Thursday 29 November 2012, 12:58 | By CMU Editorial

Damien Hirst to design a BRIT

Awards

You know how each year the BRIT award – that is to say the actual bit of metal winning song peddlers get to take home – is now designed by a different British artist? Well, next year’s gongs will be created by Damien Hirst. I was planning a cow-related gag, but it turns out we don’t have the budget. So insert your own here now.

Confirming this plan, BRITs boss David Joseph, he off of Universal Music, told CMU: “We are delighted that Damien will become the third extraordinary creative Briton to re-imagine the BRIT statue. He is truly one of the most important British artists ever and his unique vision will make winning a 2013 BRIT an even more special proposition”.

James Corden will host the British music industry’s big bash for the 425th year running when it takes place next February in that popular London venue, The Rubbish Tel Co. Yes, guess who had a run in with O2 last week. But I promise not to let that fact influence our coverage of the BRIT Awards. And the good news is, I don’t have a Mastercard, so the chances of that company pissing me off are very low.

Adele sells over ten million copies of 21 in the US, not working hard enough says Louis Walsh

Artist News

Adele has now sold over ten million copies of her second album ’21’ in the US alone – in the UK it’s shifted a further 4.5 million units. It’s only the 21st album to pass the ten million US sales mark since Neilsen SoundScan began recording such data in 1991, so that’s nice. What’s more, it’s the only album in the last decade to reach the ten million figure in less than two years. So many stats.

Learning the news, Adele said: “What an incredible honour. A huge, huge thank you to my American fans for embracing this record on such a massive level”.

You’d think with all that success Adele might have earned herself a bit of a rest. Not so, says Louis Walsh. In fact, he thinks she’s been downright lazy, using having a baby as an excuse for being so. Bad Adele. Walsh told Q: “If I [was managing] someone like Adele, no way would she not be working now. Fine, have a baby, but then get back out there before they forget who you are! She’d be on every other TV show and there’d be another album ready. Work the room! That’s my philosophy”.

To be fair, I think Adele’s policy of being a little bit more difficult to pin down has been working alright so far. Did I mention the ten million albums thing?

MTV announces Brand New for 2013 shortlist

Artist News

The publication date for the BBC Sound Of 2013 longlist is now less than two weeks away, but we already know who’s going to be big next year, thanks to MTV, which has already announced its Brand New For 2013 shortlist. A few of the names on the list should be familiar to you, though others might not be, so pay attention. Tom Odell, by the way, is guaranteed a Mercury nomination next year, so there’s one to write down as a one to watch.

Angel Haze
Disclosure
Ebony Day
Gabrielle Aplin
HAIM
K Koke
Kodaline
Little Nikki
Rascals
Tom Odell

Voting for the winner will open on 14 Jan at brandnew.mtv.co.uk with the public’s top choice unveiled on 1 Feb.

BMG signs former Alisha’s Attic songwriter

Business News Deals Labels & Publishers

BMG has signed Karen Poole, formerly one half of Alisha’s Attic, whose recent songwriting projects have included working with Lily Allen on her next album, and with Greg Kurstin on the only slightly awful sounding ‘Bridget Jones The Musical’.

Confirming the new publishing deal, Poole’s manager Anna Carpenter told CMU: “You can’t ignore what BMG are doing – working internationally across all their offices to deliver not just in the UK, but in Europe and the US too. Karen and I are delighted to be working with Kate Sweetsur and her creative team”.

While the there mentioned Kate Sweetsur, BMG Chrysalis’s Senior Creative Director, added: “Karen Poole is one of the UK’s great top-line writers and we and the whole international BMG team are looking forward to working with her and with Anna to maximize her huge potential”.

Low to release new LP

Releases

Low have chosen to mark their 20th anniversary by releasing an LP. Unlike many other artists marking anniversaries by releasing LPs, Low’s LP ‘The Invisible Way’ will be 100% new and original, so that’s nice and novel. Overseen by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy in his Chicago studio, it’s set for release via Sub Pop on 18 Mar.

