Raegan Oates raeganoates
Music Editor FD2D
I'm Raegan. I'm part of the FD2D team. I annoy the boys and inject some much need estrogen into the equation at the magazine. I'm usually found trapped within the written pages, although occassionally you'll find me on here.
I have a bad habit of being In Love With Print. The boys would kill me to say this but there it is. Something else about me I.Write. Alot.
I should update this more often and as an editors page it's pretty dire really ... but who reads these things anyway. Peace x
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Todd Jerm is a freelance illustrator and artist who is best known for his striking and surreal images. Highly imaginative with an eccentric manner, the artist tells us that Todd Jerm is actually two men who are quite different from each other. Todd 1 we are told deals with the interesting jobs that crop up (He likes beer and doesn’t always like what Todd 2 makes him do and he makes Todd 2 late all the time) and it’s his artwork that we see on the cover of this issue of FD2D. Then there’s Todd 2 who deals with trying to make a living and paying the bills and the more commercial stuff. Both artists’ work is well worth looking at though, with each viewing of their pieces presenting a plethora of new things unnoticed before.
The two combined play bass and exhibites work with Alright The Captain, a local Derby band, worked at live drawing events for Subism, Best Joined Up and the Contemporary Gallery in Nottingham and have done mural work for the Anthony Walker Foundation, Diesel and the Hampton Court Flower Show. Catching up with both Todds we found out more of what makes these artists tick and what originally brought them through the FD2D doors.
- 11th May
Erica Burns is a freelance illustrator, artist, and pattern designer who has a love of vibrant colour and detail. Her work is bold and beautiful and she brings every image that she designs skillfully to life. With a proven track record of illustrations for use in editorial and advertising campaigns for companies such as Virgin Holidays and Dieline her ideas are honest, viable and eye-catching. That’s why for this edition of FD2D we asked Erica to design our cover celebrating the eagerly awaited 2012 Olympics. With her concept looking at the unity of The Games she told us that she hoped to “Inject some life and energy into the cover. The Olympics don’t happen very often and it really is a hopeful and positive time for all the countries involved.” It only takes one look at the front of our magazine to see that she has achieved this with ultimate panache. Catching up with Erica we found out more of what makes this artist tick.
- 11th May
Festival season is back! Awesome line-ups and amazing locations means this summer has the potential to be an absolute cracker. Over the years many a small festival has sprung up and our guide gives you a taste of the best the Midlands has to offer in 2012.
- 26th Apr
Fresh from the release of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut LP, Django Django are riding high with the release of their new single ‘Storm’. With its irresistible bassline and pop stomp, Storm sums up everything that makes this band so special.
- 26th Apr
The Twilight Sad have announced details of their new long-player ‘No One Can Ever Know’, the follow-up to their 2009 acclaimed breakthrough ‘Forget The Night Ahead’. Freshly inspired, it sees a synth-heavy sound made with vintage analogue synthesizers. Lycrically singer James Graham is on typically ominous form, delivering lightning bolts of malevolent threat. Forthcoming new single, ‘Another Bed’ is also the most radical yet anthemic song on the album with its driving disco-motorik and glacial keys pushing toward a dizzy emotional swell. With the band returning from a month-long tour in the U.S, we caught up with singer James to talk about their upcoming visit to Leicester for the Summer Sundae Weekender.
- 26th Apr
It's been a while, but we're all delighted to see him back. Paul Merton is returning to stand up for the first time this century, with a little help from his friends.
- 19th Mar
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release “Songs From The Great White North” an exclusive 12” vinyl for Record Store Day, on 21st April.
- 19th Mar
Dr Dee, a new studio album by Damon Albarn, will be released by Parlophone Records on 7th May 2012. Dr Dee is 18 tracks of songs and music inspired by the life of John Dee, mathematician, polymath and advisor to Elizabeth I.
- 19th Mar
Due to phenomenal public demand, Superstars Kanye West and Jay Z have added what will be the final 2 dates of this UK run, to their previously announced ‘WATCH THE THRONE’ European tour. The extra dates will be in Birmingham and Sheffield. JAY Z and Kanye West WATCH THE THRONE tickets are on sale NOW!
