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.

Fiction on #Jools on iPlayer...

In case you missed Later With Jools live on Tuesday night, links below to the show on iplayer. The mighty Snow Patrol opened the show with ‘Called Out In The Dark’, followed by a smashing performance from The Duke Spirit ‘Surrender’.
Snow Patrol close the show with an epic performance of ‘This Isn’t Everything You Are’.

Extended show goes out on Friday night this weekend – spot any of the Fiction team (and that doesn’t include the bands, we’re not stupid) and tweet us @fictionrecords #jools and we will send you a surprise.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0153mm7/Later_Live..._with_Jools_Holland_Series_39_Episode_1/

An evening in with Fiction

Even though its September it feels like bloody winter outside already  - get on that sofa tonight and watch the first in the new series of Jools Holland.
The Duke Spirit perform their latest single ‘Surrender’, followed by 2 new tracks from Snow Patrol. Magic.

p.s. look out for The Beard in the crowd, tweet us @fictionrecords #jools if you spot him, and depending how drunk we get on Jools’ unlabelled beverages we might send you a surprise in the post.

elbow: Children In Need Rocks Manchester

Children In Need Rocks Manchester
Elbow are very proud to announce their involvement in this year's Children In Need campaign. The band will join Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Snow Patrol and more at a one-off concert for Children In Need in Manchester.

'BBC Children in Need Rocks Manchester' takes place on Thursday November 17th at the M.E.N. Arena, and will be hosted by Fearne Cotton, Chris Moyles and David Tennant. It will also be broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD and Radio 1 between 8pm and 10pm.

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 16th September. Visit www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey for full details and to find out how you can get involved in this year's charity appeal.

The Duke Spirit – Rough Trade and listen to the album..

The Duke Spirit are super busy this week – not only have they been handwriting and wrapping some beautiful books and photos for the limited edition albums bought from their website, rehearsing for their instore on Friday (and Scala show next week), they have also installed a punch bag into Rough Trade East.. punches are being streamed live to the bands facebook site, check it out here

Plus, they have teamed up with Soundcloud and Gigwise.com to offer you lovely people a sneak peak at the new album BRUISER, released on Monday. Check it out here  – we are in love with it, let us know what you think.

The band are playing on the first show of the new series of Later With Jools Holland next week – live show on Tuesday night (repeats on Friday in case you are out and about), vote for which BRUISER animal you want on the drum skin for the show on facebook here

Bruiser love,

Fiction x

Take a swing with The Duke Spirit

To kick off the single release this week and celebrate the release of new album BRUISER next Monday, The Duke Spirit have installed a punchbag and gloves in Rough Trade East this week. Head down, take out your frustrations and have a listen to the new album.
The installation is being streamed live on Facebook, and good (or really bad) punches will be entered into a facebook gallery – prizes to be won, just tag yourself.

Streaming live video by Ustream

Drum roll please....

The Naked And Famous have been nominated for a massive FIVE awards for this years New Zealand Music Awards! The categories are: album of the year, single of the year for Young Blood, best group, breakthrough artist, and alternative album - a new category this year. Bloody amazing. Their homeland art + video collaborators Special Problems are also nominated, in the NZ On Air Best Music Video category for Punching In A Dream.

Get all the categories and gossip from the NZ Herald here. Winners are announced November 3.

Check out Special Problems latest video for the band (the one with the nakedness...) here.

Over and out

x

Alice Gold @ Oh! Inverted World

Matthew P - The New 'She Began To Dance' Video

	The official video for my new track 'She Began To Dance' has arrived! Click here to watch it now. We shot the video a couple of weeks ago in and around Southwold with director Steve Glashier and it was a lot of fun to make. Hope you enjoy it. If you want to download the track head to iTunes for your copy.

The Naked And Famous video is BANNED!!

The Naked And Famous have delivered yet another awesome video for album favourite 'The Sun'. Made by their New Zealand collaborators Special Problems, it features some good nakedness and has already been banned from YouTube.

You can watch it by clicking here

Use your discretion in viewing – might not be a good idea to watch at work..

If you are all up for watching a bit of TNAF now, slightly more appropriate viewing of the band live at Reading Festival is here

PHEW!

Fiction x