Live From Jodrell Bank announce New Order and Johnny Marr

The multi award winning Live From Jodrell Bank series is proud to announce a third Transmission for 2013 with New Order curating a day of outstanding music at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire.

One of the most acclaimed and influential bands of the last four decades New Order pioneered the electronic sound that helped pave the way for the dance/house music explosion at the end of the 80s.  The band has had a profound influence on music and is cited by legions of artists as an inspiration.  They have released 9 studio albums, the last of which ‘Lost Sirens’ was released in 2012.  Their shows last year were euphorically received as the band played a set of classic anthems including Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Blue Monday and Temptation. This is an unmissable opportunity to see an iconic act in an iconic setting.

New Order’s Stephen Morris said today “Playing at Jodrell Bank is going to be really exciting. I grew up not far from there, and I remember riding my bike over to it all the time when I was a little lad.

I saw Flaming Lips play there and they was brilliant. Really special. We’re going to try to do something special too, but we’re not telling you what! I do plan to take my life-size Dalek and Cyberman up there for the weekend at the very least.

Unfortunately it’s likely that Gillian will have to spend the whole show blindfolded  because she’s got a phobia of radio telescopes, so naturally she’s terrified of Jodrell Bank. We used to drive past it, and every time she’d need to duck under the dashboard when we got close. “

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.  Their giant, euphoric and instantaneous anthems spoke to a generation and Johnny Marr is a man whose calling was always to write great music.  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 met with huge critical acclaim.

Johnny Marr and New Order’s Bernard Sumner formed Electronic at the end of the 80’s, a classic alternative pop group and this is a rare opportunity to catch them sharing the same stage.

New Order has hand-picked a selection of guests to perform before their headline set including Salford’s electro architects The Whip, ex Bad Lieutenant man Jake Evans and the experimental indie rock of Hot Vestry.

Other shows taking place in 2013 as part of the Live From Jodrell Bank series include Icelandic ambient/post rock act Sigur Rós who will perform in August and The Australian Pink Floyd Show who perform a celebration show to mark the 40th Anniversary of the release of the seminal Pink Floyd album, The Dark Side Of The Moon.

Previous sold out shows at this stunning location have taken place with Elbow and The Flaming Lips.

The Live From Jodrell Bank series sees some of the most innovative artists performing in this unique and dramatic setting, marrying science and music and bringing the audience superlative sounds from earth and beyond

Before the spectacular evening concerts and throughout each day, attendees will be able to participate in a fantastic range of hands-on experiments and workshops on site at Jodrell Bank.  With full access to the magnificent Discovery Centre included in every ticket, this is a great chance to find out more about the mind-blowing research happening at Jodrell Bank and beyond.  Explore the wonders of the universe and find out for yourself why stargazing has enjoyed a massive resurgence in the past few years.

For over five decades, the University of Manchester's giant Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank has been part of the Cheshire landscape and an internationally renowned landmark for astronomers.  Since the summer of 1957 it has been exploring the depths of outer space in a quest for knowledge.  It remains one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world, spending most of its time investigating cosmic phenomena that were undreamed of when it was first conceived. 

Further transmissions to be announced…
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The Smiths Indeed on Tour

The Smiths Indeed

Who will be performing The Queen is Dead in it’s entirety to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of the album’s release

All tickets £13.50 advance plus vendor’s booking fee

Doors 7pm

"A brilliant tribute to The Smiths" (i-D Magazine)

If, in the Autumn of 1982, you were a pair of budding young songwriters and performers about to unleash a series of wounding pop songs about sexual attraction and solitude upon an unsuspecting Britain and were surrounded by bands with names like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds and Slaughter and the Dogs, is it a surprise that your retort would be a name such as The Smiths?

Between October 1982, when The Smiths performed their first gig supporting Blue Rondo A La Turk at the Ritz in Manchester, and the release of their seminal album The Queen is Dead in June 1986, that same pair of songwriters, Morrissey and Marr, in conjunction with Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce, had written, recorded and performed a series of brilliantly illuminating pop songs that gave hope to a generation struggling to guide its way through the morass of a grey, turgid Britain blighted by the Falklands war, the Miners strike and Margaret Thatcher.

To celebrate the 25^th anniversary since release of The Queen is Dead the album will be performed in its entirety by The Smiths Indeed, who reproduce with uncanny accuracy, the energy and the pomp and ceremony of The Smiths during this period of the 1980’s. The Smiths Indeed have been performing since 2005 and developed a rapturous following of their own amongst the notoriously hard to please hardcore Smiths fans both old and new. Due to an increasing demand for their incredible ability to reproduce the atmosphere of a Smiths show, The Smiths Indeed will be moving their performance into larger venues, enabling them to incorporate a more sophisticated concert containing state of the art lighting and video content without losing the feel of a 1980’s gig.

The Smiths Indeed will perform The Queen is Dead and a Greatest Hits set at the following venues on the dates listed below:

Friday 28^th October – Liverpool University’s Stanley Theatre, Liverpool £13.50

Saturday 29^th October – Academy, Sheffield £13.50

Thursday 3^rd November – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow £12.50

Friday 4^th November – Doghouse, Dundee £10.00

Saturday 5^th November – The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen £12.50

Thursday 10^th November – HMV Institute, Birmingham £13.50

Friday 11^th November – The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth £13.50

Saturday 12^th November – Academy, Oxford £13.50

 Thursday 17^th November – Garage, London £13.50

Friday 18^th November – Komedia, Brighton £13.50

Saturday 19^th November – Academy, Leicester £13.50

Thursday 24^th November – Academy, Newcastle £13.50

Saturday 26^th November – The Ritz, Manchester £13.50

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