- 6th Mar
On April 2nd, Parlophone will release ‘What’ll It Take’, the first single to be released from Graham Coxon’s forthcoming A+E album. ‘What’ll It Take’ is an urgent slice of post-punk-electro with distant echoes of Wire and Can discernible in its ‘loser groove’ arpeggios
- 6th Mar
The Drums / Pulled Apart By HorsesWilly Mason / Dog Is Dead / Summer Camp / Lucy Rose
- 6th Mar
Splendour is back for a fifth year on Saturday 21st July at Wollaton Park.
- 6th Mar
Double British Comedy Award winner Dave Spikey is one of the most sought-after comedy talents in the UK today. With a career spanning two decades, he has numerous TV appearances to his name ranging from 8 out of 10 cats to Bullseye and most notably co-starring in Ch4’s critically acclaimed Phoenix Nights written by him and writing partners Peter Kay and Neil Fitzmaurice. As a recognisable TV face and an esteemed live performer, this February sees his return to stand up as part of Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival and his current UK tour WORDS DON’T COME EASY, where his hilarious new show examines situations in life where words really don’t come easy!
- 14th Jan
‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune’ (A Trip To The Moon) is a classic black & white silent film by revered French director Georges Méliès. Released in 1902, this legendary 14-minute film is widely considered one of the most important works in film history, and the very first to use science fiction as its theme, incorporating special effects that were very state-of-the-art at the turn of the 19th century. It was loosely based on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne's ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ and H. G. Wells ‘The First Men In The Moon’.
- 12th Dec
The track is taken from their much-anticipated album, 'Have Some Faith In Magic', which is out the following week.
- 12th Dec
Now back to their classic three-piece status, The Cribs have announced their first live dates of 2012 (ahead of what promises to be a busy year).
- 12th Dec
Double British Comedy Award winner Dave Spikey, who recently scooped an audience award at the inaugural COFILMIC Festival for his 10 minute short Buzz Dish, returns to the live arena in 2012 with the addition of 19 dates to his critically acclaimed WORDS DON’T COME EASY TOUR. As anyone who has ever seen Dave Spikey live or read his best- selling autobiography Under the Microscope will know, words come very easily to this hugely popular comedian.
- 16th Nov
In 1996, during the fevered atmosphere of the Britpop revolution, a new club night called Brighton Beach was launched at University of Leicester Student’s Union. Already successful in Leeds, DJs at the club mixed Classic 60’s & Northern Soul with R’n’B and new records by British bands like Blur, Pulp, Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis – it was an instant success!
- 8th Nov
Coldplay’s fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto will be released on October 24 (on Parlophone Records).
- 14th Oct
Most know David Lynch as one of cinema’s most original talents, but he is also a prolific visual and musical artist whose boundless creativity spills over into the realms of painting, photography, songwriting and more.
- 7th Oct
This October, Noah And The Whale celebrate the success of their Top 10 third album Last Night On Earth with their biggest headline tour yet.
- 20th Sep
Leicester Monday 19th September 2011 – One of the biggest bands in Britain - A stripped-down jumbo jet and 200 lucky fans – all captured by VEVO in exclusive footage released today.
- 19th Sep
Blood Red Shoes are Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell, a rock band that know there’s power and intensity in simplicity and this year they’ve released new album ‘Fire Like This’ alongside an intensive tour of the U.K. Be warned this is not your typical rock fare, Blood Red Shoes know you don’t need a whole string section to denote “emotional”, or a whole horn section to do “rousing”. They know rock music doesn’t need to be smothered in effects or laced with devious studio tricks to make an impact. There is another way and it involves boiling songs down to their essence– just raw guitar riffs and drum hits presented crisp and unadorned. At this year’s Summer Sundae FD2D caught up with Blood Red Shoes to talk about the events of 2011 so far and the last date of their UK tour.
- 13th Sep
The Bees are an English band from Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. They’ve released 4 albums, including 2002’s Mercury Prize-nominated Sunshine Hit Me, recorded in true DIY style to critical acclaim in Paul Butcher (lead vocals) garden shed, and major label follow-up Free the Bees, Octopus and their fourth album, Every Step’s A Yes . Alongside these releases their music has featured in adverts for Citroen, Magners and Sainsbury’s. Add to this support slots for the likes of Oasis, Madness, Paul Weller and most recently Fleet Foxes and what you get is a band that stayed the distance over a decade. Regulars on the festival circuit this summer they return to Leicester for the second time to play the Summer Sundae Festival.
