| Friday, April 15 6:30 PM |
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| 7451 Foothills Blvd |
| Roseville, CA |
| Corner of Foothills and Pleasant Grove |
| For additional dates and times, visit AerialView.com |
| Friday, April 15 6:30 PM |
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| 7451 Foothills Blvd |
| Roseville, CA |
| Corner of Foothills and Pleasant Grove |
| For additional dates and times, visit AerialView.com |
The January 21st date at The Gibson Theatre is kicking off the Imaginarium World Tour. This will be the biggest and baddest Nightwish show you've ever seen, as the band is bringing the full European stage show to the US for the first and only time. The tour will promote the upcoming album of the same name.
2- Stone Sour: Audio Secrecy
"It's an album structurally straightforward, has been a good reference at time of writing."
3- Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero
"It's too damn good! Everyone needs to listen this record!"
4- Daft Punk: Tron Legacy Soundtrack
"The way this duo joined the orchestrations with synthesizers is fantastic! The soundtrack is cooler than the movie."
5- Chevelle: Vena Sera
"These guys mix well indie rock with metal."
Welcome To My DNA, the latest album from Blackfield was released last week (April 19th in USA). Blackfield is the acclaimed collaboration between Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Israeli artist Aviv Geffen.
Aviv has recently spoken to the Kscope podcast about the album, the band and his career to date. Fans will now have their chance to interview Aviv too as he has agreed to take part in a special Q&A session before the band's gig in London on Friday 8th April. Fans should email questions to thisisnotacompetion@kscopemusic.com (along with their name and where they are from) and Aviv will be filmed answering the questions and the video will be added to the Welcome To My DNA mini-site soon after. We will endeavour to film as many questions as possible but please be aware that due to time constraints he may not be able to answer all questions submitted. Deadline for questions is 10am (UK) on Friday 8th April.
The gig in London is part of a European tour which kicks off this week on April 6th in Leamington. In addition to dates in the UK the band will be visiting Holland, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and France followed by an American tour in May and June (click here for tour dates).
This is the band's first tour for over three years due to both artists' busy schedules. Steven has been enjoying massive success with Porcupine Tree and Aviv has released his first English language solo album (produced by Trevor Horn) and has supported U2 and Placebo. The son of esteemed Israeli poet Yehonatan Geffen and the nephew of Moshe Dayan, Geffen is Israel's leading counter-culture rock musician. A huge star in his native country, his records have been greeted with critical adulation, earning him a string of gold albums. An outspoken peace campaigner, he controversially refused to do compulsory military service, and his lyrics have been fiercely critical of the Israeli military and their actions.
Aviv has worked with various artists throughout his career, including Brett Anderson (Suede), Mercury Rev and Belle and Sebastian, but it has been his partnership with Steven that has proved the most fertile, and both artists have been keen to return to their work with Blackfield and have been working on the album for the last few months. Aviv explains, 'we made the album together, it wasn't an email album. Steven came to Israel and I came to London. We both had a great year, Steven with Porcupine Tree and me with my solo stuff but now it's a Blackfield year and we are both ready for it.'
The digi-book and vinyl editions of the album are all also available to order on the Welcome To My DNA mini-site. The mini-site features album info, downloads and more along with the chance to download a free MP3 of the album's opening track Glass House when signing up to the mailing list.
'when they come together they create something quite magical ...a thing of melancholic beauty'. Classic Rock
http://www.kscopemusic.com/blackfield/welcometomydna/q-and-a.php
EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION RELEASE FOR
VIP TICKET HOLDERS ONLY!
To coincide with Hugh Cornwell's upcoming nationwide UK Spring 2011 Tour, the enigmatic former Stranglers front man and singer/songwriter, has announced an "ultra exclusive" limited edition 10-track album release entitled "You're Covered!"
The album, perceived by Stranglers and Hugh Cornwell fans as an essential collector's item, is strictly limited to 250 copies and only available to VIP ticket holders.
"You're Covered!" - Album Track Listing:
Former Stranglers front-man Hugh Cornwell hits the road for a series of UK dates from April 6th 2011, performing his critically acclaimed solo album Guilty in its entirety, plus the following Stranglers epics. The Raven, Schoolmaam, Down in the Sewer, Toiler on the Sea, Walk on By and Feel Like a xxx will all be performed each evening.
As a special bonus to fans, Hugh will perform Fan Choice Encores which can be voted for at www.hughcornwell.com. The five songs with the most votes will end the evening.
20 VIP Tickets are available for each date and will enable fans the chance to watch and interact with Hugh before and after the soundcheck, where they will be given an exclusively recorded album entitled Your Covered - limited to 250 copies and signed personally on the night by Hugh.
