Over 9000 views so far!!!!!!

Who knew that many people/machines might give a fuck about a word that pops into my head, once it hits 10,000 i'll do something special, possibly illegal, might be the first ever Happy Days Music radio show or something in that vein, free to download without any bands permissions, expect to hear music bands that can't afford to sue such as Baby Godzilla, God Damn, Drenge, Hey! Hello!, Hawk Eyes, and fucktons more

Letlive European Tour Dates

Awesome news, one the best bands and best live bands ever will be doing their own headlining European tour in September/October and there's a Leeds date, expect to see me there.

09/18 Amsterdam, NET – Melkweg
09/19 Antwerp, BEL – Trix
09/20 Stuttgart, GER – Juha West
09/21 Schweinfurt, GER – Stadbahnhof
09/22 Munich, GER – Backstage Club
09/23 Vienna, AUT – Arena 3 Raum Bar
09/25 Prague, CZE – 007
09/26 Wiesbaden, GER – Raucherkammer
09/27 Leipzig, GER – Conne Island
09/28 Berlin, GER – Crystal
09/30 Hamburg, GER – Headcrash
10/01 Paris, FRA – La Maroquinerie
10/02 Cologne, GER – Underground
10/03 Bristol, UK – Fleece
10/04 Southampton, UK – Talking Heads
10/05 Birmingham, UK – Asylum
10/06 Leeds, UK – Cockpit
10/07 Newcastle, UK – Warehouse 34
10/09 Manchester, UK – Nq Live
10/10 Belfast, IRE – Limelight
10/11 Dublin, IRE – Fibber Magees
10/12 Glasgow, UK – King Tuts
10/14 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
10/15 Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
10/17 London, UK – Underworld

With a new album due in the summer expect to hear this bands name a lot!!

Various News Tidbits

Hank III aka Hank Williams III has another 2 albums in the works, one is the country ‘Brothers Of The 4x4’ record and a Hellbilly Punk album called ‘A Fiendish Threat’ both of which have no release date as yet but both will obviously be awesome as almost everything that man releases is class

Max Raptor have hinted that they intend to release a new album at some point in 2013 unfortunately this is all I know at present but very interested to hear more

GOD DAMN have a new cassette EP ‘Heavy Money’ due on June 17th or free download, I’ll update and likely review this at the time.

Dinosaur Pile-Up have had their new album delayed by a month or so which sucks cos it’s going to be insanely good

Live Review – Eureka Machines / The Scaramanga Six / Buzzkill / The Reacharounds – Brudenell Social Club 11th May 2013

Much to be excited about here, unfortunately no pics but in future I will try and include some. Since becoming a dad I’ve had to start picking and choosing my gigs a bit more carefully, can’t go to as many so I have to make sure I pick ones worth going to, and Eureka Machines at the Brudenell for around a fiver falls under definitely worth it. Opening up was the replacement for Crybabycry who called in sick were The Reacharounds, awesome name, unfortunately average band, not rubbish or anything but it just didn’t seem to work, like the singer was playing indie rock and and the band were playing Lynyrd Skynyrd covers. Next up was the return of Buzzkill one of Leeds finest punk rock bands playing their first gig in 5 years, and playing like they haven’t been gone a day blasting good old tunes like ‘Dog On A Leash’ here’s hoping this wasn’t a one off and we can expect new material from them soon. 3^rd on the bill was the Scaramanga Six, still hammering it out after all this time, but maybe times got the better of them as tonight's performance just seemed to be missing their usual fun and energy and felt a little dull in parts. Finally following a false start Chris Catalyst and his band of merry men burst out kicking off with ‘Champion The Underdog’, ‘Pop Star’ and various other power pop nuggets including top tune 'These Are The People Who Live In My House'. Seeing this band live really is a full blown riot of fun and singalongable tunes with massive hooks and choruses to die for, how they’re not much bigger by now escapes me, and the fact they almost called it a day before a last dig with their amazing new pledge album 'Remain In Hope'. So for now be thankful they’re still going, go on, be thankful!!! and cheesily remain in hope for their future.

