The cover of their fifth studio album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was shot in 1998 on the beach at Portmeirion, North Wales – home of Festival No.6. This year’s festival falls on the 15thanniversary of the album’s release, all of which helped to convince the Manics to appear at what promises to be an astonishing homecoming.

Manic Street Preachers said: “Festival No.6 is the only thing that could break our self-enforced two year British gig ban. To be able to play in Sir Clough Williams-Ellis’ iconic village is something of a dream for us. See you in September.”

The musical bill at Festival No.6 - recently named Best New Festival at the UK Festival Awards and Best Small Festival at the NME Awards

 - will again combine a blend of iconic acts alongside the freshest emerging talent and a stunning DJ line-up. Other live acts confirmed in the first wave of announcements for 2013 include James Blake, Everything Everything, I Am Kloot, AlunaGeorge, Laura Mvula, Mount Kimbie, Caitlin Rose, Chapel Club and Dutch Uncles.

A selection of the stellar DJ acts confirmed so far include Frankie Knuckles, Carl Craig, Andrew Weatherall, Gilles Peterson, Justin Robertson, Greg Wilson, Maxxi Soundsystem, Unabombers and Futureboogie.

Arts and culture is another integral part of Festival No.6, and this year’s line-up is even stronger. Guests include John Cooper Clarke, the punk poet who is now a national treasure, name-checked by everyone from Alex Turner to Plan B, plus Man Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre, award-winning novelist and Times columnist Caitlin Moran and author and Review Show critic Paul Morley.

Other highlights include talks and readings from Tracey Thorn (Everything but the Girl), John Niven (Kill Your Friends), Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne) and Michael Smith (The Culture Show) as well as the return of the wonderful Jan Morris, one of the highlights of last year’s No.6.

Festival co-founder Gareth Cooper said: “We’re delighted and very proud that we’ve managed to entice one of the biggest Welsh bands of all time to end their hiatus and play Festival No.6. There’s a wonderful synchronicity in the fact that this year’s event falls on the 15th anniversary of one of the Manics’s greatest albums This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. The cover of that record was shot on the beach at Portmeirion, which makes it all the more special. We feel it’s important to maintain Welsh heritage within our line up and entertainment and there is no bigger way to do it than by booking this band!”

Last year’s event saw thousands of awestruck guests converge on the peaceful shores of the Welsh wonderland of Portmeirion, where the ocean, mountains and forests create the festival’s perimeter. The filming location of cult 60s TV show The Prisoner is a fantasyland of whimsical Italianate architecture overlooking the rolling estuary waters of the Irish Sea.

Such was the success of its inaugural year that Festival No.6 was named Best New Festival at the UK Festival Awards, whilst 2012 headliners New Order walked away with the prize for Best Headline Performance. More recently it was voted Best Small Festival in a public poll at the NME Awards.

Guests in 2013 can look forward to another year of outstanding musical acts, ethereal scenery, breathtaking architecture and enchanting distractions at a UK festival location like no other!

More artists, attractions, activities and VERY SPECIAL GUESTS to be announced soon!

For tickets and info please visit: http://www.festivalnumber6.com/

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M.I.A’s Bad Girls and Justice’s New Lands have picked up the most nominations this year with 5 each. Overall, Justice, who are signed to Ed Banger, have received the most, with 7 nominations across New Lands, On ‘n’ On and Audio Video Disco. Another notable nominee is The Shoes with their Time To Dance video, which features Jake Gyllenhaal and was directed by previous Best Director winner Daniel Wolfe; it has received 4 nominations.

Lana del Rey dominates the Best Pop International category with videos for Blue Jeans, National Anthem and Born To Die; she has received 5 nominations overall.

Infectious Records have made their mark on the nominations list with two Alt-J nominations for Tessellate and Breezeblocks and one for the Temper Trap’s Trembling Hands. Another label to have received multiple nominations is Ram Records, who have won 3 for their Delta Heavy videos for Get By and Hold Me.

Last year’s Video of the Year directors Daniels dominate the Indie Rock International category with 3 videos – Foster the People’s Houdini, Tenacious D’s Rize of the Fenix and The Shins’ Simple Song.

Other directors spotlighted by the Awards this year include Romain Gavras’ videos for M.I.A (Bad Girls) and Jay-Z & Kanye West (No Church in the Wild), both of which have picked up multiple nominations and Yoann Lemoine’s Woodkid (Run Boy Run) and Lana del Rey (Blue Jeans, Born to Die) videos. Both directors are up for the Best Director award.

