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Competition Winners

Emma Scott Presents... Longview ticket winners

Belinda Dale, Drusilla Cox and Keith Phillips have won themselves a pair of tickets for Emma Scott's Longview gig at Birmingham’s Barfly on Friday 28th March 2008, courtesy of Kerrang! radio DJ/ promoter Emma Scott.

Longview are back after the success of their 2005 debut album ‘Mercury’ and they have only planned three gig dates for this year – this being one of them. To support them on the night are two exciting up-and-coming bands from South Yorkshire - Exit Calm and 93MillionMilesFromTheSun, who both have bright futures ahead of them.

The tickets were kindly offered by Emma Scott as part of her "Emma Scott Presents..." series of gigs in Birmingham

Hush the Many (Heed the Few) Ticket Winners

Matt Whittle, Hazel Tierney, Clare Greener and Bernadette Casserley are the lucky winners in the Hush the Many (Heed the Few) competition. The four of them are off to see the band in Oxford, London, Middlesborough and Wolverhampton respectively.

The band, fronted by guitarist/ singer Nima and bass player/ singer Alexandra are playing seven dates starting on 21st March in Middlesbrough, and will also be calling at Nottingham, Oxford, Brighton, Cardiff, Wolverhampton and London).

The tour just precedes the release of latest single ‘Revolve’ which is released on 7” vinyl on Alcopop records on 7th April. The single received a 4 star review from our very own David Adair and the band have also garnered the support of Radio One DJ Huw Stephens and have received accolades of the likes of Metro and Drowned In Sound.

The Latch - Signed single and t-shirt winners

A pair of signed copies of CD single Miracle by The Latch are on their way to Ian Wareing and Sarah Lucas. The lucky pair also get themselves a Latch T-shirt.

Miracle is the debut single from alternative pop duo The Latch, featuring Simon J. Pinto on guitar and Lee Latchford Evans on vocal duty. The single is out now on Lair Records - available for download from iTunes, Ditto Music as well as the more traditional shiny silver CD from HMV.

Five pairs of Adam Bomb tickets up for grabs – Underworld 24th September

Londoners Garry Vass, Donna Gage, Jill Ruane, Jo Bellinger and Gareth Miles - each win a pair of tickets to see American rock guitar supremo Adam Bomb who is playing at Camden’s Underworld on 24th September as part of a massive 100 date UK/ Europe tour.

Adam (that’s Mr Bomb to you) started out in the rock business with a try-out for US rockers Kiss at the tender age of sixteen. He has played alongside the greats, including John Paul Jones, Mick Taylor, Michael Monroe and Chuck Berry.

James Brown's Double Dynamite - Winners Announced

Mario Zapata from Bristol and Susan Lavelle from Merseyside have won themselves a copy of Double Dynamite a DVD and CD collection, featuring two shows recorded live in America in the 80s of the late great Godfather of Soul, James Brown.

The first show was filmed at the legendary New York club Studio 54 in 1980, the other closer to James Brown's hometown Atlanta - in Chastain Park, 1985. All of the classics are present and accounted for, including: Please, Please, Please, It's a Man's Man's World, I Got You (I Feel Good), Cold Sweat - in fact, every track is a classic.

Double Dynamite is out now through Liberation Entertainment

The accompanying audio CD features audio tracks taken from both shows - full details below

DVD

Studio 54 – New York

1. It's Too Funky In Here
2. Sex Machine
3. Try Me
4. Get On The good Foot
5. Medley: It's a Man's Man's World, Lost Someone, It's a Man's Man's World
6. I Got The Feelin'
7. Cold Sweat
8. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
9. Please, Please, Please
10. Jam
11. Medley: The Payback/ It's Too Funky In Here

Live at Chastain Park - Atlanta

1. Introduction/Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
2. It's Too Funky In Here
3. Try Me
4. Get On The Good Foot
5. Prisoner of Love
6. Get up Offa That Thing
7. Georgia On My Mind
8. It's a Man's Man's World
9. Medley: Cold Sweat/I Can't Stand Myself
10. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
11. I Got You (I Feel Good)
12. Please, Please, Please
13. Jam

CD

1. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time (Doing It To Death)
2. Get Up Offa That Thing
3. Body Heat
4. Sex Machine
5. Try Me
6. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
7. Get On The Good Foot
8. Medley: It's a Man's Man's World, Lost Someone, It's a Man's Man's World
9. I Got The Feeling
10. Cold Sweat
11. Please, Please, Please
12. Jam
13. Medley: The Payback/ It's Too Funky In Here
14. Prisoner Of Love
15. I Got You (I Feel Good)
16. Georgia On My Mind

Nationwide Mercury Music Award Album 2007

Steve Mappley, Stephen Adams, Rachel Heath, Phil Appleby and Tilly Price each have a copy of the Nationwide Mercury Music Award 2007 compilation album on the way to them. The album contains tracks by each of the twelve nominated artists for this years award.

