Hellcat power-pop punk rockers Orange announce spring 2010 UK tour with Zebrahead and MC Lars!

Straight out of LA and raring to go, Hellcat’s finest ORANGE hit the UK’s shores on a two week tour with pop punk favourites Zebrahead and MC Lars from March 16th. Touring material from their hugely well received third album ‘Phoenix’, the band will kick off proceedings in Southampton on March 16th and appear at several Academies on their route.

This is the first time that the band has appeared live in the UK, and front man Joe Dexter can’t wait to get playing to the crowds. Talking of the tour, he said;

“We’ve been dying to tour England ever since we started the band and to come play for all the fantastic fans we have there. It’s my home land and my favorite place on earth, well second to Disney Land. We’re the best we have ever been live and we’re ready to MELT SOME FACES! Dads – lock up your daughters ‘cus we’re coming. ”

The full UK tour is as follows:
16th March – Talking Heads, Southampton
17th March – Islington Academy, London
18th March – Orange Box, Yeovil
19th March – Club Revolution, Peterborough
20th March – Chords, Poole
21st March – Furnace, Swindon
22nd March – Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd
23rd March – Academy 2, Birmingham
24th March – Waterfront, Norwich
25th March – Roadmender, Northampton
26th March – Academy 3, Manchester
27th March – Academy 2, Newcastle
28th March – Rock City, Nottingham
29th March – Cathouse, Glasgow
30th March – Cockpit, Leeds

For full details on the tour and more information on Orange please visit www.myspace.com/orange

All Tomorrow’s Parties announce a special 10th birthday festival.

ATP will commence their birthday celebrations with a second festival in December.  Taking place from the 11th-13th December at Butlins Resort in Minehead, the event features a plethora of ATP favourites as well as past curators.

So far confirmed to play are:

• Explosions in the Sky
• Dirty Three
• Shellac
• Tortoise
• Melvins
• Mudhoney
• The For Carnation
• Papa M
• Deerhoof
• F**k Buttons
• The Drones
• Sleepy Sun
• Bardo Pond

More confirmations will be forthcoming.

Tickets for the event are on sale now; priced at £160 per person for room only accommodation and £170 per person for self-catering.  There are early-bird discounts of £10 off and those attending My Bloody Valentine’s Nightmare Before Christmas get £20 off full price.

Growing concern over revenue streams leads to cull.

It is being widely reported that MySpace are to cut its workforce by 30%.  This could mean in the region of 500 redundancies for the company.

The news comes amidst growing competition from the likes of Facebook and Twitter, the former of which surpassed MySpace in number of unique visits last month.  According to data from comScore Media Matrix, May saw Facebook attract 70.28 million unique US visitors in comparison to MySpace’s 70.26 million.

This is yet more bad news for the site which last week revealed that its owners, News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media, had pulled the plug on a proposed move to new offices in Playa Vista, California.

Concerns are also mounting as their advertising deal with Google (worth a reported $900 million) is set to expire next year.

Three Day Music Festival in Leicester, 29^th-31^st May

This coming weekend Firebug in Leicester is hosting three days of music for the princely sum of £4 (with profits going to LOROS Hospice).  The organisers claim the event is ‘designed to celebrate the best of the East Midland’s musical talent. It aims to showcase those bands who are already making waves beyond the cities borders, and draw attention to some of those which aren’t yet getting the attention they deserve.’ Headliners include Maybeshewill, Minnaars and Death of London and tickets are currently available from the bar [only full weekend wristbands are available].  For stage times and more information on the event visit www.whitenoisechristmas.com.

Life is good, and Three Chords is back.

Lloydi is currently a freelance music journalist (basically unemployed), and Chris is a 4th year student (basically unemployed). This means you can expect to see more news, reviews and interviews very soon, as well as Three Chords Records, with free album downloads plus much more…

Watch this space…