We Are Disturbed....

Disturbed Return to the UK
New Single – “Indestructible” out on Oct 6th on Reprise Records


Nearly a decade after the release of their groundbreaking debut, The Sickness, Disturbed have become one of the most passionate and well-respected bands in the hard-rock universe, a dependable source not only of pummeling riffs and jackhammer beats, but of personal and political insights into our troubled times. Their previous albums, The Sickness, Believe and Ten Thousand fists have all achieved platinum –plus status in the US with over 9 million albums sold!

After a busy summer of touring Europe and performing at sold out festivals including Rock and Ring and Download, and a nationwide tour of the US with Mastodon and Slipknot, Disturbed will bring their electrifying live performance back to the UK with the following dates:

October

4th London, Brixton Academy
6th Manchester, Apollo
7th Glasgow, Academy
8th Nottingham, Rock City
10th Birmingham, Academy

The new single, “Indestructible”, (out on October 6th) the title track from the album, is a blistering ball of metal goodness. Taken from their US number one album (as well as being No1 in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and as already racked up worldwide sales of 1 million) of the same name, the band set out to make an “all killer, no filler” gutsy metal record and they achieved that in droves. ‘Down with the Sickness” their legendary anthem is featured in the new “Rockband” game which is currently taking the world by storm.

Be sure to catch Disturbed on the Indestructible tour!

Be Quiet and Parkway Drive

Altamont NEVER SAY DIE! 2008 TOUR HITS THE UK!!

Avocado Booking has always progressively pushed the envelope in providing the most memorable tours with cutting edge talent from all over the globe. Never ones to rest on their laurels, their hugely successful Never Say Die! club tour will return this November in collaboration with Altamont Apparel in what will be the most hard-hitting tour of 2008.



Altamont Never Say Die! 2008 Club Tour line-up: 
Parkway Drive, Unearth, 
Despised Icon, 
Architects, 
Protest The Hero, 
Whitechapel, and 
Carnifex. 


The tour will be sponsored by Altamont Apparel, the innovative clothing brand which uniquely captures the youthful spirit of counterculture warriors - a perfect fit for those attending Never Say Die!. “Altamont Apparel was founded with music at its core, so we are both happy and proud to be the official partner of this tour” commented Scott Sentianin, Altamont Apparel. Marco Walzel, Avocado Booking, adds, “The link between punk, metal and hardcore with skateboarding and extreme sports/lifestyles has always been a strong bond. It makes perfect sense for Altamont to be a big part of this tour and I’m very happy to have them on board.”




The lineup will include PARKWAY DRIVE (Burning Heart Records) who have proven their headline status for this tour with their titanic barrage of riffs, breakdowns and high energy performances - as best evident on their many European tours (the last of which had the majority of their shows sold-out). Also no strangers to touring Europe, UNEARTH will join the tour as co-headliners in the UK and direct support in mainland Europe, and just in time as their brand new album on Metal Blade Records will be hitting the streets. DESPISED ICON have exploded onto the scene with loads of touring and have helped define deathcore destruction with a highly acclaimed new record on Century Media Records. The UK is represented by ARCHITECTS, recently signed to Century Media, who bring the chaos factor to the bill with their vicious metalcore assault. Bringing a flair for the technical and progressive end of the spectrum, PROTEST THE HERO have been lavished with rave reviews from the press for their new album and tireless touring. Rounding out the package are two up-n-coming brutal acts from the U.S. that are rapidly gaining steam and buzzing in the underground, WHITECHAPEL (Metal Blade Records) and CARNIFEX (Victory Records) who will both have new records in time for this tour.




“We’ve worked very hard to raise the bar for this tour,” says Ivonne Davies-Kreye, Avocado Booking. “It is easily the best line-up and will prove to be the best concert going experience of 2008. ”

From the organization, to the talented acts from around the world, Avocado Booking is setting a new standard in the concert-going experience and Altamont Never Say Die! is a testament to this ideal.




UK dates are as follows:

10th November Yeovil, Westland 

11th November Manchester, Academy 2 

12th November Glasgow, The Arches 

13th November Sheffield, Corporation 

14th November Peterborough, Cresset 

15th November London, Forum 





For more Information go to:

http://www.neversaydietour.com

http://www.avocado-booking.com

http://altamontapparel.com


Deftones

are mixing the new album in seattle.... very exciting..

TGA return! Whoo!

The Gaslight Anthem
Return to the UK!

“The Best New Band You’ll Hear In 2008”
– Kerrang! Cover feature (Aug 9, 2008 issue)

“Behold. Rebel Without A Cause Reincarnated! Imagine the end of summer when those whirlwind romances, jealous hearts and unbridled backseat desires face the untimely fate of blowing away with the changing leaves. Harvesting deeply entrenched emotions of love, loss, lust and looming change, modern punk mavericks The Gaslight Anthem know these notions all too well…”
– Alternative Press “4 out of 5” album review (Aug 2008 issue)

After an incredible UK debut at the Reading Festival (followed by blinding sets at Leeds and 3 small hectic headline shows in Manchester, Nottingham and London) The Gaslight Anthem return to the UK in December to finish up what is becoming a very successful 2008.

