The Maccabees reveal new album track

The Maccabees have revealed a second track from their forthcoming album'Given To The Wild', due for release January 9th 2012. The video was posted for fans on Christmas Day - check it out here 

 

Pre order the new album 'Given To The Wild' from iTunes

 

Win Duke Spirit guestlist to Wembley

The Duke Spirit were in Milan last week and recorded a session for Milano Acoustics – in a bar with a pregnant mannequins amongst other things.... Check out 'Surrender' from that session, and Like or Comment on the Facebook post to win guestlist for The Duke Spirit supporting White Lies at Wembley Arena this Saturday night.

http://www.facebook.com/thedukespirit?sk=app_124455574238209#!/thedukespirit

The Cure: Check Out Some Photos from The Cure Playing the Royal Albert Hall

 

THE CURE LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL PHOTOS!

The Cure played a truly stunning live show at the Royal Albert Hall in November. This was the only UK date announced on their Reflections Tour, and a final chance to see them play the first three albums live in their entirety. If you missed out check out some of the great photos that were taken here and here.

 

THE CURE CLASSIC ALBUM SELECTION 1979-1984

We are proud to announce the release of The Cure Classic Album Selection 1979-1984 which is out TODAY! This 5CD box set includes mini-LPs housed in an attractive slipcase and provides the perfect album anthology of The Cure's career spanning the classic period 1979-1984; and includes:

1. THREE IMAGINARY BOYS

2. SEVENTEEN SECONDS

3. FAITH

4. PORNOGRAPHY

5. THE TOP

Maccabees - Watch the Given To The Wild Short Film

GIVEN TO THE WILD SHORT FILM + PELICAN RADIO 1 RECORD OF THE WEEK Hi Everyone, The above piece is a collaboration between Charlie & Joe and ourselves, watch it now on Drowned In Sound. Many thanks to Charlie & Joe for their work in putting together this short film. All music is re-arranged and re-mixed excerpts taken from our forthcoming album, Given To The Wild. In other news, Pelican has been chosen as record of the week on Fearne Cotton's Radio 1 Show, Geoff Lloyd's Absolute Show and also on Danny Wallace's XFM Breakfast Show. We have also added another date to the January tour. Will be playing the Leadmill, Sheffield on the 21st Jan. There are still limited tickets for the January shows, visit the tickets section on our website for more information. ------------- The Maccabees new album Given To The Wild is released on January 9th. Pre-order here: mssociety.co.uk stopwar.org.uk themaccabees.co.uk myspace.com/themaccabees youtube.com/themaccabees facebook.com/themaccabees twitter.com/themaccabees themaccabees.tumblr.com

White Lies - European tour kicks off + new clothing range in store now

EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR KICKS OFF

White Lies' grand European headline tour kicked off at the weekend with shows in Belgium and Germany.

The tour is the band's biggest to date and takes them to Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark and the UK. The tour culminates in a headline date at Wembley Arena, before they close the year with a New Year's Eve show in Aberdeen.

A select number of last minute tickets remain for the tour. Check out the list below to buy them now.

29 Nov - FZW, Dortmund, Germany [BUY TICKETS]
30 Nov - Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland [BUY TICKETS]

2 Dec - Teatro Geox, Padua, Italy [BUY TICKETS]
3 Dec - Orion, Rome, Italy [BUY TICKETS]
4 Dec - Alcatraz, Milan, Italy [BUY TICKETS]
6 Dec - 013, Tilburg, Netherlands [BUY TICKETS]
8 Dec - Schlachthof, Bremen, Germany [BUY TICKETS]
9 Dec - NY Theatre, Horsens, Denmark [BUY TICKETS]
11 Dec - De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands [BUY TICKETS]
12 Dec - Civic, Wolverhampton, UK [BUY TICKETS]
13 Dec - 02 Apollo, Manchester, UK [BUY TICKETS]
15 Dec - Academy, Glasgow, UK [BUY TICKETS]
17 Dec - Wembley Arena, London, UK [BUY TICKETS]

31 Dec - Granite Rocks, Aberdeen, UK [BUY TICKETS]

The band are blogging from the road - keep up with their tweets via the White Lies Facebook page.

