Archive for October, 2010

Nick Howard New Single//‘FALLING FOR YOU’ out Nov 26th

NICK HOWARD

Single//  ‘FALLING FOR YOU’ out Nov 26th

FT. ‘The Pressure’ as used The Hills and Jersey Shore on MTV

There’s a little something special about Nick Howard. As an Award winning British Singer Songwriter, he produces a mild folk/pop sound that beckons toward a brave, new, post-emotional future. Quite evident in his latest Single release: ‘Falling For You’. Effortlessly excelling at creating gentle background music that sways like the waves and feels twice as cool – Its no co-incidence then that his debut album ’Something To Talk About’ achieved critical acclaim upon its release.

Going the best route you can take with your music, his songs have been featured in scores of TV shows and Films including: The Hills, Jersey Shore, Cougar Town, 90210,LA Ink, Greek, Army Wives and countless others. He has performed live on TV shows such as Fox’s Fearless music, NBC’s Non-Stop New York and Comcast’s Backstage. His song ‘A Better Man’ broke into the US radio charts and he was featured as an ‘Artist To Watch’ by Clear Channel’s ‘Discover New Music’ campaign in 2009.

Howard earned for himself thousands of new fans in the last 12 months, when he toured and supported artists such as Gavin DeGraw, Lifehouse, Jack Johnson andCounting Crows. He recently started work on a follow up LP with producer Marshal Altman, (Natasha Bedingfield and Matt Nathanson) and is set to release the first single’Falling For You’ on the 26th of November in Ireland.

Nick’s popularity in his native Europe has gained huge traction since touring there for the first time early in 2010 with ‘Boyce Avenue’, which has led to his own tour in February of 2011, a tour that will also include dates in France, Holland, Germany, Ireland and the UK. Nick played to 700 fans at the Dublin Academy in March while on tour with Boyce Avenue and is looking forward to returning.

Nick has also partnered with several brands and vendors in the last two years on various products and events. Some of these include Tommy Hilfiger, Vogue, Apple, Chipotle, Scoop and Nokia and have helped to increase Nick’s visibility and popularity worldwide. Bose recently chose Nick’s song ‘I Don’t Really Care’ as the theme songs to their next wave of commercial advertising.

Official Site: http://www.nickhowardmusic.com,

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nickhowardmusic

MySpace: http://myspace.com/nickhoward

Twitter: http://twitter.com/nickhowardmusic

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;UNDERWORLD New single ‘Bird 1’ announced for November 19th

;;UNDERWORLD New single ‘Bird 1’ announced for November 19th

Remixers include Lone, sbtrkt, Mark Broom and Pete Tong

Sixth studio album ‘Barking’ out now + IRISH SHOW: NOV 27^TH RDS

With their sixth studio album ‘Barking’ – out now to widespread critical acclaim – Underworld have once again performed a feat of creative regeneration; the duo have announced their next single ‘Bird 1’ will be released digitally on November 19th. The shuddering machine pulses of

‘Bird 1’ – the album’s opener – has been reworked by several DJs and producers:

1. Bird 1 (album version), 2. Bird 1 (Mark Broom remix), 3. Bird 1 (Lone remix), 4. Bird 1 (Pete Tong remix), 5. Bird 1 (Clouds remix), 6. Bird 1 (sbtrkt remix), 7. Bird 1 (radio edit)

‘Barking’ is Underworld’s first album in three years, and their first to be constructed with a brilliant cast of co-conspirators. All the tracks were written by the band in their Essex studio before being given to handpicked studio heads from across the whole spectrum of dance music to add some of their style and creativity to the band’s raw material. The result is a pimped-up Underworld record and their finest collection of songs in over a decade.

