HANGING GARDENS LIVE STAGE hosted by CATS CRADLE & BABYLON UNDERGROUND:

Dreadzone; Orb Sound System; System 7; Zion Train (Perch & Dubdadda); Slamboree Soundsystem; Suns of Arqa; OOOD (Full Live Band); Astralasia; Zetan Spore; Infinite Collective; Axis Mundi; Orangafruup; Kalichakra; Flutatious; Nanosphere; Buck Fillington vs. Melc; Orchid Star; Markie B (Erb & Remedy); Lebrosk; B-Sub-Lime; Wiggzaro; Melosa; Bad Tango; Broken Eye; Motna; Shiny; Luke Hooverhead; Dread 1.

WAVEFORM PSY STAGE hosted by TRiBE of FRoG:

Mechanimal; OOOD; Neuroplasm; Re:Creation; Crystal Monkey; Peak; Subliminal System; Pickle; F'da F'da; Psychosonic; Timmer; Dr Psy; Wicki; Hypnocoustics; Occular; Flooting Grooves; Chris Rich; Dataura; PLUS an exclusive LIQUID SESSION feat. - Chameleon; Monk3yLogic; Mebjar; Liquid Ross vs Mike Logic.

CONTENDER CORNER ELECTRONICA STAGE:

Barry Ashworth (Dub Pistols); Run Tingz Cru; Eddy Temple Morris; Laid Blak; Chris Liberator;
Rodney P; Squat Dom; Geezer; Dogshite; The Drop; Undercover Hippy; Ipcress; Pablo; Neurodriver; Llamaleaf; Seashoe; Ade; Agent Smith; Kitson; Dr Meaker; Vent; Unit 9; ill Audio; Apply The Breaks; Freshold & Retrix; Captain Flatcap; Dready Glen; Miss Grace; Lockdown; Jessi G aka Bombshell; Mary Miss Fairy; Havok.

DOWNTEMPO STAGE hosted by GAIA CHILL & EARTHEART DRAGON CAFÉ:

Dr. Alex Paterson; Astralasia; Mirror System; Sephira; Lunarsonic; Nova; OOOD; Wadada & Angel-I (Suns of Arqa) present Stranger Music; Pete Ardron; Chillion; Globular; Dymons; Flooting Grooves; Cosmosophy; Toulliche; Bez23; Red Earth; Liquid Lounge; Arcturian Soul; Another Green World; Terra Nine; Tiffany Lunn; The Beaupreau Project; Michele Adamson; Laekyn; Naked Nick.

PROG & TECH HOUSE STAGE hosted by CHOONY’S HOUSE:

Alex P; CJ MacKintosh; Chad Jackson; Choonmaster; Colin Dale; Dr. Alex Paterson; Jon Tyrell; DJ Ruby(Malta); Sally J; Disruptive Influence; PTE; Paul von Goulding; Autolump; Phat Chex.

WORLDSHIFT ARENA hosted by WORLDSHIFT MEDIA:

Thomas Sheridan (Artist, Author, Musician, Satirist); Iain Hossack (Sustainability Consultant, Public Speaker); Bruce Archangel^ (Shifting to the Sacred Space of the Heart, Merkaba Programming, Distance Healing, Negative Entity Removal).

SUN-MOON ARENA:

New for 2013…PsyArt Installation and Visuals set you on a Cosmic Ride to the Stars and back…feel the Ultimate Expression of our Reality.

GREEN VILLAGE:

New for 2013…Green Village featuring stunning views from the Top of the Hill; Healing Garden; Alchemy Temple; Stone Circle; Solar Showers; Worldshift Workshops, and Talks, and Holistic Market.

More TBC.

www.waveformfestival.com
www.worldshiftmedia.com
http://psypressuk.com/2013/03/04/waveform-festival-2013-the-psychedelic-bonanza-is-back-for-its-7th-year/

HANGING GARDENS LIVE STAGE hosted by CATS CRADLE & BABYLON UNDERGROUND:

Dreadzone; Orb Sound System; System 7; Astralasia; Zetan Spore; Infinite Collective; Zion Train (Perch & Dubdadda); Axis Mundi; Orangafruup; Slamboree Soundsystem; Kalichakra; Flutatious; Nanosphere Live; Suns of Arqa; Buck Fillington vs. Melc; OOOD; Orchid Star; Markie B (Erb & Remedy); Lebrosk; B-Sub-Lime; Wiggzaro; Melosa; Bad Tango; Broken Eye; Motna; Shiny.

