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NEWS FROM KITCHENWARE RECORDS Sirens new album Say Goodbye To L.A. L.A. Land was released this month and
celebrations were in order as their single 'Club LA LA' reached No. 1 on the US national
XM dance chart, giving Sirens their first top 25 Billboard Dance hit.
Kitchenware have signed the Bronx rapper Najee who featured on the video for Club LA LA.
His debut album West Side Story is currently being mixed in New York.
Also mixing her debut album (and its a stunner) is Karima Francis. Karima played her first Glastonbury
last weekend as Editors played for the first time on the Pyramid Stage before heading off to support
REM on their european dates.
Also in the studio this week are The Changes and Love Bites And Bruises (formerly The Motorettes) both
of whom are demoing tracks for their forthcoming albums.
Dragonstorm Records Sign ROB PARISSI Dragonstorm Records are delighted to announce that they have recently signed Rob Parissi who had the number one hit in the 1970s with Play That Funky Music White Boy. Rob has re-invented himself and is releasing a brand new Album Late Bloomer very soon.
Rob has recently promoted this Album performing in the Rock Hall of Fame in the USA. A huge promotional campaign will be launched shortly in the UK.
For further information please go to www.dragonstormrecords.com and www.robparissi.com.
CATH AND PHIL TYLER SUPPORT MARTIN SIMPSON AT THE GEORGIAN THEATRE No-Fi\'s Cath and Phil Tyler have just been announced as supporting MARTIN SIMPSON at The Georgian Theatre, Stockton on Tees on Friday 2nd May.
Rising local stars Cath and Phil Tyler have just released their debut album Dumb Supper on local No-Fi label. Cath & Phil\'s music beautifully blends the hard edged traditions of primitive Americana and English folk, using guitar, banjo, fiddle and more, all topped with their searing vocals and sublime harmonies. The album has been extremely well received with ecstatic on-air praise from the likes of Mike Harding and Bob Harris.
Acclaimed guitar maestro and songwriter Martin Simpson is a jewel in the crown of traditional music and a stellar performer on the international stage winning numerous BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards over the years including carrying off two awards for Best Album and Best Original Song at this year\'s awards.
Come and see both these wonderful acts at The Georgian Theatre, Stockton on Tees.
Tickets and Info: 01642 674 115
Buy tickets online at www.georgiantheatre.co.uk or www.seetickets.com
HYDROGEN SIGN WORLDWIDE THREE ALBUM DEAL WITH DEMOLITION IMPRINT DR2 RECORDS ** FIRST ALBUM, DEADLY PASSIONS RELEASED JUNE 23RD **
DEMOLITION RECORDS would like to announce the signing of Ashland Kentucky based rockers HYDROGYN to the UK based label DR2.
This signing comes on the heels of the band's success with their Billboard charting Bombshell release in 2006, Strip'em Blind Live CD success in 2007, coupled with their relentless touring in Europe over 2007.
"This is exactly what we were looking for, and the label we were looking to do it with." said JEFF WESTLAKE of the band. He also went on to say "We feel Demolition has a great focus on their future, they know what they want to do, and have the unique drive that we were looking for in a label to get the job done."
The deal is a world-wide three album deal that will start with the first of those releases, DEADLY PASSIONS, coming in June, Worldwide. The new album was recorded in Huntington West Virginia's Smash Hits Studio.
Keep your eyes on www.hydrogyn.com and www.myspace.com/hydrogyn for touring developments as we get closer to the release in June.
GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP BACK FOR UK TOUR New York's hardest working and most sexually ambiguous band will be supporting 65daysofstatic at the following sordid little glory holes:
April 9 Bristol Thelka
April 10 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
April 11 London Indigo O2
April 12 Leeds Cockpit
April 13 Brighton Concorde II
April 14 Wolverhampton Wulfren
April 15 Manchester Academy II
April 16 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Errors and Pilgrim Fathers are also on the bill. It's going to be loud and it's going to be mint.
Gay For Johnny Depp also release their new single Belief In God Is So Adorable on April 14 as a free download. It is 105 seconds long and you can watch the video Here or on You Tube
Get sexy. Stay sexy.
www.gayforjohnnydepp.com
www.myspace.com/gayforjohnnydepp
DEMOLITION RECORDS SIGN WEDNESDAY 13 FOR EUROPE ON NEW LABEL, DR2 RECORDS Wednesday 13 is pleased to announce that he has partnered with Demolition Records for the overseas release of his upcoming album, Skeletons.
