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Yes, Kings of Leon have announced they will embark on an awesome UK tour this winter making an exciting stop at Glasgow's SECC on December 3rd.

Tickets go on sale on Friday (June 1) at 9am.

The final Your Sound event before the winning bands grace the stage at this year's Connect festival will take place on June 3rd, with Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake lending a hand to choose the lucky bands and spinning the decks later on.
The event will take place in its usual haunt, King Tuts from 4-8pm, staying true to its motto of promoting fantastic unsigned talent.
Last month's event saw electro hotties The Retrosexuals win the coveted title of artist if the month!
Check it out this month to see who wows the crowd and could be on their way to Connect with even more fans !! Ho ho pardon the pun....


www.kingtuts.co.uk

Glasgow's finest 'alternative to a festival' has announced more exciting bands who are set to tantalise the audience this year. As if the grandour of the Flaming Lips wasn't enough for us music fans to enjoy, here are even more bands to wet your pants about.....

Added to Saturday 14th are:

Silversun Pickups – grungey sullen hooks, playful instrumentation, Californ-i-a www.myspace.com/silversupickups

Andrew Bird – glockenspeils, whistling, obsessively beautiful www.myspace.com/andrewbird

Tim Goldsworthy – owns DFA records, genre defining electronica www.myspace.com/dfarecords

Tim Sweeney – Beats in Space DJ, Optimo favourite www.myspace.com/beatsinspace

Ra Ra Riot – NY indie, unpretentious, likeable, danceable www.myspace.com/rarariot

and added to Sunday 15th are:

Maps – energetic soundscapes, Mute, Northampton www.myspace.com/mapsmusicJaymay - anti-folk, cabaret, bold storytelling www.myspace.com/jaymay

The Parsonage – massive choir, cute covers, smiley faces www.myspace.com/theparsonage


Hot off the press also, Indian Summer have said that there are still weekend tickets left priced at £65, and a few one-day tickets left priced at £37.50. You can get them here: http://www.indiansummerglasgow.com/tickets.asp

Hooray!

Thrills – 5 Dates in Scotland – 26th – 5th July
www.myspace.com/thethrillsofficial

They’ve been hidden away recording their new album recently but are now excitably able to bring you snippets from their forthcoming release as well as getting you reacquainted with their beach boys style ability at making every song sound like you’re on the first day of your holiday.

26th June - Inverness, Ironworks - Tickets: In person from venue/24 hour Phone 08712200260 / www.ironworksvenue.com & www.seetickets.com

27th June - Aberdeen, Moshulu - Tickets: 24hr ticketline 08712200260 / www.seetickets.com

29th June - Forres, The Loft - Tickets: In person from venue & Sound & Vision, Elgin / 24 hour phone 0871 2200260 / www.seetickets.com

30th June - Dundee, Fat Sams- Tickets: In person from Grouchos / 24 hour phone 0870 1690100 & 0871 2200260 / www.ticketmaster.co.uk & www.seetickets.com

1st July - Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire - Tickets from ticketweb & usual outlets5th July - Glasgow, ABC2 - tickets from ticketweb & usual outlets



Decemberists – Fri 12th October 2007 – Glasgow, Academywww.decemberists.com / www.myspace.com/thedecemberists



Modest Mouse – Sat 26th May 2007 – Glasgow, ABCwww.modestmouse.com / www.myspace.com/modestmouse

Franz Ferdinand have announced two Glasgow shows to take place on Mon 4th & Tues 5th June 2007 in the Grand Old Opry. Franz haven't been around for a while so have made plans to play 2 shows in Glasgow with their friends.Alex & co will be playing on Mon 4th and Tues 5th June 2007 in Glasgow's Grand Old Opry. Support comes from Bricolage (mon) and The Royal We (Tues).

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Wed 23rd May at 9am via ticketweb.co.uk or 24hr ticketline 0870 0600 100.

Today T in the Park annouced that The Cinematics and Union of Knives are to play ht eKing Tuts Tent at this year's T in the Park.

Here's the line up so far:

Friday (July 6)

Main Stage
Arctic Monkeys
Bloc Party
The Coral
Lily Allen

Saturday (July 7)
Main Stage
The Killers
Razorlight
Arcade Fire
James
James Morrison
The Skids
The Saw Doctors

Radio 1/NME Stage
The Kooks
My Chemical Romance
Babyshambles
CSS
Little Man Tate
Gogel Bordello
Dogs

King Tuts Tent
The View
Klaxons
Jamie T
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Long Blondes
Calvin Harris
Camera Obscura
The Cinematics

Pet Sounds Arena
Brian Wilson
Rufus Wainwright
Bright Eyes
Cold War Kids
Sinead O'Connor
Albert Hammond Jnr
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Mr Hudson And The Library
Charlotte Hatherley

Futures Stage
The Enemy
New Young Pony Club
The Sounds
The Hours
Air Traffic
Ghosts
Remi Nicole
LostAlone
UnkleJam

Slam TentDJ
Shadow vs Cut Chemist
Dizzee Rascal
Hot Chip
Green Velvet
Miss Kittin
Steve Bug
Adam Beyer
Ame
Soundstream/Soundhack
Alloy Mental (live)

Sunday (July 8)

Main Stage
Snow Patrol
Scissor Sisters
Kings of Leon
The Fratellis
Paolo Nutini
Goo Goo Dolls
Avril Lavigne
The Cribs

Radio1/NME Stage
Kasabian
Interpol
Maximo Park
Biffy Clyro
Mika
The Gossip
The Twang
The Pigeon Detectives

King Tuts Tent
Queens Of The Stone Age
Editors
Jet
Ocean Colour Scene
Just Jack
The Maccabees
Union of Knives

Pet Sounds Arena
Damien Rice
Air
Amy Winehouse
Tori Amos
Badly Drawn Boy
The Hold Steady
Malcolm Middleton

Futures Stage
The Sunshine Underground
The Holloways
The Pipettes
The Horrors
Plan B
Shiny Toy Guns
The Rumble Strips
Switches
Jack Penate
Tokyo Police Club

Slam Tent
The Wu-Tang Clan
Dave Clarke
Felix Da Housecat
Tiga
Josh Wink
Andrew Weatherall
Slam
Booka Shade
Hardfloor
Digitalism

Glasgow legends Franz Ferdinand are to play host to a few small shows in Glasgow and New York in the very near future.Bob Hardy, Franz's bassist, relvealed through MySpace that the band are planning to preview new material at the shows.