This year's shortlisted twelve include winners from previous years (Dizzee Rascal and Arctic Monkeys) as well as artists previously shortlisted (Basquiat Strings and Amy Winehouse). Both Arctic Monkeys and Amy Winehouse have received nominations for their debut and follow-up albums. The winner of this year's prize will be announced on Tuesday 4th September.

The compilation - out on Monday 20th August - features fourteen tracks including two live tracks by Fionn Regan and The View.

1. Klaxons Golden Skans
2. The View Superstar Tradesman
3. Bat for Lashes What's a Girl to do
4. Fionn Regan Be Good or be Gone
5. The Young Knives The Decision
6. Amy Winehouse Back to Black
7. Arctic Monkeys If you Were There, Beware
8. New Young Pony Club The Get Go
9. Dizzee Rascal Sirens
10. Jamie T Salvador
11. Maps Lost My Soul
12. Basquiat Strings Double Dares
13. Fionn Regan Be Good or be Gone (Live)
14. The View Superstar Tradesman (Live)

Catherine Garvey off to see Marion Raven and Meatloaf in Sheffield on 29th May

Catherine Garvey is the lucky winner of a pair of tickets to to see the excellent Norwegian singer/ songwriter Marion Raven - supporting the mighty Meatloaf on 29th May at , Sheffield

Marion was specially picked for Meat Loaf's UK tour by the great man himself - which tells you we are talking about a serious talent here - as the recent 5 star review of the current single Break You tells you.

Daddy Long Legs single winners

• Dave Fargher
• Gavin Haslehurst
• Laura Watkinson
• Kirsty Glanville
• Paul Gibbs

Each of the above lucky winners get a copy of Daddy Long Legs latest double-A sided single Captain Aqua / Soup out now on Conker Records on 7” vinyl or for download from soundsexperience.com. The single has deservedly received very favourable reviews, with comments like:

A really marvellous shake, rattle and roll through cracking, adorable riff after adorable riff - rockfeedback.com

Like the missing link between Arctic Monkeys and Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly.. ..then introduces harmonies that flick it all into more Beatles-y territory. 4/5 - God is in the TV

The Jam, Gang Of Four and The Who all rolled into one with a spot of tea to wash it all down. This record has a lot of appeal and would be worth the time and effort to track down a copy. – Ear Candy Magazine

You can have a listen to both of these excellent tracks at their MySpace account: www.myspace.com/daddylonglegsuk

Pair of tickets to see Storm Warning @ Bluescene, London

Lucky Sonia Marquardt from Middlesex - and her chosen guest are off to see electric blues/ rock band Storm Warning, who are playing at the The Lion (Bluescene), Teddington on Saturday 14th October.

Storm Warning are a well-respected band on the blues scene, and get very favourable live reviews. Enter the competition below to win yourself a great evening of blues.

May Looi off to see Lecain and The Human Value - London

May Looi has won the pair of tickets to see Lecain and The Human Value @ the new London venue The Fly on the 26th September

Papa George Ticket Winner: Steve Richardson

Steve Richardson has won a pair of tickets to see Papa George at the The Lion (Bluescene), Teddington on Saturday 23rd September. The well respected National Steel/ electric blues guitarist Papa George will be appearing alongside his band, featuring:

Thanks to the guys at bluescene.co.uk for the tickets

• Papa George - Guitars
• Pete Stroud - Bass
• Sam Kelly - Drums

The band have appeared on former Manfred Mann front man Paul Jones BBC radio show, and have received airplay on local BBC and international radio.

allgigs is 5! Chris Bridgen wins top 5 UK albums

To celebrate five years of bringing you gigs, news and reviews on the UK music scene, we ran a free competition - offering the current top 5 UK albums (as of August 21st 2006) to the lucky winner - who was Chris Bridgen from Chingford.

