The British Are Coming
The Delays Quake, Franz Ferdinand Finds Soul and The Charlatans Get Free.
Brighton based pop merchants, The Delays, are claiming responsibility for last week’s 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Britain. The band had just finished playing a venue called “The Lamp” in Hull when the quake struck. Drummer Rowly, via the bands MySpace, said "I immediately escorted my fellow Delays to the nearest archway which is the safest place to be in times like this, where we waited it out and apologized to the locals for our show maybe rocking too hard." The Delays third album, Everything's The Rush, is scheduled for release this spring via Fiction.
Franz Ferdinand have shed some light on what fans can expect from their forthcoming third album. Lead singer Alex Kapranos spoke recently of the band's current fascination with 60's soul and Ethiopian compilation, "We're one of these bands that are always gonna sound the same no matter what we do, but there are other influences there. I guess the drums are a little different, Paul has been listening to a lot of African stuff so that's gonna come through."
They may have to push and they may have to struggle, but that's right folks, the original line-up of Killing Joke has reunited. A world tour is in the works and the band plan on recording a new album as well. The twenty-six year long separation will culminate with various two-night residencies featuring the band's first two albums including the 1994 breakthrough album Pandemonium.
Dirty Pretty Things have come clean on the follow-up to their debut Waterloo To Anywhere. Guitarist Anthony Rossomondo said, "It's gonna be called This Is Where The Truth Begins. It's one of the songs on the album, it's kinda anthemic. We've got some big old fuckin' songs on the record," he explained, "And Carl [Barat] and I kinda went into the darkness with each other and we found a way out kinda climbing over each other until we crawled out of that whole proverbial hole and now we've got this record and it by far outgleams the first one and it has so much more truth in it." Expect the new album in stores this summer.
Featured Artist: The Charlatans: The Charlatans, or rather the Charlatans UK, (as they are known over here) have pulled a bit of a Radiohead. Their latest album, You Cross My Path, was made available as a free download via XFM radio in London this week. The Charlatans were born out of the early-90's post rave culture in Britain. Their first album, Some Friendly, exhibited the token Stone Roses club friendly beats, along with the jingle jangle of The Byrds. Getting lost in the Blur-Oasis shuffle of the 90's, Tim Burgess and Co. continued to chug out quality albums to positive reviews including the folky Us and Only Us and the Flood produced Between 10th and 11th. Speaking to XFM, Tim Burgess talks about You Cross My Path, "We always knew this album was gonna be given away for free, even before we started writing so we wanted to make it the best album we've ever made. This isn't a case of left over tracks and b-sides, we wanted to give our fans a quality record."
STREAM: The Charlatans – Mis-Takes
Posted by Joe Roth on Mar 05, 2008 @ 12:00 am