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NEWSFLASH: Twin Atlantic Release ‘Lightspeed’ Single + Tour News

Posted: January 17th, 2010 | Author: Matt | Filed under: News | Tags: , | No Comments »
Having caused quite the stir with their ‘Vivarium’ mini-album and subsequent singles ‘You’re Turning Into John Wayne’ and ‘What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?’, Glaswegian quartet Twin Atlantic are set to release new single ‘Lightspeed’ on Monday 1st March.
 
The track itself, according to frontman Sam McTrusty, is “about unity and self belief but also understanding the importance of friendship. Being in a band and getting to travel the world with my best friends made me realise this so I wrote a song about it. The video has a great vibe as it was a really natural approach by Sean Stiegemeier (the director) and we got to visit exploded meth labs, see a fish massacre graveyard and hang out with a guy who felt a connection with some religious overtones…so he painted a hillside to look like the brain of a child.”
 
A video for the track, shot in the Salton Sea in the desert of California, can be seen by clicking: here
 
A previously announced headline tour has seen some changes, as a result of the band’s late inclusion on the Enter Shikari European tour some dates will have to be rescheduled. The following shows go ahead as planned, with rescheduled dates in Cardiff, London, Nottingham, Birmingham and Southampton to be announced imminently.  All tickets purchased for those dates will be valid for the revised dates.
 
FEBRUARY
01 – SHEFFIELD O2 Academy 2
02 – LEEDS Cockpit
03 – MANCHESTER Night & Day
04 – NEWCASTLE Digital
06 – GLASGOW ABC
 
Speaking of the Enter Shikari news, bassist Ross McNae said, “it’s really exciting to be playing in so many countries we haven’t played in before. We’re looking forward to the next few weeks with Enter Shikari and the rest of the year ahead!”

 


NEWSFLASH: Twin Atlantic Announce New Year Touring Details!

Posted: November 19th, 2009 | Author: Matt | Filed under: News | Tags: , | No Comments »

Acclaimed Glaswegian rock band Twin Atlantic are set to release the latest cut from their recently released ‘Vivarium’ mini-album on the 30th of November, in the form of ‘What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?’.

In support of the single’s release, the band has announced a series of in-store appearances as well as their previously announced dates with The Fall Of Troy. In addition to these, the quartet also play the BBC Introducing event on November 17th at Belfast’s Mandela Hall, alongside Two Door Cinema Club, Pulled Apart By Horses and Save Your Breath, before rounding off their live activity for the month with an appearance at the Homecoming Live event at Glasgow’s SECC on November 28th. The band play Hall 3 alongside fellow Scots The View, Teenage Fanclub, Idlewild and many others.

The band will perform at the following in-stores:

NOV 30: EDINBURGH – Avalanche Records, 65 Cockburn Street @ 1pm (01312 253 939)
NOV 30: GLASGOW – Avalanche Records, 34 Dundas Street @ 5pm (01413 322 099)
DEC 01: ABERDEEN – One Up, 17 Belmont Street @ 5pm (01224 642 6

The band then embark on a headline tour in the New Year:

JAN 26: SOUTHAMPTON, Joiners – 0238 8022 5612 / www.joinerslive.co.uk
JAN 27: CARDIFF, Clwb Ifor Bach – www.ticketweb.co.uk
JAN 28: LONDON, Borderline – 08448 472 465/ www.ticketweb.co.uk
JAN 29: NOTTINGHAM, Rock City – 0871 3100 000 / www.alt-tickets.co.uk
JAN 30: BIRMINGHAM, Academy 3 – 0844 477 2000 / www.ticketweb.co.uk
FEB 01: SHEFFIELD, Academy 2 – 0844 477 2000 / www.ticketweb.co.uk
FEB 02: LEEDS, Cockpit – 0113 245 4650 / www.lunatickets.co.uk
FEB 03: MANCHESTER, Night & Day – 0161 832 111 / www.gigsandtours.com
FEB 04: NEWCASTLE, Digital – 08444 771 000 / www.yourfutureisdigital.com
FEB 06: GLASGOW, ABC – 08444 999 990 / www.gigsinscotland.com

“Frontman Sam articulates endearing confessionals and though parallels to early Biffy are audible, it’s doubtful their compatriots were ever so energetic.” – NME

“There’s something gloriously impassioned about Sam McTrusty’s vocals. Yearning, searching, hoping and, above all, real.” – KERRANG!


NEWSFLASH: Defend Moscow release video for Die Tonight

Posted: July 5th, 2009 | Author: Matt | Filed under: News | Tags: , | No Comments »

we loved the track, so we’d urge you to check out the video below:


FREE DOWNLOADS FOR YOU!

Posted: June 20th, 2009 | Author: Matt | Filed under: Interviews, News, Reviews | Tags: , , | No Comments »

The fine folks at Partisan PR have been in touch and offered us a couple of free downloads for your listening pleasure. Up first, we’ve got singer/songwriter Richard Walters, who has already been garnering great press. Check out ‘Flooded Valley’, the B side to his forthcoming single ‘True Love Will Find You In The End’ on the link below

Richard Walters – Flooded Valley

We’ve already commented on Defend Moscow’s single ‘Die Tonight’ and if you haven’t heard it already I can’t recommend enough that you go seek it out. We’ve got a remix of their track ‘One Night Stand’ available for you here too.

Defend Moscow – One Night Stand


NEWSFLASH: Lisa Hannigan to release debut solo single

Posted: May 12th, 2009 | Author: Matt | Filed under: Reviews | Tags: , | 1 Comment »

Acclaimed Irish singer Lisa Hannigan will release the beautiful ‘I Don’t Know’ as a single on 29 June through Hoop Recordings.  The track is the first single to be taken from Hannigan’s debut album Sea Sew, her first solo release since parting with Damien Rice’s band. It follows her first headline tour of the UK, which culminates at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire tomorrow (13 May).  Hannigan will perform on BBC2’s Later…With Jools Holland tonight (12 May) and 15 May.
 
Described by the New York Times as ‘exquisitely ethereal’, Hannigan’s chance meeting with singer-songwriter Damien Rice led to a long period of collaboration and development that included Rice’s critically acclaimed albums O and 9.  When this collaboration came to an end after seven years, Hannigan was left with a notebook of songs and the desire and confidence to put them onto a record. Released through Hannigan’s own label Hoop Recordings, Sea Sew has already achieved Platinum sales status in her native Ireland.  The album has been nominated for both Best Irish Album at the Meteor Music Awards and the Choice Music Prize, whilst Hannigan was awarded ‘Best Debut Album’, ‘Best Irish Album’, ‘Best Irish Track’ and ‘Best Female’ in the 2009 Hot Press Reader Poll.
Hannigan’s first UK solo show took place at London’s St Johns Church in December 2008. thelondonpaper proclaimed, ‘A glorious London debut ahead of what promises to be one of the great solo debut albums of 2009’, whilst the Daily Telegraph wrote, ‘Stunning. Hannigan’s music leaves a lasting impression.’ The FT declared, ‘A beaming presence.  Rice’s next work is a plainer prospect without her. His loss is our gain’ and The Times simply put, ‘Mesmerising’.