The dates are as follows:

December

3rd: Glasgow, Garage
Box Office: 08444 999 990 / www.gigsinscotland.com
4th Manchester, Academy 3
http://www.gigsandtours.com/?s=the+gaslight+anthem&site=thegaslightanthem
5th London, LA2
http://www.gigantic.com

Tickets are priced at £12.00 for the regional shows and £12.50 for London and are available from the usual agents

The Gaslight Anthem hail from New Brunswick, New Jersey and their anthemic tales of Americana life have captured the imagination and hearts of fans and media alike.

The bands sophomore album “The ’59 Sound” is heralded as one of the best albums of 2008. Kerrang! magazine put the band on the cover before they had ever written a word about them, NME calling it the “best album of 2008”, other immensely positive press coming from RockSound, Big Cheese, Q magazine and The Sun as well as other great American press in the form of Alternative Press, Rolling Stone and Spin. The album debuted at number 70 in the Billboard Top 200 and “The ’59 Sound” will be the ITunes “single of the week” next week (7th September).

Hot New Band Alert....

Imperial Leisure
“Great British Summertime”
Single out July 28th
on Steamroller

“An amazing track…this is a tune of epic proportions.”
Colin Murray, Radio One

“In a world of cookie-cutter wannabes, Imperial Leisure standout like a clown at a funeral.” Kerrang! February 2008

“Ones to watch in 2008.” Daily Star

“Absolutely outstanding.” Nihal, Radio One

“…Like the Beasties and De La Soul, playing Less Than Jake at a cult-rock party. An amazing live band.” drownedinsound.com
“Honest, playful, full of inebriated insight… if I had a plane ticket to London hanging out of my pocket, and I really wish I did, I would happily fly the ten hours to see them. ' Brendan Turrill, Pulse Now USA
Imperial Leisure spent 2007 conquering crowds across the UK. They (legitimately) played festivals such as The Secret Garden Party, Exeter Respect, Blissfields and The Brick Lane Festival, not to mention (illegitimately playing in the car parks at) Reading, En-Dorset, Fruitstock and LoveBox, as well as springing spontaneous gigs on unsuspecting but hugely appreciative crowds in shopping centers, parks, and on beaches around the UK.

Last November saw the boys successfully supporting US hip-hoppers Ugly Duckling on 14 dates, a highlight of the year for all concerned. Recent supports have included Roots Manuva, Gym Class Heroes (at their recent sell-out London Forum show), the legendary Sugar Hill Gang, The Beat, Sway and Skinnyman.

The fan-base Imperial Leisure have built through their live activity has paid off with their debut single, “In A Letter”, selling out on the day of release. Radio support has been extensive, with both the first single and the follow-up, “Man On The Street” playlisted by Colin Murray at Radio One, Xfm in London, Manchester and Cardiff and Virgin Xtreme, with additional enthusiastic plays from BBC London’s Gary Crowley, Shaun Keaveny at BBC 6Music and Kerrang! Radio.

Imperial Leisure have received huge support from Myspace, where they have twice been Myspace Featured Artists, and where their videos have been included on the Cool New Video section of the home page. Recently they heard they have made it through to the final 14 bands, selected from over 2000, in this year’s “Road to V Festival” competition.

Building on these solid foundations, the band have been in the studio with Russ Keffert aka Junk Scientist (Larrikin Love, The Rakes), recording their next single, “ Great British Summertime” out July 28th, and completing their debut album due to be released in September.

Imperial Leisure are a phenomenon: a ten-piece band playing their own particular blend of ska, rap and rock music, complete with live brass section, rhythm section and fronted by two MCs and a singer. Their music is a killer combination of great beats, great tunes and irresistibly catchy lyrics.

Influences come from all over the place: in addition to a huge admiration of great British bands such as The Specials, Madness and The Prodigy, each band member brings his own flavour to the mix. Some of the guys have been mates since attending secondary school in North London. The sense of unity and familiarity that comes from years of friendship and hanging out together is very much evident in both the band’s sound and relationships. Based at their own rehearsal/recording studio in Tottenham, (right next door to the Spurs ground at White Hart Lane) they work together and party together, and put equal energy into doing both.

