THE DEFILED UNVEIL ARTWORK FOR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM ‘DAGGERS’

TEASER FOR FORTHCOMING VIDEO ‘UNSPOKEN’ REVEALED: http://youtu.be/FWa975o7SLo 

‘DAGGERS’ WILL BE RELEASED AUGUST 5^TH ON NUCLEAR BLAST
NEW VIDEO FOR ‘UNSPOKEN’ TO BE REVEALED ON JUNE 3^RD
 

Having recently inked a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Entertainment, The Defiled can now reveal the artwork for their forthcoming album ‘Daggers’ – due August 5^th.

The artwork was designed and executed by Scott Chalmers, the band’s long time photographer.

The AvD explains the concept: “Daggers were made for only one thing – killing or betraying your fellow man. And one stab is almost always never enough…

The flowers symbolise goodwill with the prospect of a co-operative future. The dagger behind the back symbolizes the ulterior motives, the insincerity and the impending disappointment that surrounds us all.  This theme runs through all the tracks on the album.

The concept was born out of a scene we wanted in our new video for ‘Unspoken’.  We wanted the two main characters shaking hands with daggers behind their backs. We were originally going to call the track ‘Daggers’ but then opted to go for  ‘Unspoken’.  The song is about the politics of life and it seemed more fitting.  We also didn’t want to limit the word “Daggers” to only one song on the album, as it is the overall feeling we wanted for the full project.”

‘Daggers’ is The Defiled’s second studio album and debut release on Nuclear Blast Entertainment. It follows the debut  ‘Grave Times (2011) which secured the band’s status as one of the UK’s most successful unsigned metal acts.

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ANNA COOGAN

ANNOUNCES JULY UK TOUR DATES + CONFIRMED FOR THE MAVERICK

FESTIVAL 2013

“A fine album with affecting lyrics” – 4* Martin Chilton, Daily Telegraph

“Simply amazing” – Alan Harrison – No Depression

“An album fashioned in great beauty, mystic and an abundance of top-notch playing and Coogan’s singing style, like that of a log fire on a winter’s evening warms the heart of the listener” – Americana UK

“Absolutely gorgeous!” – Iain Anderson, BBC Radio Scotland

After three record releases, five European tours and hundreds of shows across the US in the last four years, (many done all by Greyhound Bus) Anna Coogan is excited to be heading back to the UK for a string of live dates including a performance at the UK’s top Americana/Roots festival – Maverick Festival in July. Full tour details below.

A dyed-in-the-wool East Coaster (Boston, Vermont, and now New York) who lived in Seattle for twelve years and Salzburg, Austria for one, Anna has worked as an opera singer, a salmon biologist, a trash hauler, and a whitewater kayaking instructor among seemingly hundreds of other jobs. From this strange mix of geography and occupations comes her own poignant take on Americana and Alt-country- the dark alleyways and rolling hills, the conquistadors haunting the ocean floor, the girls with red shoes, the lonely ex-pats, and the legions of breaking hearts.

Never content to stick to one genre, Anna is described by roots authority ‘No Depression’ as having a “chameleon-like knack for molding her music to a specific genre’s sound, and then for transcending that sound.” She did this in 2005, with her first record (with band north19), the country-roots “Glory”, which earned her an in-studio on Seattle tastemaker station KEXP’s “Swinging’ Doors” and weeks at the top of their charts. She returned in 2007 with “Sleepwalker” and in 2010 with “The Nocturnal Among Us”, which was produced by JD Foster (Calexico, Laura Cantrell) and debuted at #1 on the Euro-Americana charts. Her 2011 album release, “The Wasted Ocean” (produced by Evan Brubaker) was described as “album of the year” by the Sheffield Star (UK), and  “absolutely gorgeous” by BBC Radio2’s Iain Anderson. The album received extensive airplay on the BBC and Irish National Radio, and cemented her place as one of the rising stars in today’s Americana scene.

Anna traveled to Rome during Holy Week in 2012 to record a two-day live session with her touring partner, Italian guitarist Daniele Fiaschi. The result of this weekend is “The Nowhere, Rome Sessions”, a gorgeous snapshot of their duo work. Recorded live at Nowhere Studios in Rome, with minimal overdubs and even fewer edits, the songs ache with emotion and the raw energy the two are known for. The album was quickly signed to Dutch label CRS, and received a well-deserved 4* review in Daily Telegraph as well as several weeks on KEXP’s top 10 charts. Daniele Fiaschi will also be joining Anna on her upcoming UK tour in July.

