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Right. Eyes down. Full stare. Laurel Canyons (formerly your favourites, In Fear Of Olive) kick the can down the road called 2013 with the release of their first new track of the year. It’s a barnstormer entitled ‘Youth Blood’ and you’ll be hearing it up and down the land on the transistors, Walkmans and tannoy [...]

GO > Monday June 25th sees the release by Yorkshire based In Fear Of Olive of their third outing : a download only track entitled ‘Love’s Grown Wild’. Available at iTunes, Amazon, HMV and wherever you get your MP3 goodies from. Following on from touring with Magazine and support slots with King Charles, Lindi Ortega [...]

Magazine, the peerless, impossibly influential art-punk outfit, undiminished by age, return with their first new recorded material in 30 years. ‘No Thyself’ – the 10 track general release CD / digital download will be available worldwide on 24 October 2011 to coincide with the band’s November UK Tour. But before that, a strictly limited edition [...]

Apparently the literary question is beyond yer ken. Now it’s a straight 50 yard dash. What was the third Magazine 45? Blimey!!! 1-2-3. FYI : the answer to the previously set question was ‘Freedom’ by Jonathan Franzen (published by Fourth Estate; £8.99 softback). So there.

“A holiday with pay…keep yourself all the time you’re down there, pay your fare both ways and come back five quid in pocket.” – George Orwell. We can now announce that Magazine will make an exclusive UK festival appearance at this year’s Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood, nr. Tonbridge, Kent on Saturday the 2nd [...]

As the above headline says, our brand new signings, In Fear Of Olive, release their debut limited edition 4 track EP, entitled ‘All We Can Do Is Wonder’, on the ever popular CD format and as a state-of-the-art MP3 download (with additional 5th track ‘Acting My Age’) on the 3rd of May 2011. You can [...]

The mighty Magazine complement their appearance on the BBC Electric Proms by bringing their big sticks to ‘Later… with Jools Holland‘. A version of the show will be broadcast live on Tuesday 13th October at 10.00pm on BBC2, and a further different edition will be broadcast on Friday 16th October at just after 11.30pm. Same [...]

GO> The release and dispatch of pre-ordered copies of the ‘Real Life + Thereafter’ DVD is imminent. Sorry for missing the original anticipated date on end of June. Howard wanted to make some changes to the sound mix which took longer than envisaged. These changes are now complete and the discs are now with the [...]

GO> The highly anticipated Magazine DVD of the recent February reunion shows is now available for pre-order. This strictly limited edition 2 disc, region free, PAL format DVD set will be shipped in mid July. The ‘Real Life + Thereafter’ DVD contains the entire concert filmed at Manchester Academy … PLUS … Extra features include [...]

GO> Magazine will play The Soap Show : Episode 2009 at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank on Tuesday, the 1st of September 2009. General tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday, the 24th April, and will be available from box office and online – www.southbankcentre.co.uk – at a cost of £27.50 [...]

You take 10 days holiday, and people say, ‘Going anywhere nice?’ I just had the best holiday you can get. How do I describe the places I’ve just been? Train to that there London town. Bermondsey, London. Big dark room with no windows. Had to practice making some sounds. Couple of girls came along and [...]

GO > It will come as very little surprise to inform you that the above mentioned 20 tickets have now been snapped up. However the optimistic outlook at this stage of D-Day minus and counting, is that we are trying our damnedest to squeeze some more production tickets back onto the streets and into your [...]

GO > Linder plays Manchester Academy as special guest of Magazine on Tuesday February 17th 2009. This will be Linder’s first return to a Manchester stage since 1982. Her last performance there was at the Hacienda, where as a lifelong vegetarian, she infamously appeared in her protest dress of raw meat. Linder is known to [...]

GO > Magazine are pleased to end the rumours, right here and right now, regarding just who is going to walk in the not inconsiderable size 9s of John McGeoch and step up to become the guitarist for the Magazine shows in February 2009. After due diligence, and no small amount of fine tuning, it [...]

GO > The show at The Forum in London on February 13th has SOLD OUT within 48 hours of tickets being released for sale. Due to the fact that 2500 Magazine fans in reach of the metropolitan area can’t be wrong, it’s been decided that it would be only right and proper to allow another [...]