Middlesbrough Music Live with Gazettelive tag:,2008-11-26:/654 2009-06-06T15:55:51Z News and updates on Middlesbrough Music Live Movable Type Enterprise 4.21-en Countdown. tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.145292 2009-06-06T15:53:02Z 2009-06-06T15:55:51Z So, I'm sat in the Ten Feet Tall office having just finished off all of my bits and bobs in preparation for tomorrow. If you're sat at home bored of the England match, then why not check out some of... Henry Carden So, I'm sat in the Ten Feet Tall office having just finished off all of my bits and bobs in preparation for tomorrow. If you're sat at home bored of the England match, then why not check out some of today's official warm up stuff?

]]> SATURDAY 6th JUNE

DAVE HOUSE + A BROKEN ROBOT + WONDERSWAN + COLOUR IN THE SLOW DANCE + NO SCHOOL REUNION / UNCLE ALBERTS / 7pm / £FREE! / 18+

The latest episode of Uncle Albert's super cool Saturday Social Club presents renowned South London singer-songwriter Dave House (fresh from tours with Set Your Goals, The King Blues & Get Cape Wear Cape Fly), with a supporting cast of top notch indie-rock and punk-rock from Southend, Leeds, Billingham and Boro!


BIG MOUTH COMEDY CLUB STARRING RUSSELL KANE + DAN NIGHTINGALE + KAREN BAILEY / TOWN HALL CRYPT / 8pm / £10 / 18+

This month's installment of the fabulous Big Mouth comedy club is a Music Live special featuring Russell Kane, who comes to Boro direct from BBC1's Live At The Apollo.


ELAINE PALMER + SUZANNE ELIZABETH MARRON + LAURA VICTORIA + EVELYN BURKE + I'M NOT GOOGLE / MIDDLESBROUGH REFERENCE LIBRARY / 1pm - 5pm / £FREE! / ALL AGES

This Central Library showcase brings together five of Teesside's most enchanting acoustic acts.


X-RAY UNDER-18 CLUB NIGHT - LAUNCH PARTY WITH KINGS OF LYON + RED RABBITS + COLD PISTOLS + THE BLITZ EVRA / THE EMPIRE / 3pm - 9pm / £6.50 / AGES 14 - 17 ONLY!

A brand new under 18s club night featuring DJs from the legendary Metropolis and Sumo club nights plus great live bands and two free drinks with every advance ticket!


CRAFTY SIMIAN + GOD'S OWN PROTOTYPE + RADIO DYNAMICS / THE WAREHOUSE / 10pm / £4-£5 / 18+

Three exciting new Teesside bands in a great little venue...


SURVIVE ATLANTICA + SAVE ARCADE + ROSA VALLE + VIASENDER + CLIMATE OF FEAR / THE WAREHOUSE / 4:30pm / £3 / Ages 14 - 17

London quartet Survive Atlantica look set to follow in the footsteps of the likes of You Me At Six and Kids In Glass Houses as the UK's next alt heroes.

For more information on all of these warm up shows check out www.middlesbroughmusiclive.co.uk

]]> Rosie cheeks. tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.145198 2009-06-05T13:51:23Z 2009-06-05T13:55:14Z Unfortunately Rosie and The Goldbug have had to pull out of this year's Middlesbrough Music Live. Touch wood, they're the first band to pull out this year, which is a relief. They've probably heard that pulling out of Music Live... Henry Carden Unfortunately Rosie and The Goldbug have had to pull out of this year's Middlesbrough Music Live. Touch wood, they're the first band to pull out this year, which is a relief. They've probably heard that pulling out of Music Live results in fame and fortune (Friendly Fires last year, Foals the year before, The Fratellis the year before that... ah well!)

]]> Thankfully, we've lined up an absolute beauty to replace them.

Vagabond are a five-piece hailing from Uruguay, Denmark, east London and Huddersfield and they've just signed to the newly revived Geffen label. Their old-fashioned blue-eyed soul will appeal to lovers of "smoov" balladry and lapsed soul fans who remember old-style R&B. Unashamedly pop, they've earnt comparisons to the likes of Wet Wet Wet and Simply Red and they blast down the middle of the road with a vengeance! Just check out their top tunes on the ol' myspace - http://www.myspace.com/vagabond - and you'll soon see why James Morrison hand picked the band to support him on his recent sold out UK tour...

