Pete Lawrie & Friends at the Buffalo Bar in Cardiff

Pete Lawrie has started a monthly residency in Cardiff. Turin Brakes were the guests for the first night, which sold out. Athlete will headline the second night on Thursday November 26th. Sign up to the email list at Petelawrie.com to get free mp3s.

The King Blues

The King Blues' UK tour was a huge success, including 1200 tickets sold in London and 1000 tickets sold in Manchester.

They're now playing supports with Carter USM and The Pogues (their legendary Christmas shows) before another national tour in February, this time supporting Enter Shikari.

Meanwhile, they are writing the next album.

For live reviews and other press see http://www.kingbluespress.blogspot.com/

And here's the front cover of the Big Issue that was guest edited by Itch:

congratulations to Speech Debelle on winning the Mercury Music Prize

She has just done a great rap on this remix of Pete Lawrie: http://www.zshare.net/audio/65278351931a2d43/

The Sun on The King Blues at V Festival

"The King Blues lived up to their fearsome live reputation"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2602222/Who-rocked-the-V-Festival.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=Bizarre

The King Blues on their Glastonbury shows

"If you’re heading down to Glastonbury Festival this weekend, then come watch us! We are playing on Saturday 27th in the following places:

1.20pm: Itch will be doing a solo poetry set at the IGLOOVISION DANCE DOME.
3.30pm: The King Blues full set on the AVALON stage.
10.50pm: The King Blues full set on the QUEENS HEAD stage."

the next Field Live will be on Tuesday June 30th at the Enterprise, Chalk Farm

and it will be the last one for a while as Sarah Levy who organises it is leaving Field for pastures new.

a political message on Eastenders thanks to The King Blues

flier for Field Live on Tuesday

the next Field Live

Field Live no. 8 will be on Tuesday May 26th from 8pm at The Enterprise, Chalk Farm

Line-up: The Savage Nomads, Sara Schiralli and Medi with an open mike slot at the start of the night (for more more info on this, email Sarah)

£5 entry or £3 NUS

The King Blues vs Lord Byron

The King Blues covered Bonkers for Radio 1's Live Lounge

if you type "King Blues" Bonkers into Google you should be able to find it

we got love

King Blues billboard in Camden, London

next Field Live will be Tuesday May 26th at the Enterprise in Chalk Farm

if you'd like to participate in the open mike session then send a MySpace or similar link to sarah@fieldrecordings.com

the new music business

some links to interesting articles about how the music business is changing: http://twentyfirstcenturymusic.blogspot.com/

King Blues news

The new King Blues single I Got Love was added to the Radio 1 C list yesterday and is also on playlists at XFM London, XFM Manchester, Absolute Extreme, Heat Radio, Nation Radio in South Wales, and the WM Network (four stations in the Midlands including
BRMB).

The video has been added to the Q TV playlist.

And a film set to What If Punk Never Happened is on the homepage of NME.com - check it out.

excellent Field Live on Tuesday

with Charlie Brown, Joe Rose and Murray James. There will be no Field Live in April - the next one will be on Tuesday May 26th at the Enterprise in Chalk Farm.

the next Field Live will be on Tuesday March 31st at the Enterprise

details of lineup to follow

free download from JP Jones who's playing Field Live

The gig is on February 24th at the Enterprise and this mp3 will be available until the day after

JP's MySpace is at www.myspace.com/jpjonesmusic

here's a link to download a free mp3 from Kyla la Grange

who will be playing Field Live at the Enterprise on February 24th. This will be available here until the day after the gig.

for more on Kyla, visit her MySpace

the Field Live Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=14242423821

flier for the next Field Live

The King Blues on the cover of Kerrang! magazine

for more of the nice things people have been saying about The King Blues, see http://www.kingbluespress.blogspot.com/

Going to war to prevent war was the most stupid thing I ever heard

If you've seen a sticker or a poster saying "Going to war to prevent war was the most stupid thing I ever heard" then the explanation is here: http://kingbluespress.blogspot.com/2009/02/going-to-war-to-prevent-war-was-most_07.html

the next Field Live will be on Tuesday February 24th at the Enterprise, Chalk Farm

And thereafter on the last Tuesday of every month at the Enterprise.

Each night will start with an open mike session. Email a MySpace link to sarah@fieldrecordings.com if you'd like to play.

the next Field Live will be on Tuesday November 25th at The Enterprise, Chalk Farm

and will feature, amongst others, the excellent Bailey Tzuke

download an mp3 of Bailey's You From Me from here until the gig

full line-up:

7.45 - 8.25 - OPEN MIC SESSION feat. students from ACM & ICMP

8.35 - Bridgette Amofah
9.10 - Max Tuohy
9.45 - special guest
10.20 - Bailey Tzuke
10.45 - END

Line-up for the next Field Live

Wednesday September 10th at the Enterprise

8.30pm - Rudy Ashcroft

9.05pm - Lisa Mitchell

9.40pm Barefoot Confessor

10.15pm Itch from The King Blues

Click here to download Camden Town by Barefoot Confessor until September 11th

Barefoot Confessor:

piece in Music Week about Wednesday's Field Live

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=1035155&c=2

The BootJacks are playing the second Field Live

Click here to download their track Killed An Angel (live in the kitchen demo). This link will be removed after the gig on August 13th.

Flier for Field Live no. 2