Norway’s Hove Festivalen is proud to announce that The Prodigy will be smashing out their seminal hits as they take prime position at this year’s festival. The groundbreaking UK band have sold over 17 million albums since starting up in 1990, and are reckoned to be one of the pioneers in modern electronic dance music.

Festival owner Melvin Benn of Festival Republic has followed The Prodigy with great fondness for almost twenty years:

“The Prodigy first played a festival for me in the early nineties in the old rave days in the UK. They played Tribal Gathering in Oxfordshire and volume of the show could be heard in London! They blew everyone away including myself, he says.”

Almost twenty years after the group formed, The Prodigy are back with a new album (#1 in the U.K) with their accompanying tour absolutely sold out. ‘Invaders Must Die’ confirmed the bands position as one of the premier groups in the world, and contained, among other things, a special guest performance by Foo Fighter, Dave Grohl.

“This is probably the 20th festival they have done for me so they are clearly a favourite and this year they play Reading and Leeds as well as Hove. The band have come back stronger than ever, and the show will epitomize mayhem. Miss it at your peril!” says Melvin Benn.

Hove Festival takes place between 22nd and 25th of June 2009 at idyllic Tromøya on the Norwegian south coast.

Confirmed acts so far include Faith No More, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Slipknot, Q-Tip, The Ting Tings and many others.

Buy Music:

The Prodigy on amazon.com

The Prodigy on amazon.co.uk

For more information about Hove Festival visit:

Hove Festival Official Website

The Prodigy Official Website

Kaki King is set to release her latest album, ‘Dreaming Of Revenge’ via Velour Music Group on March 11, 2008. The multi talented musician and songstress is also going on tour in the US – including dates at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

In the meantime, if you can’t wait for her album or to see her live, here’s a couple videos that I found on YouTube:

Watch Kaki King – The Making Of Dreaming Of Revenge video:

Watch Dave Grohl and Kaki King play Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners video at The Troubadour, January 14, 2008 (for Breakfast with Kevin and Bean series on 106.7 KROQ).

Kaki King March/April 2008 US tour dates:

Dates could be added or changed! Go to Kaki King’s Official Website for the full listing of tour dates (including Europe) and information.

March 12 Austin, TX SXSW – TBC
March 13 Austin TX, SXSW – TBC
March 14 Austin, TX SXSW – TBC
March 15 Austin, TX SXSW – TBC
March 17 Boulder, CO, The Fox Theater
March 21 Seattle, WA, The Tractor
March 22 Portland, OR, Doug Fir Lounge
March 25 San Francisco, CA GAMH
March 27 Los Angeles, CA, The Roxy

April 2 Newmarket, NH, Stone Church
April 3 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
April 4 Troy, NY Revolution Hall
April 5 Boston, MA Paradise
April 6 Northampton, MA Iron Horse
April 9 New York, NY, Bowery Ballroom
April 10 Philadelphia, PA, WCL
April 11 Baltimore, MD, 8 x 10
April 12 Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
April 13 Morgantown, WV, Mt. Stage

Kaki King Download – “2 O’Clock” MP3

Kaki King on amazon.com

Kaki King on Myspace
Kaki King Official Website

The Foo Fighters founder and frontman Dave Grohl is looking good and his passion and stage presence during their set at Live Earth was infectious. Passion wouldn’t be a word that I would use for some of the other acts that took to the stage before the Foo Fighters.

Technical difficulties were an issue. Bands were having problems with their sound on stage all day. Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell couldn’t hear anything through the monitors and when the Red Hot Chili Peppers played I thought we might get through a set without the sound drama. They sounded great and Flea was on fire, but after playing a couple songs, the Chili Peppers stopped to have what appeared to be a ‘band meeting’ on stage – at Live Earth in front of millions of people. At one point I could hear Anthony Kiedis say something about not being able to hear. I think after that they only had one more song to go.

Now I, as a singer, can understand sound problems on stage. I love to have a good mix in the monitors with some reverb coming back at me. But you know what? If I was playing only three songs with my band at Wembley Stadium – in front of millions (some say 2 billion) of people I think even I could handle not being able to hear and just play on like everything is okay. Especially since most acts only played two or three songs. As a viewer, I don’t want the distraction of stage problems and complaining while trying to enjoy a band and their music, well then again…these things do tend to make good ‘car crash TV’.

I’m sure the bands didn’t want to upstage their set by complaining about the sound and even though bands should know better, the first thing the stage manager or event director should have told them before they went out on stage, was “don’t mention the sound”.

The reason I’m even bringing this up is because knowing that there were sound problems all day at the new Wembley Stadium, it was brilliant to see Dave Grohl just get on with things, with the passion and the attitude that all rock fans love to see – and he played like his life depended on it. The band sounded great, they were having fun and if Dave Grohl had any problems hearing there were no signs or nasty expressions coming from him. Drummer Taylor Hawkins also put on an incredible performance. Excellent set by the Foo Fighters.

Watch Foo Fighters – “Best Of You” video from Live Earth:

Tour dates could be added or changed! Go to the Foo Fighters Official Website for the latest tour dates and information.

August 18 V Festival, Hylands Park Chelmsford, UK
August 19 V Festival Weston Park Staffordshire, UK
August 21 T On The Fringe: Meadowbank Sports Centre (Meadowbank Stadium) Edinburgh, Scotland
August 22 Marlay Park Dublin, Ireland

Foo Fighters Official Website
Foo Fighters on Myspace

By: Jenny May – Band Weblogs