Fancore


Ghost of A Thousand to play free album launch shows

londontgoat

Brighton Hardcore m0b The Ghost of a Thousand will be playing a pair of free launch shows for their upcoming album “New Hopes, New Demonstrations” at the end of this month. And best of all, you can see the fastest rising stars in British Hardcore for free! The lads will be playing Brighton Audio on the 30th May with support coming from Blackhole and This City before hitting Bloomsbury Bowling with Outcry Collective and Warship.

As well as a flamin’ good lineup of free music, there will also be more giveaways than you can shake a riff at with Jagermeister, Epitaph, Criminal Damage and many more throwing freebies your way.

The album is out on 1st June, and you can’t make these recession-busting shows, you can also catch the lads for cash at:

 

6 May 2009                         Academy 1 w/ Gallows and ETID               Manchester, UK

8 May 2009                         ABC w/ Gallows and ETID                             Glasgow, UK

16 May 2009                       Great Escape Festival                                     Brighton, UK

20 May 2009                       iBar                                                                        Bournemouth, UK

21 May 2009                       Forum, w/ Gallows & ETID                           London, UK

24 May 2009                       University, Slam dunk festival                    Leeds, UK

01 June 2009                       Bloomsbury Bowling – album launch!     London, UK

06 June 2009                      Harlequin                                                            Redhill, UK

11 June 2009                      Borderline w / Alexisonfire                          London, UK

10 July 2009                        Lounge On The Farm Festival                      Canterbury, UK

11 July 2009                        The Canteen                                                      Cumbria, UK

12 July 2009                        Guilfest – Rocksound Cave                          Guildford, UK

08 Aug 2009                        Boardmasters – Vans Stage                         Newquay, UK

28 Aug 2009                        Reading Festival – Lock Up Stage              Reading, UK

30 Aug 2009                        Leeds Festival – Lock Up Stage                   Leeds, UK



Bowling For Soup Debut New Song

bfs

Pop-punk favourites Bowling For Soup have premiered a brand new song on The Lex and Terry Show

The exclusive song, “My Weena” is one of the first listens of what upcoming album ‘Sorry For The Partyin’” will sound like, scheduled to be released either August or September 2009.

How can we not be impressed, a ballad about ‘weena’s’ is always welcomed with open arms. What do you think?



Frank Turner: “Industry Politics Made Me Cancel Sonisphere Show”

 In an exclusive interview with FANCORE, Frank Turner has revealed that the reason he has pulled out of his Sonisphere Festival appearance in the UK is due to “Industry politics”.

Despite the folk/punk singer only being announced for the festival less than a month ago his departure from the bill has been mysteriously quiet. As previously reported, the news was broken with Frank’s name being stricken from the official line-up poster and a rather ambiguous messgae was posted above Turner’s name on the Sonisphere website, reading: “Unfortunately Frank Turner has had to pull out of Sonisphere due to circumstances beyond our control.”

Speaking to FANCORE, Frank has shed a little more light on the situation, saying: Oh, It’s just industry politics. I’m not 100% sure what I’m allowed to say about this, but basically there was an ego piss-war between some industry big-wigs, and I took the fallout. It sucks. Not much I can do about it though.”

Any ideas on who the ‘industry big-wigs’ could be? Regardless of whoever caused the mess, you can catch the UK singer/guitarist either on the road with The Offspring or see him on home soil when he returns later in the year. In Sonisphere news, the festival has just announced third stage details, to be headlined by Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Shawn ‘The Clown’ Crahan’s band ‘Dirty Little Rabbits’. The have also announced a cinema, extreme sports shows and a plethora of other entertaining events to keep you busy before Metallica. Read all about it HERE.

Check out the rest of Frank Turner’s interview in the first print issue of FANCORE, coming to you at the end of the month.