A massive thank you to everybody who came to Middlesbrough Music Live on Sunday – all 60,000 of you! See you all next year…

Kingsley from The Chapman Family has written a rather delightful guest blog for Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music. Go give it a read:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tomrobinson/2010/06/guest-blog-kingsley-from-the-c.shtml

Splendid stuff. Kingsley will be out and about tomorrow doing some reporting for BBC Tees too and of course, his marvellous band headline the Harry Houdini Stage on the first floor of The Empire. See you there!

So, only one more sleep to go!

Gates open at 11:30am, opening acts on most stages go on at 12noon on the dot.

Make sure your alarm is set and we’ll see you in the morning!

In a rather splendid last minute shuffle, we’ve added Flood Of Red to the Sumo Rock Stage line up!

http://www.myspace.com/floodofred

The Glasgwegian post-hardcore legends will be filling the slot advertised as Millionaires (who are still playing their slot on the main stage) – expect some Alexisonfire-esque riffery from a band who are firm favourites here in Middlesbrough.

We’ve just confirmed LONE WOLF to replace Johnny Flynn who sadly had to pull out of his planned appearance on the Cosmos Recordings Stage in the Central. Thankfully, Lone Wolf is a more than able replacement!

Whitby born and Leeds bred, Paul Marshall is Lone Wolf. Influenced by acts such as Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes, Nick Drake, Jeniferever and Nick Cave, Lone Wolf mixes incredible finger picked guitar with luscious heartfelt vocals. Label mate of Midlake, Explosions In The Sky and Beach House on the super cool Bella Union imprint, we’re over the moon to be able to add Lone Wolf to our line up.

“The voice is velvet, the claws sharp and most tracks burst into epic kitchen-sink climaxes” – **** Uncut

“Softly sung sweetness, lustrous harmonies and dextrous guitar work” – **** Q Magazine

“An absolutely gorgeous first attempt from a one to watch artist” – 7/10 Clash Magazine

If you happen to be listening to BBC Radio 1 this week, or if you click on this link – http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/playlist/ – you’ll see that three bands playing at Music Live this Sunday have bagged themselves a Radio 1 record of the week. Nice!

Greg James went for Architects by Sound Of Guns, Scott Mills picked Just Be Good To Green by Professor Green (ft Lily Allen) and Vernon Kay’s Weekend Anthem is none other than Kickstarts by Example:

We’re really pleased to announce a rather splendid late addition to the line up in the form of SOUND OF GUNS.

Their stage and time is still to be finalised (we’ll let you know ASAP) but in the meantime, check out this video to their rather splendid recent single Alcatraz:

If you’re out and about in Middlesbrough on Saturday, be sure to check out this late addition to the Music Live Warm Up schedule:

PHIL SAUNDERS THE BAND + TOYGER
Saturday 5th June 2010
148 Linthorpe Road
Middlesbrough
We Are Open
2pm – 4pm

As part of the official Warm-Up for Middlesbrough Music Live and the “We Are Open” project, Pay For The Piano Recordings proudly presents two top Teesside talents live this Saturday afternoon in an empty shop unit on Linthorpe Road in Boro!

First band on at 2:15pm so get down for 2pm-ish…

PHIL SAUNDERS THE BAND
http://www.myspace.com/philsaundersband

Imagine Graham Coxon or Frank Turner jamming with Weezer!? Imagine that.

“If you’ve ever got the last train home having watched a band play in front of less than ten people, or carried an amp, or handed out flyers, or slept in the back of a transit with a cymbal bag for a pillow, I guarantee you will find something about this record to fall in love with. Mr. Saunders has one thing that 99.9% of people releasing music don’t have: He’s the real deal. 9/10″ Die Shellsuit Die

TOYGER
http://www.myspace.com/toygerband

Playing only their second ever gig, Toyger are a brilliant math-pop band influenced by the likes of Colour, Toe, Bombay Bicycle Club, And So I Watch You From Afar, LITE, Enemies and Tubelord. Already a firm favourite of BBC Introducing’s Bob Fischer, big things are expected from this bunch in the coming months!

All ages. Strictly no alcohol!

There’ll be a few single use disposable cameras kicking around, so feel free to take some of your own snaps and then hand them in to the bands at the end of the gig. Feel free to film it all on your phone too and upload it to vimeo or youtube or whatever when you get home!

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Unfortunately We’ll All Be Heroes, who were meant to be on the Homegrown Crypt stage at 8pm, have split up.

To replace them, we’ve bumped The Disaster March up to the 8pm slot.

Taking TDM’s 12noon slot will be A Fable For The Curious.

Influenced by the likes of Incubus, Guns and Roses, Metallica, Nirvana, Drowning Pool and Foo Fighters, these Boro rockers unleash a rockin’ racket that’ll be a great way to start your day. So, yeah, A Fable For The Curious – 12noon – Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt – Sunday 6th June – FREE! – All Ages. Ideal.

Homegrown Crypt

Glass Avalanche 9:05pm
The Disaster March 8pm
Exit by Name 6:55pm
Drunk in Hell 5:50pm
Psycho Love 4:45pm
About a Plane Crash 3:40pm
British Lichen Society 2:35pm
Black Mountain Poets 1:35pm
Rosa Valle 12:40pm
A Fable For The Curious 12noon

Be sure to pick up a copy of today’s Evening Gazette newspaper. It’s got a great 16 page Middlesbrough Music Live pull out in it with band features, stage times and loads more! 44p well spent.