Sea Energy have introduced a 2025 UK soundtracks tour – which can deal with their movie rating work – set to kick off early subsequent spring.
The Brighton-based sextet will embark on a string of dates throughout the UK, beginning with a present at London’s Islington Meeting Corridor on April 12. From there, they may make stops in Manchester, Glasgow, Cambridge and Bristol earlier than wrapping up at The Previous Market in Brighton on April 18.
The reside reveals will see Sea Energy – formally often called British Sea Energy – deal with their soundtrack work together with music from their BAFTA-winning rating for Disco Elysium, alongside items from Man Of Aran and From The Sea To The Land Past.
Common ticket gross sales will start on Friday (December 13) at 10am native time. Try a full listing of tour dates beneath and go to here to buy tickets.
Sea Energy 2025 UK soundtracks tour dates are:
APRIL 12 – London, Islington Meeting Corridor 13 – Manchester, New Century Corridor 14 – Glasgow, Saint Luke’s 16 – Cambridge, Junction 1 17 – Bristol, Trinity 18 – Brighton, The Previous Market
The band’s final full-length launch was 2022’s ‘All the things Was Endlessly’. In a four-star evaluation of the LP, NME shared: “The Brighton-formed six-piece have constructed a hopeful and defiant document that rails in opposition to ugly, insular factors of view.”
It continued: “We could also be dwelling in shit occasions however in ‘All the things Was Endlessly’, Sea Energy have produced an album that’s each brutal and exquisite, and which gives us all some a lot wanted hope.”
Korn‘s Brian ‘Head’ Welch has shared an replace on their subsequent file.
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The US nu-metal band’s final studio album, ‘Requiem’, got here out in February 2022, and since then they’ve been teasing a follow-up.
Welch beforehand mentioned that there could be new music coming in 2024, telling Loudwire: “Yeah, new music popping out subsequent yr. I don’t know, we’re simply form of in hiding proper now, simply doing our personal factor.”
However, now, he’s confirmed they gained’t be releasing something earlier than the yr ends. Talking to the podcast Everblack, Welch touched on their present songwriting course of. “Yeah, we bought a whole lot of it [written]. We’re nonetheless working,” he mentioned.
He went on to say: “Dude, it’s a visit 30 years later, man, to attempt to maintain doing it. And we’re very pleased with what we bought, but it surely’s simply gonna take some time. And I don’t know the way lengthy — possibly subsequent summer season, possibly subsequent yr, the following winter, I don’t know, but it surely’s not gonna be quickly.”
(L-R) Brian Welch, Jonathan Davis and James Shaffer of KoRn attend adidas Originals x KoRn Retail Activation + Media Occasion on October 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California (CREDIT: Phillip Faraone/Getty Photos for adidas Originals)
Final yr, the band shared a deluxe version of their 2007 album, which they launched and not using a title.
In a four-star overview of ‘Requiem’, NME mentioned: “2019’s ‘The Nothing’ discovered frontman Jonathan Davis crushed by grief. The follow-up provides a tentative contact of hope to the band’s discography,” and added, “It could be a push to name this Korn’s first ‘pleased’ album. Extra precisely, ‘Requiem’ has introduced one thing new to a discography that, till now, has been an exploration of human struggling. It’s led to the band’s most nuanced file so far.”
Elsewhere, on their current tour, Korn performed deep reduce ‘Hey Daddy’ dwell for the primary time in 25 years.
Shortly after that, they have been joined by Evanescence‘s Amy Lee for a collaborative rendition of ‘Freak On A Leash’. The efficiency was a part of a particular present in Los Angeles to have fun the thirtieth anniversary of their 1994 self-titled debut album. Alongside Evanescence as particular visitors have been Gojira, Scars On Broadway, Spiritbox and extra.
As for his or her 2025 dwell plans, Korn are set to play Obtain Competition and France’s HellFest subsequent summer season.
London venue Matchstick Piehouse has confirmed that it has been saved amid the specter of closure, and can quickly re-open as a staff’ co-op.