Quotes:

“Still brilliant, still essential, still peerless” - The Times *****

“The crowd go as bananas for the new stuff as the old” - The Guardian ****

“Barking is the sound of veterans re-energised” – Uncut ****

“Skipping beats and cavernous bass” – MOJO ****

“Epic” – Q ***

“Truly captivating” – Word

“Up with their hypnotically melodic best” – The Sun ****

“Ranks with their very best material to date” – Clash 8/10

“Lustrous” – The Daily Mirror ****

“Ebullient” – Metro

“Vital” – The Independent

“Dog-gone brilliant” – News of the World ****

“Collaborators have injected fresh energy but they’re still unmistakably Underworld” – The Observer

“Dizzyingly Divine” – Time Out

New to the roster Nick Howard- great tune: Falling for you.

New single from John, Shelly & the Creatures announced.

NEW SINGLE: Released Nov 26th 2010.

‘SUNNY SIDE STREET’+ B-SIDE ACOUSTIC VERSION ‘LONG MAY YOU REIGN’ AS featured on the NORTHERN IRISH TOURIST BOARD TV, RADIO AND CINEMA ADVERT.

After a busy year, the Belfast foursome: John, Shelly & the Creatures announce the final single release of 2010 from their critically acclaimed debut album Dinosaur. The new single ‘Sunny Side Street’, will be accompanied by the new acoustic version of ‘Long may You Reign’ as a b-side. (Currently used in the new season Northern Ireland Tourist Board Tv, radio and Cinema advert). ‘Sunny Side Street’ is another melodic acoustic pop song resplendent of the bands multi faceted prism of sound, tone, texture and harmony.

Injecting vital fuel into the JSATC machine, the success of their single Long may You Reign (which was picked for the ad over Greenday!), has buoyed the band, not only heightening their profile across the island, but affording them the comforts of a new tour van, and helping them fulfill a packed touring schedule over the last year.

On the lead up to their Debut album launch, they performed on Ireland’s biggest and most well known TV show: THE LATE LATE SHOW. Their album received rave reviews from national publications, declaring the band as ‘BRILLIANT..  Dazzling’ (Irish Independent), ‘Sublime’ (Irish Mirror), “Effortlessly monumental’ (AU)…& destined for greatness.

Currently recording their 2^nd album yet to be titled, the band will also emerge with a new band name in 2011. Before then, they play a host of shows around the country.

GIG DATES::

Sunday 31st October – Black Box Belfast

Wednesday 3rd November – HMV Instore 6pm – Belfast

Friday 5th November – An Grianan Theatre – Letterkenny

Saturday 6th November – Sligo venue tbc.

Thursday 11th November – The Empire – Belfast

Saturday 13th November – RDS Toys For Big Boys – Dublin

Thursday 18th November – Dolans – Limerick

Wednesday 8th December – Empire with Frightened Rabbit – Belfast

+ more TBA

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REM/ The Frank & Walters (on Never mind the Buzzcocks)/Suzanne Vega + more news!

Brand new live DVD release from one of the largest stadium rock acts in the world: R.E.M

Brand new live DVD release from one of the largest stadium rock acts in the world: R.E.M

R.E.M Live From Austin, Tx : Out Oct 22nd

New West Records announces R.E.M. Live From Austin, TX, the latest DVD release from the acclaimed PBS Austin City Limits (ACL) television series, available October 22nd, 2010. Taken from R.E.M.’s ACL concert, which has been edited into an hour TV show, the DVD contains an extended performance including three songs never aired on the original broadcast.

The 17 songs have been re-mixed and re-mastered in LPCM stereo and DTS-HD 5.1 surround sound to provide the highest-quality concert DVD available.  Recorded on March 13, 2008, R.E.M. Live From Austin, TX, captures R.E.M’s debut ACL appearance. The performance features more than an hour of songs spanning the entire career of these Rock N’ Roll and Georgia Music Hall Of Fame inductees.

It includes songs from their most recent album, Accelerate, as well as such classic hits as “Losing My Religion” and “Man On The Moon.” “Their ACL appearance captures R.E.M. at a pivotal moment in their career, still breaking new ground, and still doing it their way,” raves ACL producer Terry Lickona.

