FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - album, tour

One of the UK's most successful rock acts, Funeral For A Friend have notched up a staggering number of successes during their illustrious five year career. Three gold selling albums. Nine Top 20 singles. Half a decade of global touring taking in Singapore, Thailand, Australasia, Japan, America and every corner of Europe. Twenty plus magazine front covers in the UK. Headlining the NME Awards tour in 2005. Supporting the likes of Iron Maiden, Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance. Selling out the 8,000 tickets for an Alexandra Palace show in a heartbeat. Winning BT Digital Artist of the Year in 2007.

And on Oct 13 2008 (exactly five years to the day that their debut record 'Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation' hit the shelves!) they will release their fourth album, 'Memory And Humanity'. Produced by Romesh Dodangoda at Longwave Studios, Cardiff, it clearly demonstrates the bands current explosive form.

Featuring thirteen new tracks, 'Memory And Humanity' draws fire from the muscular intensity of their earlier material and melds it seamlessly to the melodic intelligence of latter albums 'Hours' and 'Tales Don't Tell Themselves'. This album shows the band to be as incisively relevant as ever.

TRACKLISTING

1. Rules And Games

2. To Die Like Mouchette

3. Kicking And Screaming

4. Constant Illuminations

5. Maybe I Am?

6. You Can't See The Forest For The Wolves

7. Building

8. Beneath The Burning Tree

9. Someday The Fire...

10. Waterfront Dance Club

11. Charlie Don't Surf

12. Ghosts

13. Constant Resurrections

The album will be available in the following formats:

Standard Cd

CD + DVD (Ltd Edition)

Itunes - with exclusive album tracks

The band have also recently announced an extensive UK tour that will take place throughout October, November and December 2008.

Support on the tour will come from Canadian metallers Cancer Bats, Irish upstarts In Case Of Fire and Welsh combo Attack Attack.

"In my opinion this is the most exciting and eclectic touring lineups we've ever put together," explains Ryan Richards (Drums). "Every band brings something extra to the evening and will definitely bring the best out of us and keep us on our toes. We're going to have to limit ourselves to how many brand new songs we're going to play I think, otherwise we might get carried away and play the whole thing. It's just an album full of songs that are begging to be unleashed upon our lovely fans."

THE ROYAL - DERBY - Eject Rewind club night

Eject.Rewind is Derby's best new club night, bringing you the hottest breaking bands from across the UK and beyond spanning multiple genres. Our DJs spin an eclectic mix of cutting edge indie, electro and alternative tunes every Wednesday at The Royal!!

1st October – Launch of ‘Eject.Rewind’ featuring... Shit Disco Dj set + guests

8th October – The Hot Melts + Regards

15th October – The Joy Formidable + The Screaming Lights

22nd October – Detroit Social Club + The Souvenirs

29th October – The Presets + Micachu + DJ Luke Black

5th November – Medallist + guests

12th November – Kid British + guests

19th November – The Underground Heroes + guests

26th November – Babyshambles Dj set + Operahouse + Soft Toy Emergency

Tickets are £3 NUS (Pay on door) / £4 Other Adv and are available from the following outlets;

Online:

www.seetickets.com :: www.gigantic.com

In person:

Derby Assembly Rooms Box office, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AH

(T) :: 01332 255 800

HMV UK, 51-53 East Street Derby DE1 2AL

(T) :: 01332 201902

Levi’s, 2nd Floor, Westfield Centre, Derby

(T) :: 01332342215

Times: 10.30pm – 2.30am

Age: 18+

FRANK TURNER - single, album, tour

Single - Long Live The Queen

Album - Love, Ire & Song

"You need to be careful to buy the single, not the track off the album, but you can do that by following those links, so it should be easy. One you're done, if you send a screenshot of the receipt to longlivethequeen@frank-turner.com we'll send you 2 exclusive b-sides for free.

If you texted to pre-order, today's the day to download your mp3, you get a little message from me too, haha...

And if you want to help more, please copy and paste this bulletin and send it to your friends, do it on Facebook / Myspace as well, whatever you can to help. Thanks everyone."

Frank

You can find links to Frank's website, myspace and where to buy the album over on the right hand side.

Tour dates beneath.

FUCKED UP - album, tour

So this week F**ked Up released their debut album for Matador Records, The Chemistry of Common Life. It's rightly been causing a stir!

To coincide, the band hosted a free 12 hour show in a shop front opposite CBGB's on Bowery in NY on Tuesday. It ended up being quite an event. See the link in the yellow box to the right. As you'll see, they lasted the full 12 hours with some help from a few unlikely faces - among others - Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav), John Joseph (Cro-Mags), Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Moby (watch this!) and the Vivian Girls. Michael Stipe turned up apparently but sadly didn't join them onstage. Not your average gig then...

The band are returning to the UK for a full tour next month. See dates opposite