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Dave Formula, keyboard pioneer with post-punk legends Magazine and Visage releases his solo album, ‘Satellite Sweetheart’ on Monday February 15th 2010. One full year on from the triumphant return of Magazine themselves. It will be available as a CD and as a download. Pre-order your copy of the CD now at the Wire-Sound online shop [...]

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BBC Electric Proms presents a double-bill of Mancunian rock at The Roundhouse, London as Magazine perform on the same evening as Doves. Again, Howard Devoto, Barry Adamson, John Doyle and Dave Formula will be joined by Noko on guitar who stands in for the late John McGeoch.
This is a rare opportunity to see, hear and [...]

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You may, or indeed, you may not know, that your favourites and mine, Magazine, come the end of August and creeping into September, will embark on a 3-city outing performing ‘The Soap Show : Episode 2009’ at prestigious concert hall venues.
This show will cull it’s content from the evergreen, and continually critically acclaimed, third [...]

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Magazine will play at The Plug in Sheffield on Wednesday July 15th, 2009. This is an intimate warm–up show prior to the festival appearances at Benicassim and Latitude. Tickets now on general sale from the usual suspects at a princely £23.00. Call either 0871 230 1101 or go to www.seetickets.com, search for ‘magazine’ and [...]

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Magazine, your favourites, will perform at two festivals this coming July. The first will be the Benicassim Festival (Valencia) in sunny Spain on Friday 17th of July, where they will be kept company by Kings of Leon and Paul Weller. The second, and only UK, festival appearance will be at Latitude (Southwold) on the [...]

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OFFICIAL.
As promised, we have managed to save a few production tickets and have made them available to the general public. There are only 7 tickets up for grabs. The lucky seven. Available right now. Go. Go. Go. Ticketline 0844 847 2405. http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk

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A complete range of merchandise to commemorate the return of Magazine is now available to purchase direct from the Wire–Sound online shop. All the items have been designed by Malcolm Garrett, who as you know, was responsible for the creation of the iconic images of Magazine past. Keep it in the family, that’s what [...]

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Magazine will play at the 02 Academy in Oxford (formerly the Carling Academy) on Tuesday February 10th, 2009. This is an intimate warm–up show and tickets are only available to ‘friends’ of the official MySpace page. www.myspace.com/magazineofficial

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Ticket demand for the upcoming Magazine shows has far out stripped the existing supply. So the elastic has been stretched and backs have been bent to accommodate all you good, good people in the northern quarters of our fair and pleasant land. The tickets for TWO new shows are now back from the printers [...]

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Magazine, one of Britain’s most influential bands, are to reform for just two concerts in February 2009.
Original members Howard Devoto, Dave Formula, Barry Adamson and John Doyle are to be joined by an as yet unnamed guest guitarist, to walk in the not inconsiderable footsteps of the departed, and sadly missed, John McGeoch.
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