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Hi all, some tasty content to cheer up these seemingly doom laden credit crunching days!Comments, feedback welcome...

Features

Dexter Season 1 DVD

Unmissable TV that truly murders its competition.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2718&type=Features

In Defense of the Soap

Corrie Vs Eastenders
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2708&type=Features

Interview

Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences- Part One:
Sure, the fragments of these influences are imprinted like scorch marks on the underbelly of this record. But the sum of its parts is unique, heralding a cavalcade of twisted English pop tunes that are spew out of the underground and into the dingy disco halls. In a pop world desperately short of eccentrics right now, Paul Hawkins & his Awkward Silences are simply a revelation.

We caught up with Paul Hawkins, for an exclusive in-depth interview, in the first part we talk to Paul about his musical history, ask him how he gathered the members of the Awkward silences, and find out just how did he develop that unique singing style. Finally we find out whether he thinks there's a lack of thought provoking pop being produced at the moment.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2714&type=Interviews

New acts
Eugene Mcguinness
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/band_profile.php?bandname=Eugene McGuinness

Theo
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/band_profile.php?bandname=Theo

Reviews
Pulled apart by horses
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2715&type=Singles
Mogwai
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2712&type=Albums
Gregory and the hawk
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2710&type=Singles
The Verve
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2707&type=Albums
What's eating Gilbert Grape
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2711&type=Albums
The Wedding Present, The Resistance Live
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2713&type=Live
Ten Kens
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2709&type=Albums
Flo Rida featuring Will.i.am
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2716&type=Singles
Hulk
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2717&type=Albums

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http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2721&type=Interviews

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2725&type=Features

Hi all

A big week here at GIITTV towers.....

Firstly we announce our latest singles club release and its a special one:

GIITTV singles club to release 'Selfish Bachelor' by The Melting Ice Caps

The Melting Ice Caps is the solo guise of former Luxembourg frontman David Shah. Though this is his second single, it's the first one to be entirely self-produced. It's released as a free download through the God Is In The TV Singles Club on the 20th of October.

Lead track 'Selfish Bachelor' is a swirling, oddly uplifting marriage of dirty guitars, pulsating electronica and perhaps the most candid lyric David has ever put his name to. Meanwhile, b-side 'How To Appear Well-Adjusted' is chamber pop par excellence, with violins and accordions wrapped around a blackly comic guide to surviving daily life.

This will be available to God Is In The TV Zine users only for the first month, before being made free to download to all afterwards.
The Melting Ice Caps – Single#2

1. Selfish Bachelor
2. How To Appear Well-Adjusted

Initially very much a studio-based project, the Melting Ice Caps is now a going concern on the London gig circuit, and Shah has already received glowing reviews for these early (almost entirely solo) performances.

http://www.myspace.com/themeltingicecaps
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk

Interview:
Laurel Collective are a multinational six piece - comprising members hailing from Wales, England, Nigeria and Italy – this week they release their shimmering tale of long distance relationships, and for one night banishing the world's bad news International Love Affair it's one of the highlights from their recent debut mini-album Feel Good Hits of a Nuclear Winter.

The band have been gathering a legion of fans throughout the summer off the back of winning festival sets at Glastonbury, Great Escape and Dot to Dot. Laurel Collective will be hosting a special single launch at Barden’s Boudoir on Thursday 25th September. So we thought we'd have a mini verbal love in with Bob one of their frontmen in the Laurels. A band who are offering the kind of refreshingly expressive darkly humourous, synth dappled, guitar pop that bobs its head above the crowd, thus gaining them welcome rotation here at GIITTV towers.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2735&type=Interviews

Feature:
Owain Paciuszko checks out Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Mercury Rev, The Mountain Goats, Bon Iver, and Shearwater at the end of the road festival 2008:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2725&type=Features

Film reviews

Die Welle(The Wave)
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2724&type=Film

Tropic Thunder- the controversial new Ben Stiller war movie parody:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2723&type=Film

Pineapple Express
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2722&type=Film

Record/band/live reviews:

The Walkmen, right now a better bet than interpol?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2737&type=Albums

dEUS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2736&type=Singles

Flobots
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2734&type=Albums

Talk Less, Say More
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2733&type=Albums

The OUtline
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2729&type=Albums

The Academy is, We the kings
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2731&type=Live

Weezer
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2728&type=Singles

RiD
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2727&type=Albums

Cool new acts:
The Pains of being pure at heart
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2732&type=Singles

Me and the major
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2726&type=Demos

Jay Reatard
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2730&type=Albums

You can have your say on that lot here:
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Cheers
Bill
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2745&type=Features

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2761&type=Features

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/listings_home.php

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2771&type=Interviews

Hey guys another busy busy week at GIITTV so busy in fact that I'm just going to have to give you selected highlights and come back early next week with everything! Nevermind! I think you'll agree that these highlights are well GOOD!

WIN AC/DC STUFF!!

We're giving away a load of related prizes, we've got a copy of the DVD, AC/DC t-shirts and best of all a pair tickets to the AC/DC event @ the Gibson rooms(Rathbone street) on London's West End on the 14th October, where the lucky winner will be one of the first to hear the new album!! According to organizers 'It should be an amazing night!! Album playback, DVD watching & lots of AC/DC related fun!'

To be in with a chance of winning one of these prizes simply tell us the name of the band's two brothers, both founding members of AC/DC. Send your answers to bill@godisinthetvzine.co.uk by the 11th of October. Winner will win a selection of prizes as well as a pair of tickets to the playback. Runner up gets a shirt and DVD.

Interviews

Arrows of Love
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2792&type=Interviews

Win tickets to see them !!

GIITTV is giving away two free tickets to the debut headline performance from Arrows of Love in the Scala, Kings Cross, London October 14th (and the *ahem* hush hush after-party, in a venue to be announced on the night).

To get your mits on these exclusive tickets and make your own mind up about the band’s songs simply answer this piss simple question:

In which former group was Nima lead vocalist? Was it

A/Hush the Many (Heed the Few)

B/ Boyzone

C/ Doritos’ Cool original flavour crisps

Answers on a postcard (email) to bill@godisinthetvzine.co.uk

Tilly And the wall
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2771&type=Interviews

Features:
Hydro connect Festival

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2770&type=Features

Superman Revenge Squad- album- track by track
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2761&type=Features

New band
Miumi
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/band_profile.php?bandname=MIUMI

Reviews
Albums of the week:

Gregory and the Hawk album gets five stars:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2795&type=Albums

Eugene Mcguiness
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2774&type=Albums

The Ascent of Everest
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2786&type=Albums

Popular Workshop
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2787&type=Albums

Average type stuff:

The Streets
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2788&type=Albums

Keane
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2785&type=Singles

Some stuff gets slated
The Courteeners

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2794&type=Singles

Sky Larkin

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2793&type=Singles

Phil Campbell
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2791&type=Albums

Caught Live

British sea power
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2775&type=Live

Spinto Band
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2779&type=Live

Ladyhawke
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2777&type=Live

Kasms
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2789&type=Live

The Automatic
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2783&type=Live

Films
Redbelt
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2765&type=Film
Taken
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2772&type=Film

Our new full Listings section is open for buisness add your gigs!!:
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Have a good weekend, Bill x

Hi kids.

Two things before I go on, we've got a gig in Cardiff on the 11th of November. Featuring Popular Workshop, The French Quarter and Heck try and come!More details here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=39786763495

Also on Monday we release David Shah's(Ex of Luxembourg) excellent free download single 'Selfish Bachelor'it will appear here:

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2769&type=Features

Interview:
Wild Beasts

Hailing originally from Kendall, but currently residing across the Pennines in Leeds, Wild Beasts are currently supporting Foals on their (mostly) sold-out UK tour. Before they hit the road, Helen Newbery caught up with bassist (and occasional vocalist) Tom to find out, amongst other things, what real wild beasts he could take on.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2805&type=Interviews

Paul Mcartney's EX PA launches Pop career:
Of all the drinks you could choose on a rare, hot, Sunday lunchtime in October, I would suspect that mint tea would be low on your list. Meeting in the bustle of Kentish Town, I spent a little time with Holly Dearden: the woman who, up until very recently, was the personal assistant of Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. With her debut album ‘The Optimist’s Daughter’ scheduled for launch on Thursday, 16th October – it somehow seemed inappropriate to question her selection of beverage.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2806&type=Features

WIN TEAM WATERPOLO TICKETS!
We've got a pair of tickets to give away to the following dates:

Sunday 19th Oct York Fibbers
Monday 20th Oct Sheffield Plug
Thursday 23rd Oct Hull Adelphi
Friday 24th Oct Darlington Inside Out
Saturday 25th Oct Stoke Sugarmill

Simply tell us the name of Team Waterpolo's new label home?
Send your answers and date preference to teamwaterpolo.uk@gmail.com By the 18th of October! So get your answers in quick!

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1389

Reviews

Somebody's Mind:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2810&type=Albums

Esser
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2809&type=Singles

John Cale's tribute to Nico show
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2807&type=Live

Metronomy
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2804&type=Albums

The Qemists
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2803&type=Singles

Paul Kelly
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2802&type=Albums

Oxygen Thief
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2801&type=Demos

Me My Head
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2800&type=Live

Foals/Wild Beasts live
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2798&type=Live

Born Ruffians live
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2797&type=Live

Check out our new listings service:
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Cheers Bill
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and dusted. just

and dusted. just added my band 'SilverSky'

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2817&type=Features

Hi all, three huge interviews this week
Charlie Brooker: On Dead Set

The first rule of writing is “write about what you love”. If you love something, your passion for it will come through in the writing, and will be infectious. For Charlie Brooker, writing about what he loves is not always easy - he's a TV critic, which, by definition, means that sometimes he has to write about things he does not love - indeed, about things he absolutely loathes. And, as readers of his hugely popular Screen Burn column will testify, Charlie Brooker often loathes some of the programmes he reviews.

But now the poacher has turned gamekeeper (or should that be the other way around?) as the critic has written a new TV series, Dead Set, which he describes as a zombie romp set in the Big Brother house. And here, Brooker is definitely writing about what he loves, because he is absolutely infatuated with zombies. If there's a shambling member of the undead in it, he's seen it, probably has the box set, and may well know it by heart.

Here, Brooker talks about why zombies do it for him, how men in berets are welcome to watch the series, and the problems associated with having bug-eyes.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2840&type=Interviews

Mystery Jets
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2836&type=Interviews

Funeral For A Friend
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2828&type=InterviewsWin tickets to the Slipped Disco Vs Hell Yeah records night

We've got four tickets to give away to Slipped Disco Vs Hell Yeah Recordings: Label Showcase night on the 15th of November at Last Days of Decadence venue on Shoreditch High Street. Simply tell us the name of the name of the Moshi Moshi act from Norway appearing at the event and send your answers to bill@godisinthetvzine.co.uk by the 10th of November.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1428

Check out our new singles club release from Ex Luxembourg Frontman David Shah, its been gathering impressive reviews:

'His love of filthy pop and throbbing synths are back, now with operatic vocals. Delicious' John Earls, Planet Sound

'Selfish Bachelor’ is just one beautiful track and the outro may reduce some to tears (Or maybe that’s just me).
Music like dirt

'The music flitted between early Soft Cell-esque electropop and more orchestral bits recalling early Divine Comedy and fitted the witty and touching lyrics like a glove.'
PopNCherries

'An intimate work of guise and poise'Audioscribbler

ASIDE -THE MELTING ICE CAPS- SELFISH BACHELOR
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/mp3s/selfish%20bachelor.mp3
BSIDE-THE MELTING ICE CAPS- HOW TO APPEAR WELL-ADJUSTED
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/mp3s/How%20To%20Appear%20Well-Adjusted.mp3

Selected GIITTV reviews:
Album of the week: Of Montreal
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2832&type=Albums

The Research
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2841&type=Singles

The Last Shadow Puppets
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2839&type=Live

Exit Calm
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2838&type=Live

Young At Heart
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2837&type=Albums

Hold Fire
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2835&type=Singles

The Secret Machines
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2834&type=Albums

May Contain Nuts
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2831&type=Singles

Lovvers
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2830&type=Albums

Oasis live
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2829&type=Live

Rhythm Method
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2827&type=Demos

Oasis album
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2826&type=Albums

Disagree?Agree? Have your say on that lot here:
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Cheers
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looking for new writers

SWNpreview/GIITTVgigtonight/TheCure/Tubelord/QuantumOfSolace
Hey all!

