KATE NASH is set to play a special DJ set at Camden’s KOKO venue. The singer will spin the decks as part of the Propaganda indie club night, the UK’s biggest indie club night with 8 nights across the country including the esteemed Friday night slot at the brand new £5 million Gatecrasher Birmingham. On Wednesday 27th May, Propaganda, which has played host to other special guest DJs including Lily Allen, Kaiser Chiefs and Editors, lands at KOKO. That night, Nash will team up with DJ Dan, Oasis’ after show party DJ of choice, to play a very specialaudio-visual DJ set mixing the best new & classic indie alternative music Advance tickets are from £6, with further information available from www.thepropaganda.co.uk

Kate Marie Nash (born 6 July 2024) is an English singer-songwriter based in London. She had a UK #2 hit “Foundations” in 2007, followed by the platinum selling UK number 1 album Made of Bricks.

Early life
Nash was born in London on 6 July 1987. She grew up in Harrow, North West London. Nash first became interested in music during her childhood. She learned how to play the piano at Sandbach School. She attended St. John Fisher School (in Pinner) and moved onto the St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth. She was taught guitar by teacher Louis Mitchell. She studied Theatre at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in South London. She auditioned at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School but was rejected, after which she fell down a flight of stairs, breaking her foot. During her recovery, she was housebound and unable to move, so her mother bought her an electric guitar. Nash used this time to focus on her songwriting: she began to write some new songs, finished old ones and decided that she would book a gig at a local bar in Harrow called Trinity on Gayton Road for herself, to showcase her songs.

Career
Nash started her career in 2006. After several gigs, Nash uploaded her music to the social networking website MySpace. Nash found a manager for herself before proceeding to look for producers for her music.

Moshi Moshi Records
Nash’s debut was a single, “Caroline’s a Victim”/”Birds,” produced and recorded in Iceland by Valgeir Sigurí°sson and released through Moshi Moshi Records in February 2007. The release was limited to 1000 copies, and was available on only 7″ vinyl. Due to demand another 1000 copies were made and sold out. CD Promo copies were produced for distribution to the press and DJs etc, and are occasionally available for sale. It is also featured on the CD “Moshi Moshi Singles Compilation”. A video for the song was released and received airplay on MTV2. The video, directed by Kinga Burza. The B-side, “Birds”, later featured on her début album, Made of Bricks. Both tracks have also been released as MP3 downloads.

Fiction Records
In April 2007, Nash was signed to the Polydor offshoot Fiction Records. Nash’s second single and first through Fiction Records, “Foundations”, which she co-wrote with producer Paul Epworth, was released on 18 June 2024 and reached number two in the official UK Singles Chart. Following “Foundations,” Fiction announced plans to bring forward the release of Nash’s debut album to 6 August 2007. The album, Made of Bricks, produced by Paul Epworth, included many of the tracks she had been performing on her two nationwide tours. The album was leaked to filesharing networks days before its commercial release, and has received mixed reviews, The Independent describing it as being in “pole position for worst album of the year.” The album reached number 1 in the UK charts. During mid-2007, Nash performed at numerous festivals including Wireless Festival, Bestival, the Electric Gardens, Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading and Leeds, Oxegen and T in the Park. She made her official TV performance début on Later with Jools Holland. Regarding the recording of a new album, Nash told NME that she had been inspired by The Supremes and has written a song called “Cat Song” in their honour. She is also set to release a duet single with Billy Bragg, a cover of The Shangri-Las “Give Him A Great Big Kiss”. As of October 2008 Nash is writing material for her second album which may have a more punk influenced sound. Nash is hoping to release the album in the UK during the summer of 2009. In late March 2009 Nash made the following comments regarding the recording of her new album during an interview with the BBC Newsbeat program. “I’ve done a bunch of demos. I’ve got about 14 to 16 songs recorded and I’m going to do another session at the end of the month. It’s really cool. I’ve been doing a lot of writing and I’m excited about getting stuck into new material. It’s different and it’s fun to be doing something new.” She previously previewed two new tracks - “Froggy” and “I Hate Seagulls” - at an intimate gig at the Matter music venue in east London in October 2008.

Featured Artist Coalition Nash has lent her support to the Featured Artist Coalition an organization whose goal is to give artists more say in the music industry decision process. Nash cited the emerging digital age as a reason artists should have a voice in decisions that effect their careers.

Personal life
On 1 April, 2009 Nash joined in protests against the G20 summit outside of the Bank of England in London..

On 20 February 2025 she received a BRIT award for Best Female artist.

