Still in 2008, legendary English rock band Oasis extended an offer for the Pillows to play as the opening act at their concert in Japan, but frontman Sawao Yamanaka refused their offer. In a January interview for Japanzine , Yamanaka joked that he “turned down the offer in order to…
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In mid-2008, the band played all the U.S. dates of the “Easycore Tour” along with New Found Glory , Four Year Strong , Crime in Stereo and International Superheroes of Hardcore .
Despite Chad having proclaimed the new material to be their best work yet, incorporating elements of all the band’s previous albums and praising Draper’s writing as being better than ever, Draper later claimed that when working on the new album, none of the band’s hearts were in it and in…
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Blindside has been performing a new song called “Remember December” from their upcoming album. Christian and Simon have also been performing in a side project named Lindforest (The English translation of Christian’s Swedish lastname “Lindskog”). Blindside took some time off throughout 2008 but also has written new songs and is…
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Throughout 2008 and into 2009, Mumford & Sons performed in small to moderate venues in the UK and US, exposing audiences to Love Your Ground tracks and other material that would eventually become Sigh No More . The band finally recorded Sigh No More with Markus Dravs , who had…
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In 2008, Short Stack was awarded Channel V Oz Artist of the Year Award, beating other popular acts such as The Getaway Plan , The Living End , The Veronicas and Kisschasy .
as well as appearing at the 2008 Warped Tour .
They played a series of shows in Europe in 2008, including Rock am Ring and Rock im Park , Pinkpop Festival , T in the Park in Scotland, the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden, the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England and the Oxegen Festival in Ireland.
Collins and Fagenson played extensively as Eve 6 starting in 2008, with Bair temporarily replacing Siebels who was occupied with his project Monsters Are Waiting . The band spent the next three years touring, writing, and reconnecting with fans before signing with Fearless Records in 2011. A month within inking…
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In 2008, Parlophone was taken over by venture capitalist group, Terra Firma , and Supergrass ended their contract with the label. ” Rebel In You “, final single from the Diamond Hoo Ha album, was released, under licence from Parlophone, on the band’s own imprint, Supergrass Records.