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NewsStereophonics extend UK arena tourStereophonics have extended their forthcoming UK arena tour. The band, who release new album 'Pull The Pin' in October, have added a night in Hull and extra dates in Cardiff and Birmingham. The Welsh rockers have also announced that all ticket holders for the shows will be able to download album taster 'Bank Holiday Monday' for free from their website stereophonics.com. The revised list of dates is as follows: Bournemouth International Centre (November 4) Brighton Centre (5) Manchester MEN (7) Hull Arena (8) Sheffield Arena (9) Birmingham NEC (11, 12) Nottingham Arena (13) London Wembley Arena (15, 16) Cardiff International Arena (18, 19, 20) Newcastle Arena (22) Aberdeen ECC (24) Glasgow SECC (25) To check ticket availability and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS, now. 'Pull The Pin' is released on October 1, and is preceded by a single, 'It Means Nothing', on September 24. Spoon discuss new album Spoon have finished recording their new album, 'Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga', which is due to be released July 9 in the UK and a day later in the US. NME.COM caught up with frontman Britt Daniel, who divulged some of the challenges of recording the follow-up to 2005's 'Gimme Fiction'. "I live in Portland but we made the album in Austin where the rest of the band lives, and it was a long time to be sleeping on the futon in the studio without a home," Daniel said. "Also the intensity of what I was going through, like breaking up with my girlfriend and being away from home, fed into what the whole album was. But In the end I'm glad it happened the way it did -- I do feel like it's the best record we've made," he admitted. Daniel said that the album is about heartache, love, politics and personal experience. "(Opening track) 'Don't Make Me A Target' is about talking to the big guy in charge, and telling him, 'Don't make things worse than they already are,'" Daniel explained. Production duties on the album were handled by long-time producer Mike McCarthy. "It's our fourth time working with the grumpy old wizard," Daniel said of McCarthy. "He's quite a character, but he's very talented." Daniel said that he and the band made the decision to go for a rougher, rawer sound than on the band's previous albums. "We left in the rough edges. We made the album to sound pleasing to us, but we hope more people will hear it than the one before." Spoon are gearing up to play several US and European festivals this summer, including Lollapalooza in Chicago and Norway's Oya Festival, before returning Stateside to play a handful of club dates. "It should be cool to play the festivals in Norway and Calgary, because I've never been there before," said Daniel. "And I think we're playing at a couple of festivals with LCD Soundsystem -- that'll be a blast. I've never seen them before and I love their last record. But I'm really looking forward to doing the smaller club shows after the festivals." |
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