SPEAR OF DESTINY-THIS WEEKEND!
Kirk Brandon’s
Kirk Brandon’s
ELECTRIC RIVER HEADLINE SHOW FOR E.P LAUNCH
Kents Clash/Springsteen styled rockers, Electric River headline upstairs at the Highbury Garage, tomorrow, Wed 28th Nov to celebrate their acclaimed ‘In Your Name’ e.p-currently number 7 in Classic Rock magazines top 20. Their ‘Hold Your Nerve’ video is also currently on Scuzz t.v. Support comes from ska punks Popes Of Chilitown and Ghouls.
watch the HOILD YOUR NERVE VIDEO HERE-
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ALIEN SEX FIEND COMMUNICATIONS --------------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY 1st DECEMBER - ALIEN SEX FIEND will play a ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- 30th BATCAVE ANNIVERSARY SHOW in LONDON, U.K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- FROM THE BATCAVE... INTO THE 21st CENTURY... The date December 1st 2012 marks the 30th Anniversary of Alien Sex Fiend's first ever gig which took place at the Batcave in London on 1st December 1982... CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF FIENDISHNESS! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date : Saturday 1st December 2012 Venue : The Boston Dome Address : 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HL (above Boston Arms) directly opposite Tufnell Park Tube station. Tickets : £18-50 (advance) TICKET WEB SITES Tickets are on sale from http://www.eeetickets.com http://www.ticketweb.co.uk http://stargreen.com http://musicnonstop.co.uk Also by phone from some of the above sites. Outside the UK? No problem! You can still buy tickets from these sites. More info & direct ticket site links are at http://www.asf-13thmoon.demon.co.uk/news/index.html SHOW TIMES Doors open : 7 pm (19.00 hr) Support : Neviluxury Come early! Midnight : ASF's 2nd set should finish by midnight Midnight - 2am : After Show party DJs include : martin oldgoth, frankie D, jonthegoth NIK & MRS FIEND WRITE ABOUT "THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW" ... Nik Fiend : At our very first gig as Alien Sex Fiend back on the 1st December 1982 at The Batcave, I really thought that it might be our one & only ever gig. So to be celebrating that 30 years later is a miracle - unbelievable! & our 30th Anniversary on 1st December 2012 will be a very special event! Mrs Fiend : We want to play as many songs as we can & of course we will play some of the tunes from that very first Batcave gig... & I will be using some of the very same analogue equipment as I did back then in '82... We aim to finish before midnight - so that people can catch trains - but there will be an after-show party with DJs for those who want to party on into the night.... til 2am... To read this article in full & to see an original Batcave Flyer & Ticket for Alien Sex Fiend's 1st December 1982 show please go to http://www.asf-13thmoon.demon.co.uk/news/index.html Other fiend news this month includes - 30th YEAR ANNIVERSARY CAKE PRESENTATION AT WGW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- - a 3 foot high cake courtesy of Choccywoccydoodah was presented to Nik & Mrs Fiend on-stage at Whitby on Nov 3rd. To see all of this news in full & more please go to the Alien Sex Fiend website "News" page at http://www.asf-13thmoon.demon.co.uk/news/index.html ------------------------------------------- END OF COMMUNICATIONS -------------------------------------------
Next summer Paul Weller will hitting the road in the UK for three special outdoor shows.
The gigs will see Paul play in some of the country’s most beautiful settings – Thetford Forest, Delapre Park & Westonbirt Arboretum.
Tickets for the shows on sale from 9am on Friday 23rd November
The dates are:
Fri 12 July 2013 – Thetford Forest, Nr Brandon, Suffolk
Fri 19 July 2013 – Delapre Park, Northampton
Sat 20 July 2013 – Westonbirt Arboretum, Nr Tetbury, Glos
Punk-blooze trio THE BERMONDSEY JOYRIDERS are back on the London stage this Saturday, when their slide-infused ‘77 stylings will be warming up Tufnell Park’s Boston Music Room for punk icons The Vibrators.
Veteran rockers, The Rolling Stones have put together a special playlist featuring 33 of their favourite tracks taken from their recently released best of album ‘Grr’
The Player includes One More Shot, Doom & Gloom, Satisfaction, Get off My Cloud, Brown Sugar, Start Me Up and lots more…
You can access the playlist here: http://www.muzu.tv/therollingstones
Dropkick Murphys have posted the video for their new single ‘Rose Tattoo’, taken from their new album, which is due for release on January 8th 2013.
Hollie Cook will be performing one of her final UK 2012 gigs at London’s Cargo on the 27th of November 2012.
It’s been an incredibly busy but successful year for Hollie, her self-titled debut album was released on Mr Bongo in June 2011 to great critical acclaim and resulted in being on an array of ‘Top Albums of 2011’ lists including The Word, The Mirror and Rough Trade.
She played a mesmerising live set on Later With Jools Holland and supported The Stone Roses at Heaton Park this Summer.
Her self coined ‘tropical pop’ continues to seduce fans across the country. This year saw Prince Fatty rework her eponymous album to create Hollie Cook in dub.
A digital only version of ‘Petals’, Gary Numan’s collaboration with electronic rock band Officers, will be available from from 19 November 2012. The single aslo features exclusive remixes from Ade Fenton, Jagz Kooner and Losers.