The prize included these great albums:

1. James Morrison - Undiscovered
2. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
3. Razorlight - Razorlight
4. Orson - Bright Idea
5. The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out

'Dancing With Dolores' - Blues Band Giles' Latest Album - Winners Announced

UK Blues band Giles have recently released their fifth album Dancing with Dolores available via iMusicStage.

The last album Blue Funk received much critical acclaim from such reviewers as 'Blues in Britain', 'Toxic Pete', 'Blues Matters' not to mention the favorable reviews on this site.

The five lucky winners are

• Jon Booth
• Anthony Martin
• Donna Browne
• Linda Williams
• Michael Jowett

5 Copies of the award winning post-punk documentary 'Rough Cut & Ready Dubbed'

5 copies of the award winning post-punk documentary Rough Cut & Ready Dubbed are on their way to Mel Jones from Cheshire, Dave Morrison from London, Sarah Field from Co.Durham, James Bruce from essex and Hannah Taylor from London.

Our thanks go to International Licensing and Copyright Ltd - ILC for generously hosting the competition for the previously unseen documentary of the post-punk period, shot between 1978 and 1981, featuring Stiff Little Fingers, Cockney Rejects, The Selecter, Patrik Fitzgerald, Purple Hearts, Sham 69, John Peel, A Certain Ratio, Tony Wilson and Garry Bushell.

Fabulous long unseen movie of the post punk period between 1978 and 1981 that is more than just a music record, featuring as it does the looks, the poses, the rucks, the riots and the slaggings of bands and their fans. Filmed by a bunch of spit covered teenagers, this is not so much a documentary as a series of forays into the opinions of the protagonists of Punk, Mod, Oi, Dance and Ska; the kids on the street, the music, press and of course, the bands themselves. Originally, shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, the film retains it's rough and ready cut to produce a gem of street level cinema. Also has some cracking performances from exponents of punk, mod, oi and ska all filmed in the same DIY ethic that spawned punk itself!

DVD Extras

Rough Cut & Ready Dubbed Re-Visited - featuring the original cast twenty five years on and an interview with the directors.

Win Tickets to see Trafficker @ The Lion (Bluescene)

Claire Glasby from London is off to see the blues three-piece Trafficker, featuring Tommy Allen on guitar, Barry Pethers on bass and Craig Bacon on drums, appearing at the The Lion (Bluescene) on Saturday the 28th of May 2005.

Thanks yet again to the guys at Bluescene.co.uk for hosting the competition.

In the three years of their existence, Trafficker have supported many and various bands, including: Walter Trout, Mojo Buford (with whom Tommy Allen will be playing guitar for his UK tour in 2005) as well as appeared on Paul Jones' BBC Radio 2 Blues session, not to mention their busy UK + European tour schedule. Tommy Allen is also currently playing guitar for Dr JJ's Blues Band

Here's what the press have to say:

Confidence, ability and delivery that many with far more experience can only try to match.Blueprint Magazine

lived up to everything we’ve heard about him, a fine blues/rock guitarist. Damned fine.Ego Magazine

Their latest album Nature's Most Wanted is available from their website and features some of these tracks (you'll need to save them, then decompress - they're in "zip" format):

• Texas Love (Nature's Most Wanted)
• When Love Has Gone (Nature's Most Wanted)
• Diplomatic Man (Nature's Most Wanted)
• For a Moment
• Is that Enough for Me
• Song for Mom
• When Love Has Gone
• Treat Her Right
• What can I do

10 Copies of 'Blue Funk', the Most Recent Album by Guitar-led Trio GILES

Our congratulations go to:

• Jean Hand (Warwickshire)
• Neil Cameron (Belfast)
• Shane Strawson (Cambs)
• Johnn Mitchell (Hants)
• Lyndsey Robinson (Leicester)
• Wendy Barbe (Milton Keynes)
• Dawn Grosse (Mansfield)
• Kerry Shaw (Portsmouth)
• Cristina McDowall (Devon)
• Julie Deeley (North Yorkshire)

Each of whom has won a copy of Giles' latest album Blue Funk which received critical acclaim from the UK Blues website Blues in Britain

Their style has been described as 'blues-infused funk' with emphasis on good grooves, good songs and fine guitar work. The album features mainly original material.

