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Download Festival reveals extra acts!
Welcome all to another edition of our weekly music News Report! We start this week with a handful of festival announcements and leading the way is the above line-up from Download Festival.
The Donington event got a little bigger this week with the addition of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Napalm Death, Kris Barras Band, Pengshui and more joining.
The event will be headlined by Kiss, Iron Maiden & Biffy Clyro.
Tickets are available here.
Read our review of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes live in Norwich
Rage Against The Machine announce huge Scottish show
The iconic Rage Against The Machine will be heading to Scotland this August to headline the Royal Highland Showground in Edinburgh.
They’ll be joined at the event by Run The Jewels, Nova Twins and The Last Internationale.
Tickets will be here.
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Barn On The Farm reveals line-up
Another festival adding additional acts this week was Barn On The Farm.
The event will feature the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, James Bay, The Vaccines, Fatherson, Vistas, Noisy and plenty more.
Tickets are here.
Read our review of ‘Normal Fears’ from Fatherson
Employed To Serve announce UK Tour
Only the one tour announcement in our News Report this week and it comes from Employed To Serve.
The group will be hitting the road very shortly as they reveal a UK tour for May.
Tickets are here.
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Fontaines D.C. share new single ‘Roman Holiday’
We move on now to the weeks new music releases as our News Report continues at pace.
Alongside the release of their new album, ‘Skinty Fia’, Fontaines D.C. this week shared their latest single, ‘Roman Holiday’. You can listen to the new track above.
Speaking on the single, frontman Grian Chatten says, “Roman Holiday makes me think of the wide streets of north London in the Summer and the urge to discover them at night time. The thrill of being a gang of Irish people in London with a bit of a secret language and my first flat with my girlfriend.”
The band has also added additional dates to their upcoming UK Tour!
Pick up a copy of the album and tickets here.
Read our review of ‘Skinty Fia’ here
Def Leppard release new single ‘Take What You Want’
Def Leppard this week released the second single from their upcoming new album, ‘Diamond Star Halos’. Listen to ‘Take What You Want’ above.
Pre-order your copy of the album here.
Read our review of Ricky Warwick live in Norwich
Architects share ‘When We Were Young’
Ahead of their UK Tour, Architects have shared their new track ‘When We Were Young’. You can listen to the song above.
More listening options and tickets here.
Read our review of Architects live in Norwich
Editors debut ‘Heart Attack’
Editors returned with new music this week. You can listen to their new single, ‘Heart Attack’, above.
More info here.
Listen to ‘Heart Attack’ on our Spotify Hot List!
Boston Manor debut ‘Foxglove’
There was also new music coming from the Boston Manor camp this past week as the band debuted new single ‘Foxglove’. You can listen to the track above.
More info here.
Read our review of Download Pilot Festival
Beans On Toast shares new track ‘Swimming In It’
Folk favourite Beans On Toast this week debuted his latest track, ‘Swimming In It’. The track is described as “A protest song about the heinous environmental crimes committed by Southern Water”. You can listen to the song above.
More info here.
Watch The Full Pelt Music Podcast with guest Beans On Toast
Read our review of Beans On Toast live in Colchester
The Blinders release video for ‘Fight For It’
This week saw The Blinders release the video for their recent single, ‘Fight For It’. You can watch the video above.
Regarding the song vocalist and guitarist Thomas Hayward says, “It’s about waking up and seizing the day with both your hands firmly gripped round its neck, to the point where you know you’re a better person by the end of it.
“I had a lot to say about the matter, so subconsciously probably chose the song we’d worked on the least, in terms of seeing how far we could push it musically and made up for it lyrically.
“Usually, as a band, we’d rarely let a song exist in such a basic form… but upon writing the lyrics the tone was right. The words came very fast. When all was said and done it was probably over in about half an hour.
“It’s the lightest song we’ve done. Not something you’d usually expect from the band, and not necessarily a place where I’m particularly comfortable drawing from. Give me brick and barbed wire over sunshine any day. I’ve got a soft spot for it though.”
More here.
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LIFE debut ‘Almost Home’
The last new release in our News Report this week comes from LIFE who have debuted their newest track, ‘Almost Home’. The track will feature on upcoming third album, ‘North East Coastal Town’.
Speaking on the new single vocalist Mez Green says: “Almost Home barks, jolts, jerks and spits with the theme of pining to be home and thus chimes with North East Coastal Town’s over-riding sense of belonging. ‘Taste the difference…feel significant…hold a lifeline, you’re almost home!” Almost Home is a song that wrestles with ego and love, with love winning; ”Recipe, I ain’t a cult recipe.”
Pre-order your copy here.
Read our review of ‘The Overload’ from Yard Act
As always we finish our News Report with the latest additions to our ‘Discover’ New Music Playlist! Featured this week are:
‘Night’ – Oakman
France based pop/rock trio, Oakman debut their brand new single, ‘Night’.
“This song was written in one day,” says the band. “Marine had just learned that she might have a serious health problem. Without knowing it, Geremia sent an idea for a riff to Marine that day, who was instantly inspired by the mood. It matched so well with what she was feeling at the time that the whole song was written in one go. She was in a very special mental state that day. It was a kind of happy-sad nostalgia of life. Between the reality of losing everything and the people that you love and the strong desire to just live and exist. We spend our time complaining but when life can suddenly stop, that’s when we realise how much the smallest thing is worth. This song was like a mourning, a last night before everything stops forever.
It’s the first time we wrote such a personal song and it’s one of our favourite tracks. It allowed Marine to not sink that day.”
‘Halo’ – Blue Violet
‘Halo’ will feature on the upcoming album, ‘Late Night Calls’ from husband/wife duo Blue Violet.
Ahead of the forthcoming release of ‘Late Night Calls’ Sam and Sarah Gotley explain:
“All in all, the thing we enjoyed most while recording the album was the opportunity to be experimental with sound on top of the structures we had already put in place during the writing and pre-prod processes. We got very lucky to find a like-minded team of people to work with and a beautiful location to match. Coming off the back of a good couple of years in our previous band Broken Bones Matilda, we had no idea that our goals and choice of music we wanted to make would change, but it feels like this album is the start of something long and fruitful and that we’ve found out who we are and what we want to say.”
‘The Concrete of Moulded Men’ – Eat Your Own Head’
Norwich alt-rock newcomers Eat Your Own Head feature with new track ‘The Concrete of Moulded Men’.
Commenting on the track, vocalist Ash Woolnough said: “‘The Concrete of Moulded Men’ is a sledgehammer to the slab of toxic masculinity. When writing the track, we wanted it to be fierce, hard, and unrelenting to reflect the kind of feelings and pressures that are put on men.”
“I didn’t have any friends that played music when I was growing up, and It would feel embarrassing to say no to football or something like that because I wanted to play guitar and sing. I started making up reasons and hiding it, which was obviously not the right thing to be doing. This track is basically saying don’t worry about all that nonsense”
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