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.
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 .
The band signed with Petrol Electric Records in December 2008, reuniting them with former manager CM Murphy.
R&B singer Ne-Yo claimed in early December that he would hold writing sessions with the band’s frontman on new material, although Manson denied it, saying that he had “never even met Ne-Yo. I can assure him that he would not want to be associated with something this godless.”
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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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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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 .
Black Light Burns began touring with Combichrist in December 2008, and included two new songs in their set. One is “I Want You To” and the other is titled “How To Look Naked”. On the last night of Black Light Burns’ tour with Combichrist (before Borland began new commitments to…
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Enigk confessed in an interview in December 2008 that because the band had already broken up during the recording of LP2 , he and Hoerner never sat down to complete the lyrics; “We broke up and we just felt like we were done. We put no energy into the artwork…
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In December 2008, Blur announced they would reunite for a concert at London’s Hyde Park on 3 July 2009. Days later, the band added a second date, for 2 July.