The Coral Unveils Introspective Film

Watch the full 40 minute feature below. Visit The Coral at their MySpace page.


MP3: The Coral - Pass It On (Live)

The Coral Unveils New Video

Enjoy 'Being Somebody Else' below. Download a Coral track at bottom of post.


MP3: The Coral - Pass It On (Live)

The Coral Announces One-Off Acoustic Gig

Details are as follows:

July 29
London
Coliseum Theater

NME's got further info.

Visit The Coral on MySpace.

MP3: The Coral - Pass It On (Live)

The Coral Brings Intimacy To St. Paddy's Day

The band will play a duo of gigs to celebrate:

3.16 Manchester (Venue TBD)
3.17 London (Venue TBD)

Tickets will be 1st come, 1st served (300 per show).

Support will come from The Aliens.

Scattered details can be found at Jameson Live.

MP3: The Coral - Simon Diamond [alt link]

The Coral Becomes A Quintet

The band shares the following brief (yet informative) news via MySpace bulletin: *The Coral would like to announce that [guitarist] Bill Ryder-Jones has left the band. The Coral will carry on as a 5-piece and are writing and recording new material and releasing 'Put The Sun Back' on 11th Feb.*

Watch the band's recent appearance on Jools Holland here.

MP3: The Coral - Dreaming Of You

The Coral Visits Jools Holland

Watch last week's performance of new single, 'Put The Sun Back', in the clip below.


MP3: The Coral - Dreaming Of You

The Coral Plus Noel Gallagher Equals

Enjoy their duet on 'In The Rain' below. The clip dates back to October's BBC Electric Proms @ The London Roundhouse. Download a classic Coral tune at bottom of post.

MP3: The Coral - Dreaming Of You

The Coral Releases 'Jacqueline' Clip

Do you prefer The Coral or Franz Ferdinand's interpretation on the troubled girl?


MP3: The Coral - Dreaming Of You

Voxtrot Replacing The Coral On Arctic Monkeys Fall Tour

Via Voxtrot's MySpace: *Oh, it's crazy times here at Voxtrot HQ. We were just getting ready for a couple of weeks back home, when the Arctic Monkeys rang up to see if we'd join them on their US tour. We said yes, of course. How could we pass that up? Unfortunately, as a result, it means that we're cancelling the rest of our European dates as well as the US west coast. The US dates will be rescheduled before the end of the year.*

More on the switch over at BV. I'm bummed.

MP3: Voxtrot - The Start Of Something

Arctic Monkeys Announce North American Tour With The Coral!

Yay!

More dates for the tour are expected to be announced shortly (perhaps later today or tomorrow morning at a guess), but what we know thus far can be found below.

All shows on sale via Ticketbastard in the coming days.

Sep 5 - Central Park Summerstage, NYC
Sep 8 - Virgin Festival, Toronto
Sep 9 - Osheaga Festival, Montreal
Sep 15 - Austin City Limits, Austin, TX
Sep 16 - The Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX
Sep 18 - House of Blues, New Orleans, LA
Sep 29 - WaMu Theater, Seattle, WA

(photo via Sydney Morning Herald)

MP3: Arctic Monkeys - No Buses

New Coral Album Cover: Love It Or Hate It?

The Coral's fifth LP, Roots & Echoes, will be released across Europe in early August. Internet rumors seem to suggest that this album will be The Coral's 'comeback' record. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some truth to the speculation as I'm a massive fan of both their debut and sophomore efforts. While we wait ever-so-patiently for Roots & Echoes, check out all the album deets (including track listing) here, and tell us if you love or hate the cover art below. Music Slut-approved first single, 'Who's Gonna Find Me?', can be found at the bottom of this post.

MP3: The Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me?

The Coral Sets Release Date For Next LP

Details are scant but The Music Slut has learned that The Coral will release their upcoming full-length, Roots And Echoes, internationally on August 6th.

The album will be preceded by the LP's first single, 'Who's Gonna Find Me?' on July 30th. Rumors are flying that this record is a return to form, a la the band's magnificent self-titled debut (read our declaration on the album's 'classic' status here).

The last time we checked up on The Coral, they told us that the new disc would be like 'Zappa sharing a jazz omelette with Gnarls Barkley'.

I gather they've rethought that idea since February.

The band wil be touring the UK festival circuit this summer. Unfortunately, there are no current plans to return to The States anytime in the near future.

MP3: The Coral - Liezah

The Coral's New Album: Zappa Sharing A Jazz Omelette With Gnarls Barkley

Hmm, that's either a recipe for: a) disaster or b) extreme amusement.

Let's hope for the latter! The Coral shares info on their upcoming album (recorded in Noel Gallagher's studio) via their MySpace:

"We're just ending the album process with a few of us off to New York next week for 'mastering', then if all goes to plan then the latest long player from The Coral should be in your grubby little hands very soon... Zappa sharing a jazz omelette with Gnarls Barkley!"

MP3: The Coral - Liezah

Noel Gallagher Has A Heart After All

Just in from NME: Noel Gallagher, Kasabian and The Who are among the acts confirmed for this year's series of London shows aimed at raising funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity. Oasis star Gallagher plays the first two nights (March 26/27), supported by The View and The Coral respectively. Kasabian play on March 29, while The Who, whose frontman Roger Daltrey organises the event, play on March 31.

There will also be a night of comedy hosted by Russell Brand and 'The Mighty Boosh' star Noel Fielding on March 28, with more names due to be announced over the coming weeks. Announcing this year's line-up, Daltrey said: "Over the years these shows have really made a massive difference to the money available to build TCT units in NHS hospitals. They also give our teenagers the moral support to help fight this terrible disease".

