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British Sea Power News
Latitude announces first acts, including The National
Plenty, plenty.»
Simian Mobile Disco and British Sea Power for Camden Crawl
Woah, new bands!»
Watch: British Sea Power - 'Living Is So Easy'
As with the end of the year, it's often said that really good records don't come out at the beginning of a designated period of 12 months. This might be mostly true, but British Sea Power hope to prove an exception to the rule when they release their new one, Valhalla Dancehall, on January 10 through Rough Trade. I've heard it and it's most definitely NOT rubbish. Just how good it is, however, remains to be seen.»
Listen: Download new British Sea Power track - 'Living Is So Easy'
British Sea Power may have released one of the most criminally underrated albums - and indeed whole musical projects - in last year's Man Of Aran. Which, in some ways, is a shame. They return with a new album next year, though, and we can now get a little taste of it as they've made a track free to download.»
Watch: Artists plead to save 6Music ft. Bat For Lashes, Kate Nash, British Sea Power + more
As you will have noticed, BBC 6Music has been earmarked for closure by that Strategic Review thing that came out a couple of months ago. Well, there has been plenty of campaigning in the mean time, including several gigs in various places and Adam 'Count Buckules' Buxton challenging (jovially) Director General Mark 'Thommo' Thompson to a fistfight. »
Festival News Round-Up #7
FESTIVAL RELATED LINE-UP NEWS, ENNIT!»
British Sea Power to tour in April, perform Man Of Aran live
British Sea Power, currently in the midst of mixing and mastering their new record, have announced a tour for the end of April and early May, though it's only in England and Scotland, so I'm not going to label it a 'UK TOUR' as provincial types and pedants complain in equal measure. »
Drowned Up: Jeniferever, Twilight Sad, NiN, your Qs for Yeah Yeah Yeahs
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Green Man Festival confirms Wilco, Bon Iver and more
The emphatically DiS-approved Green Man Festival has today announced its first raft of acts, and mighty fine they look too. We spoke to Managing Director of the festival Fiona Stewart, who has also kindly offered us two pairs of tickets which could be yours...»
Great Escape 2009 to include Kasabian, BSP, B.Kweller, JoFo
The first list of notable names for The Great Escape 2009 have been announced. DiS can also confirm that we will once again be hosting a stage.»
WIN! Tickets to the End Of The Road Festival
The End Of The Road Festival acts as something of a marker each year, indicating that the festival season in the UK is as good as up, and you've one weekend left to party in a field. And now you can do that partying for nowt»
The odds favour the unknown: Burial favourite for Mercury
After a week of betting, bookmakers William Hill have revealed that their favourite to take this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize is Burial's second album, Untrue (pictured)»
Watch: British Sea Power live at the Natural History Museum
The latest British Sea Power excursion into the realms of the non-Carling polluted venues was a stop-off at the Natural History Museum in London»
2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize nominees announced
The nominees for the Mercury Prize 2008 have been announced with Radiohead, British Sea Power and Burial all in contention for the annual music award»
The people behind DiS launch theQuietus.com
The people behind DrownedinSound.com are very pleased, proud and excited to announce the full launch of theQuietus.com»
ZOO8: the worst festival ever? Attendees speak out
There's anger in the ranks, as attendees of ZOO8 - held over the weekend in Port Lympne Wild Animal Park - have voiced their disgust at the quality of the festival, and the value for money if offered»
Independents Day: British Sea Power and Futurheads for proper 'indie' music TV?
