nicolaswebb.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
While stuck in a traffic jam on the way home today I started to think up a list of my favourite gigs, I came up with the following top 5: 5: Paramore (Full Ponty, Pontypridd 2007) 4: Manic Street Preachers (Chicago, 1999) 3: Within Temptation (Acedemy, Bristol, 2007) 2: Lostprophets (Full Ponty, Pontypridd 2007) 1: Bon Jovi (Ashton Gate, Bristol 2008)
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The decision of indie band Hamfatter to seek a record contract on Dragon's Den is a clever idea, according to one of the UK's best ...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
DOVES , Beth Orton, The Magic Numbers and Nada Surf are among the acts confirmed to play Forever Heavenly at London’s Southbank Centre in September, a weekend festival celebrating 18 years in the life of the Heavenly Recordings label. Founded in 1990, Heavenly has been home to artists from Saint Etienne and Manic Street Preachers through to Beth Orton, Doves, The Magic Numbers and Edwyn Collins. And...
JogBlog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I suppose I should have blogged Sunday’s cycle ride over the marshes (no, I don’t know how I got talked into getting on a bike either…) but as this is a r.u.n.n.i.n.g blog and not a c.y.c.l.i.n.g blog, I’m not going to. I’ll just gloat a bit about the fact I didn’t fall off. [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In Catholic Parishes of Ireland Debut Album, Produced by Mike Hedges, Is Coming November 18th On RCA Victor NEW YORK, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A vocal trio of three Roman Catholic priests from Ireland is on the brink of creating an international musical sensation as The Priests. In an April ceremony on the steps of London's historic Westminster Cathedral, the group -- comprised of two brothers,...
Arena Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Feeling are playing at Proud Camden on 30 July. And you could be there for zero pence, courtesy of Intel… The Feeling are playing at Proud Camden on 30 July. And you could be there for zero pence, courtesy of Intel. The band are headlining the fourth round of Intel Studio, the stage for unsigned artists, [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
in post Mind over matter: baby, it’s c-c-c-cold outside from Selective Service .
AngryApe News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The band will play a pre-festival show
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Manic Street Preachers are set to play a warm-up gig in Newport, their only Welsh show of 2008.
Rhymney Valley Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
RHYMNEY Valley rockers 4th Street Traffic have been described as “a high-quality Welsh rock band” on a par with Manic Street Preachers by the organiser of a major music festival.
fangirl (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Oh God, no. No, no, no, no, no. This cannot be . Manic Street Preachers cover Rihanna's 'Umbrella', and turn one of the best pop songs of the past half-decade into a laboriously awful trad-rock thump, complete with guitar solo . The "futuristic" production (the guitar sound so sheeny-shiny, like the reflection of blue neon light in a shallow puddle) only makes it worse. So much worse. Better that...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Recommended "Do I look good for you tonight? Will you accuse me as I hide behind these layers of disguise?" ___________ - Manic Street Preachers, "Born A Girl" As a tribute to a young life tragically cut short, Susan Muska and Gr ta Olafsd ttir's The Brandon Teena Story (1998) is both fitting and passionate. As the pair's first feature-length documentary, this 88-minute film focuses on the life of...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
"There are far too many film festivals in the world today," says Belfast native Mark Cousins, a former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival. So Cousins is setting up two new festivals. He is curator on Soundtrack, to be held in Cardiff in late November with a focus on "the crucial creative relationship film has with music". Danny Boyle will give a masterclass at the inaugural event and Manic Street...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
in post If you tolerate this, then your children we'll be next... from indie rocker revolution .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
in post Storm Watch from Selective Service .