NATIONWIDE APRIL 2011 UK TOUR
Wednesday 6th April
Portsmouth South Parade Pier
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0871 230 1101 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0871 230 1101 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 5pm / Doors 7.30pm / Stage 8.30pm / Curfew 11pm
www.thecellars.co.uk
South Parade Pier, Southsea, Hampshire, PO4 0SW
Thursday 7th April
Gateshead Sage
General Admission Tickets: £20
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0191 443 4661 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0191 443 4661 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 4pm / Doors 7.00pm / Stage 7.30pm / Curfew 10.30pm
www.thesagegateshead.org
The Sage, St Mary's Square,
Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 2JR
Friday 8th April
Manchester Academy
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0161 832 1111 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0161 832 1111 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 5pm / Doors 7.30pm / Stage 8.30pm / Curfew 11pm
www.manchesteracademy.net
UMSU, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR
Saturday 9th April
Glasgow O2 ABC
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0844 477 2000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0844 477 2000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 4pm / Doors 7pm / Stage 7.30pm / Curfew 10pm
www.o2abcglasgow.co.uk
O2 ABC Glasgow, 300 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JA
Sunday 10th April
Sheffield 02 Academy
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0844 477 2000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0844 477 2000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 4.30pm / Doors 7pm / Stage 8pm / Curfew 10.30pm
www.o2academysheffield.co.uk
37-43 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PN
Tuesday 12th April
Clitheroe The Grand
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 01200 421599 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01200 421599 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 4.15pm / Doors 7pm / Stage 7.45pm / Curfew 10.15pm
www.thegrandvenue.co.uk
The Grand, 18 York Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2DL
Wednesday 13th April
Leamington Spa The Assembly
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 01926 523001 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01926 523001 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 4.30pm / Doors 7pm / Stage 8pm / Curfew 10.30pm
www.leamingtonassembly.com
Spencer Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 3NF
Thursday 14th April
Bath Komedia
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0845 293 8480 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0845 293 8480 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 5pm / Doors 8pm / Stage 8.30pm / Curfew 11pm
www.komedia.co.uk/bath
22 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EP
Friday 15th April
Wolverhampton Slade Rooms
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0870 320 7000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0870 320 7000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 5pm / Doors 7.30pm / Stage 8.30pm / Curfew 11pm
www.wolvescivic.co.uk
Broad Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1HP
Saturday 16th April
London Islington O2 Academy
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0844 477 2000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0844 477 2000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 4pm / Doors 7pm / Stage 7.30pm / Curfew 10pm
www.o2academyislington.co.uk
N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, London, N1 0PS
Sunday 17th April
Brighton Komedia
General Admission Tickets: £18
VIP Tickets: £50
Booking Hotline: 0845 293 8480 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0845 293 8480 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
VIP Entry 5pm / Doors 8pm / Stage 8.30pm / Curfew 11pm
www.komedia.co.uk/brighton
44 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Hugh Cornwell is one of the UK's finest song-writing talents and accomplished live performers. The original guitarist, singer and main songwriter in The Stranglers enjoyed massive UK and European success with ten hit albums and twenty-one top forty singles, etching himself into the UK's musical psyche with Peaches, No More Heroes, Golden Brown, Always the Sun, Grip, Nice N Sleazy, Duchess, Walk on By, Strange Little Girl and Skin Deep.
Cornwell has released eight solo albums, most recently Hooverdam, produced and mixed in Toerag Studios by Liam Watson, known for the Grammy winning White Stripes' Elephant.
Hooverdam is available as a high-quality free download in twelve languages from his own website, bringing Cornwell's music free to the world's population. It's available as a triple-sleeved digipak featuring both CD and live studio performance DVD Blueprint, in one exclusive package. The album is also issued on vinyl.
With the masterpiece Hooverdam available as a free download, Cornwell breaks new ground and proves himself again to be a unique force in British music.
New Songs for King Kong, a limited edition "live" double CD and vinyl recorded on the last UK tour, featuring Hooverdam and The Stranglers first album Rattus Norvegicus 1V in their entirety, is available exclusively from Cornwell's website.
"Hooverdam is the cousin to Lou Reed's storming 1988 LP New York.
It's a very coherent album with a timeless quality."
- Record Collector
"Cornwell remains a hugely popular & prolific performer whose songwriting retains its fiery eloquence and whose gigs still crackle with electricity"
- Classic Rock
www.hughcornwell.com
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On May 28th 2011 Mangrove will release live recordings for the first time on DVD. A special launch party will be held on this date at W2, Den Bosch (NL) to celebrate this. The DVD will be suitably entitled Live Beyond Reality.
This DVD will be the first one in a series of three DVDs that will be released in succession. Among this series of course the DVD show at De Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL) will also be featured. Furthermore the unique acoustic show More or Less will be released on disc as part of this series.