WAVEFORM PSY STAGE hosted by TRiBE of FRoG:

Mechanimal; OOOD; Neuroplasm; Re:Creation; Crystal Monkey; Peak; Subliminal System; Pickle; F'da F'da; Psychosonic; Timmer; Dr Psy; Wicki; Hypnocoustics; Occular; Flooting Grooves; PLUS an exclusive LIQUID SESSION feat. - Chameleon; Monk3yLogic; Mebjar; Liquid Ross vs Mike Logic.

CONTENDER CORNER ELECTRONICA STAGE:

Barry Ashworth (Dub Pistols); Run Tings Cru; Eddy Temple Morris; Laid Blak; Chris Liberator;
Rodney P; Squat Dom; Geezer; Dogshite; The Drop; Undercover Hippy; Ipcress; Pablo; Neurodriver; Llamaleaf; Seashoe; Ade; Agent Smith; Kitson; Dr Meaker; Vent; Unit 9; ill Audio; Apply The Breaks; Freshold & Retrix; Captain Flatcap; Dready Glen; Miss Grace; Lockdown; Jessi G aka Bombshell; Mary Miss Fairy; Havok.

DOWNTEMPO STAGE hosted by GAIA CHILL & EARTHEART DRAGON CAFÉ:

Dr. Alex Paterson; Astralasia; Mirror System; Sephira; Lunarsonic; Nova; OOOD; Wadada & Angel-I (Suns of Arqa) present Stranger Music; Pete Ardron; Chillion; Globular; Dymons; Flooting Grooves; Cosmosophy; Toulliche; Bez23; Red Earth; Liquid Lounge; Arcturian Soul; Another Green World; Terra Nine; Tiffany Lunn; The Beaupreau Project; Michele Adamson; Laekyn; Naked Nick.

PROG & TECH HOUSE STAGE hosted by CHOONY’S HOUSE:

Alex P; CJ MacKintosh; Chad Jackson; Choonmaster; Colin Dale; Dr. Alex Paterson; Jon Tyrell; DJ Ruby(Malta); Sally J; Disruptive Influence; PTE; Paul von Goulding; Autolump; Phat Chex.

WORLDSHIFT ARENA hosted by WORLDSHIFT MEDIA:

Thomas Sheridan (Artist, Author, Musician, Satirist); Iain Hossack (Sustainability Consultant, Public Speaker); Bruce Archangel^ (Shifting to the Sacred Space of the Heart, Merkaba Programming, Distance Healing, Negative Entity Removal).

SUN-MOON ARENA:

New for 2013…PsyArt Installation and Visuals set you on a Cosmic Ride to the Stars and back…feel the Ultimate Expression of our Reality.

GREEN VILLAGE:

New for 2013…Green Village featuring stunning views from the Top of the Hill; Healing Garden; Alchemy Temple; Stone Circle; Solar Showers; Worldshift Workshops, and Talks, and Holistic Market.

More TBC.

www.waveformfestival.com

www.worldshiftmedia.com

http://psypressuk.com/2013/03/04/waveform-festival-2013-the-psychedelic-bonanza-is-back-for-its-7th-year/

1.   The Boomtown Rats!

2.   Mary Of The 4th. Form

3.   (I Never Loved) Eva Braun

4.   Neon Heart

5.   Like ClockWork

6.   She's So Modern

7.   Lookin' After No. 1

8.   Someone's Looking At You

9.   Me And Howard Hughes

10. Joey's On The Street Again

11. I Don't Like Mondays

12. Having My Picture Taken

13. Banana Republic

14. Diamond Smiles

15. Rat Trap

16. Back To Boomtown 

The digital version of the album will feature two additional songs – ‘House On Fire’ and ‘Drag Me Down’.  

Some 26 years since their final show in Dublin in May ’86, The Boomtown Rats – Bob Geldof on vocals, Pete Briquette on bass, Simon Crowe on drums and Garry Roberts on guitar - will play the Isle Of Wight festival on 16th June 2013 and will tour the UK in the autumn.  The full list of shows is:  

OCTOBER 

22  BOURNEMOUTH                 O2 Academy 

23  CAMBRIDGE                       Corn Exchange 

25  NORWICH                           UEA 

26  LONDON                             Roundhouse 

28  BRISTOL                            O2 Academy 

29  NOTTINGHAM                     Rock City 

31  LEEDS                                O2 Academy  

NOVEMBER 

1    MANCHESTER                    Academy 

3    GLASGOW                         O2 Academy 

4    NEWCASTLE                      O2 Academy 

6    BIRMINGHAM                     O2 Academy 

Once famously described as ‘licentious, festering reprobates’ and ‘leprous anti-establishment scumbags’ and banned from playing in their home country, it’s difficult to overestimate the shock and awe The Boomtown Rats inspired in late 70s Ireland.  The Rats set out to “disrupt, disturb and question what it meant to be young in the Ireland of the mid-70s”. 

