The Good The Bad And The Queen to play Rock Werchter!!

February 20th, 2007

Onsale and ticket info :

Rock Werchter tickets will go onsale on Tuesday, 20th February 2007, at 9 am.

Ticketprices :

Combiticket (valid the 4 days of the festival), 28th June - July 1st : €160
Dayticket Thursday 28th of June : €75
Dayticket Friday 29th of June : €75
Dayticket Saturday 30th of June : €69
Dayticket Sunday 1st of July : €75

*** All tickets are inclusive of public transport (trains NMBS and festivalshuttle De Lijn from Leuven) within the Belgian borders.

The festival lasts from Thursday 28th of June till Monday 2nd of July.

All info and ticket reservations :

www.rockwerchter.be
www.proximusgoformusic.be

Ticket phone :

In Belgium : 0900 2 60 60
In Holland : 0900 45 000 45
All other countries : +32 34 00 00 34

Damon Albarn records with Massive Attack

February 9th, 2007

The Good, The Bad And The Queen’s Damon Albarn has worked with Massive Attack on tracks for their new album.

The band are currently working on the follow up to their first new studio album since 2003’s ‘100th Window‘.

Massive Attack

Albarn is one of the featured vocalists on the new tracks along with TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval plus regular collaborators Horace Andy and Liz Fraser.

Member Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall said the band “could have enough material to release two albums in 12 months”, reports The Guardian.

Although no release date has been confirmed, it is believed the as yet untitled album will be called ‘Weather Underground’.

via NME.com

Alex James Gives His Verdict

February 8th, 2007

Alex James is set to appear in new BBC Two show, The Verdict. The 4-part show features 12 celebrity jurors judging a fictional court case.

The Verdict

The Verdict starts this Sunday (11th Feb 2007) at 9pm.

More info on the BBC website.

TGTBATQ - Debut U.S. Live Dates Confirmed

February 6th, 2007

The Good, the Bad & the Queen, the collaboration between Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz), former Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Verve guitarist Simon Tong and Fela Kuti/Africa 70 drummer Tony Allen, whose eponymous, Danger Mouse-produced debut was released last week, have confirmed the following first-ever series of North American dates:

  • March 11th - Toronto - Kool Haus
  • March 12th - New York - Webster Hall
  • March 14th - Washington - DC 930
  • March 16th - Austin - Stubbs (SXSW)
  • March 18th - New Orleans - Republic

GBQ have been announced to appear at the Cochella festival in the U.S. on 28th April.

Kingdom of Doom Video

February 6th, 2007

The video for Kingdom of Doom was shot in one take and features the band cooking breakfast for Giorgio Locatelli (chef). The quickest video shoot in history, watch it here: