Filed under: news, where's the gigs | Tags: alan pedder, annie, dates, nina nastasia, rose kemp, ting tings, tour
We talked about her earlier. Watch Annie give the Swedes a run for their money at these London dates:
03/07 O2 Wireless Festival, Hyde Park
04/07 Proud Galleries, Camden Town
10/07 Cargo, Shoreditch
21/07 Koko, Camden Town
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We originally thought she was just going to play a couple of festival dates and toddle off back to New York but, no, it seems the lovely Nina Nastasia is gracing us with a full 10-date tour calling at the following venues:
25/07 Galway Arts Festival, Galway
26/07 Crawdaddy, Dublin
27/07 Cyprus Ave., Cork
01/08 Big Chill Festival, Herefordshire
02/08 Day At The Races, Manchester
03/08 Stereo, Glasgow
04/08 Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
08/08 Summer Sundae, Leicester
13/08 Roundhouse, London
16/08 Green Man Festival, Hay-on-Wye
Support for the Roundhouse date comes from six-man goth-country outfit O’Death. See you there!
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Kicking off in September, The Ting Tings embark on a 15-date jaunt around the nation in support of their chart-topping album We Started Nothing. Yes, that is its name. Tickets go on general sale on Friday.
20/09 Academy, Liverpool
21/09 Barrowlands, Glasgow
23/09 Academy, Newcastle
24/09 Rock City, Nottingham
25/09 Guildhall, Southampton
26/09 Academy, Sheffield
28/09 UEA, Norwich
29/09 Engine Shed, Lincoln
30/09 University, Leicester
02/10 Academy, Manchester
04/10 Academy, Birmingham
05/10 University Great Hall, Cardiff
07/10 Academy, Bristol
08/10 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
09/10 Forum, London
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Also in September, the volatile Rose Kemp heads out a mini-tour of the UK in support of her third album, Unholy Majesty, due for release on the first of the month. Pre-order the album here. More dates to be announced.
12/09 Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth
13/09 The Cooler, Bristol
21/09 The End, Newcastle
22/09 Barfly, Glasgow
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Alan Pedder
Filed under: news, trouser press, video | Tags: alan pedder, annie, au revoir simone, david bowie, emma pollock, giant sand, green peppers, howe gelb, isobel campbell, montreux jazz festival, music, music news, neko case, news, pj harvey, pram, psapp, tori amos, under byen
- Tori Amos to release live DVD of rare performances
- Norwegian pop icon Annie unveils second album
- New Giant Sand album to star Neko Case and Isobel Campbell
- Emma Pollock guests on new Green Peppers album
- Au Revoir Simone pay tribute to Bowie
- Pram to release remix EP
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Two of Tori Amos’s earliest live performances are coming to DVD on September 22nd with the release of the latest in a longrunning series of tapings at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The prosaically named Live At Montreux collates the singer’s pre- and post-Little Earthquakes appearances at the Festival in 1991 and 1992, showing her “fascinating progression from one year to the next as she grows in confidence and skill as a live performer, buoyed by the critical and commercial success of Little Earthquakes.”
1991 show:
01 Silent All These Years
02 Precious Things
03 China
04 Crucify
05 Leather
06 Song For Eric
07 Upside Down
08 Happy Phantom
09 Winter
10 Thank You
1992 show:
11 Little Earthquakes
12 Crucify
13 Silent All These Years
14 Precious Things
15 Happy Phantom
16 Whole Lotta Love / Thank You
17 Me & A Gun
18 Winter
19 Smells Like Teen Spirit
Tori talks about the DVD and all her other new, post-Epic projects in a revealing interview with Spinner.com.
Filed under: news, stuff 'n nonsense, trouser press, trouser shorts, where's the gigs | Tags: message from the editor, music news, wears the trousers magazine
We’ve done it!
We’ve officially switched from our old home at thetrousers.co.uk to our new home at wearsthetrousers.com (via wordpress for all you web snoops who found us before we were ready). Service as usual will now resume with regular round-ups of newsworthy thingys. These will be divided into three categories:
- trouser press - general music news
- trouser shorts – tantalising tidbits and teasers
- where’s the gigs – tourdates etc.
We’ll also be reinstating our release calendar at some point. Look out for that soon.
Let us know what you think of the new site! x
Filed under: feature, voice on the verge | Tags: alan pedder, interview, music, nancy wallace, the memory band, the owl service
voice on the verge #7: nancy wallace
You may remember the delightful tones of Suffolk-born musician Nancy Wallace from her brilliantly rustic Young Hearts EP, a set of folk covers of classic disco anthems by the likes of Candi Staton, Barry White and Elton John. Possibly you’ll remember her from The Memory Band or The Owl Service. She sings and plays in both collectives. Or maybe you’ve heard her songs aired on ‘Countryfile’, soundtracking the mid-air acrobatics of a great tit or something just as wholesome. Wherever or whether you’ve heard her, you ought to be pleased to know that Nancy’s debut solo album, Old Stories, is being released later this year by The Hobby Horse Recording Company. Until then you can catch her with The Owl Service at this year’s Green Man Festival. Or, you can sit on your chair and read our short insight into Ms Wallace’s world.
Filed under: feature, voice on the verge | Tags: alan pedder, interview, karin tatoyan, music
voice on the verge #6: kárin tatoyan
Kárin (kar-reen) Tatoyan spent over three years making a name for herself on the Los Angeles acoustic scene before discovering her true voice as a dynamic sonic adventurer. They’re even calling her the Armenian-American Björk, they being whoever wrote her press release, but apparently she’d rather be Radiohead. Which is good, because she doesn’t much sound like Björk other than she likes to mix the classical with the ultra modern. Her 2007 EP, The History Of Stains, is a stunning realisation of a powerful ambition to be seen on her own terms as an individual and original talent. On stage, she’s notoriously visceral (and she’s got the physical wounds to prove it!); off stage she blogs her life in poetry. The best description, then, is the artist’s own. A field of opposites. Yeah, that’ll do.
