Mike announces solo New York show

Mike has announced that he will be playing a solo show on August 19th at Page 1 in Glen Cove in New York.

Tickets are available from http://www.myfathersplace.com/buytickets.html

The Mission - New album details

Details of the new Mission album have been released with the title being confirmed as "The Brightest Light". There will be a standard version and a deluxe version which will feature a bonus CD as well as a double vinyl edition!

The album features 11 tracks and the running order is ...

1.Black Cat Bone
2.Everything But The Squeal
3.Sometimes The Brightest Light Comes From The Darkest Place
4.Born Under A Good Sign
5.The Girl In The Furskin Rug
6.When The Trap Clicks Shut Behind Us
7.Ain't No Prayer In The Bible Can Save Me Now
8.Just Another Pawn In Your Game
9.From The Oyster Comes The pearl
10.Swan Song
11.Litany For The Faithful

The Bonus disc has a further 8 tracks...

1.I'm Fallin' Again
2.The Long Way 'Round Is Sometimes The Only Way Home
3.The Girl In The Furskin Rug (Wayne Hussey Demo)
4.Born Under A Good Sign (Wayne Hussey Demo)
5.Black Cat Bone (Wayne Hussey Demo)
6.From The Oyster Comes The Pearl (Wayne Hussey Demo)
7.When The Trap Clicks Shut Behind Us (Wayne Hussey Demo)
8.Ain't No Prayer In The Bible Can Save Me Now (Wayne Hussey Demo with Erica Nockalls)

Release dates depend on your location....the UK and France is due for Monday 23rd September, Europe is the Friday before on the 20th and America gets it on the 17th meaning fans should hear the material live before hearing the album.

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Mike & Billy (Pic courtesy of www.billyduffy.com )

Team BD who run the Billy Duffy website (www.billyduffy.com) and Social Media have been in touch to let us know that there is plenty of interest for Alarm fans on there.

From pictures of his time with Coloursound and Dead Men Walking to this account on how he got his Gibson J-200 Acoustic for the Love Hope Strength Empire State building event. http://www.billyduffy.com/gear/gibson-j-200-acoustic/

The picture archive (MEMORA-BILLY-A) is amazing and goes all the way back to the earliest days of Billy's career including Theatre Of Hate and Death Cult as well as lots of photos, tour pass laminates and set lists from The Cult.

Big Country store opens

The Big Country store has now opened having been absent after the update of the site to the fantastic new look. There are a variety of new designs including The Journey tour shirts, new logo shirts and the awesome varsity jacket as well as many more.....update your wardrobe at http://store.bigcountry.co.uk/collections/all

"Vinyl" DVD & On Demand available NOW!

If you pre-ordered your copy of Vinyl on DVD from MPO then hopefully you should now be enjoying the feel good fun....for everyone else Vinyl is now available from SKY BOX OFFICE (On Demand) and from i TUNES.

The physical DVD is still available from MPO and will be coming to Amazon and HMV from July 22nd.

The Bonus Material is pretty cool, including a nice interview with Mike so see below for what else to expect.

James Stevenson joins The Cult for Electric 13 tour.

The Cult have confirmed that James Stevenson will be joining them on the upcoming "Electric 13" tour. The tour will see the performance of the entire "Electric" album as well as material from other eras of the band. James of course previously played with The Cult in the nineties and I for one am looking forward to hearing him play on the big riffs featured on "Electric". The tour takes in America, the UK and Australia. Full dates and ticket info can be found at http://thecult.us/main/shows/

Help LHS in North Wales

Love Hope Strength are asking for any supporters in the North Wales area to get in touch if they can help to locally promote and advertise the upcoming Snowden Rocks which takes place in September.

The request asks if you are in a position to take between 1 - 12 A4 posters advertising the event that you could get displayed locally...shops, community centres etc...

If you can help please contact LHS directly through their Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/LHSUK?hc_location=stream

Mike Peters announces solo show for Austin

Mike Peters will be performing a solo acoustic show in Austin, Texas on July 15th which will be filmed for inclusion in the upcoming documentary about Mike and LHS. Tickets are priced at $40 and proceeds will be donated to LHS.

The show will be at The Listening Room at Winflo and you can find directions as well as purchase tickets from https://livevibe.ticketbud.com/mikepeters

Free downloads from The International Swingers

The International Swingers are being very generous and are giving everyone 3 tracks to download completely free.

Fans get the links after signing up to the mailing list at  http://www.theinternationalswingers.com/newsletter which is pretty much a no brainer as you get great tunes to download now and you then get kept up to date with everything TIS related!

To grab your copies of "Live Wire", "FBI" and "Gun Control" click the link above....but this is a limited time only deal so don't take too long!

The International Swingers by invitation only!

The International Swingers have finally announced the first of their very eagerly awaited UK dates....but there's a catch! When the band play the Lexington on the Pentonville Road in London on the 19th of July the audience will be by invitation only!

Keep an eye out on how you can grab tickets on the bands Facebook page and good luck to all of you....I will put my name in the hat and hope for the best!