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Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
From Sheffield, synth pop and funk to stick it to Thatcher. Currently being played live!
3:00 PM GMT 10/10/2008
The Wedding Present are to release How The West Was Won, a limited edition box set containing four CD EPs featuring new recordings taken from the sessions for their 2008 album El Rey. Due to appear on November 3, the package will include never-heard before cuts recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini and also a Christmas selection featuring versions of Bing Crosby’s White Christmas and Take That’s Back For Good.
The band are currently on tour in the US. Only 1000 copies of the new EP set will be produced.
Their December UK tour lines up like this:
2nd :Colchester Arts Centre
3rd : Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
4th : Oxford Academy
5th : Leicester Charlotte
6th : Manchester Academy
8th : Cork Pavilion
9th : Dublin Andrews Lane
10th : Belfast Limelight
12th : Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
13th : Aberdeen Moshulu
14th : Glasgow QMU
15th : Newcastle Academy
16th : Leeds University
17th : Bristol Academy
18th : London Forum
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:00 PM GMT 10/10/2008
Our man in Austin referees folk throwdown, watches Seymour Stein take a nap.
10:34 AM GMT 19/03/2010
A personal appreciation of the groundbreaking DJ/writer by MOJO's David Hutcheon...
10:15 AM GMT 19/03/2010
A personal tribute to the reluctant Big Star legend, by MOJO's Martin Aston.
6:07 PM GMT 18/03/2010
MOJO office types had a fight over the art-pop egghead's greatest tunes. The results are in!
5:13 PM GMT 18/03/2010
The rock'n'roll lifer on his May tour and that astounding Mott reunion.
12:00 PM GMT 18/03/2010
Big Star maverick casts shadow over Day 1 of Austin music fest.
10:22 AM GMT 18/03/2010
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