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Evening Star 12 - December 002 |
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gets a new town in the new year when LaLaLand begins - can you believe
it? the counter culture proposal is being took
serious! and i was meaning to update this page but the telly's good and the Manics are
playing at the weekend so it'll have to be next week now. minxy
x try the rocklands a-z for more
reading in the mean time |
A London squatter and The Princess Of Wales pose together for a Planet Water End
Of Year Holidays card...
(click thumbnail pic to view)
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those Planet Water people celebrating Christmas, a few telly
highlights... Christmas
Day, 3pm, Channel Zero: The Queen's
Speech. Graham Norton addresses the
nation.
Christmas Eve, 8pm, Channnel Six
TV: Celebrity Big Brother Special. First day. The guests arrive and will spend the holiday
together until New Year's Day. Featuring J-Lo,
Liam Gallagher, Ann Widdicombe, Russell Crowe, Michael Jackson and So Solid Crew.
more End of Year greeetings from LaLaLand - share the joy |
| 002 was
flavoured (for me) by lots of going out to play with lovely friends and loads of new bands
seen out live or heard on the radio etc... very exciting for 003!,
Miss Dynamite, The Duvals last gig at London Callin
(complete with Charlie Harper of UK subs), fireworks and
guitarists on the roof of the posh SW1 squat (fireworks? careful now! bet the royals were
shitting themselves during the strike) Radiohead summer holiday tour, Kinesis,
The Sugababes, the rise of The Friend, Mansun tour, The
Bluetones at Brighton, The Basement Club, Born Sloppy, Ten Benson, King
Adora at Portsmouth Wedgies, 2DTV, Graham Norton, Nelson Mandela (international
people's world leader of choice), the knees up at the Terrible
Beauty do, Queens Of The Stone Age, Reading Festival, Peace Officers in
Brixton, Corporation:Blend gigs, Missy Elliot oh there's loads
more to come but I'm typing fast cos me tea's nearly done... |
| Coming Soon!
more than their fare share of victories, not always small, by the sound of it.... Small
Victories arrived big style via Manchester's Urban Foxx label,
to praise from all angles for their debit single "Holding On
Hopefully"/"Spare Parts" - deservedly so. It's hard to have a
glimpse of originality these days but their music has it. www.urbanfoxx.co.uk - the
single also has the support of the music fan heroes (Lamacq, Peel, XFM etc...) and
made the Big Issue single of the week with full marks. Their
debut gig will be at the Boobytrap Records Christmas Party on
20-Dec-002 at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (Small Victories will
be releasing a single for them in 003 and an LP, "The Liars Bible") full
info at www.boobynet.co.uk |
celebr8! it's the DROWNED
IN SOUND christmas party and you're all
invited! Special guests are MCLUSKY, one of the bands of the year with their album 'Mclusky Do Dallas' and they're onstage at 8pm this Sunday, the 8th December. There will be
more guests on the night doing various things like acoustic gigs, deejaying and wot not...
It's just £3 to get in at the Windmill
Brixton. www.windmillbrixton.co.uk Kicking off at 4pm, with a free bbq from 5 til 7 and 5 other fantastic new bands: I Own Kings, Engerica, Smother, Fonda 500 and The Primms.... drunkeness will go on until late. Get there early to
avoid missing anything as this show is extremely likely to sell out! get the full
monty at www.drownedinsound.com p.s.
if you are going early to MSP at Brixton Academy then pop in and party! |
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Rocklands local conexions news: Eden Collective,
Andrea Britton, Corporation Blend, Mika Bomb, Ten Benson, The Fairy's Band,
Subsonique, Use Your Loaf, Athlete, Mean Time Radio, Muthafunk Promotions click here for more
plus check out Rocklands
Tourist Board |
| blue
chip popsters. The original acclaim had them sussed...The
Bluetones round off another successful year with live shows -
details at - Bluetown the band
are looking forward to a very busy 003 too! fuller info to follow |
| The
Friend - I could be making it up that the alternative media music lovers are
taking over the world but I'm not. Fuck it, these folks are about music, the love, the
obsession of it. These are by fans for fans that's why fans can relate to em. While money
things fall and fail just look at the rise of the unmonied... Rockfeedback *
Terrible Beauty * Black Velvet * Drowned In Sound * Careless Talk Costs Lives * come
back and I will have finished typing this... |
| Feeder
Feever! If you haven't get tickets for Feeder's tour of
LaLaLand (Feb-07-003 to Mar-07-003) then hurry up because they are turning to
gold dust fast - see www.feederweb.com .
Their fourth album, "Comfort In Sound", went gold on release
(have you heard it?, it sounds heeuuge!) in October and only confirms the continual ascent
they have been in over the turn of the century. Opening song, "Just The
Way I'm Feeling", is released as a single on Jan-13 (Echo). In
the spirit of the band's planet water vibe positivity... plant a
tree in Feeder's Fan Forest in Derbyshire! at a time when fuckwits are cutting
down the planet's lungs during environment instability, we can still depend on our
musicians more than our politicians to care... www.futureforests.com |
| I
have to come back and type the stuff I have to add but I need to more Planet Water
vibe music ... Kinesis (who were wonderful as usual at The
Barfly the other night) ... Chris t.t.... 80s Matchbox B Line Disaster... Miss
Black America... and International Jet Set recently played
a special AC/DC tribute gig at London's Borderline and will be doing their own shows in
the new year - glamrocktastic punkers, check out their site www.internationaljetset.net |
This page will be updated regularly over December 002 with news and
relevant links (just not right now me tea is doing). Email over anything for inclusion. |
Release
and live reviews, downloads, competitions, news, band/industry interviews and loads more
at www.rockfeedback.com for reviews
etc at Rocklands check out Included page. |
Rewind
a year...: Eve Star 12-001hot top hip top hit tips:
"In the last few weeks and months we've
played with a lot of bands, the three we suggest you listen to and look out for are : The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, British Sea Power & The Kennedy
Soundtrack. The first are shambolic noisey
harbingers of coked up Iggy raping The Icarus Line with more push ups. Second are Belle
and Sebastien mixed with Eastern European architecture creating enchanting sea shanties in
an entirely non-The Coral manner. The last are hip hop rock metal welshmen drawing in and
off America whilst wearing sun visors and skinheads yet strangely non racist or prejudice.
Check em all out if you can." (Conor from
Kinesis via Rocklands Grapevine). Kinesis, themselves, supported King Adora on tour, and had a Radio 1
session broadcast by Steve Lamacq by the end of last year. Debut release "Worship
Yourself" did them loads of favours and 002 has seen continue to rise and pick up
exposure.plus...
Alternative Media - 2002 Stars (like punk really happened) - look out for a surge in
non-establishment music media in 2002. Extra places for new bands and fans to communicate
can't be a bad thing...
It's not all awards, hype, charts,
lists etc. There is still some down to earth music media out there and it's on the rise,
as "the mould" major publications fold like deck chairs at the end of a sunny
day.
It is the alternative media that is making the difference to the music scene. Dig (underground
for) The New Breed.
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