Formed in 1975 in Dublin The Boomtown Rats exploded out of Ireland in ’76 and their fast, loud, furious music and their fast loud furious attitude meant they became part of the burgeoning punk scene. Singer Bob Geldof’s defiant motormouth arrogance and flagrant disrespect for authority endeared him and his band to every youth who felt weighed down by the heavy handed blandishments of church and state.  In the UK The Boomtown Rats first toured with the Ramones and Talking Heads rocking and mocking the status quo alongside the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam and The Stranglers. They became one of the biggest bands of the late 70s/80s with a string of top ten hits and platinum albums, earning them Brit Awards, Ivor Novellos and Grammy Awards.  Making history as the first Irish band to have a UK no 1 hit with ‘Rat Trap’, they went on to top the charts in 32 Countries with ‘I Don't Like Mondays’ and racked up 6 era-defining albums: ‘The Boomtown Rats’ (’77), ‘A Tonic For The Troops’ (’78), ‘The Fine Art Of Surfacing’ (’79), ‘Mondo Bongo’ (’80), ‘V Deep’ (’82) and ‘In The Long Grass’ (’84).  

Says Bob: “_age,curiosity and cash prompted our interest in getting together again. Age and cash are self evident. Curiosity about each other and what we did together in the '70' and 80's.  Curiosity about those songs that seem to have endured and the music and band that powered them.  When I sang again Rat Trap,Looking After No 1, Mondays, Someone's Looking At You, Banana Republic, She's So Modern etc, there was nothing I would change.  On re-hearing, on re-singing them I understood that they could have been written yesterday. the circumstances within which they were written hadn't changed. Tragically and unfortunately.I could sing those words with utter conviction. This isn't nostalgia rather perhaps a time to be angry again.  A time to hear a great band like The Boomtown Rats again. If only for a short while...”  

For more information please contact: Ted Cummings –tedcummings@cloudpr.co.uk 

Boomtown Rats tickets go on-sale 9am on Friday 21st June priced at £24.00 regionally and £27.50 London (subject to booking fee) and are available from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk  

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New song ‘Millionaire’ is an impossibly jaunty pop song, which is Scouting For Girls in excelsis; it’s summery and irresistible, and produced by Martin Terefe (‘I'm Yours’ by Jason Mraz, ‘Hey Soul Sister’ by Train).

Best of friends from an early age Roy, Greg and Pete toiled for years being in a band and building their fanatical fan club the Wolfcubs. The band were signed by Epic in 2007 and success happened quickly. In 2008 Scouting For Girls self-titled debut album topped the British charts and found its way into a million UK homes. Nominations for BRIT, Ivor Novello and MTV Europe awards soon followed. The next album ‘Everybody Wants To be On TV’ entered the charts at number 2 with their first number 1 single ‘This Ain’t A Love Song’ and their most recent ‘The Light Between Us’ went Top 10.

Over the course of three sparkling, life-affirming, Top 10 albums Scouting For Girls have also made the journey from playing pubs in Harrow and Ruislip to headlining Wembley Arena. This, then, is the tale of three friends who followed their dream, seduced a nation and sold two million records along the way.

Roy Stride, singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist in Scouting For Girls has also become a sought after pop writer with cuts on One Direction, Olly Murs and Alexandra Burke albums.

Greatest Hits track listing is below:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elvis Aint Dead
3. Heartbeat
4. It's Not About You
5. James Bond
6. Keep on Walking
7. This Ain't A Love Song
8. Famous
9. Silly Song / Don’t Want To Leave You
10. Take A Chance
11. Love How It Hurts
12. Summertime in the City
13. Without You
14. Millionaire
15. Make That Girl Mine 

Scouting For Girls will be playing a Racecourse tour this summer and V Festival in August. 

Dates below: 
03-Aug Doncaster Racecourse
08-Aug Chepstoe Racecourse
09-Aug Brighton Racecourse
17-Aug Stafford V-Festival
18-Aug Chelmsford V-Festival
22-Aug Wolverhampton Racecourse
23-Aug Newcastle Racecourse
24-Aug Windsor Racecourse
25-Aug Laverstock Park Farm, Carfest South

The band's new LP, appropriately titled 'Save Rock & Roll', dropped earlier this week on April 15.

