Madness announce Nov/Dec Tour Dates and Ben Sherman collaboration
Madness
have announced the dates of their November/December tour. Taking in venues in major
cities in the UK, the ‘Don’t Adjust Your Nut’ tour
kicks off in Blackpool on Nov 26 and finishes in London on December 17. Full details as
follows:
November
26th - Blackpool Empress Ballroom
27th - 02 Academy Glasgow + Matinee
28th - 02 Academy Newcastle + Matinee
30th - Apollo Manchester
December
1 - 02 Academy Sheffield
3 - Hull Arena
4 - Leicester DM Hall
5 - 02 Arena Leeds + Matinee
7 - NottinghamRockCity
8 - Bournemouth Intl Centre
10 - Reading Rivermead
11 - 02 Academy Birmingham + Matinee
13 - Cardiff Arena
14 - Plymouth Pavillions
15 - Brighton Centre
17 - Earls Court, London
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Wednesday 28th July from madness.co.uk,
followed by other usual outlets. For more information, visit the Madness
website.
In other news, the band have teamed up with classic fashion brand, Ben Sherman, to produce an exclusive range of clothing. Details at the Ben Sherman website and pics from Vice magazine style section here.
Salvo’s deluxe Propaganda and Art of Noise releases both chart!
Down in the Salvo grotto we’ve been celebrating an unprecedented pair of chart placings this week. At the time of writing both Propaganda’s A Secret Wish (deluxe 25th anniversary edition) and Influence, our 2CD Art of Noise retrospective are both sitting comfortably in the Top 150 best-selling albums in the UK (Propaganda entered at No. 36!), a fantastic achievement for catalogue reissues and one that reflects both the the quality of the music and the tremendous job that our Salvo/ZTT production team have done. Check out the following videos for a taste of the music on offer in these two very special releases.
Salvo’s Nazareth reissue programme continues this month with two of the Scottish rockers’ finest albums - Expect No Mercy (1977) and No Mean City (1979).
Each has been remastered from the original tapes by Manny Charlton and Tim Turan. What’s more, each contains previously unreleased material from the album sessions and, in the case of Expect No Mercy, an entirely unheard version of the album. This "new" version was rejected by the band’s US label at the time, but is every bit as good as the album that was released and contains several tracks that haven’t seen the light of day until now.
Nazareth hit a peak with these two long players. See the following video performances for further evidence.
Welcome to the new Union Square Music and Salvo sites
We’ve given the Union Square Music and Salvo sites an overhaul. We’ve simplified the navigation, integrated digital and physical releases, brightened up the pages, improved our mailing lists and added a shop initially for some of the Salvo titles in the UK only. New release information will go live on the UK date of release as before - check the site now for our latest April releases and feel free to contact us with any comments on the new sites. Thanks for now - all at USM..
Deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Frankie’s Welcome to the Pleasuredome Released On April 12!
Featuring Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s four biggest hits - Relax, Two Tribes, The Power of Love and, of course, the title track- Welcome To the Pleasuredome was one of the biggest and most influential British records of the 1980s.
For its 25th anniversary, Salvo has taken great pride in giving this classic LP the definitive reissue treatment that it has long deserved, highlighting the breadth and depth of FGTH / ZTT’s vision like never before.
Our sortie into the ZTT tape archives has resulted in a significantly expanded version of the albumincluding a bounty of rare remixes and unreleased material. The 28-page booklet also features detailed sleevenotes plus previously unseen photos and paintings from original Pleasuredome artist Lo Cole.
The Pleasuredome deluxe edition is available to pre-order from the Salvo store now.
USM & Anglo Hannah Management nominated for Madness campaign. The successful marketing of Madness’ studio album The Liberty Of Norton Folgate and the best of Total Madness has been noted by UK trade publication Music Week in their annual awards announcements. The awards ceremony itself takes place on April 15th.
Salvo’s 30th Anniversary Madness reissue campaign continues with ’Absolutely’ and ’7’, the original albums which followed their celebrated debut, ‘One Step Beyond…’. Digitally remastered and expanded with videos and bonus tracks, the albums are beautifully packaged with 24 page booklets containing liner notes by Paul Lester and David Quantick respectively.
‘Absolutely’ is the band’s second album and the one which features the classic schooldays anthem ‘Baggy Trousers’. It also contains the lighthearted instrumental ‘The Return Of The Los Palmas 7’ and the band’s first real foray in to the realms of social comment, with the excellent ‘Embarrassment’. This is classic early Madness, a snapshot of a band on the ascent from their beginnings as nutty ska boys to international pop superstars.