After five years, two full length albums and countless high profile tours and festival gigs, including The Leeds Festival, Reading and Lollapalooza with her band The Licks, Juliette Lewis is set to play a few dates in the UK and Europe again. With an exciting new sound and a significantly diverse collection of songs, she decided to form a different band to capture her whole new groove and launch this next musical project under a different name: The New Romantiques. “Because my next album will be so sonically different than anything I’ve done before and captures many flavors of my emotional life and voice, it needed an entirely new name. Do I have fear? Of course but it is exactly what gets me going. Because I L O V E what I’m doing’ says Lewis. After launching the new band at SXSW this year, Lewis is ready to continue the live assault that has taken her music all across the world from Europe to Japan to Turkey, Australia, North America and Canada She will play a couple of UK festivals – The Great Escape and Sound City, as well as her own shows at KOKO’s Club NME and the ‘Not In Kansas Anymore’ night at Hoxton Bar and Grill , before heading out to Europe.

Release.
Juliette will be releasing her next album ‘Terra Incognita’ in the autumn. Instrumental in creating the sound for this new record is the album’s producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, leader of Mars Volta and together they have translated her ideas into an emotionally guttural and ultimately melodic and unpredictable, new sound. There is a deep undercurrent on the entire record of contrasting themes; romance and tragedy, dreams and disillusionment. “Everything she’s feeling, it’s just right there for you,” said Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the recording. “It’s just honest. It’s her. All the music encapsulates her and it’s driven by her, and it’s made for her.” The record was mixed by the legendary Rich Cosey (NIN, Muse, Foo Fighters).

Juliette & The New Romantiques will be announcing additional album details and tour news in the coming weeks. For more information please go to: www.myspace.com/juliettelewis

Dates are:

Tue-May-12 Berlin Germany 1Kesselhaus
Thu-May-14 Bilbao area Spain Azkena Rock Festival
Fri-May-15 London UK Koko - Club NME - 18+
Sat-May-16 Brighton UK Great Escape Festival - Concorde 2./09.45
Mon-May-18 London UK Not In Kansas Anymore @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
21-May Liverpool UK Sound City Festival - Stanley Theatre
Fri-Jun-5 Rock am Ring Germany Nurburgring / Eifel
Sat-Jun-6 Rock im Park Germany Zeppelinfeld / Nurnberg
13-Jun Rodez France Festival Skabazac
18-Jul Istanbul Turkey Rock’n Coke Festival – Istanbul Park Circuit
19-Jul Berne Switzerland Gurten Festival

House Of Brothers are ANDREW JACKSON, MATHEW PUGH, LUKE J. MOSS and PETER BANKS. The ‘Document 1’ EP shows off House Of Brothers’ ability to intertwine the raw energy of a live gig environment whilst equally employing lush, delicate and subtle over-layers. Having already been described as The National fronted by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), and Midlake fronted by Fionn Regan 2009 looks to be a bright and exciting year for House Of Brothers. ‘Deadman’, the lead track from the debut ‘Deadman’ EP (released Dec 2007 via Big Scary Monsters Records) found its way to number 20 in the UK Student Radio Chart, as well as being credited with Student Radio Association’s ‘Track of the Week’. It was also extremely well received by online blogs, fanzines and staples such as NME and Drowned in Sound. Since then House Of Brothers has transformed into a full-band; a 5-piece ensemble with Jackson still operating as chief songwriter. Invitations to play some of the Summer’s best festivals, including Glastonbury, End Of The Road, Offset and Splendour followed, as well as supports with the likes of Howling Bells, Jack Peñate, Lightspeed Champion, Noah & The Whale, Mark Lanegan, Mumford & Sons, Jeremy Warmsley and Okkervil River. House Of Brothers - the brainchild of Nottingham-based Blackcountry man Andrew Jackson - performing at the fashionable Kro Bar would appear to be a logical event. The white Georgian-esque building prominently overlooks Manchester’s Oxford road and University, its classical styling contrasting the high-rise developments of the modern city, whilst the 22-year-old songwriter breaks from the fads of the day with a traditional, acoustic based oeuvre that infers nostalgia and perhaps a degree of wisdom beyond his years, worthy of his slot in this year’s Glastonbury line up. In a city of live music venues, the aforementioned Kro is perhaps one of the least ideal in terms of acoustics, however even this fails to mar the small audience’s enjoyment of Jackson’s personal tracks. Kicking of with the emotive ‘Jennifer’, the band play through a set list that makes the most of the soaring, smooth and at times desperate vocals that interweave with an instrumental soundtrack that would not sound out of place in any decade this side of the 1950s, whilst never straying too far from the security of the thoughtful, if not melancholic, British indie camp. By the time the rolling beats of ‘Twilight Of The Idols’ kick in, it’s clear that the personal nature of both music and performance space ensures that all parties involved are wholly engaged in proceedings. Before the close of play we are first offered the rockiest number, then the quietest and perhaps saddest of all. It’s hard to imagine that ‘There’s More Than Two Sides To Every Story’ has not taken a great deal of influence from the kind of bluesy rock that first united youths half a century ago, building on that sound with a level of grandiose that would make you wish it was louder even through a 100k system. Closer ‘Oh Please Let Me Sleep’ lives up to its name, with Jackson’s frail, yet commanding, vocals easing the crowd off into the early hours of Saturday morning with a desolate lullaby that contains as much grace as it does grit. Despite the aforementioned sound problems, the talented youngsters showed musical prowess that would suggest that in this form or under another guise, they should not be going far away for quite some time.

