 WHITMORE,
DUB CITY ROCKERS AND SBA FEATURE ON DAILY STAR SUNDAY FREE SUMMER
SKA CD
Three Moon Ska acts feature on the 750,000 free CD "SUMMER
SKA compilation to be given away by the DAILY STAR SUNDAY on Sunday
18th July. WHITMORE supply an exclusive mix for their new pure Ska
track "Sober Days" from the bands new forthcoming album "Solstice
Rise" Please note the album version will be completely different
featuring guest appearances from TOASTERS members Trumpet player
Sledge and legendary MC Jack Ruby Jr and this Daily Star version
will not be available anywhere else. Also featured are DUB CITY ROCKERS
with their Ska tribute to the legendary Trojan Records entitled "Trojan
City Love" and those sun loving rascals SOLABEAT ALLIANCE who
supply "Dusk 'Til Dawn" from their debut album "Island
Fire".
SPUNGE
AND GRAVELTRAP READY TO SMASH IT UP This years "Smash It Up" tour starts in London at the
ULU on 20th July. The full line up is SPUNGE, UNCLE BRIAN, NOT KATIES
and GRAVELTRAP. As you can see Uncle Brian have replaced HOWARDS
ALIAS. Graveltrap will soon be releasing a brand new 7 track self
titled mini-album on their very own label entitled New City Noise.
WHITMORE
BACK IN ACTION AT EXTRACTION FEST 2004 ON 27th JULY
Wiltshire Ska-Punk bad boys WHITMORE make a welcome
return to the scene as special guests supporting SPUNGE at the Extraction
Festival 2004 being held at the Town Hall, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
on Tuesday 27th July. Other bands appearing will be B*Movie Heroes,
Lukash, Cousin Joey with others to be confirmed. Tickets are £10
in advance and £12 on the door, and are now on sale from the
box office on 01242 227979. This is an ALL AGES show!! Doors open
2pm, with first band on at 2-30pm and Spunge onstage at about 9-30pm,
curfew is 11pm.
Whitmore will play their first full "come back" gig
at The Pitz at the Woughton Centre in Milton Keynes on Friday 10th
September support acts will be announced shortly. The bands new album "Solstice
Rise" is scheduled for an October 2004 release.
 WHOSE
TRACK IS THE MOST POPULAR OF THE NEW MP3s...THEN?
Well out of the 5 new mp3's on the site recently SOLABEAT ALLIANCE
come in first closely followed by Art Skankers ZEN BASEBALLBAT and
then in hot pursuit just behind Zen BB, and the biggest surprise
is new Moon Ska boys East Anglian Punkers DUMPSTER POP (well done
lads!) with GRAVELTRAP and SONIC BOOM SIX in 4th and 5th places respectively.
"Are free mp3's important for promotion" some silly major
record corporate types stilll ask... well "Smoke The Roach" by
WHITMORE is one of our biggest sellers and we are sure the 45,000
plus free downloads of the bands track "29 Times" helped
a little bit!
MP3's were as follows: SOLABEAT ALLIANCE:
'Supersonic', ZEN BASEBALLBAT:
'Masochistic Motown', DUMPSTER POP:
'Sometime Seems', GRAVELTRAP:
'Primal Fear' and SONIC BOOM SIX:
'People Acklike They Don't Know'
A MAJOR REGGAE NAME TO GUEST WITH DUB CITY ROCKERS
Just to stir up the rumour whirlwind around this band we can confirm
that a major reggae star who's name shall remain a mystery for now
will be guesting on the DUB CITY ROCKERS first single "It Makes
Me Wonder"...but here's a clue he recently guested on a BLACK
EYED PEAS single and guested on LONG BEACH DUB ALL STAR albums. Meanwhile
Jamaican based Dub City Rocker D Dan Cole is putting the finishing
touches to a new song from the band featuring a top notch sample
from the NY based Ska authentic band The Bluebeats, the new track
entitled "It's A Crime" is about the "need" of
some dumb animal (humans?!?) to wear dead animal fur just for vanity.
HYPO PYSCHO SINGLE OUT BUT CLUB IS MOVED!!
UK Ska Punks HYPO PSYCHO featuring our very own ZEN BASEBALLBAT
brass section released their debut single "Public Enemy No.1" on
Monday 12th July. The band have been hovering just outside The Box
TV's most wanted Top Ten videos as well as receiving support from
Scuzz and now MTV Hits of all people! If you want to go and buy the
single it's available on 3 formats:
CD1 - "Public Enemy No.1" and "Don't Try This At Home"
CD2 - "Public Enemy No.1" and "Blissfully Sedated", "Adrenaline
Junkie, plus "Public Enemy No.1" video
7" single - "Public enemy No1" and "Bored" (live)
this is a limited edition of 2000 signed copies.
Unfortunately Hypo Psycho's residency at the new Blissfully Sedated club in
London have been put on hold while club organisers finalise a new venue which
will be more Ska-Punker friendly so consequently the SOLABEAT ALLIANCE show
will be rescheduled.
WRECKLESS SKA AS MAROON TOWN TEAM UP WITH WRECKLESS
CREW
Top London Trad Ska act MAROON TOWN recently laid down
the backing tracks for their collaboration single with Urban Pirate
Radio favourites East London's very own WRECKLESS CREW. Recent gig
goers will have seen the East London spitters guest with Maroon Town
and this forthcoming groundbreaking single "Wreckless Ska" is
the result of these successful gigs.....keep your eyes peeled....Ska
is Dead....yeah whatever ho ho ho!!!
CHAIRMEN OF THE BORED.....WHAT'S UP?
CHAIRMEN OF THE BORED have put recording plans on ice for the moment
after vocalist Ben signed a new deal with Channel 4 programme Hollyoaks
which will mean it is almost impossible for him to do the band full
time over the coming months as his story lines increase in the ever
popular UK TV soap opera. Although the band will be performing live
gigs and recording some tracks shortly that will be available as
mp3 downloads.
THE SELECTER CD'S TO CONTAIN RARE VIDEO FOOTAGE
We can now announce that THE SELECTER albums "Happy", "Hairspray" and "Cruel
Brittania" will have added bonus rare video footage as enhanced
tracks. Moon Ska even managed to get countryside-phobic bassist Nicky
Welsh down to Kent to supervise the goings on. A worried Nick started
sneezing and complaining of hay fever within minutes of his train
arriving in sunny Kent although we couldn't see much hay or grass
(or countryside for that matter) where the studio is based in "downtown" Gravesend! |