BRAND NEW CLOTHING RANGE IN THE STORE

To mark the occasion of the European Arena tour there's a brand new clothing range in the official store.

Visit whitelies.firebrandstore.com now to check out the all-new logo hoodie, men and women's tour t-shirt and a whole new range of t-shirt designs.



Plus, don't miss the White Lies bobble hat - a must for these frozen winter months.

THANKS TO THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS, THE FANS AND Q MAGAZINE

The band wish to thank Thirty Seconds To Mars for a great support tour, and the fans who came along to make the gigs so memorable.

Big thanks also goes out to Q magazine who have named 'Ritual' in their Top 50 Albums of 2011. Check out the full list at qthemusic.com

The Naked and Famous: Watch 'No Way' Video

Fallen Empires - £3.99 Amazon album of the week

Snow Patrol’s latest studio album Fallen Empires is out this week, and Amazon must love it as much as we do as they have chosen it as their mp3 album of the week – you have untilSunday to buy it at the awesome price of £3.99. 

Plus check out The Guardian today for an interview with Gary 

The band joined a world-class line-up last night at the MEN Arena in Manchester to raise money for the BBC Children in Need Appeal 2011. If you missed it you can watch it now via the BBC iPlayer at bbc.co.uk/iplayer

And if you still want more, Gary, Nathan and John McDaid recently headed to RAK Studios in London to record acoustic versions of several new tracks from the  album – check out 'This Isn't Everything You Are' as well as 'Lifening' now at uk.msn.com, and 'New York', 'The Garden Rules' and 'Called Out In The Dark' at Guardian.co.uk.

Have a good weekend all...

Fiction x

2:54 Scarlet EP out now

The debut release from one of Fiction latest signings 2:54 is out this week – limited edition blue vinyl has sold out already but you can still get a regular 10” from Rough Trade  or a digital download

Check out the official video here

elbow and Snow Patrol – Children In Need tonight

Two of fiction’s finest are on the telebox tonight, supporting Children In Need LIVE from 8pm BBC1 / BBC Radio 1. To give £5 to CiN text Donate to 70705 – more info at bbc.co.uk/pudsey

Snow Patrol’s brand new album ‘Fallen Empires’ is out this week – to listen to clips from the album and check out the band Live At RAK studios head over to their website

 

Elbow recently broke records with their Radio 2 Manchester Cathedral gig – MOST EVER VIEWED ON RED BUTTON –and good news is the full show is now up on their website, so you can all relive the show online http://www.elbow.co.uk/ and if you are in the UK you can watch the Special still on iPlayer, complete with Manchester tour from Guy and Pete.. 

New video just in – No Way from The Naked And Famous

Yet another awesome video from TNAF’s longtime collaborations Special Problems, the ace new video for current single ‘No Way’ is premiering with The Fly right now – check it out here 

The Duke Spirit's new single 'Don't Wait' out Nov 21st

The Duke Spirit's new single 'Don't Wait' is out on November 21st on download and limited edition green vinyl.

www.thedukespirit.com

www.facebook.com/thdukespirit

Snow Patrol's new album 'Fallen Empires' out now!

Snow Patrol's new album 'Fallen Empires' is now available to buy in the UK. The album features current single 'This Isn't Everything You Are', 'Fallen Empires' and 'Called Out In The Dark', as well as 11 brand new tracks. You can listen to snippets of each track from the album now by clicking below. You can buy the album now via the link below or order the Double Gatefold Vinyl LP now via the Official Store.

Win tickets to see The Cure at The Royal Albert Hall

 

WIN TICKETS TO SEE THE CURE LIVE AT

THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL!

We are running an amazing competition to win a pair of tickets to the sold out Reflections show at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday November 15th, but be quick as it ends midday on Thursday 10th November.

