Kasabian follow thier amazing live set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury by announcing dates for their November UK Arena Tour 2009.
Back in 2007 Kasabian grabbed their first award as Best Live Act at the NME awards, that year saw them play to critical acclaim at various UK festivals including the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley, Isle of Wight, T in the Park and Glastonbury.
This year they released their album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum which was released on the 8th June this year. The album went straight to number one in the UK album charts following some promotion at intimate gigs earlier in the year.
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum sees Kasabian shifting musical direction from the earlier albums that were heavily influenced by the Madchester music scene and saw the band likened to Primal Scream and Stone Roses, as much for their onstage swagger as their music.
Following their hugely successful return to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage last weekend, Kasabian are currently on a summer UK concert tour that includes three nights at Wembley Stadium as joint support for Oasis, along with top indie band The Enemy. The tour ends with a European date at I-Day Milano Urbano Festival in Italy.
With West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum still at number one and the single Fire riding high in the UK singles chart, the band have just announced a ten date Kasabian UK Arena tour for November 2009 which will bring another busy and incredibly successful year for the band to an end.
Dates for the Kasabian UK Arena Tour 2009:
November 10 NEWCASTLE Metro Radio Arena
November 11 ABERDEEN AECC
November 12 GLASGOW SECC
November 14 LONDON Wembley Arena
November 16 LIVERPOOL Echo Arena
November 18 NOTTINGHAM Trent FM Arena
November 19 BIRMINGHAM NIA
November 20 MANCHESTER MEN
November 22 CARDIFF International Arena
November 23 SHEFFIELD Arena
This is the official video for the current single Fire by Kasabian
And here is a brilliant ‘live’ version of ID recorded at Lowlands in August 2007
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One of the UK’s greatest ‘live’ bands, Muse will be performing seven UK concerts as part of their upcoming European tour which kicks off in October 2009.
Muse were formed in 1994 by three students from Teignmouth in Devon, Matthew Bellamy (vocals, guitar, piano), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion). The band released their first album, Showbiz, in 1999 having attracted media attention with the release of two EPs during 1998, notably from Radio One DJ Steve Lamacq and also the NME.
Showbiz led to the band supporting Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Foo Fighters in the USA and playing some of the European and Australian festivals. The second album, Origins of Symmetry in 2001, saw Muse experimenting with obscure instrumentation and vocals and developing the sound that would become synonymous with the band.
The move away from soft alternative rock to the ‘falsetto’ vocals and heavy orchestration that would become part of the Muse sound, so unnerved US distributor Maverick Records that the album was not released in America until 2005, following a parting of the ways between Maverick and Muse.
In 2003 Muse released Absolution, a stunning third album that saw the band undertake it’s first international stadium tour, lasting almost a year and visiting the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and France. In 2004 Muse played ‘the best gig of our lives’ at Glastonbury only to be soured by the death of Dominic Howard’s father from a heart attack shortly after the performance.
The fourth album, Black Holes and Revelations was released in 2006 to rave reviews and resulting in an almost endless tour of various world wide ‘live’ performances for the next couple of years. Among the most notable, two sold at gigs at the new Wembley Stadium in June 2007.
Muse have recently announced the completion of their latest album, The Resistance, which is due for release in September to coincide with the band’s latest European tour, including several dates in the UK including two nights at London’s O2 Arena. Muse concert tickets are generally like gold dust - so be quick.
Muse have a really impressive back catalogue of singles and album favourites such as New Born, Bliss, Feeling Good, Sing for Absolution, Hysteria, Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole - the list is endless. This is perhaps my all time favourite Muse track Time is Running Out recorded at the Glastonbury gig in 2004.
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One of music’s most durable rock band’s, Fleetwood Mac, embark on the UK leg of their world tour this year, over a decade since the band last toured and over thirty years since the spectacular success of Rumours in 1977.
The Fleetwood Mac Unleashed world tour will feature the band’s greatest hits along with some of their favourite album tracks, such as Gold Dust Woman, Storms and I know I’m not wrong.
The tour reunites probably the best known Fleetwood Mac line up from the Rumours era, featuring Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lyndsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Christine McVie, who retired from Fleetwood Mac to pursue other musical interests in 1998 will not be involved in the reunion.
Despite much speculation over the past couple of years, plans to recruit Sheryl Crow as a replacement for Christine McVie have never come to fruition, with band members saying that the collaboration “lost it’s momentum.”
Also plans to release a studio album have fallen by the wayside, forcing Mick Fleetwood to enthuse ” This is the first time we have gone on the road without an album. This is truly a new experience for Fleetwood Mac to go out and play songs that we believe and hope people are going to be familiar with and love.”
Stevie Nicks adding; “there isn’t any plan at this point… for any album. We’re going to get through this tour before deciding what to do with an album.
The Unleashed, Greatest Hits tour will draw heavily on the mid seventies output of Fleetwood Mac- the band’s most successful era to date, featuring tracks from the phenomenal best seller Rumours and the subsequent albums Tusk and Tango in the Night and also the lesser known 1975 album Fleetwood Mac.
Rumours remains one of the best selling albums of all time, featuring tracks like Dreams, Don’t Stop, You Make Loving Fun and The Chain as well as Gold Dust Woman. The album had sold over 40million copies worldwide by 2003 and continues to sell thirty years on!
The Fleetwood Mac Unleashed, Greatest Hits Tour 2009, will arrive in Glasgow SECC on the 22nd October, the first of just seven arena dates in the UK, ending in Birmingham’s NEC on 3rd November.
To whet your appetite, here is a clip of Dreams from the album Rumours, circa 1977.
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Originally recorded as a collaboration with trip hop band Massive Attack and Everything But The Girl’s singer Tracy Thorn, Protection was released in 1995.
This version is by Everything But the Girl, recorded in 1999 at The Forum in London. Absolute quality!
This acoustic version of Rain King was recorded for a Rolling Stone magazine session in 2003. The song is taken from Counting Crows debut album, August and Everything After, released in 1993.
I was fortunate enough to see the band ‘live’ at Shepherds Bush Empire on their first visit to the UK, a nervous but exciting debut for the band. I instantly realised that Counting Crows were pretty special and despite the nerves, Adam Duritz already had a stage presence and charisma that I had seldom witnessed in a new band.
For the next few years I would not miss a tour, from the intimacy of Portsmouth Guildhall to the Royal Albert Hall.
