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2014 news archive
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Michael Ball Spring tour 2015!
31/12/2014
Michael Ball has announced the dates for his ’If Everyone Was Listening...’ tour this Spring.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 31st October. Click here for more details about the tour and here for more details about the new album, which is released on November 17th through USM TV.
Michael Ball Tour Dates:
Tuesday 7th April - Bournemouth BIC
Wednesday 8th April - Oxford New Theatre
Thursday 9th April - Ipswich Regent Theatre
Saturday 11th April - London Eventim Apollo
Sunday 12th April - Birmingham Symphony Hall
Tuesday 14th April - Brighton Centre
Thursday 16th April - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Saturday 18th April - Manchester Bridgewater Hall
Sunday 19th April - Liverpool Auditorium
Tuesday 21st April - Blackpool Opera House
Thursday 23rd April - York Barbican
Friday 24th April - Newcastle City Hall
Saturday 25th April - Glasgow Clyde Auditorium
Monday 27th April - Sheffield City Hall
Tuesday 28th April - Bristol Colston Hall
Wednesday 29th April - Cardiff St David’s Hall
Friday 1st May - Plymouth Pavillions
Saturday 2nd May - Portsmouth Guildhall
Sunday 3rd May - Southampton Mayflower Theatre
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The Undertones Merchandising store now open + 2015 gig info
31/12/2014
The Undertones announce the opening of their online merchandising store via their website.
You can access it by going to their website or you can go directly to the store (with link http://the-undertones.tmstor.es/ )
Here are the live shows for 2015 so far, for updates visit their website:
JANUARY
24th - Spiegeltent, Dumfries - Scotland
30th - The Button Factory, Dublin - Ireland
MAY
1st - The Assembly Rooms, Leamington Spa - England 2nd - Clapham Grand, London - England 12th - Trabendo, Paris - France
JULY
11th - Corbridge Festival 2015, Tynedale Park, Corbridge, Northumberland - England
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Frankie Round Table: Inside the Pleasuredome interview
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Ennio Morricone - London O2 - Feb 5th, 2015
10/12/2014
Legendary film-music composer Ennio Morricone has announced that he will play the London O2 on Thursday 5th February 2015 with a 160 member symphony orchestra and polyphonic choir. Having now fully recovered from a spinal injury, this will be his only UK concert for 2015.
More details and ticket info here
See our Arena Concerto 2CD here
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Procol Harum in a symphonic spectacular for BBC Radio 2
05/12/2014
For one night only, ’Friday Night Is Music Night’ presents Procol Harum in a symphonic spectacular for BBC Radio 2.
Live from the Dominion Theatre in London, with the sixty piece BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Firman and the forty voice CEF Chorus.
BBC link here
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Madness scoop 500k sales award!
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BMG Acquires Union Square Music
04/11/2014
International music company BMG is pleased to announce it has acquired leading UK record company Union Square Music and its sister music publishing companies Union Square Music Publishing and USM Songs.
The addition of catalogue marketing specialist Union Square, which releases around 150 artist and compilation albums each year, amounts to a significant expansion of BMG’s capabilities in the recording business and specifically in catalogue. BMG already has a catalogue of around 300,000 recordings including Sanctuary Records, Mute Records, Strictly Rhythm and Skint/Loaded catalogues, and artists such as The Kinks, Black Sabbath, Jean-Michel Jarre, Depeche Mode and Fatboy Slim. Combining music publishing and recording rights, BMG now represents around two million copyrights in total.
Based on year-to-date album sales compiled by the Official Charts Company, the acquisition of Union Square will double BMG’s sales of recordings in the UK and propel BMG to become the UK‟s fifth biggest record company.
Founded in 1999 by seasoned record executive Peter Stack, Union Square owns or exclusively licenses rights to artists including Madness, The Undertones, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Sandie Shaw, Nazareth, Marmalade, Michael Crawford, Barbara Dickson, Richard Clayderman, Procol Harum, Kirsty MacColl, the Original Rocky Horror Picture Show, M, and the Belle Stars.
