Never ones to let the death of legendary frontman Jerry Garcia get in the way of a good tour, the surviving members of The Grateful Dead are to reunite for a 19 city tour. The tour will kick off on 12 April 2009 in Greensboro.

The group is now going by the slightly shorter name, the Dead, presumably out of respect for their deceased bandmate.

The tour has come about in the wake of the band playing at a benefit for Barrack Obama in Pennsylvania last October. Apparently the remaining members of the band managed to resolve their differences for that performance and discuss reforming for another tour.

Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – the surviving original members – will be joined for the tour by Warren Haynes on lead guitar and Jeff Chimenti will play keyboards.

Tickets go on sale on 23rd January.

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and former Sugababe Mutya Buene are headlining a London concert to raise awareness of the city’s knife crime culture.

Dozens of teenagers have died in gang-related stabbings in 2008 alone. Organisers of the South Bank Centre event want to persuade young people to stop carrying blades, and hope music will help get the message across.

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Blur have confirmed that they have reunited for a huge gig next summer in London’s Hyde Park.

“It just felt it was right again,” Albarn told music weekly NME.

“It somehow feels like there’s something for us to do again, we’re not completely useless or pointless, we’ve got a reason to exist.”

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Coldplay front man, Chris Martin has revealed that the band would love to play a big stadium show next summer and would be happy to open one of Take That’s shows on their Circus tour.

Posting on the band’s website, Chris wrote: “I would open for Take That. We were in the dressing room the other day and, for whatever reason, we started singing ‘Back For Good’.

“We sang the whole thing, word for word, with all the right chords on our piano, without having to learn it or anything. It was great.

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Hallelujah!! Take That are hitting the road again next year and have today announced the dates for their new UK tour in 2009.

The band are set to play eight dates in June 2009 including venues in Sunderland, Cardiff, Manchester and London. Unfortunately for me, no Irish dates have been released as yet.

Tickets for The Circus
tour go on sale at 9am on 31 October.

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Oh dear. It seems that The Zutons had an ice cold reception from fans at their recent T4 On The Beach gig.

We’ve always had a soft spot for The Zutons here at Unreality Music, and were looking forward to the release of their third album. However, with the release of Always Right Behind You, we got that sinking feeling that the band had made some bad musical decisions.

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After her adventures at the Make a NOise carnival, Amy Greenhouse is back. This time, she joined us at Glastonbury to show the farm a bit of love. The question is, where’s Trace?

Channel 4 has today announced the final amazing acts who will join the T4 On The Beach line-up next week in Weston-super-Mare. Chart-topping pop sensations Sugababes and Reverend And The Makers, Swedish DJ Basshunter, Kentucky rockers Cage The Elephant and Irish three-piece The Script are all set to perform at T4’s one day beach party which rocks up to Weston-super-Mare on Sunday 20th July. Plus last year’s mobileAct unsigned winners Envy & Other Sins will be making their T4 On The Beach debut, alongside rising stars, One Eskimo. Read more & comment »

Further proof (if you need it) of Natasha Bedingfield’s conquering of America comes in the news that she’s been chosen as the opening act for the New Kids On The Block reunion tour this autumn.

The tour will run for just over two months, beginning on 18 September and ending on 26 November.

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