Thanks to the group that put this together: Daniel, Dan, Matthew, Sean, Kyle and Darren.

UK Music Round-Up

TOP 10 SINGLES - 15TH OCTOBER

1. “Meet Me Halfway” – Black Eyed Peas
2. “Happy” – Leona Lewis
3. “Everyone in Love” – JLS
4. “Fight for the Love” – Cheryl Cole
5. “I Need You” – N-Dubz
6. “Tik Tok” – Ke$ha
7. “3” – Britney Spears
8. “About A Girl” – Sugababes
9. “Down” - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne
10. “Bad Boys” – Alexandra Burke feat. Flo Rida

TOP 10 ALBUMS - 15TH OCTOBER

1. “JLS” – JLS
2. “Reality Killed The Video Star” – Robbie Williams
3. “Up to Now” – Snow Patrol
4. “Coming Home” – The Soldiers
5. “The E.N.D.” – Black Eyed Peas
6. “Crazy Love” – Michael Bublé
7. “3 Words” – Cheryl Cole
8. “Only Revolutions” – Biffy Clyro
9. “Greatest Hits” – Foo Fighters
10. “Soulbook” – Rod Stewart

This is the Black Eyed Peas third number one of the year, following the success of “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling” earlier on in the year. The last act to have three number ones in a calendar year was Elvis Presley when the iconic performers’ number one singles were re-issued in 2005. So, yeah, Fergie and Elvis Presley officially have something in common. New entries include Leona Lewis, N-Dubz, Britney Spearsand Sugababes.

The self-titled album by X-Factor runner-ups JLS narrowly beats Robbie Williams to the top of the album chart – quite fitting consider the title of William’s album. Other new entries in the albums chart include Snow Patrol’s two-desk compilation “Up To Now” (which includes the band’s “best love tracks” as well as material from their side-project The Reindeer Section), as well as the fifth album from Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro. The other new entry is Rod Stewart, ‘cause grandmothers need records too.

(All chart figures from BBC Radio 1’s chart programme)

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NEWS

Hyperbolic weekly mag NME announced their “Top 100 Albums of The Decade”. The Strokes 2001 debut “Is This It” (predictably) got the top spot.

NME also announced their “Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2010”, featuring The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums. The tour will take in Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Norwich, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Brighton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Cambridge and London next February.

To cash tie-in with their upcoming reunion tour, John Lydon’s legendary post-punk outfit Public Image Ltd. will re-release their second album “Metal Box” in both re-mastered form and as a 64-track 4-CD rarities set dubbed “Plastic Box”. Both drop 14th December.

Rolf Harris and Status Quo are teaming up for a Christmas single called “Christmas in the Sun”. I don’t think I need to say much more.

Cute indie-poppers Slow Club have announced a Christmas single, “Christmas, Thanks For Nothing”. It follows on from their Christmas single from last year “Christmas TV” and will be released December 14th. Neither song is as good as the Rolf Harris/Status Quo Christmas single.

Much hyped indie rock quartet Wild Beasts announced their first full US tour for February next year, before a headlining show at London’s Koko next March.

Muse announced two big stadium shows for September next year, at Wembley Stadium and Lancashire County Cricket Ground. Every website ran this story with the title “Super Massive Shows”.

Fyfe Dangerfield, the awesomely named frontman/songwriter from Mercury-nominated act Guillemots, is releasing a solo album. “Fly Yellow Moon” will be released on the 18th of January. To coincide with the release, he’ll be undertaking a solo tour of Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and London in January.

Leona Lewis is to sing the signature song for James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar. Will “I See You” become as ubiquitously annoying as the last signature song for a Jim Cameron blockbuster, “My Heart Will Go On”?

Arctic Monkeys released their new single, Cornerstone, this week, including a limited edition 10" which will be on sale exclusively in Oxfam's top 50 music shops. The Arctic Monkeys are also planning to take time out before writing their fourth studio album.

