NME Awards Tour 2013

NME have announced the line up for the 'Awards Tour 2013' Django Django will headline the tour with other acts including Miles Kane, Palma Violets and Peace on the bill. 

Tickets for the following dates go on presale at nme.com/tickets tomorrow 28/11/12 and general sale on Friday 30/11/12.
  
Newcastle O2 Academy (February 7)
Manchester Academy 1 (8)
Leeds O2 Academy (9)
Glasgow O2 Academy (11)
Nottingham Rock City (12)
Liverpool O2 Academy (13)
Norwich UEA (15)
Birmingham O2 Academy (16)
Cardiff Uni Great Hall (17)
Bristol O2 Academy (19)
Bournemouth O2 Academy (20)
Brighton Dome (21)
London O2 Brixton Academy (23)

Django Django





Miles Kane


Palma Violets




Peace

James - On Tour - 2013

James announced via Larry's Twitter feed and then a couple of days later on the official website a UK tour for 2013. Special guest for all dates will be Echo and the Bunnymen. The tour advert also confirms the long awaited 'The Gathering Sound' box set will finally be released on 10/12/12. Tickets go on sale this Friday 22/12/12. Check out the live video of 'Born Of frustration' below.

I Am Kloot 'Let It All In'

I Am Kloot are due to release their 6th Studio album titled, 'Let It All In' on the 21st January 2013. The album is produced by Guy and Craig from Elbow. The first single to be lifted from the album is 'Hold Back the Night' which was release on the 5th November.

The album is now availble to pre order Here



I Am Kloot also tour the UK in 2013:

Glasgow Oran Mor, 12th Feb
Leeds Irish Centre, 13th Feb
Manchester HMV Ritz, 14th Feb
Nottingham Albert Hall, 18th Feb
London Barbican Centre, 19th Feb
Brighton St Bartholomew’s Church, 21st Feb
Cambridge Junction, 22nd Feb
Bristol Trinity, 23rd Feb
Coventry Warwick Arts Centre, 24th Feb

Busker One!

In 2011 Busker One set themselves the incredible task of recording an acoustic version of every UK No 1 for an entire year......no matter what the song was. The band consist of Catherine and Tom. As well as recording covers the band also recorded a a excellent Demo EP of their own material that is still available as a free download.


Who are Busker One and where you from? 
Busker One is a folk/pop acoustic duo from Manchester.

Can you give us a brief history of the band? 

Myself and Tom have been working together in bands since College so over 6 or 7 years now, we decided when we got back from Uni to form a duo and start writing our favourite kind of Music!

Do you write your own stuff as well as covers? 

Yes we do and this can be heard at bandcamp we are always writing new stuff!

Anywhere else we can find your music? 

As above and at www YouTube.com/BuskerOneUK

What's the biggest gig your played so far? And what's the best? 

Manchester City Stadium to 46,000 people! That was immense! We took part in a competition called City sound and that has to be the best experience ever!

What's your favourite song to cover? 

Our favourite song to cover might have to be Oasis - don't look back in anger as we do it in a jazzy style quite different from the original and it gets people up every time! 

Are there any songs you would like to cover but haven't? 

Yes loads! We restricted ourselves at first to just doing the No1's so sometimes there were awesome covers in the Top 10 we had to leave! We would have loved to have covered 'Love On Top' by Beyonce!

When can we see Busker One live? 

This Saturday at The Robin Hood

Where can we find Busker One's music?  

You Tube & buskerone bandcamp.com

What's next for busker one? 

We are currently writing new stuff and hope to have an album out next spring, we want to do a mini tour of this as well! 

Every Number 1 from 2011.....

 

Esper Scout

Leeds based 'Esper Scout' first caught our attention when they played the 'Glaston-Bury Festival' in Bury over the summer. The all girl 4 piece have a couple of releases under their belt already and in December will release their latest single and video 'Gaps in the Border Fence'  

Esper Scout's Sarah Statham tells us more about the band and the forthcoming release.