The band’s Alan Sparhawk shares this concise summation of its themes: “It’s about intimacy, the drug war, the class war, plain old war war, archaeology and love”.

Now it’s timeto view a very visible ‘Invisible Way’ promo trail:

The Drums’ Jonny Pierce talks “self-indulgent” solo debut

Releases

The Drums’ own Jonny Pierce has been moonlighting as a solo artist; and now wants us all to appreciate that he has a self-penned and mastered debut LP on its way.

A modest Pierce, who is now ‘teasing’ the record via new track ‘I Didn’t Realise’, has this to say: “Some might say it’s strange for a man to bare his soul the way I do on this album, but I wanted to do something that exposed me for who I am even more so than anything I have done with The Drums… I wanted to be as self-indulgent as possible with this album. This is pop done the way I think it should be done”.

And with that, this is Pierce’s (apparently) exemplary new pop hit ‘I Didn’t Realise’:

Wild Beasts to play Smother in London, once

Gigs & Festivals

Wild Beasts are playing just one London show this year, and will take it as an chance to recite their 2011 LP ‘Smother’ in its entirety, to the very last note. Tickets to this most rare of live occasions, as will transpire at The Lexington on 7 Dec, are only available via a lottery closing on 3 Dec. Apply to buy into the show via this link.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra share Euro live dates

Gigs & Festivals

Jagjaguwar-signed pop oddities Unknown Mortal Orchestra have published dates for a European tour they’re taking in the new year. It features but one British stopover, at London’s Cargo on 5 Feb, tickets for which fans can fight over from Friday via this link.

Veronica Falls to tour

Gigs & Festivals

Veronica Falls – whose just-detailed sophomore LP ‘Waiting For Something To Happen’ the world is well… waiting on – are going to be touring straight after that record’s 4 Feb release.

Savour the tour’s six dates after a look at the video for the band’s new single ‘Teenage’:

8 Feb: London, Shoreditch Church
14 Feb: Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre
15 Feb: Leeds, Brudenell
25 Feb: Sheffield, Harley
26 Feb: Glasgow, CAA
27 Feb: Newcastle, Cluny

Festival line-up update – 29 Nov 2012

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So, take note shipmates, the theme for Bestival 2013 is HMS Bestival. Meanwhile, in the line ups domain, Sonisphere’s French edition has just acquired Slayer (and Korn), who join Iron Maiden, Motörhead and the like. The Barcelona-based Sonar (which also has editions in Reykjavik, Cape Town, Tokyo and Sao Paulo next year) adds Kraftwerk and Pet Shop Boys, who’ll each be presenting special technologically-advanced live sets… an AV 3D one, in Kraftwerk’s case. Croatian electronica fest-by-the-sea Soundwave, meanwhile, names Bonobo, Kelpe, Om Unit and funk-philanderer Craig Charles amid its first wave of artists. This is a summary of the specifics:

SONAR BARCELONA, various venues, Barcelona, Spain, 13-15 Jun 2013: Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, Two Door Cinema Club, Lindstrøm & Todd Terje, Vatican Shadow, Fantastic Mr Fox, Hot Natured, Baradien, Eduard Escoffet. www.sonar.es

SONISPHERE FRANCE, Snowhall Park, Amnéville, France, 8-9 Jun 2012: Slayer, Korn, Bring Me The Horizon, Children Of Bodom, Epica, Amon Amarth, Marillion, Sabaton, Dragonforce, Headcharger, Dagoba. fr.sonisphere.eu

SOUNDWAVE, Tisno, Croatia, 19-21 Jul 2013: Bonobo, Kelpe, Submotion Orchestra, Om Unit, Riot Jazz, Channel One Soundsystem, Kutmah, Anchorsong, Kidkanevil, Yungun & Mr Thing, Craig Charles, Eliphino, Rich Reason, Gilla, Mikey J. www.soundwavecroatia.com

Will.i.am launches iPhone camera thing

Brands & Merch

So, I imagine at some point in your life you’ve thought to yourself, “Yeah, the iPhone’s all well and good, but it would be much better if it looked like a shit camera from the 80s”. Then you probably wept into your hands because you knew in your heart that this was a dream that could never be a reality. But it can. Stop your crying. It can. Will.i.am has once again looked deep into your soul and given you the thing you most desire.

