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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 and ready for your purchase at Glasgow Academy for Monday 16th February 2009 and Manchester Academy 1 for Tuesday 17th February 2009. Prices at both venues are pitched at £23. Glasgow box office : 0844 477 2000. Manchester box office : 0161 832 1111. Oh yes.
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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 2500 people of fine taste and judgement to take their chance. Magazine will now play another night in London Town. Tickets are now available for Thursday 12th February 2009 for The Forum in Kentish Town. No price increase. Still only £25 from the usual suspects. Probably more from unusual suspects.
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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.
It is the first time Magazine have played live together since 1980. They are to play The Forum, London on February 13th and The Academy, Manchester on February 14th. Tickets are released next Monday the September 15th, the box offices and usual suspects.
Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the connoisseur’s choice and have been frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2 and Maximo Park. This year, NME.com included Magazine in a poll as one of the most influential bands of all time.
Magazine’s front man, Howard Devoto co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley after the pair had seen the Sex Pistols in early 1976 and promoted the now legendary Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gigs. Devoto left in 1977, after the seminal ‘Spiral Scratch’ EP had been released, and created Magazine. Their first record was the post-Punk anthem ‘Shot By Both Sides’.
Four ground breaking albums later and the band had parted company, leaving behind an influential body of work which was re-released by Virgin EMI last year to critical acclaim.
The concerts are being staged in association with The Gig Cartel and Wire—Sound and will be recorded for possible release later in 2009
“Devoto, let’s just say, for the hell of it because the story has to start somewhere, with a bang, or a legendary punk gig, was the man who changed Manchester because he had an idea about what needed to happen at just the right time in just the right place. He arranged for the Sex Pistols to play in Manchester before the rest of the country had caught up with the idea that there was any such thing as a Sex Pistol. In the audience for the shows were Mark E Smith, Ian Curtis, Morrissey and Devoto himself, four of the greatest rock singers of all time, directly challenged to take things on.” Paul Morley / The Observer / 2006
“Magazine are the most criminally underrated band in the past 25 years of British pop in my view. Howard Devoto was a total pop genius, but he was a slightly misshaped pop star and I think nobody really got him. Simple Minds should not have been big, but Magazine should have - someone made a clerical mistake somewhere.” Jeremy Vine / The Daily Telegraph / 2007
“mmm… not bad, for New Wave.” Bob Harris / The Old Grey Whistle Test / 1978
“Saying that Devoto has a cult following is like saying that King Kong was a big hairy gorilla: it’s superfically accurate but doesn’t really convey the full scale picture. On that ‘So It Goes’ he came on with the most powerful presence I’d seen since the first time I clapped eyes on Johnny Rotten… the kind of guy who’s going to get a big hoopla but who deserves it” Charles Shaar Murray / NME / 1978
“Magazine!!!!” Paul Morley / The Observer Music Monthly / 2008
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