 

Setlist:

1. Champion The Underdog
2. Pop Star
3. The Story of My Life
4. Affluenza
5. These Are The People Who Live In My House
6. None Of The Above
7. Love Yourself
8. (I'm) Wasting My Time (Yet Again)
9. The One Who Wouldn't Change You
10. Yeah, I Feel Lucky
11. Being Good Is Okay (But Being Better's Better)
12. Zero Hero

Pledge – A New Way Of Life

Is Pledge Music a new way of life, maybe not entirely but it sure as hell can be a better alternative for a band. Just to clarify for some people what pledge music is; Pledge Music allows an artist to set a goal that they need to make an album or ep or whatever they’re after, they then ask their fans to help fund this project and in return you can receive all manner of things from mp3 downloads to signed cd’s to chances to meet your favourite bands, all good so far. If a band fails to meet their target in the allotted time then unfortunately said project never comes to fruition and no-one loses any money. Now the biggest argument against Pledge is you really must have ‘fans’ for it work, well duh of course you do, random people aren’t just going to help you record an album out of the kindness of their hearts.

So you must really be already a touring band who possibly have put out something in the past, but if you haven’t managed to even press your own EP even if it’s handmade go fuck off now because you’re obviously in this for a free ride and aren’t willing to work at this music business lark, yeah sure you can get yourself a deal somewhere if your good enough, but said deals cost you more as an artist than some people can handle, so here’s an alternative; Pledge

Many bands on pledge also reward their fans with extras so far I have had the following:

Bonus tracks from Ginger Wildheart and pre-sale ticket links to shows

An extra cd single thrown in from Ginger Wildheart

A live album and download of the second ‘This Is Menace’ album from Earthtone9

Bonus tracks from Earthtone9

A bonus EP from Red Kite

A bonus albums worth of songs and an acoustic album from Eureka Machines

So that’s pretty much all you need to know, get pledging!!!

http://www.pledgemusic.com/

Top Pledges so Far:

Ginger Wildheart – 555% triple album

Mutation – The Frankenstein Effect

Mutation – Error 500

Hey! Hello! – Hey! Hello!

Earthtone9 – For Cause & Consequence EP

Earthtone9 – IV

The Chapman Family – Cruel Britannia EP

Black Spiders – This Savage Land

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/blackspiders

Exit_International – Our Science Is Golden

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/exitinternational-ourscienceisgolden

Hawk Eyes – That’s What This Is EP

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/hawkeyesep

Red Kite – Songs For Crow

Eureka Machines – Remain In Hope

Band Of The Weekish: The Computers

I like bands like The Computers, I also happen to like the band The Computers, In which I mean I like bands that are constant and don’t spend forever until they put some more music out, even if it’s just a mini-album of Misfits covers, bang it out there, give people something to listen to, don’t for fucksake take a rest, you’ve got time later on to take a rest. Like these NME bands of the week who release and album and fuck off for 6-7 years creating their next masterpiece, which turns out to surprise surprise be a steaming pile of shite, no I prefer my bands prolific and in this case fast and catchy

I recommend the new album ‘Love Triangles Hate Squares’ it has a real 50’s rock’n’roll vibe, Happy Days are indeed here again

Band Profile:

Can't find

Discography:

2007 - Track Four (Freakscene)

1 Track Four   

2 Is It Just Me?

2008 - You Can't Hide From The Computers (Fierce Panda)

1 Teenage Tourettes Camp   

2 Love The Music, Hate The Kids   

3 Must Try Harder   

4 SOS   

5 Please Drink Responsibly   

6 Hell Yeah   

7 City Ghosts

2009 - Teenage Tourettes Camp (Freakscene)

A Teenage Tourettes Camp   

B1 Welcome to the Working Week   

B2 Rebel Girl

2011 - This Is The Computers (One Little Indian)

