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Aaron Keylock ‘Against The Grain’
The Damned celebrate the 40th of ‘New Rose’ with an extensive tour
The Damned set off on tour to celebrate the 40th of the first UK punk single
Punk legends The Damned have announced a huge UK tour taking in more than twenty towns and cities across the UK, and have revealed they are currently working on a brand new album for 2017.
Celebrated as the most entertaining of the original punk bands, The Damned were the very first British band to release a punk single (their mighty debut ‘New Rose’, released on 22nd October 1976), the first to release an album (’77’s Damned Damned Damned) and also the first to tour America. From the very first moment they started playing live in tiny punk clubs in ’76, The Damned quickly gained a reputation as a band who would always deliver an accomplished live set.
To cap their incredible 40th Anniversary year, which has already seen the band play a memorable set at Coachella Festival, where The LA Times raved; “The Damned’s no-future UK punk thrash sounded gritty and immediate” and Rolling Stone claimed their set as “One Of The 20 Best Things We Saw”. The band also delivered a blistering three-hour show at a completely sold-out London Royal Albert Hall in the summer. The Damned will play across the UK this winter on dates listed below where they will be playing their legendary debut album ‘Damned Damned Damned’ in full, plus a career-spanning retrospective set.
The band are currently recording a new studio album, with exclusive merchandise and experiences available to pre-order now via Pledge Music – http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/the-damned-new-album.
Following a new film documentary on The Damned, ‘Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead’, directed by Wes Orshoski (Lemmy), released in 2015 to much acclaim, BMG Music will release a new 40th anniversary Art Of The Album’CD, digital and heavyweight vinyl LP special-edition of the band’s classic debut album, Damned Damned Damned, complete with extensive new sleeve notes, in February 2017.
Always unforgettable, The Damned continue to wave the flag for originality, stick two fingers up to mediocrity and celebrate a DIY punk ethos in the face of plastic entertainment and scripted reality. Original members David Vanian and Captain Sensible never expected to still be doing it 40 years later, but here they are in town for one night only, as their loyal following will attest, all simply because they are still an incredible live band who sound as fresh and exciting as they did way back in 1976.
See The Damned live through November and December on the dates below. Tickets are on sale now at – http://www.officialdamned.com/tour/.
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The Lemon Twigs ‘As Long As We’re Together’
And another new video from Foxygen buddies THE LEMON TWIGS. Tell me to clear off if you don’t think we are going through a great wave in music. The psych revival is dead!
Foxygen ‘America’
Who said genius pop music was dead? Shindig! faves FOXYGEN return with a baroque theatrical broadway number that mixes Scott Walker with The Nightmare Before Christmas. We cannot wait for the album, which will drop in 2017
“Just another wish, just another dream” . . . Foxygen, the duo of Sam France and Jonathan Rado, return with new single, ‘America’. On their first new material since 2014’s …And Star Power, the LA pair once again present their uncanny knack for pulling together myriad strands of influences to an elaborate, uncompromising vision. And this time, they’ve gone true big band. Featuring the core of France and Rado plus a 34-piece orchestra, Foxygen’s ‘America’ is a grandiose affair . . . a celebration of death and nothing.
Hilma Nikolaisen ‘Word’
Ice cool indie-psych from Norway. Another Shindig! premiere
Hilma Nikolaisen is known for her role as bass player in her brother Emil’s internationally acclaimed psychedelic noisepop outfit Serena Maneesh (4AD) – one of the most influential Norwegian bands of the last decade. Not only did she contribute significantly to the expression of Emil’s musical vision, her valkyric stage presence also made her an iconic part of the band’s visual identity. Comparisons to Nico were frequently drawn.
Hilma Nikolaisen’s sound and lyrics set out to honour and celebrate the diversity and complexity of what it means to be human. In our times, simplicity is put on a pedestal and worshipped, but through her music, Hilma Nikolaisen points out that human nature is intrinsically chaotic and eclectic and should be celebrated as such! The idea of myriads of pieces that come together in a larger, complex puzzle is the unifying theme of the album. Written over a long period of time, the nine tracks of Puzzler reach from classic pop (traditions) on tracks like ‘Cloud Nine Rewind’ and ‘Home Straight Sorries’, through the soulful funk of “On and On and On”, to a more rough edged post-punk nerve present in the first single ‘Word’.
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