wire—sound http://www.wire-sound.com Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:51:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Magazine new material. No longer imminent. Now here. http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/08/30/can-i-get-a-witness/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/08/30/can-i-get-a-witness/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:36:47 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=619
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 11 track Digipak CD version of ‘No Thyself’, featuring the lead-off tracks ‘Hello Mister Curtis (with apologies)’, ‘Holy Dotage’ and the exclusive bonus track ‘Blisterpack Blues’ is now exclusively available to pre-order at http://www.wire-sound.com/shop/magazine.

Order today as a single item or be tempted by the top-value pre-tour bundle featuring the 11 track Digipak CD, the exclusive ‘Hello Mister Curtis (with apologies)’ / ‘Holy Dotage’ 10″ vinyl + digital download and the 2011 ‘Pretty Polyp’ T.Shirt. Your chance to get more Magazine sooner. Smart. And then some.

This edition is only available through the Wire–Sound operation and will not be on general sale.

Items will be shipped out at the start of October. Promise.

‘No Thyself’ – The complete tracklisting :

01. Do The Meaning
02. Other Thematic Material
03. The Worst Of Progress….
04. Hello Mister Curtis (with apologies)
05. Physics
06. Happening In English
07. Holy Dotage
08. Of Course Howard (1979)
09. Final Analysis Waltz
10. The Burden Of A Song
Bonus Track
11. Blisterpack Blues

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/08/30/can-i-get-a-witness/feed/ More concrete good news. Magazine to tour the UK in November. http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/08/17/concrete-good-news-magazine-to-tour-the-uk-in-november/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/08/17/concrete-good-news-magazine-to-tour-the-uk-in-november/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:54:11 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=604 Yes. It cannot be denied. Magazine are to don their rock star outfits and kick up some Autumn leaves come November time. Light the blue touch paper at arms length and stand well back. The UK tour coincides with the release of the band’s fifth studio album, ‘No Thyself’. The first new material recorded since 1981.

The 9 dates are :
Nov 1 : Bath Komedia
Nov 2 : Cambridge Junction
Nov 3 : Hatfield Forum
Nov 4 : Manchester Academy
Nov 5 : Glasgow ABC
Nov 7 : Newcastle Academy
Nov 8 : Birmingham Institute
Nov 9 : Sheffield Plug
Nov 10 : London Shepherd’s Bush Empire


All tickets are priced £22.50 (plus the usual booking fee mularkey) except London, which is £25.00.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday, the 19th of August.

Click on the hyperlink below to order your tickets right away :

http://www.gigsandtours.com/gat/event.asp?n|showname=soon&showname=magazine&e|promoter=372&resultsperpage=50&orderby=date%2Ctime&filler1=gigsandtours&filler2=magazine

The new album will be released by Wire-Sound and will be available in all the usual formats from all the usual suspects. You’ll know when just as soon as we know. Out.

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/08/17/concrete-good-news-magazine-to-tour-the-uk-in-november/feed/ ABC 1-2-3 Competition … http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/28/abc-1-2-3-competition/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/28/abc-1-2-3-competition/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 19:35:12 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=598 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.

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/28/abc-1-2-3-competition/feed/ Black Country Bonanza!!! Win!!! Win!!! Win!!! Wolverhampton Magazine tickets… http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/28/win-wolverhampton-magazine-tickets/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/28/win-wolverhampton-magazine-tickets/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 14:31:55 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=588 Oh yes! That’s right! Your chance to win, win, win a pair of free tickets for the Wolverhampton warm-up gig on 30th June AND a selection of SIGNED Magazine merchandise. Simply answer this question by dropping us an email via the ‘contact’ facility on this here website.
Q : What is the name of the author and the title of the worldwide best selling book from 2010 which features Magazine in the storyline?
Easy-peasy, huh?
A winning name will be drawn at random one week (7 days) from today. You lucky, lucky people.
]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/28/win-wolverhampton-magazine-tickets/feed/ Magazine go hopping down to Kent come July http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/27/magazine-go-hopping-down-to-kent-come-july/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/27/magazine-go-hopping-down-to-kent-come-july/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 17:32:20 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=582 “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 of July. They share the main stage with our old mucker Morrissey, old ox-hide himself, Iggy, his merry Stooges, Mr. Lou ‘Happy Go Lucky’ Reed and the downright shamanistical Ms. Patti Smith. Blimey! For more details about tickets and all that stuff go to www.hopfarmfestival.com

“When he comes to measure,
He never knows where to stop;
Ay, ay, get in the bin,
And take the bloody lot!”

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/27/magazine-go-hopping-down-to-kent-come-july/feed/ Magazine to pitch up in the Black Country… http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/26/magazine-to-pitch-up-in-the-black-country/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/26/magazine-to-pitch-up-in-the-black-country/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 12:50:36 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=570 Something old, new, borrowed and blue... Magazine will play a shortened 45 minute set on Thursday 30th of June at The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton, prior to an exclusive festival appearance in the UK. Here’s your chance to checkout our new bass player, my friend Stan… AKA John White, and maybe hear the premiere of one or two new songs.

Tickets are now available on a first come, first served basis at the princely price of only £16 (+ any booking fees that the venue may add) and through all the usual ticket websites etc (with whatever fees are added by those organisations).