This is the only UK date announced on their Reflections Tour and a final chance to see them play the first three albums live in their entirety. From the punchy, offbeat, starkly unadorned songs of Three Imaginary Boys (1979), through the increasingly shadowy and quixotic pieces of Seventeen Seconds (1980), to the singular melancholic grandeur of Faith (1981), this will be a truly extraordinary concert experience not to be missed!

Click here to enter!

 

THE CURE CLASSIC ALBUM SELECTION

We are proud to announce the release of The Cure Classic Album Selection on 5th December. This 5CD box set includes mini-LPs housed in an attractive slipcase and provides the perfect album anthology of The Cure's career spanning the classic period 1979-1984; and includes:

1. THREE IMAGINARY BOYS

2. SEVENTEEN SECONDS

3. FAITH

4. PORNOGRAPHY

5. THE TOP

The first three of these albums will be performed by The Cure in their entirety on the Reflections Tour.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER 'THE CURE CLASSIC ALBUM SELECTION'

THE CURE ON SPOTIFY

You can listen to The Cure's first three albums on Spotify here:

LISTEN TO 'THREE IMAGINARY BOYS'

LISTEN TO 'SEVENTEEN SECONDS'

LISTEN TO 'FAITH'

The Naked + Famous: New Zealand Awards, Digital EP Release + Post War Years UK Support

New Zealand Awards This week saw TNAF snap up an impressive win at the 2011 New Zealand Music Awards. Dominating the major categories, TNAF were up for Single of the Year, Best Group, Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Best Alternative Album, while video producers Special Problems were in line for Best Music Video for 'Punching In A Dream' - and they went home with a clean sweep of all the Tuis they had been nominated for.

'No Light' and 'This Machine' now available in the UK TNAF early EPs 'No Light' and 'This Machine' are available digitally in the UK for the first time right now over on iTunes. Have a look at the tracklistings below. NO LIGHT 1 - Dadada 2 - Birds 3 - Cheek 4 - Who Are You Talking To? 5 - Part 2 6 - Bells THIS MACHINE 1 - Kill The Littleblackdots 2 - Serenade 3 - Meeting People Sucks 4 - Part One 5 - Post 6 - Spies Spies Spies Click here to head over to iTunes and download your copy.

Post War Years To Support TNAF On UK Tour We're delighted to announce Post War Years will be supporting The Naked And Famous on their upcoming UK tour. Visit Post War Years' official website to listen their new single 'All Eyes', due on 5th December. If you haven't yet got your tickets for TNAF's UK tour grab them now while you still can. 9th Nov - University Anson Rooms, Bristol [BUY TICKETS] 10th Nov - Roundhouse, London [SOLD OUT] 12th Nov - Leadmill, Sheffield [BUY TICKETS] 13th Nov - Olympia Theatre, Dublin [BUY TICKETS] 15th Nov - 02 ABC 1, Glasgow [BUY TICKETS] 16th Nov - Empire, Middlesbrough [BUY TICKETS] 17th Nov - Academy 2, Manchester [BUY TICKETS] 19th Nov - HMV Institute, Birmingham [BUY TICKETS] 20th Nov - Junction, Cambridge [BUY TICKETS] 21st Nov - Waterfront, Norwich [BUY TICKETS] 23rd Nov - Pyramids Centre, Portsmouth [BUY TICKETS] The London show is sold out and there are a limited amount of tickets left for Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin so act fast. Click here for a full list of worldwide shows. (Due to unforeseen circumstances Alex Winston will no longer be opening as previously announced)

Tumblr Keep up with blogs, photos and life on the road with The Naked And Famous over on their Tumblr profile.