R.E.M. are in the studio putting the finishing touches on their latest studio album due out Spring 2011 on Warner Bros. Records.

TRACKLISTING:

01. Living Well Is The Best Revenge

02. Man-Sized Wreath

03. Drive

04. So. Central Rain (previously not broadcast)

05. Accelerate

06. Fall On Me (previously not broadcast)

07. Hollow Man

08. Electrolite

09. Houston

10. Supernatural Superserious

11. Bad Day

12. Losing My Religion

13. I’m Gonna DJ

14. Horse To Water

15. Imitation Of Life (previously not broadcast)

16. Until The Day Is Done

17. Man On The Moon

VIDEO SNIPPET:

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PR Contact: Linda Coogan Byrne

THE FRANK AND WALTERS Release new Single ‘The Clock’ this Fri 22nd Oct

Gig News:: ‘John, Shelly & the Creatures’ to perform at Toys 4 big Boys on November 13th.

Gig News:: ‘John, Shelly & the Creatures’ to perform at Toys 4 big Boys on November 13th.

Belfast Foursome John, Shelly & the Creatures will be performing atTOYS 4 BIG BOYS at the RDS in November on the 13th at 2pm, performing songs from their critically acclaimed album DINOSAUR.

Earlier this year t he Northern Irish Tourist Board launched a phase of TV adverts that featured the bands single (from the debut album Dinosuar) tilted Long May You Reign as the title music on the advert. From statistics, the Advert has been the most successful Tv advert they have had on the NITB, so they were asked to go back into the studio last month to record a new version of the song, for the more laid back Autumn/Winter season. Now, there is a completely new advert being aired. There is a 10 second, 30 second and 60 second version on TV now. There is also a 60 second radio advert which features an instrumental version. They all feature a newly arranged and recorded version of Long May You Reign which will be a special b-side to the band’s new single SUNNY SIDE STREET which will be release in November.

Being propelled into the spotlight this year, the band have performed on The Late Late Show,The Eleventh Hour with Dave Fanning, Tg4, BBC TWO, RTE Two, and at Dublin’s RDS to over 20,0000 people. Injecting vital fuel into the JSATC machine, the success of the single (which was picked for the ad over Greenday if you don’t mind) has buoyed the band, not only heightening their profile across the island, but affording them the comforts of a new tour van, and helping them fulfill a packed touring schedule over the past few month and in the coming weeks the band go back on the road. So do not miss out on their special performance at The RDS Toys 4 Big Boys show in November!

Toys 4 Big Boys 2010 is shaping up to be an unbelievable show with all your favourites and much much more.

more info here:

Buy your ticket here:
http://www.toys4bigboys.ie/tickets.aspx

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Song of the Week on Today FM: The Saw Doctors

The Saw Doctors new single WELL BYES is today fm’s song of the week on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast show! The Single is out This Friday Oct 16th.

The band were also presented with an award last week by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) in recognition of their recently released album reaching Number 1 in the Irish Independent Album charts. The Galway band’s eighth studio album, “The Further Adventures of The Saw Doctors”, entered the Independent Album charts at No 1 on its first week of release. The second single from the album, “Well Byes”, will be released on 16th October ahead of the band’s 17 date UK tour kicking off in November.

check out the new single here as performed on Ian’s show last month:

The Orb & Youth present:IMPOSSIBLE ODDITIES- Mr Modo // Out Oct 22nd

YEAR ZERO EXCLUSIVE RELEASE:

Various Artists: The Orb & Youth present:

IMPOSSIBLE ODDITIES

Mr Modo // Out Oct 22nd

W.A.U!. Mr Modo was the product of likeminded music freaks and lifelong friends Youth and Dr Alex Paterson setting out to celebrate and play their part in the acid house revolution sweeping the UK in the late 80s. In the process, they became two of the most well-known and lastingly influential names to emerge from the whole movement, while the label epitomises the innocence and questing spirit of the era. When Youth played bass in apocalyptic post-punk band Killing Joke, Alex was a roadie, prone to leaping onstage and singing Stooges songs in the encores. When Youth left the Joke, the pair found their musical outlooks swiveled by tapes of New York’s dance music radio stations and their jaw-dropping mastermixes.

