After the release of the brilliant single, The Devil’s Crayon from their superb debut, Limbo, Panto, Wild Beasts have just announced a tour for July and August.
The UK tour will include a home-coming show at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal on July 25th.
Wild Beasts will play at London’s prestigious 100 Club on July 29th.
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The Last Shadow Puppets played a surprise gig at the Park Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night. Their debut live performance was a fairly well kept secret, though rumours began circulating when Miles Kane & Alex Turner were seen together at the festival on Saturday morning.
The Raconteurs and White Stripes main man, Jack White, [...]

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Album review - The Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (Domino Records)
The Wild Beasts are truly original.  As I listen to Limbo, Panto - their debut album again, I really can’t compare them with anyone else.  Hayden Thorpe’s beautiful voice is reminiscent in parts of Billy Mackenzie’s golden tonsils, but apart from sharing an uncompromising, unconventional [...]

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Film Noir - I Had A Very Hapy Childhud
I Had A Very Hapy Childhud (their spelling) is an exceptional debut album from French band Film Noir. It is one of the indie pop / indie rock albums I’ve heard for some time.
The14 track album starts with the razor-sharp juttering guitar of It’s Goodbye, that lives [...]

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Carl Barat frontman of Dirty Pretty Things was rushed into hospital yesterday morning with stomach pains. The former Libertine has since been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis and will be kept under observation until the weekend.
The singer will undergo more tests and may have to face an operation.
Dirty Pretty Things have postponed their Real Fits fund [...]

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