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The buzz around this band is unbelievable - in a
frantic six months they've moved from near-obscurity to claim
the title of 2007's Biggest New Band. No one else even comes
close. They've already signed a record deal worth a reported
£1 million, bagged their first NME cover, scored a massive
hit single with 'Wide Awake' and will surely blast a new hole
in the Top Ten with their latest offering 'Either Way'.
The current UK tour is a complete sell-out. Not surprising
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swagger than Liam, more funk than Bez and are more rock
'n' roll than Ian Brown [well, nearly].
Tunes, conviction, charisma - what more do you need?
'If there's one name to remember from all those January
new band lists, make sure it's The Twang: five baggy loving
hooligans from Birmingham who've got the swaggering terrace
anthems, 24 hour party poetry and the Gallaghers' godly
melodic touch down pat' - Uncut.
2007 is officially Year of The Twang!
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BOOOM! BOOM! The Dub Pistols' dub-thumping bass train
pulls into the station. Saxophones honk and toot, vinyl crackles
and whirs back and forth and the bass just keeps on banging…it's
a genre-blurring, style-hopping musical mash-up - a big fat
double decker beat bus chock-full of hip-hop, ska, punk, dub
and techno.
And it gets even better! Taking vocal duties for the show
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distinctively
laconic vocal style to tunes that include a revitalized version
of his own band's classic Gangsters and a sublime cover of
Blondie's Rapture.
'Picking up the Adrian Sherwood post-punk deconstructive fusion
of dub and dance, the Dub Pistols follow a trail blazed by
Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System over a decade earlier…More
vivid colours and images then a box of Crayola!' - bbc.co.uk/music |
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Show us the way to Amarillo! You know it, we know it, your
Mam, Dad, kid, brother, sister and aunty know it… heck,
even your dog knows it. Tony Christie is an out-and-out
legend.
But Tony Christie is about so much more than just *that*
one song.
He's been bothering the international pop charts since the
early 1970s with his croon- tastic, horn- stabbing, big-
band epics whilst providing straight- from- the- heart vocals
on original hits like 'I Did What I Did for Maria' and 'Avenues
and Alleyways' - as well as covers of classic tracks like
Bowie's 'Life On Mars' and The Police's 'Every Breath You
Take'.
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For us though,
his finest moment was the Jarvis Cocker-penned cool-fest that
is Walk Like A Panther… in fact, we're a bit giddy 'cause
we've heard that they'll be teaming up again to record a new
batch of collaborations this summer. Phwoar!
A Tony Christie show has brass, pianos, pomp, circumstance
[huh?] and band members aplenty. It's like Las Vegas on tour,
with The Ratpack at the wheel and a troupe of dancing girls
high-kicking in the background.
Whether you like indie, dance, pop or neo- goth- industrial-
grind- death- core. Whether you're eight, eighteen or eighty.
Whether you like Marmite or you don't… You will LOVE
Tony Christie. Seriously. |
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Ross Copperman grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, and
perhaps surprisingly, given the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains
looming over him, spent his formative musical years in love
with British acts like Coldplay, Radiohead, Oasis and Muse.
Now freshly signed to RCA and having moved lock stock to London,
England, he's set to challenge some of those acts who influenced
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And the boy is off to a good start. Ross has teamed up
with Robbie Williams' songwriting partner Guy Chambers,
his download-only single 'As I Choke' broke all records
at iTunes for most downloads in a week and as we write this,
the follow up 'All She Wrote' has just hit the main charts.
A star in waiting, for sure.
'Epic soul-searching and grand rock ballads' - The Guardian.
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Last year, a young chap named Paolo Nutini appeared
from nowhere onto Music Live's main stage and charmed the
whole town into submission. Within weeks he'd bagged himself
a Top 5 single, a Top 3 album and a sold-out UK tour. This
year, we're hoping for a similar performance from the brilliant
Newton Faulkner… who, fittingly enough, has just been
on tour with the aforementioned Mr Nutini.
