Mojo - The Music Magazine

B.B. King will play four UK arena shows in June.

The 83-year old guitar legend is set to appear on a double bill with British blues lynchpin John Mayall.

B.B. and Mayall will be trading licks at:

Manchester MEN Arena (June 24)
Birmingham NEC Arena (25)
Cardiff CIA (27)
London Wembley Arena (28)

Tickets go sale at 9am on Friday (Feb 6) and will be available from 0871 424 4444
or via www.ticketline.co.uk.

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Edwyn Collins’ inspiring recovery from the brain hemorrhage that almost took his life four years ago continues unabated. Now, the Scottish pop stalwart will be presenting a second series of his birdlife art at the Intermedia Gallery in Glasgow. It was during his recuperation that Collins re-discovered his passion for illustration. Since October 2005 he has drawn a different bird every single day.

Here are the details:

Edwyn Collins: British Birdlife

Intermedia Gallery
CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3JD
(Tel: 0141 352 4900)

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Spinal Tap have revealed they are to record new material.

The legendary rockers are set to crank their amps back up to 11 after a 17-year sabbatical. Their last studio album, Break Like The Wind, was released in 1992. Although it fared well, the record failed to engender the same fevered response as 1982's Smell The Glove or proto-metal rarity Brain Hammer. Oh to live in the Tap world...

Speaking to Holy Moly earlier this week bassist Derek Smalls (aka Harry Shearer) said: "This is the 25th anniversary of Spinal Tap so Christopher, Michael and myself are probably going to do an acoustic tour where we play both [spoof folk trio] A Mighty Wind and Spinal Tap music."

Tap last appeared in 2007 at the Live Earth concert in London.

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The Hold Steady will release a live album and documentary DVD on April 7.

The double disc, entitled A Positive Rage, will give fans a fly-on-the-wall look at their 2006 world tour.

The DVD is set to begin with their debut London gig and conclude with their sell-out homecoming show in Chicago.

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Oasis have teamed up with Massive Attack/Primal Scream video director Wiz for their latest promo Falling Down. You can watch the Royal Family-baiting short below.

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Has Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold embarked on a secret side project? Two new recordings from the hirsute frontman have appeared on the White Antelope MySpace page. He recently revealed all to Chocolate Bobka:

"I used to post demos of songs on that page before the record came out. The Guitar Duet thing dates from when we were recording the LP and the cover of False Knight I did about two weeks ago. I posted the first demo of Blue Ridge Mountains (when it was called Stirring, before the other Stirring) on there before. I might put that back up, it had different instrumentation and was kinda cool....

Right now I am alone in this house we've rented to record the next record in and tomorrow I'm going to record a cover of Ridge Rider, the Judee Sill song, for this compilation. Trying to write new stuff is hard right now for some reason.

I want to do a record of really spare stuff for White Antelope so it may be recorded this year. I dunno if that is a good name though.

Thinking out loud."

Decide for yourself by heading over to the MySpace page HERE.