‘Petals’ is also one of the tracks featured on the CD version of Gary Numan’s ‘Dead Moon Falling’ which will be exclusively available on the forthcoming December Tour.
Officers are special guests on the tour and will be performing the track with Numan.
For more information visit: www.numan.co.uk
Richard Hawley has announced details of a UK in February 2013
The singer, who received his second nomination for Standing at the Sky’s Edge, will headline London’s Troxy venue on February 23rd.
The dates are:
17 – Buxton Opera House (Tickets)
18 – Edinburgh Picturehouse (Tickets)
20 – Bristol Colston Hall (Tickets)
21 – Leamington Spa Assembly Hall (Tickets)
22 – Cambridge Corn Exhange (Tickets)
23 – London Troxy (Tickets)
25 – Liverpool Philharmonic (Tickets)
26 – Hull City Hall (Tickets)
For more information visit: www.richardhawley.co.uk
Scant Regard, featuring Will Crewdson (formerly with Adam Ant) on guitar, and Dave Barbarossa (Adam & The Ants, Bow Wow Wow) on drums are playing a gig at the Mother Bar in London this Friday (9 November)
The band’s excellent 3 track E.P. is out now!
For more information visit: www.scantregard.com
To celebrate Madness being on the cover of this month’s Vive Le Rock, and the return of the Nutty Boys to the charts with their album ‘OUI OUI SI SI JA JA DA DA’, we are running a skankin’ great competition for you.
The 2 winners will both get VLR subscriptions and a Vive Le Rock t shirt, and 5 runners up with receive copies of this month’s very special Madness issue, complete with exclusive Madness ‘Dublin Castle’ art print. And the question couldn’t be easier.
Q: What was the name of Madness’s first chart hit single?
Email your answers to info@vivelerock.net and we will pick 7 lucky winners at random. entries close Nov 25th. Good luck!
This month’s Vive Le Rock magazine is a Madness special, with interviews with the band, discography, and the complete Madness story from Camden Town all the way to Buckingham Palace. Plus the brilliant new album is reviewed.
Vive le Rock is available is WH Smiths and good newsagents or order online HERE.
Following their first full UK tour in late May/ early June of this year and a recent headline performance at The Hop Farm, Peter Hook And The Light take “Unknown Pleasures” on the road to a host of new venues across England and Scotland in late November and early December 2012. The Light are set to play the widely acclaimed album sequentially and in its entirety along with other classic and lesser known material from Warsaw and Joy Division’s repertoires.
As the final night of the tour sees a return to The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh, where The Light previously performed “Unknown Pleasures” in April 2011, this gig will see the band perform Joy Division’s second album “Closer”.
Receiving great reviews and reactions on the early Summer dates including some five star reviews and hugely admiring comments, The Light recent completed performing the trilogy of Joy Division’s official album releases with two “Still” concerts in Manchester in May 2012 and have now come to play every single Joy Division track ever released.
Drawing on this in their lengthy, extensive sets, The Light have toured constantly since first performing “Unknown Pleasures back in May 2010 and have taken the show across the world to the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand and practically every European country, drawing crowds that encompass both original Joy Division fans and the younger generation influenced by the band’s material.
With the full performance of “Unknown Pleasures” at the centre of the show, The Light play the first album in track order replicating the album experience and atmosphere created by legendary producer, Martin Hannett. Hannett’s studio mastery along with the rawness of the bands first album material means that the reputation of the LP remains as powerful as ever, with fans and also the bands who are acknowledged to have taken on the template of Joy Division’s sound in the modern era.
“Unknown Pleasures”, considered one of the most stunning debut albums ever released, came to yield many landmark tracks, including “Disorder” “Insight”, “New Dawn Fades”, and “She’s Lost Control” but alongside the album,The Light also turn to Hooky’s early repertoire to perform many other Warsaw and Joy Division tracks, some of which have never been played live previously apart from within The Light’s live performances.
The dates are:
Fri 16th Nov – Kasbah, Coventry
Sat 17th Nov – 53 Degrees, Preston
Sun 18th Nov – Chimneys, Southend
Tues 20th Nov – Phoenix Theatre, Exeter
Weds 21st Nov – Waterfront, Norwich
Thurs 22nd Nov – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Sat 24th Nov – Sugarmill, Stoke
Sun 25th Nov – Guildhall, Gloucester
Mon 26th Nov – 02 Academy, Leicester
Weds 28th Nov – Concorde 2, Brighton
Thurs 29th Nov – Cockpit, Leeds
Fri 30th Nov – Academy 2, Newcastle
Tues 4th Dec – The Garage, Aberdeen
Weds 5th Dec – Fat Sam’s, Dundee
Thurs 6th Dec – The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh (Closer)
Support on all the Scottish dates comes from Velveteen Saints
Vive Le Rocks Dec issue-the Best of 2012 issue will have a cover cd. If you want your band on it-email us now at info@vivelerock.net titled’COVER CD’ The cd will feature the best tracks of the year plus up and coming rockin’ new bands. Be quick tho-deadline is this friday!
VIVE LE ROCKS editor Eugene Butcher will introduce and host a question and answer session at the Greenwich premiere of the cockney rejects East End Babylon. Full dates are below-
There have been hints at new Goldblade material for a few months now starting with the release of controversial video "We’re All In It Together" and during their recent slew of live shows where they have been playing new sounds to unsuspecting audiences across the UK.