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AMY LAVELLE SPINDLE MAGAZINE The Diamond Noise • Yippie YeahMother Tongue
Short, sharp and simple, Yippie Yeah is another high-octane track from London- based The Diamond Noise that packs poppy hooks with a punk attitude into a frenzied two minute blast that comes on strong without outstaying its welcome.
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MUSIC-NEWS.COM Yellowire • All Said & Done id Records
All Said & Done encapsulates the inexhaustible theme of relationship break-up through sensible lyrics, driven by the ear-catchy piano riff, which successfully wrestles Ol Beach’s assertively smoky vocals for the limelight. This gloriously mischievous cut of blues-induced guitar pop has ‘airplay’ written all over it.
ANDY COWAN MOJO Funeral Suits • Colour FadeModel Citizen
There’s an exotic otherness to this fresh-faced Dublin quartet. Elegiac and intrigu- ing, Colour Fade evokes U2 and Prince while following a direction untraveled by either. “I’m a machine,” pants singer Brian James, yet his band clearly do nothing by rote.
ANDY RITCHIE ROCK SOUND Yellowcard • Southern Air Hopeless
Few would have believed that violin-tinged pop-punk was anything more than a flash-in-the-pan novelty when Yellowcard burst onto the scene. Today, they’re noth- ing short of scene veterans, and Southern Air, their eighth studio album does their legacy the utmost justice. This is the summer soundtrack for 2012.
SIGNS O’ THE TIMES
Island Records has re- signed Tyler James, known for his recent appearance on The Voice UK. He is set to release a single later this summer and his yet-to-be- named album is due in the autumn. His debut 2005 album, The Unlikely Lad, recently re-entered the iTunes chart at No.6.
Front row: Nick Shymansky, Tyler James, Hamish Harris. Back row: Darcus Beese, Tom March, Ted Cockle, Alex Boateng
Regional Mexican singer Larry Hernandezwill contin- ue to make albums with Universal Music Latin Entertainment (UMLE). He
has signed a new deal with the label, which for half a decade he has licensed material through via Discos Sol. The new deal is directly with Universal/Fonovisa and encompasses four projects.
Chris Mann, best known as Christina Aguilera’s finalist on the second season of The Voice in the US has signed with Faircraft Records, an imprint of Universal Republic. He will release his debut full-length album on October 16.
FEEDBACK
Bloc organisers say sorry for festival chaos Jude McArdle: “I can understand organisers omitting any mention of overticketing in their statement. But the police? Their statement is false. It did not rain all night. It was sunny and then a warm(ish) evening. “Too many tickets were sold and
the entrance was far too small to cope with demand. The stages could- n’t cope with the amount of people there, especially after they closed the smaller stages. “It was dangerous. They hadn’t
even finished building the festival. And again, it did not rain. Re-read the police statement. Lies.”
CrowdSurge addresses reported Bloc Festival ticketing problems Oisin: “The ONLY thing I CARE about is MY REFUND. Are you confusing the public with a regulatory body? Who the **** do you think you are?”
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Wakestock first in UK to go festival-wide with ‘cashless’ microchip wristbands Alexander Nielsen: “I think this is a great idea! That way concert goes wont need to worry about carrying money and having it pick pocketed from them and they can also have a limit on how much they can spend. Say for example you only load 20 pound on the wrist- band, that’s your limit unless you bring more cash with you.”
BBC slashes music TV by 90 hours in fiscal 2012, BBC4 down 70 hours Paul Carey: “This is why its so tough for any decent new music to break- through to a bigger audience. We need more opportunities on tv not less. Even news channels are becom- ing more difficult to get new acts on, unless you have a strong angle. I'm waiting for a live online music tv show to emerge to open things up to all the bands looking for a break.”
July 12, Wardour St, London The Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary is marked with a photo outside the old Marquee Club – now a bank – by Rankin
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