Closer to home, David Wilson is nominated for his Alternative Advent Calendar and video for David Guetta’s Titanium, while his Pelican video for The Maccabees wins a nomination in Best Art Direction & Design. Fellow British director Emil Nava sees his videos for Rita Ora, Ed Sheeran and Paloma Faith nominated in the Best Pop and Best Urban categories. Both are up for the Best Director award. 

The UK Music Video Awards and VEVO have also got together to allow the fans to vote for their favourite British video of the past year with The People's Choice Award. Eighteen videos by nine different artists are in the running in the People's Choice Award - to be revealed on Tuesday, October 16th, when the Award is launched on VEVO's website, and the VEVO Facebook page.

The MVAs 2012 is the premier awards show dedicated to innovation and creativity in music video, the medium that has become the audio-visual entertainment of choice for the YouTube/VEVO and social media generation.

The UK Music Video Awards editorial director, David Knight, says, “It’s a fascinating period for music videos as a creative medium. Technology, the internet and social media continues to change how music videos are made and how they are consumed. They are central to people’s lives again, a huge source of entertainment – and sometimes awe and wonder.

“And the MVAs has become a globally-recognised event for celebrating the outstanding creative work in music videos in the UK and around the world. Last year filmmakers travelled from Europe and the United States to attend our biggest show ever. It was a very good night indeed – and I’m sure the fifth MVAs will be the best one yet.

The UK Music Video Awards 2012 ceremony will take place at The Empire, Leicester Square in London’s West End, on 8th November.

Here is the full list of nominations:

BEST INDIE/ROCK VIDEO – UK
Alt-J – Tessellate Director: Alex Southam
Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour Director: Mark Maggiori & Petecia Le Fawnhawk
Clock Opera – Lesson No 7 Director: Aoife McArdle
Coldplay – Paradise (alternative version) Director: Shynola
The Kooks – Saboteur Director: Surrender Monkeys
Spiritualized – Hey Jane Director: AG Rojas 

BEST POP VIDEO – UK in association with 4Music
Calvin Harris ft Ne-Yo– Let’s Go Director: Vincent Haycock
Ed Sheeran – Lego House Director: Emil Nava
George Michael – White Light Director: Ryan Hope
M.I.A. – Bad Girls Director: Romain Gavras
Paloma Faith – Picking Up The Pieces Director: Emil Nava
Will Young – Losing Myself Director: Henry Scholfield

BEST ALTERNATIVE VIDEO – UK
Alt-J – Breezeblocks Director: Ellis Bahl
Antony & The Johnsons – Cut The World Director: Nabil
Clark – Black Stone Director: The Vikings
Moones – Better Energy Director Peter Sluszka
James Blake – A Case Of You Director: Seb Edwards
Keaton Henson – Small Hands Director: Joseph Mann

BEST DANCE VIDEO – UK
Benga – I Will Never Change Director: Us
Bonobo – Eyesdown (Machinedrum Remix) Director: Anthony F Schepperd
David Guetta ft Sia – Titanium Director: David Wilson
Hot Chip – Night And Day Director: Peter Serafinowicz
Rudimental – Feel The Love Director: Bob Harlow
The Shoes – Time To Dance Director: Daniel Wolfe

BEST URBAN VIDEO – UK in association with East End Studios
Delilah – Inside My Love Director: Jake Nava
Devlin ft Ed Sheeran – Watchtower Director: Corin Hardy
DJ Shadow ft Afrikan Boy – I’m Excited Director: Ian Pons Jewell
Labrinth – Express Yourself Director: Jonas & Francois
Plan B – Ill Manors Director: Yann Demange
Rita Ora ft Tinie Tempah – R.I.P. Director: Emil Nava

BEST INDIE/ROCK VIDEO – INTERNATIONAL
Cults – Go Outside Director: Isaiah Seret
Foster The People – Houdini Director: Daniels
Jack White – Sixteen Saltines Director: AG Rojas
Tenacious D – Rize Of The Fenix Director: Daniels
The Shins – Simple Song Director: Daniels
Woodkid – Run Boy Run Director: Yoann Lemoine

BEST POP VIDEO – INTERNATIONAL
Justice – On ‘n’ On Director: Alex Courtes
Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans Director: Yoann Lemoine
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die Director: Yoann Lemoine
Lana Del Rey – National Anthem Director: Anthony Mandler
Maia Vidal – Follow Me Director: Joana Colomar
Rihanna ft Calvin Harris – We Found Love Director: Melina

BEST ALTERNATIVE VIDEO – INTERNATIONAL
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi, ft Jack White – Two Against One Director: Anthony F Schepperd
Feist – The Bad In Each Other Director: Martin De Thurah
Grimes – Oblivion Director: Emily Kai Bock
The Hickey Underworld – The Frog Director: Joe Vanhoutteghem
M83 – Midnight City Director: Fleur & Manu
St. Vincent – Cheerleader Director: Hiro Murai

