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Damnation Festival: line up expanded

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Courtesy of Hold Tight! PR:

English thrashers EVILE and Finnish folk metallers TURISAS are the latest names added to the DAMNATION FESTIVAL 2011 bill.
The duo – who will play the Jagermeister Stage at Leeds University Union on Saturday, November 5 – are joined by the progressive death of XERATH and a unique, one-off showing of A MAN CALLED CATTEN performing a Medulla Nocte set.Paul Catten said: “After listening to the Medulla Nocte albums for the first time in many years, I knew I had to play these songs one last time.
“A Man Called Catten is a tribute to this material, and my chance to do them justice…playing them as they were meant to be played; live, fast and very loud. I’m ecstatic to be able to perform them at Damnation where I have great memories from previous performances, and this is the one and only time you will hear a set comprising of nothing but Nocte tracks. Relive your youth…the fucking Cat is back!”Festival director Gavin McInally added: “Evile opened Damnation Festival when we still called Manchester home and following their meteoric rise – which is sure to continue with their new album – it’s fantastic to finally have them back at the festival, adding a much needed dose of thrash.
“Turisas will no doubt be a surprise addition to many fans but when men with swords tell you they need a home for a night, you throw open your doors! We’re looking forward to a battle with some beers at Damnation as they trek across the country on their UK tour.
“Xerath are a certain to kick-off proceedings in style while the prospect of seeing Paul Catten tearing through Medulla Nocte classics at his vicious best is going to leave the rest of the Terrorizer Stage with a difficult set to follow!”

Tickets are on sale, priced £29 and are available from See Tickets, Ticketline and Leeds Tickets

Tickets are also now available the official Damnation site and Facebook via Ticketscript

For more information visit the official Damnation Festival sites:
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Aussie rock legends Cold Chisel plan new album for 2012

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It may have been over a decade since Cold Chisel released a studio album (1998’s reunion disc, ‘The Last Wave of Summer’), but the Aussie rockers say they’ve been busy writing and recording on and off over the past year.  The recordings will make up the band’s seventh studio disc, due for release sometime in 2012.

The news comes shortly after frontman Jimmy Barnes completed a 2011 tour, which saw him visit the UK for the first time in a decade.

Steve Prestwich, the band’s long-serving drummer, passed away in January 2011.  However, he was present at the recording sessions and will feature on the album.

Between October and December 2011, Cold Chisel will be touring the whole of Australia – their biggest tour in 30 years – and plan on debuting a couple of the new songs during the long run of shows.  Replacing Prestwich at the live shows will be Charley Drayton (DiVinyls, Keith Richards’ Expensive Winos).

Unsurprisingly, Chisel have no current plans to play any shows outside of Australia.

 

RIP Steve Prestwich.
Read a review of Cold Chisel’s ‘Circus Animals’ here.

Journey: “City of Hope” video

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AOR legends Journey have released a video clip for their current single ‘City of Hope’.

The clip features footage of the band in performance and visiting Manila, and can be seen here.

‘City of Hope’ is the lead track from Journey’s fourteenth studio album ‘Eclipse’, released on Frontiers Records in May 2011.  The album has been a relative success for the band, despite many fans bemoaning the absence of long-time vocalist Steve Perry, who provided the voice on all of Journey’s biggest and best known hits, including ‘Who’s Crying Now’, ‘Open Arms’, ‘Any Way You Want It’ and ‘Don’t Stop Believin”.

‘Eclipse’ reached #13 on the US Billboard chart, in addition to hitting the top 40 in the UK and the top 20 in both Germany and Japan.

Read a review of Journey’s ‘Eclipse’ here.

Flea: “We wrote 70 songs for the new Red Hot Chili Peppers record”

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In an interview with the BBC, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has stated that when working on their upcoming album ‘I’m With You’, the band wrote seventy songs for consideration. With regards to only a mere fourteen of those making the final cut, the bassist says: “What was important to us when we put the record together was to make sure that each song filled its own space and was not like another song on the record. We wrote 70 songs, so it’s not even necessarily all the best ones that we put on, but just the ones that occupy their own space.”

The final track listing for ‘I’m With You’ (UK release, 29th August) is as follows:

1. Monarchy of Roses
2. Factory of Faith
3. Brendan’s Death Song
4. Ethiopia
5. Annie Wants a Baby
6. Look Around
7. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
8. Did I Let You Know
9. Goodbye Hooray
10. Happiness Loves Company
11. Police Station
12. Even You Brutus?
13. Meet Me at the Corner
14. Dance, Dance, Dance

New Bush album in September

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Alternative rockers Bush are to release their first album in ten years this coming September.

The British band, who hit the big-time in the US before becoming famous in the UK have been working with producer Bob Rock, whose previous credits include Aerosmith, Motley Crue and Metallica.

‘Sea of Memories’ is due out on September 13th. As yet, no final tracklisting has surfaced.