The fourth Brainwash Festival has now completed it's line up of artists. Deatils are as follows:-

Brainwash Festival VI
14th-16th October 2011
The Library / The Brudenell Social Club/ Royal Park Cellars, Leeds

Friday (Upstairs @ The Library):

The HMV Apollo will host Bob Dylan and his special guest Mark Knopfler, for three nights this November.

On Tuesday, September 20 there are ticket presales for these performances. To take advantage of the presales you must be a MarkKnopfler.com member. If you haven't yet created your free account, do so now and then use the link below to purchase your tickets.

As work continues on new material for the follow up to 'Falcon', The Courteeners can today announce a pair of very special hometown shows.

Following on from last year's massive show at the MEN, the band have decided to return to the more intimate surroundings of the Manchester O2 Apollo.

Japanese Voyeurs have confirmed a Winter headline tour.

Their début album ‘Yolk’ was released in July and fuses massive riffs with unforgettable melodies with singer Romily Alice’s distinctive sweet & sour vocals… not to mention guest vocals from the legendary J Mascis on track ‘Feed’. The UK tour kicks off in Cardiff on 18th October and ending at the London Barfly in November

On the 31st October Manic Street Preachers will release National Treasures – The Complete Singles and have announced details of a very special one-off Christmas show performing all the songs on the album at the O2 in London on Saturday 17th December. NATIONAL TREASURES features the band's 37 previous single releases from the last 21 years and 10 studio albums and a brand new single This Is The Day. It's also the first time since 1992's Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H) that the Manics have released a cover version as a single despite recording and playing live many versions of their favourite tracks over the years. Formats and the tracklisting for the album have also now been confirmed, see details below.

Hailing from Dundee in Scotland, Make Sparks - Craig Parker (Guitar & Vocals), Bobby Garland (Bass & Vocals), and Adam Parker (Drums & Vocals) - have been making music together since their early teens. Writing sick notes for school for each other Craig, Bobby and Adam would take days off and sneak back home to practise all day long.

Make Sparks release their new single Your Hearts on Fire on Sept 5th and play 7 live dates across Scotland in Sept

The Drums will return to the UK later this year for a full headline tour in support of their second album, ‘Portamento’, out September 5th through Moshi Moshi / Island Records.

28/11/2011 Birmingham Institute (The Library)
29/11/2011 Newcastle, O2 Academy
30/11/2011 Leeds Metropolitan University
03/12/2011 Glasgow O2 ABC
04/12/2011 Edinburgh Picture House
05/12/2011 Cambridge Junction
06/12/2011 Portsmouth Pyramids Centre 
08/12/2011 Bristol O2 Academy 
09/12/2011 London Shepherds Bush Empire
10/12/2011 Manchester Ritz

EMA (Erika M. Anderson) grew up in the dive bars and rotten graveyards of South Dakota. She is a direct descendent of Erik Blood-Axe, the ruthless Viking warrior. All the boys ask her why she is so tough. She is 6 feet tall. She loves the jukebox.

She will play the following European shows this Autumn:

The track 'MBP' from Gold Panda is brand new, not part of Lucky Shiner and is an insight into what we we can expect from his next release. The track comes as he announces new Gold Panda shows this autumn in the UK and US - his last shows for the forseeable future. Before that this summer sees a shows at Glastonbury Festival this weekend and a slew of festival dates across Europe.

An Aberdeen student is preparing to raise a large sum of money for the Gambian Schools Trust with a charity gig held in the city centre.

Emma Wright, 19, studying Primary Education at the University of Aberdeen, is passionate about teaching and aims to raise as much money as possible for the Gambian Schools Trust with a top charity gig.

The Gig for Gambia, to be held on the 24th of June at The Tunnels, Aberdeen, will feature a stellar line-up of the city’s top singer-songwriters. Appearing at the event, which kicks off at 6.30pm, will be:-

Arctic Monkeys go on a UK arena  tour in October/November 2011 in advance of the general on sale date of Friday 17th June 2011.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday 17th June are priced at £29.50/£32.50 + booking fees.

Maximum x4 tickets per order

Bombay Bicycle Club head out on their biggest UK headline tour to date this Autumn, off the back of releasing their third album, ‘A Different Kind of Fix’ on August 29th. After last summer’s acoustic dates, this tour will see the band with guitars fully plugged back in.

Bombay Bicycle Club UK headline tour dates are as follows: