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A couple of Leeds bands hit the UK charts...
In a week that saw a few local band releases, two local acts managed to make an impression on the UK charts announced yesterday.
The Pigeon Detectives in at number 1 in the charts...
Leeds' The Pigeon Detectives hit the top of the charts this week with their latest single "I Found Out" which was released on the local Dance To The Radio record label.
Leeds bands dominate the Top 40 Charts
Three of the region's bands have taken over the UK Top 40 Charts this May Bank Holiday. The Pigeon Detectives secured their second Top 20 hit single with their re-release this week of "I'm Not Sorry".
More Leeds bands feature in the UK Charts this week...
Leeds bands feature again in the UK music charts, with ¡Forward, Russia! and The Sunshine Underground both releasing new singles on independent record labels this week ("Twelve" and "Commercial Breakdown" respectively).
Star Bodixa crash into record charts....
Star Bodixa play a one-off full on set at the new LMUSU venue on Friday, 18th October. The set kicks off early at 7:00pm.
The Pigeon Detectives to release a follow-up to the charts-topping single "I Found Out"
On Monday, 26th February, Leeds band The Pigeon Detectives will release their next single, the follow-up to November 2006's chart-topping single 'I Found Out'.
Instant Species top Radio 1 OneMusic charts...
Instant Species have been selected for the Radio 1 Onemusic website and currently preside at the top of the chart.
More UK chart positions for Leeds bands...
It's been a couple of weeks of activity in the charts for Leeds, as two local bands hit the UK Single and Album charts.
Allegedly with a half a million pound record deal freshly signed and most definitely currently being touted by the music press as 'the new Coldplay' Keane hail from Oxford.
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Kaiser Chiefs secure their first number one!
They once predicted a riot, and now Kaiser Chiefs have taken the UK Charts by storm with their first chart topping single.
It's a shame that around only thirty people ventured over to the New Roscoe on Wednesday night because it really is a very well laid out venue, good acoustics and has a larger PA than venues such as the Rocket - although it was a little on the quiet side tonight.
The Sunshine Underground release "I Ain't Losing Any Sleep" on May 15th
The Sunshine Underground release their new single - "I Ain't Losing Any Sleep" - on the City Rockers label on Monday, 15th May.
Corinne Bailey Rae at Number 2 in the UK Top 40...
Corinne Bailey Rae hit the UK Charts this Sunday (at number 2) with her second single "Put Your Records On".
iLiKETRAiNS release a 7-track mini album on Monday 26th June
With their recent single - "Terra Nova" - reaching number 13 in the UK Indie Charts, Leeds' iLiKETRAiNS follow up with the release of a 7-track mini album on Monday.
The Ivories release their second single "Heartstrings" on May 8th
Leeds band The Ivories release their second single on Monday, 8th May. "Heartstrings" is the follow up to the band's 2005 debut "Reduce The Temperature" which reached number 19 in the UK Indie Charts, and comes backed with "Long Way Home".
Mmmm chest hair and long blond locks. It's going to be hard to offer an unbiased review seeming as whenever I refer to them I have got into the habit of calling them Nickel-cack without even thinking.
The Pigeon Detectives secure a UK Top 20 chart position
Leeds band The Pigeon Detectives scored a Top 20 hit single this week when their 'Romantic Type' release went into the UK charts at number 19.
Band Profile: White Light Parade
Time to meet White Light Parade... singers/guitarists/songwriters the brothers grim; Danny & Jono Yates, bass player Tom Emmett & female drummer Nici Todd.
The Wedding Present: Ringway to Seatac
The Ringway in question is Manchester airport and charts Gedge's final moments with his ex as he is destined to fly stateside.
four day Hombre will release a new single in June
four day Hombre release a new single - "Don't Go Gently" (Alamo Music) - on Monday 5th June. Taken from the band's debut album "Experiments in Living" the single will be available on limited edition 7" vinyl (500 copies) and digital download formats.
Richard Hawley: Just Like the Rain
Were I an even more cynical individual than I already am, I'd say that the fact that this new countrified release from oft-overlooked former Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley has been released very close to that Johnny Cash biopic "Walk The Line" coming out at the flicks reeks of more than coincidence.
It's been over 12 months since I've heard anything from Boy Kill Boy so I was interested to hear what they'd been able to produce after such a long wait.
Formed from the remnants of two of the most popular bands to come out of the Wharfe valley in ten years - The Blankets and The Lash.