In June 2009 House Of Brothers tour with Jonquil.

Dates as follows:

June 9; Nottingham The Bodega
June 10; York The Basement
June 11; Manchester Kro Bar
June 12; Oxford Academy
June 13; London Borderline
June 14; Brighton Freebutt
June 15; Bristol Louisiana

www.myspace.com/houseofbrothers

Lostprophets return with two very special intimate festival appearances giving fans an exclusive preview of their long awaited fourth album. The band will headline the NME/Radio 1 Stage at the Reading & Leeds Festival on the August Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday 29th August at Leeds and Sunday 30th at Reading. The band last toured the UK in 2007 and have been working flat out in the UK and US on their highly anticipated follow up to the number one album ‘Liberation Transmission’. Vocalist Ian Watkins commented, ‘We’ve been dying to come back to the UK and play and when we realised the timing meant we could make it to Reading & Leeds we jumped at the chance as it’s got the most amazing memories for us. We also thought, rather than playing on the main stage we could get in the tent and see the whites of the eyes of the fans down the front, and get their first hand reaction to the new songs. It’ll be amazing.’ Festival Republic commented ‘We are immensely thrilled to welcome Lostprophets back to Reading and Leeds Festivals in a very special up-close setting. They have always been a huge hit with fans at both sites and have performed some legendary shows. Lostprophets and shows like this are what Reading and Leeds are all about.’

The band join previously announced acts such as Kings of Leon, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy, Eagles of Death Metal on this year’s line up with AFI, Gallows and The Gaslight Anthem supporting on the day plus many more acts to be announced.

Dates are:

29th August LEEDS FESTIVAL www.leedsfestival.com
30th August READING FESTIVAL www.readingfestival.com

New Jersey’s favourite sons The Gaslight Anthem return to the UK this summer not only in support to ‘The Boss’ at Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park (June 28th) but they will also be swinging into our capital city to do a special ‘Warm up for the Festivals’ show at The Forum on June 4th. Tickets are priced £15.00 are available from www.livenation.co.uk

One of the hardest working bands in rock (they have performed over 200 shows in the last 8 months), The Gaslight Anthem will bring their explosive hi-energy live performance to the following festivals in Europe this summer.

Dates are:

June:
4th UK, headline show at The Forum, London
6th Germany, Nurburgring, Rock Am Ring
7th Germany, Nuremberg, Rock Im Park
9th Netherlands, Eindhoven, Effenaar
10th Netherlands, Doornrosje, Nijemegen
13th Italy, Milan, Rock In Idro
15th Germany, Zenith w/ Social Distortion, Berlin
16th Germany, Stadt Halle w/ Social Distortion, Offenbach
17th Germany, Philippshalle w/ Social Distortion, Dusseld.
19th Austria, Nickelsdorf, Nova Rock
20th Germany, Neuhausen Obeck, SouthSide
21st Germany, Schessel, Hurricane Festival
22nd Denmark, Copenhagen, Radio House Studio
24th Norway, Hove Festival
25th Sweden, Goteborg, West Coast Riot
26th Switzerland, St Gallen, Open Air
28th UK, London, Hard Rock Calling

July:
3rd Germany, Mannheim, Vainstream Festival
4th Germany, Munster, Vainstream Festival
5th Finland, Turku, Ruisrock Festival
9th Spain, Bilbao, BBK Live Festival
10th Portugal, Lisbon, Alive Festival
11th Ireland, Dublin, Oxegen Festival
12th Scotland, Glasgow, T In The Park
16th Switzerland, Bern, Gurten Festival
25th Japan, Fuji, Fuji Rock

Hailing from New Brunswick, the bands anthemic tales of American life have captured the imagination and hearts of fans and media alike. ‘The ’59 Sound’ was hailed as one of the best albums of 2008 and Kerrang! magazine put The Gaslight Anthem on the cover before they had ever written a word about them.

NME called ‘The ’59 Sound’ one of the ‘best albums of 2008′, and immensely positive press poured in from Q Magazine, Rock Sound, Big Cheese, Clash and The Sun as well as great American press, including a cover feature in Alternative Press and major features in Rolling Stone and Spin. Playlist action at Radio One, Xfm and 6 Music are also media highlights of this band’s incredible rise to success over the last 12 months.

