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Jim Kerr To Release His First Solo Album -

Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr is working on his first ever solo record.

He says the reason for the album is to reconnect with who he was musically when he was 17 years old.

Kerr will perform his solo gigs around the release in May at King Tut’s in Glasgow, where his...

Howard Jones rejoins Killswitch Engage -

Killswitch Engage will reunite with absentee singer Howard Jones for a string of US dates next month.Jones, who left the band for undisclosed "personal reasons" in February, was replaced with All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte and former KsE vocalist Jesse Leach."It became overwhelmingly obvious to all of us...

Blancmange - Blanc Burn -

Unbeknown to myself, and probably many other Room Thirteen readers, electronic duo Stephen Luscombe and Neil Arthur began making waves in the early 1980's with the release of debut cult EP 'Irene & Mavis'. Their popularity went from strength to strength throughout the decade culminating with the likes of stonewall...

I Rock To Screen On ABC2 on Monday -

ABC2 will unveil its first exclusive drama / comedy on Monday night and its all about the music biz. Welcome to `I Rock`.

‘I Rock’ takes us into the world of Boy Crazy Stacey, a ficitious Sydney band who never quite get there.

The main character Nash Taylor (Josh Mapleston) is the...

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - History of Modern -

In the late 70s OMD were early synthesizer adopters and pop musicians with a serious avant-garde bent, who were looking to Kraftwerk and Harmonia for inspiration before most people had even got to grips with punk. This combined with a warm-hearted, Liverpudlian melodic sensibility saw them turn out...

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