Get your buckets and spades ready, music lovers, because Channel 4 has announced more acts for their annual T4 On The Beach event.
T4 On The Beach is coming to Weston-super-Mare on Sunday 20th July and the latest acts announced for the event are Adele, Pigeon Detectives, Sam Sparro and McFly.
Madonna has apparently signed a deal with secondary market ticket sellers StubHub and Viagogo. Why is this news? Well, because it’s the first time in the history of the universe that a major artist has had a formal agreement in place with the secondary ticket market.
John Wilson has an interesting write-up on his blog about the meaning of the deal.
Having sold her touring rights to LiveNation last year, this represents a major endorsement of secondary markets by one of the world’s largest promoters and blows a hole through the “moral” arguments that were advanced by some parts of the live music industry, who condemned such market as scalping or touting. Similarly, it leaves the recently formed industry association that was advocating a revenue tax on secondary markets completely wrong footed.
Madonna has just announced her summer tour, the dubiously titled “Sticky & Sweet” tour. The tour will begin in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on 23 August 2008 and will travel across the UK and Europe through to the end of September.
The will be further dates in North America in October and November, finishing up in South America and Mexico toward the end of the year.
BBC Radio 1 announced today (Monday 21 April) that the station will kick off the 2008 festival season with the biggest female artist on the planet headlining Radio 1’s Big Weekend – Madonna.
The event takes place at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May. Chris Moyles announced the big news and the full main stage line-up on his show this morning. The line-ups for the rest of the stages will be announced throughout the day on Radio 1. Read More »
Every year, Radio 1 throws a massive party, and they call it their Big Weekend. This year’s Big Weekend takes place on the 10th and 11th May at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent.
If previous Weekends are anything to go by, there’ll be a whole host of Radio 1 presenters there to host the event. And there’ll be a glittering array of the UK’s finest musical talent.
Although it’s a free event, you will have to register for tickets on the Radio 1 website to get in. Apparently the majority of free tickets will be reserved for people from the Kent area.
Dear Glastonbury Goers
I’m already fed up listening to the “we don’t want hip-hop at our Indie lovefest” nonsense. This is Jay-Z we’re talking about. What would you rather have, another Kaiser Chiefs/Arctic Monkeys knock-off?
Indie acts are a dime a dozen these days and far less interesting because the scene is flooded with them. But still you want a festival filled with wall-to-wall clones. How unimaginative of you.
In my very humble opinion, Jay-Z is a living legend. Okay, a living legend with a stupid name, but let’s not fall out over the details. The guy’s been charting all over the world with awesome hip-hop tracks for years - Big Pimpin’, 99 Problems, Roc Boys …the list goes on and on.
And he’s earned his rock stripes through a collaboration with Linkin Park back in 2003 (in fact, they’re rumoured to be playing together in the UK this year).
The fact that you absolutely refuse to accept a rapper as the headliner for Glastonbury this year speaks volumes about your musical snobbery and how little you actually care about the festival itself. Why? Because, if Jay-Z could attract a different kind of music fan, then Glastonbury opens up to a whole new audience.
Better still, there’s a chance that the Jay-Z fans who attend might have their eyes opened to a whole new world of Indie music that they might otherwise have shied away from. Everybody wins.
For my part, I’m glad Michael and Emily Eavis have taken such a bold move to diversify the line-up at Glastonbury this year, and I hope they’re not discouraged by the backlash.
It seems the British justice system could no longer allow Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty to remain at large. And no, not because he might release another album.
It’s because Pete repeatedly failed to show up for probation hearings among other things that weren’t disclosed by his manager, Adrian Hunter.
The O2 Wireless Festival kicks off on 3rd July 2008 and will be headlined this year by Morrissey, Fatboy Slim and Counting Crows. The festival runs for the whole weekend and will be held in London’s Hyde Park. (Tickets can be purchased via the festival website).
As before, here’s our guide to who’s playing the O2 Wireless Festival on each night.
Back in the musical primordial soup that was 1978, Rock Against Racism held an event to draw attention to “rising xenophobia and racism” stemming mostly from the National Front at that time.
And though you may think times have changed, there is still a worrying racist subculture in Britain. 30 years later and the anniversary carnival is uniting artists against racism and fascism. We thought we’d put together some information about the event for anybody who’s thinking of going along for the day (hint: entry is FREE!)
BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe is calling for bands from Maidstone and across Kent to get in touch with Radio 1 for the chance to be part of Radio 1’s Big Weekend – The Fringe Festival. The Fringe will celebrate the local music scene, from guitar bands through to bedroom DJs, MCs and everything in between. The event takes place in the town in the week preceding Radio 1’s Big Weekend.
Bands can apply by going to bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend where all the details of how to get your band on to the Fringe Festival are explained.
A panel made up of BBC Kent Introducing presenters James Bursey and Tom Kirkby, Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens, the Radio 1 Live events team and Radio 1 producers will be responsible for selecting the bands to play live at the Fringe. Read More »
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