Just waiting to see if Mitch has more info on this as he sometimes work for AIM. Also not got time to finish this at the moment - SEAN Indie community to be TV profiled as part of Independents Day celebrations»
Manics, Kooks and loads more for Oxegen 2008
In the latest update to this year’s festival season, Manic Street Preachers and The Kooks are among those who have joined the bill for Oxegen Festival in Co. Kildare, Ireland»
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Vanloads of new acts have been shipped in to play Reading and Leeds this year»
Latitude gets better as Crystal Castles, British Sea Power and Foals join the bill
A gleaming set of new acts have been unveiled for this year’s Latitude festival in Henham Park, Suffolk»
Seems British Sea Power are a pretty big deal now
British Sea Power have announced an October tour»
One step forward, two steps back: British Sea Power, Little Man Tate, Delays for T in the Park 2008
British Sea Power, Little Man Tate and Delays have been added to the line-up for this year’s T in the Park»
British Sea Power join fan in polar bear mercy dash
A British Sea Power fan is being aided in his efforts to reach the North Pole and help save the polar bear by the Sussex-based rock band»
British Sea Power, Low and Dirty Three among new End of Road confirmations
With festival announcements coming thick and fast, focus falls on Dorset, where the latest set of acts have been confirmed for the End of the Road festival»
British Sea Power announce special Canvey Island show
Maintaining a recent obsession with putting on gigs in exotic locales, British Sea Power will head to Canvey Island this week.»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 25/01/08
The strings in our bow.»
Find pain here: pictures of British Sea Power man's horror fall
Pictures of Phil Sumner's death-defying swan-dive.»
It almost ended on an oily stage: British Sea Power man hospitalised after 12ft 'swan-dive'
British Sea Power cornet player Phil Sumner cheated death at a show in Leeds last night after “swan diving” from atop a 12ft speaker and attempting to land on his face.»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 11/01/08
The cream of Drowned in Sound's weekly crop.»
WIN! Tickets to British Sea Power's Czech Embassy show
The formidable form of British Sea Power storm the Czech Embassy this coming Thursday (10 Jan). We’ve got one pair of tickets to give away, if you want them.»
Watch: new British Sea Power video
For the second time today we bring you new video. This time it’s the footage cloaking ‘Waving Flags’, the new single from British Sea Power.»
British Sea Power sort themselves a real life tour
Barbour-wearing brilliants British Sea Power have announced another set of dates to take place just past the turn of the year.»
(British Sea Power announce secret show)
Real cool band yeah British Sea Power will play an ex-secret show in London this time next week.»
British Sea Power unveil new album
British Sea Power have announced details of their third studio album.»
British Sea Power: Some Frankhaus? for FREE
After recently announcing details regarding their Krankenhaus? EP, British Sea Power have offered some of it up for nada. As an enticing introduction to pastures new, recent racket 'Atom' is available for FREE from BSP's website. JUST. CLICK. HERE. »
A Fistful of Fandango: promoters celebrate sixth birthday
Club Fandango celebrate their sixth birthday this September with six consecutive nights of music, with dates featuring British Sea Power, Malcolm Middleton, Maps and Shit Disco...»
Bradford Sea Power: band to play one-off gig
South-coast indie-rockers British Sea Power have gone and booked themselves a one-off gig - they're not really playing out much lately - in the glamorous northern town of Bradford...»
Wave of Mutilation? Pixies tribute record details
With the Concert For Diana programmes only freshly tucked away, details surrounding the forthcoming Pixies tribute record appear to have developed somewhat, albeit without some of the names that were initially slated to contribute to the release.»
Lodestar festival expands its line up
Celebration of the dying embers of the festival season, Lodestar, has expanded its bill for the three day bash.
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Best of British: Sea Power name LP. We think.
British Sea Power get choppy with the new album title.»
End Of The Road update: Ryan Adams announced!
The first-ever End Of The Road Festival is all but upon us, so what better time for a wee update on the line-up and stuff...»
BRiTiSHRAiLPOWER
The most unscenester-like band to emerge from the Leeds, errr, scene, iLiKETRAiNS, have been confirmed as special guests on British Sea Power's forthcoming tour of little venues...»
BSP, beside the sea: Brighton's finest headline oddly appealing event
British Sea Power are to headline the Fort Rox event, held in East Sussex this August...»
