June 21st, 2012

Vince Power, the organiser of events such as Hop Farm and Benicassim, has criticised the BBC for creating its Radio 1 Hackney Weekend, whose free tickets he believes have made it harder for regular festivals to compete in the current economic climate.

The Courteeners will perform a one-off free gig in the centre of their home city Manchester this weekend, the band’s frontman Liam Fray has confirmed.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has compared his band’s forthcoming trilogy of new albums to AC/DC and ‘early Beatles‘.

Seasick Steve has been confirmed as the Friday night headliner for this year’s Strummer Of Love festival.

Fresh from seeing the Olympic Torch arrive safely in Belfast and performing a free concert in front of City Hall in celebration of the event, GENERAL FIASCO have now confirmed details of a new single ‘Bad Habits’

Released Monday June 25th on Moshi Moshi, ‘Dresinen’ is the third single to be taken from their LP ‘Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen’

The Daniel Wirtberg directed clip features celebrated Swedish actress Ewa Fröling (perhaps best known from Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander).

Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne cancelled one of his Ozzy And Friends live tour dates last night (June 20th), just minutes before he was due to take to the stage.

Elbow are planning on debuting a ‘big song’ from their next album when they perform at the Isle Of Wight festival this weekend, according to the band’s keyboard player Craig Potter.