If you're in Cardiff tonight, we've got a gig in the Buffalo bar doors open at 7.30pm it would be great to see you.Peforming are Steve Albini produced Popular Workshop, Scots The French quarter who have been working with one of Mogwai's producers, they've been compared to Mogwai funnily enough along with Arab strap,Interpol and the National(they're doing a spillers instore at 5.15pm) and hotly tipped local types Heck:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=39786763495
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2851&type=Features

SWN IS SOON: A FESTIVAL PREVIEW:

SWN FESTIVAL 2008. SWN means 'sound' especially of a loud, harsh confused kind, deafeaning noises. There will be plenty of it during this festival of music, art and film taking place across Venues in Cardiff, from the 14th to the 16th November 2008 (with opening night party on 13th November).

In its second year the event founded and organised by local movers DJ Huw Stevens and label honcho John Rostron takes on more of a local feel, rooting it self more firmly to the bosom of the Welsh music scene, thus local acts now make up the bulk of this year's line up. Alongside new buzzy indie acts: who have made the trip across the Severn and complemented by more established names on larger independent labels. Whilst this year's line up has drawn some criticism for not being different enough to many of the gigs that already take place throughout the year in Cardiff, its fair to say that if you’ve got the stamina you’ll get a lot of bang for you bucks at this year’s event.

One feels this year's SWN is attempting to bring some of what makes In The City so successful in Manchester to the Welsh Capitol, a diversity of acts that will get fans, labels, talking and enjoying new music. Whilst retaining what is interesting and idiosyncratic about Cardiff as a musical hotbed.

Cardiff residents and GIITTV writers Bill Cummings, Owain Paciuszko and Alex Skinner have been sieving for gold in SWN’s sprawling, eclectic line up. Whilst not forgetting the music documentary and music-related film nights in Chapter and multi media seminars in The Atrium building that will lead the way into the main weekend's events of SWN 08. So get your wall planner at the ready, and your marker pen poised to chart your journey through SWN, pay attention at the back, we’ll be taking questions at the end.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2871&type=Features

The Cure: Still Godlike?

The Cure recently released their new album 4:13 Dream through Geffen Records. GIITTV's deputy editor Fliss Collier looks at the new album, and considers what the Cure's new release lacks.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2869&type=Features

Reality TV can be saved
Reality TV was never meant to happen. No one ever wanted to invent it, not in it's present form, anyway. The continuous parade of desperate simpletons endlessly manipulated by cynical editing in order to grab at ratings by giving Heat Magazine something to write about, that was all an accident. The original aim of the shows now seen as pioneers of the genre was a degree of realism, whilst they were always intended to be fairly light entertainment the objective was to cover what’s real. It was a simple premise: Someone’s life is interesting enough for it to occupy all of their time, so surely there must be enough going on to fill a decent half-hour TV show.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2852&type=Features

Interviews:
Tubelord
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2850&type=Interviews
You Me At Six
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2868&type=Interviews

Live reviews:
FFAF
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2866&type=Live
The Walkmen
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2870&type=Live
Vampire Weekend/Ra Ra Riot
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2856&type=Live
JAMC, black box recorder, bsp
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2853&type=Live
Tilly and the wall
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2842&type=Live
Last Shadow puppets
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2839&type=Live
BSP
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2849&type=Live
Spiritualized/Shortwaveset
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2847&type=Live

Record reviews:

Elspeth Anne Macrae
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2865&type=Demos
Kate Goes
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2864&type=Demos
Euros Childs
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2855&type=Albums
Those Dancing Days
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2860&type=Albums
Target Nine
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2859&type=Singles
Arms
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2858&type=Singles
Milky Wimpshake
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2857&type=Singles
The Hot Puppies
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2867&type=Singles
Liquid Liquid
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2862&type=Singles
Jenny Lewis
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2854&type=Albums
The Foxes
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2861&type=Singles

Film Review

Quantum of Solace
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2863&type=Film

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Hi all, another busy week here at GIITTV! Here are the site highlights!

Features:
THE RACE: TAKE A STAKE IN A BAND
The music industry is in a state of flux, the major labels are haemorrhaging acts and jobs at a increasing rate, some record sales are down, and the digital download is taking over. Yet some acts are realising that now more than ever they have the chance to determine the methods of distributing, funding and promoting their music to their fans, in the coming months we shall look at a few, who are using increasingly ingeneous ways to get themselves heard.

Hailing from Reading and with a reputation for Epic, Heart on their sleeves guitar noise band The Race are one act determined to spread the word organically, from the bottom up, funding their new record through a stakeholder scheme where fans who in invest in it will share the proceeds.Plus they've been spreading their music using viral sample copies of their album on CD, and playing in people's houses, gyms, offices anywhere their stakeholders desire!

The Race’s vocalist Dan Buchanan told me more ‘its a plan whereby we get the album funded at the level we think it deserves and people get to join us in sharing in its profits for the next five years, hopefully the shared ownership of it all will help in its promotion through word of mouth and perhaps contacts in a similar way to the Pass It On campaign.’ From pop stars to family members everyone got in on the act ‘We have some very interesting stakeholders,some of them quite celebrated, others are alot closer to home/earth like my sister.’

With a shifting music industry is the future in more acts funding their own records, or asking fans to help out?Taking even more control of their future direction? How is the live music scene going to evolve since this is where most acts make any revenue at present?

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2883&type=Features
Interviews:

THE DISPLACEMENTS

The Displacements are a sprightly young bunch of upstarts from Leicester, resurrecting the Stiff Records legend (home of Madness, and all things Ska and two-tone, founded in 1976) and giving it new life with their brand of sleek, sometimes ska-esque, guitar pop ruckus. Live, The Displacements have as much sheen as The Killers, with seductive hooks and jaunty rhythm. For a band so young, they are one tight and profession unit. They've been tipped by one Peter Hook, and had glowing praise from ex-Factory Records' Kevin Hewick who said 'one day people will boast of seeing them in this magical early era'.

GIITTV's Miss Fliss had a chat with Nicholas Paul Eversfield whose role in the band is 'bass and occasional vocal cries' who describes himself as 'angry and great looking'.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2882&type=Interviews

CHRIS TT
Chris T-T is a man of many marvels. His music and writing keep him ever busy, while his wit and clever songs gain him continued attention from critics and fans alike. I caught up with Chris supporting his pal, Frank Turner, on one of his biggest tours to date, to chat about life in the world of today.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2877&type=Interviews

New Band: The All New Adventures of us:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/band_profile.php?bandname=The%20All%20New%20Adventures%20Of%20Us

Should TOTP return?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1465

TDD cover Britney!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1460
Reviews:
Live
Mercury Rev
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2881&type=Live
Records
Howling Bells
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2884&type=Singles
Sway
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2887&type=Albums
Late Of The Pier
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2886&type=Singles
Buraka Som Sistema
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2879&type=Albums
Psychedelia Three
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2876&type=Albums
Frankmusik
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2873&type=Singles
The Quarter After
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2880&type=Albums
Fauna Valetta
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2888&type=Albums
Stricken City
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2878&type=Singles
Deep Cut
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2875&type=Singles
Chris TT
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2874&type=Singles
John Barrowman
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2885&type=Singles
Chopps Derby
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2872&type=Singles

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Hi all,

another busy week at GIITTV!Check out our latest content below feel free to have your say on our forums!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum

Our albums of 08 poll is coming later this week...

INTERVIEWS

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Fresh out of New York city and armed with only four chords, the wonderfully named four piece, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, are lifting spirits this winter making us swoon for by gone days with their scuffy indie pop sound. These 'perpetual teens’ creatively join the dots between C86, the shoegaze of My Bloody Valentine and latter day indie torch-holders Belle & Sebastian and Teenage Fanclub. Their rather fine new single Everything With You is out now and they're coming over to tour with The Wedding Present in the UK this December. So GIITTV's Bill Cummings and Fliss Collier thought what better time to catch up with the band's co vocalist and guitarist Kip Berman for a few words…

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2893&type=Interviews

Attack! Attack!

GIITTV's Emma Jackson met up with vocalist Neil from up and coming Welsh rockers Attack! Attack! currently on tour adding their support to Funeral for a Friend.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2917&type=Interviews

FEATURES

SWN in Review Part Two
In part two of our Swn Festival retropsective, Alex Skinner gives us the highlights of his majestic Swn weekend.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2911&type=Features

SWN in Review Part One
In part one of our Swn festival review Owain Paciuszko takes us through his highlights of the festival that spanned Cardiff's venues during the week of Swn from the 14th to the 16th November 2008 (with opening night party on 13th November).
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2904&type=Features

THWFOS Winter give-away
Their Hearts Were Full Of Sping return with gorgeous new single 'Winter' featuring their unique interpretations of Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal and Neil Young’s classic Winterlong. Both will be free to download exclusively from http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk from the 15th of December 2008.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2894&type=Features

FEATURED BANDS:
VIVIAN GIRLS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/band_profile.php?bandname=Vivian%20Girls
SNOWDEN
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/band_profile.php?bandname=Snowden
PROTEST THE HERO
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/band_profile.php?bandname=Protest%20The%20Hero

REVIEWS:

THE LUCKSMITHS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2916&type=Albums
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2898&type=Singles
GREG WEEKS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2915&type=Albums
NEW VINYL
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2914&type=Singles
MGMT
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2913&type=Singles
TOBY WAINWRIGHT JOHNS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2912&type=Demos
PAVEMENT
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2910&type=Albums
NEW RHODES
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2903&type=Singles
SASH!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2902&type=Singles
AMADOU AND MARIAM
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2901&type=Albums
HAIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2909&type=Singles
GALLERY 47
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2900&type=Demos
SUTUREE
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2899&type=Demos
MCFLY- LIVE
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2908&type=Live
THE BPA
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2897&type=Singles
DOC MUSTARD
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2896&type=Singles
IDA MARIA - LIVE
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2905&type=Live
SCOUTING FOR GIRLS- LIVE
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2909&type=Singles

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Hi there, I hope you're wrapped up warm, its one more update from GIITTV zine, before Christmas. So merry christmas to each and everyone of you. We should hopefully have the results and write up of our Reader's Top 30 albums of 08 ready on Monday, we shall also reveal our Writer's Top 50 list in order of preference...
So yeah this is the last update and its a special one...

