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The
utterly lovely London duo Psapp are taking their quirky, electronic
folk on the road with a short UK tour at the end of May. Their excellent
debut album Everything I Ever Wanted
is out on 22 May on Domino Records
and it includes our former 
One
of Eyeballkid's favourite albums from last year was the 
There
seems to be something in the water besides a subtle mix of hydrogen
and oxygen, with another surprise split seemingly on the cards when
King Biscuit Time's Steve Mason cancelled
the group's forthcoming tour. With the former Beta
Band singer's album Black Gold
due out next week, Mason appears to have announced his decision
to quit the music business altogether with a message that was posted
online saying: 
There's
going to be some nasty live stuff happening at a venue near you
and, no, you won't have to sneak furtive glances up and down the
street before entering through a curtained door. The man with lyrics
dirtier than Prince in a mudbath, MC
Spank Rock is hitting the UK with a live tour following the recent
release of his superb debut album 
The
Carling Live 24 event returns with
another day of live music taking place at venues around London.
From 7pm on Fri 28 Apr 2006 you can check out 24 hours of gigs and
club night in the capital, kicking off with Kaiser
Chiefs, Captain and the wonderful The
Pipettes at Brixton Academy.
Next comes Ian Brown at Islington
Academy at 10pm, after which Goldie
Lookin Chain host a club night at Canvas
in Kings Cross, featuring the likes of Adam
Freeland, Bez and The Freelance Hellraiser
on decks. You can have breakfast while checking out Larrikin
Love and The Holloways at the
Barfly, while the entertainment is
brought to a close by Razorlight and
guests at Shepherd's Bush Empire at
4pm on Sat 29 Apr 2006. For full listings and tickets check out
For
the fourth year running Lovebox takes
over one of London's park for a weekend of dancing in the sunshine
(fingers crossed). The festival is heading east this time to Hackney's
Victoria Park on Sat 22 - Sun 23 Jul
2006, and Lovebox hosts Groove Armada
are set to headline the Saturday night with a live show featuring
new material. There's also live sets from Jamie
Lidell and Bugz in the Attic,
with Gilles Peterson among the DJs,
while Sunday features Jamiroquai and
The Feeling. Glastonbury veterans Lost
Vagueness are making themselves busy this summer and will
be hosting a ballroom and diner on both days. Tickets are £35
per day, or £60 for a weekend pass. Check out 
Last
summer's best festival was aptly enough Bestival
and the Isle of Wight plays host to the three-day extravaganza
of music and fancy dress again on 08, 09 and 10 Sep 2006. They'll
be attempting to break the world record for largest fancy dress
party again and this year the theme is the Circus. Appropriately
enough curator Rob da Bank has lined
up some colourful acts, with Pet Shop Boys
and Scissor Sisters among the headliners.
Other acts filling the eight stages include The
Fall, Devandra Banhart, Hot Chip, Psapp and Terry
Hall, with Justin Robertson, Erol Alkan
and DJ Yoda among the DJ acts confirmed.
As ever The Cuban Brothers will be
the hosts. Tickets are £105 for the weekend, £95 if
you're an islander. Check out 
Ireland's
Electric Picnic continues to stake
its case for being the festival of the summer with some top additions
to an already excellent line-up. Current chart-topping, genre-bending
sensations Gnarls Barkley are set to
play, along with Malian duo Amadou & Marian
as well as Jamaica's original ska band The
Skatelites. Other acts already confirmed for Electric Picnic
include Basement Jaxx, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
and New Order. The festival takes place
from 01-03 Sep 2006 on the Stradbally Hall
Estate in Co. Laois. Tickets cost €175 for the weekend.
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The
brilliant Gene Pitney was found dead
in a hotel on Wed 05 Apr 2006. The singer was in the middle of a
UK tour and had returned to his room after a sell-out show in Cardiff.
His biggest hit was a 1989 duet of his classic Something's
Gotten Hold of my Heart with Marc Almond,
which reached no. 1 in the UK charts. But Pitney's real success
came in the sixties with the original version of his later no. 1
and the classic 24 Hours From Tulsa
and he is often credited with introducing The
Rolling Stones to the US when his recording of a Jagger
& Richards song That Girl Belongs
to Yesterday hit the charts there, while the Stones were
still doing cover versions. 
London
venue The Spitz hosts their very own Festival
of Blues starting this week. But this isn't a bunch of hoary
old men drinking and playing guitars. The festival's tagline states
"not the same old blues crap" and the line-up features
a lot of hoary young men drinking and playing guitars. Rock bands
with tentative blues influences, including the excellent Archie
Bronson Outfit, Little Barrie and Vincent
Vincent & the Villains, will be playing a series of gigs
at random dates from 11 Apr until 29 Apr 2006. Check the
Three
names have been added to next month's Hi:Fi
South festival in Winchester. They are Lemon
Jelly, My Robot Friends and Kharma
45. The new festival has northern and southern legs taking
place from 27-28 May 2006 and will feature the likes of Ian
Brown, Hard Fi and Soulwax.
More info 
Budweiser
has proved more adept at promoting music than football as the line-up
for the Easter Weekend's annual Bud Rising festival in Dublin proves.
With gigs featuring new bands like The Automatic, The Long Blondes
and local outfit, Delorentos and club nights with such DJ illuminari
s as Kerri Chandler and Mr Scruff on the decks, there's enough variety
for most music fans. For full details check out 
The
beguiling and beautiful pop of The Research will be waltzing its
way into your hearts as the Wakefield trio head out on a UK tour.
The band's debut album Breaking Up
is one of the year's finest so far but the band are moving on already
and are due to release a brand new single
The Hard Times on 29 May 2006. The tour, which kicks off
at the end of May includes an appearance at the northern leg of
the brand new Hi-Fi Festival (see 
Fair
play to them, the Monkey men aren't resting on their ice-covered
laurels and are due to release a brand new single
Who the Fuck are the Arctic Monkeys? on 24 Apr 2006. It sounds
like the question every record label and retail outlet was asking
themselves at various points last year. To coincide with the release
they're also off playing gigs again. Catch them at one of the following
dates:
If
you are like Eyeballkid
scribe Robin and have a pathological
hatred of ticket touts then there's an online ticket exchange where
real fans can swap, sell or buy tickets at cost price. Check it
out 
The
Encompass Festival returns for another
year of smart electronic music and the thinking man's rock. The
three-day event takes place on the weekend from 11-14 May 2006 in
a variety of London venues (mostly concentrated around the East
End) and will feature the likes of Jimmy Edgar,
DJ Vadim, Mark Rae and loads more. £17 gets you a wristband
for a day, which will get you into any of at least five venues that
will have action, plus there's a music workshop taking place on
the Saturday. Personally we reckon you'd be more than a fool to
miss James Holden gather his Border
Community troops at Bar 54 on
13 May, but maybe you'll be distracted by some even better. Check
out 
Some
new additions to this year's Camden Crawl
have been announced, including the rather excellent Pink
Grease and Larrikin Love. Joining
those two at any one of 12 venues in the NW1 area on a night of
music and mayhem will be Captain, 65DaysofStatic
and Young Knives. The organisers are
also promising some very special guests will be announced on the
night. For further details check out our