"If Duffy can successfully repackage 60s soul, there's no reason why Vagabond can't do the same for the 70s variety." The Guardian

]]> Video killed the radio star. tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.143888 2009-06-04T08:53:34Z 2009-06-04T09:20:18Z At Music Live HQ, we quite often have a bit of a listen to Radio 1. And do you know what? They can't stop playing our bands!... Henry Carden At Music Live HQ, we quite often have a bit of a listen to Radio 1. And do you know what? They can't stop playing our bands!

]]> On the rock show, Sumo stage superstars The Ghost of A Thousand were in session - check it out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/rockshow/

On Tuesday, Huw Stephens (standing in for Zane Lowe) interviewed Master Shortie, who gave us a nice little shout out! Huw, Zane and Steve Lamacq have all been playing plenty more Music Live 2009 bands 'n' all... which is nice.

]]> Bands in the crypt! tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.143883 2009-06-04T08:53:34Z 2009-06-04T09:01:17Z This year's Middlesbrough Music Live sees bands playing in the main audorium and the Crypt of Middlesbrough Town Hall for the first time!... Henry Carden This year's Middlesbrough Music Live sees bands playing in the main audorium and the Crypt of Middlesbrough Town Hall for the first time!

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After their unbelievable performance in the Hairy Lemon last year (there were queues around the block to get in to see 'em!), we're very pleased to welcome SKABOOM back to Middlesbrough Music Live.

These Redcar lads (all nine of them!) unleash an upbeat show which incorporates ska classics from the likes of The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness and many more. Check out their myspace for more info:

http://www.myspace.com/skaboomukofficial

If you're a fan of classic two-tone ska, then you know where you need to be this Sunday! Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt, 2:30pm. 18+.

Stick around after Skaboom for Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle!

]]> Our football team might have been relegated... tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.143190 2009-05-29T11:11:39Z 2009-05-29T13:00:24Z Congratulations to local-lads-done-good The Chapman Family who today find themselves top of the Myspace chart on MTV2 - above the likes of Enter Shikari, Papa Roach and Taking Back Sunday! Blimey.... Henry Carden Congratulations to local-lads-done-good The Chapman Family who today find themselves top of the Myspace chart on MTV2 - above the likes of Enter Shikari, Papa Roach and Taking Back Sunday! Blimey.

]]> Help keep the lads on top by voting for them:

And make sure you go and see them at Music Live - 5:15pm in Middlesbrough Town Hall on the Gazette Stage.

]]> Turn it up to eleven. tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.142999 2009-05-29T11:11:39Z 2009-05-29T11:52:46Z Do you like ROCK music?! Of course you do. We do too. When we say rock music, we mean the good stuff - Motley Crue, Guns 'n' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath et al... If that's your bag, you're going... Henry Carden Do you like ROCK music?! Of course you do. We do too. When we say rock music, we mean the good stuff - Motley Crue, Guns 'n' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath et al... If that's your bag, you're going to LOVE...

]]> Heavens Basement. They're downright dirty, sleazy and full of the kind of riffs that could - and should - see them being regarded just as highly as the list of legends that inspired them. They recently got a rather splendid KKKK review in rock bible Kerrang! which compared them to bands such as Def Leppard and Black Stone Cherry.

How convenient, then, that Heaven's Basement have just been announced as tour support for Black Cherry's UK tour this summer! Nice. They'll also be touring with Shinedown 'n' all.

Check 'em out:

www.myspace.com/heavensbasementofficial

]]> World Wide Interweb! tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.142991 2009-05-29T11:11:39Z 2009-05-29T11:14:13Z You should have probably noticed by now, but the official Middlesbrough Music Live 2009 website is now live!... Henry Carden You should have probably noticed by now, but the official Middlesbrough Music Live 2009 website is now live!

]]> Head over to http://www.middlesbroughmusiclive.co.uk and check it out...

]]> Blog Of The Day tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.142368 2009-05-25T22:35:49Z 2009-05-25T22:40:49Z Well respected industry website Record Of The Day (dot com) have featured the new single from Stornoway "Zorbing" as their record of the day...... Henry Carden Well respected industry website Record Of The Day (dot com) have featured the new single from Stornoway "Zorbing" as their record of the day...

]]> This is what they said about it:

"Stornoway sound to us like a British response to US acts like Fleet Foxes, with a bit of XTC thrown in. Zorbing is a really charming debut and it grabbed us on first listen. After headlining the Radio 1 Big Weekend Introducing stage in Swindon, they'll play 4 different stages at Glastonbury this year. Radio support includes strong plays and planned sessions for 6Music and R1 evening shows. Press has come in the shape of a First Sight feature in The Guardian by Michael Hann and a forthcoming Q Magazine Next Big Thing feature."