Come and join the party…


Be sure to catch this phenomenal live band at one of the following shows this summer:

June:

28th Glastonbury Festival, West Dance Tent

July:

12TH 2000 Trees Festival, Cheltenham
18TH Camp Bestival, Dorset
26TH Sound Island Festival, Margate
30th Walkabout, Newquay
31ST Maker Festival, Cornwall

August:

1st Moles Club, Bath
2nd Standon Calling Festival, Hertfordshire
8th En-Dorset, Dorset
10th The Jail House, Hereford
16th The Square, Harlow
25th Beachdown Festival, Brighton
30th 360 Festival, Bristol
31st Cider Festival, Cheddar

September:

6th Bestival, Isle of Wight


www.imperial-leisure.co.uk www.myspace.com/imperialleisure

For further media enquiries please contact:

Press:
Emma Van Duyts at Public City PR: (+44)(0)7949 554 666 / Em@publiccity.com

TV and Radio:
Julian Spear at Red Shadow: Julian@redshadow.co.uk

Live Booking:
Serena Parsons at Primary Talent: Serena@primary.uk.com

Management:
Sue Wincott at Crucible Management ph: +44 (0)20 8292 4299 or 07976 910227 Email: info@crucible-management.co.uk

Unholy Cow!

"UNHOLY ALLIANCE TOUR, CHAPTER III" LAUNCHES ITS FIRST 2008 ASSAULT WITH METAL HAMMER SPONSORED UK DATES
BILL FEATURES SLAYER, TRIVIUM, MASTODON

The UK leg of the mighty "Unholy Alliance Tour, Chapter III" has been confirmed to kick off in Manchester, England on October 27. This third installment of what has been hailed as "the heaviest, darkest tour of the year," the "Unholy Alliance Tour, Chapter III" will feature Slayer, the undisputed kings of extreme speed/thrash metal, and two true princes of the genre, Trivium and Mastodon. An opening act will be announced shortly. While Slayer will close all of the shows, they will be co-billed with Trivium on the UK dates.

Matthew Heafy, Trivium's frontman commented "Trivium is honored that Slayer has invited us to tour with them on the 'Unholy Alliance Tour.' All of us in Trivium are diehard Slayer fans and we look up to them for their music and longevity. They are one of the true pillars of heavy metal and for us to share stages with them is both an honor and a privilege. We've also known the Mastodon guys for a few years and we're definitely looking forward to hanging with them as well." Guitarist Corey Beaulieu continues, "I can't wait to get out on tour with Slayer so we can watch them crush every night and then have the opportunity to share many drinks with them and Mastodon after the shows! I better get my liver in shape… it's going to be awesome!"

The Unholy Alliance tour first launched in Fall, 2004 with a European edition that featured Slipknot, Slayer, Mastodon and Hatebreed. The venture was so successful, the first North American trek, dubbed "The Unholy Alliance Tour, Chapter II: Preaching to The Perverted," kicked off in Summer, 2006 with Slayer, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, and Thine Eyes Bleed stomping and screaming its way to 30 U.S. and Canadian cities. The European run of "Unholy Alliance Tour, Chapter II" took place in Fall, 2006, featuring Slayer, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God, and Thing Eyes Bleed.

SLAYER
A journalist once wrote of Slayer, "If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he undoubtedly would be listening to Slayer." Indeed, in the beginning, when there were no blueprints, no set paths, no boundaries or steps to follow, SLAYER assaulted the world with its new hybrid of metal and punk. Heavier, faster and darker than the rest, Slayer set the new standard which all others continue to follow. Slayer is the band that all other heavy acts are measured against, defining not only a genre but an attitude. For more than two-and-a-half decades, Slayer's onslaught of sheer brutality has proven them to be the supreme thrash-metal band on the planet. Entire countries have banned their music, NARAS has graced them with two Grammy Awards. Slayer is currently writing material for a new album, release date TBD.

TRIVIUM
Orlando, FL heavy metallers TRIVIUM are delighted to be co-headlining with SLAYER on the UK leg of this year's colossal UNHOLY ALLIANCE tour. Having performed over 600 shows in the last 36 months alone, Trivium are no strangers to the stage and life on the road. Last year, the worldwide million-selling band toured extensively with Machine Head, co-headlining the impressive Black Crusade tour, as well as finding time to play shows with the legendary Iron Maiden amongst others. Since then, they have been hard at work on their next studio album for Roadrunner Records, due for release on September 29, 2008.

MASTODON
Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Mastodon have been critically acclaimed by almost every publication in the US and Europe. Their Grammy nominated album, Blood Mountain, the group's third release, isn't just unconventional, it's surreal, progressive and unrepentantly heavy. Mastodon combined their favorite musical styles, including thrash, doom, prog and psychedelic metal to concoct something utterly original, undeniably devastating and irrefutably entrancing. They are currently in the studio with producer Brendan O'Brien recording their follow up to "Blood Mountain."

OCTOBER
27 Manchester Arena, Manchester, England
28 NEC, Birmingham, England
30 Hammersmith Apollo, London, England
31 Hammersmith Apollo, London, England

UK Tickets will go on sale shortly from: www.seetickets.com, www.ticketline.com, www.ticketmaster.co.uk, www.stargreen.co.uk, www.gigantic.com, and www.lastminute.com as well as all venue box offices.

For Mastodon press enquiries please contact Emma Van Duyts at Public City PR.
Em@publiccitypr.com or 07949 554 666

For Slayer / tour enquiries please contact Adam Sagir at The Noise Cartel
adam@thenoisecartel.com or 020 7241 8966

Are you down with the sickness?