It also represents labels such as ZTT (Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Art Of Noise & Propaganda), Stiff (Tenpole Tudor, Jona Lewie, Tracey Ullman), Peer Music (The Flowerpot Men, First Class), Cuban state-owned label Egrem (Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez and Compay Segundo), be-bop label Savoy Jazz, Denon Classics, Tappan Zee (home to smooth-jazz king Bob James), Skye Gryphon jazz, as well as its own extensive range of original musical theatre recordings, smooth jazz, world-beats, relaxation music and children’s recordings.
Union Square’s music publishing interests include the Nazareth catalogue, Russ Ballard ("Since You’ve Been Gone", "So You Win Again‟), Charles Mingus, Swing Out Sister’s Corinne Drewery and Andy Connell ("Breakout"), The Farm ("All Together Now") and songs from Syd Barrett, Nick Lowe, Hawkwind, The Damned, Captain Sensible and Eddie & The Hot Rods. USM Songs also represents the Plangent Visions Music catalogue worldwide including The Specials/The Specials AKA ("Ghost Town", "Free Nelson Mandela") and hits such as "Over My Shoulder" (recorded by Mike & The Mechanics) and "Our Lips Are Sealed" (Fun Boy Three, The Go Go’s).
Following the acquisition, Union Square founder Peter Stack will continue to run the business from the company’s West London base reporting through BMG’s UK operation, BMG Chrysalis UK.
BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch said, "This acquisition marks another significant milestone in BMG’s development as we seek to achieve similar scale in the recordings business as we already have in music publishing. Peter Stack and the Union Square team have established
an unrivalled reputation in the music industry for their respectful, artist-friendly approach to catalogue marketing and as such are a perfect fit with BMG. We look forward to working with Peter to create an even more significant catalogue business based on delivering value for artists and rights-owners."
Peter Stack said, "The combination of our expertise in marketing and exploitation and BMG’s significant catalogues is a win-win deal for BMG, Union Square and all of our artists and licensors. BMG have clearly demonstrated their ambition to grow their recordings business and the addition of their infrastructure and international network will allow us to offer an even better service to artists and labels."
Alexi Cory-Smith, EVP BMG Chrysalis UK, said, "The addition of Union Square means UK will now be home to the vast majority of BMG’s worldwide catalogue recordings business. We look forward to welcoming the Union Square team into our UK operation and giving them the tools to build on their outstanding track record of success."
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Raves for Love Songs
30/10/2014
Salvos’ 2 CD collection Love Songs: An Anthology of Arthur Lee’s Love 1966-1969, released on 27th October, has been receiving rave reviews:
“Includes (Forever Changes) in full while filleting its predecessors to best portray the band’s progress.” ***** (FIVE STARS) Andy Gill, The Independent
“Gorgeous two-CD set…a consummate collection of one of the greatest, most fascinating bands of all time.” ***** (FIVE STARS) Kris Needs, Shindig!
“Includes (Forever Changes) in full while filleting its predecessors to best portray the band’s progress.” ***** (FIVE STARS) Andy Gill, The Independent
“Too many outstanding songs to list…it’s time to listen in, if you haven’t already.” ***** (FIVE STARS) Ian Harrison, Q
"Fab, 2-CD chronological overview...a great primer." **** Mojo
The 2 CD compilation includes the best of their albums Love, Da Capo and Four Sail (the last featuring Lee as the only original member), and their masterpiece Forever Changes (featured in the 1st November NME in their ‘Anatomy of an Album’ profile) in its entirety, as well as a 16 page booklet.
Order yours from amazon.co.uk now, it’s out on 27th October
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Madness Gladness now in Tesco
28/10/2014
Madness’s brand new Gladness lager is available from today in selected Tesco stores.
Plug your postcode into the map to find your nearest retailer for all Madness brews here
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood Box Set ready to ship Order yours now!
24/10/2014
We would like to announce to all Frankie Goes To Hollywood and ZTT fans that there will only be 2000 of the "Inside The Pleasuredome " Ultra-Deluxe Box Set manufactured.
As of today over half of these have already been pre-ordered through PledgeMusic, with shipping due to start next week (the week commencing October 27th)
To view all the elements of the boxset, you can watch the unboxing video here.
At this time "Inside The Pleasuredome" is only available through PledgeMusic, so to avoid disappointment click here and pre-order your copy or you could miss out.
