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2012 will be the year of Vanquish, Britain’s
brightest new girl-band.
Bee, Holly, Lizzy, Rianna are four very special girls with
one very special sound.
So who are the girls? Well let’s find out. In tweet-sized
bites.
@BeeVanquish - Warm, genuine, easy going & spontaneous.
I love laughing, having fun & being silly! I'm compassionate,
honest & love to love!
@HollyVanquish - Always happy, love to laugh, forever impulsive
& living life on the edge because it's too short not to.
I follow my heart & my dreams.
@lizzyVanquish - I'm a perfectionist. I know exactly what
I want in life. Love 2 laugh but cry easily. I'm a bossy boots
but it’s only because I'm passionate
@RiVanquish - I am a bubbly, clumsy & sensitive person.
I love to make people laugh & put a smile on their face.
I trip over everything, I love animals
What’s this special sound? Fantastic dancefloor-filling
Power Pop, with capital Ps. But when you hear who’s
been writing songs for them that won’t be a surprise.
Ivor Novello award winners Rob Davis (Kylie, Sophie Ellis-Bextor)
and Jorgen Elofsson (Britney, J-Lo, Kelly Clarkson), master
tunesmith Wayne Hector and Nick Dresti (AKA Lady Gaga’s
‘Space Cowboy’) are just some of the names who’ve
been penning top tunes for the girls to create what is shaping
up to be a standout pop album.
And, boy, can they sing! As they’ve shown on every
one of their 100 performances in 2011. Touring the length
and breadth of the country, performing at schools during the
day, clubs at night, and theme parks and arenas at the weekend,
Vanquish have spent this last year honing their sound, and
earning their pop-stripes. Highlights include performing at
The British Grand Prix at Silverstone; to 15,000 fans in Sheffield
(sharing the stage with Matt Cardle & Tinchy Stryder);
every day at Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model
Live (they were hand-picked and dressed by the event’s
official designer Joey Bevan); and supporting Lemar in Stockport
with an audience of 7,000.
Oh My! – Dirty Dancer [Alvin
Risk Remix]
The love children of the mouthiest boy in
pop Example and super cool label 679, Oh My! are one of the
hottest girl duo’s on the scene right now and with the
release of their cheeky belter ‘Dirty Dancer’
the only way is up for the pair. Following the great reception
of the official video and the Unicorn Kid remix it’s
time for Alvin Risk to step into the spotlight for his remix
of the latest single. Destined for mixtapes across the web
and dancefloors throughout the country Alvin Risk has reworked
the track into a bouncy floor filler that is bound to get
you moving. ‘Dirty Dancer’ is out now on iTunes
and in just over a week’s time the girls will be taking
to the road to support The Saturdays on their UK Stadium Tour.
The
X Factor Live Tour 2012.
Performing
on the tour are: Misha B, Janet Devlin, Marcus Collins, Johnny
Robinson, Craig Colton, Little Mix, The Risk, Kitty Brucknell,
and Amelia Lily.
FEBRUARY
Sat 25th Manchester MEN Arena 2.30pm &
7.30pm
Mon 27th Liverpool Echo Arena
Wed 29th Nottingham Capital FM Arena
MARCH
Sun 4th London Wembley Arena 2.30pm &
7.30pm
Tues 6th Dublin O2
Weds 7th Dublin O2
Fri 9th Belfast Odyssey Arena
Sat 10th Belfast Odyssey Arena
Tue 13th Aberdeen ECC
Sat 17th Glasgow SECC 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Mon 19th Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
Wed 21st Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
Sun 25th Birmingham LG Arena 2.30pm &
7.30pm
Tues 27th Brighton Centre
Weds 28th Brighton Centre
Sat 31st London The O2 2.30pm & 7.30pm
APRIL
Tue 3rd Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
Weds 4th Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
TICKETS: £32.50
Limited Availability Family Ticket £110
(4 tickets maximum 2 adults)
The
One Direction Save The Day Challenge Ends With An Exclusive
Album Listening Party
After
20 challenges, 200,000 participants, 12 Twitter trends and
over 2.5 million YouTube views, the One Direction ‘Save
The 1Day’ challenge culminates this Thursday with an
exclusive online album listening party for fans across the
world.
The
‘Save The 1Day’ challenge began weeks ago when
the boys lost their production laptop and it got into the
hands of a hacker/gamer/mega 1D fan, 1DCyberpunk. Rather than
giving it back, she decided to lay down a series of challenges
to see if the Directioners could prove they are as big a fan
as she is. If the Directioners win a challenge they get some
of the laptop content back. Photos, videos, lyrics, the works!
So
far 1DCyberpunk has had the Directioners making origami dolls
of the boys, taking part in quizzes, doing complex maths sums
and even dressing like her for Halloween. But it seems like
Directioners are having a blast winning back the laptop content.
Some are saying they run home from school or stay up late
in different time zones around the world just to take part
in the latest challenges.
Now
with One Direction’s debut album about to launch, there
is one final challenge before fans can hear ‘Up All
Night’. 1DCyberpunk has challenged fans to unlock the
listening party by taking part in #1DPartyRun, an online video
race! Fans will upload videos of themselves or their 1D dolls
running to the party and if enough entries are submitted they
will unlock the party and arrive in time.