British Sea Power have already written 15 songs for their next album.

The dates for next year's Download Festival have been confirmed as June 11th-13th.

Sir Elton John has confirmed that he will not be rescheduling gigs originally canceled after he was hospitalised.

Grammatics have replaced cellist Emilia Ergin following her return to university.

Liam Gallagher (ex-Oasis) has revealed plans of a solo album for possible release next Summer.

Los Campesinos! have announced a string of UK tour dates to coincide with the release of their upcoming album titled, Romance Is Boring.

We Were Promised Jet Packs have announced plans of a European tour in January.

The Who's frontman, Roger Daltrey, has announced plans to write an autobiography.

We Are The Ocean have released a new EP on Hassle Records. The band have also released the video for 'Look Alive' which can be viewed here. They will release a full-length Cutting Our Teeth on January 25th.

Person L's new album 'The Positives' is available now from iTunes and Scylla Records Webstore and will be available in stores on December 7th.

Lostprophets new single will be 'Where We Belong’ will be released on January 4th.

North-East England pop-punk group, My Lost Youth are giving away their new EP 'Take The Stage' for free here.

Fearless Records have launched an online UK store here.

Michael Rice (ex-lead singer of Yashin) has a new myspace page with two of his newly recorded songs.

Trash Talk will support Fucked Up at the London Camden Barfly on November 25th

Luke Leighfield have released his new album 'Have You Got Heart?' on Got Got Need Records. The album is available as a free download here.

Want to have a nightmare? Listen to allstationsdown’s newly released single, Dweller.

Biffy Clyro released their new album Only Revolutions last week, which went to Number 8 in the UK album chart.

Mumford & Sonswill be playing a New Year’s Eve show at the London Forum. Support will be from Everything Everything and Beans On Toast. Tickets are available from here.

Blur picked up the award for ‘Best Festival Headline Performance’ at this year’s UK Festival Awards.

Morrissey recently had a fan thrown out of a gig in Hamburg where he told the fan “you can fuck yourself” before launching into The Smiths classic “Ask”.

The Maccabees recently took a trip to Malawi to play the Lake Of Stars Festival. The full Gallery of their trip can be found here over a few pages.

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TOURS

Twin Atlantic will be touring the UK in the new year.
JANUARY
26 - SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
27 - CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
28 - LONDON Borderline
29 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
30 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy 3
FEBRUARY
01 - SHEFFIELD O2 Academy 2
02 - LEEDS Cockpit
03 - MANCHESTER Night & Day
04 - NEWCASTLE Digital
06 - GLASGOW ABC

Sonic Boom Six and Big D and The Kids Table will be supporting Reel Big Fish on their UK tour in January.
January:
Sun 17 - Plymouth University, Plymouth
Mon 18 - O2 Academy, Bristol
Tue 19 - Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth
Wed 20 - O2 Academy, Oxford
Thu 21 - UEA, Norwich
Fri 22 - Academy 2, Manchester
Sat 23 - O2 Academy, Glasgow
Sun 24 - O2 Academy, Newcastle
Mon 25 - O2 Academy, Birmingham
Tue 26 - O2 Academy, Leeds
Wed 27 - Rock City, Nottingham
Thu 28 - Koko, London
Fri 29 - Koko, London

30 Seconds To Mars will be touring arenas throughout the UK in February in support of new album This Is War.
Nottingham Arena-19/2/2010
Manchester Arena-20-2-2010
Cardiff Arena-21/2/2010
Wembley Arena-23/2/2010
Dublin 02 Arena-26/2/2010
Glasgow SECC-27/2/2010

Female trio Millionaires will be playing 2 UK dates at the end of the year.
10/12 - Portsmouth Drift In The City
11/12 - London Barfly (late show)