After an intensive start to 2013 with packed houses in Seattle, Portland, and NYC as well as a support slot for Taj Mahal in Ithaca, NY, Anna took several months off the road for songwriting sessions and a surprise return to classical singing. She is currently in the midst of several new projects that will debut in 2014, including writing and recording an album with long time friend and producer JD Foster (Patty Griffin, Dwight Yokum) and preparing her first ever full band tour of Europe with JD Foster on bass, Daniele Fiaschi on guitar, and Brian Wilson (Jamie Lidell, Neko Case) on drums. See more info at www.annacoogan.com

ANNA COOGAN UK TOUR DATES

Friday 5th July 2013

The Rock – Maltby, Rotherham

01709 585977 / www.therock.org.uk

Saturday 6th July 2013

Maverick Festival 2013 – Easton Farm Park, Suffolk

01728 746411 / www.maverickfestival.co.uk/ £30 Rustler Day ticket/ TBCpm

Sunday 7th July 2013

The Bicycle Shop – Norwich

(http://thebicycleshopcafe.com / http://wegottickets.com/thebicycleshop

Monday 8th July 2013

The Back Room – Cottingham, East Yorkshire

01482 847007 / www.thebackroomcottingha.wix.com/thebackroom

£10 adv / door, 7.30pm with Dennis Ellsworth

Wednesday 10th July 2013

St Paul’s Church Hall – Rothesay, Isle Of Bute

01700 502287 / www.transclydemusic.co.uk/ £10, doors 7.30pm

Friday 12th July 2013

The Institute – Kelvedon, Essex

01376 571775 / www.liveattheinstitute.co.uk / www.wegottickets.com

with Dennis Ellsworth and MC Hansen

Saturday 13th July 2013

Little Rabbit Barn – Ardleigh, Essex

Jonathan or Lyn at Rabett4@aol.com

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The Old Silent – Stream ‘Ill Wind’ Ahead Of Double A Side Release – 17^th June 

https://www.facebook.com/theoldsilent | http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOldSilent 

Only coming together in February 2013, enigmatic Merseyside newcomers The Old Silent are pleased to announce that they will be digitally releasing their debut double A side single ‘Ever You’ / ‘Ill Wind’ on Monday 17^th June.

To celebrate, the band are streaming ‘Ill Wind’ here ahead of release: https://soundcloud.com/theoldsilent/ill-wind

Written, produced and recorded by the band themselves and mixed by up-and-coming producer Tarek Musa (who’s worked in various capacities with luminaries Dan Croll, Mikhael Paskalev and Jethro Fox), this debut foray from The Old Silent sets out their stall as definite ones to watch from the burgeoning grass roots Liverpool music scene that’s sprung up surrounding the vibrant arts scene centered around independent venues like Mello Mello and The Kazimier.

A conglomerate of songwriters and musicians from the local scene featuring ex-members of folk punks Just Panic , The Old Silent finally hit on the magic formula when they combined forces to begin work on this new project featuring seasoned North Yorkshire born singer songwriter Lewis Fieldhouse.

“It’s a song about a time when I was feeling restless and anxious about the future.” says vocalist and guitarist Ste Forshaw of the emptiness and longing conveyed in Ill Wind “We were really skint trying to make a living as buskers through a long winter, and I was really far away from my girlfriend in London at the time.”

‘Ill Wind’ flits between Modest Mouse inspired distortion, patches of harmonic and melodic complexity recalling The Gaslight Anthem and a healthy dose of Blue Collar US rock that Bruce Springsteen would be proud to pump fist to.

With a handful of key performances under their belt, this intriguing new quartet aren’t giving much away, only recently giving fans the chance to hear material live at a low key support slot with Alcopop Records’ My First Tooth at The Shipping Forecast in Liverpool and are set to support Apologies, I Have None on September 11th in London.

The band will be releasing a video for ‘Ever You’ in the coming weeks.

Ever You / Ill Wind is released physically on 17^th May and digitally on 17^th June

Catch the band live at the following dates with more TBC:

11th September – Birthdays, Dalston – London

The Old Silent are:

Frank Johnson – Guitar, Vocals
Ste Forshaw – Guitar, Vocals
Alun Matthews – Drums
Lewis Fieldhouse – Bass, Vocals

MUSE TO PERFORM LIVE ON SUNDAY, JUNE 2 AS PART OF THE MASSIVE GLOBAL PREMIERE OF “WORLD WAR Z” IN LONDON

HOLLYWOOD, CA (May 23, 2013) – Paramount Pictures has teamed up with Grammy Award-winning British band Muse to feature the band’s music in the new film “WORLD WAR Z.”  The tracks are from Muse’s latest album The 2nd Law.  Following the film’s world premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Sunday, June 2, Muse will perform live from Horse Guards Parade Ground, St. James’s Park.  Tickets for the live performance will be available Tuesday, May 28 at 9:00 a.m. BST.  For more information and for tickets, please visit http://www.worldwarz.co.uk/MUSE

“WORLD WAR Z” revolves around an ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.  Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale.