2008 with The Indelicates!!
The Indelicates’debut album American Demo features in GIITTV’s top ten readers’ favourite Albums of 2008, with its lyrical masterfulness, slick indie pop sensibility, and wry stabs at mass pop culture. Miss Fliss caught up with protagonists Julia and Simon after their energetic Cambridge gig, which took in a Christmas cover of The Pogues‘ Fairytale of New York. As we huddled around a doorway in the icy December climate, we dissected 2008.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2976&type=Features

Circa Regna Tonat

Cardiff’s Circa Regna Tonat are a curious beast, a band that almost cry out for contradictions to be written about them; odd, harsh, beautiful and bold. Their first EP, ‘Lightswitch Impulses, featured all manner of different sounds and feelings, with perhaps the term ‘post-rock’ anchoring the most meaning to their sound. Their second EP ‘Dance-Off with a Triceratops' is brought forward by a more focused band, writing better songs. Progressive rock indeed!

God Is In The TV’s Marcus Warner caught up with Dan from the band...

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2975&type=Interviews

Dananananaykroyd

It's getting cold, fucking cold, and this can only mean one thing: another year is starkly drawing to a close, bringing cries of 'Hurrah! Another year, surely this one will be better...' To summarise what was unmistakably 2008, we at GIITTV relentlessly pestered those lads and ladesses of Dananananaykroyd to help us wrap-up, a task which David Roy was only too happy to aid.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2961&type=Interviews

Sweet Baboo
Northwalian born, now Cardiff based cult solo artist Sweet Baboo a.k.a Stephen Black, has been quietly building a reputation with his darkly comical brand of bittersweet, acoustic alt country. It has drawn admiring glances from everyone from Mark Riley and Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6) to Daniel Johnston who asked him to back him up on the Cardiff leg of his European tour. With the release of his debut album ‘The Mighty Baboo’ on his very own Business man records earlier this year, GIITTV's Marcus Warner caught up with Steve, for a chat about his past, present and future of the Sweet Baboo.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2951&type=Interviews

Blur:

So Blur have reformed and are to do a set of gigs. A nostalgia fest has ensued, NME digging out Parklife era mod casual Blur shots, and writing about the band in layman’s terms for the benefit of younger readers who missed out on them first time around, and it all just feels too soon since (a) the band suspended work, and (b) they were at their most creative and successful peak. Is it worth going to see the band at this juncture? Or was the whole affair better as a closed book?
Blur have reformed for a few gigs in Hyde park next year: How do you feel about it???

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2973&type=Features

THWFOS- Winter downloads- cover Neil Young and Fleet Foxes:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2962&type=Features

Selected reviews:
Frightened Rabbit live:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2971&type=Live

The Lines
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2974&type=Albums
Bon Iver
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2963&type=Singles
Ania et Le Promgrammeur
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2970&type=Demos

Christmas compilations from
Cherryade
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2972&type=Albums

Filthy Little Angels
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2977&type=Albums

Sneaky Sound System
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2968&type=Albums

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Hello!

Happy New year!!

Here's a bumper new year update from GIITTV zine!! So hang on to your hats!

Features:

Tips for 09: Part One.

The beginning of a new year is a starting gun for the endless Tips for This Year lists - you know, those articles in major publications and broadsheets that often become smug self-fulfilling prophecies, stuffed with acts that have such a big backing, that it's little wonder that they achieve success.

At GIITTV, we do things differently - we tip bands throughout the year - just check our 'demos' and 'singles' section for countless examples of our support for exciting, emerging, unsigned, big and small label music. But, as is customary, here is our contribution to the whole tipping race. More than a traditional list we've read or bands we've been told to tip, these are acts that we are genuinely personally excited by, and those we think deserve more recognition. They don't have to be destined for 'the big time, baby’ (although some of them undoubtedly are) but they all have one thing in common: personality; and the fact that they have caught the ear of one of GIITTV's esteemed writers. So in part one, Fliss Collier and Marcus Warner, present our first five Tips for 09.

The Joy Formidable, Hearts Of Black Science, My Teenage Stride, It Hugs Back, The Arteries

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3005&type=Features

More News from Nowhere: featuring Zavvi, Ron Asheton, Patrick Wolf, Glasto news

In the first in a regular series of music news round ups, GIITTV news sub editor Simon Caitling looks at the effect of the credit crunch on the music business, news from the music boards, and the sad death of legendary Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3001&type=Features

Interviews:

Matt Elliot

Electronic pioneer (Bristol’s experimental tone-setting acts Flying Saucer Attack, and Third Eye Foundation) and long-standing musical mind in the Domino Records stable, Matt Elliot is a solo artist in his own right - and on his own terms. He left his native Bristol for the more receptive (and politically, more attractive) climes of France and now Spain, where his intricate weaves of introspective folk music are ecstatically welcomed. With tinges of eastern European dolour, his loops of guitars with a voice that this time around ‘howls’, Matt Elliot’s recent album took in a political edge (his sleeve notes show outrage at terrorism and war, pointing the finger at American and British Governments and delivers lyrics like: If you’re going to top yourself anyway / then why not bomb the stock exchange). Just don’t ask about 9/11, warns Matt, as GIITTV's deputy editor Fliss Collier interviews him about music, sadness, and politics

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2998&type=Interviews

KYTE

As we gaze with optimism into the fresh sheets of paper that are the opening days of 2009, we decided to ask one of 2008's rising acts, Leicester based electro flecked dream pop outfit Kyte, for a overview of a year that included the release of their the album back in February (that's hushed emotional vocals, twitchy electronic sweeps and building instrumentals drew favourable comparisons with Maps, Sigur Ros and Spiritualized). 2008 also saw Kyte constantly touring, major festival appearances, a two-page feature in the NME and the announcement of a big set of tour supports with School of Seven bells at the tail end of last year, so things are shaping up nicely for the band in 09. Considering they're only 21, and they still don't have a proper deal! Kyte vocalist Nick kindly wrote a piece under the heading:

"A year in the Life of Kyte"
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2994&type=Interviews

Talking Points:
FLEET FOXES, ROOTS MANUVA AND COLDPLAY WIN BEST ART VINYL 2008
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=112162100&catst=music#foot

Are Cds dying?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=109180838&catst=music#foot
'Hallelujah' is tenth worst cover version of all time?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=112154606&catst=music#foot

Videos:

Morrissey
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1554

Franz Ferdinand
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1551

Pete and the Pirates
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1555

Reviews:

Babyshambles live
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3011&type=Live

End of the road review: broken family band, Jeremy Warmsley
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3010&type=Live

Lanterns on the lake
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2991&type=Demos

Kontakte
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2997&type=Albums

Matt Elliot
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2995&type=Albums

The Loves
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3006&type=Singles

Fight Like Apes
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3003&type=Singles

Sports day Megaphone
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3008&type=Singles

Built By Snow
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3002&type=Demos

The Inevitable backlash
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2999&type=Demos

The Holloways
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2996&type=Singles

Charlie Parr
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2993&type=Albums

Juruda music
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3007&type=Albums

The Spirit: film review
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3000&type=Film

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Hello! Welcome to another GIITTV update.

Tips for 09: Part Two

In the second part of GIITTV zine's Tips for 2009, Sel Bulut and Simon Caitling delve deeper to bring you a selection of acts from potential mainstream breakers(Grammatics, Empire Of The Sun), to artists hoping to make a continuing push with new releases(Esser, Maths Class, Napoleon IIIrd) and a band just starting out with promise(With That Knife).

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3020&type=Features

In his second news round up Simon Caitling looks at the implications of the IFPI's legal download figures, Radiohead Re-releases, plus release news from Bat for Lashes, The Prodigy and Neil Young. Plus he treads the boards with the Animal Collective’s much lauded new album ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ the subject of much praise

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3014&type=Features

The Futureheads
Sunderland's favourite four piece band played Cardiff's brand new venue Sub 29 last December, and Emma Murphy had the pleasure of catching up with Ross Mullard (guitar/ vocals) a few hours before they stunned an eager waiting crowd in the Welsh Capitol.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3015&type=Interviews

Talking points: The Brits nominations any good?Who should win?Who cares?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=121132822&catst=music#foot

95% of all downloads in 08 illegal?Any ideas how to combat this problem?

Bad news consumers: we’ve been pissing off the Music industry again. IFPI’s 2009 report on the Digital Music say that 95% of all downloads in the last year were unauthorised.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3014&type=Features

Watch the new Animal collective video!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1574

Oscar Nominations revealed
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=122225612&catst=culture#foot

Franz Ferdinand ARE BACK!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3016&type=Singles

Sky Larkin are ravishing!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3019&type=Albums

White Lies?Worthy of the hype?Or more cynical 80s pastiche?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3022&type=Albums

Reviews:
The Phantom Band
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3024&type=Albums
They came from the stars I saw them
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3023&type=Singles
Sunday School
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3018&type=Demos
The Firemen
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3012&type=Albums
Those Gay Hippies
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3021&type=Demos
Muarena Helena
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3013&type=Demos
Clock work radio
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3017&type=Demos

Gindrinker, Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences, Alex Dingley, Superman Revenge Squad (RELOCATED TO CLWB IFOR BACH) Cardiff, 27/02/09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114268490390

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Emmy The Great finally releases her eagerly awaited self produced and self released debut album First Love on February 9th. An album that sees Hong Kong born, London based songwriter Emma-Lee Moss aka Emmy The Great and her band, fulfill the promise they’ve shown for the past few years. If the beguiling first single ‘We Almost Had A Baby’ (the tale of a floundering relationship suddenly facing unplanned permanence), whetted your appetite then you won’t be disappointed. First Love is a beautifully observed album exhibiting Emma's quality songwriting her sighing tones weaving intricate, at times stark pictures of the fleeting life affirming moments and relationship trauma that pervade her world. It's fleshed out by the entire outfit’s passive aggressive music, pared back folksy, bittersweet, pop tunes. 2009 could be the year Emmy The Great does a ‘Laura Marling’ crossing into wider recognition that her first long-playing record deserves. We caught up with Emma for a chat on the eve of its release for a chat about her relationship with Alexandra, her past, her work, the album ‘First love’ and potential fights between Jeremy Warmsley and Lightspeed Champion.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3028&type=Interviews

In part three of GIITTV’s series of Tips for 09, we throw some curveballs your way(Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, Songs from the Shows) nail some obvious acts to the tipping mast(Emmy The Great, and Little Boots) and run up more lesser known bands worthy of more of your attention, up the flag pole(The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Northern Portrait). Some of the following may break into the mainstream some may not, but we tip them because we like what they're doing, and think they will produce great things in the following year.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3032&type=Features

Spotify is it useful?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=123151008&catst=general#foot
Are you off to the NME tour?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=125233718&catst=music#foot
Oasis to headline Benicàssim 09
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=1584&catst=news#foot
Trail of dead return
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=1577&catst=news#foot

Highlighted reviews:

Franz Ferdinand
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3026&type=Albums
The Phantom Band
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3025&type=Albums
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3029&type=Albums
Asobi Seksu
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3030&type=Singles

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Hey welcome to your friendly GIITTV zine update:
Firstly we have two interviews with up and coming acts:
Interviews:

Elephants

Oxfordshire label, Vacuous Pop has a history of providing bands and artists with their first steps in the dog eat dog world that is the music industry. New signings Elephants, hope that they are set to follow in the footsteps of Youthmovies, the now sadly defunct Help She Can’t Swim and members of The Edmund Fitzgerald and Diego Garcia who have gone on to greater success with Foals and Fuck Buttons respectively. http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3051&type=Interviews

Caesars Rome

Caesars Rome are a Welsh band who write songs that warm the heart; genuine, huge sounding emotional rock without any nods to false sentimentality. They appear to have a bit of the Midas touch thus far, with a label and support slots with Funeral For Friend already in the bag, but it appears from speaking to them for God Is In The TV, that this is only the beginning.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3045&type=Interviews

Talking points:
What bands will the naughties be remembered for?
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Ticketmaster Live Nation merger threatens live music- Says Bruce Springsteen
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Featured album review:

Grammatics

Landfill indie”- a term coined quite wonderfully by The Word magazine- finally seemed to be on the way out last year, albeit slowly. For every Scouting For Girls celebrating the homecoming of Britain’s Olympic team there was a Fratellis album in sharp free fall, whilst for every new Razorlight release there was a Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong canning their own release plans. Jubilation at any of this was somewhat offset however by the fact that in its place no one seems to really know what to do other than turn to the 80s (of all decades) for inspiration; and so within the last twelve months we’ve seen the NME jump from Crystal Castles to Late Of The Pier and now White Lies in desperate attempts at scene cultivation. Meanwhile the BBC struggled to think of any British guitar bands of note to tip in their Sounds of 2009 list, which begs the question: is there still room for guitar bands in the late noughties? Landfill indie may be the dearth of creativity but there’s certainly some argument that many of the proceeding acts have truly replaced it with anything much more boundary exploring.