Yep, Will.i.am has launched a new range of iPhone accessories known collectively as i.am+ foto.sosho (just trips off the tongue, doesn’t it), which will not only make your iPhone look like a shit camera from the 80s, but also enhance the picture taking and photo editing capabilities of the phone. It also adds a slide out keyboard, further ensuring that your phone will no longer easily fit into your pocket.

Essentially, the i.am+ foto.sosho is a camera into which you dock your iPhone. This then gives you a fourteen megapixel camera to play with, along with an app on which you can tart up your photos. Users will also be given a profile page on www.i.am where their can share their awesome shots.

Will told The Daily Telegraph: “We have our own sensor and a better flash. You dock you phone into our device and it turns you smartphone into a genius-phone. We take over the camera”.

Selfridges, which will exclusively sell the devices – starting at £199 – from 6 Dec, went one step further and claimed that it will “turn your iPhone into a fashionable camera”. That’s right, a fashionable camera. Oh, at last.

In the unlikely event the you want one of these things, you can register your interest here.

Deadmau5 lights up whole London square with Nokia

Brands & Merch

So, rather than turning one side of a big fat tower block into a cinema screen, the latest London-based collaboration between phone firm Nokia and that Deadmau5 chap saw all the buildings in a little square in Southwark come to life with an audio-visual-now-buy-our-bloody-phones-all-you-iPhone-using-bastards extravaganza.

Unless you were one of the 250 people who got access to the show live, or one of the savvy net users who thought to Google your way to Nokia’s live stream, you’ll have to wait for the official post-event video to be put online to see quite how it all turned out. That’s imminent.

In the meantime, look, we got a quote for you from the mouse man himself, you lucky lucky people you. Remember when everyone had a Nokia phone? Happy days. Let’s read the DJ’s words then go play Snake: “Playing Millbank Tower was an incredible experience, so it’s great to be back in London to team up with Nokia again. The new show was a totally different concept from last year, but equally inspiring and technically challenging”.

UPDATE: The video is now available, watch it here:

VEVO has paid $200 million to rights owners, says VEVO

Digital

Music video service VEVO has paid over $200 million to rights owners since being set up in 2009, or so said its boss man Rio Caraeff at a Business Insider conference in New York this week. Although co-owned by Sony Music and Universal Music, VEVO licences content from a wide range of labels and publishers, sharing ad revenues with its content partners.

According to Caraeff, VEVO now “generates more money for the music industry than any other service focused on music video”, and that, he says, is because of the high quality of the content, compared to video sites where a lot of content comes from unofficial sources. Added the VEVO chief: “The audience that loves music should be treated and valued the same way as the audience that loves the Super Bowl, and revenue should flow as such”.

Although still best known for its YouTube-powered element, where VEVO content sits on the Google video site’s platform, VEVO has also been rapidly expanding the other access points to its service, making its videos available via other partners, as well as its own apps and VEVO.com website.

Soundrop opens up to third-party developers

Digital

Soundrop, which allows Spotify users to gather together (virtually) and play songs to each other, has opened up its platform to third-party developers. Given that Soundrop is already a third-party Spotify app, does that make them sixth-party developers? I don’t know. But Soundrop has bundled its APIs and a JavaScript library to create a Software Development Kit, so that other people can integrate Soundrop functionality into their own Spotify apps

People like David Guetta, who has already had an Soundrop-enabled Spotify app made for him by the helpful folks over at EMI, allowing users to vote their favourite songs from his catalogue up to the top of a playlist, amongst other features. Imagine, a playlist that only played David Guetta’s music. Eesh. Still, it gives you an idea of the possibilities of the SDK, so go and take a look.

Soundrop founder and CEO Inge Andre Sandvik told CMU: “We’re enabling the next generation of music apps to be social by design. Soundrop is the perfect tool to create a more engaging app, and the SDK and platform make the whole process less stressful, easier and, we hope, a lot more fun”.