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Robin Scott Releases New Single
23/10/2014
Robin Scott, the lead singer and founder of the music
project called “M”, has released a new single called “Rescue Remedy”. Robin
Scott was the featured interviewed guest on Johnnie
Walker Sounds of the Seventies, you can listen to it here (the interview starts
at 1:25:10). He also appeared on Chris Evans’ breakfast show, which you can
listen to here (start at 49:20).
You can purchase the single on iTunes.
For all of Union Square Music’s releases of “M” please click
here.
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Busy Ball!
22/10/2014
With only a month to go until the release of Michael Ball’s
brand new album, If
Everyone Was Listening, the man himself has been busy attending awards
ceremonies, doing his radio show and serenading cows in aid of the Stars
At Your Service ‘Stand Up To Cancer’ campaign.
In the weeks leading up to the new album’s release, look out
for Michael on the Alan Titchmarsh show (ITV), BBC Breakfast (BBC1), Sunday
Brunch (C4) and Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2).
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Holly Johnson releases his album ’Europa’
21/10/2014
Holly Johnson released his new album ’Europa’ on Monday 29th September, his first in 15 years! It’s available on CD, Deluxe CD, Double Vinyl and Special coloured Double Vinyl Deluxe edition here: http://store.hollyjohnson.com/ . A UK tour is announced for October. For more information visit Holly Johnson’s website or facebook page.
View Holly Johnson on Later with Jools Holland on October 17th here.
Check here for all of Union Square’s Frankie Goes To Hollywood releases and for the ultimate Frankie box, don’t miss your chance to pre-order Inside The Pleasuredome - the 30th anniversary ultra-deluxe box set collection from Pledge Music.
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Chas Smash to release a new album in 2015
02/10/2014
Cathal Smyth a.k.a. Chas Smash, all-singing, all-dancing, songwriting trumpet player for Madness, is working on a new solo album called Comfortable Man, due to be released in 2015. For updates please visit his website.
For all of Union Square’s Madness releases click here.
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Upcoming Slade shows
01/10/2014
Slade have announced shows in Russia. Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Skegness (England), Austria, and
Belgium. They will also be playing shows in England in 2015. For
more information see their facebook page.
For all of Union Square’s Slade releases click here. 
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New Michael Ball album!
01/10/2014
We are delighted to announce that Michael Ball will
release his latest studio album – If Everyone Was Listening – through USMTV on
17th November.
In the spirit of the eclecticism of his own Radio 2
show, Michael has chosen, arranged and recorded 15 of his very favourite songs:
a mix of new and old, classic and contemporary, plus a couple of surprises and
a special guest appearance. Watch out for him on various radio and TV
appearances throughout the Autumn, including Steve Wright, BBC Breakfast and
Strictly Come Dancing… It Takes Two. Click here
for more details about the album.
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Claudia Brücken to release her new album
01/10/2014
Singer and former frontperson of the synthpop bands
Propaganda and Act, Claudia Brücken, is releasing a new album Where Else… on
October 6th.
You can see the video for the first single from the album, ’Nevermind’, here, and you can download it from iTunes and Amazon. For more information about how to
pre-order the album please visit her website.
For Union Square’s Claudia Brücken releases click here and for Propaganda click here.
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Gilbert O’Sullivan working on new album
28/09/2014
Gilbert O’Sullivan was in a recording studio last week in Madrid working on his new album. The yet unnamed album will have a Latin feel and he is using Spanish musicians to achieve the desired sound.
For more information please visit his website: http://www.gilbertosullivan.net/
Check here for all of Union Square’s Gilbert O’Sullivan releases.
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Sandie Shaw to release new single
05/09/2014
Sandie Shaw is featured on Neil Davidge’s new single ’Riot Pictures’ which is getting released on October 6th! Neil Davidge is a record producer, songwriter and film score composer, who has extensively worked with Massive Attack, including working on their Q Award winning album ’Mezzanine’. He released his own album called ’Slo Light’ in March 2014, which you can purchase here
Sandie Shaw’s website
Sandie Shaw’s releases
Neil Davidge’s Facebook
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Michael Ball’s a West End Hero!