BEST DANCE VIDEO – INTERNATIONAL
Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf Director: Keith Schofield
Flight Facilities – Foreign Language Director: Dimitri Basil / Laura Gorun
Justice – Audio Video Disco Director: SoMe
Justice – New Lands Director: Canada
Moonbootica – Iconic Director: Skinny
Skillrex – First Of The Year Equinox Director: Tony T Datis

BEST URBAN VIDEO – INTERNATIONAL
Blu ft U-God – Doinnothin Director: David M Helman
Casey Veggies – Euphoria III Director: John Bollozos
Kanye West & Jay-Z – Ni**as In Paris Director: Kanye West
Frank Ocean – Novacane Director: Nabil
Jay-Z & Kanye West – No Church In The Wild Director: Romain Gavras
The Cool Kids – Rush Hour Traffic Director: Joey Garfield

BEST INDIE/ROCK VIDEO – BUDGET
Bombay Bicycle Club – Lights Out Words Gone Director: Rob & Rob
Graham Coxon – What It’ll Take Director: Ninian Doff
Here We Go Magic – How Do I Know Director: Sean Pecknold
Piers Faccini – Tribe Director: Cyril Gfeller
We Cut Corners – Pirates Life Director: Kijek & Adamski
When Saints Go Machine – Parix Director: Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

BEST POP VIDEO – BUDGET
EJ – Mama I’m Going To Sing Director: Jack
Igor Volk - Voices Director: David Krepski
Laurel Collective – Jelly Bird Director: Crowns & Owls
Louise Golbey – How It Is Director: Spritz
Rent Boys – Shoot The Shot Director: Zac Ella
Sébastien Tellier – Cochon Ville Director: Alex Courtès

BEST ALTERNATIVE VIDEO – BUDGET
C2C – Down The Road Director: Thomas Tyman
Factory Floor – On Hold Director: AB/CD/CD
Hilary Hahn/Hauschka – Draw A Map Director: Eric Epstein
Rudi Zygaldo – Melpomene Director: Nick Rutter
The Death Set – They Come To Get Us Director: Guillaume Panariello
Three Trapped Tigers – Reset Director: Chris Boyle

BEST DANCE VIDEO – BUDGET
Delta Heavy – Get By Director: Ian Robertson
Delta Heavy – Hold Me Director: Kristofer Ström
Disclosure ft Ria Ritchie – Control Director: Ben Murray & Ross McDowell
Kidnap Kid – Vehl Director: Drew Cox
Toby Gale – Showdown Director: Crown & Owls
Todd Terje – Inspector Norse Director: Kristoffer Borgli

BEST URBAN VIDEO – BUDGET
A$AP Rocky – Peso Director: Abteen Bagheri
Astroid Boys – Bad Ass Director: Like An Egg
Dubbul O – Spooky Caravan Director: Joe Broady
James Brown – It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World Director: Xavier Fauthoux
Noisses ft RTKAL, Lady Leshurr & Foreign Beggars – Run Your Mouth Director: Drew Cox
Pato Siebenhaar – Gå For Det Director: Anders Bundgaard & Jeppe Hansen

BEST ANIMATION IN A VIDEO
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi, ft Jack White – Two Against One Animator: Anthony F Schepperd
Delta Heavy – Get By Animator: Ian Robertson
Fleet Foxes – The Shrine/An Argument Animator: Sean Pecknold & Britta Johnson
Gorillaz – DoYaThing Animator: Jerome Combe, Arnaud Delord & Pascal Charrue
Kina – In Your Arms Animator: Greg Jardin
Moones – Better Energy Animator: Kevin Coyle, Matt Somma, Chris Gilligan, Ellen Goldstein, Maxwell Sorensen, Matt Christiansen, Peter Sluszka

BEST ART DIRECTION & DESIGN IN A VIDEO
Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf Art director: Megan Hutchinson & Sunny Moon
Justice – New Lands Art director: Roger Bellés
Keaton Henson – Small Hands Art director: Josephn Mann
M.I.A. – Bad Girls Art director: Romain Gavras
The Maccabees – Pelican Art director: Andy Kelly, Clem Miller, Ashley Dando, Shaun Fenn, Sarah Ashcroft, Fiona Russel, Arthur de Borman, Max Halstead
The Shoes – Time To Dance Art director: Sam Tidman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A VIDEO in association with Panalux
Feist – The Bad In Each Other DoP: Kasper Tuxen
James Blake – A Case Of You DoP: Stuart Graham
Jay-Z & Kanye West – No Church In The Wild DoP: Mattias Montero
Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans DoP: Rodrigo Prieto
M.I.A. – Bad Girls DoP: André Chemetoff
UNKLE – Another Night Out DoP: Steve Annis