Josh Saunders, Head Of Technical And Creative, EMI Music added: We are always looking for new ways to team up with innovative digital partners and the opportunity to work with the Soundrop SDK within the Spotify client on David Guetta’s artist app was a very exciting proposition. We strive to innovate with all our artist apps and this live data-driven approach in David’s artist app has taken things to the new level with regard to fan engagement”.

More information here.

Zayn missed out on One Direction’s Johnny Depp party due to nerves

And Finally

While the rest of One Direction were jamming with Johnny Depp in his home studio earlier this month, Zayn Malik was sitting in his hotel room sobbing into the curtains. Or something. He didn’t go anyway, that’s the point I’m trying to get to. He was too nervous.

Malik told The Sun: “I was too nervous to go. I am a massive, massive fan and I didn’t want to embarrass myself so I let the boys go without me. Hopefully, there will be a next time. The boys said he was totally cool. I kind of regret it for sure and the lads said I was a scaredy cat. Some of our fans get so excited or nervous when they meet us and that’s how I was at the thought of being with Johnny. But instead of lapping it up and enjoying it, I ran the other way”.

Amazingly, there is no ‘Zayn Malik looking sad’ Tumblr that I can link to here. I can however inform you that Googling for such a thing brings up some rather alarming fan fiction.

Playlist: Stealing Sheep

CMU Playlists

Releasing their debut EP in 2010, Liverpool folk trio Stealing Sheep then put out a number of further releases through indie labels Red Deer Club and Idle Fret before signing to Heavenly in late 2011, releasing the ‘Noah & The Paper Moon’ EP.

Debut album ‘Into The Diamond Sun’ was released in September this year, garnering high critical praise. Following a recent tour supporting Alt-J, the group are now due to head out on a headline tour of the UK next week, kicking off at Brighton’s Green Door Store on 5 Dec and finishing with a homecoming Christmas party at The Kazimer in Liverpool on 14 Dec. Londoners can catch them at Bush Hall in Shepherd’s Bush on 10 Dec.

With a new single, ‘Rearrange’, also out now, we caught up with Becky Hawley from the band to ask her about some of her favourite music, which she put together into a handy playlist, saying, “They are all quite interesting strange songs that are stylised and quite intense with strong melodic-ness”.

BECKY HAWLEY’S TEN
Click here to listen to Becky’s playlist on Spotify, and then read on to hear more about her choices:

01 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round And Round
This is quite evocative and brings back memories. I don’t know what memories they are though!

02 Grimes – Oblivion
It’s original sounding and thrill seeking.

03 Race Horses – Furniture
We saw them play it live in Holland at a festival last week and they are a magical set of people with awesome tunes!

04 Sun Ra – The Satellites Are Spinning
This puts you into a trance. It’s got incredible chanting and harpsichord sounding keys all the way through. Like a voodoo march chant.

05 Race Horses – Bad Blood
I’m putting this in because of its ‘Labyrinth’ nostalgia – great synth sounds. It’s epic.

06 Alt-J – Something Good
I like the way the drums sculpt this song. It’s chilled out. I like the change from the verse into the chorus too. It’s a strange change.

07 Temples – Shelter Song
Amazing drum sound. 60s vibes and sexy vocals.

08 Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
She creates a great visual world and has awesome synth sounds.

09 Outkast – Spread
Just because it’s a total sexy rude party tune.

10 Metronomy – Everything Goes My Way
It’s simple, the percussion is clear and the sound is bloody great. I like the softness of her voice. It’s really chilled out and makes me feel calm. I need to feel calm.

Approved: Autre Ne Veut – Counting

CMU Approved

Autre Ne Veut

Brooklyn bedroom musician Arthur Ashin combines soul and electronica with frankly stunning results, as demonstrated on ‘Counting’, the first single to be taken from new album ‘Anxiety’ (the follow up to Autre Ne Veut’s eponymous 2010 debut).

