Guns 'n' Roses UK Tour!

The legendary band Guns 'n' Roses are to play a full set of UK dates, making it the first tour here for 13 years. The band had already announced a warm up date at London Hammersmith Apollo as well as headlining Download. The new line up will play the following dates.

June
7 London HGammersmith Apollo
11 Download Festival

July
18 Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
19 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
21 Glasgow SECC
23 Manchester MEN Arena
25 Birmingham NEC
27 Nottingham Arena
30 London Wembley Arena

Support will come from Bullet for my Valentine. Tickets go on sale 9am June 2nd.

Microsoft Office 2007

For all you lot, like myself, out there who like to keep up to date with the latest software from Microsoft get yourself over to Joeb's Computer-Related Blog and read all about the recently released Microsoft Office Beta 2. There is also a link on his site to the Download page to obtain the Beta. I have it, it is very nice. So there.

LOST on Your Computer

Many people round the world have become almost obsessed with this television series, and to date the series has been confirmed for four series. Now to join with this, there is to be a Lost computer game to be designed which is aimed to coincide with the release of Season 4. This game is to be created by Ubisoft, responsible for some of the best action games of the last few years. The executive producer of Lost, Bryan Burk, is looking forward to the prospect and is quoted as saying, "With the ability to tell new interactive stories within the Lost universe, we're giddy to be developing a game that will be as engaging and fun to play as it is to create."

This is possibly superb news for Lost fans as it may give the writers a chance to develop sub plots that viewers can interact with in this game. To date there is no news as to which characters, if any, will feature vocally on the game.

XFM Hall Of Fame

As many of you probably already know, XFM radio station is this year hosting it's first vote for entry into it's new Hall of Fame. All bands have been whittled down to these final five.

The Clash
Muse
Nirvana
Radiohead
Oasis

Listeners and you folk, the general public, have got until May 29th to cast your votes as to who will be the lucky first member. To vote simply go to XFM's Vote Page. As an extra insentive all voters get autmatically thrown into a hat to win a pair of tickets to any 2006 UK festival they want! Hoorah! My vote has gone to Muse, but the choice is yours. Vote now and tune in on 30th May to hear the results.

Hey Ho

Just letting you all know that neither I, nor Sambobgeldof have died, we're just both very busy with exams and all that lark at college at the moment, we'll try to keep blogging though!

Joeb

Reading/Leeds Line-Up Announced!

The first line-up for Leeds/Reading festival! It is as follows

READING
Friday 25
Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Chiefs
Audioslave
Feeder
Belle & Sebastian
The Subways

Fall Out Boy
Panic! At The Disco
Primal Scream

Saturday 26
Muse
Dirty Pretty Things
Arctic Monkeys
The Cribs
The Streets
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Wolfmother
The Futureheads
The Raconteurs (NME/Radio 1 Stage)

Sunday 27
Pearl Jam
Placebo
My Chemical Romance
The Kooks (NME Stage)
The Rakes (NME Stage)
Maximo Park (NME Stage)

Boy Kill Boy (NME Stage)

LEEDS
Friday 25
Pearl Jam
Placebo
My Chemical Romance
The Kooks (NME Stage)
The Rakes (NME Stage)
Maximo Park (NME Stage)

Boy Kill Boy (NME Stage)

Saturday 26
Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Chiefs
Audioslave
Feeder
Belle & Sebastian
The Subways
Panic! At The Disco
Primal Scream

Sunday 27
Muse
Dirty Pretty Things
Arctic Monkeys
The Cribs
The Streets
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Wolfmother
The Futureheads
The Raconteurs (NME/Radio 1 Stage)

More bands to be announced soon.

Reading/Leeds Headliners Revealed!

The headliners for this August's Reading and Leeds Festivals have been revealed. They are as follows.

READING
Friday 25 Franz Ferdinand
Saturday 26 Muse
Sunday 27 Pearl Jam

LEEDS
Friday 25 Pearl Jam
Saturday 26 Franz Ferdinand
Sunday 27 Muse

The full line up is to be announced at 19:15 so do come back for the full line-up!

Muse Release Date Announced

Muse have announced that their as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2003's Absolution will be released worldwide on July 3rd. There are, as yet, no details as to the title or track list of the album, but these details will follow shortly.

There are no UK tour dates announced as of yet, but there have been details of a few appearances in mainland Europe and Japan. It is also suspected that they will be confirmed as one of the headlining bands for the Reading/Leeds festivals. The dates confirmed thus far are;

JUNE
24 Southside Festival - Neuhausen, Germany
25 Hurricane Festival - Scheesel, Germany
30 Werchter Festival - Werchter, Belgium

JULY
01 Arras Festival - Grand Place Arras, France
02 Eurockeennes de Belfort Mosaico - Belfort, France
08 Quart Festival - Kristiansand, Norway

AUGUST
12 WTC Open Air Stadium - Osaka, Japan
13 Chiba Marine Stadium - Tokyo, Japan