October, 2009

Thursday night at the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen and I am thinking, this is the best place to be tonight! Its a special Moshi Moshi Records Night and there are some great bands on and a couple had definitely made a permanent impression on this writer. First up are very special friends of Live4ever and they are Chapter24.

Tonight’s show case openers from South London are a noisy pop quartet which never disappoint. A special night for these guys and an opportunity to really show what all their fans know they can do. As always, they are punchy, catchy and so infectious, that every audience member were paying attention to their quirky stylings. The band are on top form tonight and as soon as they kick into their song ‘Hepcats’, its a real goose bumps moment. Carefully constructed hooks and melodies that just make you wanna bop til you drop! It was like they let you in for a glimpse and all you want is more more more!

New Jersey’s favorite rockers Bon Jovi have added 9 more nights to the band’s residency at the O2 arena in London after all the tickets for a five night run in June 2010 sold out immediately. Promoters have promised that there would be “more to come”.

The tickets were selling at a rate of 18 per second , with 23’00 sales in the first two hours , promoters said.

The residency at the arena will kick off on Monday June 7th next year but Bonjovi, whose current single “We Weren’t Born to Follow” is out now, are also appearing on the X Factor this Sunday. The band then joins Fearne Cotton on the BBC Radio 1 show next Tuesday.

Here’s a classic in honor of Flowered Up’s lead singer Liam Maher who passed away on October 20th. RIP

Waiting / Wait Is Over’ is the second succulent single to be taken from Melbourne’s rock ‘n’ roll revisionaries Little Red’s debut album ‘Listen To’.

It follows hot on the tail of the recent success of ‘It’s Alright / Coca-Cola’, which quickly built them a fan base of tastemaker luminaries, including BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Radio 2 stalwarts Radcliffe & Maconie, and XFM’s John Kennedy, and also found a home on the XFM playlist, and as BBC 6 Music’s breakfast show ‘Record of the Week’. Session invitations on the table from XFM and Absolute add to the eager anticipation for their very first UK shows in November.

Leicester favorites  Kasabian have been added to the T4 Stars Of 2009 show lineup.

The band are due to perform at the Earls Court show in London on November 29th with a ton of  famous guest stars.

Calvin Harris, who’s recent track ‘ I’m Not Alone‘ propelled him to the top of the charts, and the ever so popular La Roux are also scheduled to appear at the event.

Robbie Williams, who was lovingly nick named “the fat dancer” by the Gallaghers, has taken another pop at his old rivals Oasis.

Thinking  Liam and Noel Gallagher are better off apart Robbie says: “Originally I thought they’d inevitably get back together because they are the band.

“But reading between the lines, they’re both really stubborn so I don’t think they will. To be honest, I know there’s history between us and this isn’t very complimentary, but they’ve been doing a lap of honour for the past 13 years. There’s been the occasional gem here and there, The Importance Of Being Idle, and, well, that’s about it.”

These photos speak a thousand words. A seemingly tired band with visibly  unhappy Baria Qurishi manning keyboards and the guitar push themselves to complete a Gibson sponsored in-store appearance at NBC in New York City just last Friday. Although this was part of CMJ’s Music Marathon the daylight setting at the famous ’30 Rock’ skyscraper sure didn’t appear like your average The XX CMJ performance.

Video off the band’s album:  Baby Darling  Doll Face Honey

Jack White talking to Iain Baker on NME radio announced that his new band Dead Weather have added a free concert on Saturday (31) as part of their 3rd Man Records Pop Up Shop stint which will be held at the Shoreditch Church in East London. The band will have limited edition (100 each) vinyls available in the record shop . According to White the Pop Up show will have a Halloween theme and is slated to go on at 8pm. If you can’t make it over to London hop over to NMEradio.com which will be broadcasting the event live.

Mercury Prize Winner ‘Speech Debelle’ has just been confirmed as very special guests to the UK’s premiere funk and soul band ‘the Brand New Heavies‘. Speech will support the band at the London 02 Shepherds Bush Empire on Wednesday November 4th.

Touring the UK in support of their new live album ‘Live In London’, the Brand New Heavies’ UK Tour Dates are as follows -