Jamie Gilroy RIP

Jamie Gilroy, well-known nationally as the co- founder of the Wickerman Festival has sadly died in hospital after suffering severe head injuries following a shooting incident at his Dundrennan farm. Jamie was rushed to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary on Thursday after being found badly injured but died on Friday as a result of those injuries. Police have launched an investigation  but have confirmed they aren't looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. 

Jamie's family have issued the following statement...“

It is with immense sadness that we confirm Jamie’s death.

This has come as a huge shock to us, to his many friends, and to members of the local and wider festival community in which he played such a vibrant part.

We’d like to thank everyone for their support at this very difficult time.”

Carter USM Announce Last Ever Show

The Final Comedown

This year Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine will play their LAST ever show. It will take place at Brixton Academy on November 22nd 2014

A Statement From Jim Bob

On November 22nd this year at Brixton Academy a very good thing will sadly come to an end when we play our final ever Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine live show. I say 'sadly' but the sad element will come afterwards. On the 22nd we're going to have a big party. We're going to celebrate all the fantastic Carter shows that have taken place since we got back together in 2007. Those first two 'one off' shows in 2007 that completely blew us away and made us desperate to do more. The Drum Machine Years gigs where we played the first four albums from start to finish, even 'Evil', which I completely fucked up. There was the incredible Beautiful Days festival, the Glasgow King Tuts benefit show, all of them, all of the reunion gigs have been amazing. I'm sure other bands say it but we genuinely have got the best audience in the world.

That's you that is. It wouldn't just not be the same without you it would be rubbish. Join us for one last time this November. Come and meet old friends, make new ones, dance yourself lame and sing yourself hoarse. Let's go out on a high that makes Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic project seem subterranean by comparison. Have a bloody good laugh, shed a tear, raise a glass or two and let's see if we can break the venue's bar record one more time before we go.

Jim Bob x

http://www.carterusm.com/

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Therapy? Troublegum Anniversary

Therapy? have announced some UK shows to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their stunning second album 'Troublegum'. Released on Feb 7th 1994 on A&M Records the record has, to date, racked up sales of more than 1 million worldwide and is considered by many to be the work of Therapy? at their creative peak. Troublegum reached Number 5 in the UK album charts and includes the singles 'Screamager', 'Nowhere' and 'Die Laughing'. The band will play Troublegum in it's entirety at each anniversary show plus some of their other songs from that same era.

Album Tracklist

1. Knives

2. Screamager

3. Hellbelly

4. Stop It You're Killing Me

5. Nowhere

6. Die Laughing

7. Unbeliever

8. Trigger Inside

9. Lunacy Booth

10. Isolation

11. Turn

12. Femtex

13. Unrequited

14. Brainsaw

Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased

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For updates and further info go to

 http://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk/

New Model Army Album & Tour

New Model Army, the legendary global underground cult band from Bradford, have announced the title of their hotly anticipated 12th Studio album. The self-produced set was finished earlier this year in Los Angeles with Joe Barresi mixing, (Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool) Whilst New Model Army have always been noted for encompassing a wide variety of musical ‘styles’, the record still marks a major evolution in their sound.

Entitled “Between Dog and Wolf” the album is filled with multi-layered drums and atmospheric musical textures while sacrificing none of the band’s famous passion and song-writing skills. The album is scheduled for release in September.

Lead vocalist and founding member Justin Sullivan said "“After a series of purist ‘rock-band-in-a-room’ albums over the last eight years, we felt it was time to do something a bit different and sonically this is the best album we’ve ever made. The title comes from a medieval French expression for dusk – when it’s hard to distinguish between dog and wolf, friend or foe. That sense of contradiction represents the band very well and there’s also something of this sense of transformation in the album”.

They have also just announced their biggest tour since the 30th Anniversary shows.

BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF EUROPEAN TOUR (PART 1)

October:

1st - Münster Jovel

2nd -  Hamburg Markthalle

3rd - Berlin Huxleys

4th - Hannover Capitol

5th - Rostock Mau

6th - Gdansk B90

8th - Warsaw Proxima 

9th - Krakow Kwadrat

10th - TBC

12th - Dresden Beatpol

13th - Prague Lucerna

14th - Budapest A38

15th - Vienna Szene

17th - Darmstadt Centralstation

18th - Nürnberg Lowenzaal

19th - Stuttgart LKA

20th - Munich Backstage

22nd - Zürich Komplex 457

23rd - Geneve L'Usine

24th - Lyon Kao

25th - Barcelona Music Hall

26th - Valencia Rock City

27th - Madrid Caracol

November:

12th - AberdeenGarage

13th - Glasgow Garage

14th - Leeds Acadamy

15th - Buckley Tivoli

16th - Manchester Ritz

17th - Bilston Robin 2

19th - Cambridge Junction

20th - Frome Cheese and Grain 

21st - Falmouth Princess Pavilion

22nd - Brighton Concord

23rd - London Forum

28th - Larissa Mylos

29th - Thessoloniki Block33

30th - Athens Gagarin205

December:

14th - Nottingham Rock City

19th - Paris Divan du Monde

20th - Paris Divan du Monde

21st - Köln Palladium

22nd - Amsterdam Melkweg

http://www.newmodelarmy.org/?view=featured