Snow Patrol New Dates for 2010

	We can finally now reveal Snow Patrol's UK tour dates for January/February 2012. The band will play shows in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Nottingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Bournemouth and London as part of the UK & Ireland 2012 tour, that also includes the previously announced dates in Dublin and Belfast. Support for the full tour will come from Mercury Prize nominated Everything Everything, who Snow Patrol have personally chosen to join them on the road. The new shows are: Tickets for these shows will go on general sale on Friday 11th November via Ticketmaster.co.uk (Scottish shows only) and Gigsandtours.com (English shows only). Pre-sale tickets will be available exclusively from Tuesday 8th November to those that have pre-ordered the new album 'Fallen Empires', which you can still do now via the SP store and 7digital. CLICK TO PRE-ORDER THE CD, VINYL OR DELUXE CD/DVD CLICK TO PRE-ORDER THE DOWNLOAD At the point of purchase you will be informed as to when you will receive your pre sale code. Please note that the codes will not be sent to you immediately after ordering your copy of the album. The pre sale codes will no longer be available to new pre-orders after 17:00 on the 10th of November, so if you would like access to the pre sale then please pre order your copy of the album before then to be sent a code. If you have previously pre-ordered your copy of the album, via one of the links above, you should have already received this access code and - as long as it has not been used previously - can be used for these new dates.

2:54 Got A Hold

2:54 reveal a second helping to their forthcoming EP ‘Scarlet’ – check out Got A Hold here.

You can pre order the EP, due for release Nov 14,  on limited 7” vinyl from Rough Trade here.

New Duke Spirit tour dates 2012

The Duke Spirit have announced new tour dates for March 2012 – you can get your hands on tickets from 9am today. Dates are:

MAR 1 - MANCHESTER RUBY LOUNGE

MAR 2 - LEEDS COCKPIT*

MAR 3 - GLASGOW KING TUTS

MAR 5 - BRISTOL FLEECE

MAR 6 - BRIGHTON KOMEDIA

*Tickets for the postponed Cockpit show on Sept 19th remain valid for this show.

Ticket purchase: www.thedukespirit.com

If you missed the band on Channel Four’s On Track with SEAT, cutting 4 tracks lie to vinyl on Wednesday night this week, you can watch again here, and download their awesome cover of Motorhead’s ‘Damage Case’ for FREE right here: http://on.fb.me/ontrackdukespirit  

Enjoy

Fiction x

XFM Winter Wonderland – Kaiser Chiefs and The Maccabees

The Kaiser Chiefs have been announced to headline XFM Winter Wonderland on Dec 14th 2011, with The Maccabees also announced today on the same bill at O2 Academy Brixton.
Tickets went onsale this morning - links all on XFM's website here

See you down the front
Fiction

Watch elbow Live From Manchester Cathedral TONIGHT

elbow are playing a super special hometown gig at Manchester Cathedral for BBC Radio 2.

If you aren’t one of the lucky ones who got tickets, you can watch on the big screen at Exchange Square in Manchester, via the snazzy red button on tele (point remote towards your digital tv and hit said red button at 9pm tonight and voila, elbow in your living room), or go to www.elbow.co.uk where it will be streamed LIVE. Plus obviously, live on Radio 2.

If that wasn’t enough, the encore will be broadcast live on BBC 6Music from 10pm on Gideon Coe's evening show.

Hooray.

2:54 on the Rebel Playlist...

Fictions newest family members 2:54 have a new single ‘Scarlet’ up for Steve Lamacqs Rebel Playlist!!!
You can vote here only if you like it!

And buy it here  if you heart it!

The Maccabees announce new record

Hooray for Tuesdays. This morning The Maccabees announced their third album, titled ‘Given To The Wild’, will be released 9th January 2012. Check out a video of the band working on the album on their site www.themaccabees.co.uk

Tracklisting:

'Child'

'Pelican'

'Feel To Follow'

'Ayla'

'Glimmer'

'Forever I've Known'

'Heave'

'Go'

'Unknow'

'Went Away'

'Slowly One'

'Grew Up At Midnight'

The band are touring pre-release in November, info on tickets here - http://bit.ly/ojmtja

More news to follow soon...

