Peace and Love would like to congratulate Jon and Tracy Morter for taking the fight for real music to Simon Cowell and the X Factor concept and winning. Respect is also due to everyone who signed up to the Facebook campaign and downloaded ‘Killing in the Name’, thus making it the first ever Xmas number one of a download only single. The single eventually outsold the X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s effort ‘The Climb’ by around 50000 copies. Fair play to Cowell, he took defeat with good grace which is more than Arsene Wenger would do. Rage against the Machine probably can’t quite take in what has happened over the past couple of weeks, they seem genuinely shocked by events, though they say they will soon play a free UK show to thank the fans for buying the single. We will keep you informed of these developments.
The Choir’s on Fire
This is a one off sort of show, Doves are marking the end of a successful year by playing their largest ever gig in Manchester, technically their home town – They actually hail from nearby Wilmslow in Cheshire. The chosen venue is the excellent Manchester Central (formerly GMEX), the old mainline railway station closed in 1969 and now revamped after a decade in dereliction. Read the rest of this entry »
Peace and love would like to add their wholehearted support to the campaign to make that seminal classic ‘Killing in the name of’ by Rage Against the Machine the Christmas No 1.
You can hear a bit about it on Youtube, listen to the first and last bits if you’re in a hurry. It is rage we’re talking about so it’s NSFW.
Do what we tell you : buy it on Amazon or Itunes.
Always providing a good mix of bands, the Isle of Wight Festival looks to have come up trumps yet again for 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
This page contains all the officially confirmed major acts who will be appearing at the large festivals across Europe in 2010. Also included are the latest rumours, either through good sources around the world, Read the rest of this entry »
No more singles anymore, as Hugh Cornwall might now say. As we are well into the digital age it makes sense to fall into line with most others and honour the best individual tracks of the year from now on (Well until something supersedes downloads anyway). Read the rest of this entry »
Now becoming one of the UK’s most dependable smaller festivals, GuilFest has announced the first wave of acts who will be performing in 2010. This festival has a reputation for eclectic line ups (Motorhead and Brian Wilson in 2009) and booking bands that no other festival manages to get. Read the rest of this entry »
Oh we do like to be beside the Seaside.
Bridlington. Once upon a time a bustling resort, packed out all summer with good folk from West and South Yorkshire, huge trains bringing trippers into the town for sea, sand, and John Bull rock. Nowadays the tourist trade has declined somewhat, though the place in nowhere as grim as some people would make out. Even in December the bay can regain a bit of splendour, when viewed across the great sandy expanse of the superb South Beach, with the morning sun shimmering over the water. Read the rest of this entry »
December is a time for Christmas, being with loved ones, images of roaring fires and falling snow.. oh bah humbug to all that bollocks, December is review time. This year is double fun because we can review both the year and the decade. Read the rest of this entry »
Hot on the heels of the news regarding the Classic Rock festival, the organisers of the UKs other newish rock and metal festival have announced the first wave of bands who will take to the stages in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Rock (I mean proper rock) Festivals are big business at the moment with Sonisphere being added to the annual Download Festival this year. Now we have a new festival aimed at the classic rock crowd. Read the rest of this entry »
A Band Reborn
“In your darkest hour you strike gold”
It has been said before, but Rock City is a superb venue in which to watch a band, definitely in the top five in the UK. Dark, dingy and an expensive bar it may have, but its a pretty good view from wherever you choose to go, and the band must feel the audience is right on top of them. Its a wide and short place so even at the back you are pretty close to the action. Read the rest of this entry »
A New Beginning
Welcome back to Peace and Love. The site has undergone major changes recently and has been relaunched in a more interactive format. Read the rest of this entry »
Well we wait five years or them to tour our shores and now the little blighters are everywhere. Following on from their short arena tour this year and excellent new album Backspacer, Pearl Jam will be headlining Hard Rock Calling in London’s Hyde Park. Read the rest of this entry »
You know you are into December when the first festival headliners for July are being announced! T in the Park has confirmed Kasabian as one of the headline acts for 2010 Read the rest of this entry »
