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After their first two 7” singles last year the CYANIDE PILLS are ready to launch their loud & snotty debut album… 19 tracks and bursting with some of the best Pop-punk tunes we’ve heard in years. It will be on LP, CD and download and also lookout for a third 7” ‘Conquer The World’ with an exclusive b-side…oh yeah and the LP will be on limited brown vinyl…Tasty!

Pete Molinari made his first major TV appearance last night on the Later with Jools Holland show on BBC 2. He performed his great new single ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ which is out in June along with his third album ‘A Train Bound For Glory’, both will be on Clarksville records not DG, however we do still have his great first two albums available on LP, CD and download plus the recent EP/mini album ‘Today, Tomorrow And Forever’

You can watch it again here… http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sfz6y/Later_Live…_with_Jools_Holland_Series_36_Episode_5/ (UK Only, sorry)

YES! finally we have the new album ready to go, it’s due out on the 5th of July and it’s 14 fantastic tracks recorded earlier this year, it will be preceded by a new single ‘Paper Thin’ in June.

They have a few live dates…inc one this Saturday…
17TH APRIL : LONDON BETSY TROTWOOD
1ST/2ND MAY : LONDON – CAMDEN CRAWL
23RD – 25TH JULY : INDIETRACKS FEST

More info soon…

The Cute Lepers are back touring in Europe next month and there’s also a new single.
‘Smart Accessories’ (Damgood354) taken from their latest album and it’s backed with an exclusive b-side, the Beatles song, ‘You’re Gonna Lose That Girl’, it’s on three colours, Red, White and Clear and also lookout for a repress of their debut album on red,white and blue vinyl (split on one LP) which is due out in time for the tour.

LIVE DATES:-

12.05.2010  Germany / Solingen / Cobra 
13.05.2010  NL / Arnheim / The Stage 
14.05.2010  Germany / Aachen / AZ 
15.05.2010  Belgium/ Ottenburg / Zevende Zegel 
16.05.2010  UK / London / 12 Bar  w/ Shitty Limits + The Spivs 
17.05.2010  UK / Brighton / Albert  w/ The Authorities 
18.05.2010  UK / Northhampton / Labour Club 
19.05.2010  UK / Derby / The Old Bell w/ *Cyanide Pills* 
20.05.2010  UK / Edinburgh / Bannermans w/ Begrudgers 
21.05.2010  UK / High Wycombe / Nags Head (onstage 11pm)
22.05.2010  Germany / tba 
23.05.2010  Germany / Rostock / Mau Club 
24.05.2010  Germany / Bremen / Treue 
25.05.2010  Germany / tba 
26.05.2010  Germany / Tübingen / Epplehaus 
27.05.2010  Germany / Aulendorf / irReal 
28.05.2010  CH / Solothurn / Kofmehl Club w/ Wolly Bandits 
29.05.2010  Italy / Venice / Rivolta  w/ Cocksparrer 
30.05.2010  Italy / Ospitaletto / Terrazza Live 
31.05.2010  Italy / tba 
01.06.2010  Italy / La Spezia / TBA Festival 
02.06.2010  Slovenia / Lubiljana / tba 
03.06.2010  Hungray / Zagreb / Kset tbc 
04.06.2010  Serbia Novi Sad / Punk festival 
05.06.2010  Austria / Eisenerz / Erzberg Rodeo – Scooter run 

Shipping this week we have 2 new singles, one each from the recently re-formed Penetraion and the mighty Sweet Apple (featuring J Mascis). Both are available through our online shop or at your nearest decent record shop.

Yes it’s a long awaited new album from Holly and Dave and it’s called ‘Medicine County’, in the shops from Monday March the 29th.

‘Medicine County’ was written and recorded on a farmhouse just outside Athens in Georgia and as Holly says it’s “peppier” than the last album, in fact there’s only one slow song on the whole album which is probably down to the fact that this time they had a lot longer to work on the songs and recording, their last album was recorded in the middle of a very long European tour over a week or two in Spain.

So what does it sound like? Choc-full of ghostly blues, gut-bucket slide guitar, with a smattering of ol’ time country. This is just the disc for conjuring up the spirit of weird old America.