Where Grammatics fit in is by not fitting in at all; the Leeds group are the antithesis to every Courteneers or View on the planet, and yet they also stand a mile away from the increasing torrent of electro-throwback type bands that are coming out of the woodwork. The band’s opening trio of singles- Shadow Committee, D.I.L.E.M.M.A and The Vague Archive (all included on this debut) hinted at a group who weren’t afraid to fall on their sword; and this LP proves that like Leeds-peers and last year’s bright prospect Wild Beasts, the four-piece are willing to put themselves up on a pedestal for target practice thanks to the sheer theatricality and pomposity of their work. Unlike Wild Beasts though, there’s not a cheeked tongue in sight; Grammatics the message is clear: this is what we sound like, you either like us or you don’t.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3048&type=Albums

Feature:

The Camden Crawl is back this time with a new sponsor Gaymers Cider, the 2009 event is taking place in April between the in 40 venues across Camden, including a new addition this year - the historic Camden Roundhouse, with over 150 artists (some huge names to be announced shortly).

In recent years, the Crawl has seen the likes of Kate Nash, Mystery Jets, Klaxons, The Cribs, Noah & The Whale, Adele, The Kooks, Calvin Harris, Sway, The Fratellis, Lethal Bizzle, Cage The Elephant, Hot Chip and Sam Sparro cut their teeth in Camden Town amongst such legends as Buzzcocks, Billy Bragg, The Charlatans, Moby, The Damned, Amy Winehouse and Echo & The Bunnymen. The 2009 Gaymers Camden Crawl, scheduled to take place Friday 24th and Saturday 25th April, is sure to follow in the footsteps of its predecessors featuring a host of new acts converging in one huge queuing location to launch the festival season. The 2009 Crawl will, in addition to its line-up of live music acts, also feature an array of interactive daytime activities and cutting edge performances across the arts, including visual art, arts & crafts, bingo & quizzes, comedy, short films, speed hating, spoken word, theatre, and more.

The programme kicks off from midday on Friday the 24th until the wee hours of the following Sunday. Upon arrival each ticket holder will be presented with an all-access wristband, programme guide, timetable and free download album to help plot his/her day’s adventure. ‘Crawlers’ are granted unlimited access to all official festival venues featuring more than 150 live artists, daytime activities & arts programme and after show parties capacity permitting. GIITTV zine caught up with Camden Crawl organizer for a Lisa Paulon, to ask her just what she has in store for this year’s events, and to find out how you can apply to play.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3053&type=Features

Reviews:
Little Death/Three Trapped tigers live
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3054&type=Live
Kerrang Tour
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3052&type=Live
Bloc Party Live
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3049&type=Live
Emmy The Great
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3046&type=Albums
Lights Action
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3039&type=Albums
Picture Books In Winter
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3041&type=Singles
Wintersleep
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3038&type=Albums
Lord Skywave
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3037&type=Singles
Parlotones
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3043&type=Singles
Eugene Mcguiness
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3044&type=Singles
Dent May
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3040&type=Albums
Dead Letter Office
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3042&type=Singles
The Prodigy
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3050&type=Singles
Before All Time
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Hey another busy week here at GIITTV heights. We’re hopefully going to be announcing some exciting site improvements soon including a blogs section, if you’d like to get involved don’t hesitate!

Site highlights:

AKIRA THE DON VS STREETFIGHTER

GIITTV spoke exclusively to ace Welsh rapper/remixer Akira The Don(born Adam Narkiewicz).

His second album 'The Life Equation" is released later this year, which he promises is 'a massive pop record - massive and pop like New Order, or Meatloaf, or The Supremes'In advance he's put together an exclusive free track to celebrate the release of Street Fighter 4.

Appropriately named 'Street Fighter', another idiosyncratic joint from the magician of samples, featuring three rappers skitting on Childhood fights it's a grimey slice of old school hip-hop containing mashed up sound bites from the classic 90s arcade title.

If you ever played Street Fighter back in the day, at home on your SNES or in a grubby seafront arcade, this is going to be a big nostalgia trip - check it out here:

http://www.akirathedon.com/2009/02/music-akira-the-don-ft-big-narstie-littles-lickle-p-streetfighter-i-will-f-u-up/
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Sing on a BPA track!Win their album!

Norman Cook's brainchild the BPA released their album last week featuring guest vocals from the likes of Emmy The Great, Lateef, Martha Wainwright, Jamie T, David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal, Iggy Pop, Olly Hite, Connan Mockasin, Pete York (singer) Jack Penate. There's worldwide competition they're running to celebrate the event. Basically there is a BPA tune with no vocals and they are asking the world to give it ago for a chance to have your version of the song released as an official BPA track. <A href="http://thebrightonportauthority.com/contest/">http://thebrightonportauthority.com/contest/</a> you can get all the stuff you need to enter on that link

We've also got five copies of the album to give away as runners up prizes simply tell us the name of the man behind the BPA? send answers to bill@godisinthetvzine.co.uk by the 8th of March.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1663

More Tips for 09!
Colourmusic, Them Squirrels, Hedluv + Passman, The Weather In Sweden, Arrows of Love
In (possibly) our final set of tips for 09(it's March already!), we give you GIITTV unsigned sub editor Owain Paciuszko's hand picked Tips for the Top Two Thousand and Nine.

Talking points:
NME Awards a load of corporate rubbish or a good reflection of where ‘indie’ is at?
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Bands/Acts you think should have been bigger
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NEWS
The Pains at Being Pure at Heart on Tour
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1664
New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album out digitally next week:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1666
The National play London show
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Jarvis does dates:
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VIDEO:
The Ropes
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1670
I LIKE TRAINS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1659

REVIEWS:

LIVE:
Emmy The Great, younghusband - Birmingham, Glee Club 25/02/2009
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3120&type=Live
Woodpigeon, The Miserable Rich - The Deaf Institute 24/02/2009
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3114&type=Live
Amanda Palmer, support - The Sugar Club 16/02/2009
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3105&type=Live
Middle Class Rut, Flashguns - KOKO 12/02/2009
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3108&type=Live

RECORDS:
LADY OF THE SUNSHINE
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3107&type=Albums

MR BONES AND THE DREAMERS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3125&type=Singles
MALAKAI
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3111&type=Albums
CHARLOT WEBSTER
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3106&type=Demos
NICKEL EYE
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3109&type=Albums
WE FELL TO EARTH
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3097&type=Singles
THE DO
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3122&type=Singles
FEN TIGERS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3123&type=Demos
FANCY TOYS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3121&type=Demos
MORRISSEY
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3103&type=Singles
RAT FACE
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3096&type=Demos
INNER VOICES
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3117&type=Demos
DOVES
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3110&type=Singles
HOWLING BELLS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3119&type=Albums
WHITE LIES
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Hi and welcome to your GIITTV zine update:

Glaswegian act Butcher Boy came to our attention in 2007, with the release of their first album "Profit in Your Poetry".

It was a real treat, a excellently realised indie folk pop album, full of literate, heartfelt lyrics about wistful memories: it’s tender, organically produced sound drew favourable comparisons in my own mind: "Think early Belle and Sebastian haunted by a real past, the precise poetic pop of the Smiths tinged with a heavy Glaswegian sensibility. Think the tunes of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions matched to the intimacy of Arab Strap, most of all think wonderfully dark pop music, for nights out or those long dark midnights spent alone by your turntable, reading the inlay, and submersing yourself in the sound."

They followed this up with the single "18th Emergency" later that year, a stately ballad it was like being allowed to read someone's secret diary entry, each line consumed with poetic heart tugging imagery that conjures up moments in time, lovers lost and real kitchen sink drama.

Their new album "React or Die" is preceded by a single "Carve a Pattern" which you can download here(from the folks at Stereogum):

Butcher Boy- Carve A Pattern

http://stereogum.com/mp3/Butcher%20Boy%20-%20Carve%20A%20Pattern.mp3

It reflects a progression a more buffed up, musically expressive sound that still bares the emotional brevity, and bittersweet vocals at the heart of Butcher Boy. We caught up with their lead singer/lyricist John Blain Hunt (who is also the famed DJ behind the National Pop League nights) for an exclusive insight into each of the tracks that make up their second work "React Or Die."

Butcher Boy's "React Or Die" Track By Track
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3149&type=Features

Interviews:
LYU
GIITTV’s Marcus Warner caught up with emerging Birmingham born pop/punk band LYU, to find out about their history, their new ep recorded with Romesh at Longwave, and their love of Travelodges and Stevie Wonder!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3154&type=Interviews

KASMs
Fearsome self styled "Shriekbeat" act KASMs are London-based Rachel Mary Callaghan, Gemma Fleet, Scott R. Walker and Rory Brattwell. All four members have been other bands: Rachel was the singer in spazzcore band Sin o the East, along with Rory on guitar; Gemma was in London based grunge-pop band Wolfie; Scott was in an ethnic/improv band called Aum Sahib and Rory was in quite a few bands, the most well known being short-lived NME favorites Test Icicles.

During their first year together they have played in New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan and toured the UK with contemporaries Televised Crimewave. They signed to Trouble Records (birthplace of acts such as Crystal Castles) in April 2008 with their first two singles 'Taxidermy' (which sold out all 2000 copies, touching number 12 in the charts) and the primal suggestions of recent single 'Bone You' convinced us that KASMS were a band to be reckoned with, At one moment grasping at the juddering Halloween punk of The Cramps, and allying it to the progressive aggression of Sonic Youth and shaking you out of your stupor.