Indestructible
Out June 2nd 2008

David Draiman - Vocals
Dan Donegan – Guitar / Electronics
Mike Wengren - Drums
John Moyer - Bass


Nearly a decade after the release of their groundbreaking debut, The Sickness, Disturbed have become one of the most passionate and well-respected bands in the hard-rock universe, a dependable source not only of pummeling riffs and jackhammer beats, but of personal and political insights into our troubled times. Yet success (in the form of three platinum-plus albums, with both Believe and Ten Thousand Fists topping Billboard’s album chart and over nine million albums sold) hasn’t dulled this Chicago-based foursome’s taste for adventure. If anything, Disturbed’s loyal fanbase has pushed the band to newer heights of self-expression. So it makes sense that on the occasion of their fourth album, Indestructible, that frontman David Draiman, guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren decided to take the reins and produce themselves in the studio.
“Doing three records with Johnny K taught us a tremendous amount,” Draiman says of the industry veteran who helmed The Sickness, Believe and Ten Thousand Fists. “We’re always trying to evolve and try new things and experiment,” adds Donegan. “So this time we wanted to do things a little bit differently.” Wengren says that Indestructible—which the band tracked over three months in Fall 2007 at Chicago’s Groovemaster Recording—afforded the band the “opportunity to prove to ourselves and to everybody else that we could do it.” The result of Disturbed’s experimentation in the studio is the group’s darkest, angriest outing yet. Inspired by two and a half years’ worth of challenging experiences, Draiman told the rest of the band that he was in the mood to purge. Fortunately, they were right there with him.
“We wanted to get back to some of the elements that were maybe lacking on the last two records,” says Donegan. “David’s got a great ability to sing really melodically, but we wanted him to get back to the rhythmic, animalistic, rapid-fire delivery he’s known for. He’s very hard to touch when he does that, and we wanted to give him music to provoke that.”
Indestructible reflects that intensity of emotion across a broad spectrum of songs: “Deceiver” takes to task a former girlfriend of Draiman’s whom he calls “a master of deception.”
“Divide” celebrates the will of the individual against the conformity of the masses. In “Haunted,” which Draiman calls a veiled critique of Los Angeles (where he lived for a few years before recently moving back to Chicago), a place of love becomes a nightmare landscape populated by demons masquerading in human form. “Inside The Fire” imagines the devil encouraging the singer to take his own life as a way of rejoining his dead girlfriend. (“Writing this record is the reason I don’t have therapy bills,” Draiman notes.)
Two of the album’s most powerful tracks address the situation in the Middle East, with “Enough” lamenting the causes of war and the suffering it causes, and the title track offering support for the troops “or anyone else looking to strip themselves of fear,” as Draiman says.
Throughout Indestructible, Donegan, Wengren and Moyer back up Draiman’s words with some of the most visceral, sophisticated music they’ve ever created. Donegan says his goal was to increase the dynamics—“to have the highs be higher and the lows be lower”—and to make more cohesive the relationship that exists between guitar, bass and drums and the band’s signature electronics.
“I don’t wanna sound arrogant,” says Wengren with a laugh, “but I think we’ve made the kind of record the industry needs right now. There are not a lot of heavy bands delivering these days. I think our fans—and fans of this genre—will go absolutely nuts for this.” “People never lose their desire for aggressive music,” adds Draiman. “And we’re happy to keep giving it to them.”

Be sure to check out Disturbed on Friday June 13th at Download Festival. The band will also be performing at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods on Monday 16th June

www.disturbed1.com

For more information, please contact Emma Van Duyts at Public City.
Em@PublicCityPR.com or 07949 554 666

Welcome Back Boys...

The very wonderful Taking Back Sunday return to the UK to play a special pre-Reading and Leeds show at The LA2 on August 21st. The guys will also play Reading on 22nd and Leeds on the 23rd. They will be joined on stage by new guitarist Matt Fazzi.


Some further reading for you...

Taking Back Sunday are:

Adam Lazzara vocals
Eddie Reyes guitar
Mark O'Connell drum
Matt Rubano bass
Matt Fazzi guitar, vocals

For Taking Back Sunday, the past few years have been as non-stop as the music on their latest album, Louder Now. The New York-based melodic hardcore quintet’s third album was released on April 25, 2006 and skyrocketed to Number Two on Billboard’s Top 200 chart a week later, scanning more than 157,000 copies. Now gold-certified, Louder Now has led to multiple sold out U.S. headlining arena tours, the headlining slot on the international Taste of Chaos tour in Australia, Japan and Europe, and an MTV Video Music award nomination (the MTV2 Viewer’s Choice award) for the album’s first single, “MakeDamnSure,” which received more than three million combined plays on AOL, Yahoo!, Fuse, and YouTube. The band did command performances on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Last Call With Carson Daly, and got to play themselves in an upcoming episode of a favorite show, Degrassi: The Next Generation. Last June, the band scored their third cover of taste-making music monthly Alternative Press, and received effusive reviews from People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Indeed Kerrang! crowned Louder Now as the critics pick for “Album Of The Year!”

