Krankschaft Release Chrimbo Single and Announce Live Dates!!

Acid - psyche legends Krankschaft have issued a free download Christmas single to bring a little 'Spirit of The Age' to the festive season.

The band, who formed as backing band for the late great Robert Calvert (former Hawkwind vocalist) in the early 1980's around the core of former Inner City Unit members Steve Pond and Dead Fred have recently expanded their line up with the addition of drummer Darren Butler and bass player Scott Myers, and the new single is the first recording to feature the new line up.

The track, entitled Everybody's Little Song Of Christmas, is a catchy little ditty in the traditional ICU / Krankshaft mode and can be download free from the bands website at http://www.doremi.co.uk/krankschaft/ 

To celebrate the release of the single Krankschaft have announced a couple of live dates. On Nov. 26th they are at The Man On The Moon, where they share the stage with classic festival outfit Here & Now, and then on Dec 3rd they appear at the Hydrant in Brighton as part of the annual Judge Trev Thoms memorial concert, where they will be play a set as Krankschaft, the they will be joined by Nik Turner to perform as Inner City Unit. ticket details for both shows can be found on the bands website (linked above)

source - Krankschaft press release

New Single From Italian Metal Kings

Following their highly successful UK tour with Attack Attack!, Italy's Hopes Die Last release the stunning video "Unleash Hell", taken from their much anticipated second album, due for release early 2012 on Standby Records.

Imperial Vengeance 20/4d ep release

Steam Metal Royalty Imperial Vengeance are issuing a new three track ep to acompany their acclaimed new album 'The Black Heart Of Empire' (full review here).

Containing a couple of tracks from the current album and a previously unreleased cut. This ep will be available as a digital download from Amazon iTunes and all the standard outlets in a digital format because, as the band say "wax cylinder or shellac, based vinyl is not really being played by so many folks these days,"

The ep is released on October 24th, for more details... www.facebook.com/ImperialVengeance

 

Mastodon UK Tour Dates Announced

US Psyche metal outfit Mastodon have announced a short UK tour in support of their acclaimed new album 'The Hunter'. The dates are...

February 5th                   Bristol O2 Academy

February 6th                   Manchester Academy

February 7th                   Glasgow Barrowlands

February 9th                   Norwich UEA 

February 10th                  Birmingham HMV Institute

February 11th                  London O2 Academy Brixton

…. Tickets are priced £17.50 regionally and £20.00 for London.  Tickets are available from www.kililive.com / www.seetickets.com

Support for the tour has not yet been announced 

(source; Roadrunner Records)

Uriah Heep UK Tour Dates.

Classic rock legends Uriah Heep have announced a ten date UK tour for December this year to support the release of their new live album 'Live In Armenia'. The tour kicks off in Wolverhampton on Dec. 1st and includes dates in Holmfirth, Brighton, Bristol, Bournemouth, London, Oxford, Glasgow, Newcastle and Milton Keynes.

Mackie Nose Op Forces Pallas to Cancel European Dates

Scottish prog legends Pallas have been forced to cancel their October European tour following vocalist Paul Mackie undergoing urgent medical treatment for unidentified growth on his sinuses.

The two gigs concerned are on 14th October at the Prog Resiste Festival at The Spirit of 66 in Verviers, the second in Den Bosch on 15th October. But the band hope Paul is recovered enough to play at this years Hard Rock Hell festival and their hometown Christmas show, both in early December.

Bassist Graham Murray issued a statement apologising to the bands fans, but insisted that the enforced time out will not be wasted and the band will use the break to continue work on the follow up album to this years XXV.

Pallas are planning a three week UK and European trek for March next year and the cancelled dates will be rescheduled for then.

(various sources)

Green Day Front Man In Saggy Pants Flight Ban Trouble

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says he was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday night for wearing his pants too low.
The Bay Area rock musician was traveling from Oakland to Burbank when the incident occurred. He posted on his twitter feed.
"Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the f**k? No joke!
One eye witness said,
"Basically, all the passengers were already seated, we were ready to go, they had already told us to start to turn our cellphones off," they added that Armstrong was approached by a flight attendant and told to pull his pants up. Armstrong initially dismissed the request, asking, "Don't you have better things to do then worry about that?" When the flight attendant repeated the request and threatened to have Armstrong removed from the plane, Armstrong relied "I'm just trying to get to my f**king seat."
Armstrong and the person he was traveling with were then removed from the flight.
Southwest airlines had declined to comment at the time of writing.

(source - various news feeds)