Arriving just in the nick of time for summer this breezy little episode is the perfect soundtrack to a Sunday afternoon of lazing in the garden as the sun rains down on your back probably giving you skin cancer.
Belfast four piece V//Formation haven't just been scouring their computer keyboard for some weird characters that will make their name leap off the page (or annoy reviewers everywhere: see Forward "it's not an 'i' it's an inverted exclamation mark dude" Russia!) Oh no V////////!!!!!formation have also been listening a lot to Placebo, Pixies and JJ72 for it is an ear pleasing blend of the 3 amongst pinches of Interpol and The Walkmen that make up the two songs on this their proper debut.
Dazed - Out on October 23rd 2006
The new single is out soon!
Perhaps best known for the wonderful "Size Of A Cow" and their collaboration with Vic Reeves, The Wonder Stuff were a strongly supported band in their day.
Embrace to record the official England 2006 World Cup song
After much speculation, The FA has today confirmed that chart-toppers Embrace will record the official England World Cup song to be released prior to the World Cup.
Mama Scuba to release their long-awaited debut album ...
Leeds alternative art-rock five-piece Mama Scuba have announced details of the release of their long-awaited debut album "You're a long time dead, so what's the hurry?" (Redemption Records, distributed by Pinnacle).
hey! robot! cite their main influence as Kings Of Convenience though their overlapping shared vocal style reminded me of an acoustic Maccabees; though having got four members they've got a full rich sound that is strangely melancholy and uplifting at the same time.
Leeds bands Armstrong and International Trust to release a split single
Leeds bands Armstrong and International Trust have announced details of a split single scheduled for release on 29th January 2007.
Female singer/songwriters/lad-mag-pin-ups really are 10 a penny these days. You only have to look at the charts to see Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, Katie Meluah et al aiming to take a slice of Beth Orton's melancholic pie from under her bovine features.
Buen Chico: Our Love's Enormous
This self-released long player from the Leodensian three-piece is a solid example of their warm guitar pop.
Garbage: Tell Me Where It Hurts
Recorded specifically to be included on 'Best Of' collection 'Absolute Garbage', said to be ranking alongside their best material and a single I'm sure many-a-fan have been waiting for, 'Tell Me Where It Hurts' is the new single from Garbage.
Being slow with this review, I'm told by those who go places that this tune is already on the compilation CDs from Woolworths that they play at the gym for people to hyperventilate to.
Little Barrie are funky... wait wait before you leave in a huff, yes it's a horrible genre funk, virtually a swear word in some circles but sometimes, and not often enough it is done so well you need to take your hat off to it.
Minotaurs: Anyone Who Had A Heart
Anyone Who Had A Heart is the debut EP from the South Shields based 6-piece, Minotaurs. Available on 12" vinyl only, this is solid collection of four potentially massive pop songs.
Sky Larkin to release their second single on the DTTR record label
Leeds trio Sky Larkin are to release their second single on Monday, 15th October. Released through the Leeds independent label Dance To The Radio, 'Molten' is a three minute no-wave classic that comes backed with live favourite 'Keepsakes'.
Corinne Bailey Rae to release "I'd Like To" on 12th February
Corinne Bailey Rae releases her first single of 2007 on Monday, 12th February. "I'd Like To" is taken from last year's self-titled debut album and comes backed with a re-working of "No Love Child" by fellow Leeds artist Cara Robinson.
Heads We Dance: My Heart is Set On You
Heads We Dance's latest, double A-side single begins with an intro that sounds like it's being beamed from outer space, because the scenes and sounds that their music conjures up is like nothing of the ordinary.
The Wedding Present: Interstate 5
In 1997 The Wedding Present was put on hold while Leeds favourite Indie son embarked on a new path exploring strings, flutes, film scores, sweet melodies and a lesser degree of big guitar.
Identikit... that's the word that springs to mind. How many shaggy-mopped, skinny, pretty-boy Indie bands playing Libertines inspired ska-skiffle-scratchy-Strokesesque tunes can you possibly need?
Six By Seven: Ready For You Now
This is a right good conventional guitar/keyboards band doing a proper pop song with all the right ingredients and no artificial colouring.
Mutya, or Mutley as I like to refer to her, was once a member of the Sugababes. Did you know that? Course you did!
Akaysia Parker: Urban Lullabies (sampler)
Imagine having melted chocolate poured into your ear, while you have you face rubbed with feathers, simultaneously having the back of you head vigorously stroked - is it a nice feeling?
Blah Blah Tin: The Interesting Inept Music Thing
Home produced and bearing all the hall marks of it Blah Blah Tin are not here to trouble the charts, but instead to do exactly as they please with a drum machine, synth, dirty guitar and big collection of records by The Fall.