Read the review in Blues In Britain.

Visit their website and listen to clips from the album.

Go and see them live.

John Chandler Honnor off to See Papa George @ The Lion (Bluescene)

John Chandler Honnor from Coulsdon,Surrey is the lucky winner of the pair of tickets to see the excellent blues guitarist Papa George Band at The Lion (Bluescene), Teddington on the 23rd April.

Papa George Band - regulars of the UK + European blues scene are regarded as one of Britain's best live blues acts.

Papa George, a mean axeman who has built up a strong reputation in recent years.The Times 2002

Hear them in action:

• Man With The Blues
• Cleansin' My Soul

Blues Guitarist Gregg Wright Ticket Winner

Colin from Herne Hill, London wins the pair of tickets to see virtuoso American (LA-based) electric blues guitarist, Gregg Wright at The Lion (Bluescene), Teddington on the 19th March.

What others have to say about Gregg Wright:

One of the most innovative guitarists of our time . . . this guy has more depth than the Atlantic Ocean!

The International Guitar Festival of Great Britain - www.bestguitarfest.com

. . . after Gregg's last shock blasting note ended, the audience erupted into a crescendo of cheers, clapping, whistling, and foot stomping! An encore was in demand!

Blues Matters - www.bluesmatters.com

Thanks to the guys at Bluescene and thanks to all of you that entered the competition.

Bluescene run blues gigs every month at The Lion (Bluescene), Teddington.

Find out more about Gregg Wright

Steve Arvey + Bluesmove @ Bluescene tickets winner

Martin Ling from Enfield is the lucky winner of a pair of tickets to see Steve Arvey + Bluesmove on Friday 25th February @ The Lion (Bluescene)

Thanks to the guys at Bluescene and thanks to all of you that entered the competition.

Bluescene run blues gigs every month at The Lion (Bluescene), Teddington.

Find out more about Steve Arvey

5 Signed Copies of "The First Album"

Hazel Rea from Colchester, Helen Hamilton from Swindon, Jonathan Bullen from Chippenham, Ralph Wilkins from Norwich and Steven Gregory from Dronfield have each won a signed copy of "The First Album" - the debut album from Liverpool-based band Ella Guru

Samples:

• Park Lake Speakers (Audio)
• Park Lake Speakers (Video)

You can find out more information on the band and the single at the mini-website and you can buy a copy here

Danni Anders off to see Daddy Long Legs

Danni Anders from Islington has won herself a pair of tickets to see funky indie rockers Daddy Long Legs who are playing at The Garage on Tuesday 17th August.

They say: "Daddy Long Legs rock to the max. Playing music makes you happy like a milkshake.". We say: "I'm Lovin' It"

Having recently won internet radio www.totallywired.co.uk's "Demo Clash" with Turbo Nige - a fine piece of musical niceness - which fended off the competition for 4 weeks, they are coming to a London venue near you soon.

More tracks (All from their Radio Wazee web page):.

• Tummy Ache
• Mean Sucker

Jemma Woolford off to see Four Bills and a Ben

Jemma Woolford from Teddington is the lucky winner of a pair of tickets to see Four Bills & a Ben whose members ( Johnny Warman, Steve Byrd and Andy Hamilton amongst others) have played alongside the likes of Ringo Starr, Peter Gabriel, George Michael, Duran Duran, Status Quo and SAS Band.

Our thanks to the host - and promoter of great live music in the south of England - Pete Feenstra.

Walter Trout @ Boom Boom

Lucky Kevin Stapleton from Chessington, Surrey is off to see legendary US Blues/ Rock band Walter Trout and the Radicals who are playing at Boom Boom Club - Sutton Utd FC, Sutton, Surrey on Thursday the 8th of July courtesy of Pete Feenstra.

If you're not Kevin Stapleton, then you didn't win. Never mind, have a listen to Walter Trout and his band in action to console yourself:

• Best U Got
• So Much Love
• Jericho Road
• Work No More

Claire Woods to See Geoff Achison @ The Farm

Congratulations to Claire Woods from Norwich who has won herself a pair of tickets to see Geoff Achison and the Soul Diggers at The Farm, Skegness on Saturday the 19th June.

Hailing from Australia, Geoff Achison has been entertaining audiences in Australia, the US and the UK with his blues-rock guitar skills.