Since forming in 1994, Muse has released six studio albums selling upwards of 15 million albums worldwide. The band earned its highest-ever debut on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart when “The 2nd Law” bowed at No. 2 a week after its October 2 release. Madness, the first single from the album, was No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Chart for 19 weeks, breaking the previous record set in 2007. The “2nd Law” and “Madness” received two Grammy Nominations this year. The group’s last album, The Resistance, reached No. 1 in 19 countries around the world, and they have won numerous awards including a Best Rock Album Grammy Award and an American Music Award for The Resistance.

“WORLD WAR Z” is directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Drew Goddard & Damon Lindelof, and screen story by Matthew Michael Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski.  Based on the novel by Max Brooks. Produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Ian Bryce. 

“WORLD WAR Z” is in theaters June 21, 2013.

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 About Paramount Pictures Corporation

Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. Paramount controls a collection of some of the most powerful brands in filmed entertainment, including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Insurge Pictures, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies. PPC operations also include Paramount Home Media Distribution, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., and Paramount Studio Group.

About St James’s Park and The Royal Parks:

Every year millions of Londoners and tourists visit St James’s Park, the oldest of the capital’s eight Royal Parks. The Park includes The Mall and Horse Guards Parade and is at the heart of ceremonial London, providing the setting of spectacular pageants including the annual, Trooping the Colour. The Park is surrounded by some of the country’s most famous landmarks, including Buckingham Palace and No. 10 Downing Street.

The Royal Parks are: Bushy Park, The Green Park, Greenwich Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, Richmond Park and St James’s Park. The Royal Parks also manages Victoria Tower Gardens, Brompton Cemetery, Grosvenor Square Gardens and the gardens of 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street.

DARK TRANQUILLITY
premiere new track
‘Endtime Hearts’

Sweden‘s DARK TRANQUILLITY will release their new album ‘Construct on May 27^th via Century Media Records! In anticipation of this release, the band has premiered another album track ‘Endtime Hearts’ on metal-hammer.de. The track can be heard exclusively here: http://www.metal-hammer.de/video-audio/premieren/article417991/hoert-den-neuen-dark-tranquillity-song-endtime-hearts-hier-zuerst.html

The band says this about the track: “So – here is the fourth and final “Construct” preview, again showcasing a different side of the album. “Endtime hearts” is more bouncy and direct than the previous songs, combining a wide range of influences into a catchy and live-friendly little tune. Enjoy!”

For another preview of ‘Construct’, be sure to check out the following previously released album tracks:

‘For Broken Words’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTkwuyb_PLc
‘The Science Of Noise’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbrtuZNfS4o
‘Uniformity’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BolGeBNPK1w

DARK TRANQUILLITY online:
http://www.darktranquillity.com
http://www.facebook.com/dtofficial
http://www.myspace.com/dtofficial
http://twitter.com/dtofficial

Century Media Records online:
http://www.centurymedia.com
http://www.youtube.com/centurymedia
http://twitter.com/centurymediaeu
http://www.facebook.com/centurymedia

Century Media webshop:
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2013

23^TH – 25^TH August 2013

Our Mainstage Attractions!

Cumbria’s biggest, brightest and best music and arts festival, Solfest is delighted to announce our headline bookings for Solfest 2013. Solfest has endeavoured to compile a richly varied and superb line-up that includes both the contemporary and the classic of the music world and runs that gamut from rock to roots and folk to dance.

Booked to appear on the mainstage this year are Flogging Molly, Maximo Park, Afro Celt Sound System, Oysterband, New Model Army, Deaf School, The Joy Formidable, Twisted Wheel, our ‘Very Special Guests’, Alabama 3, plus Jakarta Club, Ahab, Delhi 2 Dublin, N.U.M.B, By The Rivers and Victorian Trout Conspiracy.