GIITTV's Bill Cummings and Fliss Collier caught up with KASMs hypnotic front-woman Rachel Mary Callaghan who has been accused of making "assaults on photographers and members of the audience" (The Guardian, January 2009) for a chat about life in one of Britain's most propulsive new noisy bands.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3130&type=Interviews

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Game Dramatically Outsells Singles, Albums, Films - Are Games Now Most Popular Entertainment Medium?
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The Stone Roses to reform or not?
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LIVE MUSIC WORTH MORE THAN THE RECORD INDUSTRY?
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The Apprentice Returns to BBC One - THE JOB INTERVIEW FROM HELL JUST GOT TOUGHER
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FREE DOWNLOADS:
Grizzly Bear
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1713
Placebo
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The Melting Ice Caps
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1707
Fanfarlo
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1698
A Classic Education
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1696

VIDEOS
White Belt Yellow tag
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1716
Truckers of Husk
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1712
Future of the left
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1697
The New Royal Family
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1700

REVIEWS

The Bronx/Fucked up -Manchester- LIVE REVIEW
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3141&type=Live
Bonnie Prince Billy
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3145&type=Albums
La Roux
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3157&type=Singles
Steven Wilson
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3148&type=Albums
Neko Case
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3155&type=Albums
Three trapped Tigers
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3150&type=Albums
Passion Pit
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3147&type=Singles
Arcade Fire/the National/Conor Oberst ect- Dark was the night 4ad compilation
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3144&type=Albums
Attack and defend
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3139&type=Demos
Brian Jonestown Massacre, The - Open Your Mind: Pysch compilation
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3146&type=Albums
BPA feat Iggy
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3156&type=Singles
The Answering Machine
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3153&type=Singles
True Beat
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3158&type=Demos
Woodpigeon
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3142&type=Albums
This is What The Universe Sounds Like: Vinyl Sampler 1
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3140&type=Albums
The Firm
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3143&type=Singles

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Hi all!

We've been very busy bunnies(get my easter reference) again!

First up:

Some of you may remember us linking up with London indie pop outfit Their Hearts Were Full of Spring in the Winter. Giving away two WINTER related downloads, well it was a runaway success, and now Their Hearts Were Full of Spring have returned from seasonal frivolities to present the second part in this ever-challenging cover-versions project SPRING. We've seen ‘WINTER' come and go, bringing with it: Over SEVEN THOUSAND unique downloads via God Is In The TV. An overwhelmingly positive embrace from the breadth of the blogosphere. A completely SOLD OUT physical release through Strange Torpedo Records. And more gushing praise than should be permitted amongst strangers...“Some of you might remember The Pixies doing a rather good version of this Neil Young track some years ago. Well this version is better...”“...evokes the chill winds of December...”

We now jointly announce new Single ‘SPRING' – Part Two in Series of Four Seasonal Releases featuring the tracks Tracks: The Coming of Spring/Lullaby of London which will be FREE to Download Exclusively from www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk from 13th APRIL 2009. It's accompanied by a Two-Track Limited CD in hand-screened sleeve – Available Exclusively at Live Shows. From snowdrops to daffodils here comes the follow-up - Double A-Side Single, ‘SPRING'. Once again, available to download for free exclusively via God Is In The TV [from 13Th April] and once again, in print and available only at shows courtesy of Strange Torpedo Records/// [from 11thApril].

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EXCLUSIVE:
PASSION PIT: INTERVIEW
Off the back of a triumphant recent set at Austin Texas’ South By South West Bill Cummings and Sel Bulut caught up with Passion Pit guitarist and bassist Jeff Apruzzese to ask him to reflect on a whirlwind few months for one of the band’s of the moment. Their new album ‘Manners’ those ‘MGMT comparisons’ and what provides the inspiration for an act that's constantly boundlessly evolving: grasping onto melodies, samples, synth lines, and grooves: pushing the boundaries of what pop music means to them. Oh and just what is the most random gift they've got on the road?

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3200&type=Interviews

Granchildren on Tour to SXSW
Sadly here at GIITTV we didn't have the budgets to stretch to luxury flights to last month's industry music shindig SXSW (set in Austin, Texas). So instead we thought we'd ask one of the best new bands we've heard in recent weeks to write us a little diary about their trip to SXSW. Fast rising multicolored Philadelphia, act Grandchildren are taking up residence on our stereo with their mind bending recently released Cold Warrior Ep. It's like the euphoric electro-acoustic rhythms of the Animal Collective having a protracted sonic arm wrestle with the insatiable grooves of TV On The Radio, there are even hints toward the pile driving instrumentals of early Trail of Dead, but there's something more exciting and individual about the Grandchilden sound it's a feeling of not knowing where this sonic journey is going to take you next. There's the unstoppable beats that drive trippy melodies, the surreal choirs of ominous voices and dizzying half familiar moments of rock and electonica augmented by unexpected instrumental stings. It's ambitious and sonically dexterous and we think its rather fabulous. It's closely followed by their new album in the Autumn.

Here's Gandchildren's Aleks Martray account of their DIY adventure through America and toward SXSW:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3202&type=Features

Bat for lashes- Two Suns
One of the biggest surprises in Natasha Khan's relatively short incarnation as Bat For Lashes is that she doesn#t already have a Mercury under her belt. The 29-year old's debut, 2006's Fur and Gold, was already an underground success, snowballing towards widespread critical acclaim and feverish expectation for the following year's Mercury Music Award, only for Klaxons to spoil the party. After a further two BRIT nominations also foiled Bat For Lashes was snatched back from the precipice of commercialism to some relief. That was all two years or so ago, though, and as Two Suns finds her much changed, Khan might very well be onto another meteoric rise.
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Monthly Planet Zine. Issue Number Six.
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DEBATE:Spotfiy's the difference

Tim Miller looks at the recent Pirate Bay illegal P2P case, and contrasts that with new application like Spotify that allows consumers to try before they buy.

What do you make of the Pirate Bay ruling?Are you a fan of Spotify?Does listening to a tune on Spotify: make you more or less likely to buy a record?And do you think it signals the future of digital music distribution?

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3242&type=Features

Talking points:

What gigs/ festivals are you hoping to attend?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=421161553&catst=music#foot

Best new musical discoveries?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=407143258&catst=music#foot

We've been busy previwing some of the up coming festivals:

The days are lengthening and Easter’s chocolate-fest has been and gone, which means that it’s time to start planning your summer festival-going. However, if the idea of spending three days in a muddy field in a leaking tent isn’t your cup of tea, there are now an increasing number of urban festivals in which gigs are held in different venues across the same city. Those with the highest profiles include the Camden Crawl and Brighton’s Great Escape, but this year there is a newcomer on the scene in the shape of Glasgow’s Hinterland Festival. With over 100 bands playing across 15 venues on April 30th and 1st May, it’s an addition to be welcomed, especially given the lack of similar events in Scotland, and, dare we say it, the fickle Scottish climate.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3237&type=Features

The Great Escape = Sleeper Festival Of The Summer?
As The Great Escape 2009 adds Gang of Four, The Charlatans and The Rumble Strips to its already impressive line-up, GIITV thought it was time to spotlight Brighton’s premier indie funfair as one of the best festivals to be at.

The UK’s own seaside SXSW goes from strength to strength every year. As anyone who’s seen it for themselves knows, Brighton’s TGE remains a living, breathing place to see next year’s best bands before they hit the car-advert-soundtrack and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross way of life. Brighton’s scenic, excitable, laissez-faire attitude provides the perfect backdrop for the non-field, pier-centric festival experience.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3218&type=Features

New Band Feature:The Slow Blade(Interview with Cian (keyboards)

In times of economic decline, it's not unusual to see a rise in popularity of brooding, dark, ethereal rock music. Proving every cloud does indeed have a silver lining, our current recession couldn't be a better time to introduce London based five piece The Slow Blade.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3236&type=Interviews

GRAB YOUR FREE THWFOS DOWNLOADS:
Part Two in Series of Four Seasonal Releases featuring the tracks Tracks: The Coming of Spring/Lullaby of London which will be FREE to Download Exclusively from www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk from 13th APRIL 2009. It's accompanied by a Two-Track Limited CD in hand-screened sleeve – Available Exclusively at Live Shows. From snowdrops to daffodils here comes the follow-up - Double A-Side Single, ‘SPRING’. Once again, available to download for free exclusively via God Is In The TV [from 13Th April] and once again, in print and available only at shows courtesy of Strange Torpedo Records/// [from 11thApril].

FREE DOWNLOADS:

A – The Coming of Spring
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/mp3s/THECOMINGOFSPRING.mp3
(L.Jenner/V.Roccoforte/M.Safer/G.Andruzzi)From the 2003 album ‘Echoes’ by The Rapture. Suggested for the project by Nicholas Miller.Vox - Maeve, Emmet, Vicky, Matth, Ian, Markus Acoustic Guitar - MarkusElectric Guitar - Emmet Violin - Vicky Bass - Ian Drums - OskarPercussion - MaeveA - Recorded by Their Hearts Were Full of Spring and Robert King in February 2009 at Z-Noise and Bedrock Studios. Produced byMarkus.

AA – Lullaby of London
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/mp3s/LULLABYOFLONDON.mp3
(S.MacGowan)From The Pogues’ 1988 album ‘If I Should Fall from Grace with God’. Suggested for the project by Jacqueline Martins.Vox - Markus Guitar - Emmet Accordion - Vicky Synths - MarkusAA - Recorded by Their Hearts Were Full ofSpring in February 2009 at Bedrock Studios. Produced by Markus.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3211&type=Features

LIVE:ERRORS:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3245&type=Live
LIVE: P j Harvey and John Parish
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3240&type=Live
LIVE: FFAF
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3232&type=Live
LIVE: VOLCANO!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3244&type=Live
The Xcerts
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3246&type=Albums
The Horrors
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3212&type=Albums
Dananaananaykroyd-Hey Everyone!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3210&type=Albums
Whites boy alive
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3234&type=Albums
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3226&type=Singles
Turbowolf
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3223&type=Singles
Metric
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3233&type=Albums
Marina And the diamonds
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3230&type=Singles
PSBs
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3221&type=Singles
Ceri James
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3215&type=Singles
Chris Cornell
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3241&type=Albums
Go Faster
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3238&type=Singles
My First Tooth
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Like a fine wine or a good cheese Clint Mansell seems to be improving with every step of his journey; from front man of rock/dance band Pop Will Eat Itself to his current guise as one of the most consistently entrancing composers in film music, Mansell has created soundtracks that have perfectly encapsulated the feeling of the films and gone on to popular appeal via displacment into other media. With the recent release and awards success of his latest collaboration with Darren Aronofsky The Wrestler I fired a few questions at Mansell relating to his musical input past, present and future...

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3284&type=Interviews

Spring is in full glorious bloom and NOW HEAR THIS is back with a vengeance. Never heard of this lil’ old feature before? Well it’s a monthly (hopefully, from now on) new/emerging/unsigned act piece, that shines a spotlight on acts that are currently exciting us in GIITTV towers. So pull up a pew, get MySpace, Last.fm, Spotify, or your music player of choice at the ready and NOW HEAR THESE! Sad Day For Puppets, Danimal Kingdom, alt track, Witheredhand, Meursault

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3285&type=Features

INDEPTH: Journal for the plague lovers Manic Street Preachers
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3276&type=Features

Talking points:

Are you going to ATP!?

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=507161031&catst=music#foot

Pocketbooks good or bad twee?

