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Cure tickets on sale at 9am

Get them here, good luck. An initial batch already sold out through www.nme.com, guess that's why there are no advanced tickets that we O2 customers are supposed to get.Maybe see you here later if we miss out, though I'm not sure we'll pay much if Th...
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Cure tickets

Seems it's nearly time for our annual pilgrimage, The Cure are playing the O2, it's an NME brats show, except it's called the Shockwaves big gig now. Seems they're playing Brixton the night before but it's at the awards ceremony. I've been before, la...
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The Morning After Girls - Hi Skies

Before my recap of a great weekend, some videos as promised from work. First The Morning After Girls and "Hi Skies". They're new and hot from Australia, and signed to our label, Best Before Records... They have a few CDs available on import, The Morn...

Goldie Lookin' Chain

The excellent Welsh rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain are doing a proper London gig at last:Goldie Lookin' Chain @ Metro Club, London(Tue 3 Feb 2004) info / detailsThey also play Bristol Fleece And Firkin on the 1st of Feb, possibly a full tour is looming...

Click here for FREE BOOZE!

Ah, no, sorry, no free booze, but look there is the Cooper Temple Clause and someone off XFM.Today I thought I would do an "impression", rather than a "review" of the NME Brats Party...

Brats Tour Reviewette

Strange mix of bands for the latest NME "Brats" tour, that's probably the way it should be...The Coral were very varied in style, like a school project with everyone trying to exert their influence. Really embarrassing Liam Gallagher type posturing f...

More ticket madness

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have been punished for having such a crazily long name by not appearing in the searchable bit of the popEx gig guide, this is now fixed, so get tickets for their Brats / Astoria show by clicking here. No, wai...

NME Award Tour

The annual NME "Brats" Tourhas been announced, and this year will feature hotly tipped Andrew WK...Hotly tipped last month that is, I've gone off him a bit now, but still, it's QUITE EXCITING.Also playing are LostProphets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...

I should start making use of the facilities

There's a huge NOBO board near my desk with album and single release dates on it, so here are this week's releases! All these were out yesterday:Pixies - The Complete B Sides. 19 tracks of B-sides from officially the best and most influential band ev...

Saturday @ The Brats

Saturday night's NME / Carling / Brats gig started at the obscenely early our of SIX, with Peaches. Why was I expecting a band? And a Stranglers tribute band at that..? She is a she, and a slightly rude Canadian girl rapper to boot. It was an interes...

U2 Secret Warmup Gig

Todays Sun reports that U2 are doing a warmup show for their European tour, on February the 7th, as part of the NME Carling (Brats) gigs... NME haven't yet confirmed this, and there are no tickets available from the Astoria / Mean Fiddler websiteThe ...

Differ'nt Strokes

The Strokes, are five New Yorkers, and they've just sent a CD with a track called Barely Legal (on an EP called The Modern Age, out now on Rough Trade), that's got to be worth a news story, if only for getting this page in the "Billie Piper Naked" se...

Astoria

NME Brats show, plus Rocket From The Crypt, Peaches, and The Strokes, yes I did see them......
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Astoria

NME Brats show, think they'd lost it by this point...
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Astoria

NME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolle...
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Astoria

plus Idlewild, Scott 4, and Unbelievable Truth - unbelievably SHIT more like. Thom Yorke's brother's band. Part of NME Brats week....
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Astoria

Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Warm Jets, and theaudience (Sophie Ellis Bextor)...
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Astoria

NME Brats show? Plus Octopus, Mundy and Stereophonics again apparently. Must have been a week of gigs around this time.

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