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Kasabian closed last nights V Festival at Chelmsford with what will be their last performance before they go into hibernation to produce their fourth album. The band told NME that as the show was their last before recording it acted as a send off party for their current release West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Their set was the same as the previous headline slot the night before at the Highlands Park site.
Go to NME.com for more photos of the weekend and reviews.
Popular t-shirt website t-shirt of the day have featured a best selling Amplified Vintage Michael Jackson BAD t-shirt on their site. The design is a distressed print taken from the singers 1987 epic album which spawned five hit singles. Check out Sugar Bullets range of Michael Jackson t shirts where you can get the BAD men’s design as well as other variations in ladies and men sizes.
Eagle Records have just announced that Ronnie Wood has signed a deal with them for the release of a brand new studio album Feel Like Playing which will be released on the 27th of September. The album features twelve new tracks including collaborations with other renowned artists like Slash and Flea. In recent years Wood has exhibited some of his paintings and both the album cover and the album title were inspired by some of Wood’s recent artworks.
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A new ad has been posted on Rolling Stones merchandise site featuring some of Amplifieds bestselling Rolling Stones tshirts. Check out the ad which has been posted on a Rolling Stones merchandise site by following this link.
Blondie drummer Clem Burke recently told billboard.biz that the band has recorded tracks for a new album Panic of Girls which they plan to bring out in the UK and America in 2011. It will be the first release from the band since their 2003 album The Curse of Blondie and by comparison has a lot less production on it. Burke told Billboard that the band ‘tried to make the recording process as organic as possible and tried to stay away from programming as much as we could, because [The Curse of Blondie] had a lot of programming on it’. This year see’s the band celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1980 platinum record Autoamerican.
Girls, take a look at the new Kurt Cobain white t shirt on sugarbullets.co.uk. The print is in a distressed effect and the overall cut of the t shirt is in a 1980′s vintage style. Perfect for wearing with leggings and Converse shoes for a 90′s grunge look!
As part of an exclusive interview on gigwise.com Kasabian guitarist Sergio Pizzorio promises that the bands performances at this coming weekends V Festival will be one of the best nights out punters have had all year. The band play Weston Park in Staffordshire on Saturday and Hylands Park in Chelmsford on Sunday and ‘want to give people something to celebrate’. As part of their warm up they are playing a gig at Brixton Academy tomorrow evening (Aug 19th)
Gigwise.com interviewed Klaxons at the end of July where the band discussed the new album, their success of 2007 amongst other things. Read the full interview Klaxons: Back from the Brink here.
The 1972 film Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones is to be screened at cinemas worldwide this September. It was filmed whilst the band were on their Exile in Main Street tour of 1972 and was filmed when they played one night in Texas. Check out the The Rolling Stones website for worldwide dates but for now you can catch it in the UK on 16th and 21st of September at Vue and Picturehouse cinemas. The film has not been screen since the late nineties as there has been dispute over ownership. It includes an exclusive interview with Mick Jagger.
