and a firm fan favourite, crowds readily get down and groove to its prevalent keyboard melody and lulling vocals and jangling guitar riffs.

‘She’ is available for pre-order now, with an official release date scheduled for 4th March 2017, on limited edition 7” vinyl.

Click here to pre order the single

Gig tickets are available here

GIG NEWS: Tove Lo announces headline dates

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Her critically acclaimed ‘Lady Wood’ featured the single ‘Cool Girl’, which has had over 190 million streams on Spotify and is the long-awaited successor to Tove Lo’s landmark debut album of 2014, the RIAA platinum Queen Of The Clouds. The album included “Habits (Stay High),” the career-defining 5x-platinum global #1 hit that introduced her to U.S. and UK audiences, and the double-platinum follow-up, “Talking Body”.

Tove Lo has also been the featured artist on tracks by Coldplay (“Fun”), Years & Years (“Desire”), Broods (“Freak Of Nature”), Flume (“Say It”), and Alesso (“Heroes”) as well as co-writing Ellie Goulding’s Grammy®-nominated hit “Love Me Like You Do”

Deemed as “Sweden’s darkest pop export” by Rolling Stone, TOVE LO features on the soundtrack for ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ with “Lies In The Dark”. She has also been recently announced to support Justin Bieber at his British Summertime Show at London’s Hyde Park on 2nd July 2017
You can catch Tove Lo headline at the following U.K shows:

15th March – Manchester O2 Ritz
17th March – London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: DJ Format & Abdominal announce album and tour

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For fourteen years, DJ Format and rapper Abdominal have been entertaining crowds from Toronto to the UK. Now the hip-hop stars are back at it in 2017 with their new album Still Hungry. The new album comes off the heels of a wildly successful November 2015 UK tour that commemorated ten years since their last time performing together in the UK. The tour quickly sold out and the crowds loved every beat and bar the two artists dropped.

DJ Format & Abdominal wanted to ride this momentum to create their first full-length album together. While they both have collaborated on each other’s solo records, Still Hungry marks their first joint album. Still Hungry boasts the best of what Format and Abs bring to the hip-hop community: funky, up-tempo and slick beats, coupled with intelligent, savvy lyrics. The album also showcases a grittier, harder sound, reflecting the maturity of the two artists, giving their audience some head-bobbing bangers that could rock any concert hall.

Together, they have toured the UK more than twenty times to sold-out crowds. They have rocked stages such as Glastonbury Festival, Boomtown Festival and the iconic Jazz Café and Brixton Academy venues in London. They have also brought their high-energy shows to Australia and across Europe several times over the past fifteen years.

DJ Format, aka Matt Ford, won over hip-hop heads in 2003 with his slow-burning hit album Music for the Mature B-Boy, featuring the standout track We Know Something You Don’t Know starring the vocals of Chali 2na and Akil of Jurassic 5. Abdominal, aka Andy Bernstein, has been involved in Toronto’s music scene for nearly 25 years, performing at the Harbourfront Center for the Arts, Manifesto Festival, the SOCAN Awards, Pop Montreal Showcase, the Cavalcade of Lights and many other high profile events.

Like any memorable hip-hop team, DJ Format & Abdominal have found success by working off each other’s strengths and giving the global hip-hop community a unique and funky sound destined to be a fixture in every rap lover’s collection.

DJ Format & Abdominal UK Live Dates

May 3rd, Leeds / The Wardrobe
May 4th, Glasgow / Stereo
May 5th, Edinburgh / Voodoo Rooms
May 6th, Newcastle / Cluny
May 10th, Manchester / Gorilla
May 11th, Nottingham / Rescue Rooms
May 12th, Birmingham / Hare & Hounds
May 13th, Sheffield / O2 Academy
May 17th, Bristol / The Fleece
May 18th, Oxford / The Cellar
May 19th, Southampton / The Social Club
May 20th, Whitstable / Duke of Cumberland
May 23rd, Cambridge / J2 at The Junction
May 24th, London / Electric Ballroom
May 25th, Brighton / Patterns
May 26th, Norwich / The Arts Centre

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