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One of the defining highlights of last summer’s festival circuit, Pendulum completed 2008 with a sold-out tour that saw them play to a combined audience of over 50,000 people. Now Pendulum can confirm the June 15th release of their ‘Live At Brixton Academy’ DVD that offers an irresistible monument for fans eager to relive the glorious chaos of the Pendulum live experience.
Recorded at Brixton Academy on December 4th and 5th 2008, the DVD highlights a full live set directed by Paul Caslin. Caslin was recently nominated for a Grammy in the Long Form Music Video category for his work on Rihanna’s ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ DVD release. An added feature in the shape of an eighty minute audio CD of the Brixton gigs makes for an essential purchase for Pendulum’s devoted and ever growing fan base.
‘Live At Brixton Academy’ features scintillating performances of Pendulum’s biggest hits and killer tracks to date including ‘Showdown’, ‘Propane Nightmares’, ‘Granite’, ‘Slam’ and ‘Another Planet’. The DVD also features Pendulum’s explosive interpretation of The Prodigy’s 1994 cult hit ‘Voodoo People’ and their incendiary take on the Metallica classic ‘Master of Puppets’.
Aside from the standard DVD / CD release, ‘Live At Brixton Academy’ will be also be available as a single DVD / deluxe double CD package that will be sold exclusively through www.pendulum.com as well as an iTunes exclusive format. Further details of both the deluxe version and the iTunes format of ‘Live At Brixton’ will be announced imminently.
New Jersey’s favourite sons The Gaslight Anthem return to the UK this summer twice, for a headline show at The Forum in London on June 4th and again on June 28th in support of “The Boss” at Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park. Tickets for The Forum show are priced at £15.00 and are available from www.livenation.co.uk. Tickets for Hard Rock Calling are already sold out. The band will also be playing the Radio 1 / NME stage at Reading and Leeds festivals.
June 15th also sees the release of the title track ‘The ’59 Sound’. This single will be available via download, as well as in 7” and CD versions. The B-sides include Gaslight’s brilliant cover version of ‘State of Love and Trust’ by Pearl Jam and ‘We Came to Dance’ off the band’s first full-length SINK OR SWIM. You can check out the video for the new track here
One of the hardest working bands in rock n roll (they have performed over 200 shows in the last 8 months), The Gaslight Anthem will bring their explosive live performance to the following shows and festivals in the UK and Europe this summer:
June:
1st Netherlands – Pinkpop Festival
3rd Finland, Tavastia in Helsinki (headline show)
4th UK, The Forum in London (headline show)
6th Germany, Nurburgring – Rock Am Ring
7th Germany, Nuremberg – Rock Am Park
9th Netherlands, Effanaar in Eindhoven (headline show)
10th Netherlands, Doornrosje in Nijemegen (headline show)
11th France, Maroquinerie in Paris (headline show)
12th France, Toulouse – Skabazac Fest
13th Italy, Milan – Rock In Idro
15th Germany, Zenith in Munich (w/Social Distortion)
16th Germany, Stadt Halle in Offenbach (w/Social Distortion)
17th Germany, Philippshalle in Dusseldorf (w/Social Distortion)
19th Austria, Nickelsdorf – Nova Rock
20th Germany, Neuhausen Obeck – Southside
21st Germany, Schessel – Hurricane Festival
22nd Denmark, Radio House Studio 2 in Copenhagen (headline show)
24th Norway, Hove – Hove Festival
25th Sweden, Goteborg – West Coast Riot
26th Switzerland, St. Gallen – Open Air
27th UK, Glastonbury Festival, John Peel Stage
28th UK, London – Hard Rock Calling
Placebo are pleased to announce, for the first time ever, a WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE FAN PLAYBACK of their stunning new album ‘Battle For The Sun’. The playback will take place at www.placeboworld.co.uk/battleforthesun on Friday 29th May from 9am GMT.
Fans must sign up to www.placeboworld.co.uk to receive an exclusive code that will allow them access to the ‘Battle For The Sun’ playback site. They will have access to listen to the entire album before anyone else and prior to its release. The playback will end at midnight on the 31st of May. The critically-acclaimed ‘Battle For The Sun’ album is officially released June 8th.
Placebo are pleased to announce a UK and Irish arena tour in December.
December
Tuesday 08th Birmingham LG Arena
Wednesday 09th London The O2 Arena
Friday 11th Bridlington Spa
Saturday 12th Manchester Central
Monday 14th Glasgow SECC
Tuesday 15th Dublin Olympia Theatre
Placebo are also set to return to the main stage of the Reading/Leeds Festivals this August, and make a headline appearance at Rockness Festival, Scotland, on June 14th.
