City Of Song Festival 2008

Hot on the heels of the unveiling of This Ain't No Picnic 2008, We are proud to announce our involvement in the City of Song Festival 2008.

City of Song 2008 takes place between Friday 26th and Sunday 28th September in our new home base of Derry, Northern Ireland. The festival is a celebration of Derry's status as the cultural capital of Northern Ireland and as a city full of music.

City of Song 2008 will showcase a wide range of musical talent from a vast array of genres, ranging from Choral concerts to the best in emerging talent in the more familiar genres(to us at least) of Alternative rock and Indie.

As part of the festival we will be presenting a series of Smalltown America showcase events.

As part of the Smalltown America showcase events, we are proud to announce the first Irish appearances for Alan MX and The Young Playthings. Alan and The Playthings will also be joined on the showcase by a selection of bands yet to be announced - stay tuned for details!

As well as the showcase events, we are also curating the City of Song "Tennent's Trail". The trail will see a number of acts within an acoustic/stripped back setting, performing in a series of different venues across the city over the course of the weekend. We can confirm the following acts for the trail;

Daveit Ferris (Ex-Mascara Story)

Jonny Black (LaFaro)

Skruff

Johanna Fegan (Firequeen)

Frau Sandy

The above is just a taster, we will be confirming the rest of the acts over the next week - stay tuned!

For further details on The City of Song Festival, Please check out the City of Song Myspace page!

City of Song Website | Daveit Ferris | Jonny Black | Skruff  | Johanna Fegan | Alan MX | The Young Playthings

Posted by brian on 13th August 2008 at 5:10pm

Fighting With Wire on the road AGAIN!

Fighting With Wire have announced a number of new tour dates, including a stint with This Ain't No Picnic headliners Future of the Left! They'll play a number of shows with Falco's crew this month, before taking off around the UK for some headline shows in September.

As well as this, they're also now booked to both play the Festival Republic stage at this year's Reading / Leeds festivals and a Kerrang! awards show with glitch-prog-hardcore monsters Rolo Tomassi. Pretty cool, huh?

Catch the band at the following places:

06/08 - LISBURN, The Studio (Revolution '08 show)
11/08 - BRISTOL, The Louisiana (w/ Future of the Left)
12/08 - CARDIFF, Clwb Ifor Bach (w/ Future of the Left)
14/08 - BELFAST, Belsonic Festival
15/08 - GLASGOW, Captains' Rest (w/ Future of the Left)
16/08 - NEWCASTLE, Head of Steam (w/ Future of the Left)
18/08 - LONDON, Barfly (Kerrang! Awards show, w/ You Me At Six, Rolo Tomassi)
19/08 - TUNBRIDGE WELLS, The Forum (w/ Future of the Left)
20/08 - LONDON, Water Rats (w/ Future of the Left)
21/08 - KINGSTON, McCluskeys (New Slang clubnight, w/ Frank Turner, Chris T-T)
22/08 - READING FESTIVAL, Festival Republic Stage
23/08 - LEEDS FESTIVAL, Festival Republic Stage

13/09 - BIRMINGHAM, Bar Academy
14/09 - NEWCASTLE, Cluny
15/09 - GLASGOW, Barfly
16/09 - ABERDEEN, Tunnels
17/09 - MANCHESTER, Roadhouse
18/09 - LIVERPOOL, Barfly
19/09 - NOTTINGHAM, Basement
21/09 - YORK, Fibbers
22/09 - SHEFFIELD, Corporation
23/09 - OXFORD, Zodiac
24/09 - LONDON, Water Rats
25/09 - CARDIFF, Barfly
26/09 - BRISTOL, Academy 2
27/09 - SOUTHAMPTON, The Hamptons

All September shows are headline dates, with support from General Fiasco. Some Irish shows will also be announced soon, so keep an eye on the band's myspace.

As always, these dates are all up on Last FM, so add away!

Posted by daniel on 4th August 2008 at 8:19pm