Black Affair played a live set on Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway show last Monday. The session and interview were filmed for the web and you can find that over at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/vicgalloway/sessions/blackaffair/

Steve played ‘Japense Happening’ and ‘Just Keep Walking’

The brand new album from The Aliens - Luna - is released today!

The Aliens have also launched a new website to coincide with the new album and tour

Check it out at www.thealiens.co.uk

Here’s a MySpace bulletin posted by the band today:

29 Sep 2008, 11:50
Subject: THE ALIENS _ LUNA OUT TODAY!!
Body: Hello,

Our album LUNA is out today in all good record shops & online!

We will do some vinyl & for that extra special listening experience you can download the 24Bit Masters at http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-luna.aspx

Our UK tour kicks off next week in Dundee on the 7th .We have sets of tickets to give away so keep an eye out for a competition this week.

7 DUNDEE, DOGHOUSE
9 EDINBURGH, LIQUID ROOMS
11 MANCHESTER, ACAD 3
12 NOTTINGHAM, STEALTH
13 BRISTOL, THEKLA
14 LONDON, HOXTON BAR & GRILL
16 BRIGHTON, DIGITAL
17 LIVERPOOL, ACADEMY 2
18 NEWCASTLE, OTHER ROOMS

Enjoy LUNA!

The Aliens x

Buy The Aliens new album Luna from HMV
Buy The Aliens new single Magic Man from HMV

Buy The Aliens concert tickets:
- Buy The Aliens tickets from Ticketmaster
- Buy The Aliens tickets from SeeTickets

Steve has posted a new bulletin on his King Biscuit Time MySpace account:

From: King Biscuit Time
Date: 16 Sep 2008, 16:25
Subject: THE RETURN

So, i will be releasing a new track, called ” I LET HER IN ” on a new label called TENTRACKS in Oct/Nov. TENTRACKS is a music subscription site run by the people who bring you the brilliant free music and arts paper, SKINNY. I think my track will be on the first batch of 10 tracks that are going out. Its a great song that has been up here before in unfinished form.

The TENTRACKS website is coming soon, its going to be an amazing project with alot of very high quality music of all genre’s.

http://www.tentracks.co.uk/

You can now vote for the excellent new ‘Magic Man’ video by The Aliens over on MTV’s website for the Myspace Chart. The show premiers Sundays at 7pm on MTV TWO with a daily recap Monday to Thursday

Visit the MTV Myspace Chart website and vote now

Pre-order The Aliens new single Magic Man
Pre-order The Aliens new album Luna

The Aliens have announced an UK tour in October to promote the new album Luna

Tue 07.10.2008 - Dundee Doghouse (Ticketweb)
Thu 09.10.2008 - Edinburgh Liquid Room (Ticketmaster)
Sat 11.10.2008 - Manchester University (SeeTickets),(Ticketline)
Sun 12.10.2008 - Nottingham Stealth (SeeTickets),(Ticketmaster)
Mon 13.10.2008 - Bristol Thekla (SeeTickets),(Ticketmaster)
Tue 14.10.2008 - London Hoxton Bar & Grill
Thu 16.10.2008 - Brighton Digital (Ticketweb)
Fri 17.10.2008 - Liverpool Carling Academy (SeeTickets),(Ticketweb)
Sat 18.10.2008 - Newcastle Other Rooms (Ticketweb)

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The Aliens have put the video to new single Magic Man (directed by John Maclean and Christian McKenzie) up on MySpace. The single is released on 15th September, and features on the new album ‘Luna’, which is released two weeks later on 29th September 2008

You can pre-order The Aliens new album Luna from HMV for £7.99 here (with free delivery)

Check out the video for Magic Man below:

Magic Man

Link to The Aliens video for Magic Man on MySpace

You can also stream the new single Magic Man on The Aliens’ MySpace

Just spotted a copy of The Beta Band’s debut 12" vinyl EP Champion Versions for sale on eBay.co.uk

The current bidding at time of writing is £30 with 6 bids. The eBay auction ends on Sunday 24th August at 13:45pm

Click here to view the auction on eBay.co.uk

Update: the winning bid on the auction was £59.00

Black Affair are playing a live set this Saturday (23rd August) at the Eastern Electrics event ("A 15 hour celebration of cutting edge DJ’s and bands from the East side of town")

More details can be found at www.easternelectrics.com

The official site lists the venue for the event as:

Ewer Street Car Park on Great Suffolk Street is virgin party territory (extremely rare in London these days). The site contains a large outdoor DC10 style courtyard and two spectactular indoor arches (perfect for the unpredictable weather).

Only a short walk from Southwark tube station, the site will be transformed with comfortable seating, visuals, projections and some of the East Ends most cutting edge music

We’ve posted a flyer for the Saturday below, but if you can’t read it, here are the details:

Eastern Electrics

A 15 hour celebration of cutting edge DJ’s and bands from the East side of town

Saturday 23rd August 2008
2pm - 5am

Outdoor Stage
(Hosted by VICE Magazine running from 2pm - 10pm)
- Black Affair (live set)
- Switch (DJ set)
- Micachu (live)
- Man Like Me (live)
- Stop Making Sense
- Pure Filth DJ’s
- Skull Juice
See website for running order

Indoor Stage
(Hosted by Trailer Trash)
- Popof (live set)
- Joe and Will Ask (live set)
- Hannah Holland
- Zombie Disco Squad
- Mikki Most
- Ian Robinson

Indoor Stage
(Hosted by Neon Noise Project)
- Tronik Youth
- Cut Copy (DJ set)
- JBAG (Jerry Bouthier & Andrea Gorgerino)

Fully stocked bars supplied and staffed by The Star of Bethnal Green
Food and concession stalls
Relaxing chill-out area
Executive toilets

Tickets only £15 from the following outlets:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
http://www.residentadvisor.net/ee
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk
http://www.clubtickets.co.uk

Rough Trade East
Dray Walk, off Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
020 7392 7788

Phonica Records
51 Poland Street
London W1F 7RJ
020 7025 6070

The Star Of Bethnal Green
359 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 6LG
020 7729 0167

Please see the Eastern Electrics website for full details (including details of the Sunday line-up etc).

We’re pleased to bring you news of a newly confirmed show for Black Affair. Steve will be playing in Shoreditch on Monday 25th August 2008. You can find a flyer for the night below, but in case you can’t see it here are the details:

SUSO and Vice give you
MUSIC KNIGHTS

BLACK AFFAIR live
GENTLE FRIENDLY live
THIS IS MUSIC dj

FREE ENTRY & FREE SUSO COCKTAILS
25th August, at The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch. EC2A 3ES.

Get your invite sent out each month or tells us who you’d like to see:
musicknights@susology.com

Thanks to stontt on The Aliens board for finding this Youtube gem…

Thom Yorke covered the The Beta Band tune ‘Dr Baker’ during the intro to ‘Everything in its Right Place’ at a recent Radiohead show in Indianapolis, Indiana (at the Verizion Wireless Music Center on 3rd Aug 2008).

Check it out below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0idxJSS_1A