Saturday, March 31, 2007

R.E.M. will play songs from their new album for the first time at five concerts in Dublin this summer.
The American stalwarts have announced a string of dates at the city’s Olympia Theatre, where they will showcase material from their upcoming 14th studio album – even though they only plan to actually record the new LP over the coming months.
R.E.M. play the Olympia on June 30th and July 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th.

(Thru: Gigwise)

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The Bo Weevils

The Bo Weevils are from Liverpool. Now that's a tough city to come from. Quite a few famous bands came from there. You might have heard of them (ask your parents if you don't know what the fuck I'm referring too). But like bands from Liverpool (or anywhere else) at a certain stage in their career matter they want to take the next step: a record deal. The Bo Weevils have enough hooks in their songs to lure the punters. So if you are rich filthy bastard who happens to own record label, drop them a line.

To tell the story of The Bo Weevils we will have to take you way back to the 20th century, when The Weevils home town was nothing but a few houses, a load of muddy fields and a couple of hundred dogs searching the streets for their next meal. Back then the five young Weevils Ste, Andy, Chas, Ian and Gav were just another handful of hopeful musicians looking to start a band of their own and make their imprint on music. Growing up in the same area a few of the lads started jamming together and after a while they started to get the hang of playing their own instruments.

Ste Weevil: vocals, guitars, ukulele, mouth-organ
Gav Richards: vocals, drums
Gary Owens: vocals, guitar, mouth-organ
Andy Holland: vocals, bass Ian Barton: guitar. keyboards

MP3: The Bo Weevils - Don't Change a Thing
MP3: The Bo Weevils - Souped-Up Jimi

» myspace.com/theboweevils

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