Detachments Album Launch Party

Detachments album launch party! Signed copies of the CD and the bands latest single Holiday Romance will be available on the night. 

Expect Wartime RAF battlejackets, graceful to brutal divebombing synths, award-winning live drums, royal ballet, divine melodies to murder for, weird astral glimpses into the future... it's all flitting in and out of existence here. Electronic/darkwave/synthpop/indie/new Minimal Wave at it's best.

"The love-child of Fad Gadget and early OMD raised by Cabaret Voltaire has finally descended on us. Their debut album blends early industrial, coldwave and a tinge of synthpop to create an opaque masterpiece. Consider this to be the Yang to…let’s say Hurts’ or Monarchy’s Yin."

Support will come from:

Flash Fiktion

Savage Nomads

Plus Andy Blake (World Unknown / Dissident / Cave Paintings) who remixed Holiday Romance will be DJing inbetween bands. 

The date:

Tuesday, 05 October 2010 at 19:30

CAMP (City Arts and Music Project) London, United Kingdom

Don't miss it!

Paul Weller 'Couldn't Wait To Leave Mercury Prize 2010'

Paul Weller has revealed that he “couldn't wait to get home” after he failed to win the Mercury Prize last week.

As we all know, the Jam  former star, was one of the favourites to get The Mercury Prize with his recent album 'Wake Up The Nation' , but eventually lost out to The xx.

In an interview, Weller revealed that he went home straight after the announcement was made so he could watch TV. “I'd been there all day, being old and miserable, I couldn't wait to get home,” he said. “I thought, I've had enough of this. I wasn't doing my upset diva bit, I just wanted to go home and watch telly."

Weller also admitted that he found it “hard to get excited” about the down-tempo sound of The xx's self-titled winning album. “It's not really my sort of thing. I'm not putting them down, just because they beat me,” he added.

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Peter Hook’s Hacienda Memoirs get the Boxset treatment

As we all remember, celebrated co-founder of New Order and Joy Division, Peter Hook released his critically acclaimed memoirs in 2009 titled The Haçienda: How Not To Run A Club. The memoirs detailed his sordid life as a rock star and the demise of his finances.

Now these memoirs turns into boxset, with only a few hundred copies of it being made available. Inside it you'll find signed sections of the book accompanied by unpublished material. It also houses a 10" record with one of Peter Hook's new tunes, 'The Viking'.

The design for the boxset has been the job of English designers Foruli who with the help of Hook completed it with a special art print.

It was easy to guess it would be highly prized and limited so here are the details:

There are only 400 available of the standard edition which retail at £300.

100 copies of the deluxe at £600 which can you believe contains an actual piece of the Hacienda bar top.

Finally there are two ultimate editions available, which include one of only six handmade custom FAC51 Hacienda bass guitars.

At the height of Hook's fame during the Hacienda days, the band were throwing all their royalties into the running of the club with only £20 left for each of the band at the end of the week. You can buy these beautiful boxsets right here.