Taking Back Sunday finished out 2006 with the December release of Louder Now: Partone — a 90-minute DVD containing up close and personal band stories, behind-the-scenes footage in the studio and on the road, music videos for "MakeDamnSure" and the album’s second single "Liar (It Takes One To Know One)," and no-holds barred clips of the band's performance at the Long Beach Arena. They also celebrated the holiday season’s spirit of giving by creating a card that raised money for various cancer charities.

The band ushered in 2007 with a headlining North American tour, including their first extended visit to Canada. Summer of 2007 brought them back around North America on the famed Projekt Revolution tour, helmed by Linkin Park and starring My Chemical Romance, Placebo, HIM and many other global acts. They were honored to perform at the NYC Giants Stadium location of the global Live Earth event that took place on 7-7-07. They had already begun greening their touring by recycling at venues, requesting organic items on their hospitality riders and even purchasing carbon offsets in the form of wind energy. They routinely thank promoters of their tours by donating tree buds to families in Katrina ravaged parts of the US in their names.

The hubbub surrounding Taking Back Sunday shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s heard Louder Now. The high-octane drumming and blazing syncopated riffs that rain down on its opening track, “What’s It Feel Like to Be a Ghost,” make it clear that these guys meant business when they went into the studio with producer Eric Valentine (Queens Of The Stone Age, Third Eye Blind) to record the follow-up to their 2004 best-selling album Where You Want To Be. Their intention was to bottle the lightning that this powerful band generates whenever they hit the stage. The relentless touring paid off with sold-out headlining arena tours and delirious fan support. Continued participation on the global stage including main stage stints on the UK’s famed Reading and Leeds Carling Weekend and Japan’s enormous Summersonic Festival have also increased their world-wide fan base. Combined, Louder Now, Where You Want to Be and their debut album Tell All Your Friends have scanned more than 2.5 million copies.

The band has remained a staple on both MTV and Fuse; and in 2005, they were tapped to record a theme song for Reed Richards, the lead character in the video game and hit movie Fantastic Four. “Error Operator” appears in the game, on the film’s soundtrack, and in revamped form on Louder Now.

Taking Back Sunday set out to “create something that we considered timeless,” says the band of Louder Now. “We didn’t want something that people would listen to in 10 years and say, ‘That’s from 2006 when all the records sounded like that.’ We wanted people to listen to it in 10 years and say, ‘Hell, yeah, turn that up!’”

The band has currently recruited guitarist and vocalist Matt Fazzi formerly of Facing New York to join the family and are working on their fourth album.

Hey Man! Nice Shot

“ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED” – Release Date:
JUNE 9th 2008 on Pulse Recordings

FILTER is back.

After a five-year hiatus and a successful run with Army of Anyone, RICHARD PATRICK has reclaimed his legacy with FILTER for ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED, out June 9th.

Produced by Josh Abraham (Slayer, 30 Seconds to Mars, Velvet Revolver, Staind, Courtney Love), PATRICK calls ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED his “howl in the night,” a harsh indictment of civilization that doesn’t exclude himself from its vision of a world falling apart.

The album’s first single “Soldiers of Misfortune” will be released later this month. PATRICK describes the soaring anthem--with its U2/Bowie flavor and stacked backdrop of buzzing electric guitars--as a “sardonic anti-war/pro-troops song.” The first-person narrative was inspired by a letter from a FILTER fan, who had enlisted in the Army reserves to get his college tuition paid; in his final year of college, he was shipped off to Iraq where he died from a rocket attack and small arms fire after just a few days of duty.

FILTER recently previewed tracks from ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED alongside such FILTER classics as “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” “Take a Picture” and others when they performed for the troops alongside Disturbed, The Pussycat Dolls and Jessica Simpson at the Operation MySpace show in Kuwait.

ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED features such collaborators as guitarist/songwriter John 5, guitarist Wes Borland and drummer Josh Freese and marks FILTER’s first release in five years since The Amalgamut. Pointed and passionate, the new album traces PATRICK’s own anger and shame with the state of things, from the intense alternative industrial blast of “The Take,” “What’s Next” and “Hatred is Contagious,” the ultimate resignation of “Kill the Day” and “Lie After Lie” to the tentative hope expressed by “Only You” and the ambient soundscape of the closing “Can Stop This.”

The Band will be in Europe this summer making the following appearances:

June
6th Rock Am Park, Nuremburg, Germany
7th Rock Am Ring, Nurberg, Germany
9th Islington Academy, London, England

The European album will have bonus tracks. Full track listing is as follows:

1. Soldiers of Misfortune
2. What's Next
3. The Wake
4. Cold (Anthem For The Damned)
5. Hatred Is Contagious
6. Lie After Lie
7. Kill The Day
8. The Take
9. I Keep Flowers Around
10. In Dreams
11. Only You
12. Can Stop This
13. Soldiers Of Misfortune (Richard Patrick and Timmy The Terror Brade Runna Mix)
14. Kill The Day (Ben Wise Club Mix)
15. The Take (Stormin Norman Mix) (J.O'B.)
16. Soldiers Of Misfortune (Video)

For further press information and interview opportunities please contact Emma Van Duyts at Public City on Em@publiccitypr.com or 07949 554 666

Rockin' and a Rollins

Henry Rollins - Fringe Shows, Reading and Leeds and UK Tour!