The way forward for the South East London grassroots venue, situated within the Deptford railway arches, was thrown into query final November and was pressured to name upon its supporters to contribute to a fundraiser to remain open.
It got here as the owner was reported as “threatening to primarily finish the lease” except they have been in a position to raise £35,000 by the top of the week. The strain placed on the placement – which is a bar, music venue and artwork house – got here following commerce declined after the pandemic restrictions.
In January, it was confirmed that it had misplaced the battle with its landlord to remain open and revealed plans to turn into a employee’s co-op as a substitute. It had raised round £30,000 in donations – one thing the workers on the venue described as “a testomony to the neighborhood energy” – however was unable to repay the COVID-19 hire arrears.
Now, it has been confirmed {that a} group of former Matchstick workers, together with resident artists, workers from different grassroots venues and the Music Venue Belief (MVT), have fashioned a brand new staff co-op underneath the title Piehouse Co-op.
The announcement comes after a yr of negotiations, and the venue is now set to re-open in spring 2025.
Matchstick Piehouse. CREDIT: Jazz Noble
Based on a brand new press launch, the venue is 150-capacity and is certainly one of only a handful of native venues in London that’s wheelchair accessible. At time of writing, although, it’s at the moment unfurnished and in new want of lights, sound and furnishings, as the unique Matchstick Piehouse format was stripped of all its property. Because of this, it’s fundraising for £15,000 to be raised by February 2025, in a bid to safe its grand opening later within the yr.
Explaining the way it landed on the determine, the organisers of the venue clarify that roughly £5,000 will likely be put in the direction of protecting employee co-op workers time between December 2024 and January 2025, whereas £2,500 will go in the direction of venue gear.
Equally, £2,500 will go in the direction of skilled consultancy to assist co-operative improvement & enterprise planning, £5,000 will go in the direction of hire. There may be additionally a stretch goal £5,000 contingency fund, which might cowl further prices akin to insurance coverage, accountancy charges, ongoing enterprise assist, utilities, and different bills.
Recalling what occurred to the £30,000 raised final yr, a press launch states: “The preliminary fundraiser was began by Matchstick Restricted, the corporate that ran Matchstick Piehouse, and was meant to cowl the rental arrears owed by Matchstick Restricted to the landlords. Though this fundraiser almost reached its objective of £36K, the debt was finally greater than this, and after searching for authorized recommendation the administrators of Matchstick Restricted determined to file for insolvency.
“As there was no possible route for Matchstick Restricted to proceed working the venue, the cash raised needed to be refunded,” it continued. “For these of you that donated to a second fundraiser that totalled £8,000, this cash is essentially untouched and will likely be used for our preliminary deposit.”
Alongside asserting the plans to re-open as a staff’ co-op in 2025, organisers have additionally shared particulars of a fundraising occasion for the Piehouse co-op. It would happen tomorrow (December 11) on the Avalon Cafe, and is about to incorporate dwell music and poetry from a spread of longstanding piehouse artists and native expertise. Tickets will value £7 and you’ll find out more details here.
Matchstick Piehouse. CREDIT: Sonia Woodruff
The struggles highlighted by Matchstick Piehouse mirror the issues for the UK dwell music scene, highlighted by Kate Nash in current weeks. The singer-songwriter has been tirelessly campaigning to convey consciousness to the hardships confronted by native venue house owners and rising artists.
Final month, she launched her Butts for Tour Buses marketing campaign, which noticed her be part of OnlyFans to protest the continuing monetary pressures going through the music business and assist elevate cash for her ongoing UK and European tour.
She additionally took her “bum on the again of a hearth truck” protest to the London places of work of Stay Nation and Spotify in addition to the Homes of Parliament to focus on the challenges going through artists and people working within the touring business.
In a press release to NME, Nash maintained that the worth of recorded music is “extraordinarily low” and the “value of presenting dwell music has gone up by 30.3 per cent over the previous two years” with 125 venues closing final yr within the UK — echoing issues raised by the Music Venue Belief final month.