We Are The Ocean will head out on UK tour with support from Flood of Red and All Forgotten.
20 November Milton Keynes The Pitz
21 November Nottingham Rescue Rooms
23 November Birmingham Academy 2
24 November Manchester Academy 3
25 November Glasgow King Tuts
26 November Leeds The Cockpit
29 November Colchester Arts Centre
30 November Brighton Concorde 2
01 December London Electric Ballroom

Slayer have had to cancel and reschedule their UK tour for next spring.
07/03 ENG, Manchester Academy
08/03 ENG, London Forum
09/03 ENG, London Forum
02/04 ENG, Nottingham Rock City
03/04 SCO, Glasgow Barrowland
04/04 ENG, Leeds Academy
05/04 ENG, Birmingham Academy

Not Advised will be heading out on a UK tour next month.
December
Friday 11th - Southampton Joiners
Sunday 13th - Luton SU Bar
Monday 14th - Colchester Twist
Tuesday 15th - Cardiff Barfly
Saturday 19th - Scunthorpe LIncoln Imp
Sunday 20th - Arbroath De Vito's
Monday 21st - Manchester Retro Bar
Tuesday 22nd - Birmingham Eddies
Sunday 27th - Belfast Limelight,
Monday 28th - Dublin Academy 2 (early show)
Monday 28th - Warrenpoint I.N.F
Tuesday 29th - Galway Roisin Dubh
Wednesday 30th - Cork Cyprus Avenue

Canterbury have began a Britain tour with LightsGoBlue. Canterbury's new album is available as free download here.
Thu 19th - York - Fibbers
Fri 20th - Stoke - Sugarmill
Sat 21st - Aldershot - West End Centre
Mon 23rd - Southampton - Joiners
Tue 24th - London - Barfly
Wed 25th - Derby - The Royal
Thu 26th - Birmingham - The Flapper
Fri 27th - High Wycombe - Blues Loft

As Tall As Lions will be touring the UK when they support Frightened Rabbit then Athlete on 2 support tours before playing a headline show at London's Barfly on December 11th.
1st Dec Moshulu/Aberdeen (supporting Frightened Rabbit)
2nd Dec Fat Sams/Dundee (supporting Frightened Rabbit)
4th Dec Anson Rooms/Bristol (supporting Athlete)
5th Dec ABC/Glasgow (supporting Athlete)
6th Dec Ritz/Manchester (supporting Athlete)
8th Dec Shepherd’s Bush Emprire/London (supporting Athlete)
9th Dec Shepherd’s Bush Empire/London (supporting Athlete)
10th Dec Wulfrun Hall/Wolverhampton (supporting Athlete)
11th Dec Barfly/London

Architects will be supporting A Day To Remember on their UK tour in March.
9th - Newcastle O2 Academy 2
10th - Glasgow Garage
11th - Manchester Academy 2
12th - London HMV Forum
13th - Bristol Anson Rooms
14th - Birmingham O2 Academy 2

Out Of Sight begin their UK tour this weekend.
21-Nov-09 Colchester, The Twist
22-Nov-09 Bristol, The Croft
23-Nov-09 Nottingham, Rock City
24-Nov-09 Leeds, The Cockpit
25-Nov-09 Inverness, Ironworks
26-Nov-09 Dundee, Fat Sams
27-Nov-09 Glasgow, O2 ABC
28-Nov-09 Wrexham, Central Station
29-Nov-09 Manchester, Roadhouse
30-Nov-09 Newport, Le Pub
01-Dec-09 Brighton, The Freebutt
03-Dec-09 Bournemouth, I Bar
04-Dec-09 Southampton, Joiners

Pennywise UK Tour
Thursday 11th MAY - O2 Academy Bristol
Friday 12th MAY - O2 Academy Leeds
Saturday 13th MAY - O2 Academy Newcastle
Sunday 14th MAY - O2 ABC Glasgow
Monday 15th MAY - O2 Academy Birmingham
Tuesday 16th MAY - O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire London

Flood Of Red announces new UK tour dates with The Xcerts and We Are The Ocean

Dividing The Line have new tour dates with Proceed to celebrate the release of their new album.

