The 405 are pleased to announce that the winner for our Freeze Festival Competition is Chis Petch. Chris will be checking out all the finest bands and snow related sports courstesy of Relentless and The 405! Have a good one Chris! Related Posts Competition: Freeze Festival The405 NewsTube#4
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Freeze Festival Competition Winner Announced!
Bring Me The Horizon
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Bring Me The Horizon w/ The Secret Handshake Carling Academy 2, Sheffield 20th October 2008 For a brief moment on Monday, Sheffield's metal loving youth looked worried they had arrived at the wrong gig. Attired almost uniformly in tight jeans and checked shirts, the fans' anticipation of experiencing Bring Me The Horizon's caustic live show [...]
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Sunshine Cleaning
Released: Coming Soon! Genre: Comedy/Drama Rating: R Trailer: Click here The Film - A single mum; trying to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around after the tragic suicide of their mother, in the off-beat dramatic comedy Sunshine Cleaning. The Verdict - A [...]
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Rich Melv’s Top 5 Tracks of 2008 so far..
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So many great songs this year I could quite happily indulge in a Top 50, but sending our readers into a boredom coma is not what we strive for here at the 405. So minus the unnecessary 45, here are my fav's from the years action so far… 5. Duels - Regeneration If I was a lazy [...]
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Mucking About With Pencils Since 1985
I started as any child would, with some crayons, some pencils and some paper, probably as an effort by my parents to grab some peace and quiet. And i guess the only difference is I never bothered to stop. I have a very poor memory of childhood so I cant remember much before about 5 [...]
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Frank Turner - Song For Charity…
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Frank Turner of 'Million Dead' fame but a man of cult solo stardom in his own right, a man who has toured the UK more than most bands of today and whose powerful folk melodies abscond words deep from within his heart, has released a single of which the proceeds will go towards the Breast [...]
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Jason Reeves - The End
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Acoustic hero Jason Reeves has just put up an exclusive clip of him playing "The End" from forth coming album The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache. Check out our review here. Spoil your ears with more acoutic brilliance by visiting Jasons Official MySpace here Related Posts Jason Reeves - The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache The405 Newstube#3
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Big Scary Monster Records
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Big Scary Monsters Records are celebrating new releases from This Town Needs Guns, Tubelord,Pulled Apart By Horses and Mimas with a free Winter Collection digital sampler featuring MP3s from these four beauties alongside a bonus one from one of their favourite new bands, Native. Download the sampler from http://www.bsmrocks.com Related Posts Mixtape: Curated by Mimas The 50′000 Hits Mixtape: A.
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The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
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Artist: The Acorn Album: Glory Hope Mountain Release Date: Label: Bella Union Link: www.myspace.com/theacorn It's hard to be angry with a band like the Acorn. Bands that forage with such light tonal rhythms, whispering through tracts of wide-open expanse with the aid of plucky guitars and twinkling vocals - it all makes it so difficult to bear grudges. It's that [...]
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Dr Slaggleberry News!
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Artist:Dr. Slaggleberry
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Dr Slaggleberry release Tuc Into The Tar EP recordings from their XFM Live Session earlier this year, on November 17th. They released their latest self-titled 4 track EP via Crash Records earlier this year. Immediately they were awarded Single of the Week from Organ magazine for their track Scat, which was [...]
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Hinterland Festival 2009
April 2009 will see a brand new arts and music event the likes of which has never been seen in Glasgow before. Hinterland is the brainchild of Mike Oman. Mike, a Glasgow Caledonian alumni and renowned DJ, runs the Hippocampus club night and has shared stages with the Chemical Brothers, The Klaxons, Hot Chip and [...]
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“Personal Leftovers”
Lina’s photography captures various realms of still life that range from fashion, personal portraits and diaries, and ‘leftovers.’ Her photography breathes stark realities in both black/white and colour film, and what’s emotionally emitted in her work are the bare & basic, minimal, emotions that we experience everyday. Most of her photos analyze the human form, [...]
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Interview: Pint Shot Riot
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Here's a cool little interview with Pint Shot Riot for you! How did you all come to meet each other? "Myself and Mini are cousins and we met Dave and Rob through a couple of studios in the midlands." How did you get your name? "If you have predictive text on your phone and you txt the word pint the buttons used [...]
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The 405 Image Of The Day #1
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Artist:Kitty, Daisy and Lewis
Random Posts Interview: Creative 30:Jamie Eastman Bands To Watch: Kitty, Daisy And Lewis Reading Festival- My Version. Part Two.
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YMFOMG!#6
Hello readers! It’s that time once again to take 1 uncut Youtuber, 1 tweaked Myspace profile and 1 growing Facebook group before squashing them all into a 405 branded blender, grinding all of that social networking goodness up into three digestible pulpy reviews for a serving of web review smoothies. Enjoy!As always If you know [...]
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The Picture of the Late Victorian Novel – a Movie-making Revival?
It has been a busy few weeks for British film-making. Firstly, filming in London started for the forth-coming “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s infamous novel, and last week, Guy Ritchie and his cast held a press conference revealing details of “Sherlock Holmes”. Both original books were written in the late 1800s, which [...]
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Manchester Orchestra - Let My Pride Be What’s Left Behind
Artist: Manchester OrchestraAlbum: Let My Pride Be What’s Left BehindLabel: Favorite GentlemanRelease date: Out Now!Link: www.themanchesterorchestra.comThe brave procession that is Manchester Orchestra are back, with they highly anticipated EP - Let My Pride Be What’s Left; the stepping stone to the long awaited second album - Mean Everything To Nothing, set fora release sometime in [...]
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Chris T-T News!
A long time ago when I used to go to the Norwich Arts Centre on a regular basis Chris T-T was one of the many stellar acts I got to witness. Sadly I never really listened to any of his music since those days but now it’s all changed!He has a new song out ‘We [...]
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Mixtape: A Lazy Summer
I’m vaguely aware that most readers of The 405 are probably from the U.K. I also know that the U.K will soon be in the grips of winter, and that a summer-themed mixtape might thus seem wholly innapropriate. But on my side of the world summer is on its way, and with it comes [...]
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Fukushû suruwa wareniari / Vengeance Is Mine
Director: Shohei Imamura, 1979Genre: Drama / ThrillerLanguage: JapaneseRuntime: 140 minutesRating: 18Links: Trailer, IMdb.The whole time while watching Shohei Imamura’s Vengeance Is Mine, I couldn’t help but think ‘Man, there could be essays written about this film.’ Within the film’s first three minutes, we are able to get properly introduced to Iwao Enokizu, but far from understanding
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