Kings Of Leon have announced details of a UK stadium tour, which is due to take place next summer. The US band will play five shows, starting at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on May 30 in connection with their new number one album Come Around Sundown no doubt.
Other gigs in the short tour are scheduled for the Stadium Of Light in Sunderland on June 17 and Manchester’s County Cricket Ground on June 19. The band are also set to perform for the second year running at London’s Hyde Park on June 22.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday (November 3) at 9am. For more details and to buy Kings Of Leon tickets, check out Gigwise Gig Tickets.
Kings Of Leon’s 2011 UK tour dates are:
Coventry, Ricoh Arena – May 30
Sunderland, Stadium of Light – June 17
Manchester, Lancashire County Cricket Ground – 19
London, Hyde Park – 22
Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium – 26
Weird Al Yankovic has announced details of his first ever UK tour. The comedy singer will play three dates on top of his stage appearance at one of this years “All Tomorrow’s Parties” venues in Minehead starting in Birmingham on December the 2nd.
Yankovic will also play in Manchester on December 3rd and London 6th in support of his forthcoming greatest hits album.
‘The Essential “Weird Al” Yankovic’, a greatest hits album, is said to be released on October 18, features 38 tracks, including his 1992 hit ‘Smells Like Nirvana’ and ‘White And Nerdy’.
The singer is also scheduled toappear at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Minehead on December 5.
Tickets go on sale on Friday (October 1) at 9am. For more details and to buy Weird Al Yankovic tickets, check out Gigwise Gig for tickets.
Weird Al Yankovic’s UK tour dates are:
Birmingham Academy – December 2nd
Manchester Academy – December 3rd
Minehead’s ATP (All Tomorrow’s Parties) – December 5th
Eels have just released a new video for their latest single Baby Loves Me.
Here is what he had to say about their video.
“I’m not sure. All I know is sometimes I’m big, sometimes I’m small, and sometimes I’m really, really tiny. Kind of like how I feel from day to day. And I see a lot of the world in this video, much like I do on our world tour right now. It’s my way of saying “thanks for making me feel bad by accusing me of being a terrorist in Hyde Park this June. I’ll show you. I’ll make your city look like a toy.”
The Manic Street Preachers returned to the live music scene with a private intimate gig at the Working Men’s Club in west London.
The band showcased material from their new album ‘Postcards From a Young Man’, which is due for release on 20 September, and played all of their greatest hits including ‘Everything Must Go’, ‘Design For Life’ and ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’.
Manic Street Preachers will kick off their UK tour in Glasgow on 29 September, playing shows all over the country.
The Klaxons are returning with their new single, Echoes. Echoes is the first single from their upcoming second album Surfing The Void, which is due out on August 16.
The band have recently played a few shows about the place, but one still remains to be played. One in London. That takes place on July 27 at Village Underground.
Apple have announced that more than two million people have applied for tickets for next month’s iTunes Festival in London.
“We’ve already had over 2 million tickets applied for, at an average of 100,000 every day,” says Oliver Schusser, senior director of iTunes Europe. “This year’s iTunes Festival is looking like our most popular ever and we can’t wait for the Scissor Sisters to kick it off in three weeks time.”
Out of these two million people there are only 60,000 tickets for teh 31-night gigfest, which takes place at the Roudhouse in Camden. Key artists include Scissor Sisters and Faithless.
Marina And The Diamonds Family Jewels Tour is alive and healthy with a solid performance last night (19th May) in London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom with a second this evening to start off a run of 20 dates all over the UK. The video is for all to enjoy below. With breaks in the height of summer for a number of festival appearances granted, the tour and other dates continue right up to November. Tickets where still available can be found here. (Search Tickets)
The Scottish rockers have released seven dates for fans to enjoy during the months of November and December climaxing at a soon to be sold out Wembley Arena show.
The Band will add these dates to what seems to be a nice full year for the guys. With other appearances including Reading And Leeds among others, as well as dates in Australia next month. The link above will direct you to the bands official site for tickets.
The UK winter dates include:
Aberdeen AECC (Nov. 25)
Glasgow SECC (Nov. 26)
Hull Arena (Nov. 29)
Nottingham Arena (Nov. 30)
Plymouth Pavilions (Dec. 1)
Manchester Central (Dec. 3)
London Wembley Arena (Dec. 4)
A tour supporting their new album ‘Plastic Beach’ means that the Camden Roundhouse will play host to Damon & Co.’s 2D extravaganza on the 29th and 30th of April, in a show featuring Damon Albarn, The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, Mos Def, Gruff Rhys, Shaun Ryder, Bobby Womack, The National Orchestra For Arabic Music, Bashy, De La Soul, Kano and Little Dragon, along with new animation and artwork by Jamie Hewlett. The gigs will be the band’s first full UK performance since Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House in 2005.
Tickets are £45, but don’t grab your credit card just yet, they’re not on sale to the public until 9am on Friday 26th March, although you can sign up to be a Roundhouse member and get hold of some early bird tix. They will also be available at this time from www.livenation.co.uk and www.roundhouse.org.uk (all tickets subject to a booking fee). Subscribers to the Gorillaz fan club will have access to an exclusive limited ticket pre sale from 7.30am on Tuesday [ www.gorillaz.com/g-club - membership from £24.99].
You can also play a strange little point-and-click adventure game on the band’s website by clicking here. It’s clunky, but who knows, you might win something?
During the one of the closest and most worthwhile races of Christmas No.1 the nation has seen for a long time, Tom Morello and Co promised that if the British nation did in fact manage to get them to the No.1 slot for Christmas they would play a free gig for all the fans that helped, somewhere in London.
So here’s the info should you decide to join the flock of deserving party goers. The one-off will be held in Finsbury Park, London on the 6th of June. Registration for tickets is now open at TheRageFactor.co.uk and closes at midnight (GMT) on Sunday (February 14). Once the Registration process is all complete, the tickets will distributed by a lottery system for the lucky tickets winners with a maximum if two tickets per Person. Good Luck
