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Fashion icon, V V Brown whose beautiful debut album ” Travelling Like The Light ” has just been released to huge critical acclaim is to take to the road on tour at the beginning of November She will be performing at the following dates:    Buy Tickets                                                         Nov 4 Manchester Club Academy Manchester Nov 5 Sheffield Academy 2 Sheffield Nov 6 Northampton Roadmender Northampton Nov 9 Birmingham Academy 2 Birmingham Nov 10 Glasgow King Tuts Glasgow Nov 11 Newcastle Academy 2 Newcastle Nov 13 Leeds Cockpit Leeds Nov 14 Bristol Thekla Bristol Nov 16 Nottingham Rescue Rooms Nottingham Nov 18 Brighton Concorde 2 Brighton Nov 19 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff Nov 23 London ULU London

Frankmusik is a unique proposition in 2009, multi-talented, ferociously productive, a motor-mouth, thinking, making, doing at high speeds. In 09 Frankmusik is the future of pop futuristism. Which other male newcomer this year would have the drive to have written/produced a brilliant debut album, tracks for other Top 10 stars, remix The Pet Shop Boys and his whole album into a ‘night’ version. His creativity is all-night compulsive. In terms of raw talent Frankmusik is exceptional, his output prodigious. ‘ Complete Me ’ , available now is the debut album by Frankmusik and an introduction to a major new British pop star. - Buy Tickets Frankmusik Tour November Monday 2nd   Phoenix    14+    Exeter Tuesday   3rd Thekla   14+   Bristol Wednesday 4th Rescue Rooms   14+   Nottingham Friday   6th   Cockpit 16+/14 acc Leeds Saturday 7th   Plug 14+   Sheffield Sunday 8th   Academy 2   16+/14 acc   Birmingham Monday   9th   Other Rooms   16+/U18 acc N ewcastle Wednesda

Codeine Velvet Club is a new musical collaboration featuring Jon Lawler, lead singer and chief songwriter of The Fratellis and singer-songwriter Lou Hickey, that celebrates their shared love of ’60s girl-boy duets, dramatic orchestral pop, and dark post-war Hollywood and Las Vegas romanticism. “Soaring strings, biting brass, sweet as sugar guitar licks and a healthy dose of noir drama… Add the kind of retro glamour that conjures up late nights in Vegas or Hollywood , stir in the kind of songwriting that oozes class and sophistication then freight in a few world-beating pop hooks. That’s the recipe for the sensational new sound of Codeine Velvet Club” News Of The World, Scotland 13th Sept. ’09. Since their fantastically well reviewed debut headline shows in Glasgow at the Classic Grand and at London’s Bush Hall Codeine Velvet Club are heading out on a full UK tour throughout November and December to coincide with their releases.  Debut single “Vanity Kills” – November 16th Debu