‘We wanted to form a label after spending 1986-87 listening to the likes of Tony Humphries’ adds Alex.  The first Orb single, recorded at KLF’s Transcentral squat HQ, was a homage to KISS FM., called The Kiss EP. Meanwhile Alex and Youth started demoing a song they called ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ [a never-before heard version which opens this compilation].

After hooking up with former Killing Joke road manager Adam Morris [aka Mr Modo], the label became known as W.A.U!. Mr Modo. The music started flowing freely as names including STP Twentythree [Alex and Jimmy], Insync, Paradise X and Lyndsey Holloday recorded there. ‘We set about sampling our record collections and creating new music with a new vocabulary,’ recalls Youth. ‘This extended further with the Orb and KLF, where Alex’s genius was soon realised by his amazing sound collage abilities, where we practically got rid of all musicians and created entire tracks from collaging other records.’

The two CDs also feature the cream of the early W.A.U. releases; a stellar collection of half-forgotten names from the acid house archives [several featuring Alex and Youth], including STP Twentythree, Eternity, Discotec 2000, Delkom, Johnson Dean, U.N.C.L.E., Paradise X, Sun Electric, Indica All Stars, Mystic Knights, Insync, Sound Iration and Zoe, with ’Sunshine On A Rainy Day’, one of the label’s biggest hits.

The recordings here can now be considered the acid house equivalent of Alan Lomax’s field blues recordings or compilations of DIY bedroom punk; snapshots of seminal moments in musical history. In many ways, acid house was like punk rock all over again; like that movement, Youth and Alex were again in the thick of it but soon out front, leaders of the field within a very short time. This is where it all started.

To accompany this celebration of the label, this must-have, collectors package includes a fold out scrap book poster of press cuttings from the time unearthed from Paterson’s personal archive as well as iconic cover art from Jimmy Cauty.

TRACK LISTING:

Disc One

The Orb Little Fluffy Clouds [Demo version] / Eternity Ashram House (Extended Mix) / The OrbTripping On Sunshine (Live Mix) / Discotec 2000 Feel This / STP Twentythree Let Jimi Take Over (Ultramix 1) /Johnson Dean feat. Lynda Law Somebody Somewhere (Black Country Mix) / UNCLE 22 LOVE/Paradise X / 2 Much (Out Of This World Mix) / Delkom Superjack (Orbital Infusion 2000) /Sun Electric O’Locco / (Orbital Therapy Part 1) / Indica All Stars Open Our Eyes (Original) / Indica All Stars Open Our Eyes (New Style Version) / Mystic Knights Filo Funk

Disc Two

Zoe Sunshine On A Rainy Day (Youth Remix) / Blowfly Work Your Body (Work Your Body Mix) /Eternity Blackcurrant / Insync Reflection / Readymade See Saw (Victor) / STP Twentythree Some Lovin’ (Just A Beat) (Massive Mix) / UNCLE 22 Sulpher Salsa / Lyndsey Holloday Feel The Love/Insync Dark Side Of The Moon (Original Mix) / Mystic Knights The Wrath Of Khan (Long Play Mix) /UNCLE 22 Is It House? / Sound Iration Seventh Seal

Disc Three: Orb Mix

The Man From… U.N.C.L.E 22 / O’Locco ( Orbital Theory Mix ) Sun Electric  / Goldfinger Stp Twentythree / 2 Much (Paradise X Remix ) Paradise X / Do You Wanna Georgette De La Rosa  /Ambient State Ready Made  / Dark Side Of The Moon Insync /Filo Mystic Knights  / Hotel California Remix Jam On Your Mother  / Peace In The Middle East / Apollo Xi I’m Gonna Love Ya  (Pablo Mix) Stp 23 / Superjack Remix Delkon Superjack

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