By bandweblogs on May 18, 2009 in Bands, Featured, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Great Escape, London, Norway, Shows, Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy | 0 Comments

Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy are making waves crossing the North Sea. Norway based Tommy Tokyo, have already released their album ‘Smear Your Smiles Back On’ on home soil last September. They are now set for a UK release – after performing at the Great Escape festival – later on next month …
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By bandweblogs on Apr 20, 2009 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: Brighton, Bristol, Bristol Music Foundation, Great Escape | 0 Comments

Having taken SXSW by storm, Bristol Music Foundation brings the South West sound and knowledge to Brighton’s Great Escape Festival this year, with a full day of events dedicated to raising awareness of Bristol’s burgeoning music scene and heritage …
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By bandweblogs on Apr 15, 2009 in Albums, New Releases, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: A Camp, Calvin Klein, Great Escape, Leona Naess, Ryan Adams, Tour Dates, youtube | 0 Comments

Leona Naess was born in New York, grew up in London, returned to America, studied anthropology, got a record deal at 22, modeled for Calvin Klein and dated Ryan Adams, but the songwriter says she would “rather shoot myself than listen to my own story” …
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By bandweblogs on Apr 6, 2009 in Bands, Featured, Press Releases | Tags: Bombay Bicycle Club, Competitions, Great Escape, Just Jack, Mentors, Road to V, Rosie Spooner, The Charlatans, The Young Knives, V Festival, Virgin, Virgin Media | 0 Comments

Photo: The Charlatans. Virgin Media today announced that Just Jack and The Charlatans will mentor the finalists of Road to V – the UK’s biggest and longest running search for unsigned musical talent …
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By bandweblogs on Apr 1, 2009 in Bands, Featured, New Releases, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Australia, Great Escape, Jim Abiss, The Temper Trap, Tour Dates, youtube, Zane Lowe | 0 Comments

Every now and then you come across a new band that stands apart from the rest. A band whose songwriting belies their inexperience, a singer whose range and brilliance at once captivates and enfolds, and an energy that is impossible to ignore …
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By bandweblogs on Mar 31, 2009 in Albums, Bands, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Great Escape, Kasabian, Oasis, The Eden Sessions, Tour Dates | 0 Comments

In what will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the year, Kasabian announce a 20-date UK summer tour to coincide with the release of their extraordinary new album ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ (June 8th), on Columbia …
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By bandweblogs on Feb 18, 2009 in Bands, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Great Escape, Kasabian, Oasis, The Eden Sessions, Tour Dates, youtube | 0 Comments

Kasabian will headline Brighton’s Great Escape, May 16, 2009, the Eden Sessions in Cornwall, July 4th and a Teenage Cancer Trust show at the Royal Albert Hall, March 27th …
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