03/09/2014
Michael Ball is to host this year’s charity gala concert, West End Heroes, on September 28th. Following the success of last year’s concert - in which the collective talents of West End musicals casts and military bands join together - this year’s bash is in aid of the Help The Heroes charity and is being held at the Dominion Theatre in London.
Michael said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to take part in West End Heroes
and to show my respect, admiration and support for the amazing men and women
who‘ve literally put their lives on the line for us all. It’ll be a joy and
a challenge to host the entire evening (as well as hopefully performing a
couple of songs) and I can promise it’s going to be a concert not to be
missed. And, if all goes to plan there will be some wonderful surprises in
store!”
Returning to form the centrepiece of the gala, under the directorship of Wing
Commander Duncan Stubbs, will be The Central Band of the Royal Air Force,
which incorporates the celebrated RAF Squadronaires Big Band.
Click here for Michael’s brilliant album ’Both Sides Now’.
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USM Junior launches first UK based music discovery app ‘My Songs’ on Spotify
02/09/2014
Leading UK children’s music label USM Junior have launched the first ever UK music based discovery App on the Spotify platform titled ‘My Songs’.
Children’s CDs and downloaded music in the UK is an important area of the music market, but until now there has not been a UK based discovery tool offering the best children’s music available in one safe and easily navigable App.
Check out the app here
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Check out the digital releases for ZTT and Stiff
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Madness – One Step Beyond… 35th anniversary edition
22/08/2014
Difficult as it may be to accept, ’One Step Beyond’ is
35!
On
its initial release, ‘One Step Beyond…’ coined the unmistakable “heavy, heavy
monster sound” and catapulted the band from poky rehearsal rooms and sweaty
gigs to the hearts of the nation. In truth it delivered so much more:
sophisticated pop, vaudevillian vamps, English eccentrics and desert
moonstomps.
The forthcoming anniversary edition of the album, released on October 13th, has been digitally remastered from
the original 1⁄4 inch tapes and comes complete with recently unearthed
rehearsal recordings from 1979 and more. Check here
for the complete track listing and to pre-order from Amazon and the official Madstore.
Also check out the official One Step Beyond site to
hear previews of all the tracks, help yourself to a free download and you can
even re-name the album.
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Holly Johnson Announces ’EUROPA’ Album & Tour
20/08/2014
HOLLY JOHNSON will release a new studio album, ’Europa’, on September 29th via his own Pleasuredome label. The album is preceded by a new single ’Follow Your Heart’ which is now available as a one-track download and was released as a digital and vinyl EP on July 27th. The new single “In And Out Of Love” was also aired on Radio 2 and is available for download straight away if you pre-order the album on iTunes. Click here for more information or to purchase.
Johnson has also announced a short UK tour for October, his first live shows since playing with FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD in 1987. More shows are expected to be announced soon.
OCTOBER TOUR DATES
Sunday 19th Birmingham Library
Friday 24th Liverpool Auditorium
Saturday 25th Manchester Academy 2
Tuesday 28th London KOKO
Read the story behind the ’Europa’ album artwork revealed: click here
For updates about the release visit Holly Johnson’s facebook page here
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Your Summer Road Trip
12/08/2014
ROAD TRIP!!!
Enter Our Amazing Competition To Win Road Trip Goodies
Start your engines, and crank up the volume! This rip-roaring three CD
compilation is filled to the brim with motor-revvin’ classics guaranteed
to make those long drives a little smoother and more enjoyable. 60
tracks from rock and pop’s finest including: The Beach Boys, Lynyrd
Skynrd, Free, Stereophonics, Queens Of The Stone Age, Blink 182, James
Brown, Roxette , Canned Heat, Iggy Pop and many more. So put the pedal
to the metal and slide into cruise control, it’s time to hit the open
road with the only soundtrack that you will ever need for any Road
Trip.
To launch our new series of ’Road Trip’ compilation
albums, we are inviting you to enter an amazing competition which could
see your photography included as part of the artwork of the next album
in the series!
All you have to do is send us your best actual
Road Trip photos via Twitter@unionsqmusic or to our Instagram account
@your_roadtrip where you will get a mention / repost.
