Resonance Events presents…..

Friday 3rd October sees the 2nd instalment of resonance events at the Town Hall, Birmingham. With The Heritage Orchestra playing the mad music of Amon Tobin, an album launch for Nu soul and jazz singer Lizzy Parks and the cream of Birmingham’s hip-hop talent. There will be Jazz, Brassy beats, rare groove, swirling orchestral movements, lyrical skulduggery and dance offs all housed in the Birmingham Town Hall for one night only.

Wax Poetics, Rope-A-Dope and all the artists performing – including Tru Thoughts will be giving away goodies throughout the night.

The cost of this event is £15 per ticket for 7 hours of music excellence.

for more informaation and to book your tickets contact the Town Hall and Symphony Hall on;

0120 644 6028 lyle.bignon@thsh.co.uk

BT DIGITAL MUSIC AWARDS 2008 NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

Fused is very happy to announce that we will be sponsoring the Best Urban Act at this years BT Digital Music awards and you can help shape them by voting for your favourite artists and music sites at www.bt.com/dma.

And if that isn’t enough we’ve got 5 x pairs of tickets to give away for you to attend the awards which will be held at Camden’s Roundhouse on Wednesday 1st October. And you’ll be able to catch all the action when the awards are broadcast on ITV2 on 7th October.

This past year has seen newspaper headlines dominated by British music artists making good use of digital with Radiohead launching their album ‘In Rainbows’ as a ‘pay what you like’ download experiment and Coldplay releasing ‘Violet Hill’ as a free, download-only single.

The competition includes 19 award categories in total and here is the Urban one so get voting now.

Best Urban Artist in association with Fused Magazine
Akala
Beardyman
M.I.A.
Roots Manuva
Wiley

There is a whole range of categories with everyone from Kylie and Coldplay to Sam Sparro and The Ting Tings shortlisted.

COMPETITION – If you want a chance to win a pair of tickets just tell us the name of M.I.A’s debut album. Deadline for entries is 5pm on the 24th September, 2008.

Send your answer along with your name, address, telephone number and date of birth to competitions@fusedmagazine.com. Please put BT DIGITAL MUSIC AWARDS in the Subject box.

Jack Daniel’s Competition

We have an amazing competition for 2 people to fly to Nashville, Tennessee to help celebrate the Birthday of Jack Daniel. It’s an excellent opportunity to see some great musicians and singers play in a unique venue. Click here to get the details.

Coldrice is back

From the promoters that just keep giving…

COPTER GIVING THEIR ALBUM AWAY!
Fri 5th September, Hare & Hounds…
Copter are giving their new album away, a month before it’s unleashed on an unsuspecting public.

Friday 5th September they are having a ColdRice party at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath, all the usual great dancing tunes provided by ColdRice DJs, Copter will play live, and anyone at the show will get a code that will let them download the album for free.

They’ve lost their minds, take advantage.

£5 admission (also gives you a code to download Copter’s new album for free)
9pm – 1am
@ The Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath High Street, Birmingham
HEAVY TRASH RETURN!
Wed 24th September, Hare & Hounds…
Heavy Trash back in Birmingham on Wednesday 24th September. Last time Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray brought their rockabilly show they tore the roof off the place and the party went on until the small hours.
This time they’re supported by Powersolo and The Jam Messengers, and if you were at the last ColdRice Underground you KNOW how that stripped down punk blues duo like to party!
£10 tickets available here: https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10004845
8pm-12am
@ The Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath High Street, Birmingham

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Resonance

News of another super Resonance event below:

THE HERITAGE ORCHESTRA PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF AMON TOBIN

LIZZY PARKS ALBUM LAUNCH (TRU THOUGHTS) PLUS DJ CRO & SPECIAL GUESTS

3 OCTOBER 2008
7.30PM – 2AM (LAST ENTRY MIDNIGHT)
TOWN HALL, BIRMINGHAM
£15 STANDING
ARTIST & EXCLUSIVE SPONSOR GIVEAWAYS, T-SHIRTS CDS AND MORE

Groundbreaking 40 piece ensemble The Heritage Orchestra lead an epic hip-hop, nu-jazz and broken beat experience at Town Hall Birmingham for second resonance events club night on 3 October.

Stunning jazz-soul singer Lizzy Parks, VJ Chromatouch and DJ Cro plus special guests will all be performing live over six hours in an evening of funky fresh variety with supporting partners hip NYC magazine Wax Poetics http://www.waxpoetics.com and US music, culture and clothing company RopeaDope http://www.rope-a-dope.com/

The Heritage Orchestra will be smashing their way through genres with dark and atmospheric orchestrations of music composed by cult DJ and producer Amon Tobin, under the guidance of inspirational conductor and musical director Jules Buckley.

Tickets are priced at £15 and are available on the door and from:
Town Hall & Symphony Hall Box Offices, City Centre
http://www.thsh.co.uk/view/the-heritage-orchestra
0121 780 333

Jibbering Records, Moseley
Tel: 0121 449 4551

www.myspace.com/resonanceevents
www.theheritageorchestra.com
www.lizzyparks.com
www.myspace.com/djcrobirmingham

Oasis tour

Oasis are on tour at a town near you just after the release of new album ‘Dig Out Your Soul’.

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9.00am Wednesday 20th August through www.oasisinet.com and the Oasis lo-call 24hr ticketline 0844 412 4638. Ticket purchasers using the band’s web site will also be able to pre-order the first single from the album; ‘The Shock of the Lightning’.

