I get a lot of emails from PR's announcing new tour dates, upcoming releases and any other update considered relevant enough/important enough/interesting enough...to merit a news article being composed around it. But, apart from a few here and there at an editors insistence, I haven't really ever taken much to do with the 'news item' side of things - and I possibly should do. So as of today I will make an effort to do that. Do not be expecting press release sized news articles - because the exact opposite is likeliest - and what once filled you with jittery anticipation will now torment you with plundering frustration. Ask any psychoanalytic psychologist if that is correct and they shall answer 'yes that is correct' but they shall not just leave it at that because you might remain unconvinced by their monosyllabic reply and that in itself is an internal conflict waiting to happen! No, they shall not procreate such a harm in you - but instead proceed to bolster the harmony of your normality with the informative explanation of how 'internal perception is governed by unconscious complexities and is not spontaneous - so is therefore a contradistinction of the symptomatic derivative' etc etc anticipation/frustration. I digress hugely....so...
SKID ROW
Skid Row are set to release their second single This Is Killing Me from their United World Rebellion – Chapter 1 E.P on November 4th 2013. October and November will see SKID ROW and UGLY KID JOE play a 29 city, 12 country co-headline tour of Europe and the UK. Dates will kick off in England on Oct 22nd and run through Nov 26th ending in Austria. With combined sales of millions of albums, each band will play a full set of the songs fans want to hear. As a special treat for fans, there is also to be a bundle package that includes the songs of 'UNITED WORLD REBELLION - Chapter One' and the bonus tracks on high quality vinyl and an exclusive Skid Row shirt, available only through the UDR Store!
Tour Dates
Tues 22 Oct Southampton, ENGLAND Mo'Club
Wed 23 Oct Rugby, ENGLAND The Vault
Thurs 24 Oct Manchester, ENGLAND NQ Live
Fri 25 Oct Nottingham, ENGLAND Rock City
Sat 26 Oct Wrexhan, WALES Central Station
Mon 28 Oct Glasgow, SCOTLAND The Garage
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NOAH AND THE WHALE
Noah And The Whale will release their fourth studio album, Heart Of Nowhere, on September 24th via Caroline Records. The album, recorded at West London's British Grove Studios, is the band's fourth record in five years, and follows 2011's platinum-selling Last Night On Earth
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RUSH
This year’s celebration of Rush continues with the highly anticipated release of a remixed version of the band 2002’s album VAPOR TRAILS. In 2009, two tracks from VAPOR TRAILS (“One Little Victory” and “Earthshine”) were remixed for the Retrospective III collection, setting fans into a frenzy in anticipation of a possible remixed version of the entire album being released one day. Four years later, that day is finally approaching as the remixed album will be available on September 30 from Atlantic/Rhino. "Vapor Trails' was an album made under difficult and emotional circumstances - sort of like Rush learning how to be Rush again - and as a result, mistakes were made that we have longed to correct. David Bottrill's remixes have finally brought some justice and clarity to this deserving body of our work,” says Geddy Lee. Every song has been given a new life, from the fire of ‘One Little Victory,’ ‘Secret Touch,’ and ‘Ceiling Unlimited’ to the melodic musicality of ‘Sweet Miracle’ and ‘How It Is’… these songs have been redeemed.
The remixed version of VAPOR TRAILS will also be included in the new 7-disc boxed set THE STUDIO ALBUMS 1989-2007, which features every studio album Rush recorded for Atlantic Records. The collection includes the Gold & Platinum albumsPresto (1989), Roll The Bones (1991), Counterparts (1993), and Test For Echo (1996), as well as their covers EP Feedback(2004) and the Billboard Top 5 album Snakes & Arrows (2007). THE STUDIO ALBUMS 1989-2007 features each album presented in a wallet sleeve that faithfully reproduces the original artwork (except for VAPOR TRAILS, which features a reinterpreted version of the original cover) and is available on September 30 from Atlantic/Rhino.
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BLACK MARKET CLASH
EXHIBITION of rare items
& pop up store
75 berwick st, SOHO, LONDON
for 2 weeks only
Saturday 7 Sept – Sunday 22 Sept 2013
Store opening times: 12pm – 8pm Monday to Saturday & 11am – 5pm on Sunday
FEATURING AN EXHIBITION SHOWCASING UNIQUE ITEMS
FROM THE CLASH ARCHIVE
PLUS
LISTENING LOUNGE AND EXCLUSIVE MERCHANDISE AREAS
In celebration of one of the most iconic bands to have ever come out of the UK, the first ever BLACK MARKET CLASH pop-up store will open for 2 weeks in the heart of Soho, London. The store opening coincides with the release of The Clash’s 2-disc ‘HITS BACK’ and collected recorded works ‘SOUND SYSTEM’ box, alongside re-releases of all of the band’s seminal studio albums, lovingly remastered from the original master tapes under the supervision of The Clash. The store, which is fully art directed and curated by the band and Robert Gordon McHarg lll of The Subway Gallery, will open for a limited time only, from Saturday 7 September to Sunday 22 September 2013 at 75 Berwick Street, Soho.
The store will open with an exclusive launch party, attended by the band on Friday 6 September.
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