- 13th Sep
Toots and the Maytals are ska and reggae legends. With a unique blend of gospel, ska, soul, reggae and rock they’ve bought their sound to generations and have worked their way into the very epicentre of U.K popular culture.
- 13th Sep
Sometimes you have to change everything, retool everything, rethink everything in order to move in the right direction. The Kooks’ Luke Pritchard knows this, in fact he positively delights in it. His band’s new album – their third, always a crucial moment – has always had one great goal. To reinvent the band from the ground up. Rather wonderfully, they’ve done it.
- 12th Sep
Leicester - Monday 5 September 2011 – VEVO, the UK’s leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform, showcased an exclusive live gig from Kasabian as the inaugural VEVO Presents feature in the UK.
- 6th Sep
Having chalked up his busiest year to date, Britain’s finest raconteur and renowned counter-culture hero, Howard Marks, shows no signs of slowing down, taking his brand new spoken word show ‘Howard Marks Is Mr Nice’ on the road this Autumn.
- 9th Aug
Shonen Knife are an all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, Japan, in 1981. Heavily influenced by 1960s girl groups, pop bands, The Beach Boys, and early punk rock acts, such as the Ramones, the trio crafts stripped-down songs expressing infectious melodies and simplistic, exuberant lyrics sung both in Japanese and English
- 7th Aug
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds release first ever single “The Death Of You And Me” out on August 21st.
- 27th Jul
On Saturday (16thJuly) WU LYF played their biggest headline show to date, closing off an entire Manchester road and filling a tunnel with 2000 fans. It rounded off a week that also saw them make their UK TV live debut on the Culture Show. Now the band announce details of a full UK headline tour in October. The eight date tour will include a London show at the capital’s Shepherds Bush Empire.
- 27th Jul
The Big Feastival is a sensational new three day event on the festival calendar combining mouth-watering food from some of the country’s top chefs with a top drawer selection of the finest live music acts around.
- 30th Jun
Micky Flanagan left school at 15 with no qualifications and went to work as a fish packer at Billingsgate Market in London. Now he is one of the most popular comedians in Britain, capable of selling out huge venues in the blink of an eye. How things change!
- 14th Jun
The Australian Pink Floyd Show is set to return with a series of 29 headline shows across the UK in February and March 2012. Described by The Times as “Setting the gold standard”, The Australian Pink Floyd Show is a live touring sensation which has now sold over three million tickets worldwide.
- 14th Jun
The Naked And Famous have today announced a major UK tour for November with tickets going on general sale this weekend.
- 6th Jun
A lot has happened since The Maccabees exploded onto the scene with album ‘Colour it in.’ Since then they’ve released album Wall of Arms, a straight to vinyl recording of Walking in the Air, recorded a track with Roots Manuva and are working hard on their new album due out in September of this year. 20 months in the making and ahead of their headline slot at Summer Sundae we’re told that both will be pretty special, and heralds a return to playing together live as a band “It will be the first outing really for us. There will be a handful of new, exciting songs for you to enjoy.” With them also playing second to the headline slot at Bestival festival, it sounds like its happy times ahead for The Maccabees and Fd2d looks forward to seeing them back on the stage doing what they do best.
- 26th Apr
Phill Jupitus best known for his appearances on TV shows such as QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks and as a presenter on numerous BBC Radio shows, came to Leicester playing the part of King Arthur in Spamalot, a musical “lovingly ripped off” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- 26th Apr
The Vaccines have had record labels frothing at the mouth from the word go and early on won over the likes of NME with their debut single Wreckin’ Bar and YouTube clip of If You Wanna, leading to them securing an opening slot on the NME 2011 Awards Tour. Since then there’s been a tornado of positive press about the band and they quickly found themselves on Later With Jools Holland and nominated for an MTV Award for “Best New Band of 2011”.