Over the previous yr, there was mounting strain for the UK’s smaller venues to obtain a contribution from enviornment and stadium gigs to make sure their survival. The mannequin is just like the one seen within the Premiere League of soccer and already in use in a number of nations throughout Europe. It was additionally advisable by MPs after a DCMS investigation again in Spring, and pressures rose for bigger venues to begin assist earlier than being pressured to take action by the federal government.
Already, the likes of Coldplay, Enter Shikari and Sam Fender have all adopted a levy for his or her respective excursions to assist save the grassroots, after 2023 proved to be “disastrous” and the worst yr on document with 125 grassroots music venues shutting their doorways – a fee of two per week. The Music Venue Belief argued {that a} tidal wave of closures threatens the material of the UK music scene due to the current price range announcement, with the circuit and artists already affected by “the whole collapse of touring”.
Simply yesterday (December 9), it was confirmed that ASM International arenas had taken an enormous step in supporting the smaller brethren– becoming a member of forces with Music Venue Belief to assist grassroots websites throughout the nation.
Jack White has paid tribute to his former White Stripes bandmate Meg White on her fiftieth birthday with a publish on social media.
The rocker took to his official Instagram account and posted a Polaroid of Meg White – the drummer of The White Stripes and his ex-wife. The publish’s accompanying caption learn: “HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY to my massive sister, the good Meg White. There’s solely one in all you Meggo, they broke the mildew. You’re nonetheless inspiring individuals, together with me. Love you a lot.”
Each musicians fashioned the duo in 1997 and went on to develop into probably the most profitable bands of the twenty first century. The band went on to launch six studio albums between 1999 via 2007 earlier than disbanding in February 2011.
Following The White Stripes’ breakup, Jack went on to work on his solo profession whereas Meg determined to retire and return to Detroit, Michigan. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2014, Jack opened up about how Meg’s emotionally reserved nature was a supply of pressure inside the band, sharing: “We’d be working within the studio and one thing superb would occur: I’m like, ‘Rattling, we simply broke into a brand new world proper there!’ And Meg’s sitting in silence.
“I bear in mind listening to Ringo Starr say, ‘I at all times felt sorry for Elvis, as a result of in The Beatles we had one another to speak about what it felt like. Elvis was by himself.’ I used to be like, ‘Shit, strive being in a two-piece the place the opposite particular person doesn’t discuss!’”
Nevertheless, in the identical interview, Jack went on to reward his former bandmate, including: “I’d typically have a look at her onstage and say, ‘I can’t consider she’s up right here.’ I don’t suppose she understood how vital she was to the band, and to me and to music.”
He continued: “She was the antithesis of a contemporary drummer. So childlike and unimaginable and provoking. All of the not-talking didn’t matter, as a result of onstage? Nothing I do will high that.”
The White Stripes bacstage at 99X’s The Massive Rock at Stone Mountain Park in Atlanta, June 20, 2003. CREDIT: Frank Mullen/WireImage
The White Stripes portrayed themselves as siblings however in 2001, proof of their 1996 marriage and divorce in 2000 got here to mild. Nevertheless, the duo nonetheless insisted that they have been siblings, with Jack explaining in a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone: “While you see a band that’s two items, husband and spouse, boyfriend and girlfriend, you suppose, ‘Oh, I see…’ After they’re brother and sister, you go, ‘Oh, that’s attention-grabbing.’ You care extra in regards to the music, not the connection – whether or not they’re attempting to avoid wasting their relationship by being in a band.”
Final yr, journalist Lachlan Markay sparked discourse about Meg’s drumming talents after tweeting: “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how nice they might’ve been with a half first rate drummer. Yeah yeah I’ve heard all of the ‘however it’s a fastidiously crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was horrible and no band is best for having sh*tty percussion.” Markay has since deleted the tweet.
Various musicians went on to defend Meg, together with The Roots’ Questlove and Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow. Unknown Mortal Orchestra‘s Ruban Nielson additionally mentioned “there’s nobody like meg white”, and recalled that “children would lose their thoughts to her drumming”.