Wentz told the Daily Star he felt that in today's music scene he found a lack of "rock star heroes", claiming that he was fed up of other bands all sounding the same. 

"Why are we the only band willing to take up the challenge of saving rock 'n' roll?" he said. "I want us to make kids feel the way I did watching Guns N' Roses vid­eos as a kid – you need rock star heroes. In our time off, I listened to a lot of radio and it all sounded the same."

Lead singer Patrick Stump added: "People will be mad about our album title, but it’s so sad when bands play it safe."

"When rock 'n' roll becomes predictable – a certain look or sound – it's the least rock 'n' roll thing I can think of. It's like there's a prescription available for how you should rock, and we're here to save the idea of rock 'n' roll," Stump said.

Courtney Love and Elton John both feature on the new album, which also includes tracks 'Young Volcanoes', 'My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)' and 'The Phoenix'.

Listen to Fall Out Boy's 'Rat a Tat' featuring Courtney Love here:

After a lengthy battle with drink and drugs, the 'Back To Black' singer passed away in July 2011. Winehouse enjoyed a close friendship with Doherty, with the Babyshambles star even admitting recently that the pair were lovers.

He revealed that before her passing, he and Winehouse had hoped to record some cover versions together.

He said: ''We always planned to do some Billie Holiday songs together - 'Good Morning Heartache' and 'These Foolish Things'. Whenever we'd get together with guitars, we'd go through them.''

Doherty - who is famed for his drug addictions and brushes with the law - also added that he feels "resentful" of Amy's death.

He added: ''No one got the chance to say goodbye. It was such a shock. There are so many things I'm resentful of [about the situation], but I almost feel that it's not my business. I wouldn't want to offend anyone. A few times there have been tragic deaths of my friends, and their families have made me feel less than welcome in celebrating their memory. Like I was held responsible for these deaths.''

Watch Pete Doherty perform an intimate gig in a cave here: 

The singer is famed for his frequently-publicised drug addictions and brushes with the law, but now claims he is as "clean as a whistle."

Speaking to the Metro, Doherty said: ‘It’s almost like I’m a disappointment to some people because I’m not completely f***ed up, a dribbling mess. That person doesn’t really exist. It’s a tabloid creation and they don’t like it that I’m not like that, so they keep fuelling this fire.

He added: "They don’t want me to be at peace. They don’t want me to look good. They don’t want me to be happy. It’s got to be f***ed up, if it’s to do with me."

Doherty was rarely out of the headlines and moved to Paris to escape the constant interest surrounding his wayward lifestyle.

He revealed: "I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn’t walk down the street. London becomes a very small village eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable."

After a lengthy battle with drink and drugs, the 'Back To Black' singer passed away in July of last year.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Doherty says he misses Winehouse immensely, adding that they were once more than friends.

He explained: “This is difficult for me to admit. But, yes, it’s true. Amy and I were lovers. I loved her then and, well, I still do today. But towards the end, as only lovers can, she became quite mean and cruel to me. She didn’t suffer fools… and believe me, she had a mean right hook.”

Doherty also had a tumultuous relationship with British supermodel Kate Moss after meeting in 2005. The troubled singer is glad Moss is now happily married to The Kills rocker Jamie Hince.

Doherty added: “I got a call from Kate a couple of weeks ago, which came as a surprise as we haven’t exchanged a word since it ended. And believe me, it ended nastily. But she was friendly and just asked me what I was up to. She wanted to know why I hadn’t written any songs recently and whether I was still taking drugs. She said she was staying clean and that she was very happily married.

“It came as a huge relief to hear from her and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders. It was a really important call because it put a few unresolved issues to bed for me. She told me that despite everything that had happened between us, she was still rooting for me and that was nice. It means a lot to me to know that.”

Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, the rocker explained that he was still hooked on drugs when he landed his first film job in director Sylvie Verheyde's big-screen adaptation of Alfred de Musset's classic novel, 'Confession Of A Child Of The Century'.

"It's poison but it's also medicine. When you're in that state, you can't function unless you have your fix... But I was so absorbed in the work, there wasn't a chance (to go to rehab)... I couldn't hide it from (Verheyde)."

"She didn't really care. It was just a question of how quickly I can find a vein and then let's get on with it."

Earlier this week, Doherty also opened up about his painful split from supermodel Kate Moss and confessed that she had set fire to his childhood teddy bear and even smashed one of his guitars over his head during a fit of emotional rage.