Hmm... The difficult 4th single from the 2nd album, it's ok if you're Michael Jackson and have just made Thriller* but more often you can't hear the song for the sound of the barrel being scrapped.
Fast becoming THE British band to namedrop amongst Britain's indie intelligentsia, ¡Forward, Russia! represent the new bastions of British art rock.
The Accidental: I Can Hear Your Voice
Crikey, with a name like The Accidental I thought this lot were going to be some mad disjointed punk effort, complete with a customary boredom inducing 2 stars.
MARK CROSSLEY - GUITAR/VOX PETE HILEY - GUITAR/VOX GAV BAILEY - BASS/VOX JAMES RUGG - DRUMS Jack Afro formed in September 2005 from the ashes of Leeds based band Lucky Royale.
Various Artists: Let There Be... Geek Pie III
This collection from Wakefield's Geek Pie records offers a diverse snapshot of local talent: four very different artists with four very different songs.
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead: Worlds Apart
What's the future of rock and roll in 2005? With many bands filling the charts with standard indie ballads, a lot of people would say it's in a sorry state as the expressionism is lost and individuality is getting harder and harder to find, whilst maybe others would argue that the fact this music is becoming popular is a sign of the times changing, of "alternative" music making it big in waves, and that maybe the influx of younger (and older) fans turning to the genre can only be a good thing?
Strange one this. You'll probably remember this song from a couple of years back when it was an enormous house classic around the world for an artist going by the name of Grace.
Don't be silly, of course they're still going. And they've just delivered an album so perfect it chills the blood.
Talk to us about their stalker and news of a pending debut album...
Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Bedwetter music?? Coldplay took Alan McGee's taunt and rammed it back down his throat. If this LP was Coldplay's attempt to shake off the indie-student rock tag then they have succeeded majestically.
After reaching no 24 in the national indie charts earlier this year with their debut release on Siamese chinS Records ("Snow"), a single that also made the band Radio One's "Unsigned Session of the Week" things appear to be going from strength to strength.
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Here up on the cliff tops, clinging on by their fingernails, the wind whistling eerily past, is where we find Squawkin' Justin Hawkins and his merry men in mid-2006.
A brief introduction for some of our younger readers: Def Leppard formed in the late 70s, and featured five 'longhaired lovelies from Sheffield' TM.
Various Artists: Screaming Mini / Repomen - split single
It's a great feeling when you pick up a CD knowing nothing about a band, put it on and hear a track that blows you away.
It's a chilly Saturday night, and my feet have past the point of freezing. Upon reflection, acid pink sling-backs are unsuitable for an occasion where any amount of walking is required.
Close your eyes for just a second and imagine a world where the Crazy Frog is merely a jingoistic Sun headline and where Dido-lite chancers are banished to the bargain bin for eternity.
Geezers of Nazareth: Gold Rush
Geezers of Nazareth is irrefutably the worst band name I've ever seen. There is nothing clever or witty about this name and anything associated with the word Geezer is inexplicable and makes me want to vomit blood.
Some music genres never die. The recent wave of highly polished new wave music a la Stellastarr, The Killers, and even Fountains of Wayne is looking to get even bigger, especially with this neon nugget set to blow the charts skyward.
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Fonda 500 @ Royal Park Cellars
If there's one thing I love its a bit of swagger in the face of adversity. A nice big "Fuck You" when things aren't going quite right.
Farming Incident: Please leave the state in the toilet in which you would wish to find it
Farming Incident are by far and away the most challenging horse to ride in the Wrath stables. They share none of the immediacy of there stable mates and with good reason.
Ooberman, on the back of the recent Festival appearances, took the trip across to Leeds in order to grace the Duchess.
Tunng: Comments of the Inner Chorus
To describe Tunng as folk would be for the large part inaccurate, but they are currently to be found categorised in the nu-folk movement, a genre name that conjures up mental images of ex-Limp Biscuit members Morris Dancing in a bitch slapping manner.
Prime Mover: Cabbages and Kings
Now then chaps and chapettes, how do you like your bass? Hidden away murmuring nicely in the background, contributing nicely to the overall convivial atmosphere but at a comfortable level where it can be safely ignored, rather like an elderly family member at a Christmas shindig?
Following their huge single Just For Tonight, their top 10 debut album Started A Fire, a sold out tour from January to March, North Yorkshire five-piece, One Night Only have announced a new headline tour for May.