William Fitzsimmons stops off in the UK for a few dates on his European tour.

Daft Punk are rumoured to be playing a World Tour in 2010. The rumoured dates are:
Paris Le Zenith (July 30)
Amsterdam Heineken Music Hall (August 1)
Munich Allianz Arena (3)
Dublin O2 (5)
Nice Parc De Sports (7)
New York Yankee Stadium (15)
Sydney Football Stadium (22)
Melbourne Olympic Park Stadium (28)
London Wembley Arena (September 3)
Manchester MEN Arena (6)

Girls have announced a UK tour, the dates are as follows:
Brighton Audio (February 22)
Southampton Talking Heads (25)
Lancaster Library (26)
Glasgow Stereo (27)
Dublin Whelans (March 1)
Manchester Deaf Institute (2)
Birmingham Hare & Hounds (3)

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RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Casino Brawl – Shades; directions

Tiger Please - They Don't Change Under The Moonlight (Walnut Tree Records) (buy)

Various iPod and iTunes related problems, along with a mass of university work, have meant my time for discovering new music has been pretty slight. This past week I’ve been “jamming” the new Animal Collective EP that leaked, Fall Be Kind. It sounds pretty perfect for these autumnal, early dark nights kind of days.

The Maccabees cover of Roy Orbison’s “I Drove All Night” which can be heard here.

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CONTRIBUTORS: Silver Wings, davis64, sean-reid, thehereaway, iamgoose, severedlegface

Great to see this. Even though our music is kinda shit nowadays, thanks to the X-Factor.

TOP 10 SINGLES - 15TH OCTOBER
“Meet Me Halfway” – Black Eyed Peas
“Happy” – Leona Lewis
“Everyone in Love” – JLS
“Fight for the Love” – Cheryl Cole
“I Need You” – N-Dubz
“Tik Tok” – Ke$ha
“3” – Britney Spears
“About A Girl” – Sugababes
“Down” - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne
“Bad Boys” – Alexandra Burke feat. Flo Rida

I apologise for my country's taste in music.

Luke Leighfield have released his new album 'Have You Got Heart?' on Got Got Need Records. The album is available as a free download here.

Haha, I didn't know AP cover him at all, I saw him play a tiny show in my hometown last year supporting Frank Hamilton (a acoustic folk artist who plays a lot of gigs around Guildford). He seemed like a nice guy.

EDIT: Having gone to his site, I have no idea why I didn't check him out sooner. There's some really solid tracks there. Ordered.

I helped contribute to this, although I guess i've not been credited. Itt's great to see it come together regardless, good job guys.

haha British Sea Power make me laugh, they wrote a song about where I'm from (Canvey Island) and it's one the shittest places in the world, fuck knows how the hell this place inspired them to anything but suicide.

A Day To Remember has been upgraded to ABC for Glasgow now :)

Nice to see it all come together :) I thought all my little comments would get taken out, but there you go. Glad the Rolf Harris story made the cut....

You failed to mention Chartjackers, who raised over 10,000 pounds for charity this week and finished at #36 on the UK charts.

british sea power new stuff, good call.

Originally Posted by aerofan11

Great to see this. Even though our music is kinda shit nowadays, thanks to the X-Factor.

This, it's quite worrying to see how appalling the music is here right now.

As Tall as Lions are billed as "Tall as Lions" on the posters for their show in Bristol. I was not amused.

...I really like Canterbury.

Originally Posted by thehereaway

I helped contribute to this, although I guess i've not been credited. Itt's great to see it come together regardless, good job guys.

Did you get my email? No names were put on the submission and I sent around an email to everybody asking for names.

Originally Posted by davis64

Nice to see it all come together :) I thought all my little comments would get taken out, but there you go. Glad the Rolf Harris story made the cut....

Did you want me to edit them out? I just did a quick job of copy, paste, italicize, bold, etc.