Founded in Los Angeles in 1997, by Irishman Dave King, Flogging Molly has always defied categorisation. The infectious originality of their songs is a badge of honour and key to the band’s creativity, their urgency. They infuse punk rock with Celtic instruments—violin, mandolin and the accordion—and they merge blues progressions with grinding guitars and traditional Irish music, the music of King’s youth. “We’re not a traditional band,” explains Dublin-born King. “We are influenced by traditional music and inspired by it, but without question we put our own twist on it.” Theirs is music of exile and rebellion, of struggle and history and protest. It’s music of a country torn down the middle, a deeply beautiful and wounded country that knows no quit, and Flogging Molly pays homage to that resolve in every note.

Flogging Molly’s fans have always appreciated the social and political awareness driving the music. Swagger, the band’s first album, transcended everyone’s expectations in 2000, and the track ‘The Worst Day Since Yesterday’ was included in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Drunken Lullabies was released in 2002 and certified Gold. In 2004, the band released Within A Mile Of Home, and in 2008, Flogging Molly put out Float, a deeply stirring and personal album recorded in King’s native Ireland. No surprise that Float found the band’s widest audience yet. Through all of this, Flogging Molly—first, last, and always a live band—was touring, playing raucous and adrenaline-fuelled shows in bars, pubs, and nearly every major rock festival in North America, Europe, and Japan.

Their latest album Speed Of Darkness debuted at number nine on the Billboard American charts and has already sold over half a million copies.

Maxïmo Park is one of the most interesting, intriguing, inventive and vital bands to emerge from the UK’s indie rock scene in the last decade.
The five-piece came together in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear in April 2003, their name adapted from Maximo Gomez Park, a Havana meeting place for Cuban revolutionaries. Initially, the four founding members were an avant-garde band without a singer who didn’t play shows and rehearsed just for their own pleasure, frequently switching instruments. On the verge of splitting up, they instead decided to look for somebody to provide more of a focus – on stage and lyrically. Singer Paul Smith was discovered by the girlfriend of drummer Tom English in a pub while he was singing along to a Stevie Wonder’s ‘Superstition’.

Around March 2004, a friend funded 300 copies of a 7’’ red vinyl single with two of their tracks (‘Graffiti/Going Missing’) that they’d self-recorded. After building a reputation with gigs around their home town, Steve Beckett of the dance-electronic label Warp Records got hold of one of these records and decided to sign Maxïmo Park. In 2005 their debut album, A Certain Trigger, going on to sell 350,000, was hailed by some critics as one of the best releases of the year and led to an increasingly devoted fan base in the United Kingdom, re-enforced by a series of increasingly large tours and a support slot to the Kaiser Chiefs on the NME’s ‘Rock & Roll Riot Tour’. The debut album was also nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year. In 2006 the band played Brixton Academy as part of Xfm‘s 2005 ‘Winter Wonderland’ show, which sold out in ten minutes, and were headliners for the NME ‘Awards Tour’. Three other albums Our Earthly Pleasures, Quicken The Heart and last year’s The National Health have followed all helping to build on the already considerable fan base with tour dates continuing to sell out in record time and their reputation for distinctive songwriting only increasing.

Afro Celt Sound System are musical behemoths with their powerful and unforgettable sound fusing together elements of Irish traditional music, African rhythms and dance beats to create something startlingly unique and eminently danceable.

Since they came together in 1991 the floating musical collective have sold close on a million albums worldwide and worked with artists such as Sinead O’Connor, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Baaba Maal and many others.

Afro Celt Sound System are the perfect storm: a phenomenon whose confluence of elements swept you away on a journey of light and shade, delicacy and power. When they added diverse new touches – Indian bhangra, Arabic influences, dub reggae, more – they did so seamlessly, in ways that only enhanced their sound and emphasised their openness. A supergroup whose line-up expanded and evolved around four core members (Simon Emmerson, James McNally, Iarla O’Lionaird, Martin Russell), the Afro Celt’s pan-global sound redefined dance music and stumped music critics. They remain defiantly, enigmatically uncategorisable.

UK folk-rock institution, Oysterband graced the stage of our very first festival and return to join us for our tenth anniversary.

New Model Army played their first gig in Bradford on October 1980, after deciding to form a stripped-down three-piece. Their music draws on a wide collection of influences and is fuelled by their passion for punk, northern soul and the incendiary atmosphere of the times. Their first recording to reach a wider audience was the powerful ‘Great Expectations’, and as the band enjoyed considerable late night airplay on Radio 1 via John Peel their fan base began to grow rapidly.

Early in 1984, the producer of The Tube, the most important live music show on TV at the time, invited New Model Army to appear on the programme. Having originally asked the band to perform their provocative anti-anthem, ‘Vengeance’, Channel 4 suddenly got cold feet about the song’s lyrics minutes before broadcast and asked the band to change songs. It made no difference. Somehow twenty to thirty followers had managed to get into the TV studio and when NMA began with ‘Christian Militia’ the audience went wild and the electric atmosphere was transmitted around the country. Consequently their first mini-album, Vengeance knocked the debut album by The Smiths from the top of the Independent Charts.

