Fast rising UK metallers WITH ONE LAST BREATH have been confirmed to play this years DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL, they will be playing the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Sunday 10th June and will also be performing acoustically on the Jägermeister Stage on Friday 8th June. This follows from an already explosive year supporting ASKING ALEXANDRIA on a SOLD OUT UK tour and recently touring across the UK with YASHIN. 

Showing no signs of slowing down WITH ONE LAST BREATH will also be kicking off their UK tour with OF MICE & MEN & BURY TOMORROW this week, the dates are as follows:

April

20 – Tunbridge Wells – The Forum
21 – Kingston – The Peel
22 – Nottingham – Hit The Deck Festival
23 – Carlisle – The Brickyard
24 – Aberdeen – Tunnels
25 – Glasgow – Cathouse
26 – Newcastle – O2 Academy 2
27 – Wrexham – Central Station
28 – Manchester – Moho Live
29 – Stoke – Sugarmill
30 – Coventry – Kasbah

May

01 – Bristol – The Fleece
02 – Plymouth – White Rabbit
03 – London – Underworld
04 – Reading – Sub89
05 – Southampton – The Joiners
25 – Brighton – The Haunt

With One Last Breath Online:
http://www.facebook.com/withonelastbreathofficial
http://twitter.com/WOLB
http://www.withonelastbreath.bigcartel.com

Future of the Left are pleased to announce details of a headline tour in June covering the UK and parts of Europe as well as summer festival appearances.

As their current outside-of-their-own-heads single, ‘sheena is a t-shirt salesman’, blasts out across the airwaves – played and championed by Radio 1’s Daniel P Carter, Huw Stephens as well as XFM, 6Music and Kerrang! Radio – these dates will please fans no end who have been patiently waiting for the band to tour again.

Full dates are as follows:

JUNE
1 Diksmuide, 4AD Belgium
2 Paris: La Maroquinerie, France
3 Lille, La Peniche, France
5 Brussels, VK, Belgium

7 Cheltenham, Frog and Fiddle (2000 Trees “launch” party)
8 Nottingham, Bodega
9 Manchester, Deaf Institute
10 Newcastle, Academy 2
11 Glasgow, King Tuts
13 Brighton, The Haunt
14 London, XOYO
JULY
14 2000 Trees Festival, Cheltenham
21 Sheffield Tramlines Festival
29 Off The Cuff Festival                                

AUGUST
5 Matlock YNOT Festival
9 Croatia, Zagreb Terraneo Festival

The shows coincide with the release of the band’s hotly anticipated album ‘the plot against common sense’, which is to be released on 11^th June in the UK and Europe and 12^th June in the USA. Constituting 49.8 minutes of singing, shouting, slinking, smashing and (at times) sobbing, the album is the best thing the band have put their name to in this or any other dimension, a fact which is not open to debate.

www.futureoftheleft.net  www.xtramilereocrdings.com

It’s been amazing, it’s so cliché to say that each night has been better than the last but honestly, every night has been better than the last. We’re really looking forward to tonight, we have big expectations.

You’ve started coming to the UK almost bi-annually, with acoustic shows in Spring and full shows in Autumn. How does it feel knowing the acoustic shows have been so embraced by fans?

It’s really cool for us, I was actually talking about this earlier because we weren’t exactly sure what the response would be when we first started doing it, and we got a lot of resistance from the powers-that-be; and, in fact, they still are trying to tell us that we come to this country too much, and it’s like but people are still buying tickets so why wouldn’t we do that? We’ve always had such a wonderful relationship with the United Kingdom, the fans here have always been really, really cool, so it’s very nice for us.

This is your third Spring acoustic tour, when you did your first one did you ever imagine coming back more times with more acoustics?

We hoped that we would, and the third one almost didn’t happen, because like I was saying before, we had to fight really, really hard to make this happen and so luckily it did, and luckily we get to shove it in the face and say ‘look what we did’, and it worked and everything was great. So we’re just super stoked that people are still interested enough that we get to do this thing. It’s really cool for us to do this tour because it’s something very different, much more intimate. It’s nice people get to see another representation of our music.

How is the atmosphere different, transferring those songs you usually play live to playing acoustic?

It’s not that big of a deal to do that, because all the songs started out on acoustic guitars anyway and so, basically, before a tour happens Jaret and I discuss the songs that we want to do and I spend a couple of days, kind of deconstruct them from the studio versions down to the acoustic versions and then we spend… I was going to say we spend a couple of days rehearsing for it but for this tour we didn’t even rehearse. We just discussed what we were going to do and before the first show we sat in the dressing room and went over a few things and that was it. It’s been really cool because there’s been some really cool moments that are happening on stage every night and it’s just nothing is rehearsed and these things are just happening and manifesting themselves in the heat of the moment, which is great.

The UK definitely enjoy humour, do you feel that the crowds connect with a lot of the songs because of that?

It’s a different kind of fan culture here and people tend to be way more into the whole thing, like people come to the show and they want to make it an experience and everyone is kind of involved in this experience, there’s a great unity of the crowd and everyone kind of works together to make something possibly greater than the sum of its parts. It’s a different kind of music fan here.

You’ve played several different venues here in London that are no longer around – like Astoria, do you miss those venues?

Yeah, we do, I feel very lucky that we had the opportunity to play in a place like the Astoria and Brixton Academy, we’ve kind of been in so many historic venues that it’s really cool, like you grew up in the States and you read about these places and then all of a sudden I’m there headlining on the stage. We’re really, really lucky to play the places that we’ve been.

