Hotly tipped Scottish band Broken Records release their third single ‘Lies’ on Distiller Records on November 3rd.
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‘Lies’ is released on limited 7” and digital download. The b side is the unreleased track ‘Travelling Songs’.

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Since forming at the end of 2006 Broken Records have quietly been causing a stir, firstly with their self released EP which they sold at gigs and subsequently with their first two limited singles ‘If The News Makes You Sad, Don’t Watch It’ on Young Turks, and ‘Slow Parade’ on The Fandango Label
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They have been tipped for greatness by as varied publications as NME, The Guardian, Drowned in Sound, Sunday Times and The Times and, as they continue recording their debut album, are in the enviable position of attracting interest from a wide selection of record companies.

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The band will be playing a number of dates in November:
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November 1st - The Bongo Club, Edinburgh
November 15th - SWN Festival, Cardiff
November 22nd - Crossing Border, The Hagu
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The ‘Pimp My Pak’ competition is Eastpak’s challenge to concert-goers to test their creativity to the max. At each date of the UK leg of the Eastpak Antidote Tour, fans are being encouraged to bring along their very own customized Eastpak backpacks. Eastpak are of course famed for their backpack design but they want to see what the British public can do to make them extra special. So, get out your sewing kit, paints and best artistic imagination to the ready and have a go at making your own backpack stand out amongst the crowd.
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At each date, special Eastpak representatives will be keeping an eagle eye out for those who’ve made the most effort and they’ll pick one very lucky winner who’ll receive assorted goodies from Eastpak and the bands involved as well as the chance to meet and get their picture taken with Flogging Molly and Street Dogs after the show! What more could you want?
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Tickets are on sale now, buy ‘em now and don’t miss out! Bring your pimped out backpack to one of the following UK dates to be in with a chance of winning:

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02-Nov UK Newcasle Academy

03-Nov UK Glasgow Barrowlands

05-Nov UK London Astoria

06-Nov UK Manchester Academy

07-Nov IRL Dublin Ambassador

08-Nov UK Birmingham Academy

09-Nov UK Bristol Academy
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Eastpak presents the ‘Pimp My Pak’ Competition 2008

Exciting new competition tests the UK’s creativity over one of the most exciting live music tours of the year

PLUS – Flogging Molly signing at the Eastpak London Store

www.antidotetour.com | www.myspace.com/theantidotetour | www.eastpak.com | www.sideonedummy.com

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Featuring…

Flogging Molly www.floggingmolly.com

Street Dogs www.street-dogs.com

Skindred www.skindred.com

Time Again www.timeagainband.com

Seth Lakeman- the West Country born singer songwriter credited with taking folk to a new audience with his rhythmic, urgent performances and lyrically engrossing albums- is set to take his highly touted live show on the road in October for his largest headline tour to date.
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Seth’s critically acclaimed third album ‘Poor Man’s Heaven’ charted at number 8 in the UK on it’s release earlier this year, an unprecedented achievement for a so-called ‘folk inspired’ artist. Produced in large part by Seth’s brother and fellow band member, Sean Lakeman, ‘Poor Man’s Heaven’ (out now on Relentless) represents a progression for Seth’s sound – while remaining firmly rooted in folk, it moves from a more acoustic-based feel to a fuller, rockier sound, underpinned as ever by emotive lyrics and story telling, this time with a strong coastal theme. It is also the closest representation on record of Seth’s live show yet, capturing the rhythmic, raw energy seldom seen in any other acoustic band.

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Seth plays the following dates:

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October

22nd Wolverhampton, Wulfrun

23rd Liverpool Academy

24th Lincoln, Engine Shed

25th Northampton Roadmender

26th Cambridge, Junction

28th Oxford Academy

29th Bristol Academy

30th Aberdeen, Lemon Tree

31st Dundee Fat Sams

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November

1st Glasgow QMU

2nd Norwich Waterfront

4th Newcastle Academy

5th Sheffield Leadmill

6th London Shepherds Bush

7th Portsmouth Pyramid

8th Manchester Academy

9th Leeds Met

11th Loughborough University

12th Bournemouth Opera House

13th Cheltenham Town Hall

14th Belfast Spring & Airbrake

15th Dublin Academy

16th Exeter Great Hall

17th Falmouth Pavillions

18th Brighton Corn Exchange

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Shinedown the Florida based hard rock band have been touring the UK with Alternative metal band Disturbed this past month and both bands have been getting great reviews for their performance’s with delight at new to the UK Shinedown showing their ware’s. To read the best of the reviews and see some fantastic photos of the guys, follow this link HERE