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3279&type=content#foot

FOTL's FALCO attacks illegal album streams that threaten the work of middle ranking acts to survive:

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=1868&catst=news

Jarvis makes an Exhibition of himself literally:

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/forum/thread_detail.php?id=1867&catst=news

Reviews

LIVE: Rolo Tomassi, Grammatics, Pulled Apart by Horses
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3274&type=Live

LIVE: Jeniferever
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3277&type=Live

FILM REVIEW: Let the right one in
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3281&type=Film

Southerly
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3271&type=Albums

Jackie O
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3293&type=Albums

Julian Carax
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3289&type=Singles

Delphic
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3278&type=Singles

Maybeshewill
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3273&type=Albums

Ender
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3283&type=Demos

Pet Shop Boys
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3286&type=Albums

P.O.S
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3275&type=Albums

SAMSA
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3290&type=Demos

EVILS
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3288&type=Singles

Heads we dance
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3292&type=Albums

Jack Butler
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3272&type=Albums

FLO Rida
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3280&type=Albums

Temper Trap
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Hello a quick GIITTV update for you this week:

Interviews:

Metric:
GIITTV's Sophie Appleton spoke to Metric guitarist James Shaw about their fourth full length studio album 'Fantasies', their inspirations, having one of their songs appear on a Polaroid advert.Plus how the internet has bennefitted the band, and what the future holds for Canada's Metric who are tipped to be a 2009 festival favourite.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3420&type=Interviews

Features:

Indepth: Terminator:Salvation:
Mc G’s Terminator: Salvation is a conflict between spirit and machinery. Christian Bale’s John Conner is prone to making prophetic sounding assertions, and at one point proclaims “human’s have a strength beyond imagining”; presumably exactly the thought flying through his mind as he’s pummelled by an endoskeleton t-800. But the wider conflict lies between Terminator the creative soul of the B-Movie and Terminator the interchangeable franchise machine; the quipping “uncle ‘bob’” Arnie learning eco-lessons about the human spirit and a row of interchangeable tabula rasa killing machines stacked for a destruction which multiplies like arithmetic. It’s fortunate then –for allegory fans and critics- that the film’s plot machina is all about ambiguities and hybrids. So this is an action thriller penned by previous ‘art-drama—thriller’ hybrid creators Paul Haggis- Crash (fatuous though it was) to James Bond, and Jonathan Nolan ‘Memento’ and The Dark Knight. Re-tooled by these writers over an initial pulp framework provided from a script by Brancato and Ferris-‘auteurs’ of (yes, that) ‘Catwoman’ and nineties paranoia pot-boiler ‘The Net’ along with a T-3 primarily significant for primped-up T-1000 Kristinna Loket’s artillery.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3412&type=Features

Advance look: Idlewild- Post-electric blues

In 2002 Idlewild reluctantly stared success in the face, squaring up like Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, flexing their 24 inch pythons and strutting around the ring, pretending to be superstars. They had just released The Remote Part, an album that surprised critics, fans, perhaps even themselves and found them playing in venues much bigger than they were used to. Roddy acted as frontman accordingly, touching the hands of fans in the front rows, scanning the venues and making eye contact with their newly-enlarged crowd, but it was clear that this was never something they felt comfortable with and after a bout of fisticuffs and the departure of bassist Bob Fairfoull they went away and recorded Warnings/Promises. Like its predecessor, the album surprised both critics and fans, this time because the energy and electricity of The Remote Part had been replaced with a collection of comparatively tame folk songs - still retaining the pop-sensibilities of their earlier records - but the sudden reduction in volume lost them a lot of support. Poor chart positions left them without a label and in need of something to bring back the departed fans. Make Another World, for a short while, was that record. On the surface it was a return to form rock album, but on repeated listens it became apparent that we had been duped, for beneath the overdriven guitars and thumping drums was an unprecedented lack of melody and many who previously thought it fantastic now regard it as one of the band's worst. The five-piece spent the last year re-learning and re-visiting their entire back catalogue from the frantic, instrument thrashing beginnings of Captain through to this, their latest effort Post-Electric Blues via the medium of the now fashionable album shows – a brave move considering no-one had heard the 11 new songs. The record, complete with tantalising extras, was only available to pre-order directly from the band, choosing to avoid record label complications (for now at least), offering a rare first listen to fans and after a two month delay it started appearing through letterboxes at the end of this week.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3427&type=Features

REVIEWS:

LIVE:
The Joy Formidable
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3414&type=Live
Teitur/Emily Scott
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3416&type=Live
The Hornblower Brother/Almost Orphans
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3416&type=Live
Johnny Foreigner
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3417&type=Live

RECORDS:
Placebo: does the new album live up to the hype?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3415&type=Albums
Jamie T
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3413&type=Singles
Dinosaur Jnr.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3402&type=Singles
Keyboard Choir
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3407&type=Albums
Sleepy Sun
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3426&type=Albums
Cake
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3425&type=Albums
Mikky Ekko
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3398&type=Demos
Labasheeda
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3397&type=Demos
Lemonheads
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3411&type=Albums
Gary Go
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3406&type=Singles
The Soundcarriers
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3422&type=Albums
Bellini
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3423&type=Albums
The Soundcarriers
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3422&type=Albums
Draw Me Stories
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3421&type=Demos
Foxes!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3419&type=Singles
People In Planes
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3418&type=Singles

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Hello a quick GIITTV update for you this week:

Interviews:

Metric:
GIITTV's Sophie Appleton spoke to Metric guitarist James Shaw about their fourth full length studio album 'Fantasies', their inspirations, having one of their songs appear on a Polaroid advert.Plus how the internet has bennefitted the band, and what the future holds for Canada's Metric who are tipped to be a 2009 festival favourite.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3420&type=Interviews

Features:

Indepth: Terminator:Salvation:
Mc G’s Terminator: Salvation is a conflict between spirit and machinery. Christian Bale’s John Conner is prone to making prophetic sounding assertions, and at one point proclaims “human’s have a strength beyond imagining”; presumably exactly the thought flying through his mind as he’s pummelled by an endoskeleton t-800. But the wider conflict lies between Terminator the creative soul of the B-Movie and Terminator the interchangeable franchise machine; the quipping “uncle ‘bob’” Arnie learning eco-lessons about the human spirit and a row of interchangeable tabula rasa killing machines stacked for a destruction which multiplies like arithmetic. It’s fortunate then –for allegory fans and critics- that the film’s plot machina is all about ambiguities and hybrids. So this is an action thriller penned by previous ‘art-drama—thriller’ hybrid creators Paul Haggis- Crash (fatuous though it was) to James Bond, and Jonathan Nolan ‘Memento’ and The Dark Knight. Re-tooled by these writers over an initial pulp framework provided from a script by Brancato and Ferris-‘auteurs’ of (yes, that) ‘Catwoman’ and nineties paranoia pot-boiler ‘The Net’ along with a T-3 primarily significant for primped-up T-1000 Kristinna Loket’s artillery.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3412&type=Features

Advance look: Idlewild- Post-electric blues

In 2002 Idlewild reluctantly stared success in the face, squaring up like Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, flexing their 24 inch pythons and strutting around the ring, pretending to be superstars. They had just released The Remote Part, an album that surprised critics, fans, perhaps even themselves and found them playing in venues much bigger than they were used to. Roddy acted as frontman accordingly, touching the hands of fans in the front rows, scanning the venues and making eye contact with their newly-enlarged crowd, but it was clear that this was never something they felt comfortable with and after a bout of fisticuffs and the departure of bassist Bob Fairfoull they went away and recorded Warnings/Promises. Like its predecessor, the album surprised both critics and fans, this time because the energy and electricity of The Remote Part had been replaced with a collection of comparatively tame folk songs - still retaining the pop-sensibilities of their earlier records - but the sudden reduction in volume lost them a lot of support. Poor chart positions left them without a label and in need of something to bring back the departed fans. Make Another World, for a short while, was that record. On the surface it was a return to form rock album, but on repeated listens it became apparent that we had been duped, for beneath the overdriven guitars and thumping drums was an unprecedented lack of melody and many who previously thought it fantastic now regard it as one of the band's worst. The five-piece spent the last year re-learning and re-visiting their entire back catalogue from the frantic, instrument thrashing beginnings of Captain through to this, their latest effort Post-Electric Blues via the medium of the now fashionable album shows – a brave move considering no-one had heard the 11 new songs. The record, complete with tantalising extras, was only available to pre-order directly from the band, choosing to avoid record label complications (for now at least), offering a rare first listen to fans and after a two month delay it started appearing through letterboxes at the end of this week.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3427&type=Features

REVIEWS:

LIVE:
The Joy Formidable
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3414&type=Live
Teitur/Emily Scott
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3416&type=Live
The Hornblower Brother/Almost Orphans
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3416&type=Live
Johnny Foreigner
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3417&type=Live

RECORDS:
Placebo: does the new album live up to the hype?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3415&type=Albums
Jamie T
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3413&type=Singles
Dinosaur Jnr.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3402&type=Singles
Keyboard Choir
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3407&type=Albums
Sleepy Sun
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3426&type=Albums
Cake
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3425&type=Albums
Mikky Ekko
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3398&type=Demos
Labasheeda
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3397&type=Demos
Lemonheads
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3411&type=Albums
Gary Go
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3406&type=Singles
The Soundcarriers
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3422&type=Albums
Bellini
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3423&type=Albums
The Soundcarriers
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3422&type=Albums
Draw Me Stories
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3421&type=Demos
Foxes!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3419&type=Singles
People In Planes
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3418&type=Singles

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Lounge on the farm review
The Horrors, Roots Manuva, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

Music festivals are strange beasts. Don't listen to what anyone tells you, they are the worse place for listening to new music. Stuck inside a diaphanous tent, sides flapping, surrounded by people who have made their own clothes in an attempt to look like Oberon and Titania that are lost in an eddying swirl of hallucinogenics. All this while attempting to listen to a group of people desperately trying to convey their 'sound' to a disparate bunch of half-interested spectators. It isn't the most conducive atmosphere to discover or actually hear new music.

Spread around Merton Farm high above the cathedral city of Canterbury, Lounge on the Farm (LOTF) has grown into a bustling family-orientated festival. Children's wristbands have a space to write their name and their parent's mobile number on. What a lovely idea. And it is actually on a farm. You peer through rusted fences to see men in luminous jackets shovel dung and feed cows. The main stage is in a cowshed. Albeit one that has a bar and vintage chandeliers hanging from the rafters. But still smells of excrement. A strange choice, as you can't just grab a drink and sit and idle away the day watching the main stage acts in the sunshine all day. Hohum.
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Blur: Their secret history: The Bisdes
On the (belated) occasion of Blur's relaunching as a working band, I'd like to examine the secret history of a group often described as the pinnacle of modern art-pop, looking at how their B-sides have complimented their history and the movements around them. A secret history to be mapped out like Damon’s associative skeletal, phantasmagoria’s on the historical cloth-map land of never-England on ‘This is a Low’. This is Blur’s ‘low’ lights.

