What the Critics have to say:
Kerrang: “well crafted melodies…the production is impeccable”
Uncut: “Explosive power chords, razor sharp rhythms…catchier than bird flu”
Classic Rock: “A contender for power pop debut of the year”
Rock Sound: “[Farewell] have a bunch of finely crafted pop gems up their sleeves…the future is looking bright”
Big Cheese: “Isn’t This Supposed to be Fun will probably be the cheeriest album you have heard”

http://www.myspace.com/farewell | http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artists/244/

British Sea Power, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, The Egg and Wills and The Willing added to the fantastic GuilFest 2008 line up!

Ticket Hotline: 0871 4240050. Book tickets via the website: www.guilfest.co.uk
Visitor information: 01483 454159

‘No need to Apologize for talent’ – London Lite

‘America’s Coldplay’ – Daily Mail

There’s no mistaking that 2008 is shaping up to be an incredible year for OneRepublic. They already have two top five smash hit singles – ‘Apologize’ and ‘Stop and Stare’ - under their belt. Their debut album Dreaming Out Loud peaked at #2 in the UK album charts, shipped Gold in its first week of release and has stayed in the Top Ten for six weeks straight.

Proving that there are more hits stashed away in their locker, this summer OneRepublic return with their stunning third single ‘Say (All I Need)’ released June 2nd through Mosley Music Group/Interscope Records. The B-side will be a striking version of Duffy’s ‘Mercy’, which the band covered on Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge.

‘Say (All I Need)’ is a spine-tingling rock ballad, and is produced by Greg Wells. The video to accompany the single was shot against the romantic backdrop of Paris and features a cameo from rocker Chris Cornell.

OneRepublic will be playing a sold-out show at Shepherds Bush Empire on May 12th, having already impressed fans at their packed-to-the-rafters debut live show at Kings College London last month. Also cementing their status in the UK, they’re confirmed to play this year’s Radio One’s Big Weekend as well as the Channel 4 stage at V2008 sharing the bill with artists like The Courteeners, Kaiser Chiefs and The Zutons.

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Phil Harding has worked with some of the music industries biggest names in the last 30 years. He is also releasing a new single and a book to talk about his days producing some of the biggest hit's of the 80's with Stock, Aitken & Waterman. He featured on the Radio 2 SAW story over Easter.

His current single and album are out now and you can hear the interview at 12 noon on May 7th at www.rock247online.co.uk

From the heart and mind of legendary Producer Phil Harding, comes this storming debut single Flawless Land, taken from the album The Story of Beginners.

Teamed once again with lyricist Mila Bogen, the songs are an intricate mixture of rocking, uplifting and reflective music. Recorded at 7 locations both in the U.K. and U.S.A the album includes virtuoso performances by some of the world's top session musicians.

The result is nothing less than you would expect. A beautifully produced and textured collection of infectious melodies and lyrics that you'll want to hear again and again.

Some of the artists Phil has worked with in a career spanning 30 years include :

KYLIE MINOGUE - EAST 17 - RICK ASTLEY - CHIC - THE JACKSON FIVE - THE FOUR TOPS - DIANA ROSS - PET SHOP BOYS - BOYZONE - THE CLASH - DONNA SUMMER - DEPECHE MODE - BANANARAMA - ERASURE - DEAD OR ALIVE - THE THREE DEGREES - DEBBIE HARRY - JIMMY SOMERVILLE - SINITTA - JIMMY RUFFIN - THELMA HOUSTON - GARY MOORE - T'PAU - LET LOOSE ABC - MEL & KIM - JESUS JONES - LONIE GORDON - ROXETTE - BROTHER BEYOND

Phil Harding started in the music industry aged 16 at the Marquee Studios in 1973. There he worked with some of the top producers in the world as they recorded the great albums of the day.

As Phil's career progressed, a very hot list of credits soon started to stack up with artists as diverse as The Clash, Killing Joke, Toyah and Matt Bianco, all taking advantage of Phil's ever-growing reputation as a top engineer. At the start of the 1980's, the name of a newly formed production team was added to the list – Stock/Aitken/Waterman.