Musician, writer, actor, spoken word maestro, Henry Rollins returns to the UK for a full week of shows at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He will also be performing at the mighty Reading and Leeds festivals and taking his brilliant spoken word show around the UK.

Be Sure to catch Henry Rollins at one of the following shows:

9th August: Leicester DeMontford Hall, Summer Sundae
www.summersundae.com

10th August: Birmingham, Glee Club
(Box Office 08714 720 400 http://www.glee.co.uk)

11th August: Cardiff, Glee Club
(Box Office 08714 720 400, www.glee.co.uk, Spillers, Ticketline (Cardiff) www.seetickets.com)

12th August: London, Indigo 2
www.ticketmaster.co.uk (0844844000), TicketLine (08714244444) www.ticketline.com, See (08712200260) www.seetickets.com. In person at the Venue Box Office

13th August: Brighton, Komedia
www.komedia.co.uk/brighton
01273 647100

18th August: Edinburgh, Gilded Balloon
(Edinburgh Festival) (on stage 10:45 – Midnight)

19th August: Edinburgh, Gilded Balloon
(Edinburgh Festival) (on stage 10:45 – Midnight)

20th August: Edinburgh, Gilded Balloon
(Edinburgh Festival) (on stage 10:45 – Midnight)


21st August: Edinburgh, Gilded Balloon
(Edinburgh Festival) on stage 10:45 – Midnight)

22nd August: Edinburgh, Gilded Balloon
(Edinburgh Festival) on stage 10:45 – Midnight)

23rd August: Leeds Festival, (on Stage at 1:30pm)

24th August: Reading Festival (on stage at 1:30pm)

24th August: Edinburgh, Gilded Balloon
(Edinburgh Festival) on stage 10:45 – Midnight)

25th August; Edinburgh, Gilded Balloon
(Edinburgh Festival) on stage 10:45 – Midnight)

27th August: Cambridge, Junction 2
01223 511 511
www.junction.co.uk

28th August: Oxford, Carling Academy
www.ticketweb.co.uk
0844 477 2000

30th August, Liverpool, Carling Academy
www.ticketweb.co.uk
0844 477 2000


Henry Rollins joined the Southern California band Black Flag as vocalist in 1981. Upon the demise of the legendary punk band in 1986, he formed the Rollins Band and has been making records and touring the world ever since. Beyond taking the stage as a musician, Henry does speaking dates all over the world every year and, along with the band dates, has averaged over one hundred shows a year for twenty-five years. Recently he has also spent time visiting troops on behalf of the USO traveling to Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Honduras, and Egypt in the process.

Never one to confine his performances strictly to the stage, Henry has performed in several movies and TV shows including Bad Boys II, Heat, and Drew Carey. Grammy nominated for both his work with the Rollins Band and the spoken word performance of his own book Get in the Van, Henry currently occupies his time chatting up heavy hitters as the host of IFC’s The Henry Rollins Show, introducing listeners to hidden gems on his weekly radio show, and running 2-13-61, a publishing company he created to release books, CDs and DVDs of his own along with the work of others such as Henry Miller, Iggy Pop and Nick Cave.

For further information please contact: Emma Van Duyts at Public City on
07949 554 666 or Em@publiccitypr.com



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Parkway Drive Return to assault the UK!

Altamont NEVER SAY DIE! 2008 TOUR HITS THE UK!!


Avocado Booking has always progressively pushed the envelope in providing the most memorable tours with cutting edge talent from all over the globe. Never ones to rest on their laurels, their hugely successful Never Say Die! club tour will return this November in collaboration with Altamont Apparel in what will be the most hard-hitting tour of 2008.



Altamont Never Say Die! 2008 Club Tour line-up: 
Parkway Drive, Unearth, 
Despised Icon, 
Architects, 
Protest The Hero, 
Whitechapel, and 
Carnifex. 


The tour will be sponsored by Altamont Apparel, the innovative clothing brand which uniquely captures the youthful spirit of counterculture warriors - a perfect fit for those attending Never Say Die!. “Altamont Apparel was founded with music at its core, so we are both happy and proud to be the official partner of this tour” commented Scott Sentianin, Altamont Apparel. Marco Walzel, Avocado Booking, adds, “The link between punk, metal and hardcore with skateboarding and extreme sports/lifestyles has always been a strong bond. It makes perfect sense for Altamont to be a big part of this tour and I’m very happy to have them on board.”




