St Vincent has announced details of a short UK tour next month to fit in with her bookings at the Wireless and Oxegen Festivals. Support for all the non-festival dates comes from the wonderful Blue Roses. Should be pretty much unmissable so go see one of these shows if you can:
05.07.09 Wireless Festival, London
06.07.09 Thekla, Bristol
08.07.09 ICA, London
11.07.09 Oxegen Festival, Dublin
13.07.09 Night & Day, Manchester
14.07.09 Nice & Sleazy’s, Glasgow
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Gregory & The Hawk return to Europe this month in support of last year’s critically acclaimed Moenie & Kitchi album. Kicks off tomorrow with a single show at the Brixton Windmill in London, but she’ll be back in a few weeks if you can’t make it.
05.06.09 The Windmill, Brixton
21.06.09 Infirmary, Cork
22.06.09 Whelans, Dublin
23.06.09 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
24.06.09 Queen Of Hoxton, London
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Recent Wears The Trousers interviewees First Aid Kit are back in the UK this summer too with a string of festival dates and a new headline show in London. That’s the good news; the bad news is that the anticipated release date of their debut album has been pushed back from the autumn to early next year. We hear the new songs are sounding fantastic though. Patience, patience.
27.06.09 Park Stage, Glastonbury Festival
19.07.09 Latitude Festival, Southwold
28.07.09 The Lexington, London
31.07.09 Standon Calling, Hertfordshire
01.08.09 Field Day @ Victoria Park, London
02.08.09 Underage Festival @ Victoria Park, London
16.08.09 Summer Sundae, Leicester
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Carina Round makes a much anticipated return to her native UK with three shows scheduled for July. First she’ll be playing a sort-of-hometown gig at the O2 Academy in Birmingham on July 15th before a two-night stand at Water Rats in London.
15.07.09 O2 Academy, Birmingham
21.07.09 Water Rats, London
22.07.09 Water Rats, London
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She & Him have contributed a cover of The Smiths’ ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’ for the soundtrack of She’s (i.e. Zooey Deschanel’s) new film ’500 Days Of Summer’, released July 14th through Sire Records. Full tracklist and trailer below:
500 Days Of Summer OST
01 Mychael Danna & Rob Simonsen, ‘A Story Of Boy Meets Girl’
02 Regina Spektor, ‘Us’
03 The Smiths, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’
04 Black Lips, ‘Bad Kids’
05 The Smiths, ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’
06 Doves, ‘There Goes The Fear’
07 Hall & Oates, ‘You Make My Dreams’
08 The Temper Trap, ‘Sweet Disposition’
09 Carla Bruni, ‘Quelqu’un M’a Dit’
10 Feist, ‘Mushaboom’
11 Regina Spektor, ‘Hero’
12 Simon & Garfunkel, ‘Bookends’
13 Wolfmother, ‘Vagabond’
14 Mumm-Ra, ‘She’s Got You High’
15 Meaghan Smith, ‘Here Comes Your Man’
16 She & Him, ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’
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Alan Pedder