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Glasgowbury and Hot Press in association with Easy Duplication have combined forces to bring you a free cd with the magazine’s next issue.

Get your free mounted cd with the special northern edition of Hot Press out on Thursday 18th June.

And if news of a free cd doesn’t get you running to the shops immediately, maybe the special price of just £2 will. For the first time, Hot Press will drop the price of their world famous mag specially for its northern readers.

The full tracklisting for the Hot Press CD is as follows:

 

1. Skruff – This Is Not Ok

2. Grainne O – Wired

3. Here Comes The Landed Gentry – Lightness & Weight

4. And So I Watch You FroM Afar – A Little Bit Of Soladarity Goes A Long Way

5. Yes Cadets – Charm Offensive

6. Fighting With Wire – My Armoury

7. LaFaro – Tupenny Nudger

8. Mojo Fury – Shooting For A Living

9. Swanee River – Baby Better Lady

10. Furlo – Tell Computer

11. We Are Resistance – PSA

12. Building Pictures – Hidden Agenda Types

13. Cashier No 9 – When Jackie Shone

14. Junior Johnson – Colder Ground

15. The Q – Magpie

16. Oonagh Clarke – Observation

17. The Good Fight – Landslide

18. Silhouette – Under My Skin

 

We’re pleased, proud as punch and all round chuffed to bits to be able to announce to you another whack of bands set to play this year’s festival.

Cast your eye over the selection below and let us know what you think:

Balkan Alien Sound, Deep Fried Funk ,Paddy Nash and The Happy Enchiladas, Grainne O, Interrogate, Inishowen Gospel Choir, The Stetz, Joe Echo, We Are Resistance, John Gribbin, Junior Johnson, Silhouette, Paul Casey…plus more who join the completed list of acts here.

Tickets are currently flying off the shelves so make sure to pocket yours early. A full range of ticket outlets can be found here.

 

small but MASSIVE

The initial line-up for Glasgowbury 2009 has just been announced and includes a plethora of the country’s finest musicians:

Fighting With Wire, In Case Of Fire, And So I Watch You From Afar, General Fiasco, mojoFURY, Henry McCullough, Jaded Sun, LaFaro, Swanee River, Cashier No 9, Ed Zealous, The Jane Bradfords, Little Hooks, A Plastic Rose, Here Comes The Landed Gentry, Clown parlour, Yes Cadets, Dutch Schultz, The Beat Poets, Furlo, Dirty Stevie, Kowalski….with many more yet to be announced.

Now in its ninth year, Glasgowbury has become the must-play festival for acts throughout the land.

And this year’s festival will very much be giving the power to the artists as well as showcasing some of the biggest success stories of the last few years.

Festival organiser Paddy Glasgow said:

“Glasgowbury has always been about new and unsigned music and this year’s line-up is testament to the power of the music culture in this country,” he said.

“The music scene in Northern Ireland, in particular, is thriving and has given so many good acts to the world over the last few years.

“So this year is very much about giving the power back to the people who have made Glasgowbury so successful throughout the last decade.

“In fact some of the acts who began their careers at Glasgowbury, where they got their first lift onto the ladder, will be coming home to roost at this year’s festival – at the top of their game.

“Bands like Fighting With Wire, In Case Of Fire, And So I Watch You From Afar and General Fiasco have gone on to sign record deals and become known worldwide and have the capability of doing something monumental. Glasgowbury always knew and supported that.”

And with its upcoming tenth anniversary in 2010, plans have already been set in motion for Glasgowbury to reach iconic status.

Glasgowbury 2009 will take place on Saturday 25th July and tickets are currently on sale online (www.wegottickets.com) and from independent retailers across the country.

For their support, Glasgowbury thanks its funders, sponsors and friends including the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arts Council for Northern Ireland, Department of Culture Arts and Leisure and Magherafelt District Council.

Small but MASSIVE

We are pleased to announce that tickets for this year’s Festival are available online from

We Got Tickets.com

and also from the Ticket Outlets listed below

When booking on wegottickets.com two options are listed:

Day ticket to the Festival is priced at £25.

Those wishing to camp will have to purchase a ‘Festival + Camping’ ticket costing £30.

There will be limited camping available, so best to book early !

Once you’ve bought your tickets you will be given a unique booking reference.

WGT.com will email you confirmation of your booking reference shortly after your order has gone through.

This booking reference, along with some ID is all you’ll need to gain entry to the Festival.

Tickets are also available from the following outlets:

Belfast

Alternative Ulster, 56 Bradbury Place (028 9032 4455)

Guitar Emporium, 22 Bradbury Place (028 9024 2335)

Quigley’s Music Bus,  John Quigley (07747 700 820) email: johnquigley@yahoo.com

Coleraine

Solstice, 1 Society Street (028 7034 4423)

Derry

The Nerve Centre, Magazine St (028 7126 0562)

Draperstown

Cellar Bar, St Patricks St (078 1000 3607)

Credit Union, High St ( 028 7962 8762)

Enniskillen

Easy Duplication, 42 Main St Maguiresbridge (028 6772 2311)

Holywood

Solstice 87 High Street (028 9042 4363)

Lisburn

Music Matters, 37 Railway St (028 9267 9994)

Lurgan

Skelton Travel, High Street (028 3832 4741)

Magherafelt

Top 40, 1 Rainey St (028 7963 3808)

Omagh

Classic Urbanwear 17 Market St (028 8224 1233)

Music Master, 4 Foundry lane (028 8225 9225)