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Saturday 3rd October 2009
The Cribs
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The Cribs are pleased to announce details of UK dates this Autumn. due to coincide with the release of their fourth – as yet untitled - album, which is expected in September on Wichita Recordings although no release date has been confirmed.
The band who are currently ensconced in Los Angeles mixing the album -their fourth and first with new guitarist Johnny Marr - at Seedy Underbelly Studio with Nick Launay (Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Arcade Fire, PiL) have confirmed the album will include several tracks that were debuted live earlier this year when the band played a short series of shows in February…tracks include ’We Were Aborted’,’Hari Kari’ and ‘Cheat On Me’.
A first for The Cribs is their non appearance at any festivals this summer which is the first time in the band’s seven year history that this has occurred making these shows even more highly anticipated. Support comes from Adam Green with more to be confirmed.
Time: 6:30pm Curfew 10pm
Entry: Over 16 years only ID will be required
Ticket Price: £14 Plus booking fee book online
Tuesday 6th October 2009
Stewart Lee- If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One
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Following his acclaimed BBC TV series STEWART LEE's COMEDY VEHICLE, Lee now embarks on a stand-up tour with a brand new show. The co-writer of Jerry Springer The Opera follows his award-winning UK tour '41st Best Stand-up Ever' with a furiously downbeat set inspired by an altercation in a High Street coffee chain.
"The funniest, most cliché-free comedian on the circuit" Ricky Gervais
"Surreally brilliant" The Times
"His whole tone is one of complete, smug condescension" - Sunday Mercury, Birmingham
www.stewartlee.co.uk myspace.com/stewlee
Time: Doors 7:15 show begins 8pm
Entry: This is a 16's and over event. Photo ID will be required
Ticket Price: £15 + booking fee book online
Monday 12th October 2009
Bloc Party Bloctober tour
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Bloc Party who just completed their latest UK tour with two sold out shows at Wolverhampton Civic Hall over the weekend, announce their biggest UK tour to date. The month long BLOCTOBER tour will see the band play 23 shows around the UK throughout the month of October.
The band are about to embark on the sold out European leg of their Intimacy world tour which has already seen them visit South America, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.
Meanwhile all 25,000 tickets for the band's two London Olympia shows in April are now completely sold out.
Tickets for the BLOCTOBER tour go on sale Friday.
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: This is a 16's and over event ID required
Ticket Price: £22.50 plus booking fee
Sunday 18th October 2009
Gary Moore
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Gary Moore is acknowledged as one of the finest guitarists that the British Isles has ever produced. In a career that dates back to the sixties Moore has graced the line-ups of several notable rock bands including Thin Lizzy, Collosseum II and Skid Row, to name but three, and to this day maintains a highly successful solo career.
‘Bad For You Baby’ is Gary Moore’s latest studio album, Gary continues with the sequence of blues rock albums that he began on Eagle Records with “Old, New, Ballads, Blues” and continued on “Close As You Get”. Mixing predominantly original tunes with a few Blues classics that Gary has rediscovered, “Bad For You Baby” reaffirms Moore’s exceptional talent as a guitarist and his deep insight into and feel for the Blues as a living musical form.
With the release of “Bad For You Baby”, Gary Moore has never sounded so good and to see him live he will be playing at The Engine Shed on 18th oct.
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: Strictly over 18's only. Photo ID will be required
Ticket Price: £26.50 book online
Friday 23rd October 2009
Reverend and the Makers
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Jon McClure (The Reverend) and the band will head out on tour throughout the summer, playing headline shows, festivals and are special guests to Oasis on several shows. They will also be realsing their new album ‘A French Kiss In The Chaos’ on the 27th July The band have just confirmed a Lincoln ENGINE SHED headlining tour date for Fri October 23rd. Tickets go on sale Friday 29th May @ 9am.
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: This is an over 16's event. Photo ID will be required for entry
Ticket Price: £12 +booking fee book online
Saturday 31st October 2009
Alesha Dixon Plus Special Guests
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With smash hit after smash hit and gold selling album fast approaching platinum, Alesha Dixon has announced her own fabulous headline tour.
Over the past six months Alesha’s status has rocketed to superstardom. Since shimmying her way into the charts with ‘The Boy Does Nothing’ and ‘Breathe Slow’, she has: sold over 750,000 records; been a personal guest of Gordon and Sarah Brown at Downing Street (Mr Brown dubbed her ‘a national treasure’); and most recently completed an awe inspiring epic climb to the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro helping raise over £3 million for Comic Relief.
Having supported Latino heartthrob Enrique Iglesias on several dates of his European tour Alesha is ready to fly solo and for the first time fans will be able to see her perform with a live band exclusively for them on a 17-date UK tour including a stop off at Lincoln's Engine Shed!
Time: Doors 6:30pm , Curfew 10pm
Entry: This event is Strictly 16 years and over only
Ticket Price: £18.50 plus booking fee book online
Monday 2nd November 2009
Dizzee Rascal
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Fresh from supporting the Prodigy on their UK arena tour, Dizzee Rascal has announced details of his biggest ever headlining UK tour to date taking place this autumn.