We want a great photo that captures the essence of your Road Trip - check out our Road Trip album for a little inspiration.
You can be as creative as you like!
For more information, reviews and to purchase the album click here
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New Nazareth album ’Rock ’n’ Roll Telephone’ the band’s best received album in years
28/07/2014
Nazareth’s Rock
’n’ Roll Telephone, released worldwide in June, has been hailed by fans and
reviewers alike as their strongest studio album in years.
The UK’s leading music monthly Mojo called the album a "contemporary-sounding, classy, hard-rocking swan
song (for Dan McCafferty)”, and also proclaimed that “McCafferty signs off just
as he began back in ’68: defiant and swinging.”
Classic Rock (UK) stated that “the album is
very much in the classic Nazareth tradition - heavy, no frills rock ’n’ roll
with that rasping voice its unmistakeable signature", and the popular UK
blog Get Ready To Rock agreed that the album is "(a) wonderful
swansong (for Dan McCafferty), (f)rom the catchy opener ’Boom Bang Bang’, the
harder ’One Set Of Bones’ and the even catchier ’Back 2B4’ to the heavier ’Not
Today’ and a rocking ’God Of The Mountain’, the album pretty much sums up all
that has gone before,” and awarded RNRT four stars.
Reviews
have been universally excellent in other countries as well. German monthly Break Out said “Nazareth show all the trademarks which made them
such an outstanding band. Strong melodies, heavy riffs, groovy rhythm, catchy
refrains with lyrics which include all the main topics of life. Awesome!“, and Germany‘s Good Times made it their ‘Album of the Month‘
for June and said that “McCafferty sings full of soul and power”.
The Deluxe Digipack edition includes a second disc with two additional studio
recordings and five live tracks, and is also available in a double LP gatefold
vinyl version.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Telephone is available to purchase from amazon,
itunes and other e-tailers. Join the Naz Army on the official Facebook page to find out about live dates, competitions and to share other news, which is almost 300,000 members strong and is growing by the hundreds every week!
Deluxe 2 CD and Double Vinyl Track Listing:
Disc / LP 1
(1) Boom Bang Bang
(2) One Set of Bones
(3) Back 2B4
(4) Winter Sunlight
(5) Rock ‘n’ Roll Telephone
(6) Punch A Hole In The Sky
(7) Long Long Time
(8) The Right Time
(9) Not Today
(10) Speakeasy
(11) God of the Mountain
Disc 2 / LP 2 BONUS TRACKS
(1) Just A Ride
(2) Wanna Feel Good?
Live
(3) Big Boy*
(4) Kentucky Fried Blues**
(5) Sunshine***
(6) Expect No Mercy*
(7) God Save The South***
*recorded
live in Somerset, England 2008
**recorded live in Milton Keynes, England 2006
***recorded live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada 2000
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Come On England! Fat Les - Vindaloo Just in time for the World Cup!
12/06/2014
Vindaloo is generally recognised as one of the top three
English Football songs in recent times. Union Square Music is proud to make the song available
for World Cup 2014.
Come on England!
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Rock ’n’ Roll Telephone - Listening party on Soundcloud
30/05/2014
Starting Monday 2nd June, you can stream Nazareth’s acclaimed new album Rock ‘n’ Roll Telephone on Soundcloud before you buy it.
Classic Rock proclaimed the album as “very much in the classic Nazareth tradition - heavy, no frills rock ’n’ roll with that rasping voice its unmistakeable signature”, and Mojo declares that “McCafferty signs off just as he began back in ’68: defiant and swinging,” as this is to be his last recording with the band, a triumphant end to the career of “one of the all-time great rock singers”.
The album is released on 3rd June in North America, 6th June in Germany, and 9th June in the UK and the rest of the world.
See Facebook for more details
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Madness Home And Away!
22/05/2014
Madness have a busy summer ahead, with festival dates on le continent before returning to Blighty for their annual House Of Fun Weekender at Butlins in Minehead at the end of November. In addition to that little lot the band have announced a UK tour - the M.A.D.H.E.A.D. - in December, making it a very merry Christmas indeed this year.
For full details on all live Madness shenanigans, click here.