Jack took the time to talk out in regards to the discourse by celebrating the drummer, posting a photograph of Meg at her drum package on social media together with a poem that learn: “To be born in one other time, any period however our personal would’ve been tremendous. 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, another distant, totally different, time.
“One with out demons, cowards and vampires out for blood, one with the constructive inspiration to foster what is nice.”
The musician’s ex-wife, Karen Elson, additionally stepped in to defend Meg, tweeting: “Not solely is Meg White a implausible drummer, Jack [White] additionally mentioned the White Stripes could be nothing with out her. To the journalist who dissed her, hold my ex-husband’s ex-wife identify out of your f*cking mouth. (Please and Thank You)”
Rage In opposition to The Machine guitarist Tom Morello additionally chimed into the discourse and shared: “I hear there’s some controversy on this matter recently so let me set fools straight: #MegWhite is among the best drummers within the historical past of rock n roll,” in a publish on his Instagram.
In different information, Jack White just lately introduced the main points of a UK and European tour for 2025.
Shygirl has introduced a brand new EP known as ‘Membership Shy Room 2’ – take heed to the one ‘F*Me’ beneath.
The London singer-songwriter, rapper and DJ is because of launch the six-song assortment on February 14 by way of As a result of Music (pre-order/pre-save here). It’ll include her current collaboration with Saweetie, ‘Immaculate’.
To additional preview the forthcoming venture, Shygirl has shared an upbeat and energetic joint observe that includes French singer Yseult. ‘F*Me’ was co-produced by Mura Masa and Shygirl.
Saying the ‘Membership Shy Room 2’ EP on social media, Shygirl mentioned the gathering would function “just a bit one thing to maintain the celebration going”.
Take a look at the official music video for ‘F*Me’ beneath, together with the announcement submit and canopy art work.
Shygirl launched her debut studio album, ‘Nymph’, in 2022. In a four-star assessment, NME praised the artist for creating “a gleaming collage of membership sounds, with every component wholly distinctive in its execution”.
It added: “After working tirelessly on her long-awaited debut album for a lot of years, the juice has clearly been definitely worth the squeeze: this document is a hanging reminder of why Shygirl is among the capital’s brightest skills.”
She has since shared the EP ‘Membership Shy’ and its ‘Membership Shy RMX’ companion venture.
Shygirl not too long ago supported Charli XCX on her ‘Brat’ UK area tour – which featured exhibits in Manchester, London, Birmingham and Glasgow. She additionally teamed up with Charli on a remodeling of ‘365’ on her ‘Brat’ remix album. NME hailed the collab as “two minutes of pure, unadulterated hedonism”.
In different information, Shygirl is about to open for Barry Can’t Swim at his All Factors East headline present in London subsequent summer season. She seems on the line-up alongside the likes of Confidence Man and DJ Heartstring.
Miley Cyrus has launched a brand new single, ‘Lovely That Approach’, written and recorded for a brand new Pamela Anderson movie titled The Final Showgirl. Hearken to it under.
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The Final Showgirl, directed by Gia Coppola, sees Anderson enjoying the position of a seasoned showgirl who makes an attempt to navigate life after the closure of her long-running Las Vegas present.
Cyrus’ ballad, co-written by Lykke Li and Andrew Wyatt – and which has been nominated for a Golden Globe underneath Greatest Unique Tune – sees a young exploration of feeling misplaced, which Cyrus described to Variety as sonically a “love letter” to the movie. Hearken to ‘Lovely That Approach’ under.
Cyrus shared with Selection her life-long admiration of Anderson: “Pamela is deeply embedded into my earliest recollections with my mom,” mentioned Cyrus.
“We each worshipped Pam and nonetheless do. I took the emotion I’ve in direction of these instances with my mother and the few instances we’ve gotten to spend with Pam. I believed so much about what this movie means to her not simply as an actress however because the particular person who she is.”
“I have fun evolution and he or she has performed that in such a sleek means which is mirrored in Final Showgirl.”
The Final Showgirl, which sees Anderson’s first lead position in years, has gained heat reward from critics since screening in movie festivals ranging from September.
