Legendary NME cartoonist Ray Lowry is to show window a retrospective exhibition of his career this month (September 2008).
The Lancashire-born creative person contributed to the magazine during the '70s and '80s, and was topper known for the hilariously-angry comic strip 'Only Rock'n'Roll'.
Lowry also contributed to magazines including Punch, Mayfair and Private Eye, as well as creating the legendary sleeve art for The Clash's 'London Calling' album.
Now, after years out of the spotlight, Lowry is staging his first exhibition. Opening September 12 at the See Gallery, Rawenstall, Lancashire, the exhibition features work from the past 40 years, as substantially as his later work as a seminal painter of urban landscapes � following on from his namesake LS Lowry (no relation).
Critic Simon Frith aforementioned of Lowry: "His fixation is rock'n'roll authenticity, which he seldom finds, and his search for it means a search through the speech of rock, through the words and attitudes that are secondhand to sell and make sense of it."
Of his inspiration as a child, Lowry himself said: "Most of my friends and I showed little esthetic or academic promise merely cared fanatically for the most arcane areas of the holy place rock n'roll thunder which had crashed down upon us out of nowhere."
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Sunday 7 September 2008
Thursday 28 August 2008
Oasis Announce On Off UK Show In September
Oasis will play a one off show at the Eden Project in Cornwall on September 27th.
The concert, which will be filmed for TV, volition be the first metre that UK fans have got heard songs from their new album, 'Dig Out Your Soul'.
Tickets for the concert will only be available via the band's official web site. People testament have a week to register for tickets.
The band's new album is released on October 6th.
As previously reported on Gigwise, tickets for Oasis' full UK tour later on in October sold out within an hour of going on sale last-place week.
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Monday 18 August 2008
Mp3 music: Battlelore
 Artist: Battlelore: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Metal Battlelore's discography:  Third Age Of The Sun Year: 2005 Tracks: 13  Third Age Of The Sun Year: 2005 Tracks: 13  Sword's Song Year: 2003 Tracks: 12  Where The Shadows Lie Year: 2002 Tracks: 9 Founded in 1999 by Jyri Vahvanen and Mika Kokkola, Finnish leaden metallic element ensemble Battlelore blend the epical sounds of power, peasant, and end metal with mental imagery from author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. Formed in the city of Lappeenranta, the grouping, whose members changed about oftentimes, released devil demos (Warrior's Tale and Dark Fantasy) before securing a track record deal with Napalm in 2001. The resulting Where the Shadows Lie was released the following twelvemonth. Sword's Song arrived in 2003, followed by One-third Age of the Sun in 2005. Evernight arrived in early 2007. |
Friday 8 August 2008
U2 issue warning over 'fake' gig tickets
U2 make issued a statement warning fans non to buy tickets for upcoming U2 gigs, because they have not yet announced any live shows.
In a mail on their official site, the band said that any such tickets were fake and so fans should non part with their cash.
The statement interpret: "Just a note to correct reports that tickets are becoming available for planned U2 shows. The reports ar mistaken.
"There are no spell dates for the band at the moment - so please don't buy tickets for U2 shows you reckon advertised."
The mathematical group have long been rumoured to be playing a 21-date residency at London's O2 Arena, while they are as well strongly rumoured to be opening Dublin's the 02, formerly the Point Theatre, in December.
U2's new album, their first since 2004's 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb', is expected to be released later this year.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Singo
Artist: Singo
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
Speak to Me
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
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Saturday 14 June 2008
All Out War
Artist: All Out War
Genre(s):
Metal: Thrash
Discography:
Condemned To Suffer
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
All Out War continued to reinforce the sound of New York hardcore by hybridizing genres of metallic element and thug that influentially take out from Slayer, Agnostic Front, the Cro-Mags, and Sick of It All. Upon their formation in the early '90s, the metalcore outfit recorded some demos and the 7" Destined to Burn, and played out shows locally about Newburgh and downward in N.Y.C. Erik Carrillo (bass), Brad Mader (guitar), Taras Apuzzo (guitar), Matt Byrne (drums), and Mike Score (vocals) released their number 1 album, Truth in the Age of Lies, on the German mark Gain Ground in 1997 and embarked on their number 1 enlistment. The band (whose lineup shuffled throughout its vocation) would finally give the chance to portion the stage with Deicide, Agnostic Front, Napalm Death, and Earth Crisis, among others. Chicago-based Victory Records put out All Out War's followup, For Those Who Were Crucified, in 1998. Tours with Buried Alive, Reach the Sky, and Shadows Fall followed, and after an appearance at the New England Metal Fest in 2001, All Out War skint up. They resurfaced two days after for a benefit evidence at CBGB, which in the end light-emitting diode to a new album for Victory that fall entitled Condemned to Suffer. By then, Score and Apuzzo were completed by bassist Andy Pietrolungo, drummer Jesse Sutherland, and guitar player Jose Segarca. That lineup only lasted long enough for a two-week European spell and a bust of dates with Misery Signals before things went sour; everyone only Score left wing to form Nerve Gas Tragedy. Score eventually welcomed early members Jim Antonelli (guitar) and Erik Carrillo (bass) and longtime friends Jim Bremer (guitar) and Lou Iuzzini (drums) into the All Out War fold; together the quintet recorded April 2007's Assassins in the House of God.
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Sunday 1 June 2008
Celluloid Dreams looks to 'UBIK'
Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel adaptation
CANNES -- Celluloid Dreams has optioned big screen adaptation rights to Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel "UBIK."
Slated for an early 2009 production, "UBIK" is co-produced by Celluloid's Hengameh Panahi and Electric Shepherd Prods.' Isa Dick Hackett, the author's daughter.
"Our dad very much wanted this novel to be reimagined in this way and we are happy to be partnering with Celluloid Dreams, whose overall vision and appreciation of the material is consistent with our own," Hackett said.
Named one of the 100 greatest English-language novels by Time Magazine, UBIK is a metaphysical, comedic murder mystery set in an alternative futuristic universe where an explosion on the moon causes the characters to question reality.
Dick has seen a number of his novels turned into major movies including "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "Minority Report" and "A Scanner Darkly."
Eectric Shepherd Productions is currently producing a Philip K. Dick biopic for HBO Films.
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