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INTRODUCTION

Curds and wahay!

Yes, my calcium-starved children, we're back! I know it's just been too awful without us these last two months but please try and slip that bottom lip back between your milk teeth and dry those salty tears.

We've been busier than ever amassing this latest issue for you all, and can pronounce with no little fanfare that we reckon you're going to love it.

'Why?' you ask through your snuffles, still trying hard to maintain your sulk. Well, because it features a cowshed load of your most favouritist artists, that's why! The Maccabees, Shitdisco, Trivium and Fields are all here for your delectation and delight, and we're also shining our always laser-guided up-and-coming radar beam on unsigned wonders Fear of Flying & Crash Car Burn. Add to all that our usual news round up, latest top engineer profile and oh-so-honourable Push The Button feature and, yes, I thought so, those crocodile tears are starting to dry now aren't they...

Contents

The Maccabees
Artist interview Matt Hyde
Staff Profile Miloco Client Watch
Recent clients at Miloco Push The Button
Human Kindness
Fear Of Flying
New band profile CrashCarBurn
New band profile ShitdiscoBand Profile Handle With CareFriends of Miloco
Interview

The Maccabees

# The lovely lads that are The Maccabees are destined for great and big things (and they also do a good line in quirky cartoons, and will rustle dozens of them up if ever they have a spare moment. Giant walls, scraps of paper, satsumas - nothing is safe from their marker pen of joy).

But back to the tunes... MILC caught up with them during one of their recent visits to The Pool with Ben Hillier, as they continued work on their debut album for Fiction records.

And Felix and Orlando from the band were coaxed into revealing a few nuggets of wisdom re: relocating from London to Brighton, stealing buses, landing safely from great heights and, erm, Kriss-Kross... To Maccabee or not to Maccabee?

Staff profile

Matt Hyde

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Each issue we introduce you, one by one, to Miloco's wonderful array of staff. And this month is, of course, far from different. This time we snagged a few precious moments with metal and rock engineer/producer par excellence, Mr Matt Hyde.

He's been metal legend Colin Richardson's right hand man for the last few years, working on for mega-selling projects like Trivium, RoadRunner All-Stars, Bullet For My Valentine and many more. But he's also run the desk (or indeed the whole show) for the likes of Foy Vance, Fightstar, The Bright Space and Crash Car Burn. So for the full story, stick your tattooed 'n' pierced mouse on this: Matt Hyde profile.
Miloco client watch

Client Watch

The nights might be drawing in but it takes more than that to keep the Miloco Client Watch hounds off the trail. Our noses are large, our senses keen, and we love nothing better than a story about our beloved clients. Consider us the truffle pigs of the music industry! Because no matter how deep a fungal indie/metal/urban/folk/jazz god secretes himself in the peaty soil of the wider world, our hooters will seek him out (so that we might make swift notes re: their precise activities and phone them straight though to our editor). Oh yes!

Diesel-fueled Dumont


# Recent Miloco customer, Duke Dumont aka Adam Dyment, has just waltzed off with a Diesel new music award.

Already a Fabric-set veteran and occasional associate of none other than Missy Elliott he followed this up with bagging the Diesel U Music Electronic Award.

A few wise words from the man himself: "Music isn't a sport [so] it's quite harsh there being an overall winner. But the exposure from the competition is a great way for all the artists to get a kick start into the business".

www.myspace.com/dukedumont

Pop justice for Alesha!


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Here at Miloco, we adore young Alesha. She's a tip top perfect pop princess, we say.

However, it seems we don't like her quite as much as those guys at The Palace of All Things Pop, Pop Justice.

If you head to the following link you can see Alesha's recent video for Knockdown ahead of her new album... go here ... and if you browse further afield you'll discover a whole pile of pro-Alesha pining.

www.aleshamusic.com

Rough Digital



Old friends Rough Trade have graced us with many quality clients over the years, not least of late The Long Blondes, British Sea Power, The Veils, The Tears and Jarvis Cocker.

But they have of course had countless legendary artists under their capacious wing over the years and they're celebrating this whilst launching their new digital download store on 21st November.

All four albums by The Raincoats - the influential all-girl post punk band (they had a profound effect on Kurt Cobain and appeared in a hand-written list of his 50 favourite things) - will got on sale to coincide with the launch. As will releases from the likes of the following uppercase outfits: BROMHEAD'S JACKET, EL PERRO DEL MARR, TAPES N TAPES, BENJY FERREE, FRANZ FERDINAND, THE SHORTWAVE SET, and PETER BJORN AND JOHN.

www.roughtrade.com

Futureheads head out...


Yet another Miloco-on-the-road fest for you. The Neve VR Room-mixed Futureheads are off on tour, backed by various peeps including two other great Miloco customers, The Howling Bells and (stars of our main interview) The Maccabees. Quite a pre-Christmas bonanza, I think you'll agree.

So forget buying your Great Auntie a dancing santa and treat yourself to a ticket to one of the following instead:

16 November 8pm Border Crossing Festival Rotterdam
25 November 8pm 53 Degrees Preston
26 November 8pm ABC Glasgow
27 November 8pm Leadmill Sheffield
29 November 8pm Wulfrun Hall Wolverhampton
30 November 8pm University Warwick
2 December 8pm Princess Pavilion Falmouth
3 December 8pm Pyramids Portsmouth
4 December 8pm Junction Cambridge
5 December 8pm Astoria London
15 December 8pm The Old Brewery Manchester
20 December 8pm Academy Newcastle

Boy Kill Boy ticket comp


Do you wanna chance to see Boy Kill Boy in a delightfully intimate venue in Bolton before their imminent fame increase makes such occurrences a distinct impossibility? Of course you do.