Soon after the band were signed by EMI with a contract that stipulated complete artist control. Their debut album, No Rest For The Wicked and the single ‘No Rest’ both reached the UK top 40, but this success did little to soften NMA’s confrontational attitude. They appeared on Top Of The Pops wearing T-shirts with a motif reading ‘Only Stupid Bastards Use Heroin’ (a reaction against the fashionable drug of the time) and were never subsequently invited back.

Since then New Model Army have left EMI, signed to Epic, left Epic and started their own management and label Attack Attack, lost their manager suddenly, had several line-up changes, fought illnesses, survived devastating fires and the theft of all their equipment. Throughout it all they have sustained the interest of tens of thousands of devoted fans in the UK, Europe, North and South America and the Far East with album after album of critically and commercially successful albums and intensive touring of their dynamic live show.

A new album, Between Dog And Wolf mixed in the Los Angeles studio of Joe Barresi, best known for work with Tool, Queens Of The Stoneage, Bad Religion and Soundgarden will appear soon.

Deaf School formed in Liverpool in 1973. Between 1976 and 1978 they recorded three albums for the Warner Brothers label, in an art rock style that had its roots in cabaret, moving towards a harder punk rock sound. The band split in 1978 but have since been recognised as an important influence on many British musicians. According to Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer Holly Johnson: “They revived Liverpool music for a generation.”  The journalist, author and co-founder of Mojo magazine, Paul Du Noyer, went further: “In the whole history of Liverpool music two bands matter most, one is The Beatles and the other is Deaf School.” Nearly all its members went on to enjoy successful careers afterwards, notably guitarist Clive Langer, who would produce Madness and Dexys Midnight Runners (two non-Liverpool acts who cite Deaf School as an influence). He would also co-write (with Elvis Costello) the song ‘Shipbuilding’. Frontwoman Bette Bright married Suggs frontman of Madness!

Reformed for a legendary series of gigs in 1988 (recorded and released on CD and DVD), Deaf School also played two series of concerts in 2006 and 2007 when they showed how great a live act they still are.  They played ten gigs in 2009, a number in 2010 and the demand has been such that they’ve continued to gig ever since.

The Joy Formidable formed in 2007 in the Welsh town of Mold. The three-piece released their debut single in July 2008, ‘Austere’ and through continuous hard touring and their explosive live shows the band have continued to build an audience with their own brand of big and noisy alternative rock that falls somewhere between the work of The Breeders and UK bands like Echobelly and Catatonia. Basically what they produce is high octane pop-rock fired by great hooks and riotous choruses

In 2010, the band signed to Canvasback Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic. Their debut album The Big Roar was released in January 2011, with their song ‘Endtapes’ featuring on the The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn film soundtrack later that year.

A new album,Wolf’s Law, written on the road during their 12-month tour in support of their previous record, was released in January 2013 in the UK and on the following day in the US

Famed for their incendiary live performances, a cutting edge fusion of acid house, country, blues and radical politics and penning the title track for Channel 4’s The Sopranos, Solfest is delighted to welcome back to Solfest, due to popular demand and as our ‘Very Special Guests’, Brixton based nine-piece Alabama 3.

Twisted Wheel hail from Greater Manchester and since coming together in early 2007 have been booked as one of the support acts for Oasis’s 2009 Heaton Park concerts, supported heavyweight rock bands like Kasabian and The View and played Reading, Leeds, T In The Park, Glastonbury and other large UK festivals. Embraced for their strong melodies, psychedelic themes and Brown’s irreverent poignant lyrics, Twisted Wheel cite Bob Dylan, The Stooges The Small Faces, The Who, The Rolling Stones and Oasis among their main influences.

Described as “a breath of fresh air” by Liam Gallagher. They also have a fan in Paul Weller, who came to see them at London’s 100 Club, Twisted Wheel are classic Britrock for today.

Also appearing on the mainstage are the Kings of UK Americana, Ahab, the superb Canadian Celtic/bhangra fusion act, Delhi 2 Dublin, and the fascinatingly titled alt-hip hop four-piece Never Underestimate Musical Belief, known simply as NUMB. We’ve also By The Rivers, the much praised six-piece contemporary reggae band from Leicester, the gloriously over the top combination of ska, funk and urban ghetto attitude that is Edinburgh ten-piece, Victorian Trout Conspiracy plus Cumbrian indie four-piece, Jakarta Club.

