Electronic artist and producer MMOTHS, aka 18 year old Ireland-based Jack Colleran, has unveiled four stunning videos to give fans an immersive visual accompaniment to the music from his self-titled EP, released March on SQE Music. Capturing the essence of EP tracks “THNX,” “Summer” ft. Superhumanoids, “If Only” & “Breaking Through” these videos will be featured in sequence on his Facebook page and website.
In support of the release Colleran has announced a full UK & Ireland tour, including two shows in London. Full details here.
Indie bible the NME today voted the Tunbridge Wells Forum as Britain’s Best Small music venue. The judging panel for the award included singer Frank Turner, Reading and Leeds Festivals main man Melvin Benn and Radio 1’s Huw Stephens. To celebrate the award Enter Shikari will be playing a special show at the venue on 5th June.
The Forum won ahead of a final shortlist from venues around the country including the Bristol Thekla, the Stoke Sugarmill, the Norwich Arts Centre and the Belfast Limelight. Outgoing NME editor Krissi Murison said the Tunbridge venue’s “excellent booking policy, esteemed national reputation and undeniable passion for music shone through”.
In a statement, Mary Davyd and Jason Dormon, who co-founded the venue said: “We are delighted to have received this award on behalf of all the people that have put so much of their own time and effort into making The Forum what it is over the last twenty years. We’d like to thank all the musicians that have played, whether they were Oasis, Coldplay, Hildamay or While She Sleeps, and all the people that have supported the venue, from those who just bought a ticket to the people who put the paint on the walls. The Forum will be 20 years old in January 2013. The intention has always been to create a space for people to be able to hear the music they love on their own doorsteps. We hope this national recognition for the town reminds everybody locally just what an incredible asset The Forum has been and can continue to be if local people and organisations support it – it’s your venue, use it don’t lose it.”
Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit have announced a short UK tour for November. The Stockholm-based sisters will be hitting these shores on 20th November to play in London and finish the trip on 27th November in Bristol. Tickets for the concerts go on say on Friday 11th May. The band’s album, The Lion’s Roar is out now and new single Blue, will be released on 18th June via Wichita Records.
Misfits Actress Sentenced to Community Service After Racially Abusing Taxi driver.
Lauren Socha, the BAFTA-winning Misfits actress, who plays a young offender has been sentenced to community service in an life-imitating-art twist. Socha, 21, drunkenly racially assaulted an Asian taxi driver.
Miss Socha is second from the right.
Socha plays Kelly Bailey in the hit show. She admitted to hitting Sarkander Iqbal in the face and screaming racial abuse at him in October 2011. She received a four-month suspended jail sentence and has to do 80 hours unpaid work.
Mr Iqbal said that Socha called him a ‘Paki’ and yelled ‘You don’t know who I am’. Mr Iqbal managed to record part of the attack on his mobile phone. In the recording you can hear Socha saying she will get Mr Iqbal’s family ‘lifted’ out of the UK and then launched into a trade of abuse.
Socha has previously said that anyone who calls someone a ‘Chav’ is a racist.
Mr Iqbal said she called him “every name under the sun’ during the attack.
It was terrible. She called me a Paki, a dirty b******, told me to **** off back to my own country and asked what I was doing here because I was Asian.’
Socha was also ordered to pay Mr Iqbal compensation.
The music world is still in shock after losing founding Beastie Boy Adam Yauch at the young age of 47. Yauch had a three-year battle with cancer.
His loss has been felt heavily by music lovers the world over. Coldplay, Jay-Z, Green Day, Antony Kiedis, Eminem, Louise Mensch and The Strokes all payed tribute to the rapper. Kiedes said: “We lost a good man today. He left the world a lot of beauty. I hope you carry that flame. Adam was for real. You can see the Red Hot Chilli Peppers tribute video below.
Yauch was diagnosed with cancer of the preaortic gland and lymph node in July 2009.
He founded the Beastie Boys in 1979, with Mike “Mike D” Diamond, a school friend, and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz. They started as a punk band, then they began experimenting with hip-hop.
The release of their first full album ‘Licensed To Ill’ became the first hip-hop album to top the Billboard album chart. The band released eight albums including ‘Paul’s Boutique’, ‘Check Your Head’ and ‘Ill Communication’.
Adam Yauch is survived by his wife, Dechen Wengdu, and their daughter Tenzin Losel. Rest in peace MCA, you are much missed.
Following the releases of the ‘Night Drive’ EP, ‘Cocoon’ and their recent collaborations with Maya Jane Cole, Craze + Hoax and Darksky, Alpines announce the release of their new single ‘Empire’ on June 11th.
With support from Grimmy, Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and 6 music through to Pitchfork, Fader and Abeano among others, Alpines also found a fan in Florence Welch when she asked them to support Florence and The Machine on their recent sold out Alexandra Palace shows in March; “they sound like The xx crossed with Kate Bush”.
Following the recent release of their mini album, out now on Tough Love Records, Cymbals have released a free download via their soundcloud page. The song is a remix of their recent single ‘No Bad Decisions’ by US psychedelic pop maverick Lazy Hurricane.
Acton “chillwave” artist Bullion his new EP ‘Love Me Oh Please Love Me’ on May 7th. The 6 track EP features 5 songs written by Bullion along with a cover of ‘The Age of Self’ by Robert Wyatt. The mini-album features Bullion only on drum machines, guitars, synths and vocals. The record is available to pre-order here and to listen to below:
