Entering the new year  armed with  a sold out UK tour , several  sold out European live sorties  and  numerous festival appearances, two UK radio hits and a third album ‘Money  And Celebrity’ under their collective arm, The Subways have confirmed a Spring time UK tour.

The band  release ‘It’s A Party’ on January 2nd 2012 – currently play-listed at Radio 1 and XFM and bring their bitter sweet  infectious  arsenal of hits  to  a venue near you as follows which  will  see the band  continue their  upwards trajectory  since their return  in the summer of 2011.

The shows will see Royal Republic as main guests with Turbowolf opening on each of the dates as follows.

April:

27th                  Belfast                                                     The Limelight                                                                    0844 2774455
28th                  Dublin                                                     Academy 2                                                                         0818 719300
29th                  Cardiff                                                     University                                                                          0871 2302360

May

1st                   Bournemouth                                           Old Fire Station                                                                  0844 4772000
2nd                 Middlesbrough                                         Empire                                                                                01642 253535
3rd                  Coventry                                                  Kasbah                                                                                024 76554473
5th                  Leeds                                                       Live At Leeds                                                                      0113 2444600
6th                  Edinburgh                                                Liquid Rooms                                                                     08444 999990
8th                  Manchester                                              HMV Manchester Ritz                                                        08448 110051
10th                London                                                    02 Shepherds Bush  Empire                                                0871 2310821
Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Wednesday 14th December from box office numbers listed and online via the sites below.

www.ticketmaster.ie
www.seetickets.com
www.ticketweb.com
www.gigsinscotland.com 
www.gigsandtours.com

New Album – 2012
Live DVD: “Alive” – out now
Label: Nuclear Blast

Meshuggah  have confirmed a full headline UK tour in April 2012 in support of their highly anticipated new album due out early next year.

The band will release a brand new studio album, which is as yet untitled, at the start of 2012. The album will see a return of the math metal gods and will be their first studio release since 2008’s critically acclaimed masterpiece ‘Obzen’.

Meshuggah formed in the late 1980’s in Umea in Sweden. After releasing their debut EP in 1989 the band signed to Nuclear Blast and released their full length debut album, “Contradictions Collapse”, in 1991. The new studio album will be the bands seventh, previous releases including the 1998’s legendary “Chaosphere”. The band are an established live draw, having  played numerous festival worldwide (including main stage at Ozzfest) and toured the USA with Tool on two separate occasions.

“Alive” comprises several live cuts on DVD, taped during various shows on their North American / Canadian tour with CYNIC in 2009 and the Loudpark festival in Tokyo 2008. This is rounded off with lots of backstage stuff, an insight into drum and guitar work plus videoclip material! The additional CD boasts the same 12 live tracks.

Full dates as follow:

Thurs 12^th              Bristol                    O₂ Academy http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

Fri 13^th                   Wolverhampton Slade Rooms http://www.wolvescivic.co.uk

Sat 14^th                  Nottingham          Rock City http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk

Sun 15^th                 Glasgow                 Garage http://www.triplegmusic.com/

Tue 17^th                 Manchester          Academy http://www.livenation.co.uk

Wed 18^th               Norwich                 Waterfront http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk

Thu 19^th                 Brighton                Concorde 2 http://www.seetickets.com

Fri 20^th                   London                  Electric Ballroom http://www.livenation.co.uk

Tickets £15.00 except London £17.50 (subject to booking fee). Please see dates for purchasing websites.

The DVD “Alive” is available through Nuclear Blast records now

Meshuggah’s brand new studio album will be available through Nuclear Blast Records early 2012

www.meshuggah.net

Fresh from an incredible performance in front of 3000 people at Transmusicales Festival last weekend, multimedia mastermindsBreton announce their first UK headline shows. They will take place next March 2012 in support of their debut album ‘Other People’s Problems’, which will be released on Fat Cat Records. Dates are as follows:

28^th March – Corsica Studios, London

29^th March – Islington Mill, Manchester

30^th March – Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds

To celebrate this announcement the band have made available ‘The Diamond Tiles Mix’ that will feature two unreleased Breton tracks –‘The Hague’ and ‘Harp’.

http://soundcloud.com/bretonlabs/the-diamond-tile-mix

Breton live is an intense, hypnotic experience as the band, shrouded in hoodies, perform to a backdrop of their self shot films and graphics – mixed in real time by their VJ in a synergy of sound, timing, rhythm and visuals. For this collective of film makers and musicians the mediums of visual and audio are utterly integrated and of equal importance.

This ideology will be highlighted when they perform at Videocrash at the Scala on 14^th January 2012. This massive audio visual show will see Breton premier footage created specifically for the event by their cinematic wing BretonLABS, shown on the backdrop of a full cinema sized screen as they perform. The night will also feature the legendary production duo and AV masters Plaid and Holotronica, the latest project from the pioneering AV outfit Hexstatic.

Breton will return to France for a show at La Machine in Paris on 13^th January 2012.

www.facebook.com/bretonlabs

www.twitter.com/bretonlabs

www.youtube.com/bretonlabs

http://soundcloud.com/bretonlabs

www.myspace.com/bretonbretonbreton

Ahead of kicking off their UK Tour tomorrow night in Bournemouth, Frank Turner and Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo have this morning made a newly recorded duet available for free download.

Called ‘Fields Of June’, and taken from Emily Barkers’ 2008 ‘Photos. Fires. Fables.‘ album, they will be performing the duet during Barker’s set on each night of the tour:

O2 Academy Bournemouth (November 22)
Newport Centre (23)
Birmingham O2 Academy (24)
Glasgow Barrowlands (25)
O2 Apollo Manchester (26)
London HMV Hammersmith Apollo (27)

The track is available to download and stream from bandcamp, plus a video of the duet being recorded is also available via youtube:

Audio Stream + Download: Fields Of June
Video: Fields Of June

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo last week re-released their critically acclaimed album ‘Almanac’on 12″ vinyl, which comes with a limited edition art print.