The Hold Steady spray paint a neon landscape of deadbeat dives where get-rich-quick schemes are played out by bible-quoting barflies and women of ill repute.
The release of "You are the Quarry" sees Morrissey's 7th solo album proper and a 7 year wait to follow up his last, virtually ignored release "Maladjusted".
The Wedding Present: The Complete Peel Sessions 1986-2004
David Gedge's long running friendship with the late great John Peel is lovingly documented across this 6 CD box-set.
Highlights of 2006: 12 months in the life of the Leeds music scene
Well, what a year! As we near 2007, we've been having a look back at what was hitting the news in the Leeds music scene in 2006.
A popular place with the alternative crowd, the Bassment was an impressive half full as That Fucking Tank took the stage at 8 o'clock.
Ash are a strange beast. After the success of their album '1977' back in 1997, they went all a bit mental and released 'Nu Clear Sounds', which was nothing but a disappointing mishmash of ideas, from blazing rock to nu-metal ish scratching and screaming, it was patchy at best.
Various Artists: The New Indie (Alive & Amplified For 2005)
Over the past twelve months, indie music has shot from the depths of dark and dirty underground clubs into the limelight of the mainstream.
The Pigeon Detectives: Emergency
Perhaps the most sought after album of the year thus far. 'Emergency', the second album from The Pigeon Detectives, released 2 days short of a full year since their debut blessed the ears of indie rockers everywhere.
Right, I'll get my disclaimers out of the way first: I don't write reviews anymore as a rule but it was the only way I could blag into the gig for free.
"Is this the Mighty Mighty Bosstones?" my mate said as soon as I put this CD in to play. "I used to love them." So what is it with Ska Punk?
ARMSTRONG, described by Kerrang! Magazine as "A Tornado of Infectious Pop-Rock Melodies", have cemented themselves as one of the most exciting bands in the UK thanks to a thrilling live show and chart success.
Brazil are probably the most over-underrated Leeds band not to come from Leeds. Tonight there are times in their set which opens up the night that are literally entertainment of the highest order, and at other times they drift off into a sort of in-between world where your mind wanders and you lose focus on what they are trying to do.
Having been living in the big smoke for far too long, it's a very long time since I've been to The Refectory, in fact I was still at school in an era when Year 10 was called Fifth year.
You may well have read us gush about these bright young protégés of Johnny Marr before on this site. Since seeing them simply pulverise the opposition at the In The City A&R bunfight of 2000, we've been waiting expectantly for this debut platter.
Calling all young musicians! Bright Young Things 2008 announced.
Are you the next big thing to hit the charts? Think you could follow in the footsteps of Corinne Bailey Rae or The Music?
Young Heart Attack @ Joseph's Well
I'm starting to wonder if someone's put a curse on me which has condemned me for an eternity of always missing the opening act when I go to review gigs at Joseph's Well - this is no less than the third time in a row that it's happened.
A very fine evening of music was presented by Logo Magazine in conjunction with Leeds based Uglyman Music Ltd and Stuckup Music.
We catch up with The Glitterati at their Leeds show supporting Wildhearts to talk about local music scenes, rock and roll, and record deals...
With 'Hey There Delilah' firmly planted in the Top 5 of the UK charts, this gig tonight is most definitely sold out.
New beginnings for Yorkshire's premier recording studios...
HD1 Studios, now in its 18th year, has an enviable reputation for producing music from local acts to international selling artists.
Army Of Freshmen are like young kidults with limitless energy and their live show is exhausting to watch.
Bonsai Kittens: The Big Laugh Happy Happy Joy Joy Album
It sounds just like the cover: cuddly, playful, pert, sharp clawed and perfectly miniaturised. That's all you need to know about this six-tracked litter tray of feline droppings from the Bonsai Kittens.
Why, oh why, oh why?? What is it with female bass players? Now I've been in bands with three myself and my current partner in rhythm, Miss Ravelle, is an exception to this rule...mostly anyway.
Victoria Holdsworth talks to Terrorvision's Tony Wright in Sheffield during the band's 2007 tour
Tonight was going to be another boring Monday night in as usual. I had planned to go the Faversham to see Four Day Hombre but as I hadn't got a clue where it was, and each of the maps I tried looking at all have different things on them, so I had resigned myself to not going.
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The Ebb are about to reach make or break time. Ball-busting, tribally triumphant drums soundtrack the band's rock and Borrell swagger onstage, the supremely confident singer causally sauntering across the pit before thrashing himself into a Columbia sized riff.