Not bad, eh? The Record of the Day folks aren't the only people who are tipping Stornoway - Ten Feet Tall headhoncho Graham Ramsay loves 'em and he worked dead hard to secure them for the festival. Marvellous.

You can listen to the track on the Record Of The Day site:

http://www.recordoftheday.com/www/tracks/index.php (although it might be a new day before you check it out!)

]]> Top Of The Pops tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.140912 2009-05-20T12:28:05Z 2009-05-20T12:32:02Z So, a couple of weeks after The Daily Telegraph featured Middlesbrough Music Live in its 'Top 100 Festival Guide', The Sunday Times have only gone and whacked us in their 'Top 100 Music Festivals' haven't they!? How kind of them.... Henry Carden So, a couple of weeks after The Daily Telegraph featured Middlesbrough Music Live in its 'Top 100 Festival Guide', The Sunday Times have only gone and whacked us in their 'Top 100 Music Festivals' haven't they!? How kind of them.

]]> We were picked out as one of this year's highlights alongside legendary events including Glastonbury, the Isle of Wight, T in the Park, Womad, and Reading/Leeds Festivals - some of which have weekend tickets costing up to £180!

Middlesbrough Music Live is free, of course.

See you on 7th June!

]]> Boogie woogie. tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.140840 2009-05-20T08:55:33Z 2009-05-20T09:01:04Z You know when we say a band is hotly tipped... we mean it. You know when Jools Holland says a band is hotly tipped... he means it too. Well, hotly tipped Londoners Golden Silvers were on Later with Jools Holland... Henry Carden You know when we say a band is hotly tipped... we mean it. You know when Jools Holland says a band is hotly tipped... he means it too. Well, hotly tipped Londoners Golden Silvers were on Later with Jools Holland last night and they were proper good. Well and truly justified their hot tip.

]]> http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/artists/goldensilvers/

You can use the iPlayer thingy to watch it back, or you can just go and see them on the Evening Gazette stage at the Town Hall at Middlesbrough Music Live on Sunday 7th June...

GOLDEN SILVERS
www.myspace.com/thegoldensilvers

Signed to the legendary XL Recordings imprint (Vampire Weekend, Dizzee Rascal, White Stripes etc), Golden Silvers are a thoroughly intriguing proposition. New single "True Romance" is a bona-fide dance-floor classic full of massive pop-hooks, 60s psychedelia synths and Bowie-esque beats.

NME recently gave their debut album a rather glowing 8/10 review and they were pretty impressed by the live side of things too:

"Golden Silvers unleashed a compelling and pogo-inducing set of disco and psych-rock-tinged scatter pop, particularly the groove-ridden floor-stomper of 'Shakes' to 'Lily The Lover''s frantic rhythms, skew-whiff keyboards and sweetly sung melodies. However, it's Prince cover 'It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night' - complete with horn section which segues into anthemic first offering 'Arrows Of Eros' - that really sends people wild."

]]> Line up announced! tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.137483 2009-05-12T12:59:03Z 2009-05-12T13:26:06Z So, I guess this is what y'all have been waiting for!? Yup, it's this year's Middlesbrough Music Live line up! We're really pleased with how it's all come together - as usual there's a great mix of established acts and... Henry Carden So, I guess this is what y'all have been waiting for!? Yup, it's this year's Middlesbrough Music Live line up!

We're really pleased with how it's all come together - as usual there's a great mix of established acts and hotly tipped new comers. Over the next few weeks, we'll be profiling many of the new acts in this here blog, so even if you're not familiar with a lot of the line up, you will be soon! Carry on reading for the full line up - we've still got a few surprises up our sleeves, but this is how things stand so far:

]]> The Love Middlesbrough Main Stage
[Centre Square]

The Zutons
The Sunshine Underground
Master Shortie
Zion - Tribute to Bob Marley
Raygun
Rosie & The Goldbug
Will & The People
General Fiasco

Sumo Rock Stage
[Town Hall Courtyard]

Frank Turner
The Ghost Of A Thousand
Future Of The Left
Dinosaur Pile Up
Twin Atlantic
Heavens Basement
Pulled Apart By Horses
Your Demise
Turbowolf
Saving Aimee
Such Great Heights


Evening Gazette Sounds Stage
[Town Hall - Main Auditorium]

The Rumblestrips
Golden Silvers
Tommy Sparks
The Qemists
The Chapman Family
Detroit Social Club
The Black Box Revelation
Screaming Lights
Sound Of Guns
Official Secrets Act
Be Quiet Shout Loud


Ten Feet Tall Stage
[The Empire - Main Room]