‘7’, Madness’s third album, is the one which is generally considered to have cemented the band’s position in the canon of truly great British pop acts. Containing singles ‘Cardiac Arrest’, ‘Shut Up’ and the epic dub masterpiece, ’Grey Day’, ‘7’ showcases Madness’s unique ability to fuse their inherent nuttiness with the sense of melancholy and foreboding that gives their music its edge and depth. Also included as a bonus track and promo video is the massive standalone single ‘It Must Be Love’.
Both albums will be released on April 12th and are available for pre-order now.
Catch Madness on tour in Europe in 2010:
28th April 2010 – B1 Maximum Hall, Moscow, Russia 1st May 2010 – Estrella Levante SOS 4.8, Murcia, Spain 8th May 2010 – Milan Palasharp 11th May 2010 – Berlin (Huxley’s Neue Welt) 12th May 2010 – Dortmund Westfalenhalle 14th May 2010 – Zenith De Paris 15th May 2010 – Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall 12th June 2010 – Caribana Festival, Switzerland 9th July 2010 – The Marquee, Cork 23rd July - York Racecourse 24th July - Margate (Sound Island Festival) 29th July - Epsom Racecourse 30th July – 1st August 2010 – Camp Bestival, Dorset 6th August - Newmarket Racecourse 21/22 August - V Festival
Check the official
Madness website for full details including where to buy tickets from and
the USM site
to see all the Madness digital and CD releases.
Catch Nazareth’s Dan & Pete on Radio 6 with Bruce Dickinson
Tune in to Bruce Dickinson’s Friday rock show on BBC Radio 6 on March 12 (9pm til midnight) to hear an entertaining interview with Nazareth founder members Pete Agnew and Dan McCafferty.
The veteran rockers recorded the show on February 15, before their gig at the Relentless Garage in Highbury (a fantastic show, blown amp notwithstanding!); the London leg of their extremely well-received UK ’Still Loud n Proud’ tour.
Sir John Dankworth: Born 20 September 1927; died 6 February 2010
There are few British musicians who were better known and respected
both at home and abroad than Sir John Dankworth, who has passed away at
the age of 82 following a truly astonishing career that spanned the best
part of seven decades and during which he did his utmost to bring jazz
and classical music together, with great success.
In the autumn of 2007, both he and his wife of over 50 years, the
singer Cleo Laine, celebrated their 80th birthdays with a critically
acclaimed box set - I Hear Music - on Salvo and a concert at The
Barbican, during which Sir John was a constant presence on stage, either
playing his saxophone or vigorously directing the extraordinary musical
ensemble that had come together in their honour.
One of Britain’s major jazz (and soundtrack) composers, arrangers and
musicians, Dankworth always worked at the top end of the spectrum in
both the music that he wrote and with whom he chose to perform; a list
that includes everyone from Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald to Craig
David! His active musical career, which included many concerts and
recordings with his wife, showed few signs of abating in the last years
of his life as he remained a major presence on the British jazz scene.
He made his first recordings (on clarinet) in the early 1940s and was
a key player in the emergence of “the new jazz” (greatly influenced by
the work of Charlie “Bird” Parker) in the UK after the war, forming his
own ensemble, The Johnny Dankworth Seven in late 1949.
Cleo Laine became the band’s main singer in 1951. With discs like The
Very Thought of You, from March 1952, and Easy Living the
following year, Cleo Laine and the Johnny Dankworth Seven made a real
mark on the British music scene. They worked at venues that ranged from
provincial jazz clubs in the back rooms of pubs to the Royal Festival
Hall. But from early in the 1950s Cleo also began to make records in her
own right, usually with beautifully crafted arrangements by John.
They were married in 1958, around the same time as John diversified
into scoring movies and TV shows. Among his best known credits are the
theme tune for the TV show Tomorrow’s World and the classic 60s
movies Modesty Blaise and Darling.
During the following decade their desire to bring jazz to a wider
audience led them to found the Wavendon Allmusic Plan at the Allmusic
Centre (Allmusic being John’s term for what would become popularly known
as world music) at their home just outside Milton Keynes; a venue that
hosted thousands of musical events over the ensuing years.
In 2006 John (who had been honoured with a CBE in 1974) became the
first jazz musician to be knighted. He is survived by Cleo and their
children Alec and Jacqui.
Scotland’s greatest rock exports, the hardest working band in the land, Nazareth, start their UK tour this weekend. Pete Agnew, Dan McCafferty, Jimmy Murrison and Lee Agnew kick things off in Lincolnshire at Butlins Rock Weekend, Skegness, finishing in Glenrothes, near their hometown of Dunfermline, three weeks later. Catch them if you can!