Interpol had to drop out due to pressing engagement catching criminals in Paris airports (actually they were doing a Peel session if I heard rightly).
Metal is on a definite upsurge at the moment, what with Limp Bizkit topping the charts and Amen on the front cover of NME and so on.
Biffy Clyro: Singles 2001-2005
A cynical attempt by Biffy Clyro's former record label to cash in on the Scottish trio's newfound popularity?
Occasionally bands with edgy names proclaiming gritty sounds can sell themselves short, others should be seriously checked under the Trade Descriptions Act.
The Ordinary Boys @ Blank Canvas
"Can anyone tell me what city I'm in?" howls the suited and booted lead Kaiser, red pin striped arms flailing at his side.
Often, during times of contemplation (for which read: "hangovers") I wonder what the point of music actually is.
There's not a great crowd down tonight, but there often isn't for opening bands so hopefully it'll fill up later.
Yet another cosmopolitan line-up, yet another eclectic yet highly accomplished night of music. This job certainly ain't getting any harder.
... A funny thing happened to me on the way to the refectory. Actually it didn't, I was just late. Almost as late in fact as the members of The Basement are for the Dylan bandwagon that they seem so keen to jump on.
Deja vu. Deja vu from the exact same time last year. Stuck in the same pokey Cockpit auxiliary room with an altogether comatose audience but nevertheless an incendiary performance from one of British rocks most talented outfits.
My day started off surreally, an early morning phone call from my old dear asking me if I've heard of a band from Sheffield, called Milburn?
Dave Sugden asks about their new record label and forthcoming single release
Charlotte Oxnard caught up with Sheffield singer songerwriter at the Faversham in Leeds
Guillemots haven't yet arrived on stage, but the dimming of lights sends the audience into a frenzy only to be silenced by the haunting vocals of Fyfe Dangerfield that magically fill the room.
Johnny Foreigner: Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
Johnny Foreigner are a strange band in that they have consistently got great reviews including a 10/10 for their debut EP 'Arcs Across The City' on Drowned For Sound and an 8/10 for this their debut album from NME, yet they still remain an unknown quantity outside of their hardcore followers and have received little hype compared to what a lot of other new bands have.
Part One of a two-part interview with Leeds band Chichino, who are set to release their new single "It Could Happen To You"
The monthly TTS, or the Tea Time Shuffle, could soon become an institution. It's Friday, it's 6 o'clock, the Hi-Fi bar is well and truly open and 3 and a half of Leeds finest bands are playing before your increasingly Southern Comforted eyes and all for just a fiver.
The Leeds four piece explain why they've never felt a part of the Leeds scene, but still have the opportunity to make it big
The Scaramanga Six @ Joseph's Well
Well blimey! I walk into Joseph's Well at about 3:20pm after standing in the pissing rain for 20 minutes outside the place (yes, you said you were opening at three!) but at least it gave me chance to sober up slightly seeing as I had been in Carpe Diem for the three previous hours and was somewhat jolly already.
With the 'forgotton' album scheduled for release soon, its about time that this interview found its way into press...
Fall Out Boy is: Patrick Stump - Vocals, Guitar Joe Trohman - Guitar Andy Hurley - Drums Pete Wentz - Bass, Backing vocals While walking across the stage to receive the MTV2 Award for "Sugar, We're Going Down," the only thing on Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz's mind was "please don't drop an f-bomb." Shortly thereafter the band, originally from suburban Chicago, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
The Lodger @ Brudenell Social Club
The Bone is 1 year old today. No longer sucking at the mother's teat of gig promotion, it's now old enough and daft enough to stand on its own 2 feet.
On the 17th December '05, I had the pleasure of meeting one of the hardest working front men in the music industry, Ian Prowse (no relation to the bloke that played Darth Vader). He is the lead singer with the band Amsterdam.
There are few bands in 2004 that can quite captivate the listener in a complete contrast of emotions like Aereogramme, we speak to singer/guitarist Craig B about the release of impending mini album "Seclusion", touring the world in a beat up transit van and... skeleton xylophones
After such a packed night on Tuesday, it was a bump back down to Earth tonight with a much smaller crowd who'd come to see four very different bands, none of which I'd seen before, so I looked forward to each one.
A hop skip and a jump into the next county and you will find these suave lads, who go by the name Ejectorseat.
In a full transcription of the interview that appeared in the May 16 issue of the YEP, Andy Roberts talks to Noble - guitarist from eclectic Bowie-esque soon-to-be superstars British Sea Power about growing up in Leeds and more...