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY IN A VIDEO
Avicii – Levels Choreographer: Richy Greenfield & Petro
Delilah – Inside My Love Choreographer: Javier De Frutos
Hauschka – Radar Choreographer: Nadia Espiritu & Patrick Williams
Thunderbird Gerard – Thunderbird Choreographer: Nandi Bhebhe
Toby Gale – Showdown Choreographer: Rueben Crossland-Jones & Jacob Steers
Will Young – Losing Myself Choreographer: Aletta Collins

BEST EDITING IN A VIDEO in association with Vanderquest
Florence & The Machine – Shake It Out Editor: Thomas Grove Carter@ Family Editing
Justice – New Lands Editor: Canada
M.I.A. – Bad Girls Editor: Walter Mauriot
Plan B – Ill Manors Editor: Matt Mee
The Shoes – Time To Dance Editor: Tom Lindsay @ Trim Editing
UNKLE – Another Night Out Editor: Julian Eguiguren

BEST STYLING IN A VIDEO
Duran Duran – Girl Panic Stylist: Vanessa Coyle
Flight Facilities – Foreign Language Stylist: Dominique Basil
Lana Del Rey – National Anthem Stylist: Johnny Blue Eyes
Mademoiselle Yulia – Gimme Gimme Stylist: Andrea Crews
M.I.A. – Bad Girls Stylist: Hannah Edwards
Rammstein – Mein Land Stylist: Liz Cowan

BEST TELECINE (aka GRADING) IN A VIDEO
James Blake – A Case Of You Colourists: JeanClement Soret @ MPC
Justice – New Lands Colourists: Ben Rogers @ Glassworks
Jay-Z & Kanye West – No Church In The Wild Colourists: Simon Bourne @ Framestore
Temper Trap – Trembling Hands Colourists: James Tillett @ MPC
The Shoes – Time To Dance Colourists: Simon Bourne @ Framestore
Will Young – Losing Myself Colourists: Simone Grattarola @ Rushes

BEST VFX IN A VIDEO
Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf VFX Artist: Caviar Brussels
Friendly Fires – Hurting VFX Artist: David Lewandowski
Foster The People – Houdini VFX Artist: Daniels
Hot Chip – Night And Day VFX Artist: Chris Bristow & Ryan Passmore
Justice – New Lands VFX Artists: David Gomez & Martin Contel @ Glassworks Barcelona
Woodkid – Run Boy Run VFX Artist: One More Productions

BEST LIVE MUSIC COVERAGE
Chase & Status – Live At Brixton Academy Director: Paul Caslin
Chemical Brothers – Don’t Think Director: Adam Smith
LCD Soundsystem – Shut Up And Play The Hits Directors: thirtytwo
Rizzle Kicks – Live And Typical Director: James Russell
The Maccabees – VEVO presents The Maccabees In The Dark Directors: Jamie Roberts & Will Hanke
Various Artists – The Jo Whiley Music Show Director: Paul Dugdale

BEST MUSIC AD – TV OR ONLINE
Kasabian – Velociraptor Director: John Paveley
The Killers – Battle Born Director: Giorgio Testi
Olly Murs – Olly Murs Director: Paul Caslin
Pink Floyd – A Foot In The Dark Director: John Paveley & Paul Gardner
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra – Seven Vibes Director: Christian Holm-Glad
Soulwax – Radio Soulwax “Machine” Director: Saam Farahmand

THE INNOVATION AWARD
ALB – Golden Chains Director: Johnatan Broda
Ghostpoet & The D.O.T. – Trouble Director: UNKNOWN
j.viewz – Rivers and Homes Directors: Eran Amir, Shelly Carmel & Jonathan Dagan
The Maccabees – VEVO presents The Maccabees In The Dark Directors: Jamie Roberts & Will Hanke
Madness – Our House at The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Directors: Rok Predin & Layla Atkinson
Various Artists – Alternative Advent Calendar Director: David Wilson

BEST COMMISSIONER
Dan Millar
Dan Curwin
James Hackett
John Moule
Julia Frost
Mike O’Keefe

BEST PRODUCER in association with Rushes
Gareth Thomas
Leanne Stott
Lee Groombridge
Liz Kessler
Phil Tidy
Tamsin Glasson

