New Forward, Russia!

This is a track by a band which I've been listening to a lot lately. Caught their first single, Nine, which they released as a double A-side with fellow Leeds band This et al. (also good but heavier) and then they released their own double A, Thirteen, Fourteen.

You'll be seeing a pattern emerge here with the track names. This one, Twelve is perhaps the hardest to get into of the singles so far but give it a few goes and you'll love it. Oddly the band are still unsigned but following on from a 2 page spread in the NME this week, I doubt that will last.

The band are away to embark on a full scale UK tour at a lot of small venues, so see what you think, go see them live and make them huge.

Foward, Russia! - Twelve

Later

Upcoming gigs

As I seem to be able to successfully post links, not much of an achievement but hey, I'll tell you about some of the gigs I have coming up.

Planning on going to see
The Crimea @ Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire this Saturday (Nov 12th)
The White Stripes @ Glasgow Academy on Nov 15th
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ (the now larger venue, but still sold out!!!) ABC Glasgow on Nov 20th
and then a big problem, two gigs, one night, two cities, stupidly bought tickets for both not realising dates.
Stellastarr*@ Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire on Nov 30th
or
Antony and the Johnsons @ Glasgow Academy

What to do? Looks like it will probably be Antony as I'll not be able to sell the tickets as it has not sold out and I've seen Stellastarr* a good few times already, but why the same night!?!?!

If anyone gets round to reading this and has any more recommendations then I'll be very happy for suggestions.

Plus, you ever get into bands right after they have toured your area? Very annoying, here's the two thats annoyed me most lately

Guillemots (very good band, if you like British Sea Power check them out)
Blackbud (think early Radiohead, but I've also heard comparisons to Muse)

Later

The Cloud Room @ Music for Ants

I'm still just trying to get things going with this site so sorry if you stumble across it but posting mp3s still seems a little away from me. First of all, lets try a link. We'll try one to a blog I'm a fan of which has recently posted a couple of tracks by The Cloud Room, a band well worth checking out, especially the track Hey Now Now(I'll put it up when I know how).

http://musicforants.blogspot.com

Well worth a look.

Also worth a look is the equally impressive Central Village which I'm sure many of you will be familiar with. They regularly review things going on in the New York scene making us in the UK very envious. Last week they talked about the Arcade Fire's random appearance in Union Square. Having been there I know how magic that area is, but I didn't see anything as brilliant as AF doing Cure and New Order tracks!

http://centralvillage.blogs.com/cv/

Always both worth a look.

Hope these links work - first time trying all this and all that...

Later

So this is the new blog

I've never blogged before and may never again, but here I am, blogging.

This site will hopefully, if I can ever find out how to work it, host some lovely new music from upcoming UK bands and the best of US bands that some other blog has probably already told you about.

Bands that I would like to include in the next while;

Forward, Russia!
Blackbud
White Rose Movement
The Paddingtons
Broken Social Scene
Be Your Own Pet

Anyone who knows anything about those bands should get an idea of what I'm going to try to do with the site. Don't expect many posts anytime soon but they will come eventually. Promise.