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| Pet Shop Boys announce UK arena dates and ticket details |
Pet Shop Boys have announced details of new UK dates for their 2009 'Pandemonium' world tour.
The band, who are set to play at the Manchester Apollo tonight (June 18) and London O2 Arena tomorrow (June 19), will be bringing their greatest hits show back to the UK in December after touring the US.
The show will be split into four separate acts. Madonna producer Stuart Price, formerly of Les Rythmes Digitales, worked with the band on the live arrangements.
Tickets for the newly-announced dates go on sale tomorrow (June 19) at 9am (BST).
Pet Shop Boys will play:
Glasgow SECC (December 17)
Birmingham NIA (18)
Manchester Evening News Arena (20)
London O2 Arena (21)
To check the availability of Pet Shops Boys tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
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| Chas & Dave to play Proud galleries |
Chas & Dave, (aka Charles Hodges and David Peacock to their mothers) joined forces in the early 1970s and have become a part of the English establishment. Known for their wit and droll in songs about life in London, these likely-lads are playing at Proud on Monday June 22nd.
They are the creators of 'Rockney’; an infectious musical style, it mixes pub sing-along, vaudeville, boogie-woogie piano and pre-Beatles rock’n’roll. Their novelty pop-rock music adding to the rich vaults of Cockney heritage.
This rare performance in London means Proud Camden, with its rich musical legacy is the perfect setting for this home-coming gig. The quintessentially English musicians even count The Libertines as fans, whose band members have graced Proud’s stages too.
With support from King and Country whose instrumental spectacle consists of drums, percussion, double bass, brass, strings, guitar and inimitable vocals. Celebrity Chimp consists of Andy McKay and Tom Smith who entertain with snipping, wit and wisdom. 5 Working Days are a five piece band based in the South-East London suburbs, who play a mix of feel good melodies and catchy riffs.
Expect a time-honoured shindig and emblems of Blighty, as Chas & Dave rock the stables.
Doors 7.30pm – 1.30pm
Tickets £8
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| Yusuf Islam is "OK" with Coldplay |
by BEN ROGERSON |
Finally, a bit of good plagiarism-related news for Coldplay. Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, has said he has no beef with Chris Martin and co, though he does still believe that there are similarities between his 1973 song Foreigner Suite and 2008's Viva La Vida.
The Daily Express quotes him as saying: "I stand by what I said. They did copy my song but I don't think they did it on purpose. I have even copied myself without even knowing I have done it. I'll write down what I think is a good melody and realise it's the same as something I have already done."
He goes on: "I don't want them to think I am angry with them. I'd love to sit down and have a cup of tea with them and let them know it's OK."
Hopefully, it'll soon be Earl Grey all round then, but don't expect Joe Satriani to be breaking out his best bone china for Coldplay. He continues to pursue his plagiarism case against the band, claiming that Viva La Vida copies elements of his 2004 instrumental If I Could Fly.
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| Beck Announces Plans to Redo Classic Albums for Record Club |
Free of the limitations of a conventional record contract, Beck has recruited some famous friends to join him for a new project: a Record Club. The Modern Guilt rocker is planning a series of one-day sessions at which he and a crew of collaborators will rerecord classic albums; the songs will be released once a week via his official Website. The singer’s site will experience a complete overhaul to coincide with the Record Club project, which has already lined up MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell and more.
According to a press release, none of the albums covered will be rehearsed, and the artists involved only have one day to lay down the entire LP. Up first: The Velvet Underground & Nico. Beck’s version of the album’s opening cut “Sunday Morning” is already making the rounds on the Net after it was distributed as a bonus 7′’ with the re-release of his One Foot in the Grave.
Beck previously sporadically performed the song live in concert while touring with the Flaming Lips. According to Beck fansite Whiskeyclone, the rerecorded Velvet Underground & Nico will feature Sea Change producer and Radiohead’s unofficial sixth member Nigel Godrich, members of Beck’s touring band and Icelandic singer Thorunn Magnusdottir, who will probably serve as the album’s Nico.
Rumors of Beck covering entire albums have run rampant on message boards and blogs (like Whiskeyclone) since a Japanese newspaper reported that Beck had rerecorded Sonic Youth’s 1986 Evol for an unspecified purpose. Fans hypothesized Beck’s Evol would appear on the reissue of Sonic Youth’s original version, but now it appears it will be bound for the Record Club. For Record Store Day, Beck and Sonic Youth collaborated on a 7′’ that featured Beck’s awesome take on Evol’s “Green Light” and Sonic Youth recording a fuzzed-out version of Mellow Gold’s “Pay No Mind (Snoozer.)”
UPDATE: The relaunched Beck webpage is now live with a video of the Record Club’s cover of Velvet Underground & Nico’s “Sunday Morning.” “For this first edition, after lengthy deliberation and coming close to covering Digital Underground’s Sex Packets, all present voted in favor of the ‘other’ Underground’s The Velvet Underground & Nico,” Beck writes on the page’s first post. Rock Daily hopes Beck’s Record Club will eventually get around to covering Sex Packets.
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| Paul Weller close to finishing new album |
Paul Weller has announced that he has almost completed his tenth studio solo album.
The 51-year-old singer said that he will concentrate on the project for another four weeks before reaching the finished product.
Speaking to the Daily Star, Weller revealed: "I've another month or so to go on it. It's full of very short spiky songs, two and a half minutes, concise."
The star's ninth solo disc 22 Dreams was named best album at the Mojo Honours List ceremony on Thursday night.
Weller has previously stated that its follow-up will be released early next year, adding: "I wish it was f***ing coming out next week, man, 'cos it's right on the button."
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| Ian Hunter readies new solo album |
Former Mott The Hoople star Ian Hunter is set to release a new solo album ' Man Overboard' next month.
His 13th album since his self-titled solo debut in 1975, Hunter has gathered help on the new material from a backing band who include Joe Cocker's drummer Steve Holley and Rufus Wainwright's guitarist Jack Jack Petruzzelli among others.
The follow-up to 2007's Shrunken Heads is out on New West Records on July 20.
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