Dizzee Rascal releases his brand new single ‘Bonkers’ on May 18th on Dirtee Stank Records. His new album is due to be released in September.
Tickets go on sale 9am Thursday May 21st 2009.
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: Strictly over 16\'s. ID will be required
Ticket Price: £17.50 + booking fee book online
Tuesday 3rd November 2009
Rhod Gilbert and The Cat that Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst
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BROCHURE COPY – RHOD GILBERT
RHOD GILBERT & THE CAT THAT LOOKED LIKE NICHOLAS LYNDHURST
Following last year’s sell-out tour and sensational performances on ‘The Royal Variety Performance’, ‘Live At The Apollo’, and ‘Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow’, the Welsh Wonder is back on the road with a brand new show. Last year, he punched a shop-assistant over the duvet tog-rating system and went berserk over a mince pie. This year Gilbert’s given his show a ridiculous title just to annoy someone in Canterbury. Is he, as he believes, a visionary in a sea of closed minds, or has he, as everyone else believes, got anger-management problems?
Total sell-out, Edinburgh 2005-2008. If. Comedy Nominee 2008. One of the hottest names in stand-up today. Catch him while you can.
‘Comics’ Comic’ & ‘Best Headliner’ Winner – Chortle 2009
‘Breakthrough Act’ Nominee - South Bank Awards 2009
‘Comic of the Year’, ‘Breakthrough Act’ & ‘Best Show’ Winner – Time Out 2008
“COMEDY MANNA FROM HEAVEN” 5 stars Independent
“EXHILARATING STAND UP…SUBLIME STORYTELLING” 5 Stars Scotsman
“POWERHOUSE” 5 stars Metro
“VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCE…PASSIONATE AND SPARKLINGLY FUNNY” 5 stars Chortle
“A ROLLERCOASTER…IN COMIC TERMS HE LOOKS INDOMITABLE” 4 stars Guardian
“A JOY TO BEHOLD” 4 stars Times
“BLISTERING TOUR DE FORCE” Time Out
“TURBO-CHARGED…MAGNIFICENT” Evening Standard
www.myspace.com/rhodgilbertcomedian
Time: Doors 7:15pm, show 8pm
Entry: Over 16's only photo ID will be required
Ticket Price: £15 + booking fee book online
Tuesday 17th November 2009
The Enemy
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The Enemy return to Lincoln as part of their autumn tour to promote their new album: Music For the People...
Already a live favourite having been played at last year's festivals 'Sing When You're In Love' is immediate proof that The Enemy have lived up to their own expectations. Plucking the same heart-swelling strings as the best moments on their debut, but this ode to the redemptive power of song boasts a more widescreen take that compares with fellow anthem writers like Springsteen. Meanwhile closing track Silver Spoon was one of the last songs to be written for the album - it was actually penned late night in the Welsh studio - yet it bristles and swaggers as only the climax of an Enemy album can.
One of the most enthralling live acts this is another chance to see The Enemy at the Engine Shed.
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: Strictly 16 Years and Older...ID Will be Required
Ticket Price: £18 advance plus Booking Fee book online
Tuesday 1st December 2009
The Saw Doctors
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Irish Folk rock legends The Saw Doctors have announced that they are to play at Lincoln's Engine Shed on 1st Dec 2009. Tickets on sale now!
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: This event is a 16's and over event. ID will be required on entry
Ticket Price: £20 + booking fee book online
Tuesday 8th December 2009
Shed Seven
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TICKETS ONSALE FRIDAY MAY 15TH 2009 @ 9AM
SHED SEVEN ANNOUNCE UK WINTER TOUR
CHECK OUT THIS: 30second tour teaser trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu80MnFaqhY&feature=channel_page
COME BACK ON MAY 15TH FOR THE FULL 2 MINUTE VIDEO including an exclusive interview with front man Rick Witter and fantastic, classic live footage!
Shed Seven have announced they will take to the stage again in 2009. The five piece band, who enjoyed a run of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits from 1994 to 2003 and have an enviable reputation as a live act, will embark on an 15 date UK tour in December.
Frontman Rick Witter said: “The reaction to our reunion tour of 2007 was amazing and after a couple of memorable festival appearances last summer we couldn’t resist the urge to play live together again this year. Fans can expect to hear all the singles plus other past favourites that we didn’t get the chance to revisit in 2007.”
Witter also exclusively announced that the band have been working on new material
“Although we have no plans to release another album, we have written two storming new tracks and one will be released as a download only single to coincide with the tour. As well as touring to celebrate the past this also gives us something to look ahead to.”
The Sheds also have a brand new website at www.shedseven.com which contains new and exclusive content. This includes a new live album recorded on the bands 2007 reunion tour which will be made available track by track as a free weekly download.
