After a truly stonking, and epic 2 1/2 hour performance at Glastonbury this weekend, the band resume their European tour. The Glastonbury festival was unbeleivably the bands first UK performance ever! Bruce quoted the late Joe Strummer to open the show, with an acoustic version of ‘coma girl’-

I was crawling through the festival way out west

I was thinking about love and the acid test

but first i got real dizzy with the real rockin’ gang

then i saw the coma girl, and the excitment gang.

Nice. Joe’s documented as being a Springsteen fan.

Bruce and the E Street Band frollicked through classics Badlands, Prove It All Night, Because The Night, No Surrender(with Brian Fallon of Gaslight Anthem), Promised Land, Born to Run, how we wish we were there!

Gill Meets the Emily Haines and James Shaw from Metric. They were hanging around the Electric Ballroom, waiting to set up for a show.Metric formed in 1998 in New York City.

Their first album ‘Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?’ earnt them a Juno award nomination for Best Alternative Album. If you’re playing the album and think they sound familiar but you know know why- ‘Monster Hospital’, ‘Police and the Private’ and ‘Front Row’ were all featured on television show ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ and CSI: Miami.They currently have a new album out called ‘Fantasies’.

The band are currently touring the US and Canada at a variety of music festivals. They’re playing Washington tonight, Philapelphia and Toronto, returning to London on the 26th June for Hard Rock Calling, and then Glastonbury on the 27th! Find out about other bands featuring at Glastonbury this year! www.flypostershow.com

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After 9 years in the wilderness, Damon Albarn’s cult brit band Blur, have begun their comeback with an intimate gig at the East Anglican Railway Museum- where they first started back in 1988. The perormance to just 150 people marks the beginning of a tour that will see the pop heroes play at T in the Park, Glastonbury and Hyde Park this summer.

The audience was made up of friends, family and some lucky competition winners, who packed into the venue, surrounded by the station memorabilia.

The band will be releasing ‘Midlife, a beginners guide to Blur‘ on the 15th of June, a compilation album that spans the breadth of their career- and including anticipated ‘Popscene’, a single making its first appearance.

Magic Arm, the multi instrumentalist, Marc Rigelsford, releases the eagerly awaited new album ‘Widths and Heights’.

Watch the exclusive interview and gig on flyposter today. wwwflyposter.mevio.com

Merlins- wow, a band with some guts, alot of talent and a momentum that is hard to resist! If you are looking for some classy rock, that singalong quality and a load of lush guitar, look no further. Find out what all the airplay and fuss is about, allow me to introduce the rather beautiful Merlins:

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Flyposter are BIG fans of new single ‘Shake it’

Merlins mission:

Merlins are a band from East London, they’re regulars on the East London music scene. The name Merlins is inspired by the British Lancaster bomber, which was powered by 4 Rolls Royce ‘Merlin’ Engines. Luckily this roaring 4 piece are only interested in bombing the world with their music- phew.

Their guitar fueled sound is filled with energy, passion and an overdose of singalong melodies, delivered with the excitement and drive of a powerful live act.

Having written two albums worth of killer material, Merlins are here, and ready to set the world on fire. To quote the late, great Bill Hicks ‘Sing from their fucking hearts’…

Dont miss out- see Merlins – put these dates in your diary:

Friday 5th June 8.30pm

Zigfrid Von Underbelly

11 London Rd, Hoxton Square, London, CR7 7, UK

Wednesday 24th June 8.00pm

The Boileroom

13 Stoke Fields, Guildford, GU1 4, UK

If you get to see them live- let us know what you think! Email us at flyposter@mevio.com!!!

Sav Campbell on lead vocals & acoustic

Mike Palmer on Guitars and other noises

Joe Holweger on Electric Bass

Craig Bacon on drums

…finally, we got the extra special Bronx footage from their tour, and the interview with all the specially filmed tour bits is now live on the Flyposter site! So you can catch me, Joby and Matt backstage before their Shred Yr Face Tour going over some old ground and coming up with some new song titles for their side project. Sex Shrapnel is mine btw, but the guys are allowed use it as they rule. We also go over tour games, their role as Black Flag, The Germs and sleeping. Oh, and watch out for the ball bag, it made the cut!