For tunes to go with said shenanigans, click here.
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Check out the ZTT Youtube channel - Zang Tuum Television
28/03/2014
Zang Tuum Television is the official YouTube channel from ZTT Records.
A record label that’s made a major contribution to the world of music
video, we’ll be uploading classics and rarities to this channel as the
weeks and months progress. Check out all the great content here!
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‘Take It Or Leave It’ nominated for Music Week Award!
27/02/2014
Salvo’s reissue of Madness’s ‘Take It Or Leave It’ has been
nominated for a Music Week Award, it has been revealed today. The Awards, which
cover all areas of the UK music industry are to be held in London on April 24.
Included in the Catalogue Marketing Campaign category, ‘Take
It Or Leave It’ combined Madness’s 1981 biopic on DVD, with its accompanying
soundtrack on CD for the first time ever. USM’s marketing campaign included
holding a launch party for the release at the same venue that hosted the
original premiere of the film, the Odeon on Camden Parkway. Members of the band
attended the launch and participated in a riotous Q&A session after the
film was shown.
The film itself (a must for Madness fans) is a wonderful
snapshot of London in the late 1970s and charts the band’s rise to fame from
their first gig as The Invaders to the departures hall at Heathrow for their
very first trip to America as the UK’s favourite band, Madness. The CD
soundtrack serves as an early best-of compilation with tracks from their first
three albums.
For more info about the release, click here.
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Record Store Day 2014
04/02/2014
Salvo is supporting Record Store Day 2014 with two new vinyl releases, from Stiff Records and ZTT.
Tenpole Tudor were an English punk band fronted by Edward Tudor-Pole, who first came to prominence via his role in the Sex Pistols’ film The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle.
Tenpole Tudor’s ’The Swords of a Thousand Men’ b/w ‘Love and Food’ is a 7" picture disc, featuring a classic Stiff Records logo on Side A and the band photograph from the original 1981 7" cover on Side B. ‘The Swords of a Thousand Men’ was the band’s biggest hit, reaching #6 in the UK chart in 1981.
ZTT’s release is a 12” picture disc, Art Of Noise Live at the End of a Century. Element 34 is a photodisc introduction to Art of Noise at the End of a Century, the CD/DVD anthology of five years of Art of Noise experimentation and recordings from 1997 to 2002 that will be released in 2014. ’Out of This World’, ’Born on a Sunday’ and ’Moments in Love’ were recorded live from the soundboard at the first Coachella Festival 9th October 1999.
The 7” and 12” picture discs will be available exclusively from RSD participating shops on 19th April, 2014. Worth queuing up on a Saturday morning for!
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ZTT 30th Anniversary Celebration and Amazon online competition
04/02/2014
Extensive press coverage of our first ZTT 30th anniversary releases include a Frankie Goes To Hollywood cover story in Classic Pop magazine and a major ZTT Records feature in Record Collector.
Our year-long celebration of the 30th anniversary of one of the UK’s most influential, innovative and successful record labels begins with three releases on 10th February: Frankie Said (Deluxe Edition), The Organisation of Pop (London Edition) and The Art of the 12”, Volume Three.
Expansively highlighting the breadth and depth of ZTT’s collective vision, these stylishly packaged releases features cuts and hit singles from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Art of Noise, Seal, 808 State, Shane MacGowan, Kirsty MacColl, Shades of Rhythm, Adamski, Lisa Stansfield, Tom Jones, David Jordan and much much more plus remixes, rare and classic 7” and 12” versions, promo videos, TV performances and classic ZTT experiments and overtures plus new words from Paul Morley.
Frankie Said (Deluxe Edition) brings together - for the first time ever - Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s greatest singles, remixes, videos and TV appearances. Noise-shots from the ‘Welcome To the Pleasuredome’ and ‘Liverpool’ albums, and rare and unreleased footage from Top Of The Pops, ORS 84 and the Zang Tuum Tum archives. The 24-page booklet also features a new essay from Paul Morley.
The Organisation of Pop (London Edition) is a two-disc, 38-track anthology of the first 30 years of Zang Tuum Tumb. Disc One features 19 hit singles from 1983 to the present day while Disc Two, The Disorganisation of Pop, takes a tour of ZTT’s archive of experiments, overtures, remixes and special projects. Paul Morley writes about ZTT’s reorganisation of pop in the accompanying 24-page booklet.