“We wanted to give our fans something back for their continued support and this also seemed like a good way of doing something a bit different. A new and exclusive live track will be made available every week”
The first track is “She Left Me On Friday” and will be available on the 15th May.
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: Strictly 18 Years and Older...ID Will be Required
Ticket Price: £16.50 plus booking fee book online
Thursday 10th December 2009
Dragonforce
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Every year there are albums eagerly anticipated, be it from hot young names, established legends or – and this is usually the most exciting of all the categories – those bands you know are on the verge of greatness.
As DragonForce, the multi-national talent based in London, prepare to release their fourth album, nobody who understands the world of metal can have any doubt that ‘Ultra Beatdown’ (as the record is to be called) is most certainly being awaited with a real sense that we are about to witness a band going from being ‘potential international stars’ to becoming a ‘major global phenomenon’. “Every album is different for us,” says guitarist Herman Li. “We never want to repeat what’s done before and that makes each record we do that little bit more difficult. On this one, we rejected so much because it was going over old ground. We’d heard it before. We’re not a band who get stuck with a formula and are just content to repeat the same thing over and over again.”
‘Ultra Beatdown’ has three hard acts to follow. If ‘Valley Of The Damned’ established the sextet’s fearless credentials in 2003, then ‘Sonic Firestorm’ (’04) and ‘Inhuman Rampage’ (’06) each took them further forward. In fact, the last named has now sold in excess of 300,000 copies in America alone and over 85,000 in the UK, spawning the single ‘Through The Fire And Flames’, thereby giving DragonForce the cachet of being the most successful new British metal act in America for two decades! However, the ‘Force are not a band to feel the impact of any undue outside influences. All the demands come from within the tight-knit group of Li, fellow guitarist Sam Totman, vocalist ZP Theart, keyboard player Vadim Pruzhanov, bassist Frederic Leclercq and drummer Dave Mackintosh. Like all the great bands you care to mention, the pressure is internal and eternal, always pushing the band to improve and develop. “You’ll find, for instance, that on this album we’ve been more varied in our pacing of songs” continues Li. “I’m not suggesting for a moment that we’ve really slowed right down but, whereas in the past, you could say that things were fast all the way through, this time we made a real effort to be a little less frenetic throughout. I believe the approach works extremely well.”
One thing DragonForce have always been good at delivering are songs with a tremendous melodic depth. Whatever other qualities they have – and there are plenty – it’s this trait that long ago marked them out as a class apart from many of their peers. Name any giant of the genre over the past 40 years or so, and they’ve always possessed the ability to compose a cunning tune or several. The same applies here. “There have been people who believe all we do is play fast. But to me, the most important part of any song is the melody. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far, but also feel this time it’s on a new level. Merely being fast isn’t enough to get you noticed and respected.”
The process in creating the new album began an amazing 18 months ago, when the first ideas were thought through. Studio work began to get into the groove last October, with a brief break at the end of the year for The Black Crusade European Tour. “We didn’t ever feel as if there was a time scale involved here. We just did whatever it took to make this the best album of our career to date. The way we’ve always done things means that what is written and demoed in the first place is rarely what we end up with in the studio. Our songs develop, evolve and change as we go along. It makes the studio an interesting place, because we’ll come up with new ideas all the time. Lyrically, we’re taking a look at life and what goes on in the world, but doing this in the usual DragonForce way!”
The new record is once again produced by the tried and trusted team of Li, Totman and Karl Groom of British prog metalheads Threshold, basing themselves at both Li’s studio and Thin Ice Studios in Surrey, where Groom does much of his work. The two guitarists have been involved with all production since the first album along with Groom since their first demo. “Our attitude is: why change what works for us? No producer could know better than the team of Herman Li, Sam Totman and Karl Groom what this band should sound like. If we had someone else as producer, then all we’d do is argue constantly, and then ignore them anyway! So, it would be a waste of everyone’s time. The day we bring in another producer will be the day that we have no ideas at all, and need help…actually, when that day arrives we’d split up! What would be point of continuing when we’re past our peak?”
‘Ultra Beatdown’ is the album to take DragonForce to a new height. It’s not merely the culmination of a decade crafting and finessing a sound that has made them instantly recognizable across the world. It’s not even state-of-the-art for metal, nor just a gantlet being thrown down for everyone else. This is more than that. It’s DragonForce beating a difficult, yet ultimately satisfying, path. Experimenting, taking risks, being bold – precisely what you’d expect any masters of their art.
“Is this the peak of our career? I don’t think so,” insists Li. “But it’s a further step forward. So far, there are six people who like ‘Ultra Beatdown’ – the members of DragonForce. And if we’re happy, then that’s all we can do. Hey, I can actually listen to what we’ve done here, and enjoy the experience!”
The rest of the world will follow. Just watch!
Time: Doors 7pm
Entry: Strictly 16's and over. Photo ID will be required
Ticket Price: £16 + booking fee book online
ID will be required to gain entry. The venue also runs a challenge 21 policy. Anyone who appears to be under the age of 21 will be asked for ID