Built on sparse but strategically-placed beats, so precision-tooled you feel they must have been carved by laser-guided diamond-tipped machinery, ‘Counting’ has a crystalline sonic purity at its heart, which is effectively counterbalanced by the warmth of some inescapably intense and emotive vocals.

This is a hugely captivating slice of futurist R&B, akin to Timbaland before he lost it and started collaborating with Nickelback, and exactly the kind of thing you’d hope Prince might be doing these days.

‘Anxiety’ is released in February 2013, while ‘Counting’ is previewing now on YouTube.

Black Keys settle with brands over ad song use

Brands & Merch Legal Top Stories

The Black Keys have told a federal judge in the US that they have settled copyright disagreements with Pizza Hut and The Home Depot.

As previously reported, the Keys cried foul in June, accusing Pizza Hut and its ad agency of using their song ‘Gold On The Ceiling’ and US DIY chain Home Depot of featuring ‘Lonely Boy’ in an ad, both without permission. The brands and ad men denied the charges, but a lawyer working for the Ohio duo said the commercials were a “brazen and improper effort to capitalise on the plaintiffs’ hard-earned success”.

Details of the out of court settlements between the band and the two brands are not known, though it seems an agreement was reached with The Home Depot last month, while Pizza Hut settled on Monday. Having alerted the courts of the two developments, its thought that legal reps for the band will submit formal dismissal requests with the courts in early January.

Neither band nor brands have so far commented.

Artist And Manager Awards presented

Artist News Awards Business News Management & Funding

It was the second ever Artist And Manager Awards in East London last night, the annual awards bash staged by the Music Managers Forum and the Featured Artists Coalition.

Amongst the winners, Ben Howard’s manager Owain Davies was named the Best Breakthrough Manager, while Pale Seas won the new Artist Award, which comes with a £10,000 grant from Spotify. Elsewhere, as previously announced, Kylie Minogue’s manager Terry Blamey was handed the lifetime achievement Peter Grant Award.

Here’s the full list of winners:

Breakthrough Manager: Owain Davies
Breakthrough Artist: Madeon

Manager Of The Year: Sam Eldridge
Artist Of The Year: Plan B

Artist Award: Pale Seas

Pioneer Award: Amanda Palmer
Industry Champion: Zane Lowe
Peter Grant Award: Terry Blamey

Imagem signs co-writer of One Direction chart topper

Business News Deals Labels & Publishers

Independent publisher Imagem Music has announced a new deal with London-based songwriter Fiona Bevan, who co-wrote the recent chart-topping One Direction track ‘Little Things’ with Ed Sheeran, but I don’t think we should necessarily hold that against her. Bevan has been collaborating with a plethora of other artists and songwriters in the last year and, Imagem reckons, is all set to achieve big things in her own right in 2013.

Confirming the signing, Imagem UK MD Kim Frankiewicz told CMU: “A star is born with Fiona; she’s on the pathway to an absolutely amazing career, as both an artist and songwriter. We’re thrilled that Fiona is joining Imagem”.

Meanwhile Bevan herself told CMU: “The last twelve months have been incredible, writing with a lot of different artists including Ed, Mikill Pane, Fem Fel, Kal Lavelle, Gwyneth Herbert and producer Dan Dare, and developing my skills as a co-writer. Joining Kim and [A&R Manager] Lucy [Francis] and the team at Imagem is going to present endless creative collaborations, as well as really guiding me on my first studio album”.

BMG re-signs Jeff Tweedy

Business News Deals Labels & Publishers

BMG’s US division has announced it has renewed and extended its worldwide deal with Jeff Tweedy, he of Wilco. Tweedy previously had a publishing deal with Bug Music, the independent publisher acquired by BMG just over a year ago. Under the new deal BMG will represent the entire Wilco catalogue as well as Tweedy’s other works.

Confirming the deal, BMG’s EVP Of Client Services & Creative David Hirshland told CMU: “Jeff Tweedy and Wilco continue to push the artistic boundaries of rock and roll while maintaining an ever-expanding and fiercely loyal following. We are pleased to have represented them for many years and now look forward to a strong future which includes every piece of every song in the Wilco catalogue”.