More about The Gaslight Anthem rose.
The Gaslight Anthem rose out of the fertile punk and hardcore scene of New Brunswick, NJ, flaunting a unique style that melded the sounds of Bruce Springsteen, Wilson Pickett, and various Motown groups with the rough, emotional grit of Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker. The band — comprised of vocalist/guitarist Brian Fallon, bassist Alex Levine, drummer Benny Horowitz, and guitarist Alex Rosamila — began establishing a loyal hometown crowd after forming in 2005, and their soulful punk rock melodies attracted wider attention upon the release of their full-length debut, Sink or Swim, which droped in May 2007 via the local imprint XOXO Records. Although rough around the edges, the album presented plenty of energetic, sing-along songs that garnered accolades from punk zines, blogs, and fans alike. The increasing popularity was enough to score gigs with the likes of Against Me!, the Loved Ones, and the Draft, and by the end of 2007, the Gaslight Anthem had played over 200 shows. They recorded the four-song EP Señor and the Queen in Austin, having managed to secure some down time between tour dates, and the record surfaced on Sabot Productions in early February 2008. Meanwhile, the Gaslight Anthem announced their brand-new deal with the California-based indie label SideOneDummy Records.

Jack Allsopp - Just Jack

Born in North London, Jack grew up on a diet of dance music including, break dance, electro hip hop and house. A wannabe break dancer at eight, his love of dance music led him to start DJing at the age of fifteen and he soon became submerged in DJ culture and US garage. After completing a degree in Furniture Design Jack enrolled on a community music production course, which heightened his awareness to the potential of sampling. This inspired Jack to concentrate on perfecting his sound by night and to take on a series of unfulfilling jobs by day. “I’ve been a washer upper, a flower arranger, a runner for a TV post production company… I even worked at Gap for while. That made me all the more determined to work at the music. I would get this down time in a studio and be recording all night, and working at Gap all day. It was knackering but it was very inspiring time.” Jack’s debut album, ‘The Outer Marker’ is a collection of songs about modern life, relationships and the pressures of social situations. Originally released by the independent label RG Records, Just Jack’s debut album ‘The Outer Marker’ received fantastic reviews. ‘The Independent’ described it as “impressive”, Q said, “masterful”, the ‘NME’ said “Awesome. Welcome Just Jack, you rule!”, and ‘The Big Issue’ saluted Jack as “The new troubadour of daily life in the UK”.

“The Outer Marker” has recently been re-packaged and re-released and now includes extra tracks and the video for ‘Snowflakes’. It has been receiving plenty of airplay and remixes from the likes of Aphrodite and a famous Cure bootleg of ‘Snowflakes’ is now thrusting Just Jack into the limelight. Recently, Jack and his band played his third ever gig to a great crowd at the Glastonbury Dance Tent and he will be performing at the V Festivals later this summer.

Jack Allsopp on Just Jack:
“I never had heroes and never wanted to be like other musicians”, he says. “I have no affiliations to anyone, I’m not part of a gang, I’m not a part of a scene and I don’t have a sound that’s obviously a part of a scene. I’m Just Jack.” Following the success of Just Jack’s club dates this month, he now embarks on a UK summer tour in support of his stunning new album ‘All Night Cinema’ (June 8th), produced by Jack and Jay Reynolds. Book-ending the 5-date summer tour are festival appearances in Birmingham (June 6th) and Glasgow (June 14th). Jack also plays Glastonbury at the end of June. ‘All Night Cinema’ sees Just Jack at his blistering best, the new single ‘Embers’ (March 30th) has proved to be a big radio hit and is on the Radio One A-List. The second single from the album is set to be ‘Doctor Doctor’ out June 1st. Jack’s recent club tour where he premiered tracks from his new album has been greeted with rave reviews. ‘Blessed with an everyman appeal and a pleasing poetic facility, he performs with a natural charm that few pop artists are able to muster.’

Just Jack UK dates:

June
Sat 6th BIRMINGHAM, Pritchattsbury Festival 0871 230 0010 www.seetickets.com
Sun 7th LIVERPOOL, O2 Academy 2 0844 477 2000 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Mon 8th NEWCASTLE, O2 Academy 2 0844 477 2000 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Wed 10th SHEFFIELD at Leadmill 0870 010 4555 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Thu 11th LONDON, Electric Ballroom 08444 771 000 www.stargreen.com
Sat 13th SCOTLAND, Rock Ness Festival 08444 999 990 www.rockness.co.uk
Sun 14th GLASGOW, The Arches 08444 999 990 www.gigsinscotland.com

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Tickets are priced between £6 & £12 + booking fee

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