Without
question, N-Dubz are one of the most culturally significant
groups in contemporary British pop music. Their albums ‘Uncle
B,’ ‘Against All Odds’ and ‘Love.Live.Life’
have to-date sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK and earlier
this year they completed a sell out arena tour. N-Dubz have
won five MOBO awards, a Sunday Times bestselling book: ‘Against
All Odds: From Street Life To Chart Life’ and their
own major Channel 4 reality series: ‘Being N-Dubz'.
The band have an almost unmatchable online presence with over
100 million views on YouTube, 1 million friends on Facebook
and 200,000 followers on Twitter Dappy, Tulisa and Fazerare
among the most powerful names in music.??
Now N-Dubz
release their 'Greatest Hits' all on one album for the first
time on November 28th
Sounds
Of The Sixites
Release
Date: 21st Nov 2011 Label: EMI
The
most successful weekend show on Radio 2 is without a doubt,
“Sounds Of The Sixties”. With over three and a
half million listeners every Saturday morning, the programme
presented by Brian Matthew has become an institution.
The
audience are staunch sixties fans and despite the facts and
feats offered up about each individual record played, they
still constantly email into the show to find out more information
about their favourite artists.
For
the full album line up go to the news section...
JODIE
MARIE
debut
single ‘ON THE ROAD’
Released
as a digital download on November 14th, 2011
Following
the Summer download, ‘Single Blank Canvas’ which
received praise across the board from the likes of Jen Long
and Huw Stephens at Radio 1, Steve LaMaq at Radio 2 and John
Kennedy at XFM, as well as across the press in the likes of
the 405, Q and NME, Jodie Marie is releasing ‘On The
Road’, a song laden with soulful melody and intricate
percussion.
The track
leads with a sauntering, sun-kissed verse, giving little indication
of the point at 55 seconds in, when Jodie’s voice rips
into the chorus – a gutsy, minor-key soul number –
where the new extraordinary vocal talent lays down her marker
with devastating effect.
Noah And The Whale today announce
details of a major UK tour for 2012. The band - whose Last
Night On Earth has, since its release last spring, firmly
established itself as one of the Albums of 2011, will play
11 shows in March/April, including one at The Royal Albert
Hall.
Full
dates and full news story on this can be found in the news
area.
THE
SPECIAL KS
Five-piece
electro-pop band The Special Ks are the newest act to emerge
from Brighton, known for its eclectic and diverse musical
culture. Despite the popular belief that the band was named
after the red-dress donning cereal brand, the name was in
fact inspired by the lead singer’s surname, Howard Kaye,
who joins Darren, Mat, Ryan and Gan to fit comfortably into
the newest generation of musicians. With a memorable sound
and personable approach to their emergence into the music
industry, their debut single Crystal Fields is set for release
on October 23rd, a track that can be likened to other breakthrough
bands such as Friendly Fires and Fenech Soler whose acclaim
has skyrocketed over recent months.
Jessie
J is back with Who You Are the breath taking ballad from her
massive no1 selling album of the same name.
It’s
been a phenomenal year for British superstar Jessie J; since
winning the acclaimed BBC Sound Polls of 2010 and Brits Critics
Choice for 2011, Jessie has racked up 16 global #1 hits, selling
over 2 million albums and 5 million singles worldwide, confirmed
to appear on the X Factor as Tulisa’s aid at the judges
houses (airing Saturday 1st October) AND stormed across the
live music scene with 2 sell-out tours and a string of acclaimed
festival performances at the likes of Glastonbury, Bestival
and V Festival!
On
7th November, Jessie J is set to unleash her next single,
the highly anticipated power-anthem, ‘Who You Are’
on to the world, a song which showcases Jessie J’s remarkable
multi-octave vocal and song-writing finesse.
As the
title-track from her highly praised debut album, ‘Who
You Are’ is a song Jessie J feels close to her heart;
with lyrics set to inspire a generation, Jessie wrote the
song at the end of a 3 month writing trip to LA before she
was a popstar and 20, working her way through various studios
with producers to write songs.
With Jessie
J’s broken foot on the mend, she is also embarking on
a UK tour in October;
Tour Dates:
Mon 17th
October Birmingham O2 Academy
Tues 18th
October Birmingham O2 Academy
Wed 19th
October Doncaster Dome
Fri 21st
October Manchester O2 Apollo
Sat 22nd
October Liverpool Su Mountford Hall
Sun 23rd
October Bournemouth BIC
Tues 25th
October Edinburgh Usher Hall
Wed 26th
October Bridlington Spa
Thurs 27th
October Plymouth Pavilions
Sat 28th
October Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
Sun 30th
October Leeds O2 Academy
Tues 1st
November London Hammersmith Apollo
Wed 2nd
November London Hammersmith Apollo
Thurs 3rd
November Brighton Brighton Centre
RIHANNA'S FANS UNLOCK THE WORLDWIDE
LAUNCH OF HER NEW SINGLE, “WE FOUND LOVE” - TODAY
AT 2pm GMT, SIMULTANEOUSLY ON HER FACEBOOK PAGE AND RADIO!
