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JUNE - 2006
On 17th July GOLDFRAPP will be releasing a DVD (on Mute) featuring their set at the Glastonbury Festival from 2004 which took place at the end of their Black Cherry tour.
The DVD will have the following setlist:
01. Utopia
02. Crystalline Green
03. Lovely Head
04. Train
05. Human
06. Deer Stop
07. Yes Sir
08. Tiptoe
09. Twist
10. We Are Glitter/ Strict Machine
11. Black Cherry
PANIC! AT THE DISCO are to play a one-off gig at the Paradiso on Thursday 19th October.
Tickets go on sale this Saturday (1st July) from 10am. The hottest new band to come from the states in years are also appearing at this years LOWLANDS Festival and PUKKELPOP Festival in August. They will also be playing in Munich on 17th October.
See the AAPA review of the album from May 2006 at ALBUM REVIEWS and also our GIGS & FESTIVALS 2006 section
Having just completed the first part of their tour across North America, the ARCTIC MONKEYS have now announced that Andy Nicholson is no longer with the band. Meanwhile Nick O?Malley, who stood in for Andy, shall carry on playing bass for the remaining shows this summer.
PHOENIX - "It's Never Been Like That" (Astralwerks): This French electro rock band who have followed in the footsteps of AIR and Cassius have just released their 3rd album.
It would appear that while fans of THE KAISER CHIEFS await their new album to be released (2007?) they are turning to new(ish) indie band THE AUTOMATIC who have just released their debut album "Not Accepted Anywhere" (B-Unique) which includes recent single "Monster" and our favourite track "That's What She Said". It should be available now at all good record shops in the Benelux.
We have received news that PORTISHEAD could be releasing a brand new album in the not too distant future! - Go to the MySpace link (see below) where you can find out more details as they develop from the band themselves.
It looks like next month sees the digital re-mastering and re-release treatment for most of the albums by THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN.
Back in the 80`s & 90`s this influential Goth-rock alternative band from Glasgow gave us some classic indie albums which included "Psychocandy" (1985), "Darklands" (1987) and "Honey`s Dead" (1992). In July 2006 they will be available on Rhino Records on the DualDisc format (so with videos!)
NEW - AAPA have gone live this week on MySpace! - more info - > HERE
THE STROKES will be releasing a new single on July 10th. 'You Only Live Once' which is the 3rd single to be taken from their album "First Impressions Of Earth" is out on Rough Trade Records. One of the additional tracks on this single would appear to be a cover version of Marvin Gaye's 'Mercy Mercy Me' with contributions by Pearl Jam and Josh Homme. 'You Only Live Once' was previously featured in the AAPA playlist for April - You can see all our monthly playlists by clicking HERE
 MUSE will be releasing their brand new album on Monday 3rd July.
BELLE & SEBASTIAN have a new single out at the end of June on Rough Trade Records. "White Collar Boy" is the 3rd single to be taken from ?The Life Pursuit? which was released to critical acclaim back in February. The CD single will also have 2 new songs - "Long Black Scarf" & "Heaven In The Afternoon", while the band will be spending the summer appearing at a lot of festivals (including LOWLANDS).
See also the AAPA review of the album from March 2006 at ALBUM REVIEWS
FRANZ FERDINAND are set to play 2 nights at the Tivoli in Utrecht on 27th & 28th June. Tickets go on sale from this Saturday (10th June)!
Back in the early 80`s A CERTAIN RATIO were putting out albums on the now legendary Factory Records and over the past 20 odd years they have had a notable impact on the alternative music scene without being in the spotlight themselves. Apart from doing gigs over in the states with NEW ORDER in the 80`s they also had someone called Madonna support them in NYC, by the 90`s they had gone onto work with the likes of Norman Cook (Fat Boy Slim), Denise Johnson and M People, while DJs like Andy Weatherall were constantly quoting them as a major influence. Then in recent years they've released new material with the Fila Brazillia people and were involved with the film about Factory Records - "24 Hour Party People". All in all a rather impressive CV... In July they will be playing 2 gigs in the Benelux:
On 1st July ACR appear at Antwerpen 5voor12 club and on the 2nd July at the Amsterdam Paradiso (kleine zaal)
For more info on ACR then go to http://www.acrmcr.com/biography.html
We hear that PANIC! AT THE DISCO have just been added to the line-up for the LOWLANDS Festival on the weekend of 18th to 20th August. See also our GIGS & FESTIVALS 2006 section
JUNE PLAYLIST NOW ONLINE
click here for PLAYLISTS
For those who can receive BBC2 television, one of the live guests tonight (Friday 2nd June) on the Jools Holland show is MORRISSEY.
A week later sees live performances by upcoming new bands THE AUTOMATIC and THE FRATELLIS on the show.
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