01 Where Do I Fit In?  1:14  

02 Lovers Lovers Lovers  2:14  

03 Blood Is Thicker  1:49  

04 Hot Damnocles  2:20  

05 Cinco De Mayo  2:16  

06 Rhythm Revue  2:14  

07 Group Identity  2:43  

08 I've Got What It Takes (Part 3)  2:45  

09 Yeah Yeah Yeah  2:07  

10 The Queen In 3D  2:16  

11 Music Is Dead  2:25 

2011 - Group Identity (One Little Indian)

A1  Group Identity   

B1  Train In Vain 

2011 - Rhythm Revue / Surfin' Bird (One Little Indian)

A Rhythm Revue (Single Version)   

B Surfin' Bird

2011 - Music Is Dead (One Little Indian)

A Music is Dead   

B Burning Love

2011 - Split CD w/ Gay For Johnny Depp (No Label)

1 Gay For Johnny Depp –  Hot Damocles  2:43  

2 Computers, The –  Pink Flag  2:24 

2012 - We Are Misfits (One Little Indian)

1  Halloween   

2  Attitude   

3  Hybrid Moments   

4  Scream   

5  Some Kind Of Hate   

6  Where Eagles Dare   

7  Last Caress

2012 - A Real Testimonial (One Little Indian)

A  A Real Testimonial

2013 - Disco Sucks (one Little Indian)

A  Disco Sucks   

B  Tell Me Something I Don't Know 

2013 - Love Triangles Hate Squares (One Little Indian)

01 Bring Me The Head Of A Hipster   

02 Love Triangles, Hate Squares   

03 Mr. Saturday Night   

04 Nothing To Say   

05 C.R.U.E.L.   

06 Disco Sucks   

07 Selina Chinese   

08 Point Of Interest   

09 Sex Texts   

10 Call On You!   

11 Single Beds 

Official Band Biography:

Can't find one

Tour Dates:

7 May – HIGH WYCOMBE, Bucks University

8 May – LONDON, The 100 Club

9 May – SHEFFIELD, The Harley

10 May – CARLISLE, The Brickyard

11 May – MANCHESTER, The Deaf Institute

14 May – TRURO, B-Side @ Bunters

15 May – WEYMOUTH, Finns

16 May – SOUTHAMPTON, The Soul Cellar

21 May – NORWICH, The Waterfront Studio

22 May – LEICESTER, The Soundhouse

23 May – BIRMINGHAM, The Rainbow

24 May – CHESTER, The Compass

25 May – CARMARTHEN, Parrot Bar

27 May – CAMBRIDGE, The Portland Arms

28 May – BRISTOL, The Exchange

29 May – NOTTINGHAM, Red Room

30 May – GLASGOW, Broadcast

31 May – LIVERPOOL, Mello Mello

1 June – HANTS, West End Centre

Links:

http://www.thisisthecomputers.com

http://twitter.com/thecomputers

http://youtube.com/thisisthecomputers

http://thecomputers.bandcamp.com

http://myspace.com/thisisthecomputers

Red Kite - Songs For Crow 2013

Red Kite – Songs For Crow (Pledge)

Sometimes you just have to take a chance, messing about on the pledge music site (more on this to come later) I came across a band name I liked ‘Red Kite’ maybe it’s because they’ve been re-introduced where I live and I like watching them circling around the house but I decided to find out more about them, ex-Cooper Temple Clause, good sign, then I listened to debut single ‘Montreal’ and something about it just struck me and I decided to pledge to help the band make their album. Something told me they had an album in them worth listening to, worth being out there, worth the gamble, I’m not usually a gambling man but in this case it paid off. Now generally this isn’t my kind of music so much, I do like the odd intricate songs but overall I like faster stuff that gets the heart racing, but the opening trio of songs on here ‘The Gathering Storm’, ‘Montreal’ and ‘Streetlights’ set the tone for one hell of a chill out album, and not a chill out and ignore thing, but a chill out and listen to every word, this is some deep music and I’m so glad I decided to be a part of it.

9/10

Buy here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/redkite