All Hail The Ruin, formed in Birmingham in 2006 with one intention, to create new and exciting music that they loved. Their debut EP “A Theme For Murder” earned them support slots with bands such as Rolo Tomassi and Eternal Lord.
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With collective influences ranging from The Smiths to Norma Jean helping to shape their writing style, All Hail The Ruin furthered their debut by creating bigger and better songs which led to their second e.p “Vultures” which was recorded and produced by Chuck Creese (Burning skies, Random conflcit, Sanstone, Evita).
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“Vultures” earned them further recognition and bigger support slots amongst bands such as Viatrophy, Your Demise, The Eyes Of A Traitor, The Argent Dawn, Devil sold his soul, Trigger The Bloodshed and many more.
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All Hail The Ruin have tours lined up with Random conflict, The toprture of comacine, Salvatore leone and Bound by blood. With the brand new ‘Monument’ EP on its way and a healthy gig roster it looks like 2009 will be the year All Hail The Ruin shine.
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www.myspace.com/allhailtheruin
www.myspace.com/glasstonerecordings

After signing a worldwide deal with major label Zomba, IN CASE OF FIRE are at last set with a November 10th release date for their astounding debut single ‘This Time We Stand’, one of the most anticipated debut releases of 2008. ‘TTWS’ will be released in the UK through Search and Destroy Records, the new record label venture from Raw Power Management (Funeral for a Friend, B4MV, Iron Maiden, Gallows) and distributors PIAS.
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A heady mix of Muse, QOTSA and Mars Volta style rock and ambition, the track opens with a pounding, foreboding skeletal rhythm before bursting into life with menace, melody and the chorus vocal refrain ‘I am making fires now for you’. Consisting of brothers Colin (drums) and Steven Robinson (guitars, vocals) and completed by Mark Williamson (bass), IN CASE OF FIRE will see their debut album ‘Align The Planets’ set for release in Feb 09 (exact date TBC).
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As well as completing their debut album ‘Align The Planets’ with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Echo and the Bunnymen) the band have already spent 2008 touring with 30 Seconds to Mars, Queens of the Stone Age, playing shows with the likes of Kids in Glass Houses, Ash and Biffy Clyro, as well as performances at Download, Oxygen, T in the Park, Rock Am Park and Ring (Germany) and the Reading and Leeds festivals. The band have also won an MTV2 ‘Spanking New’ competition, beating the likes of Adele, Foals, Black Kids and Likke Li to the viewer’s choice of bands to watch out for in 2008.
In CASE of Fire are also Touring with Funeral For A Friend

Full list of headline November UK dates are:

06/11/2008 London - Bloomsbury Bowling
07/11/2008 York - The Duchess
08/11/2008 Stoke - The Sugarmill (early show)
10/11/2008 Liverpool - Academy
12/11/2008 Sheffield - Uni (early show)
14/11/2008 Hertford - Marquee 16+
15/11/2008 Southampton - Joiners 14+
16/11/2008 Bristol - Cooler
18/11/2008 Leicester - Charlotte
19/11/2008 Brighton - Engine Rooms
20/11/2008 Surrey - The Boileroom
21/11/2008 Harlow - The Square 16+
26/11/2008 Belfast - Black Box
28/11/2008 Galway - Roisin Dubh
29/11/2008 Dublin - The Underground
30/11/2008 Cork - Cyprus Avenue
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Welsh rockers FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND released ‘Memory And Humanity’, their eagerly anticipated fourth album, this Monday via their label, Join Us Records. It was preceded by the ‘Kicking And Screaming’ (review) single on Sept 29.

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One of the UK’s most successful rock acts, Funeral For A Friend have notched up a staggering number of successes during their illustrious five year career. Three gold selling albums. Nine Top 20 singles. Half a decade of global touring taking in Singapore, Thailand, Australasia, Japan, America and every corner of Europe. Twenty plus magazine front covers in the UK. Headlining the NME Awards tour in 2005. Supporting the likes of Iron Maiden, Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance. Selling out the 8,000 tickets for an Alexandra Palace show in a heartbeat. Winning BT Digital Artist of the Year in 2007.