2013 promises to deliver the best festival experience in Solfest’s decade long-history. Whatever your particular musical taste Solfest 2013 has something guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

And of course that’s just the mainstage! Elsewhere our Dance Tent hosts Krafty Kuts, the multi-award winning DJ/producer and the undisputed King of breaks, The Correspondents who throw a history of dance music from Blues to Jazz, Electro to Dubstep to Drum’n’Bass, then back again into the mix and also Utah Saints and Eat Static both living legends on the dance scene and of course much more.

Also appearing throughout the weekend are Irish punk pioneers, The Undertones, (currently seeing their song ‘Teenage Kicks’ as a smash top-selling mash-up courtesy of boy band One Direction), the brass meets folk of Home Service fronted by John Tams (the actor who played Daniel Hagman alongside Sean Bean in ITV drama Sharpe), Solfest favourites Pikey Beatz plus DJ Yoda, The Jaywalkers, Bombskare, The Roughneck Riot, New Rope String Band and much more.

For updates, other stages, latest news, line-ups etc, visit our website

www.solfest.org.uk

Since its inception in 2004, tickets for Solfest have sold out completely each year. We expect Solfest 2013 to do the same. We recommend getting your tickets early.

All our tickets are for the full weekend. Day tickets are not available.

Young Person tickets can only be purchased with at least one Adult ticket. Children five years old and under will get their tickets for FREE but you must still order them.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday night camping is included in your ticket price and there’s no extra charge for live-in vehicles, caravans, campervans or trailer tents unless you intend to arrive on Thursday. If so, you will need to purchase one advance Thursday Camping Pass per vehicle (not per person). This is a £15 vehicle permit that applies for any vehicle with 2 or more axles. It does not apply to motorcycles.

Tickets for Solfest 2013 are priced as follows:

• Adult – £109
• Young People (age 12-16) – £70
• Child Tickets (age 6-11) – £30
• Babies & Toddlers (age 0-5) – FREE but still need a ticket.
• Thursday Camping (per vehicle) – £15

All online sales are subject to postage and packaging charges. £2.00 for Standard first class and £7.85 for Special Delivery.

Tickets will be available to purchase right on our very own website www.solfest.org.uk 

By Phone

Tickets will be available to purchase by telephone from the Carnegie Theatre Box Office on 01900 602 122 between 9am and 5.00pm Monday through Saturday.

In Person

You can purchase your tickets over the counter at our retail partners

• The Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre,
  Finkle Street, Workington, Cumbria CA14 2BD
  (between 9am and 5.00pm Monday through Saturday.)
• More outlets may be announced as they are confirmed.

INTO THE FLOOD
new album out June 17

Seattle metal quintet INTO THE FLOOD has almost completed work on a new video for the title track of their Century Media debut album ‘Vices‘ due out June 17th (digital only). The video was directed by Kyle Bishop and will be premiering soon.

Check out the video teaser: http://youtu.be/MQ7yLtKLjjE

The band also released a lyric video for their track ‘Your Judgment Is What Condemns You’ from their forth-coming album.

Watch the lyric video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if6DpcPR9Ug

‘Vices’ track-list
1. Vices
2. The Destroyer
3. David Scheinost
4. Sacrificing The Worm
5. Mirrors
6. Regret
7. Disconnected
8. 21:4
9. Sufferer
10. Your Judgment is What Condemns You
11. Faitheater
12. Eye For An Eye
13. By Way of the Snake

INTO THE FLOOD online:
www.facebook.com/intothefloodband
www.centurymedia.com

Century Media Records online:
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http://www.youtube.com/centurymedia
http://www.twitter.com/centurymediaeu
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Century Media webshop:
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Newly formed Americana Music Association announces first National Conference to take place at Maverick Festival, Suffolk

on Friday 5^th July

This day-long conference is the first of its kind and an exciting opportunity for all those involved with Americana music – from musicians and writers to promoters, agents and managers – to come together under one roof to establish networking opportunities, as well as to work together to seek mutually beneficial, creative solutions to some of the challenges involved with working with Americana music within the UK and beyond.

For some time now, there have been a number of professionals working alongside each other in the field who have struggled against the fragmented nature of the Americana music scene. Unlike most other musical genres, until now there has been no professional body in the UK campaigning on behalf of Americana music, despite the fact that it has a strong and passionate following in this country and has developed its own identity, one that in many ways defies traditional categorisation. To remedy this situation, a group of people who work closely with Americana music in various capacities, have recently come together to promote collective action, resulting in the formation of The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK).