Our thanks to Kate @ Geoff Achison and the Soul Diggers at The Farm for the tickets.

Ros Smith Off to See Bad Influence

Ros Smith from Guildford gets to see the ever-popular UK Blues band Bad Influence at the Farnham Maltings, Surrey on Saturday the 12th June.

Our thanks go out to Boogaloo Promotions for providing the tickets.

Boogaloo Promotions are purveyors of quality Blues in Surrey and all over the UK with their regular gigs at the Farnham Maltings, and all over the UK with their residential Blues/ Jive/ Swing weekenders.

Ten Copies of 'Blood from a Stone'

UK Blues-rock trio Giles kindly offered ten copies of their second CD 'Blood from a Stone'.

The competition is now over, and we extend our congratulations to:

• Yvonne Frost from Herts
• Lesley Collins from Essex
• Greg Morgan from Gloucester
• Arthur Harrington from Shropshire
• Darren Milward from Herefordshire
• Neil Vessey from Surrey
• Luct Irving from Enniskillen
• Tom Seaman from North Devon
• Claire woods from Norfolk
• S thompson from London

The CD, sold at £10.00, features mainly original material from this excellent blues-rock band. They will be playing at all of the major blues festivals this year. Read the review in Blues In Britain. Visit their website and listen to clips from the album. Go and see them live.

A Pair of Tickets to see Squarepusher

Kevin Harrington from Reading has won the pair of tickets to see Squarepusher perform at The Anvil in Basingstoke alongside Jamie Lidell.

Although he hasn't released a full album since 2001's Go Plastic, 28 year old Tom 'Squarepusher' Jenkinson has had a massive last 12 months. A 2003 US summer tour sold out on the strength of word of mouth, followed by a similarly frenzied UK week of shows. The Neptunes nominated his 2002 live album (with bonus EP) Do You Know Squarepusher for the Shortlist Prize (the US equivalent of the Mercury Prize). Sofia Coppola selected his music for the soundtrack of her film Lost In Translation. Seminal video director Chris Cunningham (whose work has recently been compiled on a DVD retrospective in conjunction with Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry) has been painstakingly working on a film based around Squarepusher's music. Radiohead's Thom Yorke will tell anyone within earshot how much he admires the Pusher man's sound. And Outkast's Andre 3000 cannot stop talking about him.

Suffice to say, Squarepusher's ninth album Ultravisitor has just upped the ante. He's been raising the bar since his first tracks made as a teenager for the Spymania label, perpetually on mission to capture delirious energy and uninhibited passion in sounds like you'd never heard before. The classic debut Feed Me Weird Things on RePHLEX IN 1996 PAVED THE WAY FOR defining the sound of the drum 'n' bass dancefloor, drawing on acid, neural funk, the physical intensity of hardcore rave and breakbeat, his love of jazz drummers, a flirtation with 2-step garage on the underground hit 'My Red Hot Car' and a tender side that showed in his stunning ability with melody - not to mention a heartWRENCHINGly faithful cover of Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' on Do You Know Squarepusher. In December 2003, Darren Johnston, an acclaimed British choreographer, video artist and sound designer, performed a new piece at London's South Bank Centre to a soundtrack of unreleased Squarepusher music. Inimitable in his quest to map new borders of sound and feel, with Ultravisitor, Tom Jenkinson has just delivered the album of his life that will have even his peers wondering where to turn next.

Album tracks - and samples:

1. Ultravisitor
2. I Fulcrum
3. Iambic 9 Poetry
4. Andrei
5. 50 Cycles
6. Menelec
7. C-Town Smash
8. Steinbolt
9. An Arched Pathway
10. Telluric Piece
11. District Line Ii
12. Circlewave
13. Tetra-Sync
14. Tommib Help Buss
15. Everyday I Love

A Pair of Tickets for Mike Oliver!

Mike Oliver from Carlisle is the lucky winner of a pair of tickets to see Irish Country superstar Dominic Kirwan on the 6th December 2003 at the The Sands Centre in Carlisle.

Probably Ireland's second biggest export - after the velvety smooth black stuff - Dominic is a versatile singer mixing modern ballads with orchestral, big band country music.

Didn't win? Never mind, tickets are available at £12.50 from the box office on: 01228 625222.

Our thanks go out to Jo at the The Sands Centre for their generosity in hosting this competition with us.