Punk rock legends Against Me! have announced two incredibly intimate warm up shows for this years Reading Festival.

The first will be a rare acoustic performance at Banquet Records in Kingston Upon Thames on Thursday 26^th August.  Advance tickets are necessary and will be available on a first come first served basis ONLY by going to the store in person.

The second will be later on that evening at The Fighting Cocks also in Kingston Upon Thames.  This show will be the hottest gig you go to this year, guaranteed!  Tickets are only available instore through the good folk at Banquet Records for £9 each or you can purchase the brilliant new album ‘White Crosses’ and a ticket for the show for only £10!

Tickets for both shows will be available  this Saturday, August 14th.   Be quick, these tickets will not be available for very long!

Against Me! release their new single – ‘White Crosses’ on August 30^th.

Mumford & Sons are pleased to announce details of their new single and British festival performances for the Summer.

The platinum selling folk-rock band will release ‘Roll Away Your Stone’ on the 7th June through Gentleman Of The Road/Island Records. It will be backed with a live recording of White Blank Page from one of the band’s recent headline dates at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire.

Mumford & Sons are also pleased to announce a hectic summer of festival performances, kicking off with the John Peel stage at Glastonbury.

The band are currently touring Europe ahead of a near completely sold-out tour of America.  They follow their British festival schedule with a spate of Australian shows, which have all now sold out.

Mumford & Sons Live:

25th June – Glastonbury Festival (John Peel stage)

2nd July – Eden Project, Cornwall (with Doves)

3rd July – Hop Farm Festival, Kent

10th July – Oxegen Festival, County Kildare Ireland

11th July – T In The Park, Kinross Scotland

18th July – Latitude Festival, Suffolk

15th August – Summer Sundae Festival, Leicester (headline)

22nd August – Green Man Festival, Powys, Wales

27th August – Reading Festival

29th August – Leeds Festival

5th September – Electric Picnic Festival, Stradbally Ireland

11th September – Bestival, Isle of Wight

Newly confirmed tour includes show at London’s Hammersmith HMV Apollo plus live sets at Reading/Leeds Festival and Radio One Big Weekend

Recent months have delivered a steady stream of career landmarks in YOU ME AT SIX‘s ascension to the top. Their second album ‘Hold Me Down‘ provided the band with their first Top 5 hit when it charted as the second highest new entry of the week and three places above Delphic. The boys’ subsequent nationwide tour in March saw them play to an audience of over 25,000 people and culminated with their first sold-out headline show at London’s Brixton Academy.

Continuing public demand to see the band in action has sparked confirmation of the second YOU ME AT SIX UK tour of the year. This time around it features more dates at bigger venues, including including Hammersmith HMV Apollo on December 15th. Fans who purchased a copy of the band’s debut album ‘Take Off Your Colours’ (original or deluxe versions) or current release ‘Hold Me Down’ will be able to access the tour’s presale from 10am on Tuesday April 27th by visiting the band’s special members area YOU ME AT SIX: BACKSTAGE at www.youmeatsix.co.uk/backstage.

Anyone can sign up to YMAS: BACKSTAGE to enjoy the exclusive content on offer but only album owners will be able to access the presale simply by inserting a copy of either album into the PC drive.

A further quantity of tickets will be available from the Artist’s Ticket website                       ( http://www.artistticket.com/link/?s=you+me+at+six) on April 28th/29th with the remainder on general sale from April 30th. The dates (tickets priced at £16.50 regionally and £18.50 in London), which follow the quintet’s summer Warped tour trek, are as below:

December

5th EDINBURGH, Corn Exchange

6th WOLVERHMAPTON, Civic Hall

9th BOURNEMOUTH, BIC

10th DONCASTER, Dome

12th MANCHESTER, Apollo

16th LONDON, Hammersmith Apollo

And if that sounds like a long way off do not fret as the band have just been confirmed to play RADIO 1′s BIG WEEKEND ‘In New Music We Trust’ stage on MAY 23rd. Plus LEEDS and READING FESTIVAL on AUGUST 28th and 29th – appearing on the main stage for the first time, the band shares the bill with fellow tour mates Paramore and long-time heroes Blink 182.



It’s finally arrived, the DVD/CD combo that every bloody buggers going to have on their Christmas list. Cobain at his arguably creative peak and destructive saw Nirvana step up to the plate with this quite shambolically exquisite best. Check out the trailer below to the DVD;

Record Label: DGC Records

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Oh my, how the jealousy intensifies of the thought of missing Nirvana’s headline slot on the Friday night at Reading ‘92. But, as a mere spotty adolescent at the time, the chances were derisorily slim that the immeasurable impact they had that night would have had a significant premise in my think tank at that tender age. However, due to the release of this climatic DVD/CD combo, a joyous wa hey, yes indeed, wa hey is bellowed out! We get to relive Cobain at his most spasmodically enchanting, fronting the primal instigators of grunge music of the early 90s. The campsite that year was rife with rumours that year that Cobain was AWOL, rumours citing anything from an overdose, to marriage difficulties or that he was compelled to shun the show due to his displeasure of the limelight. That aside, the set was filled with mind-blowing grunge and sloppy indie-rock that came accustomed to Nirvana’s shows. Filled with most of ‘Nevermind’ and ‘Bleach’ their set was that of a greatest hits ensemble. The inclusion of bootleg gems ‘D7’ and ‘Spank Thru’ whetted the appetite further. But, nothing resonates as profoundly as their classic cuts, such as ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit, ‘Lithium’, ‘School’ and set closer ‘Territorial Pissings’. This showing came a year after ‘Nevermind’ an album that reset the aesthetics and expectations of modern pop music. And delivered Reading a Nirvana arguably at their artistic peak. Nirvana you live on in our hearts!