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Classically trained in the art of guitar, this man uses
every inch of the instrument to achieve soaring melodies
and strange two-chord harmonies, tapping the guitar like
a bizarre, six-stringed drum. You've never seen anything
like it.
New Sony BMG single I Need Something is a laid-back minor
pop masterpiece, and seems to be a permanent fixture on
the Radio 1 Hotlist.
Prepare to be gobsmacked!
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Band practices spent watching musicals and staging full-on
disco-dancing sessions… Tiny Dancers like to do things
a little differently. Influences ranging from The Beach Boys
to Bowie, and a whole host of nonsense inbetween, all bubble
to the surface in their wonderfully uplifting and deliciously
quirky brand of indie-pop.
Onstage they're a guitar-swapping, hip-shaking ten-armed monster
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nestled deep in an insane background of broken televisions,
stuffed tigers and glitter.
Added to this, they're surely the only band in musical history
to have opened for both Bob Dylan and Babyshambles!
Let them dance into your hearts.
'Glorious, pitch-perfect, sublime' - Drowned In Sound
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'Pama International are a 10-piece stretch-footed, dub-stepping,
soul-injected ska supergroup featuring members of The Specials,
Madness, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Pop Will Eat Itself and The Style
Council. They play laid-back, funked-up, soulful ska that
drips more sunshine than a California raisin.
The band have released a steady succession of sold-out |
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records, were the first band in thirty years to be snapped
up by legendary ska label Trojan and have been championed
throughout Radio-land by deejays as diverse as 6 Music's Phill
Jupitus, Radio 1's Mike Davies and Kiss FM's David Rodigan.
Sun, ska and a whole load of soul, what more do you want? |
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The latest signing to James Endeacott's ultra-cool 1965 label,
Ripchord fall musically somewhere between The Libertines and
The View, and their impish tales of love, life and happiness
are like a clean gasp of fresh air. Each song thunders along
with the urgency and angst of a band just out of their teens,
with crisp, biting guitar hooks and shameless, good-time rhythms.
The band have just been out on tour with the Kaiser Chiefs
[they're the KCs No. 1 new
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favourite band don't you know] and you might have seen them
on that Channel 4 Transmission programme recently…doing
something weird in a strip club.
A bit surprisingly, this band have split opinion more than
any other on the MML web forums. Come down and make your
own mind up!
'Incessantly catchy pop, akin to Britpop Blur or Franz Ferdinand
at their giddy best' NME
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More primal than the Scream, sunnier than the Sunshine Underground
- ladies and gentlemen we bring you Kharma 45.
The band have already played Oxygen, T in the Park, Reading
and Leeds, and they've just signed a HUGE deal with Warner
Music. They've supported the likes of Kasabian, Faithless
and The Who, they have a member called Pete Doherty and their
new single Where's Your Spirit Man is just a hint of what's
in store.
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Kharma 45 play hyped up, rocket-fuelled indie-dancetronica.
Think The Music but harder, Kasabian but not as rough, new-rave
without the fluoro.
Hailing from Derry but now decamped to Liverpool, the band's
debut album is due out later this year, with legendary knob-twiddler
Youth (Charlatans, Verve) on production duties. It's going
to sell faster than the sandwiches in Tesco.
Blow your whistle!
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Soaring vocals and punky guitars from this classically-trained
five-piece who live on an axis somewhere between Fall Out
Boy, Busted and, erm, Beethoven!?!
The band were the opening act on McFly's recent arena tour
and gained a rapturous response night after night. |
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Weeks later their new single Parallel Worlds [recorded at
one of L.A.s finest studios - and it shows] crashed into the
Top 40 after copious amounts of airplay on that MTV2 malarkey.
If you like your pop music loud and fast, young and pretty,
then Elliot Minor will definitely go ahead and make your day…
punk. |
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