“Anderson embodies her character with such real feeling. She lastly will get a giant, Oscar-bait scene wherein she sobs and tears up her costumes. However the low-key devastation she has captured earlier than that’s the actual performing triumph,” mentioned the BBC.
The Hollywood Reporter labelled her efficiency as a possible “turning level” within the profession of an actress who “has needed to wrestle to be taken critically”.
Not too long ago, Miley opened up in regards to the influence her profession has had on youthful musicians together with Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo.
When requested what it was wish to have Carpenter, Roan and Rodrigo look as much as her, and to have grown up with Miley by means of her time on Disney‘s Hannah Montana. Miley mentioned: “On the time, you by no means take into consideration sooner or later somebody replicating what you do. You’re simply doing it as a result of it’s sincere within the second so now to see that impacting tradition is one thing that I didn’t know that I wished, however I suppose I do.”
Miley Cyrus – CREDIT: VALERIE MACON/AFP through Getty Photos
“I’ve my very own artists which have created who I’m, like a Stevie Nicks or Dolly Parton or Tina Turner. Though they form of look as much as me in the way in which that I’ve appeared as much as these different ladies, it’s actually necessary that they do it their very own means, as a result of that’s what my profession has represented above all else, is that although I’ve at all times appeared to those influences, I’ve at all times performed it my very own means.
“So I believe the liberty that I’ve form of given these different artists to be themselves, do it proud and loud, it’s simply superb to look at that form of be so impactful and influential,” she defined.
Chappell Roan spoke of Cyrus’ affect in a video message for the previous Hannah Montana star’s induction into the Disney Legends in August, saying: “The factor that I like about Miley Cyrus is that she continuously reinvents herself and at all times works. For lots of artists, it might probably appear inauthentic or out of the blue, however she’s very open about her transformations artistically and personally, and he or she’s so true to herself. She places out music that’s so genuine.
Drake‘s father has fired again at Joe Budden after the broadcaster went on a tirade over the rapper’s latest lawsuits towards Common Music Group (UMG).
Final month, the Canadian hitmaker filed two lawsuits towards his label UMG over ‘Not Like Us’ – a diss observe by Kendrick Lamar aimed toward Drake which known as him “an authorized paedophile”. The primary alleged the label “artificially inflated” the tune’s streaming numbers and the opposite accused them of permitting the discharge of a defamatory tune focusing on certainly one of their signees.
When the information broke, Budden swiftly commented on the continued circumstances on his infamous Joe Budden Podcast. When one of many co-hosts steered that Drake is dealing with “‘adversity for the primary time in 15 years,” the ‘Pump It Up’ rapper rebutted: “Or he’s a egocentric, mendacity, manipulative sack of shit who has made enemies for 15 years, and now we’re right here on the fucking boiling level.”
Joe budden goes off on drake for suing UMG . He says Lucian Grainge made you now he’s going to finish you . The labels have chosen Kendrick Lamar pic.twitter.com/2VqobWyVhq
“You’ve been behind the scenes being the most important sack of shit you may presumably be,” Budden continued. “N****s know what it’s out right here – and he’s fucking white and he’s Jewish and he had an excessive amount of dip on his chip. You could have been behind the scenes hitting n****s’ child mothers, sending cash to n****s’ child mothers, been sending messages to this n****’s spouse…”
Budden mentioned he believed Drake’s supposed dangerous behaviour went on for therefore lengthy as a result of he acquired followers and Lucien Grainge – the chairman and chief govt officer of UMG – to guard him. “Everyone simply turns a blind eye,” he added, “however the blind days are finished.”
A clip of Budden’s rant was posted to Instagram and Drake’s father Dennis Graham defended his son within the remark part beneath. Graham first wrote, “Stand down now!!!!!!” then adopted up with a warning for the New Yorker: “Joe must again the fuck off. This has nothing to do with him, interval.”
Budden and Drake additionally engaged in a rap “beef” final yr after the discharge of Drake’s newest album, ‘For All The Canines’. The broadcaster felt like the Torontonian was “rapping for the children” and needed “to listen to grownup Drake rapping for grownup folks”.
