It was great to blow off the live cobwebs last weekend and rock a couple
of festivals in Holland so we figured that this weekend, we'll do it
again. But this time, the festivals aren't in The Netherlands, but in
the Engerlands. And they're not really festivals. And one's in France.
But they're going to be great anyway.
The first show is at Alton Lounge Bar with the awesome Karma Party, Tree
House Fire and All Action Hero in support. The Lounge Bar gang are
planning to give Laila a 'birthday to remember' so you can use your
imagination... Facebook event with ticket info is HERE.
May 11, 2012 - Alton, (UK) @ The Lounge Bar
Saturday's show is on the Rock Sound Stage at The Great Escape festival
in Brighton at Concorde 2 alongside The Defiled. Full stage times and
info is over at Rock Sound's site HERE.
May 12, 2012 - Brighton, (UK) @ Concorde 2 - The Great Escape
And lastly, we'll be supporting our homeboys Skindred in Paris on Sunday
night at La Maroquinerie, which is a great venue. We're super-excited
for this show, hope some of our Parisian fans can join us!
May 13, 2012 - Paris, (FR) @ La Maroquinerie
Finally, there's more video game related treats for you digital Boomers.
On the Rock Band Network you can now get 'For The Kids Of The
Multiculture' as a downloadable song. More information is on the XBox
site HERE. If anyone can get the song downloaded and put onto video with them playing it, we'd love to see it!
Until The Sunlight Comes
Barney x
p.s. Album news is just around the corner. Maybe even as soon as this weekend. We don't want to speak too soon... so we won't. But it'll be worth the wait!
Hope all is well out there! After granting our Southern pals a free show
last month to say thanks for all their support, it would certainly be
remiss of us not to bestow you Northern Monkeys a similar token of our
gratitude. We'll be dropping into The Roadhouse in Manchester on
Thursday 19th April for a free show next week presented by the good folk
at Last FM.
PLEASE come and add yourself to the
event. This is the place we can answer any questions and get an idea
about how many to expect. The event is HERE.
Here's what Last.FM have to say on it all. We're 'genre-welders' apparently....
Genre-welding quintet Sonic Boom Six are set to play a FREE intimate
hometown show for Last.fm Presents at the Roadhouse in Manchester. The
pop/ska/rock/grime/metal band will release a new album this year and
this show will see them playing old favourites and new songs alike. Welsh band Straight Lines support and between the two of them expect the Roadhouse to become a full-on sweatbox.
***Make sure you're down early as it is first come first served!***
Well, it's been a while! We've been busy at work behind the scenes for
the last few weeks, making sure our forthcoming album is going to hit
you guys with a bang. We hope to have an announcement about the album in
the next few weeks so stay tuned to this channel for that. In the
meantime there have been several developments across the Boom horizon we
thought we should push your hearts and minds towards.
First of all is that we are stoked to let you know that on the
recently-released video game Sims 3 Showtime Expansion Pack, one of the
songs featured is our very own 'For The Kids Of The Multiculture'. Or
should that be 'Fooda Yibs Ooda Malti Kooshie?' You can hear this brand
new version of our music on our YouTube account now, along with a video
for the track that I lovingly put together from the exploits of Sonic
Boom Six within the Sims 3 world. Yes, that's Laila! Just click below...
Thanks to Electronic Arts for the games and opportunity to share the
song with you guys on our YouTube. Click the image below or visit the
video HERE.
For those of you who have no idea what is going on in the track I think
that a brief lesson in Simlish is in order... in short, it's the
language spoken by the characters in the Sims universe but we've done
you the honours of a 'making of' video detailing the re-recording of the
track so you can see what it was all about. Click the image below or
visit the video HERE.
To go along with all this tomfoolery and to celebrate the release of the
game, we've got 3 copies of the Sims 3 game WITH the Sims 3 Showtime
Expansion Pack to giveaway (PC version). And it's even the ultra cool
limited edition version with extra venues!
To enter this competition we want you guys to go on Paint (and it must
be Windows paint or something equally basic) and do your best picture of
Sonic Boom Six, or any member of Sonic Boom Six. Do it picture perfect
or do it funny, it's up to you, just impress us. Send your digital image
as an attachment over to sims3@sonicboomsix.co.uk We will decide the winner next Saturday (April 7th). And we'll definitely be showing them on Facebook! Happy doodling!
As well as the Sims stuff, there is another cool Boom video up online
this weekend. Paul Atkinson and his crew joined us for our HMV Next Big
Thing gig in London last month to film the show and make a little
documentary about the show's significance and our plans and thoughts
about the new album and SB6 going forward! 'Sonic Boom Six - New Style
Rockas' has turned out to be a cool film at an important point of our
history and is well worth a watch for any Boom fan. You can watch the
video on YouTube but be sure to visit Paul's Facebook Event for the
documentary and leave some feedback HERE. Click below to check it out or go HERE.
OK, and onto what a lot of people have been asking about recently...
gigs! We've got shows lined-up across the year and they're still coming
in. As well as the addition of a few festivals we have a Last.fm
presents gig at Manchester's The Roadhouse on the 19th April that's
absolutely FREE to get it! That's not all, we're being supported by the
awesome Straight Lines! Full details of that show will be up and about
on here, Facebook and Twitter over the next couple of weeks but for now
you can take a look at the concert page on Last FM HERE.
Apr 19, 2012 - Manchester, (UK) @ The Roadhouse - Last.fm Presents...
May 5, 2012 - Leeuwarden, (NL) @ Liberation Festival - Liberation Festival
May 11, 2012 - Alton, (UK) @ The Lounge Bar
May 12, 2012 - Brighton, (UK) @ Concorde 2 - The Great Escape w/ WATO
May 13, 2012 - Paris, (FR) @ La Maroquinerie
Jun 2, 2012 - Norwich, (UK) @ Norwich - Play Festival 2012
Jul 21, 2012 - Redhill, (UK) @ Redhill - Redfest 2012
Aug 5, 2012 - Blackpool, (UK) @ Rebellion Festival - Rebellion Festival
Aug 12, 2012 - , (UK) @ Boomtown - Boomtown Fair 2012
OK. That's enough for today I reckon. But before I forget, speaking of
shows, our old friends Inner Terrestrials are having their album launch
in London on the 21st of April! The show will be Inner Terrestrials
long-awaited new album 'Tales of Terror' launch party with Jakal, The
Filaments, and Suicide Bid All Stars! And of course, Suicide Bid
All-Stars wouldn't be All-Stars without Laila and me getting involved.
Expect to hear a couple of new Suicide Bid tunes! Advance tickets
available are HERE and there is a Facebook event HERE.
Please take the time out of your day to check the 'Fooda Yibs Ooda Malta
Kooshie' video out and make sure you watch 'New Style Rockas', you
won't regret it. Oh, and get onto Paint why don't you?!!
Over the past few months we've leaned on you guys in London and the
surrounding areas a good few times to come and support us while we've
been working hard to get the new album out. Well, it's time for us to
give back! We're going to be doing a full headline show at Kings Cross Monto Water
Rats this Thursday for absolutely FREE!
KINGS CROSS MONTO WATER RATS
Thursday 1st March 2012 | 7:00 pm 18+
To get in, simply write your name (and a plus one or two if necessary) on the wall of the event on our Facebook HERE. We'll reply with 'Done' to show we've got your name down on the guestlist and you're in!
Any queries, feel free to write on the wall of the Facebook event. If
you don't use Facebook or have an account on here, please email ian@trashedmanagement.com with your name and plus one or two.
