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TICKETMASTER UK POS EVENT
1 ONE DIRECTION 2 CALVIN HARRIS 3 RUDIMENTAL 4 ROD STEWART 5 STEREOPHONICS
6 RAHAT FATEH ALI KHAN 7 BASTILLE
8 IMAGINE DRAGONS 9 BRUNO MARS
10 CHASE AND STATUS
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EVENT 11 PRODIGY
12 ARCTIC MONKEYS 13 CARO EMERALD 14 READING FESTIVAL 15 TIESTO
16 ANDRE RIEU
17 CHASE AND STATUS 18 ELLIE GOULDING 19 KODALINE
20 LEONARD COHEN ON THE RADAR DAUGHN GIBSON
“I just tell ‘em it’s country,” Daughn Gibson says to Music Week, as he reels off of the plethora of terms that have been coined by others to try and describe his sound, includ- ing ‘James Blake in a ten-gallon cowboy hat’, ‘country witch-house’ and ‘Johnny Cash played on a tape deck running out of batteries’. The mountainous drawl of the
Carlisle, Pennsylvania resident pours through the phone as he talks to us during a break between the US and UK legs of his tour, the latter of which will be upon him in a matter of days following the call: “The new tour’s gonna be a lot of fun… I’m excited.”
This trans-continental operation
is due to a label change for Gibson’s second LP, Me Moan. Sub Pop snapped up the promise displayed by Daughn’s debut album, the White Denim-released All Hell. The LP garnered attention for its unique mix of Ableton- warped samples and country-style crooning. But, with a bigger label and a bigger audience, some things had to change: out were the murky samples, an integral part of the first record’s texture, and in were long studio hours, blood, sweat and tears. “It took a lot more man hours to put [Me Moan] together. [All Hell]
HE SAID / SHE SAID “ Keisha: At one point we had eight managers.
Siobhán: We were like: who are these people? Mutya: One did this, one did that, one picked his nose.
MKS talk about their beginnings as the Sugababes and the seemingly superfluous personnel around them, in an interview for The Observer
” THE LOWDOWN
Album: Where You Stand Highest chart position: No.3
was thoughtless,” Gibson admits. “I don’t mean that in a bad way, but I didn’t think about it when I made it, and I didn’t care. For this record I want you to like it I want me to like it I want everybody to like it! “The first [album] I didn’t give
one fuck who liked it, listened to it, wrote about it, talked about it.” Making the second album was
an emotionally full-on experience for Gibson and he’s not sure if it’s a process that can be repeated in the same way in the future: “I didn’t quite pinch myself but… I had to take a step back sometimes. “Making the record, I felt like a
proud dad. Every song has bits that I struggled through. I don’t know if I’d do the same thing again. To me it’s just a beautiful baby.” Gibson doesn’t buy into
definitions of success created by others and is reluctant to get sucked in by such parameters. For now, it seems, he’s just riding the wave and hopes listeners of his material will come along and enjoy the journey too.
TAKE A BOW TEAM TRAVIS
Label: Red Telephone Box/ Kobalt Label Services
A&R: Fran Healy
Manager: Ian McAndrew and Jodie Harkins, Wildlife Entertainment
Agent: Peter Nash, William Morris Entertainment
Marketing: Emma Greengrass
National press: Barbara Charone and Fred Mellor, MBC
Regional press: Hugo Simpson, MBC
Online press: Louisa Worskett, MBC
National radio: Joe Bennett, JBPR
Regional radio: Steve Tandy, Cop Media
TV: Karen Williams and Lizzie Dorney-Kingdom, Big Sister Promotions
TICKETWEB UK POS EVENT
1 ARMIN VAN BUUREN 2 RUDIMENTAL 3 FOALS
4 PASSENGER
5 BRING ME THE HORIZON 6 DISCLOSURE 7 JAY Z
8 CITY AND COLOUR 9 HAIM
10 KODALINE
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11 THE 1975 12 PLAN B
13 KERRANG! TOUR 14 PEACE
15 BABYSHAMBLES 16 MAJOR LAZER 17 JAKE BUGG
18 IMAGINE DRAGONS 19 TOM ODELL
20 HAUNTED HOUSE ESSENTIAL INFO
RELEASES 2012 March 26 Album: All Hell
2013 July 8 Album: Me Moan LABEL Sub Pop (formerly White Denim) LIVE
August Fri 30 Exchange, Bristol Sat 31 End of the Road, Dorset September Sun 1 The Haunt, Brighton Mon 2 The Deaf Institute, Manchester Tues 3 Broadcast, Glasgow Weds 4 Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Thurs 5 - Electrowerkz, London
“I prefer to just sit in my room
and make music and go play it now and then,” he said. “All the other stuff is icing on the cake or quicksand. I just don’t pay attention to it.”
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