FOALS

Foals to headline this year’s Lake of Stars Festival

Foals to headline this year's Lake of Stars Festival

Foals and Freshlyground will headline this year’s Lake of Stars Festival on 30th September to 2nd October in Malawi, Africa.

Joining the amazing international headliners will be a brilliant line up of Malawian talent including reggae stars Black Missionaries, afropop legend Lucius Banda plus hot new stars Maskal and Skeffa Chimoto.

Festival founder Will Jameson says ‘t’s hard to imagine a better festival than last year- our biggest and best to date. This year will be justly global, truly Malawian, showcasing a diverse mix of traditional and new African music, art, poetry, fashion, markets, food and more.’

‘ encourage you to come and experience first-hand what is being talked about from London to Cape Town. Where else can you see over 70 live acts from Africa and Europe playing everything from indie to kwaito to reggae and dubstep in a location that Wanderlust travel magazine hails as one of the Top Ten emerging travel destinations in the world, says Jameson’.

In 2009 British band the Maccabees came to Malawi for their African debut and brought the UK indie noise to the shores of Lake Malawi and last year saw Noisettes fly out and perform with a Malawian choir.

Now it’s the turn of the brilliant Foals to bring their unique sound to the warm heart of Africa. Mercury prize nominees, with their track Spanish Sahara voted as Single of the Year by NME magazine in 2010, this is one of the greatest live acts from the UK. Get ready for their huge, rising anthems to hit the waves of Lake Malawi.

These New Puritans top NME albums of 2010

These New Puritans top NME albums of 2010 The NME has released its annual list of the 75 Best Albums of 2010. These New Puritans, Hidden, gtakes the top spot with Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs and Beach House’s Teen Dream following. The top 10 are below with the rest in this weeks edition.

NME’s Top Ten Albums Of 2010 are:

1. These New Puritans ‘ ‘Hidden’
2. Arcade Fire ‘ ‘The Suburbs’
3. Beach House ‘ ‘Teen Dream’
4. LCD Soundsystem ‘ ‘This Is Happening’
5. Laura Marling ‘ ‘I Speak Because I Can’
6. Foals ‘ ‘Total Life Forever’
7. Zola Jesus ‘ ‘Stridulum II’
8. Salem ‘ ‘King Night’
9. Liars ‘ ‘Sisterworld’
10. The Drums ‘ ‘The Drums’

NME’s Top Ten Tracks Of 2010 are:

1. Foals ‘ ‘Spanish Sahara’
2. MIA ‘ ‘XXXO’
3. Janelle Monae ‘ ‘Tightrope’
4. Kanye West ‘ ‘Power’
5. Arcade Fire ‘ ‘We Used To Wait’
6. Gorillaz ‘ ‘Stylo’
7. Surfer Blood ‘ ‘Swim’
8. Grinderman ‘ ‘Heathen Child’
9. Zola Jesus ‘ ‘Night’
10. The Fall ‘ ‘Bury Pts 2 +4′

Foals today announced new single ‘Miami’ to be released in the UK

Foals new video released

Foals today announced new single ‘Miami’ to be released in the UK July 4th, the same day they play the Camden Roundhouse as part of the iTunes festival in London. ‘Miami’ is the second official single from the band’s critically acclaimed second album Total Life Forever, which last week entered the UK album charts at no. 8 – ahead of other new entries such as Slash, Alicia Keys and Dead Weather. The band have enjoyed a mass of hugely positive media coverage around the follow up to their 2008 debut Antidotes, and have established themselves as a band confident in their identity and progression. Pop gem ‘Miami’ is Foals’ most graceful, patient, yet charged single to date. Retaining the band’s homespun interweaved riffs and powerhouse drumming, its groove is inspired by early-nineties hip hop and loosened by the bliss and sway of classic Balearic disco. Ostensibly a sun-drenched love song, the exoticism of its location belies a dark narcissim -beached, bleached, and bare-hearted. Total Life Forever was recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden during late 2009, by Luke Smith (Clor).

Foals tour this October:

Fri 29th Oct O2 ACADEMY Leeds
Sat 30th Oct ACADEMY Manchester
Sun 31st Oct HMV PICTURE HOUSE Edinburgh
Tue 2nd Nov O2 ACADEMY Glasgow
Weds 3rd Nov O2 ACADEMY Birmingham
Thurs 4th Nov O2 ACADEMY Bristol
Sat 6TH Nov ROCK CITY Nottingham
Sun 7th Nov GUILDHALL Southampton
Mon 8th Nov DOME Brighton
Weds 10th Nov UEA Norwich
Thurs 11th Nov ENGINE SHED Lincoln
Fri 12th Nov O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY London

Tickets £14 regional / £16.50 London.