Anyone with an interest or liking for the music of The Band, Son House, or Hank Williams, sung by Nancy and Lee, should certainly check it out!

Holly’s mum, Carol Voss, painted the cover, which adds to the warm home-spun appeal.

12 brand new songs including a cover of Wreckless Eric’s ‘Murder In My Mind’ and a guest appearance by Tom Heinl on ‘Blood On The Saddle’ (Tom wrote Holly’s Christmas track ‘Christmas Tree On Fire’)

BUY IT HERE

Radio 4 recognition at last for Mr Childish. Billy was featured on a Radio 4 documentary earlier this week. You can listen on the BBC i-player for the next few days.

Here’s what it’s all about…
John Wilson meets a prolific and unique British artist.
For someone who professes that ‘art can achieve nothing’ and who claims to detest hard work, Billy Childish has been an artist of extraordinary industry and influence. In 30 years of activity he has written 40 collections of poetry, recorded more than 120 albums and painted 5,000 pictures. He has founded art movements, created self styled non-art movements and been credited by Tracey Emin as her greatest influence. Peter Doig calls him ‘one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art scene’.
But despite all the output, acclaim and influence, Billy Childish remains a total outsider. His punk rock band recently did a session for Marc Riley’s programme on BBC 6Music. ‘I can’t believe this is only the second session that you’ve done in 30 years’, said Marc, ‘why is that?’
‘Because nobody will bloody touch me’ said the charmingly polite Childish with a bemused smile.
Now the ICA in London has given its three galleries over to Billy’s work, the first time a mainstream gallery has ever opened its doors to him.
John Wilson speaks to artists, musicians and poets about his work and in a long interview at Billy’s Kent home, he discovers why Billy thinks his work upsets and enthralls people in roughly equal measure and why this artistic, eccentric, mustachioed, tea-drinking poet regards himself as totally un-English.

Out NOW – a very limited edition 7” and Digital single taken from their debut album ‘Roman Radio’ which is already receiving strong radio support from BBC 6 Music and Radio 2.

The b-side is an exclusive track called ‘Padre Volante’
It’s about a Brazilian priest who tried to break the flying record by tying balloons to a chair and floating off, it didn’t end well!

The band will be in session on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6Music show this very Friday night, between 9-11pm.

Here’s a list of gigs where you can see Nat Johnson & The Figureheads live:-

6 March Bodega Social, Nottingham
7 March The Cluny, Newcastle
21 March Captain’s Rest, Glasgow
22 March Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
28 March Communion at the Adelphi, Leeds
8 Apr Leadmill, Sheffield
1 May Camden Crawl, London
2 May Camden Crawl, London

Yes Billy has a big proper exhibition at the ICA…It started on Wednesday and runs until April 18th. Here’s what the ICA have to say:-

Artist, musician and writer Billy Childish is a cult figure, and one who has gained an international following, but this is the first time a public institution has brought together a major solo exhibition to encompass his extraordinary career. His prodigious range of activities can best be understood as a total work of art – one which centres on his own persona. Unknowable but Certain presents the vitality of his recent work as a culmination of over three decades’ engagement across different media.

The lower gallery features a group of Childish’s recent paintings, which have an unusual command and power. It includes self-portraits, often shown hill-walking; images of boats on the Medway, the estuary where he lives; still lifes with flowers, featuring pots made by the artist’s mother; and paintings depicting the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser, including works based on police photographs showing the author dead in the snow. Childish’s paintings are highly expressionistic, conveying a sense of the visionary significance that he discovers in objects, places and people. They also demonstrate the deliberate rejection of the contemporary world that is a feature of all his work.

Our upper galleries present Childish’s output as a musician and writer, covering a career which began in 1977 and providing a context within which the recent paintings can be understood. One room concentrates on his music, which has involved a huge range of collaborators and bands and which maintains a stubbornly independent ethos originating in the punk era. The second room features books and pamphlets containing Childish’s writings, often designed and published by him and illustrated by his own woodcuts. The display includes polemical and campaigning literature, but also his more personal poetry and prose, much of which is profoundly autobiographical in nature.

The exhibition has been curated by Richard Birkett and Matthew Higgs, and is staged concurrently with an exhibition of the artist’s paintings at White Columns in New York (March 5—April 17).