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Twin Atlantic announce intimate club tour and debut album.

Twin Atlantic announce intimate club tour and debut album. Never a band to rest on their laurels, hotly-tipped Glasgow natives Twin Atlantic will hit the ground running in 2011 with their first headline tour of the year. Currently putting the finishing touches to their highly anticipated debut album at Red Bull Studio in Santa Monica with Ã¼ber producer Gil Norton (Foo Fighters, Pixies), Twin Atlantic will be playing some intimate club shows to kick off the year in style. ‘We are really looking forward to this tour. We have supported so many bands over the last year with next to no headline shows & that has made us really miss the vibe & community of our wee fan base. This is us getting back to what we do best and it is only made all the better that we have just finished recording our debut full-length album. We will be playing some new songs that define the new direction for us, and we can’t wait to let people hear what we have been working on. To top it off, it’ll be great to be back on the road with Tom DeLonge and Angels & Airwaves for the shows in Europe.”  – Sam McTrusty, Vocals /Guitars. Be sure to catch this incredible live band at one of the following dates:

January:
19th Hull, Fruit ,
20th York, Fibbers
21st Durham, Live Lounge
22nd Sheffield, University
23rd Liverpool, Academy
25th Cambridge, Haymakers

February
1st Kingston, Peel
2nd Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
4th Plymouth, White Rabbit
5th Yeovil, Orange Box
6th Leicester, Sub 91
8th Preston, 53 Degrees
10th Orkney, Fusion
11th Thurso, Skinandis
12th Dingwall, Oscars
13th Stirling, Fu Bar

The band will also be supporting Angels and Airwaves in Europe on the following dates:

January
26th Cologne, Essigfabrik
27th Tilburg, 013
28th Luxembourg, Den Atelier
30th Paris, La Cigale
31st Brussels, Ancienne Belgique

Reef announce U.K.tour dates.

Reef announce tour dates. After a glorious and effortless run of shows this Spring and some select festival appearances over the summer, including the storming home-coming frenzy on the Saturday afternoon at Glastonbury , the West Country’s favourite sons will head out again on the road this autumn. Having enjoyed the best gigs and festivals appearances of their lives and really appreciated the fervent support from the fans on their sold out April shows, Gary, Jack, Kenwyn and Dom have decided it was too much fun not to do it all over again. REEF formed in 1993, signing to Sony imprint S2 Records the following year. Their debut 1995 album REPLENISH achieved Gold status and saw the band play shows with the Rolling Stones, Paul Weller and Soundgarden. The follow up to Replenish, 1997′s GLOW stormed the UK Charts at Number 1 and included the single ‘Place Your Hands’. In 1999 the band released RIDES (George Drakoulias) and in the same year the band saw off the likes of Oasis and Pulp to win the Music Industry’s Soccer Six competition. Rides was followed by the poppier sounding GETAWAY produced by Al Clay (Pixies, Stereophonics) in 2000 which was most notable for the single ‘Set The Record Straight’. Always a favourite at shows and Festivals alike, the band made many high profile appearances during this period, including Glastonbury and Reading festivals. TOGETHER – THE BEST OF REEF was released by S2 in 2003. It was around then that he band decided to take an extended break from Reef. They have been working on several projects in the interim including Dominic playing with Mick Jones (The Clash) and Tony James (Gen X) in Carbon/Silicon and Gary and Jack forming THEM IS ME and releasing their debut album in 2008 and now the new StringerBessant album Yard which will be released in July 2010 on Xtra Mile Recordings.

NOVEMBER
26 Truro HALL FOR CORNWALL
27 Portsmouth PYRAMID CENTER
DECEMBER
02 London KENTISH TOWN FORUM
03 Wolverhampton WULFREN HALL
04 Nottingham ROCK CITY

www.reefband.com & www.myspace.com/reefmusicuk

‘xx’ by The xx out Now

The XX: Band You Should Know. One of the great quests in rock music has been to try to bring together traditional guitar-drum-bass rock sounds with dance music. Some of the biggest bands in the world have made the attempt (most notably U2, who boldly attempted to bridge the gap between rock and electronica with Zooropa and Pop in the 1990s), but most have failed. At the end of the day, groups with rock elements are written off as dance Continue reading →