The lineup will include PARKWAY DRIVE (Burning Heart Records) who have proven their headline status for this tour with their titanic barrage of riffs, breakdowns and high energy performances - as best evident on their many European tours (the last of which had the majority of their shows sold-out). Also no strangers to touring Europe, UNEARTH will join the tour as co-headliners in the UK and direct support in mainland Europe, and just in time as their brand new album on Metal Blade Records will be hitting the streets. DESPISED ICON have exploded onto the scene with loads of touring and have helped define deathcore destruction with a highly acclaimed new record on Century Media Records. The UK is represented by ARCHITECTS, recently signed to Century Media, who bring the chaos factor to the bill with their vicious metalcore assault. Bringing a flair for the technical and progressive end of the spectrum, PROTEST THE HERO have been lavished with rave reviews from the press for their new album and tireless touring. Rounding out the package are two up-n-coming brutal acts from the U.S. that are rapidly gaining steam and buzzing in the underground, WHITECHAPEL (Metal Blade Records) and CARNIFEX (Victory Records) who will both have new records in time for this tour.




“We’ve worked very hard to raise the bar for this tour,” says Ivonne Davies-Kreye, Avocado Booking. “It is easily the best line-up and will prove to be the best concert going experience of 2008. ”

From the organization, to the talented acts from around the world, Avocado Booking is setting a new standard in the concert-going experience and Altamont Never Say Die! is a testament to this ideal.




UK dates are as follows:

10th November Yeovil, Westland 

11th November Manchester, Academy 2 

12th November Glasgow, The Arches 

13th November Sheffield, Corporation 

14th November Peterborough, Cresset 

15th November London, Forum 





For more Information go to:

http://www.neversaydietour.com

http://www.avocado-booking.com

http://altamontapparel.com


For further press enquiries please contact:

PARKWAY DRIVE. em@publiccity.com

UNEARTH: will@ferretstyle.com

DESPISED ICON: sarah@centurymedia.net

ARCHITECTS: leandergloversmith@gmail.com

PROTEST THE HERO: Chrissie@positivenuisance.com

WHITECHAPEL: will@ferretstyle.com

CARNIFEX: jenny@victoryrecords.com

Story Of The Year!!!

The alternative rock heavyweights Story Of The Year have just announced a European Tour in May 2008.

The band will be touring in support of their highly anticipated new album, The Black Swan, out on April 21st on Epitaph records.

Like the title suggests, the group's third studio album is anything but predictable. Featuring the smash hit single "Wake Up" and the piano driven ballad, "Terrified,"The Black Swan was produced by John Feldmann (Good Charlotte, The Used, Lostprophets, Atreyu) and "Elvis" Baskette (Chevelle, Escape The Fate, Puddle of Mudd). Combining the addictive choruses of their platinum selling album (US, AUS, JPN) Page Avenue and the heaviness of In The Wake of Determination, The Black Swan transcends previous releases as their boldest and most accessible album to date

Story Of The Year are known for their infamous and kinetically explosive live performances (expect back-flips, off the drum risers and behind-the-head guitar soloing), which will undoubtedly make them of this Spring’s must-sees!

10-May Meerhout Groezrock Festival
11-May Rotterdam Waterfront
13-May Hamburg Give It A Name / Markthalle
14-May Berlin Give It A Name / Postbahnhof
15-May Munich Give It A Name / Elserhalle
16-May Vienna Give It A Name / Arena
17-May Milan Give It A Name / Alcatraz
18-May Zurich Give It A Name / Volkshaus
20-May London Mean Fiddler
21-May Birmingham Academy 2
22-May Manchester Academy 2
23-May Glasgow QMU
25-May Leeds Slamdunk Festival

For more information please visit:

http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/251/
http://www.storyoftheyear.net/
http://www.myspace.com/storyoftheyear

For interview requests and review copies please contact Em Van Duyts at Em@PublicCityPR.com or on 07949 554 666

Buck 65 UK TOUR!!

The multi-talented Buck 65 will return to the UK in March 2008 for his first full UK tour in support of his brilliant new album “Situation”(Warner Bros Records).

Drawing inspiration from the year 1957, Buck tackles a number of subjects on the album, based upon his opinion that the year 1957 created a legacy that affects the way we live and think 50 years down the line.

Make you catch Buck 65 at one of the following venues:

Mon 17 Mar 2008 Brighton Komedia
Tue 18 Mar 2008 Oxford Zodiac @ Academy
Wed 19 Mar 2008 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Thu 20 Mar 2008 Bristol Thekla
Sat 22 Mar 2008 Liverpool Academy 2
Sun 23 Mar 2008 Manchester Roadhouse
Mon 24 Mar 2008 Glasgow King Tuts
Tue 25 Mar 2008 Leeds Cockpit
Wed 26 Mar 2008 Birmingham Barfly
Thu 27 Mar 2008 London Dingwalls

For further press information please contact Emma Van Duyts @ Public City on emizzlevandizzle@mac.com or 07949 554 666

www.buck65.com

Story of The Year

With its explosive, infectious roar, “Wake Up” alerts Story of the Year’s fanatical, global following that the epic, uplifting The Black Swan is upon us. An artistic triumph in every sense, the beloved, million-selling band’s third studio album is unequivocally its finest, building on the strength of past accomplishments while celebrating a newfound allegiance with Epitaph.

