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To follow their (9/10 NME rated) debut album ‘Must We Find A Winner’ Klak Tik (comprised of Søren Bonke, Matthew Mitchinson & Jonathan Beyer), escaped the trappings of East London’s alternative coffee shops and vintage chic for a simple purer existence in the Welsh village of Penrhos. For a month Klak Tik drew inspiration from the cold January sea, set up a make shift recording studio deep under Parys Mountain and shouted high into the chapel’s rafters.

On November 26th, the band will release the first single to be taken from the new album, Reborn.
Principal Songwriter Søren Bonke had this to say about the inspiration for ‘Reborn’.

”I was travelling on the Piccadilly Line towards Ealing during rush hour one morning and I was looking at this man in a suit sitting across from...

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RICHARD THOMPSON – ELECTRIC
BRAND NEW ALBUM ARRIVES FEBRUARY 11th 2013
FULL UK TOUR IN FEBRUARY 2013

Declared by Rolling Stone as one of the Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time and considered one of the UK’s most outstanding songwriters, musician Richard Thompson returns with a brand new, guitar driven record titled ELECTRIC for Proper Records on Monday, February 11th. Richard’s Electric Trio will be taking to the road for a major UK tour on Wednesday February 20th and will tour the USA starting in March. Full tour details for the UK are below. Tickets are on sale in the UK starting 10am Friday, Nov. 9, 2012!

http://soundcloud.com/proper-music-distribution/richard-thompson-good-things

FULL TOUR INFORMATION

Wed 20 Feb CARDIFF St David’s Hall
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Thu 21 ...

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CHARLIE WINSTON – New Album ‘Running Still’ Out 28 January 2013 on Real World Records

UK press reaction to Charlie’s 2009 album, ‘Hobo’

“immaculately crafted” – Q
”If Chris Martin ditched Coldplay and took to the road with a more rootsy outfit, he might come up with something like Hobo” – Daily Express
“The Chaplin look complements a quirky, bluesy musical style” – The Telegraph
“A worthy contender for la petite sensation de 2010 in the UK” – The Guardian
“Charlie Winston is set to be very big indeed” – Record Collector
”Lyrically, vocally and musically compelling”….“Full flavoured, deep and rich in quality” – Maverick
“we predict great things for this album – and Charlie” – Stylist
“What took us so long to catch on?” – Star Magazine
“I...

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JAMES will be releasing their first ever box set on December 10th, 2012. Entitled The Gathering Sound, the box set covers the band’s career to date and includes all eleven studio albums on a unique j-shaped USB stick.

This strictly limited edition, deluxe 12”x12” box set contains:
– the 4GB USB stick (featuring all eleven studio albums plus the non-album “best of” tracks in hi fidelity FLAC format with access to 320 kbps MP3 files),
– three CDs (one CD of live rarities, one CD of studio rarities and one CD which combines the recent, critically-acclaimed The Morning After and The Night Before albums),
– a DVD of Come Home (featuring the show from the Manchester GMEX 92 on DVD for the first time),
– a heavy 12” 180gsm black vinyl featuring four previously unreleased demos from the...

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I briefly spoke to Merlin and Chrigel from Eluveitie shortly before they played the HMV Forum in London as part of their tour with Sabaton, and asked them about their albums and touring..

Festivalphoto: Your new album, Helvetios was released in February. How has it been going down with the fans?

Chrigel: It’s going down great, reactions have been extremely positive.

Festivalphoto: 6 months after Helvetios you released the early years. What made you decide to go back and re-record your first EP (Ven) and release it with a remastered version of Spirit, as the early years?

Chrigel: On one hand both havent been available for quite a while so it made sense to re-release them, and also we’re celebrating our tenth anniversary this year we wanted to do something special for the fans...

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First up tonight were The Howling. They were on stage pretty soon after the doors opened thanks to the venue having an early curfew so they could run a club night after the gig. As a result the place was pretty deserted when they hit the stage, but filled up steadily during their set so by the time they finished, the venue was around half full. This young five piece band blend rock and punk and put in a suitably high energy performance. The bass levels seem excessively high though as you can feel it vibrating the floor and that does detract slightly from the quality of the sound. The singer drops or throws his microphone down regularly with a loud thud – presumably an attempt to show how ”punk” he is but really just making him look like a clumsy fool...

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Tonight’s gig had four bands, but sadly they decided on a stupid idea of opening the doors at 6pm on a weeknight, so too early for most people to get home from work, change and come to a gig, so the first band apparently played to a pretty small crowd. Like most people, I missed them and only arrived just in time to see the band I’d really been looking forward to seeing – German power metal band Orden Ogan.

Orden Ogan are a German power metal band whose latest album (To the end) is very impressive, so I was looking forward to hearing them play some of the songs live. Right from the start they played as they meant to continue – heads banging furiously as they played some great guitar-heavy power metal...

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Swedish metal band Sister sin formed in 2002. The band is fronted by Liv Jagrell who was the first vocalist in fellow Swedish band Hysterica (where she was known as Sinderella). The band play female fronted old school metal in the same vein as bands such as fellow Swedes Crucified Barbara. They’ve toured extensively with bands including Motorhead, Faster Pussycat, U.D.O, In this Moment, Otep, Arch Enemy and many more

”Now and Forever” is the band’s fourth album, and as with their previous albums what you get is top quality heavy metal – powerful guitars, pounding drums and powerful vocals ...

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Thirty-five years after it’s original release, Slowhand is being re-released. The album contains some of his best known songs including ”Cocaine”, ”Wonderful tonight” and ”Lay down sally”. The Hammersmith concert includes other classics such as ”Layla”, ”I shot the sheriff” and ”Knocking on heavens door”

”Slowhand, 35th Anniversary edition” comes in five different versions.

The first option is the Single CD release which is a remastered version of the original album
The Second option is a vinyl version which again is a remastered version of the original album
The third option is the Digital version which is a remastered version of the original album plus four album session outtakes.

Then come the really interesting ones – the Deluxe edition and the Super Deluxe edition.

The Deluxe editio...

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The night started with the support band – Seven, who come from the Czech republic. Doro fans may know of the band purely because of their guitarist, Honza, who guested at Doro’s 25th anniversary show in 2008, which was recently released on DVD. That is the only reason any of the fans here tonight are likely to have heard of this band. They play progressive metal, but really don’t seem to excite tonights crowd – while they get applause between songs, during their set the crowd seem fairly unimpressed and theres little sign of enthusiasm. Perhaps Doro’s crowd isnt the right audience for Seven.

Next up was the Metal Queen herself – Doro Pesch...