Tuesday 07 & Wednesday 08 October – Liverpool Echo Arena
0844 8000 400 / www.accliverpool.com

Friday 10 & Saturday 11 October – Sheffield Arena
0144 256 5656 / www.sheffieldboxoffice.com

Monday 13 & Tuesday 14 October – Birmingham NIA
0844 3388 000 / www.theticketfactory.com

Thursday 16 & Friday 17 October – London Wembley Arena
0844 815 0815 / www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Monday 20 & Tuesday 21 October – Bournemouth BIC
0844 576 3000 / www.bic.co.uk

Thursday 23 & Friday 24 October – Cardiff INT. Arena
029 2022 4488 / www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 October – Belfast Odyssey Arena
0870 243 4455 / www.ticketmaster.ie

Saturday 01 & Sunday 02 November – Aberdeen Exhibition Centre
0844 477 9000 / www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Tuesday 04 & Wednesday 05 November – Glasgow SECC
0870 040 4000 / www.seccxtra.com

Oasis have also announced that for the first time ever they will be making available a special, fully-loaded limited edition box set of the new album. This amazing looking set contains four heavyweight 12″ vinyl discs, two CDs, a DVD and hardback book all housed within an embossed hardback box. Thiswill be the only way to get the album and the complete set of all 9 bonus songs, remixes and films that were recorded during the album sessions. This unique collectors item will be available for purchase exclusively through the band’s website, and can be pre-ordered now, for worldwide delivery on release date Oct 6, through www.oasisinet.com.

‘The Shock of the Lightning’, the first single to be taken from the band’s new album, will be released on September 29th and the album ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ on October 6th both on Big Brother Recordings worldwide.

Mercury Prize – the bets are in

The Mercury Music Prize comes around way too quick each year and news in from Ladbrokes today is that RADIOHEAD are 4/1 favourites to win.

The Last Shadow Puppets, who feature Arctic Monkeys‘ frontman Alex Turner, are 5/1 for the gong.

Ladbrokes spokesman, Nick Weinberg, said:

“It’s always tough to try and second guess the judges. But at this early stage Radiohead look to be the ones to beat.”

LATEST BETTING

Radiohead – 4/1
Last Shadow Puppets – 5/1
Burial – 5/1
Elbow – 8/1
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – 9/1
Laure Marling – 10/1
Adele – 12/1
British Sea Power – 12/1
Portico Quartet – 12/1
Estelle – 12/1
Neon Neon – 14/1
Rachel Unthank – 14/1

Haven’t heard some of the names on this years list then visit the Mercury Site to hear their music.

More free events from The Public

Word just in that The Public’s Summer festivities kick off this weekend with free live music and a theatre show.

PINKTANK 8PM SATURDAY 19th JULY – Duets for Django
Paul Vernon Chester, one of the foremost Gypsy Jazz Guitarists, plays firmly in the Django tradition. Having shared the stage with some of the world’s best Gypsy Jazz musicians, Chester has become increasingly sought after on the jazz guitar scene of the UK and Europe.

PINKTANK 1PM SUNDAY 20TH JULY – Tipitina
Following the release of their debut CD, Tipitina’s reputation is steadily growing with appearances across Europe, including the Bordeaux Jazz Festival and Copenhagen and UK gigs such as the Brecon Jazz Festival and BBC Summer Festival at the NEC.

SATURDAY 19TH & SUNDAY 20TH JULY, PUBLIC SQUARE 10am-4pm – The Black Maze
This is an event for anyone not afraid of the dark, and everyone who loves a good ghost train.
Suitable for children five years plus, and accompanied by an adult, this is a thrilling five minute journey into the darkness of your own imagination.  The Black Maze doesn’t look very big from the outside but once you dare to enter, its dark twisting passages are filled with unexpected sensations, sights and sounds. Like a computer game come to life, you are at the heart of the action. Your task is simple; find a corridor full of stars.

Built in the back of a lorry by Birmingham-based theatre company Stan’s Café, The Black Maze has been a hit with adults and children of all ages wherever it has gone – from Budapest to a Devon beer garden.  Come and explore it for yourself.

All the events over the weekend at The Public are free and open to all.

Free chance to see Soweto Kinch

Jazz musician and hip-hop MC Soweto Kinch is opening up the doors of Birmingham’s Town Hall on the 25th July free of charge for under 21′s who live in and around Birmingham’s B19 area.

Following the 2006 release ‘A Life In The Day of B19: Tales From A Tower Block’ the show will feature young b-boys, dancers, singers and rappers from the recent Hockley Flyover Show as well as material from Kinch’s new album Basement Fables.

Young people aged under 21 from the northwest Birmingham postcode areas of B8, B18, B19, B20 and B21 can collect 2 free tickets per person by quoting ‘Soweto Ticket Offer’ at the Town Hall Box Office. The offer is subject to availability, to secure tickets reserve in advance on 0121 780 3333. Standard ticket prices are £12.50.

N*E*R*D Dates announced

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Friday 11th July) for N*E*R*D’s UK Tour.

Their latest album ‘Seeing Sounds’ is out now and is the follow up to 2004’s Album ‘Fly or Die” which featured hits ‘Maybe’ and ‘She wants to Move’. Their new single ‘Everyone Nose’ is out now. They come to the UK in August, below are the tour dates:

August
Monday 18th     Carling Academy Sheffield 0844 477 2000
Tuesday 19th    Carling Academy Birmingham 0844 477 2000
Wednesday 20th  Manchester Academy 0161 832 1111

Tickets are £27.50 and are available at www.gigsandtours.com and 24 Hour CC Hotline: 0871 2200 260.