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Fancy attending this year’s Summer Sundae Weekender and camping for FREE? With Leicester’s best festival only a mere month away and with a line up that boasts the likes of Ocean Colour Scene, Ghostpoet, Patrick Wolf and our own latest cover stars Dog is Dead, anticipation for summer is gathering. Held on 17th, 18th and 19th of August a De Montfort Hall and Gardens, SSW 2012 is shaping up to be the best yet!

The Comp:

After the success of our complete the sentence competition last year, ..

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With the success of last years festival in the Cultural Quarter, all eyes are now on 2012 and the dream team leading it to bigger and better things, and this could include you! Oxjam are on the lookout for anyone who is passionate about their local music scene to organise a gig for Oxjam. Oxjam is a great opportunity for anyone to bring a national music festival to a local level and to raise money for Oxfam through music. 

Oxjam is Oxfam’s amazing month-long music festival, running th..

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This year, to celebrate five years in the making, White Noise Festival returns with a plethora of musical goodness in White Noise Jubilee. Curated and headlined by Diet Pills, Speaking In Italics, Maybeshewill, Codex Leicester and By The Rivers (acoustic), the event takes place from Thursday 31st May all the way to Monday 4th June and its spiritual home of Firebug Bar on Millstone Lane.

Weekend wristbands will be available priced £10, with day tickets also on sale for £5 very shortly, and with ..

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A video collaboration between Jonathan Buck and Different Fish...

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On 25th April Bombay Bicycle Club ride into town, hitting the De Montfort Hall stage on the back of the success of their third album ‘A Different Kind Of Fix’. Having recently won the Artrocker Magazine Band of the Year Award and being nominated for NME Best British Band, tickets are selling fast.

I caught up with Suren de Saram from the band to talk about their upcoming visit to Leicester and the release of their new EP, ‘Leave It’.

How are things going with the new EP?

Reall..

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In light of recent events regarding the cancellation of some rather large festivals around the country and with Glasto taking it’s holibob, it seemed as if the UK would suffer a fairly bleak year for summer music events. Nothing however could be further from the truth in Leicester, with Summer Sundae, White Noise and Strawberry Fields going from strength to strength, and a myriad of new festivals springing up every weekend it seems.

Latest on the list and in the calendar at Mono Towers is ..

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The Monograph is excited to announce that Monograph.TV the online video platform for Leicester music television is now live! Working in partnership with Enter the Treehouse, Monograph.TV delivers rich media direct to you our readers! Full of interviews, documentaries, exclusive sessions and music videos all from Leicester and with an iPlayer style interface, Monograph.TV broadcasts unparalleled coverage of Leicester’s heaving music scene.

Already online are interviews with Young Knives, Newton ..

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Electronic duo Basement Jaxx will play an exclusive DJ set on May 10 at the O2 Academy to support the University of Leicester’s Cardiovascular Research Centre appeal, with all funds raised from ticket sales going directly towards the new unit at Glenfield Hospital.

Members Simon Ratcliffe and Leicester-born Felix Buxton are currently working on the follow up to their 2009 albums ‘Scars’ and ‘Zephyr’, with fans being able to catch a preview of new Basement Jaxx material during their head..

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The festival at the heart of Leicester’s eclectic music scene has announced the latest additions to the 2012 line-up. Joining the likes of Public Image Limited and Asian Dub Foundation on the bill are Lianne la Havas, Patrick Wolf, Gold Panda, The Black Seeds, Ghostpoet, Lewis Floyd Henry, Stay+, Team Me and Dog Is Dead.

Since the release of her debut EP Lost and Found last year, Lianne la Havas’s success has spiralled and Summer Sundae is just one in a string of festival dates for her. Patri..

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After the thrilling crash of the first wave of artists set to perform at this years Summer Sundae Weekender, including Public Image Limited, tUnE-yArDs, Francois and the Atlas Mountain, Katy B & Leicester’s very own Grace Petrie, the second promises to be bigger and better.

Ocean Colour Scene, Adam Ant & The Good The Bad & The Lovely Posse, Billy Bragg – who will be celebrating Folk idol Woody Guthrie’s 100th Birthday - The King Blues, Friends, Death In Vegas & Uncle Fr..

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Once upon a time in 1985 the term ‘indie’ was short for ‘independent’. Unlike the independence sought by Alex Salmond and his band of delusional Scottish Nationalists, ‘indie’ eventually become a reference to any record label distinct from the “big four”. Fast track to 2012 and ‘indie’ is an umbrella term encompassing any guitar-based music fitting into its loosely marked boundaries.

Nick Clegg. Ed Miliband. George Osborne. Three more notoriously unpopular political figures in..

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Uncle Frank is the musical brainchild of Frank Benbini and Naim Cortazzi. Best known for their insightful lyrics, clever wordplay, innovative mixing and witty skits, the band are riding high in 2012 and looking forward to the release of new album Smiles for Miles…

This new album, produced by Tim Latham (Tribe called Quest, De la Soul), maintains their light sense of humour and showcases their conversational approach to song writing. It’s clear for them it’s all about making great music whil..

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