Drake replied to Budden on Instagram, writing in a protracted, scathing passage: “You withdrew from rap not trigger you achieved all it’s essential it’s trigger it wasn’t working for you.”
The podcast host additionally mentioned Drake was “speaking shit about, ‘this n****’s mother died’” – main many to assume the ‘Hotline Bling’ star could have made insensitive feedback about Metro Boomin’s mom who was tragically murdered by her partner in June 2022.
Boomin just lately spoke about his feud with Drake, saying: “Me and [Drake], we had a private challenge, and for the report, not over no woman or nothing foolish like that. It was a private challenge that actually damage me and dissatisfied me.”
Drake additionally had rivalries with the likes of The Weeknd, Future, A$AP Rocky, Rick Ross and extra – all of whom he exchanged pictures with numerous songs all through this yr. His most prolific and notorious rap battle was with Kendrick Lamar, which resulted in lots of scathing allegations towards each rappers and culminated with Lamar’s anthemic Quantity One single, ‘Not Like Us’.
In the meantime, Drake introduced he will likely be returning to Australia and New Zealand for the ‘Anita Max Win Tour’. It would kick off on February 9 subsequent yr – the identical date his latest foe Lamar will likely be headlining the NFL Tremendous Bowl halftime present in New Orleans.
Lil Jon has opened up about his pair of albums of guided meditation, saying that psychological well being is “an excessive precedence” for him.
The Atlanta rapper, essential to the breakthrough of crunk music within the 2000s, has made the left flip to releasing albums of meditation in 2024, with February’s ‘Complete Meditation’ and Might’s ‘Manifest Abundance: Affirmations Of Private Progress’.
The ambient tracks include optimistic affirmations from the rapper – get a style of them beneath.
He has given a brand new interview to CNN the place he speaks about individuals’s preliminary response to the albums. “Some individuals had been like, ‘What is that this gonna sound like? Is he gonna be yelling?’” he mentioned.
“As soon as it got here out and other people heard, individuals had been like, ‘Okay, that is really fairly good.’ And I bought so many messages of individuals telling me how they by no means meditated and the way I helped them to meditate, or how particular songs helped them to cope with points of their lives.”
Speaking in regards to the inspiration for the information, he added: “It’s a journey that I’m on. I’ve most likely nonetheless like 5 extra albums value of stuff that we didn’t drop but. It’s a precedence to me.”
“Psychological well being is an excessive precedence to me as a result of, , Black males, we’re taught to simply suck it up and maintain it in. I’m making an attempt to offer individuals choices of how one can cope with their psychological stress.”
Chatting with Rolling Stone about ‘Complete Meditation’ earlier this 12 months, Lil Jon revealed how he got here throughout guided meditation throughout a turbulent time in his private life.
“As soon as I turned 50, lots of issues began to occur. I began going by means of a divorce. I’m separated proper now. Going by means of that and all the feelings of the divorce—anger and frustration and all the ups and downs — I discovered meditation to calm me and to deliver me extra at peace; to have a look at life and conditions in a special method. I actually bought into meditating and saying my affirmations daily and likewise into manifestation. All of that tied collectively.”
Moreover, he mentioned he hopes ‘Complete Meditation’ will assist change individuals’s perspective of him: “A part of the rationale I need to do that undertaking is [because] those that appear to be me after which those that have a look at me like, ‘Oh, this loopy get together man,’ [are] going to take heed to me in a special method than they want a health care provider or their mother or their dad. They relate to me a bit of bit extra.”
Regardless of having been within the trade for 3 many years, Lil Jon has solely launched one prior solo album, 2010’s ‘Crunk Rock’. Aside from that, the rapper has featured on a number of collaborative albums with the East Aspect Boyz, in addition to quite a few rap and dance tracks over his profession.
Lil Jon will be a part of Pitbull for a sequence of giant exhibits throughout the UK and Europe in 2025, kicking off in Dublin in February. See the total listing of exhibits right here and discover tickets here.