Tweedy himself added: “I’ve had a great working relationship with Bug Music for many years now, so their move to BMG made mine a pretty easy one. Having the vast majority of my catalogue in one place now, in the hands of people who have worked diligently on my behalf, is extremely fortunate and I look forward to continuing our creative relationship for many years to come”.

Nick Cave names new Bad Seeds LP

Releases

Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds – individually Grinderman’s Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos; plus Thomas Wylder and Conway Savage – are soon to release a new LP, and its title is ‘Push The Sky Away’. The band’s first album since 2008’s ‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’, it was taped at La Fabrique, a studio built in a nineteenth century French mansion. Ooh la la.

Here’s what that looked like when it happened:

Praising The Seeds’ “pure, instinctive inventiveness”, Cave defines the new record thus: “If I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then ‘Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren’s loops are its tiny, trembling heartbeat”.

The LP’s release on 18 Feb will be preceded by a single, ‘We No Who U R’, which will be made available digitally on 3 Dec.

And last of all, a ‘Push The Sky Away’ tracklisting:

We No Who U R
Wide Lovely Eyes
Water’s Edge
Jubilee Street
Mermaids
We Real Cool
Finishing Jubilee Street
Higgs Boson Blues
Push The Sky Away

Posthumous Nate Dogg album planned

Releases

Seven Arts Music and United Media And Music Group have announced the release of what is being billed as the final album by hip hop star Nate Dogg, who died last year after suffering a stroke, his second after another left him partially paralysed in 2007.

Entitled ‘Nate Dogg: It’s A Wonderful Life’, the album will feature unreleased material by the singer featuring Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J Blige and Jay-Z, amongst others.

Seven Arts Music’s David Michery told All Hip Hop: “We … believe that Nate Dogg’s talents shine in this posthumous tribute”.

No release date has been given as yet, though the album is expected in the first half of 2013.

Beyonce’s Beyonce film to air in new year

Artist News

Remember back in August, when Beyonce was shopping her self-made autobiographical documentary to various TV and movie execs? Yeah, that one. Well, it’s now set to premiere via American cable giant HBO on 16 Feb 2013, after which it’ll most likely be screened internationally.

A “multi-faceted portrait”- or, so purports HBO – of the R&B star’s personal and professional selves, it apparently “strips away the veneer of stardom … and charts the challenges Beyonce felt when she decided to manage her career and build her own company, Parkwood Entertainment”.

Danish Amy Winehouse play cancelled, portrait enters National Gallery

Artist News

A play about Amy Winehouse due to premiere in the Danish capital of Copenhagen in January has been cancelled after her estate blocked the use of her music and image in the show.

Danish copyright agency Koda had previously granted permission for the play to open at the city’s Royal Danish Theatre on 30 Jan, but has had to withdraw that permission at the estate’s request. Koda’s Nicolaj Hylten-Cavallius told the Associated Press: “We acted in good faith when we gave them the permission for the performance. We believed that the format, a theatre play, was okay. It is Amy Winehouse’s father who has thrown a spanner in the works. We were told by her father and the lawyers around him that we can forget all about the rights for the music, the photos, branding and everything”.

He added that the singer’s father had given no reason for the decision, though when the play was first announced earlier this year, Winehouse Senior told Yahoo: “It doesn’t matter to them whether it’s too soon, they’re only interested in making money and nothing else bothers them. We can’t do anything about it if they do want to go ahead, but I think it will be a load of rubbish. It will be like any of these unauthorised biographies that are made about her – they can’t use the songs so it won’t be worth seeing”.

The Royal Danish Theatre’s Artistic Director Emmet Feigenberg responded at the time: “The Royal Danish Theatre is an entirely non-profit institution, and the truth is that we will spend [all the] money [we make] on the production. Ticket prices will be as low as possible and ‘Amy’ will be performing approximately thirteen times on one of our smallest stages in a small scale and intimate production. It is fair to say, that the performance won’t be any cash cow”.

