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2006 - the year so far ...
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JANUARI & FEBRUARI 2006 // JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2006
PEARL JAM are back! - With a brand new album out on 2nd May which is preceded by new single "World Wide Suicide" on 14th March. Summer festivals should follow. Meanwhile EDITORS have a new single out on 27th March - "All Sparks" is taken from their debut album "The Back Room". And after their sell out concert at the Melkweg in Amsterdam last night (Monday 27th February) news just in that ARCTIC MONKEYS will be returning to Amsterdam on 7th May to play the Paradiso. Tickets are not on sale yet but we suggest you get in the queue anyway!
Believe it or not but it is exactly 30 years ago this week that PUNK hit the streets of the UK with cities like London and Manchester reeling under the impact of a new youth culture! It would be years later that certain European and North American locations would finally catch on despite what they try and tell you now, and then in the 90`s MTV gave the world their updated version ... thanks!
AMBULANCE LTD. are hard at work on their second album and have a new EP out (New English) which includes previous unreleased acoustic tracks. See alse their album review under
ALBUM REVIEWS
KAISER CHIEFS, COLDPLAY & KT TUNSTALL were the big winners at the annual BRIT AWARDS which were held in London earlier this month. KAISER CHIEFS won a couple of awards including that of BEST BRITISH BAND, COLDPLAY won the BEST ALBUM award, while KT TUNSTALL who has already sold over a million copies of her debut album in the UK alone beat off Kate Bush & Katie Melua to win the BEST BRITISH FEMALE ARTIST award. The full list of nominees and eventual winners can be found at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/brits2006/winners.shtml
THE CINEMATICS are out on tour in the UK during February and March and will be doing about 20 gigs to help promote their new single "Break", which will be out on 6th March. We previously mentioned this band in October last year (see previous info under "Music News - 2005")
 PLACEBO have a brand new album out on 13th March. "MEDS" will be released on the HUT label.
 As previously reported on AAPA back in November 2005, the new album by MORRISSEY which is due out in March, will feature a collaboration with ENNIO MORRICONE
click here for ENNIO MORRICONE
We have 3 great gigs to recommend later this month, THE SUBWAYS play The Melkweg venue in Amsterdam on Monday 20th February, while HARD-Fi hit the same venue a few days later on Thursday 23rd. Then on 27th February ARCTIC MONKEYS make their 2nd ever live appearance in The Netherlands at the Melkweg, but that gig has already SOLD OUT!
photo is from a recent copy of NME
JANUARY 2006
We were able to get hold of an official copy of the debut album by ARCTIC MONKEYS last night in a shop in The Hague!
Not due for release until next Monday in UK shops the CD was already on sale in Holland yesterday (Thursday 19th January).
Full review of this album next week after we have given it a good listen over the weekend.
FULL REVIEW NOW ONLINE under "REVIEWS" - > ALBUMS - > 2006
It would appear that the next album by THE FUTUREHEADS which will be out later in the year will be produced by Ben Hillier, who apart from previous work with DOVES and BLUR was also responsible for the recent DEPECHE MODE album.
In January 2006, BECK is set to release a re-mixed version of his album "Guero" which will include a contribution by BOARDS OF CANADA (who provide a re-mix of "Broken Drum") and AIR (for "Heaven Hammer"), while Scottish art rockers FRANZ FERDINAND bring us "The Fallen" from their last album and it is currently out there as the Justice remix.
THE VERVE: "Break The Night With Colour" is the new single by former VERVE singer RICHARD ASHCROFT and it is out on 9th January.
His new album "Keys To The World" follows a few weeks later on Parlophone Records.
RYAN ADAMS: They call it Alt-country (presumably short for Alternative Country & Western?) and apparently very popular in certain parts of the USA and worryingly, presumably due to the likes of MTV, also growing popular in certain parts of The Netherlands! - Ryan Adams released three albums in 2005 in his attempt to bring his blend of country & western inspired rock and roll to the masses ... three albums too many in our opinion!
THE STROKES: Their new album "First Impressions of Earth" (Rough Trade) is out now and hopefully an improvement on their rather disappointing 2003 release "Room on Fire" which to be fair had a lot to live up to as follow up to their excellent debut album "Is This It" (2001).
Early reports suggest that their 3rd album will bring them back to the fore of the alternative music scene so expect them to feature heavily at a lot of the major festivals this summer.
Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn will make his directorial debut with the forthcoming movie "CONTROL", which tells the story about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, and which is based on the book "Touching From a Distance" by the singers` widow Deborah Curtis. The soundtrack will consist of Joy Division songs along with accompanying music made for the film by the remaining members of the band (New Order).
Dutch Radio: It was no real surprise to find out in December which songs had made Dutch radio station Veronica`s Top 1000 songs ever! (They call this annual radio presentation the "Top 1000 Allertijden") and it always comes across like being stuck in a bizarre time warp with the likes of Bon Jovi, Meatloaf and Phil Collins once again dominating the event, along with certain Dutch artists like Anouk and Trijntje Oosterhuis who in all honesty just can`t sing in English, while anything slightly interesting or exciting from the past 10 years was once again virtually non existent. However, it was a surprise to see their show advertised in Dutch music magazine OOR that by all accounts is the nations major source of information when it comes to new music. The funniest part however was what Veronica had placed at the bottom of their advert: "80s & 90s Hits". Now that just about sums it all up really doesn`t it?!
Anniversaries: Just so that you know, it`s now 30 years ago that punk hit the streets of London, it`s 15 years ago that NIRVANA`s "Nevermind" (Geffen), MASSIVE ATTACK`s "Blue Lines" (Virgin) and R.E.M.`s "Out Of Time" (Warners) were released, 40 years ago that THE BEACH BOYS brought out "Pet Sounds" (Capitol), 20 years ago that THE SMITHS gave the world "The Queen Is Dead" (Rough Trade) and a staggering 25 years since DEPECHE MODE released their debut album "Speak & Spell" (Mute).
  
2006 - LIVE:
KT TUNSTALL will be doing a gig in Paris on 26th February, ARCTIC MONKEYS hit Cologne (Keulen) on 4th March and VIOLENT FEMMES will be playing a one off gig at London`s Shepherds Bush Empire on Sunday 26th February. EDITORS return to The Netherlands in January/February to play 3 gigs in Eindhoven, Utrecht and Amsterdam but if you haven`t got tickets you`re too late as they have all sold out. WE ARE SCIENTISTS will be providing the guest slot at the KAISER CHIEFS gigs in Paris (28th February) and Amsterdam (1st March), which will give people the opportunity to hear tracks from their debut album "With Love And Squalor" (Virgin). HEATHER NOVA returns to The Netherlands on 19th March to play a gig in Groningen, while the next London Calling event in Amsterdam will be at the Paradiso on the weekend of 31st March & 1st April. THE BUZZCOCKS have re-formed to do a series of UK gigs in March. The ROCK AM RING Festival in Germany in June has already attracted DEPECHE MODE, KAISER CHIEFS, PLACEBO and FRANZ FERDINAND - More details to follow.
2006 - NEW ALBUMS: Watch out for forthcoming album releases by RADIOHEAD (late 2006), MORRISSEY (March), THE LOVERS (t.b.c.), ARCTIC MONKEYS (January), THE KILLERS (summer), THE FUTUREHEADS (spring), LILIAN HAK (t.b.c), RAZORLIGHT (May) and THE STREETS (April)
Rumors are that the long awaited album by MASSIVE ATTACK will feature collaborations with Beth Orton and Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and is being described as having taken a Goth-Soul direction!
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