BEST NEW DIRECTOR in association with Locomotion
A Nice Idea Every Day
Abteen Bagheri
AG Rojas
Bison
Focus Creeps
Ninian Doff

BEST DIRECTOR
Andreas Nilsson
Daniels
David Wilson
Emil Nava
Romain Gavras
Yoann Lemoine

THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD in association with VEVO
Shortlist to be announced 16th October 

Watch The Shoes' (pictured above) 'Time To Dance' video below:

]]> Pressparty http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/bigmouth/view/49644/ Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:31:59 +0100 http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/bigmouth/view/49644/ The Vaccines have announced the track listing of their forthcoming second album The Vaccines Come Of Age,

The 11-track album, released on Monday September 3rd 2012, was recorded at the ICP studios in Brussels and Distillery in Bath with producer Ethan Johns,

The track listing is as follows:

1.  No Hope

2.  I Always Knew

3.  Teenage Icon

4.  All in Vain

5.  Ghost Town

6.  Aftershave Ocean

7.  Weirdo

8.  Bad Mod

9.  Change Of Heart pt. 2

10. I Wish I Was A Girl

11. Lonely World

The album will also be released as a deluxe 2 CD edition featuring 3 bonus tracks, Runaway, Possessive and Misbehaviour. The second CD features a recording of their recent live show at the Brighton Centre on May 7th 2012.

They release the first single from the album, No Hope, through Columbia Records on Sunday July 8th 2012. Released digitally and as a limited edition 7”, it also features the tracks Blow Your Mind, written by Arni, plus demo and live versions of No Hope.

The single was premiered as ‘The Hottest Record In The World’ on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show on Monday 28th May.

The Vaccines Come Of Age follows their platinum selling, Brit nominated and NME award winning debut, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? which was released in March 2011.

The Vaccines recently played a short sold-out arena tour of seaside towns in the U.K. where they premiered a number of new songs off their forthcoming album, headlined the 2nd stage at the Field Day Festival in London in early June and played the main stage at the Isle of Wight Festival.

They have also so far been announced to play the main stages at T in the Park and Reading /Leeds festivals, alongside support slots with The Stones Roses in Heaton Park, Manchester and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers in Europe and shows in Russia, South Korea and Japan over the summer.

The Vaccines are: Arni Arnason (bass), Freddie Cowan (guitar / vocals), Pete Robertson (drums) & Justin Young (vocals / guitar).

The new "One-Two-Watch" episode delves into the Scottish-born singer and songwriter's propulsion to fame in the U.K., offering an in-depth look at the rising star and portraying her first-ever show on American soil. The vocalist was named Critic's Choice at the Brit Awards this year and will be in the U.S. this summer opening for Coldplay, with whom she toured the U.K. in December, in a series of arena shows.

Sande, who is coming off a string of well-received shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Minneapolis as part of her North American debut, is one of the handpicked talents that Myspace has identified as a key artist with a unique sound, set to influence new music. 

"Myspace was always the place where music fans could hear what was new. I'm excited to see the brand refocus on this with the 'One-Two-Watch' series," said Scott Vener (@brokemogul), lead curator for Myspace. "By identifying and curating what's next, the series simplifies the discovery process for people, helping reactivate passive listeners around their passion for music." Vener was previously the music supervisor to "Entourage," "90210" and "How to Make it in America," and is known for having a keen ear for fresh and unexpected sounds.   

Myspace created the series to support new voices and breakthrough talent while providing an opportunity for fans to discover new artists first.

"We are excited to see how Myspace's 'One-Two-Watch' series can play its role in breaking our new artists and introducing them to audiences, thirsty for undiscovered music," said Charlotte Robertson, who oversees digital marketing for EMI Music/Capitol Records. "We're pleased Myspace has selected Emeli as its next 'One-Two-Watch' and know that fans will not be disappointed when they watch her extraordinary piece."

Previous successes for the program have included interviews with Machine Gun Kelly, The Alabama Shakes and Lana Del Rey. Future "One-Two-Watch" episodes will focus on other breakthrough artists and air monthly in concert with corresponding album release dates.

Fans can catch Myspace's latest "One-Two-Watch" episode at www.myspace.com.  

About Myspace:
Myspace LLC is a leading social entertainment destination powered by the passions of fans. Myspace drives social interaction by providing a highly personalized experience around entertainment and connecting people to the music, TV, movies, and games that they love. These entertainment experiences are available through both online and offline and across multiple platforms and devices. Myspace is also the home of Myspace Music, which offers an ever-growing catalog of freely streamable audio and video content to users and provides major, independent, and unsigned artists alike with the tools to reach new audiences. The company is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA and is an affiliate of Specific Media.