Modern digital artwork and music collective MorFlo Data has formally unveiled its sixth compilation album, Gradual Down Vol. 2. Consisting of ten downtempo digital choices, Gradual Down Vol. 2 captures the tamer aspect of MorFlo Data’ expertise pool, most simply discernible when postured in opposition to the label’s Throw Down compilation collection that spotlights the harder-hitting finish of the spectrum. Now streaming in every single place, the second version of Gradual Down capitalizes on its distinctive dynamic vary. Over the course of its runtime, the brand new collaborative LP maintains its momentum by way of tasteful climaxes laid out throughout an atmospheric listening expertise.
Gradual Down Vol. 2 options high-level manufacturing from Steller, Jessy Covets, Inexperienced Matter, geez Louise, RYNS, enterprise 5, 5 AM, Ujuu, AUDIA, Redrum, Barooka, Widespread Creation, KTrek, ESCPE, and Duffrey, respectively. What’s extra, MorFlo Data label boss Mersiv has finalized the date for Mersiv Rocks 3, which is formally booked for April 4th, 2025 on the globally esteemed Pink Rocks Amphitheatre.
Purchase tickets to Mersiv Rocks 3, “Assault On Mars,” here, and stream MorFlo Data’ model new Gradual Down Vol. 2 under.
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Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have joined forces to type the Satchvai Band and can tour the UK and Europe in 2025.
The 2 guitar virtuosos are long-time associates and have been touring within the US in 2024 with their two respective bands, however subsequent 12 months, they are going to play collectively in the identical group for the primary time.
The ‘Browsing With The Hydra’ tour will kick off in York’s Barbican on June 13, and they’re going to absorb London, Glasgow, Wolverhampton and Manchester earlier than heading to mainland Europe.
We’re not carried out but – we would like extra! ???? – Joe
Joe & @SteveVai are thrilled to announce the return of the Satch/Vai duo in 2025, and this time, there’s a twist! Europe, prepare for the #SurfingWithTheHydraTour – an unique summer season journey the place Joe and Steve will carry out… pic.twitter.com/ddVoAbMFH3
Dates will absorb 18 cities across the continent, ultimately wrapping up on July 18 in France’s Saint Julien. Tickets go on sale at 10am native time on Friday (December 13) and you will discover UK tickets here.
The Satchvai Band will play:
JUNE 2025 13 – York, Barbican 14 – London, Eventim Apollo 17 – Glasgow, Royal Live performance Corridor 18 – Wolverhampton, Civic Corridor 19 – Manchester, O2 Apollo 22 – Paris, Palais Des Congres 23 – Antwerp, Lotto Enviornment 24 – Amsterdam, Amsterdam Afas 26 – Copenhagen, Amager Bio 29 – Helsinki, Home of Tradition 30 – Tampere, Tampere Corridor
JULY 2025 2 – Uppsala, Parksnacken 3 – Oslo, Sentrum Scene 5 – Warsaw, Torwar 8 – Munich, Musik Enviornment 10 – Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electrical Corridor 11 – Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle 12 – Zurich, Volkshaus 13 – Milan, Villa Casati Stampa 15 – Pordenone, Parco San Valentino 16 – Perugia, Umbria Jazz 17 – Bologna, Sequoie Music Park 18 – Saint Julien, Monts du Genevois
Satriani and Vai launched the six-minute monitor ‘The Sea Of Emotion, Pt. 1’ in March this 12 months, which sees them buying and selling their trademark basic rock solos forwards and backwards. Hearken to the music above.
Satriani’s newest album is 2022’s ‘The Elephants Of Mars’, whereas Vai launched ‘Vai/Gash’ in 2023, a file first recorded in 1991 however by no means beforehand launched.
Additionally final 12 months, Vai revealed that he had sufficient materials recorded with Ozzy Osbourne for a full album, though he doesn’t personal the rights to have the ability to launch it.
He additionally appeared in Studio 666 in 2022, a movie starring members of Foo Fighters as fictional variations of themselves. “The film is simply off the charts gory and humorous”, Vai mentioned of his expertise capturing the film. “It was a wonderful blast of demonic shred pleasure and once I noticed it within the theatre”.
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