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The annual “Love Music, Hate Racism” event has been announced. The carnival, on Sunday, April 27th in London’s Victoria Park will see Babyshambles, Roll Deep, The Paddingtons, Patrick Wolf and Fionn Regan all play amongst other bands and artists.

Speakers will include Tony Benn, Derek Simpson (Unite), Mark Serwotka (PCS), Weyman Bennett (LMHR), Gemma Tumelty (NUS).

The carnival will also include the stars of the original 1978 carnival playing live, three stages and a huge dance marquee. The best thing however is that it’s all FREE.

More information is on the Love Music Hate Racism website.

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Remember when indie bands had a want to succeed? A desire to achieve? Not many bands have it in this corporate day and age, toeing the line, saying what they’re told (yes, Scouting For Girls, we’re looking at you), however one band seems like they may just be able to break the mainstream, and still have the desire to achieve massive things.

Their name? Parka.

This Glasgow via London quintet played the “Bollocks to Poverty” event at London’s Borderline, along with The Krak, LR Rockets and Toy Guns. After two rather solid performances from LR Rockets and Toy Guns, it was Parka’s turn, the first band to really get people dancing. Granted, their tunes aren’t completely innovative, they just use a tried and tested formula of guys and guitars (and in their case, a saxophonist too) to make good lads-down-the-pub music. The path trodden by Boy Kill Boy, the Fratellis, the Ordinary Boys and Madness before them is repeated, re-hashed and re-built into some instantly hummable tunes.

Looking like a lo-fi Klaxons with day-glo braces, lead singer Matty guided the fivesome through an impressive set, talking little just plain straight-up guitar tunes. “This is a slower song, so you can dance if you want, or just beat the crap out of each other. If you chose the latter, do it gently, it is a charity gig” commented Matty with a smirk on his face, before plunging into “Closing Time”.

It’s surprising how, with only two released singles, they’ve got such a strong set, culminating in a stage invasion by The Krak ahead of their headlining slot later in the evening. Drunk, yes, but with so much, well, oomph, they could be a force to be reckoned with should the likes of Radio 1 get behind them.

After the jump: Photos.

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Fresh off of his New York residency, everyone’s favourite moper, Mr. Morrissey, has announced a short residency at the Roundhouse in London next January.

His six night stint at the end of January will see him play his first UK dates since May 2006, and are sure to sell out quickly – there will be around 10,800 tickets (1,800 a night).

Tickets go on sale on this Friday (23rd November) at 9am. Catch him at the Roundhouse on the following dates:

Monday 21st January
Tuesday 22nd January
Wednesday 23rd January
Friday 25th January
Saturday 26th January
Sunday 27th January

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Updates: I’ve just added the 20th November gig and the 26th November gigs, thanks to a comment from Kathryn below. This was originally posted on 4th October.

The brilliant Mencap have announced this year’s “Little Noise Sessions”, a series of intimate, acoustic gigs, which will take place from Tuesday 20th November to Wednesday 28 November 2007, at Islington’s Union Chapel in London. They’ll be hosted by Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley.

To get tickets you’ll have to register here to get tickets when they go on sale. Ticket registration opens on Tuesday 2 October and closes at 12.00 Friday 19 October. Those who have registered can then buy tickets online on a first-come-first-served basis from 9am on Monday 22 October. Tickets are £35 each.

The gigs will raise money for Mencap’s Arts Awards scheme which enables children and young people with a learning disability to take part in local arts projects.

Tuesday 20th November – Secret Headliner, Jack Penate, Laura Marling, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Wednesday 21st November – Athlete and The Hoosiers
Thursday 22nd November – Will Young, Newton Faulkner and Adele
Friday 23rd November – Biffy Clyro, We Are Scientists and Young Knives
Saturday 24th November – The Pigeon Detectives and The Metros
Sunday 25th November – Snow Patrol and Cajun Dance Party
Monday 26th November – Kate Nash, Robyn, The Ting Tings
Tuesday 27th November – The Enemy + Special Guests
Wednesday 28th November – Keane, Rilo Kiley + Scouting For Girls

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London based rapper MIA has announced a string of dates just before Christmas. She’ll play two London dates as well as 7 around the rest of the country.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (19th October) at 9am.

Saturday 8th December – London ICA
Monday 10th December – Birmingham Custard Factory
Tuesday 11th December – Newcastle Digital
Friday 14th December – Brighton Concorde
Saturday 15th December – Bristol Anson Rooms
Monday 17th December – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Tuesday 18th December – Manchester Academy 2
Wednesday 19th December – Norwich Waterfront
Thursday 20th December – London Coronet

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The amazingly talented Mr. Patrick Wolf has announced a year ending date at Shepherds Bush Empire on Thursday 20th December.

The show will will be in two parts. In the first he will appear solo as he will on the other UK dates. There will then be a quick break before Patrick returns to the stage where he will be joined by the band for a final show of 2007.

Tickets for this special date aren’t on sale yet, but his mySpace promises they will be “soon” – when I know you’ll know.

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Currently climbing the ropes to superstardom, Palladium have announced a free show in London.

They’ll be playing Time Out Magazine’s ‘On The Up’ event on Thursday October 25, at the Bar Academy Islington.

Tickets are completely free of charge and are available from here.

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The Police (no, no, not the police force… The Police, the band!) have announced a new London show to end their European Tour.

They’ll end their tour at London’s Wembley Arena on Saturday 20th October before jetting over to New York on Halloween.

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday (thats the 7th September), though they also play the capital this weekend on Saturday and Sunday at Twickenham stadium – it’s sold out, though ebay may have some luck.

Press photo is taken from their myspace

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Bruce Springsteen has announced that he’ll be playing a one off date at London’s O2 Arena on Wednesday 19th December.

The American Legend will most likely add further London dates as demand predicts, but at the moment we only get one visit. Tickets go on sale for O2 customers on Wednesday (tomorrow folks) from 9am, or on Thursday (30th August) 9am for the rest of us.

Springsteen has a new album, “Magic”, out on October 2nd. Whether it’s any good is up to you – though undoubtably it will sell well, as most Springsteen records do.

Photo taken from Sister 72’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.

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Things are heating up for Hard-Fi as they announce that they’ll be playing a special one off gig to celebrate their new album launch.

They’ll be playing Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street in London on Sunday 2nd/3rd September at midnight. The band will be performing live as well as signing copies of the brand new album “Once Upon A Time In The West” fresh from release.

To win tickets all you have to do is answer the below question:

What Balearic island did HARD-FI recently play?

Simply email in your full name, address and contact telephone number to competitions@atlanticrecords.co.uk – with the subject title ‘HARD-FI VIRGIN COMP’

I don’t know when the competition closes, but give it a go shortly and you’ll find out!

(As a hint, remember that they recently played Ibiza Rocks festival.)

Photo from sarahphotogirl’s flickr stream.