In brooding and bearded gig news, Aussie R&Ber and YouTube slayer Chet Faker is bringing his minimalist electro-soul – think Bon Iver stoking a log fire with John Newman – to a string of European festivals, including Primavera (Barcelona, 28 May), Field Day (Victoria Park, E3, 6 Jun) and Poland’s Open’er (Gdynia, 1 Jul), with a sold-out show at the Art School in Glasgow (9 Jun) in between …
Blur will be making grown men in bucket hats jump for joy at Isle Of Wight festival, British Summer Time and now Benicàssim in Spain, but they’ve also just announced some regular UK tour dates at Barrowlands, Glasgow (9 Jun), Empress Ballroom, Blackpool (10 Jun) and Cymru Arena, Llandudno (11 Jun), which went on sale yesterday …
Deftones will be making grown men with goatees jump for joy at their one-off show (SSE Arena, Wembley, 21 Nov), around the same time that they drop their eighth album…
Or dance till you drop – literally – at one of Shangaan electro kingpin Nozinja’s five UK shows, starting at Walthamstow Garden Party (18 Jul). He’s been known to crank up the tempo of his frenetic African dance tunes to a limb-loosening 187bpm.