You probably know the origins one way—a collection of blue-eyed megalomaniac drama-school misfits, louche francaphone boho’s and mumbly instrument savant daubers, plus a ginger guy from Colchester council in pyjama trousers create a rackety bag-of-bones collective of a band sounding like everything ‘from Handel to the Wedding Present via the Pixies and Specials AKA’. Proceed to play Camberwells a lot with some clatterly splutter-directed pogoing songs about being ‘long legged’ soaked in one pound mixers and half-digested ambition, loosely glued together by a bubbling talent still milky and fluid.
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Chamber Presents: Micron Sixty Three + Asleep Beneath Volcanoes + Miss Cosmos - Weds 4th Aug-the Windmill, Brixton
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GIITTV's Summer Scorchers at the Cinema: Adventureland, Inglourious Basterds, Shutter Island, Funny People
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Watch Chamber on Cherry Red TV
Legendary punk label Cherry Red have linked up with Chamber to bring you a web programme highlighting new breaking alternative rock acts in a live environment.
Episode 2 now up features: Agit pop punkers Televised Crimewave (formally Black Wire) who pulled big crowds at this years Camden Crawl and Great Escape, dark electronic rock band The Slow Blade and eerie cinematic rockers Phantom.
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Riceboy sleeps album launch
Jón Þór Birgisson, the ethereal voice of Sigur Ros, and Jonsi's life partner Alex Somers, visual artist behind the artwork for ‘Takk’ among other projects.
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Hop on the farm review: Florence and the Machine, Paul Weller ect
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David Hepworth interview
GIITTV's Liam Lonegran caught up with David Hepworth (media figurehead...writes for The Word magazine (www.wordmagazine.co.uk) and used to present The Old Grey Whistle Test)
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LIVE: Lovebox festival
After fulfilling the arduous task of locating Victoria Park, we found ourselves at the gates of LoveBox festival, a place straight away seemingly fulfilling the eclectic music paradise that was promised, confined within some of the high-rise flats of East London. Entry to the festival was surprisingly simple contrasting with past events on a similar scale. Looking out on to the festival area it was a world away from the surrounding busy suburbs. Ahead, all was awash with vibrancy and colour - and there was a pleasant, uplifting atmosphere about the place from the outset. My intentions were to catch New York Dolls at some point, and wishes were granted almost immediately with a surprisingly early set at 14:00 infront of roughly 200 people, which I found shocking considering their pedigree and influence throughout their reign. Needless to say the Doll's set was a hugely professional one nevertheless. On the main stage, with a set list comprising classic songs that the band rattled through with great confidence and swagger, all members competed with holding front man David Johansen's reigns of the ride. All in all, the band’s rock and roll cool was very much appreciated throughout where their banter with the audience only cemented their heroic status as underground veterans.
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LIVE: Temper trap
Are you wondering where all the buzz about The Temper Trap comes from? Well, they are the first band signed by Korda Marshall for the grand re-opening of Infectious Records.

Moreover, knowing that Korda's abilites and taste has so far brought us bands such as Garbage, The Darkness and Muse in the past (enough to have his label to be acquired by Warner back in 2003) builds just enough expectation for this to go full circle, and present to us the next big thing. Hence all the hopes and expectations about The Temper Trap. Their debut album Conditions hit their native Australia on June 15, just in time for the band's relocation to London, which will see the album released there later on in August
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LIVE: Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Mew
Nine Inch Nails have had a very long two years. Since April 2007, when Year Zero was released, they (or rather he, as there is no need to be reminded that NIN is essentially Trent Reznor) have been working non-stop either touring or reshaping the music industry after the split between Interscope and the band. Since then they’ve toured relentlessly throughout North and South America, Australia and finally Europe. This, according to Reznor, is the last time they’ll tour. Fortunately, it’s not the end of Nine Inch Nails, but it’s still a harsh blow to lose such a band from the live scene.
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New band:
Race Horses
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REVIEWS

Monster Island- The Anchor
Some records can win you from the very moment they begin, and this is one such album. From its surreal, swampy gargling, with a curious guitar wandering along whilst drum sticks count in, and the vocals mutter some half-thought sentence, before suddenly exploding
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The Blizzards- Buy It Sell It
Five Irish lads who have been creating a stir on the Emerald Isle, having already supported the likes of Oasis, Kasabian, The Fratellis, The Kooks and The Kaiser Chiefs. Having worked together for four years, they’ve been signed up by Island and this is their read more
27/07/2009

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Cloaks- Versus Grain
This album is billed as being ”a cold and challenging assault on the senses” and after the first listen you get exactly what they mean. It’s instrumental industrial metal with a hint of electronic experimentation, a description that may, even in itself, provoke immediate read more
27/07/2009

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Knifeworld- Buried Alone: Tales of Crushing Defeat
Solo project by Iranian Kavus Torabi who will be best known as guitarist in pronk band Cardiacs, having previously fronted The Monsoon Bassoon. An ambitious album this is too with great depth in instrumental virtuosity and, whilst it bears a progressive tag, it has read more
31/07/2009

I Remember Tapes- C45
All I Know, the lead track off of this debut EP from Winchester four-piece, is pleasantly spiky. Sort of simmering in a broth comprised of The Clash and early Kings of Leon, to create something energetic and fun, without being completely vacuous. It's read more
27/07/2009

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Blacklisters- Swords
Leeds four-piece Blacklisters debut single Swords is a delightfully rough edged skew-wiff song, flailing from grumpily sneered spoken word akin to Gindrinker - with lyrics as charming as 'There's no I in team, there's a u in cunt.' - then swaggering, drunkenly into shouted, angular read more
26/07/2009
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Venus Mischiefs- B & H
Indie rock that begins like early Radiohead, jangling guitars, spattering cymbals, before launching itself into territory more similiar to The Music, with half-spoken lyrics and a dancefloor friendly beat. Whilst the music remains consistent, infectious, the lyrics flow around the music with stream-of-consciousness abandon, read more
26/07/2009
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Loz Jones- Idiot Room
With a sleazy catchy synth intro followed by a wall of guitars you could be mistaken at first for thinking this is a nice, shiny remaster of a vintage Super Furry Animals track. Whilst Loz, lead singer of this Luton based six-piece, doesn't have read more
25/07/2009
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Spinnerette- Baptized By Fire
Ultra-compressed indie dance floor filler with a singer that sounds like Chrissie Hynde and Siouxsie Soux and turns out to be ex-Distiller Brody Dalle. It’s pumping, anthemic, derivative and above all brilliant. The chorus has that Bloc Party synth sound, it’s crammed full of distant read more
25/07/2009
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Cheatahs- Warrior / Minotaur
It’s not generally wise to expect much from a man recording songs by himself with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a copy of Garageband. However, I think in future I will be more open-minded. Nathan Hewitt of Little Death makes quite a lovely noise read more
24/07/2009
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Dan Crisp- Far From Here
Opening track Hollywood, on this debut album from Bournemouth born Crisp, will act as a barometer for how you feel about the rest of the record. It begins with a slightly atmospheric piano intro before hitting eject and plummeting into shimmery acoustic guitar, with read more
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Unfinished Drawings- To The Lovers We Left Behind
Two piece acoustic, electronic act from Leeds release their second LP, following on from an impressive EP release earlier in the year. Opening with the elegant piano and processed beats of Currents, which floats along serenely before introducing its vocals, contrasting male and female vocals beautifully. read more
31/07/2009
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Lisa Hannigan- Sea Sew
Those unfamiliar with the name of Lisa Hannigan prior to her nomination for the Mercury Music Prize will almost certainly have heard her vocals, adding lustre to the harmonies of Damien Rice on his albums O and 9. Tales of an acrimonious split are unconfirmed, read more
30/07/2009
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Pocket Promise- talkovertalking
Second single from Northern Irish band Pocket Promise after their fantastic debut I Burnt the Roller Disco sees them flexing different indie muscles. Their first single was a fast paced, incessantly catchy affair, whereas lead track of this double A-side talkovertalking is a more read more
30/07/2009
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The Exits- Neon City
Portsmouth's The Exits debut single Neon City sits alongside four remixes of itself on this release which precedes their forthcoming album. The original version of the track is an indie-electro song with shades of Verve Pipe and The Music in its fast-paced, lyrically limited read more
29/07/2009
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Bloc Party- One More Chance
Bloc Party's bizarre determination to give the world a pitch-perfect, 21st Century version of 'What is Love' by Haddaway continues with 'One More Chance'. After the inconsistent, experimental 'Intimacy', this stand-alone single, plus last year's 'Talons', ultimately prove to be more satisfying and focussed attempts read more
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29/07/2009
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Kong- Snake Magnet
Following a series of well-received singles and some storming support slots with the mighty Future Of The Left, Manchester noise-hounds Kong unleash their full length debut to pummelling effect. It’s not that they shy away from loud, awkward guitars and scratchy, uncomfortable song structures – they read more
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29/07/2009
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The Cess Allan Band- Stay Inside
With a tiny choir of voices singing over a jolly set of hand-claps, lead track Stanford is kind of deceptively chirpy and remains wonkily light throughout, it's brightly strummed acoustic guitar contrasting nicely with the scratched throat vocals of Nicholas Read (who wrote and performed read more
28/07/2009
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Barrys Attic- Voices All Clear Now
If I believed the press notes then Midlands four-piece Barry's Attic should probably be one of my favourite bands of all time, allegedly combining Blur, The Cure, Pavement and Sonic Youth into the mix; however there's a distinct difference between citing a band and channeling read more
28/07/2009
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Sarah Grace- Come Fly
Sarah Grace ‘won’ www.slicethepie.com and was given £15,000 to make an album. This is the lead single from the resulting record. As she was given her funding by public vote, this is perhaps the ultimate signal of what the internet democratization of music really
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Shirley Lee- Dissolving Time / Spiralina Girl
Shirley Lee of cult indie band Spearmint has finally released a solo album, from which this Double A-side download comes. (Do Mp3s have sides?) If like me, you’ve been entirely unaware of Mr. Lee and his band’s oeuvre so far, then to be honest, you haven’t read more
24/07/2009
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The Hickey Underworld- Mystery Bruise
Belgium hasn’t contributed a massive amount to the World’s doomsday casket now has it? But it does have the best beer and the best chocolate and that’s more than enough for me! In terms of contemporary music we need to dig deep to pull read more
24/07/2009
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Paul Steel- In a Coma
Paul Steel comes from Worthing and has an album out called ‘Moon Rock’ from whence this frightful item has been extracted! He cites influences of The Beach Boys and Elvis Costello but sounds here like 10cc or The Buggles. It’s got moronic hand clapping on it, read more
24/07/2009
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Ray Davies and The Crouch End Festival Chorus- The Kinks Choral Collection
I never envisaged that one day I would be writing a review that would attack Ray Davies, but here goes nothing. This is one of the most pointless albums I have ever listened to, on this album Ray Davies effectively becomes a masochist and slaughters read more
22/07/2009
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The B Of The Bang- Beginning Middle End
I’m assuming The B of the Bang take their name from the hideous looking Mancunian sculpture that earlier this year got dismantled. There is a certain amount of mystery that surrounds the collective, led by a multi instrumentalist known as Wit, a man whose voice read more
22/07/2009
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Crazy Arm- Born To Ruin
Crazy Arm play that melodic crunch brand of punk rock, with the Bob Mould vocals, the punchy rhythms, close in tone to Against Me’s New Wave, though thankfully unlike New Wave the potency and urgency is not lost in the vacuum of the recording studio. read more
22/07/2009
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Ear PWR- Super Animal Brothers III
Fuck me this is pretentious – like wide rimmed spectacles, tight leggings and the knitwear nightmares that have slipped in vogue of late, Ear PWR are cool for now and regrettable between two weeks and ten years forthwith. ‘Super Animal Brothers III’ is a high read more
22/07/2009
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Amy Blue- The Fortress and The Fatalist
In 2006 London quartet Amy Blue leaked songs from their debut EP as supposed unreleased demos by Smashing Pumpkins…and almost got away with it, this seems hard to believe now though. Certainly the band take most of their cues from that kind of American alt read more
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22/07/2009
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Lion OBrien- Raincloud Vs. Sunshine EP
Bursting out of the speakers with its bright, twinkly pop cacophony there's initially a vibe of Los Campesinos! to Lion O'Brien, London based three piece. This Life though quickly turns into a different beast, still juggling that uplifting/angsty sound but bouncing it off of read more
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Public Enemies
Public Enemies has all the ingredients to be both a summer action blockbuster and timeless epic; Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard all under the masterful direction of Michael Mann (Director of Heat, Collateral and Ali). To some extent it is the epitome of read more
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The Dead Weather- Horehound
Super groups are a strange business. While they often offer a vast array of talent that has already 'made' it in a compact form, if you had to think of a super group that changed your life or you actually remotely enjoyed especially recently, who read more
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20/07/2009
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That Fucking Tank- Tanknology
That Fucking Tank are a two piece experimental band who, (if you are like me) will be completely new and alien to you, surprising considering that Tanknology is in fact their second album. Tanknology starts in an obscure fashion with an intro sample akin to read more
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20/07/2009
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She Keeps Bees- Revival
Revival sums itself up - nodding towards that early 2000s rush of grinding garage rock acts from the USA. The Kills with their battered bluesy guitar screaming out. The White Stripes and their woebegone howling and bare bones of guitar/drums. That scratchy basement sound, lacking read more
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20/07/2009
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Spector- There She Goes/Shine
This makes me think of the glut of also-ran guitar man bands in the mid 90s. I’m taken back to the defunct magazine called Sessions, which featured bands like the one that the third Gallagher brother managed (Brubaker, I think they were called). Bands so read more
20/07/2009
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The History of Guns- When You Don't Matter
Not too enamoured with the prospect of reviewing a CD with a B-side called Slice up Your Wife. And with a name like The History of Guns, I expect a riot of macho punk to ensue. Nothing could have prepared my ears for what this read more
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Hi everyone GIITTV zine is currently so over flowing with marterial that I don't know where to start, so I've plucked out some juicy highlights for your eyes to feast on this very Thursday afternoon!

