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Snow Patrol just announced a new North American tour for the spring of 2007. OKGO & Silversun Pickups will support all dates.
02/26/07 – Portland, OR @ Memorial Coliseum
02/27/07 – Seattle, WA @ Key Arena / Seattle Center
03/01/07 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
03/02/07 – Universal City, CA @ Gibson Amphitheatre
03/03/07 – San Diego, CA @ SDSU Open Air Theatre
03/05/07 – Magna, UT @ Saltair
03/06/07 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
03/08/06 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
03/09/07 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Nokia Theatre Grand Prairie
03/10/07 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Bar-B-Q
03/11/07 – Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
03/19/07 – Coral Gables, FL @ Bank United Center
03/20/07 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
03/21/07 – Duluth, GA @ The Arena at Gwinnett Center
03/23/07 – Washington, DC @ TBC
03/24/07 – Camden, NJ @ Tweeter Center On The Waterfront
03/26/07 – New York, NY @ The Theater at Madison Square
03/28/07 – Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena
03/30/07 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
03/31/07 – Toronto, ONT @ Ricoh
04/01/07 – Detroit, MI @ State Theatre
04/02/07 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
04/04/07 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
04/05/07 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
04/06/07 – Minneapolis, MN @ Northrop Auditorium
04/07/07 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
04/09/07 – Calgary, ALB @ MacEwan Hall Ballroom
04/10/07 – Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Center
In light of a recent indescretion (some of you my have seen the scandalous weed-in-purse photo), High Times would like to extend a formal invitation to the 2006 Stony Awards on Oct. 24 to Paris Hilton, and give her a VIP (Very Important Pothead) pass to the anticipated ceremonies for a night of laughs, music and fun stoner banter.
Paris won’t be walking the green carpet alone. She’ll be joined by a calvacade of stoner celebrities, including Stonys co-hosts Redman and Doug Benson, Adrianne Curry and Chris Knight, Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlins, Jeff “The Dude” Dowd, Penthouse Pets Krista Ayne and Aria Giovanni, James Toback and many more.
Marco Bailey, Belgium’s No.1 musical export, is constantly either touring the world’s clubs and festivals or at work in the studio - he doesn’t take his job lightly. He invests all he has, 100%, to make sure he can give the best possible performance to his audience. He is a self-made man on a mission to entertain people who love electronic music. It comes through, too, in his style of seamless mixing of the most gorgeous and heavy-hitting tracks, winning over dance floors around the globe. Check out his myspace to get an idea of his sound.
In 2000, he joined forces with Cristian Varela to form Pornographic Recordings, a respected outlet for musicians as diverse as Tim Baker, Oxia, and fellow Belgian friends, Tom Hades and Redhead. Now in 2006, as well as continuing to put out killer tracks on his own MB Elektronics label, Marco’s latest single on the Intec imprint, will be out in the coming months. This will be followed by mixing the 3rd installation in the ‘Intecnique’ compilation series on the same label, which will be released in early 2007, plus a UK and European tour to support. The magic that inspired Carl Cox to sign Marco will be showcased in tour dates at the end of this month across America. Expect nothing short of a wicked night out thick with hardcore fans of both electronic music masters, and a red-hot night of tunes for Marco Bailey first-time listeners.
10/19 - Seattle, WA @ Last Supper Club
10/21 - New York, NY @ LOVE
10/25 - Las Vegas, NV @ Tabu*
10/26 - Orange County, CA @ Tentation Ultra Lounge*
10/27 - San Diego, CA @ Obec*
10/28 - Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon*
Eyes Open is certified Triple Platinum and is days away from selling 1,000,000 copies. It is the second biggest selling album in the UK after the Arctic Monkeys and has hit the No.1 spot no less than 3 times since release in May.
The band will perform their new single “Set The Fire To The Third Bar,” featuring Martha Wainwright, on the UKChannel 4’s Live At Abbey Road (airing in November). The single will be released on the 13th of November.
Snow Patrol have also contributed a track to the Belle & Sebastian compiled Colours Are Brighter album - a charity album of children’s songs in aid of Save The Children - which is released on October 16th. Their rendition of “I Am An Astronaut” was recorded especially for this album.
In support of Badly Drawn Boy’s much anticipated fifth studio album release,
appropriately titled Born in the UK,a short US tour is about to kick off.
US TOUR DATES IN OCTOBER
10/10 Boston Paradise
10/11 NYC Hiro Ballroom
10/12 NYC Hiro Ballroom
10/14 Toronto Mod Club
10/16 San Francisco Great American
10/18 LA Troubadour
10/19 LA Troubadour
 Since winning the Mercury Prize for his 2000 debut The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast,
this Mancunian songwriter has led a charmed and creative life. The good stuff has
poured out of him; a torrent of heartfelt, homespun, charming, sublimely melodic
songs, from the About A Boy soundtrack to Have You Fed The Fish? to 2004’s
One Plus One Is One. Now Damen Gough has gone and done it again with his latest
masterpiece, a Bacharach-esque exploration that beautifully addresses such a Golden Era both musically and lyrically and results in a must-have collection of tales about love, conflict, pride, relationships and particularly about fate.Â
Take a sneak peek at the first video/release for the title track Born in the UK.
A full tour will follow in ‘07 - we’ll keep you posted with dates.
NYC’s Motherfucker makes double the headlines in NY Times Magazine and NY Times this past month (Motherfucker is selected as the opening spread of the magazine’s issue celebrating the legendary NYC Downtown figures);After having launched NYC’s wildest parties during the spring and summer, a documentary is set to finish this fall and hits the festival circuit early next year.
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If you haven’t been to Motherfucker during the last 5 months, well then, you just haven’t been out! The all star cast of 4 producers, Michael T., Justine D., Johnny T. and Georgie Seville continue to out due themselves with their cultural undertaking. NY Times boasts “Together, they’re like a group of night life superheroes, united to fight the scourge of late-night boredom with music, dancing and sexy outfits.”
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And so our Superheroes continue to wow their audiences by booking our favorite legendary artists such as The Cramps and NY Dolls and even bless NYC with surprises as with their Independence day celebration featuring unannounced special guests The Futureheads. All of this along with their outrageous performances and lavish hosts such as Mistress Formika and Lady Bunny, it’s no wonder lines continue to stretch around the blocks of the 2000-3000 capacity venues. Read more »
