King Creosote & Jon Hopkins have revealed the new video for their single, “Third Swan”. The video was directed by Elliot Dear, who was also responsible for the duo’s previous videos for “Bubble” and “Bats In The Attic”. Watch it here.
The song features backing vocals from fellow Scot KT Tunstall and is out now. The track is taken from the Jubilee Edition of “Diamond Mine”, an augmented version of the original, Mercury Music Prize-nominated album.
Brooklyn-based indie-rockers Real Estate have announced the support for their forthcoming show at London’s Electric Ballroom on Wednesday June 27th. The band will be accompanied at their biggest UK show to date by New York’s Frankie Rose and the Outs and London’s The Proper Ornaments. The show comes in support of last year’s critically lauded Days album and following sold-out shows at Scala and Koko alongside Kurt Vile.
Psychedelic Scottish quartet Django Django release their new single “Storm” today, which doubled as their Record Store Day release on Saturday. The band have also announced a 2nd show at London’s Heaven nightclub after their first one sold out. Details below.
Django Django UK Tour
31/05 – The Cellar – Southampton (Tickets)
02/06 – Field Day – London (Tickets)
05/06 – Academy 2 – Oxford (Tickets)
06/06 – Academy 2 – Birmingham (Tickets)
08/06 – No Direction Home – Welbeck Abbey nr Sheffield (Tickets)
09/06 – Parklife Festival – Manchester (Tickets)
10/06 – Rough Beats – Clapham, Yorkshire (Tickets)
11/06 – Fibbers – York (Tickets)
13/06 – Doghouse – Dundee (Tickets)
14/06 – Cockpit – Leeds (Tickets)
15/06 – St Pauls Church – Cambridge (Tickets)
31/10 – Heaven – London (SOLD OUT)
01/11 – Heaven – London (Tickets)
Soulful South Shields songstress Lulu James is to release her debut single, “Rope Mirage”, on 30th April. The single will also include b-sides “Halfway to Hell” and “Be Safe” and can be heard at her soundcloud page.
After early support slots with TEED and Ghostpoet, James plays live in May and June to support the release of the single.
Lulu James Live dates:
30/4 – Cluny 2, Newcastle
05/5 – Live at Leeds Fest
10/5 – The Great Escape, Brighton
12/5 – North East Invasion @ Great Escape
19/5 – Sound City, Liverpool
02/6 – Dot 2 Dot, Bristol
03/6 – Evolution Festival, Newcastle
03/6 – Dot 2 Dot, Nottingham
04/6 – Dot 2 Dot, Manchester
More dates to be announced soon.
The catwalk may be a sea of pastel colours and grown up, Mad-Men-style clothes, but, really, who wants to conform? Certainly not Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The piercings, the tattoos, the incredibly cool hair do; she certainly strikes out on her own. She wears a lot of black, vests, hoodies, black trousers. She has a touch of goth but she is very striking. If you are feeling daring in time for summer, get her look.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is out on Blu-ray and DVD on 23rd April courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – the gripping, hard-edged thriller based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s suspenseful and spell-binding “Millennium” trilogy – arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital Download on April 23. This highly anticipated motion picture from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment brings together an all-star ensemble cast led by Daniel Craig (James Bond franchise), Rooney Mara (The Social Network), Golden Globe® nominee Robin Wright (1994, Best Actress, Forrest Gump), Stellan Skarsgård (Thor), Golden Globe® winner Christopher Plummer (2012, Best Performance by an Actor In A SupportingRole, Beginners) and Joely Richardson (TV’s “Nip/Tuck”).
Earning $200 million in box office worldwide, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has received five Academy Award® nominations including Actress in a Leading Role (Rooney Mara), Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. The film adaptation was directed by David Fincher with screenplay by Academy Award® winner Steven Zaillian (2002, Writing (Original), Gangs of New York) who executive produced along with Mikael Wallen and Anni Faurbye Fernandez (both Headhunters). Original music is by Academy Award® winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2011, Best Original Score, The Social Network).The two-disc Blu-ray™ includes nearly four hours of special features.
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) accepts an invitation to surreptitiously investigate a forty year old unsolved murder on behalf of the victim’s uncle, Swedish industrialist Henrik Vanger (Plummer). Meanwhile, tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander (Mara), hired to investigate Blomkvist, discovers the truth behind the conspiracy that led to his fall from grace. Thrown together by fate, the unlikely duo uncovers a secret history of murder and sexual abuse festering beneath the veneer of Sweden’s industrial past, all the while drawing close to a quiet evil waiting to engulf them both.
Space-rockers Spiritualized have announced a 6 date UK tour for November, including a London show at the Roundhouse in Camden. The band, whose recent record “Sweet Heart Sweet Light” entered straight into the UK Top 20, have confirmed six shows in support of the album this November. They are shortly due to head to the USA where they will tour for most of the month of May before returning to the UK to play various festivals this summer including Wilderness and Bestival.
Brooklyn-based experimental-electo band Black Dice have announced that following the recent release of their album they will follow it up with a string of shows across Europe including a tour-ending show in London, at new venue Birthdays in Dalston. The album, “Mr. Impossible”, is the bands 6th record and has been met with widespread acclaim.
The dates are as follows:
Sept 2012
11 Berlin, DE: Festsaal Kreuzberg
13 Paris, FR: Point Ephemere
14 Tilburg, NL: Incubate Festival
15 Brussels, BE: AB Club
17 Lyon, FR: Ground Zero
18 Bordeaux, FR: L’iboat
19 Madrid, ES: Moby Dick
20 Lisbon, PT: Music Box
22 Barcelona, ES: Bam Festival
26 Milan, IT: Concept Loft
27 Roma, IT: Init
28 Torino, IT: Spazio 211
29 Boligna, IT: Locomotiv
30 Vienna, AT: Arena
Oct 2012
2 Kortrijk, BE: DeKreun
3 Amsterdam, NL: Paradiso
4 London, UK: Birthdays
Indie-pop-rockers Cymbals release their new 8 song mini album, “Sideways, Sometimes” today on Tough Love Records. The London band recorded the songs over a 5 day period at the brilliant Lightship 95, a recording studio on a boat moored in the Thames. For this release they added Neil Gillespie, who took over from Sean on drums, while Sean returned to his first instrument, bass, filling out the space in their sound. Continuing the theme for somewhat special artwork, the band enlisted Robin Hulme, a fabric designer for Liberty, to create a one-off design that will grace the cover of the vinyl.
Listen to “Sideways, Sometimes” here. The band are on tour in May.