“Making this record felt like starting over,” says Dan Marsala, frontman for the St. Louis-reared quintet. “We’re like a brand new band. You can hear it in these songs, we’re excited again. I think we’ve really stepped it up on this record.”

If Story of the Year’s career achievements – from 2003’s smash debut Page Avenue to headlining massive festivals such as the Van’s Warped Tour and Taste of Chaos, to world tours with the likes of My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and The Used – have been abundant, they’ve also been the result of the esteemed modern rock outfit’s tireless work ethic and willingness to push boundaries musically. Approaching the follow-up to 2005’s In the Wake of Determination with a burst of creative freedom, Story of the Year – which also counts guitarists Ryan Phillips and Philip Sneed, bassist Adam Russell and drummer Josh Wills – elevates The Black Swan with these same key convictions.

Leaps and bounds beyond the standards of what an alt-rock anthem can be in 2008, the remarkably powerful, hopeful and deeply personal “Tell Me” is undeniable. “It opens with a fucking gnarly, classic riff that hits you right between the eyes,” Ryan enthuses.

“It’s about our band,” Dan acknowledges. “Before we signed to Epitaph, things were up in the air for us. We knew we didn’t want to be on a major label anymore. We were like, ‘What does this mean? Is our band done?’ We really had to work through it and it was a weird time for us. But it’s also been a really positive experience. Like, ‘we’re going to get through this together and nothing can stop us!’”

Thematically based around the concept of impactful, unpredictable events, The Black Swan hits home with Story of the Year in that it relates to a massively successful rock band breaking free of confines and restrictions to thrive on its own terms. “Epitaph seemed like the perfect place for us at this time
in our career,” Ryan explains. “It’s a much more creative environment.” To which Dan adds, “We could tell that Brett [Gurewitz, Epitaph’s founder] loved the songs.”

Despite a back catalog that counts a half dozen radio staples (like 2003’s “Until The Day I Die” to 2006’s “Take Me Back”) and a wall full of gold and platinum awards for record sales in North America, Japan and Australia, Story of the Year’s loyal fans are its principal concern. And the legions that discovered the group via Page Avenue will be pleased to learn the group re-teamed with producer John Feldmann for a handful of tracks on The Black Swan.

Among them is the aforementioned, explosive “Wake Up,” a collaboration between Phillips, Marsala and Russell, which took lyrical inspiration from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot. Written from a global perspective, Dan says of the track, “When you think about just how small the earth really is and just how small the human race really is, our existence is almost insignificant in the greater scheme of things. You think of how the wars and all of the fighting and killing are just so unnecessary. It’s pointless, and we should all be living our lives to the fullest.”

Elsewhere, the band’s first bona fide ballad, “Terrified,” upholds the same line of thinking, with an emotional and uplifting delivery. “It's an amazing story about a man who goes off to war leaving a pregnant wife,” says Ryan. “It narrates from both sides; their fears, emotions, and the fact that she doesn't even know if he’s still alive. It’s a hard hitting song that needed to be personal and epic instead of heavy.”

“A lot of this record explores social and ethical issues that we feel strongly about,” explains Marsala. As is the case with the melodic charge of “We’re Not Going To Make It” which explores the struggle for an interracial couple to find acceptance and support from their parents and beyond in an overwhelmingly prejudiced America.

Equally poignant is the thought-provoking “Message To The World,” which sends a global memorandum via the refrain, “When you kill me do it slowly.” “People have this weird blind nationalism,” says Dan. “Like, ‘we’re from America! And America is good. And we’ve gotta support America. And nobody else matters, because we’re better than everybody.’ And it’s pretty obvious that having that kind of outlook will only result in things ending badly.”

Additionally, Story of the Year teams with it-producer Elvis Baskette (Chevelle, Escape The Fate) on The Black Swan. “Elvis is a little more organic,” Dan laughs. “He wants the guitars loud!” Be it “Welcome To Our New War,” a stand out track that takes the group’s shredding mastery to new heights, or the powerful riffs that propel “Apathy Is A Deathwish” – a track Phillips says, “Makes me want to smash stuff and drink a car-bomb shot” – the results are simply stellar.

Ferocious and thought-provoking, The Black Swan finds Story of the Year in the rare position of being one of the biggest bands in the world, while being left to its own devices to evolve and flourish creatively.

“I hope people really read into the lyrics and respect the fact that we don’t sing about lollipops and gummi-bears,” Ryan explains. “Musically, we've grown so much. We have some very unique, timeless, face melting guitar riffs and solos that have come to define our sound, without compromising the idea of a classic song.”

For further information please contact Emma Van Duyts at Public City at emizzlevandizzle@mac.com