The original momentum came from two agencies specialising in Americana music – Grapevine Music and BPA Live. These two organisations represent over seventy North American and British Americana bands and individual musicians, which include a number of well-established, much loved artists such as Tom Russell, Kelly Joe Phelps, Sam Baker, Po’ Girl, Band of Heathens and The Wailin’ Jennys, as well as a diverse range of exciting new acts and more recent arrivals to the UK Americana scene (Larkin Poe, Birds of Chicago, The Good Lovelies, Carrie Rodriguez, Dennis Ellsworth, Gregory Alan Isakov, Amelia Curran, Sarah Lee Guthrie and many more). The AMA-UK steering group was then expanded and now also includes Paul Spencer of Maverick Festival, Ken Ansell of Clinic creative agency, Trudie Myerscough-Harris of The Whispering Bob Broadcasting Company, Stevie Freeman of Union Music Store in Lewes and Immy Doman and Risa Tabatznik, promoters and joint founders of Green Note music venue in London. Paul Fenn of Asgard Agency, Tamsin Austin of The Sage in Gateshead and David Macias of the AMA Nashville are on board as associates. Bob Harris, BBC 2 radio presenter and well-known advocate of Americana music, is also fully behind this long overdue initiative.

This newly-formed professional body will celebrate all strands of Americana, supporting musicians of any nationality who have embraced its ‘calling’, including the growing number of UK-based artists who have been inspired by the music’s limitless spirit and adventure. “I want the AMA-UK to provide a focus celebrating Americana music in all its glorious forms”, says Bob Butler of Grapevine Music Agency.“I grew up listening to American music and have chased the muse across the highways and byways of the States so many times. From deep Appalachia to the Texas border and from the Louisiana bayous to the redwood forests – this is music that resonates with the spirit of adventure and opportunity, heartbreak and perseverance. We need a forum to celebrate the great strands of music that have defined the very best music that has emerged from America over the past hundred years – blues, folk, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, rock & roll, old time, cowpunk, newgrass, alt-country and more”.

By providing effective and inspirational advocacy, the aim of AMA-UK is to raise public and professional awareness of the genre and support the economic viability of those individuals and organisations working within it. They have drawninspiration from the Americana Music Association (AMA) based in Nashville, an organisation set up in 1999 with the mission of advocating for the authentic voice of American Roots Music around the world. This has had a profound effect on the perception and development of Americana music in the United States, and AMA now hosts an annual conference and award show, publishes weekly charts, participates in industry events, produces member newsletters and can effectively lobby on behalf of artists and other music professionals.Whilst the UK body is, and believes it is important to remain, an independent association, they are affiliated with AMA in Nashville and hope to be working on joint initiatives to further the music on both sides of the Atlantic.

The inaugural conference, which will take place at this Summer’s Maverick Festival in Suffolk on Friday 5^th July will be AMA-UK’s first public event and will include a number of talks and artist showcases, as well as a panel discussion focussing on the challenges and opportunities of Americana music in the UK. The aim is to seek creative solutions to some of the challenges facing people working with Americana music in all capacities, establish networking opportunities and share examples of good practice, so that everyone can benefit and work more effectively and efficiently.

The founding members of AMA-UK already have a wealth of ideas, plans and projects in the pipeline and this will be a chance to get input from other members and get the ball rolling. “It has been a long time a coming, and already we have experienced how much energy there is behind the project” says Bob Paterson of BPA Live. “I can’t wait until 5th July and to meet so many people I have had the pleasure of working with in the past that I have yet to meet. I look forward to the various panel discussions and hearing everyone’s ideas of what this association should be and how to move things forward”.

As an incentive to get as many people as possible involved and have their say while the organisation is still in its early stages, AMA-UK are offering free tickets to Maverick Festival, as part of the membership deal for everyone who signs up before the date of the conference. “The whole idea of forming this association was born at the Maverick Festival last summer” explains Bob Paterson. “It appeared that there were a lot of people there who work in the music business, in particular with Americana music and because of that there was a real and genuine buzz of enthusiasm there. We are hoping that more people will congregate this year to discuss and share ideas of how best to look after this wonderful music long into the future.”  The topics covered at the conference, are aimed at people in all areas of the industry and will include sessions on the new Live Music Bill, the Pros and Cons of Record Companies, advice on effective Social Networking as well as a session aimed at UK musicians who are planning to tour in North America, focussing on the opportunities, costs and potential benefits of doing this. And according to organiser, Bob Butler, “Everyone and anyone who has an interest in Americana Music should be there!”

