Camden Nutty boys Madness are to unveil material from their upcoming tenth studio album at their Butlins weekender at the end of November.

As yet, the album is unfinished and doesn’t even have a name. The new material follows the band’s ‘Liberty of Norton Folgate’, the band’s last studio LP released back in 2009.

The ‘House of Fun Weekender’ will feature two live sets from Madness themselves, with support from Paul Heaton, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip and others.

A four disc retrospective of past Madness work, entitled ‘A Guided Tour of Madness’ was released in September 2011.

Read a review of the band’s 1984 album ‘Keep Moving’ here.

REAL GONE says: While new material from Madness is always welcomed and we love the band rather a lot, we’d still like to hear the band’s explanation for the racist elements present on their 1982 opus ‘The Rise and Fall’…

Man-Eating Tree have posted a video of a new track from their upcoming album.

The band is a project featuring ex-members of Fall Of The Leafe, Embraze and Sentenced alongside current members of Reflexion and Poisonblack, and their second album ‘Harvest’ – from which this song is taken – is due out on Century Media Records on November 28th.

THE MAN-EATING TREE is:

Tuomas Tuominen (ex-FALL OF THE LEAFE) – Vocals
Janne Markus (POISONBLACK) – Guitar
Antti Karhu – Guitar
Mikko Uusimaa (REFLEXION) – Bass
Heidi Määttä (ex-EMBRAZE) – Keyboards
Vesa Ranta (ex-SENTENCED) – Drums

After announcing their appearance at the Perth International Arts festival, atmospheric indie-rockers Death Cab For Cutie have revealed four further Australian live dates.

Aussie fans can catch Ben Gibbard and his band at the following venues:

Fri 17 Feb | Perth International Arts Festival, Perth
Sat 18 Feb | Perth International Arts Festival, Perth
Mon 20 Feb | HQ, Adelaide
Tue 21 Feb | Palace Theatre, Melbourne
Fri 24 Feb | Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Mon 27 Feb |The Tivoli, Brisbane

A few days ago, it was confirmed that the reformed Stone Roses would be appearing at a festival in Spain and headlining Scotland’s T In The Park.

The band have now been confirmed to appear at the Fuji Rocks festival in Japan in July 2012.
Reports also suggest the band have scored a headline slot for the 2012 V Festival (to be held in Chelmsford and Staffordshire), although this remains unconfirmed at present.

Originally scheduled to take place in November, the Alkaline Trio tour in support of their new album ‘Damnesia’ was cancelled due to injury.  The band have now announced new dates and will play the following shows in May:

Portsmouth Pyramids Centre (May 1)
Sheffield Leadmill (2)
Leeds Metropolitan University (4)
Manchester Academy 2 (5)
Edinburgh HMV Picturehouse (7)
Coventry Kasbah (8)
Norwich Waterfront (9)
London Camden Electric Ballroom (10)
London Camden Barfly (12)
Cardiff Solus (13)
Exeter Lemon Grove (14)

Tickets for the original November shows will be valid for the equivalent rescheduled dates.