Black Rebel Motorcycle Club December tour dates

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club December tour dates. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have announced that they will be returning to the UK for a December tour. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are currently in the UK, mid way through a world tour. Unfortunately due to illness the band were forced to postpone their Nottingham Rockcity show on Saturday 24th April. The new date is December 3rd. and all existing tickets will be honored. The current UK tour continues in Liverpool tonight. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — or B.R.M.C. for short — started in 1995, when Robert Turner and Peter Hayes met while attending high school in San Francisco. The two formed a solid friendship and camaraderie based on a mutual love of early-’90s U.K. bands like Ride, the Stone Roses, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and My Bloody Valentine. Despite such similar tastes, both joined different bands and spent several years working apart, although they occasionally kept in touch by attending each other’s gigs. In 1998, however, Turner and Hayes rejoined and added British drummer Nick Jago to the fold. The group began performing live in November 1998 as “the Elements,” a name they quickly ditched after discovering many other bands that shared the same title. They purloined their new moniker from the Marlon Brando-led biker gang that stormed into that dusty California hamlet in The Wild One. By 1999, B.R.M.C. had recorded a polished, 16-track demo CD and relocated to Los Angeles. The Santa Monica-based radio station KCRW jumped on the band’s demo first, giving them their initial airplay, but interest in the band eventually spread across the Atlantic, where BBC Sheffield named the demo their “Record of the Week.” Oasis’ Noel Gallagher even expressed interest in signing the band to his new Brother Records imprint, telling MOJO magazine that they were his favorite new group. After inking a lucrative Warner/Chappell publishing deal, however, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club began fielding offers from several labels, and they ultimtely chose to sign with Virgin Records in March 2000. Following a short U.S. tour with the Dandy Warhols, the band entered the recording studio and eventually emerged with a self-titled debut, B.R.M.C., which was released in March 2001. Two years later, the trio returned with a slicker edge and a new album, Take Them on, on Your Own, which peaked at number three on the U.K. charts. They severed ties with Virgin Records eight months later. A deal with RCA surfaced within months, and the acoustic, Americana-influenced Howl arrived in August 2005. The band moved back to the loud rock & roll approach favored on their first two albums with 2007′s Baby 81, and the resulting tour was documented by the band’s first concert DVD, LIVE, in 2009. Nick Jago left the band after Baby 81′s release, ostensibly to focus on his solo career. With the Raveonettes’ touring percussionist, Leah Shapiro, now handling drum duties, B.R.M.C. decided to change their direction once again, this time embracing electronica and ambient noise on The Effects of 333. Indepedently released via the band’s own label, The Effects of 333 failed to gain either commercial or critical acclaim, and B.R.M.C. chose to partner with Vagrant Records for the release of their next album, 2010′s Beat the Devil’s Tattoo.

December dates are as follows:

December
Fri 3rd Nottingham Rockcity
Sun 5th Manchester Academy
Mon 6th Glasgow O2 Academy
Tue 7th Birmingham O2 Academy
Thu 9th Norwich UEA
Fri 10th Bristol O2 Academy
Sat 11th London Brixton O2 Academy

Paul Weller to ‘Wake Up The Nation’

Paul Weller releases his tenth studio solo album “Wake Up The Nation” on April 12th on Island Records. After an unparalleled career, characterised by constant musical experimentation, we should be used to Paul Weller’s relentless desire to chop and change his musical pack. But after the triumphant, Brit-bagging success of 22 Dreams (his third solo number one) Wake Up The Nation album sees rock’s most iconic songwriter come up trumps once more. Lean, mean and as uncompromisingly focused as it’s maker, Wake Up The Nation also brings Paul Weller full circle: twenty-eight years on from The Jam’s split, two tracks feature the former bassist Bruce Foxton. The album also sees contributions from My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, The Move’s Bev Bevan and legendary session drummer Clem Cattini. Passion, progression, and, as ever, spine-tingling rock’n'roll -Paul Weller has, yet again delivered the perfect soundtrack as we embark on a new decade.

Wake Up The Nation’s 16 tracks are:

MOONSHINE
WAKE UP THE NATION
NO TEARS TO CRY
FAST CAR / SLOW TRAFFIC
ANDROMEDA
IN AMSTERDAM
SHE SPEAKS
FIND THE TORCH, BURN THE PLANS
AIM HIGH
TREES
GRASP AND STILL CONNECT
WHATEVER NEXT
7&3 IS THE STRIKERS NAME
UP THE DOSAGE
PIECES OF A DREAM
TWO FAT LADIES

A double A side single featuring ‘Wake Up The Nation’ and ‘No Tears To Cry’ will be released on April 5th. New tour and festival dates will be announced soon. In the interim, Paul plays 5 sold out nights at the Royal Albert Hall from 24 – 28th May.

Innerpartysystem remix Beastie Boys track

Innerpartysystem have put their own unique spin on a new Beastie Boys track, available for streaming at www.myspace.com/innerpartysystem. Their bootleg was enabled by a much sought-after Beastie Boys vinyl, only 500 of which were made. Somehow, Innerpartysystem managed to get their hands on one of the vinyls which were inserted into random packages for the ‘Check Your Head’ reissue that was released recently. The tracklisting for this strictly limited vinyl was. The Innerpartysystem remix is of an a capella titled BBoys in the Cut. IPS just released their Heart of Fire EP in the UK and have recently returned to their native US after a series of packed-out headline shows plus stunning performances at Camden Crawl and Give It A Name. The four members of innerpartysystem hail from the small towns that surround Reading, Pennsylvania. The rural, stark nature of the landscape has certainly had an effect on the band’s sound which incorporates throbbing electronic beats with the aesthetic of a rock band whom, like Nine Inch Nails, Pendulum and Prodigy, aren’t afraid to mix styles and mess with the formula. Innerpartysystem worked with a stellar line-up of producers and engineers on their self-titled debut album, released last year – Stuart Price (Madonna, Missy Elliott, The Killers, Gwen Stefani), Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine) and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park, Goldfrapp).