Skeletons, released April 29 in the US and May 12 throughout the UK and Europe, is Wednesday 13's most personal album to date. Although still infused with horror overtones, this album truly delves into Wednesday 13's personal life - past, present and future - as well as his almost life ending depression.
Commented Wednesday 13 "We are very excited to be part of the Demolition family. They have a proven track record and have been very easy to work with. We are even more excited to be one of the first bands on their new imprint label DR2. DR2 is going to focus more on the newer bands, while Demolition will continue to bring the best from the more established artists!"
UK TOUR DATES
12th May 2008 WOLVERHAMPTON, WULFRUN HALL
13th May 2008 NORWICH, WATERFRONT
14th May 2008 LEICESTER, THE CHARLOTTE
15th May 2008 CARDIFF, UNIVERSITY
16th May 2008 EXETER, PHOENIX
17th May 2008 LEEDS, COCKPIT
18th May 2008 SHEFFIELD, CORPORATION
19th May 2008 ABERDEEN, MOSHULU
20th May 2008 GLASGOW, GARAGE
21st May 2008 OXFORD , ACADEMY
1st June 2008 LONDON, LA 2
Visit www.myspace.com/officialwednesday13
New Release - DiN29 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy: React React is the third collaboration between American ambient pioneer Robert Rich and DiN label boss Ian Boddy. However, unlike their previous two studio outings on the DiN label, Outpost (2001) and Lithosphere (2005), this is a record of their first ever live performance at the Star's End Radio Show 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert in Philadelphia in June 2007.
The duo forge a fascinating sonic collaboration that allows for glimpses of each other's musical personalities to be seen within the evolving musical landscape. Boddy is mainly responsible for the rhythmic content which he mutates and morphs from the sonic input of Rich's MOTM modular system. There are references to a couple of tracks from Outpost (Ice Fields and The Edge of Nowhere) and the title track of Lithosphere but they're presented in a more energised and dynamic version. Meanwhile Rich paints a tapestry of sound with muted keyboards, flutes and his trademark gliss lap steel guitar voicing.
The music ebbs and flows from abstract soundscapes through gentle reveries to up tempo sections that combine thunderous analogue bass and glitchy percussion overlain with a mesmerising mix of keyboards, flutes and gliss guitar. A truly unique concert performance by two of the most accomplished musicians in modern ambient electronica.
KATHRYN WILLIAMS AND NEILL MACCOLL RELEASE ALBUM A supremely talented mercury prize nominee with an unrivalled critical reputation teams up with an amazing guitarist/vocalist and member of a hugely influential musical clan... they write and record an album together. This is the story so far of Kathryn Williams and Neill MacColl's 'Two'.
Kathryn and Neill first met at the Daughters of Albion concert where they had been paired to perform 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', a song which Neill's father, Ewan MacColl, wrote for his mother, Peggy Seeger. In just six days, they had recorded 21 songs; thirteen of these became 'Two'. Later they brought in another friend, the veteran engineer/producer Phill Brown (whose credits include Stairway To Heaven alongside numerous seminal albums by the likes of the Rolling Stones, John Martyn, Roxy Music and Brian Eno). The record was mixed in just 5 days and the result is one of the most astonishingly beautiful albums to see the light of day in recent years; one which feels like an instant classic and could have been made at any time in the last four decades.
'Two' is released on March 3rd on Caw Records and the pair are due to play 27 shows accross the country starting on 15th March with a David Gray support slot at Birmingham Symphony Hall and finishing with a reprise of the Daughters of Albion concert at Brighton Dome. Kathryn and Neill play the Sage Gateshead on April 11th.
Visit www.WilliamsMacColl.com for more information
DRAGONSTORM SIGN MAJOR PUBLISHING DEAL Jacqui Powell Swinburne the CEO of Dragonstorm Records is delighted to announce that Dragonstorm are about to sign a major publishing deal with Inigo/IMG Music publishing, who will now be taking over all the administration of Dragonstorm Records catalogue. The label has grown extensively over the past several months and is rapidly going from strength to strength. Many releases are planned in 2008 from hiphop to rock and heavy metal which will certainly keep our new publishers very busy.
We are also pleased to announce that one of our rap artists Small Morris' single track is out on MTV Base Europe and is due to come out on MTV UK next month, in time for his single launch on 17th March at the JailHouse Hereford, where Sway is expected to head line.
Visit Dragonstorm Records for more news and information
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