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Cease and Desist video & XFM session 15th Feb Watch the Cease and Desist video at: Myspace - Youtube - NME Media Player Brakes will play a session for XFM's Music: Response on 15th Feb - 7-10pm They're also recording a session for Tom Robinson, 6 Music (broadcast date TBA) |
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NME.com Competition & Eamon at POP10 Win a night of Poker with Brakes! POP10 video interview with Eamon: HERE |
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Listen Again to Brakes on Colin Murray Listen again to Brakes session and interview on Colin Murray at: bbc.co.uk/radio1/colinmurray Click the link for the Thursday 8th show and fastforward 50 mins. They come on after Idlewild for half an hour. Tracks played live: Hold Me In The River, Huevos Rancheros (new b-side) Cease and Desist. The band have just returned from supporting the Kaiser Chiefs in Germany - all good. The UK and EUROPEAN tour starts on the 20th February - see the gigs page for more info. Also Brakes will be heading to Scandinavia in April... 10 April - Malmo, KB 11 April - Stockholm, Debaser 12 April - Oslo, Garage 13 April - Copenhagen, Vega Thanks to the new Street Teamers - we'll be in touch before the tour starts with more details. |
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Guitarist Magazine interview Read a new interview in Guitarist Magazine (photo) |
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XFM have put up more audio from the JD Set - second link on THIS PAGE They talk to Alex, then play Disco Party live. After the song Alex & Eamon come back on followed by Ring A Ding Ding live. 
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Channel 4 interview, new b-sides Brakes were on Channel 4's JD Set, Friday 26th - recorded last year at the Cathouse in Glasgow. Read a transcript of their interview HERE with an intro from Rob Da Bank. Brakes emerged from the studio with new tracks... 2 of which will surface on the next single Cease and Desist, out 26th February on 7". The b-sides are: We Saw Jerry's Daughter (a Camper Van Beethoven tune) and Huevos Rancheros (it's full on...) The Cease and Desist video filmed at Frog has lots of crowd action so you might spot yourself if you were there. Zane Lowe and Colin Murray are Cease and Desisting... Feel free to tell them to play it more... colin.murray@bbc.co.uk Zane.lowe@bbc.co.uk |
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BRAKES PLAY HALDERN FESTIVAL Brakes play at the Haldern Pop Festival (August 3) in Germany: More info |
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Videos from Trash in October & On Your Side acoustic Trash have posted two videos from the show back in October. Visit their Youtube Profile Watch On Your Side live (Eamon & Tom acoustic) at FaceCulture "FaceCulture - faceculture.nl - spoke to Eamon Hamilton just before their gig in the Paradiso in Amsterdam. Eamon told about the grave of George Orwell, religion, God, their previous album Give Blood, the new album The Beatific Visions, being a band, country punk, leaving Canada and more! They even play On Your Side live!" |
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NEW SINGLE - Cease and Desist - Feb 26th Brakes went back into the studio in the New Year to record two new songs, which will appear as b-sides for the next single, Cease and Desist. The video was filmed on 13th Jan at the Club Frog gig. The track is inspired by Phillip Pullman's His Dark Material, by the Romeo Dellaire documentary Shake Hands With The Devil, by the old testament story The Book of Job and by the music of Johnny Cash. The single will be released on 7" (with two new songs as b-sides) and download. Each 7" will contain cards, the ace of spades is the golden ticket, allowing free entry to any Brakes show in 2007. New tour dates. For venue/ticket links see the GIGS PAGE JANUARY 27: 2 GIGS IN ONE DAY - BARFLY AFTERNOON, TURNMILLS EVE - BOTH XFM PRESENTED GIGS FEBRUARY 3: ColumbiaKlub, Berlin (with Kaiser Chiefs) 20: NME SHOW, ASTORIA, LONDON (Long Blondes headline) Sold Out BRAKES HEADLINE TOUR - Le Reno Amps will be supporting for the Scottish dates and Absentee for the rest of the UK tour (28/2 - 4/3) 22: Westport in Dundee 23: Drummond in Aberdeen 24: The Loft in Forres 25: The Raigmore in Inverness 26: Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh - SINGLE RELEASE 27: COMPETITION WINNER GIG, East Ayrshire 28: Academy 3 in Manchester MARCH 1: Rescue Rooms in Nottingham 2: The Foundry in Sheffield 3: The Charlotte in Leicester 4: Norwich Arts Centre 7: Maroquinerie in Paris, France 8: Groningen Vera, Holland 9: Hertogenbosch - W2, Holland 10: Petrol in Antwerp, Belgium 11: Amsterdam Paradiso, Holland To be continued - Scandinavia, USA, Summer of festivals... For those of you in the USA - a release plan is coming together - the album will be out in May and the band should follow around that time for live shows. Read the January 2007 Update from Brakes. |
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PORCUPINE OR PINEAPPLE COMPETITION WINNERS Thanks for your patience on the P or P competition - there were so many lush venues it took a while to get a decision and work out how/when we could do it... the lucky winner is Jane Curruthers in Scotland and plans for her private gig are already underway... 10 runners up will be sent prizes: Hollie Carr, Tom Salmon, Sylvie Putzeys, Ryan Miles, Nicki Seanor, Abigail Curtis, Kim Walker, Dave Glenister, Trevor Westerlund, Phil Newton. |
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BRAKES No.1 in COLIN MURRAY'S ALBUMS 2006 Brakes were No. 1 in Colin Murray's top 25 albums 2006 (thanks to Kirstie) New gigs for 2007 including Headline Tour: HERE (with venue websites) Some ticket links: Seetickets - Ticketline - Ticketmaster - Ticketweb Also tickets for The Charlotte, Leicester, 3 March available from the venue by Paypal here |
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THE BEATIFIC VISIONS RELEASED NOVEMBER 6th 2006 IN THE UK - MAY 8th 2007 IN THE USA 'The Beatific Visions' Tracklisting: Hold Me In The River, Margarita, If I Should Die Tonight, Mobile Communication, Spring Chicken, Isabel, Beatific Visions, Porcupine or Pineapple, Cease and Desist, On Your Side, No Return. Read the September 2006 Update from Brakes. While the subject matter is drawn from a similar well as Give Blood, it's altogether more specific in its condemnation of certain global events and situations. Marc explains; I like to think of this album as the soundtrack to a great battle between good and evil where the world almost cracks in half, sucking everyone into a life of eternal darkness and misery. There's so much fucked-up shit going on in this world that it's hard not to pass comment on it in our music. But as much as it's important to us to write about that kind of stuff, there's a lot of love and romance in there too. They returned from Nashville with The Beatific Visions. 28.9 minutes of literate country-punk. It ranges from intensely personal songs of love lost and painfully remembered [No Return] to diatribes against religious fervor and the loss of the presumption of innocence [Hold Me In The River] to Bulgakov influenced observations of current geo-politics [Margarita]. Sometimes such sentiments are wrapped around riotous, deliriously entertaining, grinning ejections of clanging guitars and pounding drums [the soon-to-be-live-classic Porcupine or Pineapple or the souped-up, organ-laced, marvelously unhinged Spring Chicken] but there's always room for sentimentally and genuine love in the world of Brakes, with Beatific Visions', If I Should Die Tonight and Isabel displaying their tender side. Read more about recording The Beatific Visions in their new Biography |
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