The couple split several years ago, but Doherty has revealed that he'll never forget the end of their relationship because Moss acted dramatically and even set fire to his childhood teddy bear:

"I had Pandy with me always, everywhere I went. And when we split up, Kate burnt it. How can you do that, what kind of sick f**k does that? The way that it ended with her was completely apocalyptic. It was horrible - burnt teddy bears, broken hearts, it's as bad as it gets."

He then admitted that the toy-burning wasn't where it ended because at one point the beauty even attacked him with one of his own guitars: "The worst thing she did was pretty bad - smashing a guitar over your head when asleep."

Doherty added that although Moss is now married to Jamie Hince, she still drunk dials him occasionally:

"She wants to get drunk and call me to talk s**t. That's fine but I wouldn't be able to do that to her. Anyway, she's married. I've listened to her [on voicemail]. A couple of times she's got drunk and called me and had been a bit silly. But she's a happily married woman, why does she want to speak to me?"

"Maybe she's still in love with me ... No she's not. She hates my guts anyway."

Watch an interview with Doherty from earlier this year below:

The 33-year-old rocker appears as Octave, a libertine who suffers from depression after his mistress betrays him, in period drama Confession of a Child of the Century alongside the likes of Lily Cole and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

However, the initial reaction to his first big-screen role was less than complimentary, with Cine-Vue comparing his performance to a “a sixth former who hasn't learnt his lines for drama class,” while the BBC claimed “it is difficult to recall a less charismatic lead performance in any other film.”

Screen Daily were also less than convinced, posting: "With a more or less permanently bored expression, Doherty looks like he'd rather be somewhere else; he only really comes alive in a few passages of what look like improvised laddish dialogue." 

The adaptation of Alfred de Musset’s 19th century novel will open in France in September but is yet to secure a release date in the UK. 

The 33-year-old, who this week spoke out about his friendship with the late Amy Winehouse, told French magazine L’Officiel that he has even got an entry already lined up for the historic competition:

"I was saying to this bird the other night, 'I would love to do Eurovision'. She was going 'Nah, it's really tacky', but fuck that. I would love to do it and I would love to win it for England. I've got the song."

The controversial singer then appeared to switch allegiances when told it’s ‘tacky to say it’s tacky’ by the interviewer, declaring: "Fuck it, let's get in the Eurovision. Actually, I would like to enter on behalf of France."

The former Libertines frontman is not the first indie artist to be linked with Eurovision, with both Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker rumoured to have been in talks about penning the UK entry in recent years. 

Speaking about his friendship with Winehouse, who tragically died last July at only 27-years-old, Doherty explained that he was devastated by the news and was already at a very low point in his life:

"When Amy died I was sat in a room, a matchbox room in Camden Town not able to leave, basically wallowing in my own filth. Literally knee-deep in s***. Literally not able to move."

"I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t see anyone, I couldn’t pick up the guitar, and when I did pick up the guitar it was woeful ballads about how Amy wouldn’t be coming round tonight. It wasn’t a very inspiring time."

He also admitted that not attending her funeral has almost stopped him from being able to grieve for her properly, adding:

"I think she would have wanted me at the funeral. It’s a personal feeling of grief I’ve never had a chance to see through. I’m made to feel like I’m not her friend, which I was."

"She came to The Libertines’ gig at the Forum. That was one of the last nights we spent together. We came back to the hotel and she stayed all night. At one point it was me, her and Carl having a little sing-song and it was all good, you know?"

Watch Doherty discuss Winehouse and his cover of her hit 'Tears Dry On Their Own' from last year's Reading and Leeds Festival below:

The former Libertines front-man, who recently confirmed he’s become a father for the second time, admitted in an interview with The Independent that he ‘was a bit unhinged at the time':

'The thing is, she knew from day one when we began our relationship that I was using very heavily. She knew that. So, you can't suddenly turn around and say, "you've got to stop all that." I do have regrets about Kate, but I wouldn't want to talk to you about them. I'd only talk to a highly skilled doctor with large amounts of morphine and a hypnotherapist. And a small monkey.'

The 32-year-old also revealed that Moss trashed most of his belongings after their less than amicable split back in 2007:

'Kate used to collect elephants, so I'd buy them for her wherever I went. When we split up she destroyed all my stuff, but she didn't destroy my elephants. Because I couldn't get over her for a while I just kept buying elephants and now I've got a huge elephant collection for sale.”

Doherty later added that he is considering sending the collection as a belated wedding present to Moss, who married The Kills’ guitarist Jamie Hince at a ceremony in the Cotswolds last year.