Phil engineered and mixed their first chart successes (Divine and Hazell Dean) then their breakthrough and first No 1 single, 'You Spin Me Round' by Dead or Alive.

The hits came almost faster than you could count them – Mel & Kim, Bananarama, Rick Astley, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue. Phil has just started writing a book about his escapades at PWL in the 80's and is making good headway.By the early 1990's Phil was regarded as pre-eminent in his field and left PWL to set up his own production facility with Ian Curnow at the Strongroom Studio complex in Shoreditch, London.

A further deluge of hits followed but this time with Phil and Ian as producers for: East 17 (including the Christmas No 1 'Stay Another Day'), Deuce, Boyzone, 911, Caught in the Act and Let Loose. Phil is undertaking a radio interview tour to promote his single, forthcoming album and to talk about his heady days at PWL.

www.philharding.co.uk

As summer comes, so does another bank holiday with Strawhouses. The magnificent epic marauders from Liverpool are at the start of a large gig jaunt.

Voted BBC’s unsigned band of the month for November 2007 and more recently Liverpool Echo’s Unsigned band of the week the band are making waves in the industry. A successful acoustic tour 2008 saw half the band winning friends and fans from around the country on their visits to London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Cardiff and Portsmouth.

Appearing on the Steve Lamaq acclaimed unsigned show BBC Raw Talent the band has created curious interest both in the media and in the industry. Strawhouses presents night in March at 3345 Parr Street featured some of the hottest Liverpool acts from The Kambourines, Paul Holden, Sonic Hearts and of course Strawhouses.

Forming in 2007 and inspired by Orwellian conspiracies, their lyrics range from apocalyptic nightmare visions of the future to self conscious, claustrophobic confessions of past mistakes. They epitomize the feeling that we’re all living blissfully unaware that we’re on rather unsteady ground, injecting you with a beautiful sense that your on a cusp of something truly incredible but ever so fragile that it could so easily crumble at any moment.

Tracks like ‘These are The Willing’ and ‘Sunlight’ have gained rave reviews for their diversity to blast sounds of energetic Radiohead and to then beam down to soft undertones of glorious walls of sound. The band truly captures the northern sky line with dark pounding guitars giving that optimistic feel.

The band now back in full are at the start of some very exciting gigs. With a session on the highly acclaimed ‘In The Pool Show’ hosted by Dave Monks on BBC Merseyside Sunday 04th May 8pm. The success of Surface Unsigned Festival in Manchester the band will be in the final rounds playing at Manchester’s Dry Bar in June. Other notable gigs include a Bank Holiday Monday special on 5th May sees them supporting The Rushes at Liverpool Barfly. Then a high class London club night ‘This Feeling’ on May 30th supporting none other than Starsailor. The last club night had the likes of Noel Fielding (Mighty Boosh), The Kills, Pixie Geldof, Jonny Borrell, The View and The Twang turning up.

Forthcoming Live Dates

4th May BBC Radio Merseyside – In The Pool Show

5TH May Barfly – with The Rushes, Liverpool

10TH May – Carpe Diem, Leeds

13TH May – Carling Academy, Liverpool

23rd May – Dog House V3, Runcorn

29TH May – Purple Turtle, Camden

30th May – This Feeling Club with Starsailor, London

6th June – BBC Radio Merseyside

7th June - WA1, Warrington

16th June – The Kasbah, Coventry

11th July – Kinky Club Night – The Kasbah, Coventry

20TH Sept – Carling Academy, BBC On Song Festival, Liverpool

MORE DATES TO FOLLOW

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"The first thing that you notice about Strawhouses is the wonderful, lo-fi scratched vocal of lead singer Paul which meanders between the distinctive tones of Thom Yorke and Neil Young. Only after becoming mesmerised by his halcyon tones do you start to comprehend the quality of the music that you are listening to. Strawhouses are instantaneously brilliant, their melodies haunting you for days after hearing them only once. Well done them." Another Late Night Magazine
"Strawhouses enter the realms of Radiohead via a series of intense & emotional rhythms that fire anthemic arrows. The fiery 4 also drift in to the arenas of Hope of the States & Interpol via their blueprint for the grandiose. Deep lyrics are wed to sweeping music that can build from beauty before unleashing its beast!" Indie-Pendent (Fanzine)
‘Sunlight’ initially plows a similar furrow to the likes of Slint and Sigor Ros , an off kilter beat married to a harmonic riff creating an atmospheric, 4am friendly sound before dropping into a more indie sound. ‘These are the Willing’ is a little more traditional in its approach drawing from the likes of Radiohead and The Verve whilst simultaneously sounding like a chilled out Jimmy Eat World – Sandman Magazine