Noah and the Whale
SPECIAL GUESTS TBC!
Dan Black
The Panics
Stornoway
Skint & Demoralised
Wallis Bird
White Belt Yellow Tag
Das Wanderlust


Harry Houdini Stage
[The Empire - First Floor]

The Black Box Revelation
Gold Teeth
The Brute Chorus
Me My Head
Billy The Kid (Solo Acoustic)
The Space Agency
Kovak


Cosmos Club
[Upstairs in The Central]

Bear Hands
Babel
Goldheart Assembly
Beth Jeans Houghton
Pete Greenwood
Georgia Seddon
Sal Paradise
Timothy James Oxnard
Acrobatic Society
The Woven Project


Homegrown Outdoor
[Outside The Empire]

The Hitchers
Our Secret Sins
Lifeless
This City Romance
Jezzle
The Reverse
3 Foot Ninja
Idiot Savant
Seething Floors
Said The Gramophone


Homegrown Indoor
[Pacific Bar]

Pellethead
The Scarlet Desire
Emmy Shot A Unicorn
Four Mile Drive
Slip
Russell & The Wolves
Electric Nightmares
Jimmy Buillet & The Baby Shakers
Anchor Fast Anchor


The Sneaky Extra Stage
[Town Hall Crypt]

Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle
Ska-Boom!


The Hairy Lemon

The Beerpigs
Elvis Tribute [Niall Southall]
Frantic Sound Collective Part #2
Frantic Sound Collective Part #1
Lovesick Cowboys TBC


How about that for a line up!? Should be a great day.

]]> The Turnernator. tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.134966 2009-05-07T11:07:20Z 2009-05-12T13:16:07Z It's been a hectic week at Middlesbrough Music Live HQ to say the least! With the print deadline looming for this year's brochure, we've been working around the clock to finalise the line up and get everything in place. You'll... Henry Carden It's been a hectic week at Middlesbrough Music Live HQ to say the least! With the print deadline looming for this year's brochure, we've been working around the clock to finalise the line up and get everything in place.

You'll be happy to know that it looks like we should be announcing the line up early next week, but those budding young Jonathan Creeks amongst you will probably have already discovered a fair few of the confirmed bands - the top friends on http://www.myspace.com/middlesbroughmusiclive will provide you with some pretty good clues!

As I'm feeling pretty generous, I thought I'd let you in to a few secrets before the line up is officially unveiled on Monday. Here's three acts who'll be performing this year that you should most certainly check out:

]]> FRANK TURNER
www.myspace.com/frankturner

With almost 2 million listens on myspace, appearances at all the best festivals, a session in Jo Whiley's Radio 1 Live Lounge and songs featured everywhere from Hollyoaks to Sky Movies, Frank Turner's CV is starting to look pretty impressive! Oh, there's also the small matter of a full American tour with The Offspring coming soon too. Smashing. If you've not heard Frank before - you're missing a treat. He's been a favourite of ours for some time now and as the missing link between Billy Bragg and Black Flag, we couldn't ask for a more engaging and entertaining act to headline our Sumo Rock stage.

"One of the best singer songwriters of our generation." Mike Davies (Radio 1)


THE RUMBLE STRIPS
www.myspace.com/rumblestripsuk

Let's get rrrrrrrrreaaaaaaady to rrrrrrrumble... strips! Favourites of (and collaborators with) Mark Ronson, The Rumble Strips are the perfect festival band thanks to toe-tapping tracks like 'Alarm Clock', 'Motorcycle' and 'Girls and Boys In Love' which are guaranteed to get the most stubborn of legs shaking. New album 'Welcome To The Walk Alone' was produced by the aforementioned Mr Ronson and is scheduled for release this summer on Universal Island Records' imprint Fallout Records. We can't wait!

"An unstoppable slew of urgent, high-stepping, pure white soul hits - this band just swing. If you see The Rumble Strips live, I defy you not to have a good time - and that's what this 'gig' malarkey is all about isn't it? 8/10" Drowned In Sound


MASTER SHORTIE
www.myspace.com/mastershortie

One of BBC's "Sound Of 2009" nominees (alongside Little Boots, VV Brown, Lady GaGa etc), Master Shortie recently wowed the crowds as main support for Basement Jaxx and he's also toured with the likes of Hadouken and The King Blues. Despite being just 19, he's more than ready to unleash his molten mix of The Rapture, Outkast, DMX, Usher, Klaxons, Prince, Axel F and drum'n'bass on the world. The question is, is the world ready for such an unquantifiable boy genius as MS?!

