Tim Bowness recently revealed he signed to InsideOut Music for the release of his forthcoming 2nd solo album ‘Abandoned Dancehall Dreams’ on June 23rd, 2014. The record will be released as limited edition 2CD digipak, 180g gatefold LP (incl. album on CD) & digital download.
Tim Bowness is primarily known as vocalist/co-writer with the band No-Man, a long-running collaboration with Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree). In addition to releasing six studio albums and a documentary DVD with No-Man, Tim has worked with popular Italian artist Alice, Robert Fripp, Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), OSI and Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera (amongst many others), and is a member of the bands Henry Fool and Memories Of Machines.
‘Abandoned Dancehall Dreams’ was produced by Bowness and mixed by Steven Wilson. It also features performances from Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Anna Phoebe (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) and members of the No-Man live band (Stephen Bennett, Michael Bearpark, Pete Morgan, Steven Wilson, Andrew Booker and Steve Bingham).
The full ‘Abandoned Dancehall Dreams’ track-listing is as follows:
1. The Warm-Up Man Forever
2. Smiler At 50
3. Songs Of Distant Summers
4. Waterfoot
5. Dancing For You
6. Smiler At 52
7. I Fought Against The South
8. Beaten By Love
Bonus Disc:
Mixes:
1. There Were Days (Smiler At 52, Grasscut Mix)
2. Sounds Of Distant Summers (Songs Of Distant Summers, Richard Barbieri Mix)
3. Singing For You (Dancing For You, UXB Mix)
Outtakes:
4. Abandoned Dancehall Dream
5. The Sweetest Bitter Pill
6. The Warm-Up Man Forever (Band Version)
7. Songs Of Distant Summers Part 1 (BandVersion)
8. Songs Of Distant Summers Part 2 (Band Version)
Arrow Video has a very special treat in store for lovers of the macabre this FRIDAY, 25th April
Arrow is very pleased to be teaming up with SCI-FI-LONDON festival to present an evening of ghoulish delight, featuring the UK premiere of Canadian chiller BUNKER 6 alongside a screening of the underground-set zombie classic DAY OF THE DEAD! But that’s not the really scary part – in keeping with the bunker theme, the entire evening will unfold within the creepy confines of a genuine World War II bunker in Dalston, North East London. Have you got the guts to descend into the dark, dank recesses below the streets of the capital and face your gravest fears? And, assuming you make it that far, will you be able to hold onto those guts of yours when you encounter the flesh-hungry living dead which lurk deep in the bunker’s bowels???
DATE: FRIDAY 25th APRIL
TIME: 6:30PM
PLACE: ABBOT ST, LONDON E8 3DP (nearest tube Dalston Kingsland, Overground)
More info here:
http://www.sci-fi-london.com/festival/2014/programme/feature/bunker-6-day-dead
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/281969651972419
Tickets here:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bunker-6-day-of-the-dead-tickets-11297006651
One of the most unexpected success stories in extreme metal ever, these outlandish oompah oddballs have paved way for countless succeeding pagan metal acts, becoming a key act in conceiving the scene that these days virtually dominates the European metal festival stages. The band's initial breakthrough begun with 2001's “Jakten's Tid”, and from then on it has been an ever-expanding story both success-wise and musically, currently with remarkable chart success in Germany and Scandinavia, and incorporating several types of ethnic world music to their mad musical mayhem.
A tireless touring act, the unquenchably thirsty trolls have wreaked damage on stages big and small in all the corners of the Earth. Yet until now there has never been an official Finntroll live recording available anywhere. Finally, Friday the 13th of June 2014 will witness the uncaging of the live album “Natten Med De Levande Finntroll” (Night with the living Finntroll), the exhibit of what a cadre of alcohol-fueled trolls can do when leashed upon a live audience.
This is Finntroll in full flight as witnessed on stage at Amsterdam's Melkweg venue on September 20th, 2008; violently energetic, blatantly in your face, stark-barking-mad and fun as a barrel of monkeys!
Since its inception in 1997, Helsinki's Finntroll has been one of the strangest and most original entities on the international folk/heathen metal scene. Drawing their subject matter from the Olden Days when the Southern plague called Christianity hadn't yet swept over every forest, nook and cranny of Scandinavia's troll-laden woodlands and telling tales about eradicating mankind (starting with the men of cloth), Finntroll's “Trollish Hoedown Metal”, a sort of – for lack of a better expression – death metal polka, has been a genre unto itself. Inimitable.
Dependent is very pleased to have electronic pop duo Iris as a new member in the Dependent family! And not only that: apart from having toured Europe with Seabound in the last weeks, the new album is almost ready! “Radiant” again is proof for Andrew Sega’s brilliant talent as songwriter and Reagan Jones charismatic voice whips up the unique touch to the new songs. Add to this a decent guitar and experimental, melancholic electronic and you get the magical atmospheric Iris sound. Their catchy, albeit not shallow melodies do capture the listener’s attention at once and don’t let go persistently - as it was the case on the previous longplayer “Blacklight” in 2010 already. Hopefully you had the chance to hit a show of the guys and so to get a little preview of what “Radiant” will be like. Release is set for summer.
“If the world is evil, we have to be evil, too”, proclaimed Syco Trauma in the context of their last record “Don’t Be Scared It’s About Life” in 2010 – and quite obviously mankind has been giving almost everything to worsen the situation since, turning Orwell’s dystopian fiction into reality. A good point of time for the return of French noise rebels Chrysalide whose new album “Personal Revolution” will again be extremely sinister, extremely loud and even more innovative than its predecessor! Noteworthy, the band performs the feat of skillfully maintaining their roots while being compatible to the clubs as well: homages to Skinny Puppy’s “Last Rights” period are still audible and prevalent, yet while acherontic IDM and noise elements are interwoven and genre limits ignored consequently. Release date and more information will be announced in the coming weeks – apocalypse soon!
