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From Tuesday 15 March 2005

Sweet

Southampton’s Chin Music may have lost drummer Jon to Howard’s Alias, but they’ve replaced him with former HA sticksman Jevon. The band now has a full-time line up with Scott of Workin Lunch full time on bass duties. The band are

BC out now

I can’t remember if I posted this before or not, but the new Big Cheese is out now with Mars Volta on the cover, Jimmy Eat World, Drop Kick Murphys , Eighteen Visions and more.

Feable

The appallingly-named Feable Weiner head out on tour with Do me Bad Things at the end of the month. Click ‘discuss this item’ for dates.

Metaltastic

Motorhead, Mastodon, Lamb of God, In Flames, Bullet For My Valentine and Chimaria have been added to the Download Festival line-up.

Monday 14 March 2005

The smile sit tight

Secondsmile have posted a new song called ‘Sit Tight’ over at www.myspace.com/secondsmile

Eff off (on tour)

Submitted: “Effervescent are looking to book up a two/three week tour in june sorta time and are wondering if there are any bands out there interested in supporting/co-headlining with us. We have quite a few contacts for venues but bringing a couple more to the

Shabby

Submitted: “New punk-rock crazy kids, Not Shibby, have put their debut 8 track EP (ever so generously) on their purevolume site. Listen to it at: www.purevolume.com/shibbyuk It was recorded and mixed at Discharge/The Skeptix studios and produced by ex-Discharge/The Skeptix guitarist, ‘Fish'”

Fast off

Fastlane‘s ‘New Start’ album is out today in all good stores, including HMV, Tower and Tesco, so make sure you get a copy! You can sample the album at www.purevolume.com/fastlane

Big and scary

The BSM tour (featuring Sparks Lights & Flames, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and Kneehigh) starts this week and the dates are: 16.03 – Oxford, The Bullingdon 18.03 – Ipswich, The Pool Club 19.03 – London, Bar Academy (w/ Secondsmile – doors at

Overise – A Long Story

Over-analysed biographies and press releases make me laugh. OK, it’s vital that any publicist ‘sells’ their band, or at least makes them interesting, but telling naughty lies will result in a massive dose of egg on face. Take Philadelphia’s Overise, for example, a quartet who have