Fiction

x

KAISER CHIEFS win at Digital Music Awards last night

Kaisers won the Best Artist Promotion Award for the launch of ‘The Future Is Medieval’ at the Digital Music Awards last night. The band collected their award  at the Roundhouse in Camden - and promptly spotted a spelling mistake 

  

Check out the full list of winners on Radio 1 Newsbeat
  

If you made it to one of the incredible KC Kirkstall Abbey shows (we’re still arguing over which night was best) then check out Peanuts photos and tag yourselves on Facebook to win a KC tshirt

Right, back to nursing our hangovers….

Fiction x

White Lies - 'The Power & The Glory' out today

'THE POWER & THE GLORY' - OUT TODAY

White Lies new digital single - 'The Power & The Glory' touches down today (Monday September 26th).

Click here to download your copy from iTunes now.



'The Power & The Glory' digital single includes a brand new mix of the title track
and comes backed by two remixes from Wax Stag and Bibio.

Watch the video for the song here. It was filmed when the band headlined the Sziget Festival
in Budapest this summer - and it's included when you download the single from iTunes.

WHITE LIES WINTER TOUR

Don't miss White Lies on tour this winter - buy your tickets below:

2 Nov - Duo, Tokyo, Japan [BUY TICKETS]

4 Nov - Personal Fest, Buenos Aires, Argentina [BUY TICKETS]

5 Nov - Planeta Terra Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil [SOLD OUT]

25 Nov - Lotto Arena, Antwerp, Belgium [BUY TICKETS]

26 Nov - Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany [BUY TICKETS]

28 Nov - Alter Schlachthof, Dresden, Germany [BUY TICKETS]

29 Nov - FZW, Dortmund, Germany [BUY TICKETS]

30 Nov - Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland [BUY TICKETS]

6 Dec - Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, NL [BUY TICKETS]

8 Dec - Aladin, Bremen, Germany [BUY TICKETS]

9 Dec - NY Theatre, Horsens, DK [BUY TICKETS]

11 Dec - De Oosterpoort, Groningen, NL [BUY TICKETS]

12 Dec - Civic, Wolverhampton [BUY TICKETS]

13 Dec - 02 Apollo, Manchester [BUY TICKETS]

15 Dec - Academy, Glasgow [BUY TICKETS]

17 Dec - Wembley Arena, London [BUY TICKETS]

The Maccabees tickets onsale tomorrow

Dear Everyone,

Firstly, huge thanks to anyone who has come out to see us at our first handful of live shows for a while, a very good feeling to be back playing. Was great to be back at Bestival and especially nice to see Mick Jones still in such good form with B.A.D and PJ Harvey the evening before. On that note we are happy to announce our first UK tour in over a year. The shows, listed below, will be an opportunity for us to play the new songs that we have aired at the last few gigs as well as a few others and a pick of songs off the first two records. Although not yet totally confirmed, we should also be taking out two of our favourite new bands as support.

Our third album is very near completion and expect to hear news on it's arrival in the near future. Until then, we're really looking forward to these shows...

SHOW DATES

Fri 21 Oct Gloucester Guildhall
Sun 23 Oct Coventry Kasbah
Mon 24 Oct Oxford Town Hall
Tues 25 Oct Liverpool Masque
Weds 26 Oct Glasgow Arches
Thurs 27 Oct Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
Sat 29 Oct Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Sun 30 Oct Leeds Cockpit
Mon 31 Oct Manchester Sound Control
Tues 01 Nov London Village Underground
Weds 02 Nov Bristol Trinity

Tickets will go on sale this Saturday 24th September. We have decided to keep booking fees on tickets low by making them available through local records shops wherever possible.

Visit www.themaccabees.co.uk for full ticket outlet information and availability.

You can read the NME review from our Portsmouth show here and the picture below is from a NME photo shoot before the Exeter show. Our third album is very near completion and expect to hear news on its arrival in the near future.

Love,
The Maccabees

Q 25th anniversary

To celebrate Q Magazine’s 25th anniversary, we’ve got 2 super dooper Fiction collectors covers this month – check out Elbow and Snow Patrol on the front:

To pre-order your cover, head to www.greatmagazines.co.uk/Q25 - goes live at midday today. We can’t choose between them so we’re going to have to order both.