The line-up for the 2007 shows so far is as follows:
-Noel Gallagher and The View plus special guests (March 26)
-Noel Gallagher and The Coral plus special guests (27)
-Comedy hosted by Russell Brand & Noel Fielding (The Goth Detectives) w/ special guests (28)
-Kasabian (29)
-Special guests (to be announced on February 12) (30)
-The Who (31)

MP3: Oasis - Getting Older

The Coral: Classic Album #4

I guess my best memory of this album, or rather a preview to this album, would be back in 2002 when Sadie, Jen and myself saw the Supergrass/Coral doublebill at the 9:30 Club. The Coral was brilliant that night. All gazillion members of the band put on their best hats and completely floored the DC crowd. From that day onwards I've been a huge fan of their debut eponymous disc. The biggest hit stemming from this album would conclusively be 'Dreaming Of You'. This song will never get old, tired or rusty, as will any of the tracks on the LP. The album was released FOUR years ago this week (hard to believe) and still stands as strong as it did on the first listen.

Wakey wakey

I don't really like the mornings. You have to get up and go to work, and really, that sucks. Quite a lot.

But bands seem to think mornings are great! A wee while back there was The Coral with their bouncy take on 'In the Morning', and now Razorlight have got in on the act, with the excitingly-original-title 'In the Morning'. It's a nice, spikey, exhortation not to have any regrets. Well, I have this to say to you, Razorlight. I often do remember more than just a thing the next morning. And I often feel deep, deep shame at what I've done. Mainly because it involves remembering that I danced in public to Girls Aloud.

Oh Well. Razorlight's new album will be out in early August. It doesn't seem to have a title yet.

Download 'In the Morning' here.

The Music Slut Live from T in the Park!

Our roving correspondent Skye is, as we speak, unshowered, sunburned and yearning for a piss at T in The Park here in Scotland. He has this to say:

9:14am "Morning from T in the Park! It's a hot billion degrees, and the campsite is sweltering in the Scottish July heat. Last night all the campers were regaled by powerful tent based renditions of the Kaiser Chiefs' 'Oh My God', 'Born to Be a Dancer', plus a medley of songs be The Killers and the Foo Fighters, among others. The real bands have a lot to live up to today! More updates to come for Music Slut if Jen is nice enough to post them!" yeah yeah, cycled into work in the hot sun just to post this!

10:54am "Scottish people once again demonstrate their ability to ruin God's own country. There's already so much litter, the seagulls have started to look like something out of Hitchcock's The Birds."

11:19am "Should I see Razorlight of Sons and Daughters tomorrow? I've seen Sons and Daughters, but I do think they are awesome!" Well guys what do you think? Comment or send an email in by tomorrow noontime to send Skye to either Razorlight or Sons and Daughters.

1:42PM "In King Tut's Wah Wah Tent for Lewis's 'Poor Old Ben', whose articulate and sensitive melodies are not afraid to rawk out, not unlike REM, but some excellent tunes." I didn't understand much of that either.

10:34PM "In the Futures tent with Humanzi, Dubliners with a good bit of attitude and a quality brand of punk rock. Cocky great song called 'Mrs You're a Fool.' Manic onstage energy.

Joss Stone. Has a lot more stage presence that you think. I'm really enjoying this!"

10:35PM "Do My Bad Things. Eclectic 9 piece, popular indie favourites, doing nothing to disappoint their fans, but nothing really to excite me. Although they do have a pretty electric stage presence.

No time to write while pogoing in tight circumstances. Audioslave rocked, and Embrace were triumphant. In fact, Embrace finally have enough songs to justify main stages at festivals, which they couldn't before. Jolly Good!" I've never much liked Audioslave. I saw then in 2002 at the HFStival and thought they were pretty blah then. I saw them perform a couple of songs today and still, I just don't really like them. Though I give mad props and my undying respect to Tom Morella, I've been trying to get into Rage for a while now because his message is so great. As for Embrace. I'm sure their live show was pretty great like Skye said it's just that on TV they showed one song, 'Gravity.' Before the song the lead guy says that it was written by Chris Martin and right then and there is where he lost me. Throughout the entire song all I could think was how much it sounded like a Coldplay song and how much better Chris would have been at singing it, at least he would have been on key.

10:36PM "The Killers were...Well, awesome, the crowd really going for old and new material. Though I thought the new stuff was a bit weaker, myself. Got to watch some of this performance on BBC1. And what can I say, I adore Brandon Flowers. Could he dress any cuter? They played 'Indie Rock and Roll', which I love but wish they would up the tempo to a bit, and 'Smile like you mean it.' Out of all the acts at T in the Park this is the one I would have most liked to see I think.

10:43PM "So The Doves were excellent, a great performance. Didn't see much of it from the back, but the crowd really enjoyed it. James Brown failed to come on before we left to see the Foo Fighters, who were pretty much workman like. And so ends day 1...I'm bloody knackered. I'm all for James Brown, I mean the man is a legend, but the thing with him is that he is NUTS. A nut that thinks he actually is the Godfather of Soul. Saw the BBC team interview him and he needed two handlers, his wife and manager, most likely to try and curb the shite that was coming from his mouth. He doesn't play music anymore, he puts on a Vegas Show.

Other acts of the day that I had the chance to catch on TV were The Magic Numbers singing 'Forever Lost.' Really enjoyed this and their crowd was just so enthusiastic. However, all I could think about while I watched was, gawd they need a makeover especially the bassist. Vain I know but honest. Super Furry Animals singing 'Ring Around the World' were absolutely brilliant. The lead singer looks a bit like Christ, anyone else notice this? The Coral were of course lovely and James Skelly is so adorable I just want to smoosh his face.

And more commentary to come no doubt. For UK people you can check out the concert on BBC3 from 7 until 11 tonight. Not me though, for some reason god doesn't want me to watch BBC3. Bastard.