"At first we did not intend to release these recordings on DVD. But we didn't want to keep it away from our fans. There were some magical moments. Says Chris Jonker, keyboard player of the band that will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year.
During the last decade Mangrove has built a solid live reputation. The show in W2 Den Bosch is a unique chance to see Mangrove performing live this spring. And it is also the first opportunity to get hold of a copy of the brand new DVD.
The album consists of 12 songs adding up to nearly 78 minutes of blues and progressive rock inspired music.
In 1996, the group started out as the brainchild of Chris Couch, lead guitarist of Jamestown, who contacted Dale Hargis, Fulton, to write and record songs under the name Human Remains.
"He was always trying to get a band together," Hargis says of Couch. "He always wanted to do something original, and at the time, the only thing you could get going was to play covers."
In the mid-1990s, Hargis was getting burned out on playing cover songs in bars and wanted to write and record original music.
"We were both in the same boat," said Hargis.
Couch later added Jim Hare, Mokane, into the mix as the bass player, and several years later, around 2008, Jim Brown of Quincy, Ill. on lead vocals.
"We decided we wanted a different range of vocals that we could not do ourselves, so we put out an advertisement over the Internet for a vocalist to do recording with us," Couch said.
Instead of any money exchanging hands, the group worked out an artistic exchange.
"We had a studio and he had written his own album; we would perform his stuff and do the album for him and he would perform on our album," Couch explains.
Hargis writes most of the lyrics in addition to filling the roles of drummer, rhythm guitar player, keyboardist and back-up vocalist on the musician side, and mixer, engineer and album artist on the production side.
The entire album "Unbroken" was recorded in Hargis's home studio.
Hargis says he likes being able to play different parts in the band, because it allows the members to keep the group simple and cohesive.
"Rather than trying to pull in more people, I can do more than one thing on a song," Hargis said. "Sometimes the fewer people you have collaborating, it goes a little easier."
The name of the band is an homage to Henry Bellamann's famous book about Fulton, "Kings Row."
"It just kind of seemed fitting to utilize that name because of the area that we are in," Couch said.
"We really liked it, because it sounds like you're trying to be a little more artistic, a little more grown-up and it has great significance to the area where we are," explains Hargis.
A grown-up name was necessary for the grown-up sound that the band sought out to make.
"One of the things we try to do is write songs about something instead of being mindless rock music — make the lyrics something you can read by themselves," Hargis said.
While the band aims for a heavier sound, its members aren't afraid to have a little fun.
"It just depends on the music and the mood of all of us at the time," Hargis said.
Jim Brown wrote the lyrics for "Love Denied," the fifth track on the latest album, and the band describes it as fun and quirky.
Overall, the band cites Rush as its major influence, along with Dream Theater and Van Halen but tries to incorporate many different genres into the music.
The band maintains strong connections to the community and recorded an introduction song for the South Callaway football team called "Glory." It relies on word of mouth for exposure, and its albums can be purchased from individual band members, at The Wright Brothers' Store in Callaway County, or online at www.cdbaby.com.
Go to www.kingsrowmusic.com for more information and the latest news on King's Row.
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Horn and YES bassist Chris Squire re-discovered the track FLY FROM HERE which has never been recorded as a studio track. "Chris and I were talking one evening about a song 'Fly From Here' that we never recorded," explains Trevor Horn. "I said I was prepared to spend two weeks with 'YES' recording that song. When I arrived in America to record it, I was taken prisoner by the band and only allowed my freedom again in return for producing the whole album. It was an offer I couldn't refuse!!!"
FLY FROM HERE encompasses YES' signature brand of mysticism and grand-scale compositions. Maintaining a complex, symphonic sound that features the beautiful harmonies and strong heavy riffs they are known for. "The new album represents the best of YES from the 70s and the 80's with a current twist," states Squire.
YES are the pioneers for the use of synthesizers and sound effects in modern music, which produced such timeless, symphonic-rock masterworks as "Roundabout," "Close To the Edge," and "Awaken". YES continued to push the cutting edge of art-rock music to their limits, selling over 30 million albums, reaching platinum status multiple times worldwide.
YES' powerful mainstream progressive compositions have influenced a generation of musicians with a hugely successful and indelible catalogue of music with hit albums such as DRAMA, FRAGILE, CLOSE TO THE EDGE and 90125. Classics such as "Roundabout," a seminal hit which consistently appears on "the best songs of all-time" lists, and the group's #1 hit "Owner of a Lonely Heart," which Horn is responsible for. Taken from the YES album 90125, this single would form part of a unique double, which would see YES and Horn top both the UK and US charts simultaneously.