iTunes Festival: Milocees to play free KOKO gig

Foals and Black Kids are billed...

18th June 08



A duo of Miloco clients have been booked to play one of may free gigs at Camden's KOKO venue on July 7, as the venue plays host to the July iTunes Festival. Foals and Black Kids will both line up for the show, and will join the likes of Glasvegas, The Ting Tings and Paul Weller on the festival bill, as well as fellow Milocees Hadouken! and Does It Offend You, Yeah?.

Foals were in Miloco's Engine Room at the end of 2007 mixing their debut album Antidotes with producer Mike Crossey. Black Kids mixed their forthcoming debut with engineer Alex Dromgoole in The Yard.

KOKO will be hosting this summer's iTunes festival across the month of July. Tickets can be won via the KOKO website: www.koko.uk.com. Stay tuned for plenty more Miloco client news including further acts being billed to play at the forthcoming iTunes festival.

www.myspace.com/foals

www.myspace.com/blackkidsrock

Bullet For My Valentine announce 5-date UK jaunt!

12th June 08



Bullet For My Valentine have annouced supposedly their biggest UK tour to date, although a modest 5 dates does sort of beg the question if there is any truth in that at all!! (But don't shoot us, we're just the messenger). All the same fans of the multi million-selling hardcore band should be pleased to know that Bullet should be coming to a town near you...

Edinburgh Corn Exchange (November 9)
Plymouth Pavilions (11)
Birmingham Academy (12)
London Alexandra Palace (15)
Manchester Apollo (16)


BFMV's latest album Hearts Burst Into Fire was produced by Colin Richardson and engineered by Interface's Matt Hyde.

www.myspace.com/bulletformyvalentine

Spiritualized Tour Dates. Don't miss them!

26th May 08



Back on the wagon after some turbulent times, and aren't we glad??. Jason Pierce has announced some tour dates later this year, off the back of the release of the new Spiritualized record, Songs in A&E. Should your spirits need lifting this October, then surely one of these might do the trick...

Newcastle Academy (October 9)
Leeds University (10)
Manchester Academy (11)
Oxford Academy (13)
Portsmouth Pyramids (14)
Birmingham Academy (15)
London Roundhouse (16)

www.myspace.com/spiritualized















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Coldplay 4 - The Countdown Ends!

Viva... soars to Number 1 on entry!!!

16th June 08



After the unusual, yet increasingly popular release day for music's big-hitters, Thursday, was employed by Coldplay for the release of their fourth album, was time going to be against them to hit the number 1 spot for the following Sunday? Not a chance!! The official UK album chart's figures reported 302,000 sales for Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends in just three days, to confirm its entering position at the top of the charts. It also confirms the record as Coldplay's fastest ever selling album

Coldplay knocked off Paul Weller's 22 Dreams which consequently slipped down to 4, and palmed away competition from The Fratelli's newly-entered album, Here We Stand, which still hpwever achieved a succesful number 5.

Viva... was mixed by producer Markus Dravs in Miloco's Yard and Musikbox studios. Markus was interviewed by MILC as an exclusive for the album's release, you can read it here.

www.myspace.com/coldplay

Franz Ferdinand in tribute to Bo Diddley

3rd June 08



Tributes are pouring in following the death of rock and blues legend Bo Diddley, and Miloco clients Franz Ferdinand have joined the hoards to pay their respects.

The band's frontman Alex Kapranos cited Diddley as an unexpected influence to the Glaswegian indie greats, and claimed to have put Bo's classic number 'Road Runner' on as soon as he heard of his passing.

"What a riff. What a guitarist - totally revolutionised the way the instrument was played with that loose sexy rhythm", Kapranos told NME.com.

Kapranos, who was recording demos with Franz Ferdinand in The Pool in early 2008, follows in the footsteps of guitar icons Slash, and The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jnr., who was also at Miloco in 2007 recording a track for the Love Music Hate Racism compilation.

www.bo-diddley.com

www.myspace.com/franzferdinand

Foals slam Mayor Boris!

The band are displeased with London electorate...

7th May 08



It seems our good friends Foals have voiced their criticism of London's new Mayor, Boris Johnson, and the millions who voted him in. Keyboardist Edwin Congreave wrote on the band's blog during a flight back to the capital from New York:

"The jet lag is one thing, but the fear that we'll be flying into a city that isn't so much a newly fascist city-state than one big gilded joke of a newspaper column made rotten flesh...

He went on, "Boris 'Picaninny' Johnson, we salute you - sort of like we'd salute any smug, self-satisfied old Etonian holding a statute-book to our heads. Congratulations and good luck with the Olympics.

"At least when California elected a clown as governor they elected one who'd made his name as a muscle-man. Boris appears to have been elected simply because he has blond hair."

Let's just hope Boris has no scrutinizing plans to reduce the number of tennis courts in the city. Then there could be trouble...

www.myspace.com/foals