LA’s disco punks The Mae Shi return triumphantly to our shores for a full-on live blitz throughout Europe in May. Kicking off this weekend with an appearance at ATP Vs The Fans, the band are set to astound and amaze people from Minehead to Monterrey with their frenetically awesome live show. The tour dates are in full below, the majority are as main support to fellow Californian’s Abe Vigoda.
To get people in the mood for the band’s visit, The Mae Shi are giving away their remix of Metronomy’s ‘Radio Ladio’, click to download this here:
Our lovely friends over at last.fm/presents got some cracking footage of the festivities in the Last.fm Presents tent at Offset. If you were there, head on over and relive the best festival of the summer. And if you weren’t, watch them and add yourself straight away to the Offset Festival mailing list so you don’t miss out next year. I hear super-cheap earlybird tickets will be on their way soon…click the image above to watch the video!
The headliners for the two days’ main stages are: YOUNG KNIVES followed by WIRE on the Saturday, and THE MACCABEES set on the Sunday night will precede GANG OF FOUR’s energetic and urgent closing of what’s sure to be one of the best festival’s of the summer. There are still a few more big announcements to be made – we’ll try and be FIRST to those for you…
With Metronomy, Prinzhorn Dance School, Fightstar, Tom McRae, Ipso Facto (I could list the whole line-up here it’s that good!) on some of the 6 other stages, your next pay-day should be the latest you leave it to grab yourself a dirt-cheap ticket for the best weekend of the year. Here are the ticket options, including one-dayers which have just gone on sale:
So – 150 bands from £45 for a whole weekend, some of the most vital bands in music history side by side with the bands who are picking up where they left off and dragging rock ‘n’ roll into the 21st century, and it’s still not enough for you? What’s that? You want a funfair? AND a rare breeds farm? Ok, happy now? No, really…
The new issue of DVD magazine ‘Counterpart’ is available now from their MySpace, and what a line up they’ve got out this time. Artists interviewed include DNTEL, DAVE E SUGAR, EMMY THE GREAT, FRIENDLY FIRES, HOLY FUCK, JEFFREY LEWIS, MATT & KIM, METRONOMY, OPERATOR PLEASE, PARTS AND LABOR, PRICE JAMES, THE TEENAGERS, WAX STAG and YACHT, and there are music videos and performances from ANDREA’S KIT, CASY & BRIAN, THE INFORMATIONS, PLANET EARTH, WOODY ALIEN and THE XX. As if that wasn’t enough, three short films are thrown in, including Anastasia Kirillova’s ‘50 YEARS AND A FEW PUSS KITTENS WISER’, a mixed-media documentary about couples who have been married more than 50 years set to the sounds of King Creosote vs Tunng, which you can watch right now on the BBC’s Film Network. Add a unique limited edition print by Hannah Waldron, and you’ll need to be quick to snap up one of these. 500 copies only. This also gives me a great excuse to put up some quality videos by these artists – hit read more…