- 26th Apr
Whilst Beardyman might be better known for his beatboxing exploits, he is far from just another beatboxer. Having always pushed himself way beyond what most beatboxers consider their limits, this uniquely gifted artist with his refusal to be put in a box has seen him perfoming all over the world and on huge festival stages. One minute he’s winning the UK Beatbox competition - twice, next he’s winning best MC at Breakspoll, then playing a sold-out run of solo comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. This month sees a new adventure in the release of his new album I Done A Album and as ever it’ll smash people’s expectations.
- 26th Apr
The countdown has begun for deadmau5 return to the capital when he takes over London’s Victoria Park to headline the outdoor event on Saturday 11th June, and we are pleased to announce a collaboration with Lets Go Crazy – the biggest youth clubbing and lifestyle brand in the South of England.
- 7th Apr
"Pop heartbreak, handclaps and big violiny bits. Consider yourself warned: not only is this POTW, it’s (Time Of My Life) shimmying up the Singles Of The Year.” The Guardian
- 16th Mar
Fenech Soler are postponing their upcoming UK tour until Autumn. Lead singer Ben Duffy has been diagnosed with early stage testicular cancer and is embarking on a short course of chemotherapy.
- 14th Mar
Blondie * Mark Ronson & The Business Intl * House of Pain * ABC * Clare Maguire * Katy B * Eliza Doolittle * The Cuban Brothers * Beardyman * The Correspondents * The Wonder Stuff * Ms Dynamite * The Selecter * Fenech-Soler * Frankie & The Heartstrings * Wretch 32 * Ed Sheeran *Breakage (feat. Jess Mills) * Brandt Brauer Frick * Lau * Lucky Elephant * The Crayonettes * Smerins Anti Social Club * Two Wounded Birds * Caitlin Rose * Jaipur Brass Band * Kawa Circus * Bajah & The Dry Eye Crew * The Bad Shepherds * Marcus Foster * The Emerald Guard * Jellicle Cats * The Widow Maker * Kathryn Williams + lots more
- 7th Mar
Hurts / The Naked & Famous / Mona /
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Ed Sheeran /
The Phoenix Foundation / Darwin Deez (Manchester only)
- 23rd Feb
Formed by Paul Mullen (formerly of yourcodenameis:milo) and Gordon Moakes (of Bloc Party), YOUNG LEGIONNAIRE are finally set to release their HUGE debut album ‘Crisis Works’ on May 9th through Wichita Recordings.
'Crisis Works' is loosely concerned with the idea that crisis can kind of be engineered around us to make us more pliable. As Gordon explains;
'We're living with a siege mentality about recession and spending cuts that's becoming the narrative for our times. But it's that siege mentality that makes it easier to confer 'difficult' decisions on us from above. It's an excuse, but also an opportunity.'
The record, he says, is about 'Global economics - but it's probably more about the crisis principle on a personal level; how it affects your own decisions and thoughts'.
- 16th Feb
With a line up boasting one of Radio 1’s most rated, Annie Mac alongside AutoKratz, High Contrast and Fake Blood we were in no doubt that tonight’s Leicester Launch of Moda at the O2 Academy in association with Superfly was going to be epic. From the word go there was an overpowering sense of eager anticipation and all involved didn't fail to deliver.
- 7th Feb
Capping off a stunning 2010 and helping to kick start a new year, Gold Panda has been awarded the Guardian First Album Award. The prize was awarded for ‘Lucky Shiner’ his hugely acclaimed debut LP, which saw off competition from Marina & The Diamonds, Everything Everything and Delphic amongst others.
- 30th Jan
Since launching in 2008 Moda has gone from an intimate basement party to an internationally recognised music brand. What started as four young DJ's/ producers/ song writers wanting to host a party where they could share their music with others, and invite their favourite acts to play has now turned into something much bigger. Their ability to spot breaking artists led to acts like Little Boots, Crookers & Switch all playing gigs at Moda before exploding onto the world stage.
- 30th Jan
I Am In Love are the frenetic puzzle-popsters who know how to rock a party. With new material dealing in escapism and a relentless momentum combined with a willingness to experiment, it’s pop song writing but with an indie-electro, low-fi mash up.
- 25th Jan
Reports of rock music’s death appear to have been greatly exaggerated as a wealth of guitar-based bands get the nod in this year’s Shockwaves NME Awards nominations.
- 25th Jan
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