SANCTUARY- signs worldwide deal with Century Media Records

 Century Media Records is proud to announce the signing of the legendary Seattle metal band SANCTUARY. In 2010, four of the founding members, Warrel Dane, Jim Sheppard, Lenny Rutledge and Dave Budbill, came together to for a few select reunion performances. At first, it was just going to be a handful of shows, but the response and chemistry on stage was so overwhelming, the guys changed their minds. Now, some 20 years after they left off, Sanctuary will continue with their unique mix of US power metal, hard rock and progressive elements and begin work on a new LP. To complete the line-up, Brad Hull (Forced Entry) will be filling in for former guitar player Sean Blosi. A late 2013 release is planned.

Comments the band:

Warrel Dane: “Having been with Century Media since 1995 with Nevermore it was a very comfortable decision for Sanctuary to sign with them. Century Media has a great team that always delivers for all of their bands. I’ve known most of them on a first name basis for many years and I look forward to this new chapter in history.”

Lenny Rutledge: “I can speak for every member of Sanctuary when I say we are all excited to join the Century Media family. We now have the opportunity to work with the best metal record label on the planet. We are looking forward to creating great music with an awesome team behind us.”

Sanctuary released the classic albums ‘Refuge Denied’ and ‘Into The Mirror Black’ during their short existence between 1985 and 1992. Following the band’s dissolve, singer Warrel Dane and bassist Jim Sheppard formed NEVERMORE.

Warrel Dane – Vocals

Lenny Rutledge – Guitars

Jim Sheppard – Bass

Dave Budbill – Drums

Brad Hull – Guitars

SANCTUARY online:

www.facebook.com/sanctuaryfans

www.twitter.com/sanctuary

Century Media Records online:

http://www.centurymedia.com

http://www.youtube.com/centurymedia

http://twitter.com/centurymediaeu

http://www.facebook.com/centurymedia

Century Media webshop:

http://www.cmdistro.com

INSOMNIUM – supporting
Children Of Bodom in Europe

After recently coming off tour with Moonspell, INSOMNIUM have just been confirmed as direct support for the upcoming Children Of Bodom tour in Europe.

The band is psyched about joining the metal legends on tour: “We’re very proud to announce the final One For Sorrow tour launching this fall. We have been confirmed main support act for the mighty Children Of Bodom on their Halo Of Blood Over Europe tour. This part of the tour will be Finnish only as second support is our friends in Medeia. See you on the roaaaad!”

INSOMNIUM supporting Children Of Bodom:

CHILDREN OF BODOM
INSOMNIUM (main support act)
MEDEIA (opening act)

25.09.2013 (S) STOCKHOLM, Tyrol
26.09.2013 (S) GOTHENBURG, Brewhouse
27.09.2013 (N) OSLO, Rockefeller
28.09.2013 (DK) COPENHAGEN, Amager Bio
29.09.201 (D) HAMBURG, Markthalle
01.10.2013 (D) COLOGNE, Live Music Hall
02.10.2013 (D) BERLIN, Postbahnhof
03.10.2013 (D) OSNABRÜCK, Halle Gartlage
04.10.2013 (B) ANTWERP, Trix
05.10.2013 (D) LEIPZIG, Werk 2

07.10.2013 (GB) BOURNEMOUTH, O2 Academy
08.10.2013 (GB) BRISTOL, O2 Academy                                  
10.10.2013 (IRL) DUBLIN, Vicar Street
12.10.2013 (GB) SHEFFIELD, O2 Academy
13.10.2013 (GB) NEWCASTLE, O2 Academy
14.10.2013 (GB) MANCHESTER, Academy
15.10.2013 (GB) LONDON, Shepherd’s Bush Empire   
17.10.2013 (D) SAARBRÜCKEN, Garage
18.10.2013 (D) STRAUBING, Metal Invasion
19.10.2013 (D) ALSFELD, Stadthalle
20.10.2013 (NL) TILBURG, O13
21.10.2013 (D) STUTTGART, LKA Longhorn

INSOMNIUM are touring their latest album ‘One For Sorrow’ that was released last year to critical acclaim via Century Media Records.

INSOMNIUM online:
http://www.insomnium.net
http://www.facebook.com/insomniumofficial
http://twitter.com/insomniumband
http://www.myspace.com/insomniumband
http://vf-insomnium.blogspot.com

Century Media Records online:
http://www.centurymedia.com
http://www.youtube.com/centurymedia
http://twitter.com/centurymediaeu
http://www.facebook.com/centurymedia

Century Media webshop:
http://www.cmdistro.com