In December, Brand New announced on their website that they had been in the studio since March and had roughly 15 tracks to choose from.
Support slots for acts such as Muse (at the new Wembley Stadium ), The Who , Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Rolling Stones were significant in expanding Biffy’s fan base. The band also played the Download 2007 , Glastonbury 2007 , Reading and Leeds Festival and T in the…
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Folie à Deux , released in December 2008, did not perform as well commercially as its predecessor, Infinity on High . It debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 150,000 copies during a highly competitive week with other big debuts, becoming Fall…
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In December 2008 the band played five shows at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut , playing each of their studio albums in full. Woomble noted that the band were “going to try to play every track [they had] ever written – including B-sides – which has to be more than…
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Alpha Mile played their first show in December 2008 at the Highdive in Champaign.
In December 2008, Devine announced in an interview with Popwreckoning that his new album Brother’s Blood would be released on April 28 on Favorite Gentlemen records. He also announced a tour with Manchester Orchestra and the release of the I Could Be With Anyone EP in support of the upcoming…
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The band featured on several shows over Christmas 2008 including performing “Never Miss a Beat” with Girls Aloud on their TV Special and playing the same song on the Christmas Day edition of Top of the Pops .
Vileevils performed their final live date in December 2008 supporting Ned’s Atomic Dustbin before recording an unreleased album, which was cancelled prior to release in 2010. Some songs from this record were rerecorded for the 2011 Pop Will Eat Itself album New Noise Designed by a Sadist .
The band signed with Petrol Electric Records in December 2008, reuniting them with former manager CM Murphy.
In December 2008, the group re-released their long out-of-print debut album Churn . On February 9, 2010, Seven Mary Three released the live acoustic album Backbooth .