 

Hey, how are you?

Good thanks! Busy sorting various things for the Gaps in the Border Fence / In Foreign release later in the year, we finished filming the video yesterday which is a big weight off! An ambitious project and one which took longer than expected but we’re really happy with how it all went. Everyone received stings and bites from the forest as marks of achievement!

Where are the band from?

We’re based in Leeds but Kirsty, Rebecca and I were born, raised and met in Manchester. Lou is a Leeds gal.

How long have Esper Scout been together?

The three of us moved up between 2007 and 2008 and met Lou quite soon after so just over four years in some guise or another. We’ve been Esper Scout for what must be coming up to three years.


Wallet of Brass Coins by Esper Scout

Where does the name come from?

‘Esper’ is a word first used in a science fiction short story called ‘Oddy & Id’ by Alfred Bester and it’s derived from the idea of ‘extra sensory perception’. I can’t remember how but ‘Scout’ emerged when Kirsty and Lou were watching a documentary about bears. Me and Reb were out watching the ATP film at TJ Woodhouse in Leeds and we got a number of texts with bear related suggestions. Unfortunately I’m not able to recall any of them but I’m sure they were crackers!

Have any of you been in other bands before Esper Scout?

Actually mine and Kirsty’s first band is how we met Reb. It was a tongue-in-cheek, youthful punk thing. We broke the ice with Incubus’ Alive at Red Rocks DVD and had a song called Pork Sword. We’ve matured slightly since then, creatively at least. This excludes doodles and puns of course.

You've had a couple of singles release, how well have they been received?

The reviews we had were positive but we’re definitely honest about them as teething experiences mainly. We’re stronger players now and Kids & Pets was my first experience singing on a recording and I learnt plenty, especially with regards to how much pressure I seemed to be putting on myself. Thankfully we were recording with a friend so the process was more relaxed than if it had have been someone else. In Foreign, the second track on our next release, was born out of how I was feeling that winter. I think we’re all agreed that we’re only just starting to find ourselves musically but the first two e.ps have led us to some really good gigs, radio play and other exposure so they’ve served us well. We love the remixes that have emerged from a couple of their songs too and we’ve just recorded a revised version of Shed Some Light which will be out next year. We’re sort of in-between drummers at the moment so I recorded drums on that. I hadn’t recorded drums - or played very much at all - for several years so it was good exercise to be back in the saddle. Excuse the metaphor.




If someone has not heard the band how would you describe your sound?

Loud/quiet/rock is a response which we’ve used before but I’m aware that’s perhaps frustratingly vague and not too helpful. To add to that then, we like to combine melody, harmony, guitar and bass textures and pedal effects with strong, dynamic drums and rhythms.

Who would you say are the main influences on the band?

There aren’t many artists who we can agree on but Melissa Auf der Maur is one of the few. We’ve been told that the songs have QOTSA, Oceansize and Jack Off Jill tendencies. I don’t think we deserve such comparisons just yet but it’s very complimentary - and they weren’t all drunk. It was both confusing and worrying when a guy likened us to U2 and Metallica one time though, at two in the afternoon.

Do you have any live dates planned?

We’re playing a MS fundraiser in Empire in Leeds on the 17^th November and supporting our friends Chemistry Lane at Telfords in Chester on the 22^nd of November. We’re busy booking some more for the end of the year and hopefully a release gig for Gaps in the Border Fence / In Foreign.

Where can people find your people find your music?

It’s all exclusively on Bandcamp at the moment, including a two track remix e.p at www.esperscout.bandcamp.com.

What's next for Esper Scout?

We’ve been pretty wrapped up in Gaps and In Foreign to think too far ahead. After we release that it’ll be the re-recorded Shed Some Light single which is on the cards for early 2013.


You can find Esper Scout online: Bandcamp Facebook Twitter

The band launch their new single on 12.12.12