Obviously Astoria’s now gone so it’s even more history…

Exactly! The amount of legend that it had before automatically doubles as soon as they tear it down.

Does it feel odd, or did it feel odd to begin with, playing the acoustic shows just you and Jaret?

No, he and I have been doing this together for probably close to fifteen years, the way we were able to first quit our day jobs was doing almost exactly this same thing. We’d go set up in pubs and play for tips and then after about two weeks of doing that we realized how much money we were making. That’s kind of where all this comes from. It’s a little weird being out on tour without Chris and Gary and we miss them greatly but it’s cool, the shows are a completely different kind of mindset.

And finally, will you be coming back to the UK in the Autumn?

We will be back in October, those dates are going to be announced very, very shortly.

Thank you very much to Erik for taking the time to speak with Noise Addiction and we look forward to the full electric tour in the Autumn.

CONFIRMED FOR UK’S DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL JUNE 2012

SLASH–the iconic, Grammy-winning rock guitarist and songwriter–has revealed the cover artwork and album title for his second studio albumAPOCALYPTIC LOVE. Due out May 21 (in the UK), the new album features Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators and will be releasedSLASH’s own label DikHayd International and distributed through Roadrunner Records in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

In the UK, the album will be released on May 21 in exclusive Classic Rock Fan Pack form – providing a unique collectable package containing the studio album with bonus tracks alongside a specially created magazine with unseen behind-the-scenes content put together by Classic Rock. The Fan Pack format will also come with free gifts including a pin badge & artwork poster and will be available to buy via more than 2000 retail outlets on newsstands nationally as well as the traditional high street and online music retailer. The Fan Pack is available for pre-order now atwww.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/slash-fan-pack. Roadrunner Records will simultaneously release the record digitally. The standard physical release of the Slash album will follow through Roadrunner Records on June 18 2012.

SLASH is currently in a Los Angeles studio putting the final touches on APOCALYPTIC LOVE. This week he announced his headlining U.S. tour will begin May 3 inBaltimore. A fan pre-sale is happening now on www.slashonline.com,the regular on-sale starts tomorrow, Friday, February 17. See the full itinerary below which more dates to be added.

APOCALYPTIC LOVE, will follow his 2010 debut album Slash (Also released in Fan Pack format and which has now sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone) and his November2011 first-ever live  solo album, the two-CD/DVD set Made In Stoke 24/7/11. Notably, the Slashalbum debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #3(#1 on the Rock chart, #1 on the Independent chart, and #1 on the Hard Music chart). Digitally, the album also became the #1 overall digital album and hit #1 on iTunes in 13 countries. Internationally, the disc achieved Top 5 chart positions inover a dozen major territories, hitting #1 in both Japan and New Zealand.

On APOCALYPTIC LOVE,SLASH–along with and his bandmatesMyles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums) and Todd Kerns (bass)–have teamed with producer Eric Valentine, who also produced the Slash disc. All the songs were written together by SLASH and Kennedy andcameras have been rolling throughout the entire making of the album. Check out exclusive behind-the-scenes footage airing weekly at:

Episode 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYbyb8xXTQ

Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYbyb8xXTQ

Episode 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYbyb8xXTQ.

www.slashonline.com

https://twitter.com/#!/slash

SLASH is also now conmfirmed for the UK’s Download festival, which takes place on the weekend of the 8^th to 10^th June 2012. For more information and tickets please go to www.downloadfestival.co.uk

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HEADLINE TOUR DATES IN THE UK, EUROPE & JAPAN….
NEW SINGLE FOR FEBRUARY 20th 2012 VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS,
SUPPORTED BY PREVIOULY UNRELEASED BONUS MATERIAL

THE ANSWER have confirmed the release of a brand new single / video for February 20th; titled ‘Nowhere Freeway’ and taken from the quartet’s latest / third studio album, ‘Revival’, the song – a duet with Saint Jude vocalist Lynne Jackaman – is the follow up to the ‘Vida (I Want You)’ single, and will be available as a three-track digital download.

The full track-listing will be:-

1)    Nowhere Freeway (feat. Lynne Jackaman)
2)    Battlecry (a previously unreleased studio recording, originally put to tape during the ‘Revival’ sessions in the US but only recently finished off)
3)    Nowhere Freeway (live acoustic – iTunes bonus track )

Tracks 1 + 2 are produced by Chris ‘Frenchie’ Smith and mixed by Chris Sheldon.

The Answer have filmed a video for ‘Nowhere Freeway’, with Lynne Jackaman taking a guest role.

ON THE live front, the band recently completed a run of dates in Europe Special Guesting with Whitesnake, and they will shortly be departing for a series of European headline shows, which will see them visiting Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands & Greece.

After this, they fly to Japan for a headline appearance in Tokyo, before heading out on a full tour of the UK & Ireland alongside The Union, with The Answerclosing all of the shows; these are as follows:-

MARCH

2nd – Dublin, Whelan’s
3rd – Belfast, Mandela Hall
4th – Cork, Cyprus Avenue
6th – Leeds, Cockpit
7th – Glasgow, Garage
8th – Aberdeen, Lemon Tree
10th – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall
11th – Nottingham, Rock City
12th – Newcastle, 02 Academy
13th- Manchester, Academy 2
15th – London, Electric Ballroom
16th – Bristol, Academy 2
17th – Brighton, Concorde 2