LISTEN NOW AT http://www.facebook.com/rihanna.
Play MPE link to be circulated shortly.
FIRST
SINGLE FROM UPCOMING NEW ALBUM, TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 21st
“We Found Love” kicks off the
new “Rihanna: UNLOCKED” interactive campaign,
as her 45 million Facebook fans and 7.5 million Twitter followers
work in unison worldwide, to ‘Unlock’ exclusive
content from her new album.
New
album follows-up 2010’s LOUD, worldwide 8 million-selling
phenomenon with #1 smash hits “Only Girl (In the World),”
“What’s My Name,” and “S&M”
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TOUR
RE-SCHEDULED – ALL NEW DATES
Lana’s U.S. and European tour has been
re-scheduled and now includes some extra dates and larger
venues. Details for the re-scheduled U.S. dates (originally
set for The Box 9/21 and LA's Hotel Café on 9/27) will
be announced next week on Lana's Facebook.
The full tour is now as follows:
11/ 4 - Manchester, UK @ Ruby Lounge
11/5 - Glasgow, UK @ Oran Moir
11/7 - Paris, France @ Nouveau Casino
11/10 - Amsterdam, Holland @ Upstairs at Paradiso
11/12 - Cologne, Germany @ Gebauede 9
11/14 - Berlin, Germany @ Roter Salon
11/16 - London, UK @ Scala
11/17 - Birmingham, UK @ HMV Institute
TBA - New York, NY
TBA - Los Angeles, CA
For the two changed European shows - tickets
purchased for The Madame JoJo's show in London on the October
5th are valid for the Scala show on 16th November. Tickets
will be posted out in due course. Refunds are available at
point of purchase until October 5th. Tickets purchased for
the The Roter Salon show in Berlin on September 30th are valid
for the new show on November 14h or can be refunded at respective
box offices.
For those who purchased tickets to Lana's
September shows, tickets for The Box and Hotel Café
will be refunded automatically on Monday, 9/19. Management
will be in touch directly to offer priority booking for the
rescheduled larger shows. Lana apologises for any inconveniences
caused by these changes.
The General On Sale date for all European
shows is Monday 26th September@ 10:00 am.
Video Games” / “Blue Jeans”
are released on download on Sunday October 16th. “Video
Games” / “Blue Jeans” is released as a limited
7” vinyl picture disc on Monday, October 17th
Chemicals
will be released on Monday 3rd October 2011 through Hideout
Recordings, their first release since signing to the label.
The
single follows two amazingly well–received self-released
singles, Neon Truth and If It Wasn’t For You, both of
which sold-out of their limited runs within days of being
put on sale via Ebay, Rough Trade London, Pure Groove London,
Piccadilly Manchester and Insound New York .
Both
released earlier this year, their two previous singles picked
up significant support at radio - Radio One daytime plays,
Zane Lowe support, Maida Vale Sessions, Rob Da bank SOTW,
an XFM playlist and Lamacqs 6 Music band of the week.
Since
forming just under 12-months ago Various Cruelties have played
alongside Villagers, The Vaccines, Funeral Party, Fixers,
Tribes and at Mumford’s Communion Night. Scheduled to
appear later this year at Bestival, this summer has already
seen the band play to packed tents at the Isle of Wight and
Latitude festivals.
Cover Drive continue to attract
celebrity pals with their Bajan style. When asked in a recent
interview, if they could have recorded one song that's in
the charts right now what would it have been the stunning
Saturdays said:
Rochelle "I would record Lick Ya Down
by Cover Drive. It's such a good song! It done well but I
think it should have done better. It's a huge hit."
And in their latest Fedora Session they take
on 'Moves Like Jagger' by Maroon 5 but keep your eyes on T-Ray's
moves and whistling skills!
Link:
http://youtu.be/Z-sJP2zvOn8
So
the delectable COVER DRIVE's debut single 'Lick Ya Down' was
Top 10 this week - an amazing result for our young Caribbean
talent.
Rather
than enjoy their success they've been putting their cari-pop
Bajan styling to Adele's 'Someone Like You' which continues
its phenomenal success having just gone no.1 in the USA whilst
being the biggest selling single of the year in the UK
http://youtu.be/X1JAIx23swQ
Congratulations
to Pixie Lott who went straight in the charts at no1 yesterday
with her brilliant single All About Tonight.
Example to serve customers at
HMV’s Flagship Oxford Street store!
WHAT: Example working behind the counter at
HMV
WHERE: HMV London, 150 Oxford Street, W1
WHEN: Monday 5th September 2011 from 5.00
pm
Singer, songwriter and rapper Example journeys
straight to the frontline taking up temporary employment at
HMV’s flagship Oxford Street store in London’s
busy West End to serve the public on Monday 5th September
2011.
Example will be at the store from 5.00pm to
serve HMV customers from behind the counter and offer advice
on purchases.
Customers
will be in for an added treat, as Example will sign copies
of his new album, ‘Playing In The Shadows’ –
which is released through Ministry Of Sound the same day –
and receive a free poster of the album artwork (subject to
availability) when they purchase the album at his till.
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