The message reads as follows:
"Hi, just a quick bulletin to tell you that we're planning a couple of small shows in Glasgow and one in New York in the next few weeks. We'll be trying out some new songs and inviting some other bands that we like to play with us. We'll let you know the details in the next few days, hopefully see you there."

The indie-pop band are also set to play the Bonnaroo festival, taking place June 14-17 in Manchester, Tennessee.

Regina Spektor has announced a host of new UK gigs, kicking off with Scotland's very own Connect Festival! Following last year's 'Begin To Hope', Regina is set to wow Scottish fans with startlingly good performance.

The dates are as follows:
Scotland Connect Festival (September 2)
Liverpool Academy (4)
Birmingham Academy (5)
London Royal Festival Hall (7)

Explosions in The Sky have announced that due to family illness they will be unable to go ahead with their tour of the UK which was to start on May 19th.

Sadly this includes their much anticipated appereance at Glasgow's Indian Summer.

The band released a statement saying that, "The band extremely sorry for any inconvenience this causes, and will attempt to re-schedule as many dates as possible as soon as possible".

A big shout out to all of you music fans who are braving the Scottish elements this year to hit T in the Park this year, because French twosome Air have just revealed they will play the festival!

T in the Park told the world yesterday that the famous band were to grace the Pet Sounds stage this year on Sunday 8th July.

For more news keep checking www.lickmag.com..... when we know, you'll know!

Day Tickets On Sale Now!
We thought you'd want to be the first to know that due to public demand a limited number of day tickets for this year's Indian Summer in Victoria Park, Glasgow July 14th and 15th are on sale now.

Priced at a pleasing £37.50 a day you can't say fairer than that!
Check out this line-up, a weekend not to be missed!

WILCO
THE RAPTURE
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
MIDLAKE
EMMA POLLOCK
POLYTECHNIC
AU REVOIR SIMONE
ALBERTA CROSS
RUARRI JOSEPH
CORRECTO
OPTIMO (ESPACIO)
PRINS THOMAS
ADULT.
and tasty food like porridge, strawberries, and curries, cool record stalls, and gleeful dancing

And then do it all again on Sunday for
THE FLAMING LIPS
SPIRITUALIZED – ACOUSTIC MAINLINES
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
I'M FROM BARCELONA
ANNUALS
WHEAT
LONEY, DEAR
ELVIS PERKINS
120 DAYS
VIETNAM
MAKE MODEL
OPTIMO (ESPACIO)
THE PRESETS
RHYTHM & SOUND w/ TIKIMAN
and of course croquet, bowling, massage, a fantastic crowd and then there're oh so much more music to be announced for each day too...

To find out myspace links for all the acts and to buy tickets log on to www.indiansummerglasgow.com or call 08700 600 100 (24 hour booking line)
Please note: There are indeed still weekend tickets available at £65 each. All tickets prices are subject to booking fee. More cheery news is that the elegantly silly Summer Sports area will be returning for another year! You'd better start brushing up on those bowls and croquet skills this weekend – it's not long til July now...

www.indiansummerglasgow.com

www.myspace.com/indian_summer_glasgow

For the second year running, well known charity Oxfam are asking bands and promoters all over the UK to hold events dedicated to raising money and help stop poverty.
The project is called Oxjam, an exciting and fulfilling way for people to raise money and contribute to charity instead of just handing over the cash.
Oxjam is asking anyone whos capable to hold a gig of any size or style, this October, and give the money raised towards helping world poverty.
Last year the project raised an amazing half a million pounds in total, that's enough to provide water and sanitation for nearly 700 thousand people or to build 294 classrooms.

To help this worthwhile cause whilst networking and building on your skills and experience in the music industry, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam/

T in The Park have just announced the line up for their much-respected Futures Stage, where last year Lily Allen wowed the audience enough to win herself a place on the main stage this year at the festival!

Check out the line-up in full below, and get set for a hot hot summer full of fantastic music!


Saturday:
The Enemy
New Young Pony Club
The Sounds
The Hours
Air Traffic
Ghosts
Remi Nicole
LostAlone
Unkle Jam

Sunday:
The Sunshine Underground
The Holloways
The Pipettes
The Horrors
Plan B
Shiny Toy Guns
Rumble Strips
Switches
Jack Penate
Tokyo Police Club

For those of you who haven't already heard, the music festival which was set to put Greenock on the map has been cancelled. White 52 Management had to call it a day on Doon the Watter due to lack of demand. The guys issued this announcement:

"It is with regret that we inform you, the Doon the Watter Festival at Cappielow Park will no longer take place on the 19th May 2007.White 52 management Team have taken this decision on the basis of lack of demand by the public and as a result – poor ticket sales.We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have purchased tickets and all or our sponsors and partners for their invaluable input.All patrons who have purchased tickets via White 52 have been refunded.All patrons who have purchased tickets from Ticket Master will be refunded please contact Ticket Master direct".

Don't fear guys, there are plenty more festivals to go round this year!!