WIN!A Copy of Jools Holand's Later Live 2

Later Live 2, featuring two cds of live Jools Holland performances came out this Monday (12th October 2009). It contains live songs from the likes of Elbow, Hot Chip, MGMT, The Last Shadow Puppets, Radiohead, Morrissey, New York Dolls, Goldfrapp and many many more! To celebrate we've got FIVE copies to give away, so send us your name and email to bill@godisinthetvzine.co.uk by the 25th when the five lucky winners will be plucked from our bulging sack!

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Let the She-Wolves Howl at the Moon:Where the f*** have our real Pop Stars gone?

Please tell me you've already heard Shakira's 'She Wolf' . What do you mean, no? Where have you BEEN? I'll describe it for you shortly, in extensive detail and with gratuitous use of metaphor, but I'd much rather wait for you to listen to it first. Back yet? Good. At the time of writing, 'She Wolf' sits at number 4 in the UK charts below a crushingly tedious menagerie; the odious, slimier-than-a-frog's-back DJ David Guetta, autopilot Jay-Z dud 'Empire State of Mind' and the bland, forgettable ringtone R&B of Taio Cruz. Sexier than Nigella Lawson narrating her own orgy, 'She Wolf' is an exotic, modern disco-funk missile that shines like a lighthouse in these tombstone-grey seas toward how pop should actually sound in the 21st century: white-hot, clever, gazing up at the stars not down at the pavements. Her playful sense of fun also pervades throughout, a trait sorely missing amongst many of the current crop. The year's biggest success is undoubtedly Lady Gaga, but there's as little humanity or elation in her distant, robotic shtick as there is in Beyonce's joyless ass-shaking. Since when was pop music this cold?
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WIN! Tickets to see Maps @ Cargo!

We have a pair of tickets for MAPS @ Cargo on the 26th of October. Simply send your name and email address to bill@godisinthetvzine.co.uk by the 20th of October, when a winner will be plucked from our huge hat! Simples!
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FlashForward, a new series premièring on Monday nights on Channel Five, which is based on a 1999 novel by Canadian writer Robert J Sawyer who devised the show along with co-creator David Goyer (writer of The Dark Knight, and Blade: The Series, amongst other things), and and Brannon Braga (24). The major league pedigree is complete with a cast which includes top notch British actors, as usual, this time in the form of Joseph Fiennes who plays FBI agent and recovering alcoholic Mark Benford, his wife Olivia (Sonya Walger, an escapee from Lost), somewhat bizarrely, Jack Davenport, best known to older viewers as posh toff Miles from ground breaking nineties drama This Life, and more recently the Pirates of The Caribbean movies. With American John Cho (last seen rolling an enormous joint as Harold in the Harold and Kumar movies), and, somewhere in the first season, an appearance by former Hobbit and hairy-faced Mancunian Dominic Monaghan also in the cast, the list of vaguely familiar faces is complete.
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Video Interview: Robert Carlyle
The latest sci fi Stargate TV spin off: Stargate Universe launched last Tuesday the 6th October 8pm with a double bill. It continues every Tuesday on Sky 1 at 8pm. To celebrate we've been sent a video interview with the show's central character and legendary Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle. Watch it below.
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We announced a gig in Cardiff this week more details here:
My Sad Captains, Ute, Little Eris, The StopMotion Men(acoustic)@ Buffalo Bar, Cardiff, 4th of November 2009
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Review highlights

LIVE:
Mark Morriss - The Half Moon 07/10/2009
Mark Morriss's solo acoustic gig proves him to be a thoroughly charming and funny bloke, as if we didn't already assume or know he would be. This was no ordinary gig - but we'll hear more about that later. First it's important to point out ...
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Flood of Red, Circle of One - Cardiff Barfly 04/10/2009
Dead Against The Rest started off the night with their classic rock stylings. Both singers have classic rock voices but I couldn't pick up one coherent lyric in the entire set. These guys obviously love what they do and have fun at the same time...
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The Maccabbees, Peggy Sue - Brixton Academy 03/10/2009
People often say that animal owners end up looking and acting like their pets. One only need look to the reams of Fred Perry wearing cheeky chappies who attended Blur’s Hyde Park soirees earlier this summer, or recall the wide-eyed, tie-dyed attendees of an...
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Hot Silk Pockets, A Classic Education - The Lexington 02/10/2009
There was a sprightly verve to the start of this White Light night at The Lexington. A Classic Education were a surprise find, turning out to be performers of dramatic indie. It would be wrong to slip into Arcade Fire comparisons, but their name was read more
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Florence and the Machine, The XX - 02 Academy Bournemouth 30/09/2009
18th September 2009 I’m mingling in the decidedly young crowd at Bournemouth’s newest – and also oldest – gig venue awaiting Florence and the Machine when I realise Florence Welch is right in front of me. With wild, bushy hair tamed by a glinting hair band, read more
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The Joy Formidable, Twin Atlantic - The Garage 30/09/2009
Right here, right now in this packed venue, The Joy Formidable belong. They've arrived, they've come into their own, developed a confidence and presence, and every cheer that sounds like a homecoming celebration and that would usually greet a band above their still subtle stature, read more
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Gang of Four, Japanese Voyeurs - Forum 26/09/2009
Gang Of Four are one of the most influential British bands of all time, which makes the fact that they are unknown to a large number of music fans baffling. Tonight’s show was to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their debut album, and masterpiece, Entertainment. read more
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The Veronicas- KOKO 24/09/2009
The first time I heard The Veronicas I suddenly thought Avril Lavigne had finally got a good voice and talent. It was last year, and they were still strangers to the UK, except for one very tiny scandal: they gave an interview to underground website read more
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Cue The Moon - Thought Forgotten Spoken
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Untied States - Instant Everything, Constant Nothing
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Vegas Nights - Touch and Feel/It Came As No Surprise
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Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
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Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
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VV Brown - Game Over http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3801&amp;type=Singles
Bat for Lashes - Sleep Alone / Moon and Moon
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Horrors, The - Whole New Way
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Cinematics, The - Love And Terror
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The evolving music industry
Reverend and the Makers, Future of The Left, Los Campesinos, Radiohead, The Joy Formidable
You don't even have to be an online music nerd like me (and maybe you), to realise that the music industry is in a state of flux. Whatever your position on the digital democracy that music sharing online has fostered, whether you stand arm and arm with Reverend John Mclure who thinks the digital revolution has opened up the doors to a world of music you might never have heard, or you stand behind Lilly Allen who rather hypocritically thinks it's an evil theft of an artists work whilst sitting pretty on a major label and making her own mixes of illegally downloaded tracks, it's clear that sharing copyrighted music online is not a harmless crime..
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INTERVIEW: CATS AND CATS AND CATS
On the back of their just finished UK tour and with a brand new AA single Oh Boy released on October 19th I caught a few words with Cats and Cats and Cats to find out a bit more about the single as well as their forthcoming debut album.
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INTERVIEW: THE NORTHWESTERN
It isn’t easy being in a band. Sometimes things conspire against you; sometimes you can barely make ends meet. Even if you do ‘make it’, maybe you’ll be popular for one song, maybe you’ll be popular for a few albums, there are no guarantees and there is no certain way to second guess the market in an attempt to create success. You speak with most musicians who have a record out, ask them why the make music and why they battle with the constantly uncertainty and they will answer the same way as Sam Herlihy, “It's just what we do. We write songs and want to make records and play shows. It's our job and all most of us know how to do well”.
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In The City- Part 3
The Drums, The Northwestern, Taxi Taxi!, The Brute Chorus, Telegraphs
Industry eavesdrop of the day: [on discussing why a band hadn’t attracted a crowd] “…well it’s ‘cos it’s in Manchester isn’t it; people are just going to go and see bands who they’ve finally got the chance to see.”
Cor my legs are stiff coming into day three of my In The City excursions. Thankfully, owing to booking issues, things rolls into the week this year, meaning activities for two of the three main days are restricted only to the evening, today shouldn’t be another ten hour slog. It’s another indication, though, that the buzz of ITC is dying after seventeen long years of attempting to make bands dreams come true. Certainly venues appear markedly emptier than even 2007, when I made my conference debut. The subdued aura of the smattering of A&R guys that have turned up, meanwhile, is indicative of the wider state of music as a whole. Rumour has it that Swedish Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge was threatened with being “burnt at the stake” by furious label bosses after his keynote speech yesterday; another example of the impasse still prominent between the two sides of the piracy argument.
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LIVE REVIEWS
PASSION PIT
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GLASVEGAS
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THE TWILIGHT SAD
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THE BIG PINK
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FAKE PROBLEMS
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THE DEAD WEATHER
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THERAPY?
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GROOVE ARMADA
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THE NOISETTES
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ALEXIS GIDEON
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FANFARLO
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NEPHU HUZZBAND
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PASCAL BABARE
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COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE
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MATT& KIM
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KICK TO KILL
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UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS
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SAMSON& DELILAH
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KIPPI KANINIS
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BATS
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TUBELORD
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PETE YORN& SCARLET JOHANSSEN
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BASHY
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KIZZY STAR
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BADDIES
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BLACK GOLD
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BLACK HEART PROCESSION
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ESPERS
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