Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: i speak because i can, laura marling
Last month, we finally got our mitts on the artwork and tracklist for Laura Marling’s upcoming second album I Speak Because I Can, the first of two full-length releases she has planned this year, and we’re even happier to hear that the Hampshire folk darling will be gracing Camden Barfly on March 23 for what the club’s Fly Presents are accurately, tantalisingly calling an “intimate” gig. Tickets go on sale at midday today from barflyclub.com, but you may want to hedge your bets by taking part in a competition the club are running that goes live on Friday morning at www.the-fly.co.uk.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, brandi carlile, give up the ghost
Three bits of Brandi Carlile news today. Most excitingly, Brandi returns to the UK for the first time since the release of her third album Give Up The Ghost [review] late last year with a (so far) one-off date at Manchester’s Club Academy on April 28. Tickets are £11 plus booking fees and are on sale here. A full European tour is expected to be announced in the not too distant future. The second bit of news is that non-US residents are finally able to buy Brandi’s recent XOBC EP, released in the US for Valentine’s Day. The five-song EP includes a riotous cover of The Beatles’ ‘All You Need Is Love’ and can be purchased through iTunes.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, exquisite corpse EP, warpaint
Over the course of their three-year infancy, Warpaint have been through drummers like we’ve gone through pens. Drummer number four, Corridor’s Michael Quinn, left in November after just three months of stepping into Josh Klinghoffer’s shoes, and has now been replaced by Stella Mozgawa of MINK who appears to be joining founding members Emily Kokal, Theresa Wayman and Jenny Lee Lindberg on a more permanent basis, working with them on the recording of their debut album, due out later this year through Rough Trade Records. The wave of critical acclaim for last year’s Exquisite Corpse EP [review] will finally usher the group over to the UK in May for the first time to play a small clutch of shows that will no doubt be rammed full of admirers.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, leave your sleep, natalie merchant
Good news for a Monday. Natalie Merchant has announced her first full European tour in what could fairly be described as an awfully long time; it’s scheduled for May and will see the legendary lady visit seven UK cities in support of her upcoming album Leave Your Sleep (now due April 12 through Nonesuch). Tickets are generally priced at £27.50 with some regional variation (*cough* London), and are on sale through livenation.co.uk and gigsinscotland.com.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: charlotte richardson andrews, ladyfest goldsmiths 2010, PENS, veronica falls, wetdog
2010 is a big year for Ladyfest. The US-inspired DIY organisation is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and although the main Ladyfest Ten party won’t be lighting the sparklers and slicing the cake ’til October/November, there will be a number of fundraisers and mini-fests in the meantime. Most pressingly is the upcoming week-long affair at Goldsmith University’s Student Union, now in its fourth year and getting better all the time. Running from February 22–26, events include art exhibitions, discussions, cabaret, talks from female-centric activists and artists, crafternoons, performance art and the essential Ladyfest ingredient: live music.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, have one on me, joanna newsom
Joanna Newsom will play her first UK dates since her one-off show at London’s Somerset House in July 2008 with a two-night residency at the Royal Festival Hall. Tickets for the May 11-12 shows go on sale from the venue’s website from 9am Thursday, though Southbank Centre members get priority early booking from Wednesday. You know what to do people!
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, anja plaschg, lovetune for vacuum, soap&skin
Already an unmissable live performer, Soap&Skin looks set to multiply her wow factor with a one-off ensemble show at London’s Union Chapel on April 23. Having recruited a chamber music group led by cellist Christof Unterberger, the Austrian teenager will bring her astonishing, minimalist debut Lovetune For Vacuum into life with the help of three string players, a horn player, a bassist and a backing vocalist. It’ll be her most full-blooded show to date, though it might drain ours; things can get more than a little intense in the dramatic world of Anja Plaschg’s alter ego.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: charlotte richardson andrews, ms dynamite, red bull music academy, wile out
Having graced fans with a small, sold out run of live performances last year, Ms Dynamite has now confirmed what we were hoping – that these were the first steps of a long overdue comeback. Yep, one the UK’s finest urban artists is back in the game. Niomi McLean-Daley earned her spurs in the golden-era days of pirate radio and UK garage, leaping nimbly across into the mainstream with hits like ‘Boo’, ‘It Takes More’ and ‘Dy-Na-Mi-Tee’, eventually winning the Mercury Music Prize in 2002 for her debut album A Little Deeper. She’s been cooking up a storm with Gordon Ramsey on ITV’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’, but the MC/singer is finally back where we love her the most: behind the mic.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, anna calvi, astrid williamson, cecilia stalin, chapter 24, charlotte richardson andrews, courtney love, dag för dag, daisy dares you, dignan porch, dum dum girls, edwina hayes, eliza newman, esben and the witch, fiona sally miller, first aid kit, fitness club fiasco, grace obika, heidi vogel, hole, invasion, jesca hoop, jess klein, joana and the wolf, kath bloom, krystle warren, la la vasquez, lacuna coil, line and a dot, lisa mitchell, madam, maple bee, marcia griffiths, nanci griffith, nancy elizabeth, nerina pallot, new young pony club, noelie mcdonnell, rachael dadd, rolo tomassi, scary mansion, slow club, slow moving millie, speech debelle, swing out sister, thao with the get down stay down, this is the kit, trash kit, triple rosie, tUnE-yArDs
You may ask what, like war, the month of February is good for. To its detriment it’s cold, bombarded with Valentine’s Day marketing to the point of overkill, barren of public holidays, and did we mention how it’s still bloody freezing? In its favour…it’s short. Too harsh? Okay, well, there are some pretty fantastic gigs coming up over the next four weeks. So many, in fact, that it was hard to pick just one event per night to recommend. Don’t forget that many of these artists have several other dates lined up for the month, so use the handy Myspace links we’ve provided to find out if they’re coming to your town. Make space in your diary.
Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, angus and julia stone, down the way
In anticipation of their eagerly awaited second album Down The Way, Australian brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone have announced an eight-date UK tour in April, on sale now. Recorded in diverse locations as a converted water tank in Coolangatta, Queensland, and an old sawmill on the river banks of Fowey, Cornwall, as well as more conventional studios in Brooklyn, Queens and London, Down The Way finds the siblings working with producer Brad Albetta (Martha Wainwright) and shifting through various moods and musical styles. As previously reported, first single ‘And The Boys’ is out on March 1, complete with non-album tracks ‘Change’ and ‘Take You Away’.