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FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND are truly a phenomenon.

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Yesterday (exactly five years to the day that their debut record ‘Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation’ hit the shelves!) they released their fourth album, ‘Memory And Humanity’. Produced by Romesh Dodangoda at Longwave Studios, Cardiff, it clearly demonstrates the bands current explosive form.

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Featuring thirteen new tracks, ‘Memory And Humanity’ draws fire from the muscular intensity of their earlier material and melds it seamlessly to the melodic intelligence of latter albums ‘Hours’ and ‘Tales Don’t Tell Themselves’.  This album shows the band to be as incisively relevant as ever.

 

TRACKLISTING

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1. Rules And Games

2. To Die Like Mouchette

3. Kicking And Screaming

4. Constant Illuminations

5. Maybe I Am?

6. You Can’t See The Forest For The Wolves

7. Building

8. Beneath The Burning Tree

9. Someday The Fire…

10. Waterfront Dance Club

11. Charlie Don’t Surf

12. Ghosts

13. Constant Resurrections

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The album will be available in the following formats:

Standard Cd

CD + DVD (Ltd Edition)

Itunes – with exclusive album tracks

 

The band are currently on an extensive UK tour that will take place throughout October, November and December 2008.

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Support on the tour will come from Canadian metallers Cancer Bats, Irish upstarts In Case Of Fire and Welsh combo Attack Attack.

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“In my opinion this is the most exciting and eclectic touring lineup we’ve ever put together,” explains Ryan Richards (Drums). “Every band brings something extra to the evening and will definitely bring the best out of us and keep us on our toes. We’re going to have to limit ourselves to how many brand new songs we’re going to play I think, otherwise we might get carried away and play the whole thing. It’s just an album full of songs that are begging to be unleashed upon our lovely fans.”

 

Catch them live at one of the following:

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Tue 14 Oct Dublin Academy

Wed 15 Oct  Belfast Spring & Airbrake

Thu 16 Oct  Inverness Ironworks

Sat 18 Oct  Glasgow ABC

Sun 19 Oct  Leeds Metropolitan University

Mon 20 Oct  Hull University

Wed 22 Oct  Preston 53 Degrees

Thu 23 Oct  Whitehaven Civic Hall

Fri 24 Oct  Manchester Academy 2

Sun 26 Oct  Birmingham Academy

Mon 27 Oct  Coventry Kasbah

Tue 28 Oct  Nottingham Rock City

Thu 30 Oct  Exeter Lemon Grove

Fri 31 Oct  Portsmouth Pyramid

Sat 01 Nov  Oxford Academy

Mon 03 Nov  Norwich Waterfront

Tue 04 Nov  London Forum

Tue 09 Dec  Tenby De Valence Pavilion

Wed 10 Dec  Swansea Sin City

Fri 12 Dec  Cardiff University

Sat 13 Dec  Wrexham Central Station

Sun 14 Dec  Aberyswyth Arts Centre

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Darran Smith – Guitar | Kris Coombs-Roberts – Guitar | Gav Burrough – Bass and backing vocals

Ryan Richards – Drums and backing vocals | Matthew Davies – Lead Vocals

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Tommy Gleeson from Slaves to Gravity Give Interview to Rock3 Rock Magazine who have also posted  live photo shots on line. Slaves To Gravity have been touring the UK with US band Aiden which ends on the 15th October before Aiden jump to the European mainland for some shows before returning to the States for more tours for that hard working band…

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Aiden: “We have been rehearsing like crazy mad men for our upcoming run, “Suffer Little Children” across the Atlantic Ocean with Slaves to Gravity and Sign. We are going to be playing songs we haven’t ever played live. So get ready for some sweaty, sing-a-long excitement!!!
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For the full blown review of the New Losing Sun album ‘PERSPECTIVE’ visit Rock3 HERE Losing Sun who are based in Cardiff south Wales have been getting great reviews these past few years and with quality songs and explosive live shows the band were recently highlighted by Metal Hammer Magazine and the bands single Memory Run promoted by the magazine. The video for this single can be viewed below.