Peter Green & friends announce UK tour After successful European dates, revered guitarist and Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green will embark on a 19-date UK tour of in February with his new band. They’re a fine group of musicians - keyboard ace Geraint Watkins (Van Morrrison, Nick Lowe, Bill Wyman), upright bass player Matt Radford (Peter Molinari, Nick Lowe), hard-grooving drummer Andrew Flude and rhythm guitarist Mike Dodd - so do check them out at the following venues:
Feb 13 Villa Marina and Gaiety Theatre Complex, Douglas - Isle Of Man Feb 18 Opera House, Buxton Feb 19 Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal Feb 20 Holmfirth Picturedrome Feb 22 Glee Club, Birmingham Feb 23 Huntingdon Hall, Worcester Feb 24 The Globe, Cardiff Feb 26 Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter Feb 27 Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter Feb 28 The Brook, Southampton Mar 8 The Maltings, Farnham Mar 9 Stables Theatre, Milton Keynes Mar 11 The Junction, Cambridge Mar 12 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham Mar 13 Irish Centre, Leeds Mar 15 Assembly Rooms, Leamington Mar 16 Komedia Theatre, Bath Mar 17 Komedia Theatre, Brighton Mar 22 Union Chapel, London
Salvo starts ZTT reissue programme with 808 State and Buggles
Founded by Trevor Horn, Jill Sinclair and Paul Morley in 1983, ZTT (Zang Tuum Tumb) enjoyed 45 UK Top 40 hits (fifteen of them Top 10) and produced well regarded and highly successful albums by the likes The Art of Noise, Propaganda, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and 808 State. Under a new deal Salvo will be following up its acclaimed ZTT box set with reissues of all of the label’s classic albums as remastered deluxe editions with rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks, new liner notes and photos. First out of the block are two seminal dance albums from 808 State - 90 and ex:el and the long lost second album by The Buggles, which was essentially a Trevor Horn solo album. With new "electro"-inspired artists like La Roux and Lady GaGa riding high in the charts there has never been a better time to look back at some of the pioneers of electronic dance music. Watch out for more ZTT releases throughout the year.
In the mean time you can view our 808 State trailer here:
... and listen to 808 State’s main man, Graham Massey, being interviewed by Nemone on BBC 6Music here:
Procol Harum ’One More Time’. New digital album Procol Harum’s "One More Time" album is to be made available to download for the first time from the 18th October 2009. To preview the album and pre-order your download, visit the Procol Harum store here.
26th October 2009 sees the release of a very special edition of Madness’s ’One Step Beyond...’. Digitally remastered with bonus tracks, nutty videos, a fantastic John Peel Session and liner notes by ’Trainspotting’ author Irvine Welsh, this 2CD collection will coincide with Madness’s 30th anniversary and marks the beginning of USM’s Madness reissue campaign, celebrating one of Britain’s all-time favourite bands.
MADNESS are the ultimate British singles band, holding the record for British single sales in the 1980s when over 6 million Madness singles were bought by the British public. Total Madness features 23 classic Madness tracks including 20 top 20 hits and all the accompanying videos on one fantastic value CD+DVD set.
The Move Anthology nominated for another award! Salvo/Fly’s already highly acclaimed ’Move Anthology 1966-72’ has been nominated for the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour ’Reissue of the Year’ award for 2009. The other nominees in this category are albums from ZZ Top, Pearl Jam, The Who, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Motorhead and The Kinks. It should be a hard fought battle and a public vote will determine the winner so please vote for The Move by following this link.
Peter Green to play Cornbury Festival and London’s Dingwalls Fleetwood Mac founder and guitar legend Peter Green will be making his first live appearance in the UK for over four years at this year’s Cornbury Festival. Peter has been working with a rockin’ new band, a combination of youth and experience: Geraint Watkins (also with Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings); Matt Radford (also with Nick Lowe, Pete Molinari); Mike Dodd, Andrew Flude and of course the main man himself on lead guitar and vocals. The set will comprise Mac/Green classics as well as a selection of some of Peter’s favourite blues songs. They will take to ’The Word’ stage on Saturday July 11 in the grounds of Cornbury Park in the Oxfordshire countryside. The following night will see them perform at Dingwalls in Camden. Salvo’s critically acclaimed 4CD Peter Green Anthology is available from all good retailers. Click here for further details.
Nazareth touring extensively this summer Scotland’s greatest rock exports have just returned from a series of concerts in Brazil and have plenty more dates planned in Canada and Europe throughout the summer. Visit Nazarethdirect.co.uk to see the full run-down. Salvo’s new 2CD Nazareth collection, The Anthology, is being released around Europe from Monday June 29 and will hit the streets in the UK on August 3.
The Move Anthology shortlisted for prestigious MOJO catalogue award Salvo/Fly’s 4CD collection, The Move Anthology 1966-72, has been nominated for the catalogue award at the MOJO Honours List, the star-studded ceremony for which will be held next Thursday 11 June. The other nominees are deluxe reissues from the likes of Miles Davis, Radiohead and Hawkwind but we hope our highly acclaimed Move release (click here for further details) can hold them off to continue Salvo’s proud (winning) association with these awards.