Those nice people at Glasswerk have a pair of tickets to see this very special show and you can be the lucky winner if you know the answer to this question: What is Boy Kill Boy's debut album called?'

Just email your answer, your name, address, email address and tel number to editor@glasswerk.co.uk.

The competition closes 12pm on 1st December 2006, so depending on how quickly you paw over each new issue of MILC you may only a few days to get your brain in gear and house in order.

www.boykillboy.com
www.myspace.com/boykillboy

 

Rose-tinted Trivium world


# A mini pro-Trivium site for you all now, in celebration of the ludicrous success of their latest album, The Crusade. The Miloco-mixed album crashed into the charts at No.7 and the boys have recently wrapped up a hugely successful North American Tour. Singer Matt has penned a little blog about that so click here to find out their thoughts.

So there you have it. All's well in the land of Trivium & long may it continue.

www.trivium.org

Speedy recovery, Ms Dynamite


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The delightful Ms Dynamite was recently involved in a car crash while filming Sky One's reality television show The Race. Fellow contestant Brian Johnson, of rock group AC/DC, clipped the back of her car at Silverstone sending her spinning out of control.

Ms D was treated at the track's medical centre and later taken to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire where she was kept in overnight for observation.

Ms Dynamite was last in Miloco only a few weeks ago and all here wish her a fast and full recovery.

Meanwhile, back on the track, the AC/DC frontman went on to win the race, narrowly beating 1980s electropop star Gary Numan.

www.msdynamite.co.uk

The Non-Miloco client Valentine Card section


# Every now and then we don't succeed in immediately luring all the best and coolest acts into one of Miloco's fantastic 8 studio environments. But it's never anything more than a matter of time, friends, hell no!

So this month we're issuing a 'Come and get us!' plea to the incomparable Gideon Conn - runaway star of the recent In The City in Manchester. He was, simply, astonishing, and all @ MILC are deeply infatuated with his kooky genius ways.

You can listen to some of his tunes, watch guerrilla footage or look at lovingly created unofficial videos, etc, etc, (he's unsigned at the mo, but not for too many more seconds... ) via these places:

www.gideonconn.com
www.myspace.com/gideonconn

New Miloco Express


Those bods at NME have released another one of their zeitgeist-defining compilations. And, yes, you guessed it Miloco clients loom large and lovely over the whole thing.

Arctic Monkeys? Bloc Party? The Dears? Snow Patrol? Scott Matthews? Yep, all of them. Razorlight? Boy Kill Boy? Guillemots and The Kooks? Uh-huh, them as well. And The Maccabees, The Charlatans and Patrick Wolf as well? Stop it, please, it's getting embarrassing...

The NME Presents: The Essential Bands 2006 is out on 13th November and is available from all those places people can't help but call 'usual outlets'.

www.nme.com

Fields of vision


# You can check out the video for the excellent new single from Fields at chart singles.net, specifically: here.

(I wouldn't try it if you're on a Mac though, unless you're PC-plug in'd up to the eyeballs. But fear not, you guys can go here instead ).

If You Fail We All Fail was mixed in our SSL Room in the summer of 2006.

www.fieldsband.com
Human kindness

Push The Button

# Welcome to MILC's bi-monthly quest for us all to help spread a little human kindness... Just click on the following button and lend your support to some honourable cause or another. It'll only take a moment.

This time round we're asking you to give no more than 90 seconds of your time to help combat Climate Change. 30,000 hardy souls took part in the recent Climate Chaos/I Count march and gathering in Trafalgar Square and with Bush rocking on his heels in the US and Blair scrabbling about for respectability, now is the perfect time for us all to apply some serious pressure.

So head along to: this site, add your name to the WWF (that's the wildlife one, not the wrestling) petition to Mr Tony Blair and let's get them that can to do something truly marvellous for once. As usual with Push The Button, it'll only take you a mo, and you'll feel much better about yourself afterwards.





New Band Profiles

Anyone here got a transport phobia? We do hope not. Because as you can see this MILC's unsigned new band profiles features two groups with a self-evident terror of hitting the road or the skies. (For the nervous amongst you, rest easy. The next issue is due to feature hot new acts I [Heart] Tricycles and Hovercrafts Make Me Horny.) But for now, be brave, pop some Kalms herbal remedy and read these ways...

Fear Of Flying

# Roll up roll up for a little bit of insider information on the-band-who-are-exceedingly-unlikely-to-tour-beyond- western-europe-unless-some-cunning-promoter-drugs-their-milk-in-a-devious-homage-to-The-A-Team. They like Talking Heads (very much) and their logo's not unlike the font used in Stop Making Sense, but only one of those facts is revealed here: Fear of Flying

Crash Car Burn

# CrashCarBurn are from South Africa. CCB were in The Garden and Neve VR Room. CCB make good loud music. CCB utilised the not inconsiderable talents of our own Mr Matt Hyde (see Staff Profile for more on him). Something dreadful has happened to my sentences. I advise you to click here: CrashCarBurn
Big Band Spotlight

Shitdisco

# The unsigned bands can't have it all their own way. Sometimes signed and already hyped and already on their way types need some MILC lovin' too. So here for you now are a few cryptic whatnots regarding the band with that name, recently in The Pool with none other than Luke Smith. Ladles and jellyspoons: Shitdisco







Friends of Miloco

Handle With Care

# A new slot in the MILC machine for you this month, as we aim to gently draw your attention to some nice folk doing nice things elsewhere in musicland.

The rather marvellous guys at Handle With Care have an ace Xmas-only Special Offer on vinyl pressings that you really should take peek at. They also cater to CD & DVD gubbins and a whole lot else besides: Vinyl pressing bargain