MARILYN MANSON’s new album ‘BORN VILLAIN’ will be out from April 27th. The official NO REFLECTION music video was premiered this month on VEVO and has already garnered over a Million views. It also trended worldwide on Twitter on the day of it’s unveiling. The unanimous verdict is in: Manson is BACK.

“The new record put simply has the ambition and determination of how I started making music in the first place,” Manson says. “It sounds like the first record in that it’s not afraid to do anything. I had to remove myself from my lifestyle and start fresh.”

You can read an exclusive interview Manson recently did with Loudwire. Read ‘part one’ of Manson’s interview with Loudwire here http://loudwire.com/marilyn-manson-born-villain-is-my-comeback/

For all updates see www.marilynmanson.com 

*BRENDAN BENSON returns to Ireland to play in the Button Factory on May 24th! He releases new album What Kind Of World on April 27th before then. Musicians such as Jon Auer (The Posies, Big Star), Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star, REM), both of whom Benson met at a concert to honor Alex Chilton, as well as Brad Pemberton (Ryan Adam’s Cardinals), Mark Watrous (Loudermilk, Gosling), and Sam Farrar (Phantom Planet) are members of his newfound musical family who have contributed to the creation of Benson’s album.

Also Out April 27th: two stunning Irish home grown acts release new albums:

Corkonian Cormac O Caoimh announced gig dates Nationwide to accompany the release of his new album ‘A New Season For Love’. With a constant glow of raving online reviews the last two months, the album is sure to impress. Likened to Nick Drake, you can Listen to Cormac O Caoimh’s new album: ‘A New Season For Love’ on Soundcloud now.
http://soundcloud.com/goodseedpr/sets/cormac-o-caoimh/s-sHu6U

Robb Murphy: writes stunning acoustic ballads, if you like Rice/ Baxter, he may just reach out and touch you. His debut album Take A Stand is out April 27th: Murphy has had an award winning film maker complete a short film on his latest single release ‘ON MY SIDE’, you can view it here. For a full list of live shows see http://www.robbmurphy.com/RM/Live.html To listen to the album follow this link:
http://soundcloud.com/goodseedpr/sets/take-a-stand-bu-robb-murphy/

The Saw Doctors returned from a 6 week tour in the States last week only to announce more gigs! this time in the homeland! Details of their Summer single will be announced later this week.

Irish Shows  2012
Fri May 4 Limerick Milk Market/Riverfest
http://www.dolanspub.com
Sat May 5 Waterford Forum
http://www.forumwaterford.ie
Sun May 27  Donegal
The Diamond – Open Air Concert
http://www.donegallive.ie
Sun June 3 Enniscorthy Strawberry Festival
http://www.2012.strawberryfest.ie
Sat Nov 24 Dublin Olympia
http://www.ticketmaster.ie

Marilyn Manson is performing live at the ‘Revolver Golden Gods’ awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday April 11th 2012.

The event is also being streamed on Xbox Live, globally.

The live concert will also include MARILYN MANSON ( who appears on the cover of the latest issue of Revolver, available online here http://bit.ly/HwU8bj ), iconic GRAMMY-winning guitarist SLASH featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators; EVANESCENCE; and SIXX:A.M., featuring Nikki Sixx of MÖTLEY CRÜE, acclaimed rock producer and songwriter James Michael, and DJ Ashba of GUNS N’ ROSES, in their first performance in almost four years.

It’s also being streamed live on Revolver Magazine’s Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/revolvermag

THE ENEMY

ANNOUNCE TWO MAY SHOWS AT COVENTRY CATHEDRAL RUINS

RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘STREETS IN THE SKY’ (COOKCD553) ON MAY 21^{ST (18th in Ireland)}

The Enemy will play two hometown headline shows at Coventry Cathedral Ruins on 21^st and 22^nd May to coincide with the release of their third album ‘Streets in the Sky’ on 21^st May. The band will also be performing an exclusive warm-up show at London’s Borderline on 18^th April before their headline gig at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 24^th May.

The shows at Coventry Cathedral Ruins will follow the bands homecoming show at S7VEN nightclub in February which sold out in seconds and was packed with fans who featured on the video for the free download song ‘Gimme The Sign’.  The Enemy will celebrate the release of their third album in their hometown of Coventry on the Monday and Tuesday of the week of release and the gig promises a host of new songs along with lots of the bands hit tracks and a few special guests.

The Enemy will also be performing a warm-up gig on 18^th April at London’s Borderline and with a capacity of only 300, the show will be a sell-out. The tiny gig will precede their headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 24^th April where they will perform to 2000 people.

‘Streets in the Sky’ is the bands third album and according to the band, their best yet. “Streets In The Sky is the result of more than a years hard work from lots and lots of people. I’m more proud of it than any album we’ve ever made. It sounds massive and the songs are some of the best we’ve written. I can’t wait to see what the public make of it.” says The Enemy’s Tom Clarke.

Recorded in London and LA with Joby J. Ford from seminal US punk band The Bronx, the 12-track album has the signature Enemy anthemic guitar sound yet it is much heavier than the last two albums. It is packed with huge songs from the catchy and forceful free download single ‘Gimme The Sign’ to the instantly catchy anthemic song ‘Bigger Cages (Longer Chains)’ to the melodic and punchy track ‘This Is Real’. New single ‘Saturday’ is a summer anthem in the making with a singalong chorus that is just made to be chanted from the football stadium to the festival fields to the pub on a night out. The Enemy are set to make their mark again in 2012 and ‘Streets in the Sky’ is just the start.

The video for the new single ‘Saturday’ can be seen exclusively on VEVO at

The full album tracklisting is listed below:

Gimme The Sign, Bigger Cages (Longer Chains), Saturday, 1-2-3-4, Like A Dancer, Come Into My World, This Is Real, 2 Kids, Turn It On, It’s A Race, Get Up And Dance, Make A Man

The Enemy formed in hometown Coventry in 2006 by three friends; Andy Hopkins (24, bass), Liam Watts (23, drums) and Tom Clarke (23, vocals/guitar). Their first single ’40 days, 40 nights’ sold out all 1000 copies of its limited edition 7” in less than a day and signaled only the start for The Enemy. Their debut 2007 album ‘We’ll Live and Die in These Towns’ charted at #1 selling over 600,000 copies with big singles ‘Away From Here’ (Top 10) and ‘Had Enough’ (Top 5) gaining the band an army of diehard fans. Their second album ‘Music For The People’ was released in 2009 and charted very strongly at #2 with hit ‘Be Somebody’ continued to be used on ITV’s FA Cup coverage.

To date, the band have sold over half a million tickets for their live gigs and along with their own headline dates and festival appearances, they have performed with the likes of Oasis, Kasabian, Manic Street Preachers and Stereophonics. 

http://www.theenemy.com/

http://www.tomclarkeofficial.blogspot.com/

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