Check out our photos of this year’s Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour as it returned to Newcastle, featuring All Time Low, The Blackout, Young Guns and My Passion. For a review of the show, click HERE. Interviews with My Passion and Youngs Guns coming soon!
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The sold out Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour is back in Newcastle for yet another year, and this time round we’re treat to the diverse bill of All Time Low, The Blackout, Young Guns and My Passion, with kids queuing from as early as 7am for this one…
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Crowding into around 5-square feet of space in the basement of Reflex Records, George gets a chance to hang out with We Are The Ocean for some crucial interview time on their signing “tour”, which has stopped today, in Newcastle. They talk about new record Cutting Our Teeth, their dial-a-support controversies, and why you must listen to their album at least four times before passing judgement.
George: Can you say your names, and what you do in the band?
Tom: I’m Tom, I play drums.
Dan: I’m Dan, I sing.
Liam: I’m Liam, I play guitar and sing.
Alfie: Alfie, play guitar.
Jack: I’m Jack, I play bass.
George: It’s the day of your release! How do you feel to finally have a full length out there?
Dan: It’s awesome! It’s finally out, we recorded it almost a year ago now…
Jack: It’s a good feeling.
Dan: It’s an awesome feeling!
Jack: An accomplishment.
Liam: Long-time coming.
Dan: We were going to be releasing last November, then last Monday, now it’s this Monday, and it’s actually out.
Alfie: It’s in a shop.
Dan: We’ve been looking for an HMV in Newcastle just so we could see it…
George: It’s on Northumberland Street!
Dan: We couldn’t see it! Couldn’t find HMV.
George: There’s one copy left, last I checked.
Dan: I might go buy it! [laughs]
Alfie: Just so it’s sold out there.
Liam: I’ll take a picture of you buying it, if you like.
Dan: Yeah, go on then! Film it.
Liam: Yeah.
Dan: Film it, that’d be good.
Liam: Maybe film it, all of us fighting over the last copy. That’d be funny.
Dan: I’m not leaving ’til I get it! [laughs]
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Their biggest headline show to date, Twenty Twenty take some time out to talk to George and Faye for quarter of an hour. (Those rockstars, eh?) They chat about their ever-changing name anecdote, why they’re not a manufactured pop band, and Sonny’s undying love for Peter Andre. Ahem…
George: Can you say your names, and what you do in the band?
Sam: I’m Sam, I play guitar and sing.
Jack: I’m Jack, I play bass and do a bit of shouting down the mic.
Sonny: I’m Sonny, I play drums and backing vocals.
George: How’s the tour been so far?
Sam: Yeah, it’s been good, really really good!
Jack: It’s been surprising with the turnouts considering it’s only the second headline tour we’ve ever done.
Sam: So yeah, really really good!
Faye: Are you chuffed the Newcastle show’s been upgraded?
Sam: Yes! We can’t believe it, it’s like someone’s pulling our legs. We’re pretty stunned, we’re gonna go out there, and there’s like a few hundred kids there. It’s ridiculous!
Jack: In a good way! [laughs]
Sam: We’re happy about it, when someone tells you you’ve sold five or six hundred tickets, you can’t believe it, it’s cool.
Jack: Yeah, it’s really cool!
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While on tour with Reel Big Fish, Faye recently had the chance to sit down with Big D and the Kids Table in Newcastle.
They got talking about the latest additions to the Big D clan, the release of Fluent In Stroll and their ever-changing sound, as well as a whole lot more, including our mutual love for Millionaires!
Faye: Can you say your names and what you do in Big D and the Kids Table?
Dave: I’m Dave and I sing, that’s Derek who plays drums, Brian who plays bass and Sirae who does vocals.
Faye: How are you today?
Dave: So far, so good. Today, I actually get to see my relatives, my cousin Amy is bringing five people that she’s studying abroad with, so it should be a lot of trouble and if I get too pissed it’ll probably be talked about between our mothers. [laughs]
Faye: The last time you were over was in May 2008, what have you been up to since then?
Dave: We did our new record, Fluent In Stroll, and Brian, Derek and Sirae joined the crew. So, yeah, new record and new people.
Faye [to Brian]: Don’t you or didn’t you play in Suburban Legends as well? How did you get involved with Big D?
Brian: Yeah, I still do! I got involved with Big D just through touring with them, we’re like BFF bands, I got summoned. [laughs]
Dave: He also, before we knew Suburban Legends, Brian was always in the front row just balling at all of our shows.
Brian: I was crying, I was like, “I can’t believe I’m seeing them AGAIN.”
Dave: Yeah, then eventually we said, “Who are you? Why do you cry all the time?” [laughs]
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In the midst of touring the UK, Faye recently caught up with ska legends Reel Big Fish as they stopped by in Newcastle, they got talking about a whole lot of ska, their forthcoming 20-year anniversary, and the possibility of a Reel Big Fish arena tour! Seriously…
Faye: Can you introduce yourselves?
Derek: I’m Derek, I play bass in the Reel Big Fish.
Johnny: And I am Johnny Christmas, and I play the trumpet the Reel Big Fish.
Faye: So, how are you today in Newcastle?
Johnny: We’re good, we saw a castle, I’m not sure if it was the ‘Newcastle’, but it was a castle.
Derek: It looked pretty old to me.
Johnny: Yeah, and we saw the self-cleaning bridge.
Faye: Can you tell us a bit about the bands on this tour?
Johnny: Ooh, Sonic Boom Six, a fabulous Manchester band, part hip-hop, part ska, part punk rock, they do it all.
Derek: And Big D and the Kids Table, from the east coast of the US, representing that part of the country.
Johnny [mimicking a Boston accent]: From Boston, down by the harbour! This is the first tour we’ve done with them, we’ve played together with them, I know, at some point, but this is the first tour with them, and they’re a bunch of sweet guys and gals.
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Pulling into Newcastle as part of the inaugural Rebel Alliance Recordings Tour, and with the absence of founding band and headpiece Sonic Boom Six, today is the day for some of the ground-level grafters to prove their worth. Random Hand and The Skints make a welcome appearance, as well as London labelmates Mouthwash, and new signing from across the pond, Chris Murray (and, apparently, his friends). There’s something for everyone, here!
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Check out our photos of Jamie T’s sold out gig at Northumbria University in Newcastle! For a review of the show, click HERE.
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From cancelling two months of touring across the UK and Europe late last year after suffering from a bout of laryngitis, tonight saw the long-awaited return of Jamie T to Northumbria Students Union in Newcastle once more.
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Check out our photos of the 2010: A Ska Odyssey Tour featuring, Reel Big Fish, Big D and the Kids Table and Sonic Boom Six in Newcastle. For a review of the show, click HERE.
Keep an eye out for our interviews with Reel Big Fish and Big D and the Kids Table!
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