Still, without all that work to do in the run up to the show’s opening, Feigenberg and the other people behind the show will now have time to come over to London to take a look at a portrait of Amy Winehouse by Dutch painter Marlene Dumas, which went on display in the National Portrait Gallery on Monday.

Painted shortly after her death in 2011 and titled ‘Amy-Blue’, Mitch Winehouse was a lot more positive about this artistic tribute, telling The Guardian: “It is a fantastic piece of work and we are fascinated to know how Amy was seen and remembered by family, friends and artists of all kinds. With the Amy Winehouse Foundation, Amy is our inspiration and it is profoundly moving to find that she still inspires so many others too”.

Rolling Stones fined £200,000 for breaking curfew

Gigs & Festivals

Turns out it was lucky The Rolling Stones were charging so much for tickets to their two O2 Arena shows, because they’ve been fined £200,000 by Greenwich Council for playing 35 minutes past their 10.30pm curfew.

The band’s spokesman Bernard Doherty told The Sun: “It means a big fine – but the guys just do their thing. [And] there wasn’t a janitor standing there, jangling his keys, saying ‘I want to go home'”. The band are due to return to The O2 for another show tomorrow. Of course they’ve set the bar high now and will have to play at least an hour after curfew to top the weekend’s show. Those rule-breaking scamps.

Eels touring in March

Gigs & Festivals

American alt types Eels have just proffered a series of 2013 tour dates they’d like us all to go to. The band’s main motive in doing so is to promote their new LP, ‘Wonderful, Glorious’, which is released on 4 Feb.

The tour starts a month or so thereafter, and its relevant dates are:

15 Mar: Dublin, Olympia
17 Mar: Manchester, Academy
18 Mar: Glasgow, Academy
19 Mar: Leeds, Academy
21 Mar: London, Academy Brixton
23 Mar: Bournemouth, Academy
25 Mar: Brighton, Dome
25 Mar: Norwich, UEA
27 Mar: Nottingham, Rock City
29 Mar: Bristol, Academy
30 Mar: Birmingham, Academy

Miles Kane, Palma Violets, Peace playing NME awards shows

Gigs & Festivals

Miles Kane

The NME has solicited four very relevant indie acts to play every date on its annual Awards Tour circa February 2013. They’re Miles Kane, Django Django, Peace and Palma Violets, by the way.

NME editor Mike Williams gushes thus about the above: “2012 has been an incredible year for music, and 2013 promises to be even better, not least for Django Django, Miles Kane, Palma Violets and Peace, the four amazing bands heading up the NME Awards Tour 2013. This is undoubtedly one of the strongest and most exciting bills we’ve ever put together, and I can’t wait for it all to get started!”

Anyway, to the dates:

7 Feb: Newcastle, Academy
8 Feb: Manchester, Academy 1
9 Feb: Leeds, Academy
11 Feb: Glasgow, Academy
12 Feb: Nottingham, Rock City
13 Feb: Liverpool, Academy
15 Feb: Norwich, UEA
16 Feb: Birmingham, Academy
17 Feb: Cardiff, Great Hall
19 Feb: Bristol, Academy
20 Feb: Bournemouth, Academy
21 Feb: Brighton, Dome
23 Feb: London, Brixton Academy

Indians plots tour

Gigs & Festivals

4AD-signed Indians, aka Danish musician Søren Løkke Juul, has announced he’ll tour in advance of the release of his still-untitled debut LP, which is also sans a release date.

In the meantime, the video for Juul’s first official single ‘Magic Kids’ will have to suffice:

Tour dates:

30 Jan: Brighton, Prince Albert
31 Jan: Bristol, Louisana
1 Feb: London, The Lexington
2 Feb: Manchester, Trof Fallowfield

Metz add live datez

Gigs & Festivals

Noisy Torontonians METZ have announced a string of live dates in support of their eponymous debut album, which was released earlier this year.

These are those dates:

28 Jan: Manchester, Soup Kitchen
29 Jan: Glasgow, Broadcast
30 Jan: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
31 Jan: Brighton, Green Door Store
1 Feb: London, Birthdays

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