Fuck Buttons are back with a new album and a string of live festival shows this summer.

Ahead of their appearance at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona later this month, Fuck Buttons have announced that they will play a small warm-up show (their first UK live show in two years) at The Deaf Institute, Manchester on Saturday 18th May 2013.

Further details of the new Fuck Buttons album will follow shortly.

Never ever thought this would happen – but LOOP have reformed. They will also perform at the last ATP staged in a holiday camp in the UK.

Robert Hampson explains:

It was a long time ago… and it didn’t really finish that well. I’m not sure anyone of us can really put our fingers on specific reasons, for they are legion, but after many many years of being asked why not play again, I can’t seem to find any excuses for why not to anymore.

To always pursue a forward motion has been my goal, but what goes around comes around as they say.

It seems that as much as you try to run as far as you can away from it, your past will always haunt you. I have never really slept well over the demise of Loop, it always felt unfinished. If I had a pound coin given to me for every time I get asked to reform Loop, I’d be a very rich man by now. I had always baulked at the idea, especially when I have been asked to perform songs with a pick-up band, something I could never do… ever.

It’s not that I am precious, but at the same time, without John and Neil holding down that centre, I’d never be able to wave, it would never be the same.

I’m so proud to say that the line-up of John Wills, Neil Mackay, Scott Dowson and myself have agreed to perform a limited number of shows from late 2013 to mid 2014 at various venues across the world. To perform from all stages of the Loop arc, enjoy it again, hoping that we make plenty of people happy again and maybe give people a chance to see it for the first time… then, we can put it finally to rest with a better feeling of completion and that a chapter is really over. I sincerely hope it maybe refreshing to us and to others. For some, it may simply not be on their radar anymore. Well, it’s simple enough for them, don’t buy a ticket. It’s going to blink and you miss it because it’s not going to be around long, I refuse to prolong it and for it to become embarrassing. It’ll be sharp and to the point…straight to your heart and then, it’s gone.

RH April 2013

Support your local record store!!!! THIS Saturday 20th April 2013!!!

Record Store Day 2013 sees a whole batch of cool stuff – MUGSTAR, Bardo Pond, Carlton Melton, Bong, Beak>, Goat, Husker Du, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Napalm Death, Poison Idea, Slayer, Sun Ra, The Velvet Underground, Mogwai, The Heads – all releasing some rare limited oddities or editions.

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3rd – Cyprus Avenue, Cork
4th – Bourke’s Bar, Limerick
5th – Grand Social Club, Dublin
6th – Aunt Annies Porterhouse, Belfast
7th – Broadcast, Glasgow
8th – The Brudenell, Leeds
9th – The Musician, Leicester
10th – The Cluny, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
11th – The Continental, Preston
12th – Soup Kitchen Cafe, Manchester
13th – Blade Factory @ Camp and Furnace, Liverpool
14th – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
15th – The Green Door Store, Brighton
16th – Exchange Club, Bristol
17th – Cargo, London

Also featured on the album is the band’s unique reworking of The Beatles’ White Album classic, “Cry Baby Cry”, which was originally recorded for and broadcast by the BBC as part of their commemorations of the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s death.

FREE MP3!! Bardo Pond’s version of The Beatles’ “Cry Baby Cry” taken from Ticket Crystals
https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/bardo-pond-cry-baby-cry

“Axis sees the band at their most eclectic, playful and ambitious. It’s one of the year’s finest LPs..” Soundblab

2013 will see some of Behind The Wall of Sleep’s favourite band’s gracing the stages…..GOAT, ELECTRIC WIZARD, THE COSMIC DEAD, TEETH OF THE SEA, ETERNAL TAPESTRY, UNCLE ACID AND THE DEAD BEATS, MOSS and many many more.

Holland’s very own Roadburn Festival has become Europe’s leading underground festival for psychedelic, avant-garde, doom or any other variation of leftfield sonic pleasures that push the boundaries of music.

In addition to the music, Roadburn has earned a reputation as having a unique camaraderie between the festivalgoers, bands, organizers and staff, and ranks as one of the best and most laid-back festivals to be experienced.