Courteeners announce O2 Academy Liverpool warm-up show on 25th June 2013

Courteeners announced last night that they will play a warm-up show for Glastonbury and their Castlefield Bowl headline shows on Tuesday 25th June at Liverpool O2 Academy.

The show follows the band’s support slot with The Stones Roses at Finsbury Park last week and tickets will go on sale on Friday 14th June at 9am through www.gigsandtours.com.

Courteeners two headline outdoor shows, in association with Fosters Good Call, are being held at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester on 5th and 6th July, and they will play to 8,000 fans per night. Supports across both dates include Miles Kane, Reverend and the Makers, James Skelly and The Intenders, The Strypes, The Heartbreaks and Findlay. The gigs sold out straight away and they are the fastest selling Courteeners shows ever.

Courteeners released new single ‘Van Der Graaff’ last month, the follow-up to ‘Lose Control’ which was the first single from their top 10 album ‘ANNA’, and is an epic anthemic track with an addictive guitar riff and soaring vocals. It is sure to be a huge festival track this summer.

‘ANNA’ followed a two year break since Courteeners last album ‘Falcon’, which charted at #6 and was the follow-up to the bands #4 debut album ‘St. Jude’.  The band recorded and produced ‘ANNA’ in Manchester at 80 Hertz Studios with producer Joe Cross (Hurts) and in December, performed new tracks from the album at a sold out homecoming show at the 17,000 capacity Manchester Arena.

New tour dates are as follows –

June:
Tues 25th                             Liverpool                                            O2 Academy                    
Fri 28th                                 Pilton                                                   Glastonbury Festival

July:
Fri 5th                                   Manchester                                        Castlefield Bowl              SOLD OUT
- with supports Miles Kane, The Strypes, The Heartbreaks
Sat 6th                                   Manchester                                        Castlefield Bowl              SOLD OUT
- with supports Reverend and the Makers, James Skelly and The Intenders, Findlay
Fri 12th                                 Balado, Kinross                                T in the Park
Sat 17th                                Chelmsford, Hylands Park          V Festival
Sun 18th                               Stafford, Weston Park                  V Festival

Kendal Calling Festival announces over 85 new artists including Public Enemy

Kendal Calling is proud to announce legendary and controversial American Hip-Hop group Public Enemy will be touching down in the fields for a rare UK festival appearance. With Chuck D’s forcefully enlightening rhymes, and the chaotic, comic of Flavor Flav’s cuts (not to mention his oversized clocks!) this is simply not to be missed.

Also flying the flag for the US in the festivals latest line-up additions is Steven Gene Wold, commonly known as Seasick Steve. Born in Oakland, California and now in his seventies, Steve has been singing the blues and playing guitar since the age of eight. Steve began playing music for a living in the early 1960s, in bands and as a solo musician, but it was not until he played on Later… with Jools Holland on New Year’s Eve in 2006 that he made his breakthrough in the UK.

Johnny Marr formed The Smiths in 1982 when he was just 18 and they went onto become one of the most important bands in the history of music and Johnny Marr one of the greatest guitarists the UK has ever produced. Post The Smiths, Marr has spent his time playing guitar in a succession of great acts such as The Pretenders, The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse and The Cribs bringing a shimmering majesty to their recordings and live shows and finally released his debut solo album The Messenger which has been met with huge critical acclaim.

The D.O.T is a collaboration between Mike Skinner (The Streets) and Rob Harvey (the Music), the relationship was formed when Mike and Rob’s former bands would cross paths on the touring circuit and solidified when Mike asked Rob to accompany him on the final Streets tour. Mike and Rob soon then put in some studio time and revealed in the freedom to make music for it’s own sake. With no need to conform to a specific style, or satisfy a record label’s scheduling demands, there gradually evolved the sound you hear now in their second album Diary (out 6^th May). As well as The D.O.T set the critically acclaimed urban poet laureate and The Streets frontman Mike Skinner returns to the fields for a very special DJ set in the Glow Dance Tent.

The Woodland area returns for it’s second year but this time round it will feature the cream of the regional crop with rising stars from Morecambe The Heartbreaks, Preston’sTechniques, Kendal band The Feud, Lake District starlet Fiona Clayton plus many more of the regions hidden gems to discover.

More acts across all 12 stages are to be announced as well as attractions, the Real Ale Festival, Comedy, spoken word & arts, Ladybird children’s area and much more over the next few months – all for only £115!

Calling Out stage is brought to you in conjunction with Gigwise on Friday 26th and DIY on Saturday 27th.

Friday: Theme Park, The Lightening Seeds Acoustic, The 1975, Nina Nesbitt, Waylayers, Champs

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Saturday: British Sea Power, London Grammar, Sons and Lovers, Silhouette, Sweet Baboo, Peter and Kerry, Fiona Clayton, Grammotones, All We Are

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See you in the fields!

Weekend tickets: £115

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The Heartbreaks on tour

This September will see The Heartbreaks release ‘Polly’; the second single to be taken from their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Funtimes’. Coinciding with a series of UK dates, alongside their first hometown show of 2012 in Morecambe, the song stands as testament to the not so distant past when, before the age of social networking, it was easy to lose contact with someone so very close to you, as life got in the way. Not only is it certain to be one of this summer’s ubiquitous festival anthems, it is also an extraordinary piece of bittersweet, heartache pop.

‘Funtimes’ saw the band build on the buzz of early releases to deliver an album that had Dazed declaring ‘every song is capable of being a single’ and Louderthanwar acclaiming ‘a chiming, shimmering pop gem.’ The band kept up the unique connection they have with their dedicated fanbase with a series of impromptu gigs for Record Store Day that saw them stop the traffic in Berwick St and a monthly ‘Funtimes’ club night in Hoxton that played the music that means so much to the band. To cap it all, single ‘Delay, Delay’ topped a Fly magazine poll for the single of the year so far.

Prior to their second jaunt this year around the UK, The Heartbreaks play selected festivals in both the UK and Japan, where ‘Funtimes’ has found fans in the right places leading to a high profile set at Fuji Rock and a special Tokyo show for Burberry. Confirmed dates are as follows with plenty more to come making it a very busy 2012 for The Heartbreaks:

July

Fri 20^th                                        Preston                                       Mad Ferret (DJ Set)

Sat 21^st                                        Dumfries                                    Wickerman Festival

Sun 22^nd                                     Sheffield                                     Tramlines Festival

Sat 28^th                                       Nigata                                         Fuji Rock Festival, Japan

Sun 29^th                                      Osaka                                         Meet The World Beat Festival, Japan

Tues 31^st                                     Tokyo                                         Burberry In-store, Japan

August

Thurs 9^th                                     Margate                                     The Westcoast

Fri 10^th                                        Morecambe                               Smokey O'Connors

Sat 11^th                                       Barnsley                                     Shindig Festival

Fri 17^th                                        Wigan                                         Indiependence at Wigan Pier

Fri 23^rd                                        Cardiff                                        Undertone

Sat 24^th                                       Bournemouth                           Sixty Million Dollars

September

Sat 1^st                                          Rochdale                                    Feelgood Festival

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