The Art of the 12”, Volume Three features rare and classic 12” remixes by the godfathers of electronic and pop, threaded together by their off-shoot projects – and another 80s obsession – TV, film and ad themes, from and inspired by The Tube, The Word, Network 7, A Clockwork Orange, Moonlighting, Escape From New York and the golden era of MTV.
Enter the Amazon competition to win a piece of studio equipment and one unused roll of
studio tape from SARM West Studios, both signed by Trevor Horn.
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ZTT’s Record Store Day 2014 exclusive vinyl
03/02/2014
ZTT’s Record Store
Day 2014 exclusive vinyl release is a 12” picture disc, Art Of Noise Live at
the End of a Century. Element 34 is a photodisc introduction to Art
of Noise at the End of a Century, the CD/DVD anthology of five years of Art
of Noise experimentation and recordings from 1997 to 2002 that will be released
in 2014. ’Out of This World’, ’Born on a Sunday’ and ’Moments in Love’ were
recorded live from the soundboard at the first Coachella Festival 9th
October 1999.
The 12” single will be available
exclusively from RSD participating shops on 19th April, 2014. Worth queuing up
on a Saturday morning for! 
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The Undertones announce London 2014 live date.
03/02/2014
The Undertones have announced a new London gig for 23rd May at Koko.
Full details and a link to the box office to grab your tickets are to be found here...
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Three New Releases from Salvo Sound & Vision on 10 February
16/01/2014
On 10th February, Salvo unleash their next three Sound and Vision CD/DVD deluxe digipacks, featuring live performances by a blues rock master, the crown prince of shock rock, and one of the originators of UK punk.
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’Great Balls of Fire’ at #1 on this date in 1958
10/01/2014
On this day in 1958, ’The Ferriday Fireball’ Jerry Lee Lewis was at #1 on the UK singles chart with his incendiary ’Great Balls Of Fire’. Lewis was the only major white rock ’n’ roll star to play piano rather than guitar.
’Great Balls of Fire’ and 105 other classic JLL recordings are available on our 4 CD box set A WHOLE LOTTA JERRY LEE LEWIS.
“Riveting...an expertly curated compendium of modern American song.” UNCUT
http://www.salvo-music.co.uk/shop/cdtop.asp?Marid=144&arid=1971
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Trevor Horn wins MPG Outstanding Contribution award 2014
08/01/2014
Congratulations to Trevor Horn, sometime Buggle, ZTT founder and producer extraordinaire, on winning this prestigious award.
By Tom Pakinkis
The Music Producers Guild has named renowned producer, musician and songwriter Trevor Horn as the recipient of its Outstanding Contribution award for 2014.
Horn will be presented with the PPL sponsored award at the MPG’s 2014 Awards ceremony on February 13 at London’s Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel.
"I’m thrilled that the MPG is recognising Trevor with this award,” said chairman of the Music Producers Guild Steve Levine. “I have known Trevor for over 30 years and have always admired his innovative production skills. He has always pioneered the use of new technology and is always happy to exchange and share his knowledge with other producers and with manufactures to help move that technical curve further forward. He is a very worth recipient of this extremely prestigious award."
Fran Nevrkla OBE, chairman of PPL said: "I am absolutely delighted about this very special Award for Trevor Horn whom I have known for so many years. PPL is particularly proud to be the sponsor of this Award, which is bestowed on special individuals by their own community of record producers and others involved in studio production. Trevor is one of the most uniquely talented creative individuals, having achieved international fame both as a recording artist and a producer. His enormous success over so many decades is almost without parallel and it speaks for itself.
"We at PPL offer our profound thanks together with congratulations and compliments to Trevor Horn on his truly extraordinary contribution to British music which is recognised throughout the world."
One of the UK’s most influential producers of the last 30 years, Trevor Horn has been responsible for numerous hits for artists such as ABC, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones and Robbie Williams. The award he will receive from the MPG acknowledges those who have made a significant contribution over a long period of time to the success of the UK music recording industry.
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