"Tipped as the next star of British hip-hop, the fluorescent Master Shortie spans the roles of grime MC, cool club kid and teen-friendly pop singer, with a dash of indie influence thrown in." BBC Sound Of 2009


Loads more announcements coming soon...

]]> Homegrown! tag:livewire.gazettelive.co.uk,2009://654.134425 2009-05-04T19:32:54Z 2009-05-12T13:17:00Z As you may have read in Friday's "What's On", The Hitchers and Pellethead have been announced as the headliners for this year's Middlesbrough Music Live "Homegrown" local band stages. If you were wondering who was going to be joining them... Henry Carden As you may have read in Friday's "What's On", The Hitchers and Pellethead have been announced as the headliners for this year's Middlesbrough Music Live "Homegrown" local band stages.

If you were wondering who was going to be joining them - wonder no more! Here's the full Homegrown line up:

]]> "HOMEGROWN" OUTDOOR STAGE:

9:30pm The Hitchers
http://www.myspace.com/thehitchers
Infectious 1950's style rock 'n' roll as seen on the Vans Warped Tour in the USA!

8:30pm Our Secret Sins
http://www.myspace.com/oursecretsins
BBC 6 Music favourites creating an anthemic sound alá Arcade Fire meets Beta Band.

7:30pm Lifeless
http://www.myspace.com/lifelessboro
An explosive thrash attack sitting somewhere between Slayer and The Beastie Boys!

6:30pm This City Romance
http://www.myspace.com/thiscityromance
Top notch indie tunes from Middlesbrough's answer to The Arctic Monkeys! Believe.

5:30pm Jezzle
http://www.myspace.com/thejezzle
Introducing our new favourite rapper! For fans of Lethal Bizzle and Dizzee Rascal.

4:30pm The Reverse
http://www.myspace.com/thereversemusic
Indie-pop gems in the vein of The Cribs and Pigeon Detectives, but from Hartlepool.

3:30pm 3 Foot Ninja
http://www.myspace.com/3footninja
North Yorkshire indie-rockers fresh from gigs with The Subways and Pete & The Pirates.

2:30pm Idiot Savant
http://www.myspace.com/idiotsavantbanduk
Huw Stephens (Radio 1) favourite history-rockers! Think Nick Cave meets The Fall.

1:30pm Seething Floors
http://www.myspace.com/seethingfloors
Our friends from Germany who've been rockin' since 1989 like a Deutsch Skunk Anansie!

12:30pm Said The Gramophone
http://www.myspace.com/saidthegramophone
Ridiculously promising young band influenced by Joy Divison and Jesus & The Mary Chain.


"HOMEGROWN" INDOOR STAGE - PACIFIC BAR:

9pm Pellethead
http://www.myspace.com/pellethead
Local legends as seen at the first ever Music Live! Think Devo meets Captain Beefheart.

8pm The Scarlet Desire
http://www.myspace.com/thescarletdesireuk
A mega hybrid of post-hardcore and pop-punk for fans of You Me At Six and Alexisonfire.

7pm Emmy Shot A Unicorn
http://www.myspace.com/emmyshotaunicorn
Our friends from Germany taking the Enter Shikari metal-core blueprint to new levels!

6pm Four Mile Drive
http://www.myspace.com/4miledrive
Female-fronted punks (insert lazy Distillers comparison here!) as seen with Anti-Flag.

5pm Slip
http://www.myspace.com/slipmusic
Self-proclaimed "sleaze from the Tees"; awesome classic rock inspired metal riffage.

4pm Russell and The Wolves
http://www.myspace.com/russellandthewolves
"Brilliant shockabilly blues" says the Gazette, 80s Matchbox fighting The Cramps says us!

3pm Electric Nightmares
http://www.myspace.com/electricnightmaresuk
Ludicrously talented young rockers coming across like a harder edged Elliott Minor.

2pm Jimmy Bullet & The Baby Shakers
http://www.myspace.com/jimmybullet111
Good old meat and potatoes music! Raw, loud and no frills - think The Stooges meets MC5.

1pm Anchor Fast Anchor
http://www.myspace.com/5anchorfastanchor5
An unstoppable cacophony of chaos influenced by Dinosaur Jnr and My Bloody Valentine.

There's a couple of special guests from Middlesbrough's German twin-town Oberhausen coming over to perform for us - make sure you check 'em out!

Keep checking back to this here blog for loads more Middlesbrough Music Live news - it's THE place to get the most up-to-the minute news... we'll be announcing loads of bands for the festival in the coming days, so yeah, keep checking back!

Cheerio.

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