For double-quick sticks tickets / information contact the box office on 0870 320 7000 or the website : www.wolvescivic.co.uk

Sad to report that we cannot at this stage announce the festival appearance just yet. Keep watching the skies, my friends. Keep watching the skies. Over and out.

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/05/26/magazine-to-pitch-up-in-the-black-country/feed/ In Fear Of Olive - Debut 4 Track EP. CD + Download. Released 03.05.11 http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/04/06/in-fear-of-olive-release-their-debut-4-track-ep-on-may-3rd-2011/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/04/06/in-fear-of-olive-release-their-debut-4-track-ep-on-may-3rd-2011/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:51:54 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=523 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 purchase this winner on our very own Wire-Sound label at all good record stores, hyperspace outlets, eCommerce facilities, participating petrol stations and ice-rinks… OR you can get your mits on it double quick sticks like by clicking onto our online shop link on this very site, ordering here and now and we’ll dispatch it straight to your door. Look lively… fill your boots.

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2011/04/06/in-fear-of-olive-release-their-debut-4-track-ep-on-may-3rd-2011/feed/ Dave Formula - ‘Satellite Sweetheart’ - CD + Download. Released 15.02.10 http://www.wire-sound.com/2010/01/04/dave-formula-%e2%80%98satellite-sweetheart%e2%80%99-cd-download-release-150210/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2010/01/04/dave-formula-%e2%80%98satellite-sweetheart%e2%80%99-cd-download-release-150210/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:01:14 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=465 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 (click through on the left), Amazon, iTunes, petrol stations, ice rinks and all good stockists of pop.

This debut collection of solo recordings features brand new collaborations on brand new material from fellow band members Howard Devoto, Barry Adamson, John Doyle and the late John McGeoch.

Additional performances are supplied by guest vocalists and musicians David McAlmont, Robert Wyatt, Corinne Drewery, Joel Purnell, Dennis Rollins and Clint Boon, even.

‘Satellite Sweetheart’, draws on Formula’s childhood in Whalley Range, Manchester. The striking childhood memory that inspired the collection is of Dave being taken to see Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who, after becoming the first man in space in 1961, made an appearance at the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers in Brook’s Bar, in a show of proletarian solidarity.

“I got to shake his hand as he walked past”, says Dave.

The collaboration with Barry Adamson, ‘Bison Heard’, recalls Paul’s Record Shop, which sold calypso music, on Alexandra Road, Moss Side.

“It seemed like the coolest place on earth when I was being dragged up and down on a Saturday afternoon, doing the shopping with my folks”, says Dave.

Dave was introduced to Howard Devoto in Manchester during the 1977 white heat days of punk rock by legendary producer Martin Hannett. The two have worked together subsequently in Magazine and Luxuria, and together they have composed one of the album’s centre pieces in ‘Via Sacra’, which in turn lit the spark to the recent Magazine reformation.

“I persuaded Howard that it was time to be creative once more. A last chance to be venerable. An offer he couldn’t refuse”, says Dave.

Below, the video for ‘Via Sacra’, featuring Dave Formula (keyboards), Howard Devoto (Vocals), Barry Adamson (Upright Bass) and John Doyle (Drums).

Title : ‘Satellite Sweetheart’
Artist : Dave Formula
Format : CD + Download
Label : Wire-Sound
Cat # : WIRED 11
Release Date : 15.02.10.
Distribution : Cargo / 020 7731 5125

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2010/01/04/dave-formula-%e2%80%98satellite-sweetheart%e2%80%99-cd-download-release-150210/feed/ Magazine to appear on ‘Later… with Jools Holland’ : October 13th + 16th http://www.wire-sound.com/2009/10/06/magazine-to-appear-on-later-with-jools-holland/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2009/10/06/magazine-to-appear-on-later-with-jools-holland/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:02:58 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=454 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 bat channel.

Also on the bill are a la mode Sarf London synth duo La Roux, salty bluesman Seasick Steve, the right rollicking hair monsters Wolfmother and sweet soul supremo Jimmy Ruffin, who had a worldwide hit in 1966 with ‘What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted’ … and who, incidentally, Dave Formula played with back in the day at the Twisted Wheel, Manchester. What goes around eh?

]]> http://www.wire-sound.com/2009/10/06/magazine-to-appear-on-later-with-jools-holland/feed/ Magazine to play BBC Electric Proms : October 22nd http://www.wire-sound.com/2009/09/15/magazine-play-the-bbc-electric-proms/ http://www.wire-sound.com/2009/09/15/magazine-play-the-bbc-electric-proms/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:59:02 +0000 proktor http://www.wire-sound.com/?p=433 GO>

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 feel your favourite, enduringly credible, band, who continue to exert a profound creative influence on contemporary artists such as Radiohead, Maximo Park and indeed Doves.

The performance will be broadcast on the Marc Riley Show / BBC 6 Music and will be filmed for transmission on the BBC Red Button service.

A limited number of tickets (2 per person) will be available on a first come first served basis from 8am on Wednesday 16th September at http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/series/bbc-electric-proms.

Also at http://www.seetickets.com and there’s a ticket hotline : 0844 482 8008 (9am-6pm weekdays, 9am-4pm weekends, £2.50 booking fee per ticket applies).

For more information go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/

STOP.

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