Part One of our video interview with Gavin Butler from The Blackout about their new album ‘Hope’ and supporting My Chemical Romance on tour.

Thanks to our two new interviewers Sapphron and Jodie, for doing the interview.

Video Interview with The Pigeon Detectives about their new album ‘Guards, Up and At ‘Em’ which is out now.

Funeral For A Friend

Here is the video for Sixteen by Funeral For A Friend which will be released on 21st March.

It’s taken from their forthcoming album ‘Welcome Home Armageddon’ which is set for release on 14th March

Lower Than Atlantis

Hertfordshire quartet Lower Than Atlantis are ready to take on all-comers. With a year under their belts that has seen the young band ascend from UK underground scene obscurity to mainstream radio and TV exposure, high profile tours and plastered across all manner of end of year lists in the national music press thanks to their critically lauded debut album ‘Far Q’ and rabble rousing live show, Lower Than Atlantis stand at the start of 2011 in great shape, hotly tipped as one the breakthrough names for the 12 months ahead.

To aid and abet their push onwards and upwards, the ambitious foursome come armed with second album ‘World Record’ (to be released April 4, 2011), a prolific assembly of colossal hooks and kinetically charged guitars loaded into larger than life songs that effortlessly thread a line between acerbic, punk infused rock and irresistible pop savvy, cranking each element of what made their debut a hit with fans and critics alike into overdrive.

Switching from uplifting pop rock on tracks such as first single ‘Beech Like The Tree’ (to be released February 14, 2011) and life-on-the-road anthem ‘(Motor)Way Of Life’ to the razor sharp punk attack of ‘Marilyn’s Mansion’ and ‘Bug’ to the soaring melancholy of ‘Uni 9mm’ and the sincerely affecting ‘Another Sad Song’ without once breaking stride or losing its way, ‘World Record’ is truly an album of light and shade, its heady dynamics and insightful lyricism offering an immersive and infectious journey.

Recorded at Outhouse Studios in Reading, UK (You Me At Six, Enter Shikari, Architects, The Blackout), ‘World Record’ will be released on April 4, 2011 on Wolf At Your Door Records, preceded by the singles ‘Beech Like The Tree’ – already named “Hottest Record In The World” on Zane Lowe’s influential Radio 1 show – on February 14 and ‘Deadliest Catch’ on March 28.

Lower Than Atlantis will be on tour ad infinitum, and know this: this quartet are ready to take on the world.

Tracklisting

1. (Motor) Way of Life

2. Beech Like The Tree

3. High At Five

4. Uni 9mm

5. Another Sad Song

6. Marilyn’s Mansion

7. Deadliest Catch

8. Bug

9. Up In Smoke

10. Could You? Would You?

11. Working For The Man By Day, Sticking It To The Man By Night

12. R.O.I.

The video for ‘Beech Like The Tree’:

We spoke to Gus and Fraser of Young Guns to talk about their 2010, and plans for 2011. See below video for competition.

We have a signed copy of Young Guns amazing debut album All Our Kings Our Dead to give away to one reader. To win the signed copy all you have to do is answer this simple question.

What was the name of the first song on Young Guns MIrrors EP?

If you know, email mail@norwichgigs.co.uk with Young Guns Comp as the subject. Closing date is 30th January 2011.

This competition is now closed. Thank you to the 100+ people who entered. The answer was ‘Daughter Of The Sea’. The winner is Cayleigh Morgan.

Anberlin

We spoke to Stephen, lead singer of Anberlin, before their recent Norwich Waterfront gig. Stephen tells us about their new album ‘Dark is the Way, Light is a Place’ which is out now.