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  Headlines: April 2010
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Plan B announces Autumn UK Tour

On the back of the hugely succesful number one release of his second album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks, Plan B has announced a string of UK tour dates commencing in October in Nottingham.

He will play: Nottingham Rock City (October 6), Norwich UEA (7), London O2 Academy Brixton (9), Bristol O2 Academy (11), Southampton Guild Hall (12), Cambridge Corn Exchange (13), Manchester Academy (15) Newcastle O2 Academy (16), Lincoln Engine Shed (17), Preston 53ft (18), Dundee Fat Sam's (20), Leeds O2 Academy (21), Birmingham O2 Academy (22), Glasgow O2 Academy (23)

The Defamation of Strickland Banks was mixed by Mark Rankin in The Engine Room in 2009. Plan B also worked on his debut album, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words at Miloco in 2006.

www.time4planb.co.uk

Keane to collaborate with Mumford & Sons and Noah and the Whale

Keane keyboardist and chief songwriter, Tim Rice-Oxley has joined fellow Miloco clients Winston Marshall of Mumford and Sons and Noah and the Whale's Tom Hobden to release a country album under the name of Mt Desolation.

The collaboration also features The Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci and Keane's live bassist Jesse Quin. The band have recorded an album with producer Emery Dobyns in London, which will be released later this year.

Keane worked in The Pool with Interface engineer Matt Lawrence in 2009, whereas Noah and the Whale and Mumford & Songs have both recently recorded in The Square.

www.keanemusic.com
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www.noahandthewhale.com

James - 2010 releases tailoured to "iTunes attention spans"

James singer Tim Booth has explained the band's decision to release two mini albums this year instead of a standard full-length LP, citing a decrease in attention spans caused by the iTunes age. The veteran Manc band have released The Night Before this month, and will follow it with another shortened release, The Morning After later this year. The new material was partly mixed in Miloco's Engine Room in January by Jonathan Shakhovskoy.

Speaking to the BBC, Booth said, "We live in an age of iTunes where people don't seem to be listening to albums any more. Attention spans are getting shorter."

"We wrote 120 songs... Normally we can only fit one or two slow pieces on an album without bringing it down too much. This time we said, let's do a whole mini album of slow pieces."

The Night Before is released on Mercury.

www.wearejames.com

UNKLE to perform again with The Heritage Orchestra

UNKLE have anouced a one-off performance with The Heritage Orchestra, to take place on July 10 at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea.

The performance will be the second time the legendary trip-hop act, now consisting of James Lavelle and Pablo Clements, have collaborated with the alternative orchestra, who will also be playing with fellow Miloco clients Spiritualized and Bat For Lashes this year. They have previously shared a stage at London's Union Chapel in 2008.

UNKLE will be releasing their new album, Where Did The Nightfall in May. It was mixed in Musikbox by Steve 'Dub' Jones.

www.unkle.com

Fionn Regan to play Secret Garden Party

Singer-songwriter Fionn Regan is the latest of a number of Miloco clients to be confirmed for this year's Secret Garden Party, which will take place in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Naive New Beaters, Marina and the Diamonds, Example, The Whip and Tommy Sparks will also play the underground festival, which this year will be headlined by Mercury Rev and Gorillaz Soundsystem.

Other acts so far billed include Darwin Deez, Horace Andy & Dub Asante, Dreadzone, Goldheart Assembly, Eddy Temple Morris, The Loose Cannons, Doorly, Freestylers Soundsystem, Summer Camp, Lissie and Mr Fogg.

Fionn Regan's Mercury-nominated The End of History was engineered by Interface's Finn Eiles in The Engine Room in 2006.

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