Dot To Dot: Here's the schedule...
This Sunday (May 28th) sees Nottingham's second Dot To Dot Festival take place at venues across the city, and it's even bigger and better than last year. Over 60 bands and DJs will be spread across four venues - Rock City, Stealth, the Social and the Rescue Rooms...»
DiS Stage at Brighton's Great Escape Festival Announcement
One city, three nights beside the seaside, 14 venues filled with over 100 bands from all over the world and a Drowned in Sound Stage...»
WIN! Tickets to the Insomniac's Ball
I was once told, "Colin, you're far too good to your readers, all they do is spew rubbish into the comments beneath the articles and send you hate mail when you slag off Band X." I pondered this for a second and replied, "quiet infidel! DiS readers are a higher class of music lover and their comments are always incisive, valid and above all - interesting! Then, I thought, "hey! let's give away some more prizes!" So that's exactly what we're going to do.»
Join the dots: reveal great bands
Nottingham's Dot-To-Dot festival features a quite wonderful line-up this year. The event, held from 2pm 'til 4am on Bank Holiday Sunday, May 28th, features acts playing in four different venues: The Rescue Rooms, Rock City, Stealth and The Social...»
Oh we do like to tour alongside the Sea Power...
British Sea Power play a load of shows in November...»
BSP go Electrowerz crazy - win tickets
Hey kids of London persuasion... Bank Holiday Weekend (Friday, May 27th) sees another instalment in the Adventures In The Beetroot Fields nights.»
British Sea Power too wet for America? + Brakes news!
British Sea Busy!»
Flowered up: BSP do CFS and MRLP
Another weird week for British Sea Power then, what with being approached by both gardening fanatics and political parties...»
SFA do Bestival, British Sea Power too
Isle of Wight's alternative to the usual festival, Bestival, have announced those venerable festival heroes, Super Furry Animals are to headline the event.»
The naughty forty - chart update
Chart murmurings from the world of the single buyers.»
Listing Dissings: Top 75 dissected
Hello, a quick post-bank holiday whizz through the charts then:»
BSP: new record out online + tours n that.
British Sea Power, not ones to hide behind antique furniture (maybe…) have embraced the future and released the first single from their sophomore record a month early on iTunes.»
BSP get busy: album, single, shows announced
Brighton bird watching types go back to nature. Plus new single & album details (with new release dates) and - AND! - UK tour dates. Woof!»
Brighton's big tsunami gig
Tsunami benefits are everywhere, so here's another one: Brighton's biggest indie bands join forces for a show at the Concorde 2 on Monday 7th March. Tickets are already on sale.»
A Wee BSP Update: Foliage Go Bye Bye
DiS catches up with British Sea Power frontman Yan for an update.»
All Aboard! British Sea Power Announce New Dates
The bird watching, branch brandishing collective British Sea Power have announced yet another UK tour.»
BSP Bassist Comes a Copper (sic)
British Sea Power were forced to cancel Monday night's show at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University after bassist Hamilton fell out of a tree!»
Truck Festival: a Little Reminder...
With mere hours to go before Goldrush's intimate Truck Festival kicks off in their tiny home village of Steventon, here's a quick last minute preview. This year they've cunningly given the indie lineup a boot up the ass, adding some bona fide famous people, without drastically changing the village vibe. Clever stuff»
British Sea Power: UK Voyage
Wave your arms and rejoice – British Sea Power are releasing a new single! And as a special treat they’ll be touring the UK at the end of this month. British Sea Power release their fourth single, 'Childhood Memories', on November 4th. The A-side will be supported by the all-new trac»
Leeds Roundup: Part 1
There are some definite organisational 'issues' at this weekend's Leeds Festival. Primarily, and grumbled about right, left and centre over the course of the weekend, are the attempts to cram an unfeasibly large number of bands into an improbably short space of time on each stage's bill.»
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