Other landmark Cure albums include Pornography (1982), The Head on the Door (1985), Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987), Disintegration (1989), Wish (1992), Wild Mood Swings (1996), the Grammy-nominated Bloodflowers (2000) and their last full length release, the self-titled set The Cure (2004). 2006 saw the Suretone/Geffen release of Festival 2005, an award winning 5.1 DVD featuring 30 songs, shot by fans, band members and professionals during the summer of 2005’s European festival run.

THE STUPIDS were the legendary UK Hardcore Punk pioneers who, in three short years from 1984 to 1987 went from 4 track demos to the front cover of NME and Sounds and Indie Number 1 Chart albums. The first hardcore band to record a session for the John Peel Show, to openly embrace US Hardcore punk within their sound and style, THE STUPIDS paved the way for the whole UKHC scene and “Britcore” explosion that followed.

The Godfathers of UK Skate Punk now finally get the reissues their back catalogue deserves, and the first time any STUPIDS reissues have been done with the complete involvement and backing of the band themselves. Four years in the making, the six part STUPIDS discography series with the bonus unreleased tracks and packaging making them the must-own versions for any hardcore punk fan.

The first four parts are released by Boss Tuneage on their Boss Tuneage Retro Series imprint on June 30th 2008. They are:

VIOLENT NUN – 12” LP / CD (Boss Tuneage BTRCRS031)

· The Stupids legendary and collectable debut single, re-released on 12” format with 4 extra tracks from the same session (previously unavailable on vinyl before)

· Highly collectable Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl with gatefold sleeve packaging

· CD Packaged with Digipack and 16 page booklet with special vinyl effect coloured CD (first 2000 copies only)

· CD Contains 15 unreleased bonus tracks – the band’s first demo from May 1984 - “Fat Drunk And Stupid” previously unreleased

· Full liner notes, photos and memorabilia from the bands own personal collection

PERUVIAN VACATION – 12” LP / CD (Boss Tuneage BTRCRS032)

· The Stupids legendary and collectable debut album, digitally re-mastered

· Highly collectable Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl with gatefold sleeve packaging

· CD Packaged with Digipack and 16 page booklet with special vinyl effect coloured CD (first 2000 copies only)

· CD Contains 19 bonus tracks – including the 9 song unreleased “Mr Adult” session, the 3rd Jan 1985 demo and 3 unreleased from band’s legendary side project THE COOLEST RETARDS

· Full liner notes, photos and memorabilia from the bands own personal collection

RETARD PICNIC – 12” LP / CD (Boss Tuneage BTRCRS033)

· The classic breakthrough STUPIDS album from 1986, digitally re-mastered

· Highly collectable Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl with gatefold sleeve packaging

· CD Packaged with Digipack and 16 page booklet with special vinyl effect coloured CD (first 2000 copies only)

· CD contains 26 bonus tracks, including the unreleased flexi and album outtakes plus a full live show previously unreleased recorded in Washington DC Jan 1987

· Full liner notes, photos and memorabilia from the bands own personal collection

THE COMPLETE BBC PEEL SESSIONS - 12” LP / CD (Boss Tuneage BTRCRS034)

· The three Sessions by THE STUPIDS plus solitary FRANKFURTER session for the legendary BBC John Peel Show

· Highly collectable Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl with gatefold sleeve packaging

· CD Packaged with Digipack and 16 page booklet with special vinyl effect coloured CD (first 2000 copies only)

· 18 tracks of which 13 have previously been unavailable since first broadcasts in 1986 and 1987 - All 18 tracks previously unavailable on CD

· Full liner notes, photos and memorabilia from the bands own personal collection

www.bosstuneage.com

Rhino will release the next and last four classic albums by The Replacements,
covering their Sire years, this August.