The Century of Self may well mark …Trail of Dead’s return to the form we witnessed on their early albums, but Jason and Conrad had plenty to say about their Interscope years when we caught up with them before their recent London dates. I hadn’t sen the chaps for a good few years (not since they were road buddies by way of Snow Patrol and The Reindeer Section. For real) yet they were still as cranked, funny, and downright intense as they ever were. Even if Jason had developed a penchant for random snowglobes in the interim. We shot the breeze about times gone by, working with Yeah Yeah Yeah’s producer Chris Coady, ballpoint pen art (Conrad did the sleeve art ENTIRELY in ballpoint pen), live shows, kit swapping and festival plans. Plus some rather stoopid shit involving Jason’s big brass balls.

Then some crazy cool dude who loved all music offered to get involved in our filming, so we’ve got an extra special bit of live footage from the tremendous gig that followed our chat. All in all, a very special episode of Flyposter, coming soon…

Well, some idiot lost the logins for this page, but we’re back in now and itching to tell you who’s coming up in the next few weeks. Suffice to say it’s been a busy month, and aside from the current episode featuring indie troubadours Starsailor and Iggy -as -you-like ex DFA 1979′er, Sebastien Grainger,  in the coming weeks you can expect to hear from plenty of great up and coming bands, who will definitely be going on to bother the mainstream in the future.

So, in no particular order, get ready to hear from Cherbourg, coming on all Midlake jamming with  Belle & Sebastian on Band of Horse’s porch…prepare to be charmed and consumed by the throb and swell of The Invisible – like Hot Chip jamming with ESG in Eno’s basement….be reeled in and dampened down by the sub Velvets sound of Crystal Stilts….witness angular, sharp UK pop at its finest from The Rakes….be infectiously jiggled by the insistent sound of the incredibly young yet very wise Flashguns….then hop over and be seduced by the aching vocals and spacey production of Stricken City before having a blow out to the sound of ex Muslims, now The Soft Pack and their intelligent rock and roll…..

Rebecca Zeller (violin)
Milo Bonacci (guitar),
Wesley Miles (keyboard/vocals),
Mathieu Santos (bass),
Alexandra Lawn (cello),
John Pike (drums, former)

Combining indie songwriting and string chamber flourishes, Eclectic indie pop…
Ra Ra Riot formed while the band’s six members whilst at college in Syracuse, NY.
They formed in January 2006. A self-titled EP released in January 2007.
Ra Ra Riot joined the roster at V2 Records later that year before switching their American management to Barsuk Records, which signed in May 2008.
The Rhumb Line is the band’s full-length debut iAugust 2008.

The whooollleee interview with Mercury Rev, GrassHopper, Jeff and Jonathan…

Mercury Rev Biography…

Jonathan Donahue (vocalist/acoustic guitar)
Grasshopper (moth-light guitars, clarinet)
Jeff Mercel (drums, piano, keyboards)
Dave Fridmann (bass explore)

Although the members of Mercury Rev initially came together to record soundtracks for experimental student films and to make tapes for friends, the band from rural upstate New York would become one of America’s most successful experimental groups.

Mercury Rev’s 1991 debut became a favorite in Great Britain.

The Melody Maker and the Independent, hailed the album as one of the year’s best.

Mercury Rev survived the odds of personal conflicts to go on and record a list of acclaimed albums through the 90s, including 1998’s Deserter’s Songs, the group’s best-seller.

In 1999 interview with the L A Times, Donahue remarked “There’s a lot of emotions tied up in the record…We went through a few tough years. It’s just a very genuine, honest record. You can’t buy that or fake it in the studio.”

Mercury Rev have finally made their ‘great life-cycle album’. MERCURY REV have finished recording a brilliant new album, SNOWFLAKE MIDNIGHT which will be released on September 29, 2008.