Rising stars Team Waterpolo have announced a string of UK dates for a massive October UK tour. Tickets are on sale now from the box office of the venues, priced between £6 and £7.50 each.

Catch them at:

Wednesday 1st October - Cambridge Soul Tree
Thursday 2nd October - Bedford Esquire
Friday 3rd October - Brighton Audio
Sunday 5th October - Southampton Joiners
Tuesday 7th October - Leicester Charlotte
Thursday 9th October - Cardiff Barfly
Friday 10th October - Northampton Roadmenders
Saturday 11th October - Wolverhampton Little Civic
Sunday 12th October - Oxford Academy
Monday 13th October - Liverpool Barfly
Tuesday 14th October - Birmingham Bar Academy
Wednesday 15th October - Newcastle Cluny
Thursday 16th October - Glasgow King Tuts
Friday 17th October - Nottingham Bodega
Saturday 18th October - Middlesborough
Sunday 19th October - York Fibbers
Monday 20th October - Sheffield Plug
Friday 24th October - Darlington Inside Out
Saturday 25th October - Stoke Sugarmill
Sunday 26th October - Bristol Academy 2
Monday 27th October - Manchester Night and Day
Tuesday 28th October - London 93 Feet East
Wednesday 29th October - Leeds Cockpit
Thursday 30th October - Preston 53 Degrees

Crystal Castles have been anounced to be playing the first ever NME New Noise Tour in May this year. They’ll be joined by Friendly Fires, Team Waterpolo and White Lies for the jaunt around the UK.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Tuesday 11th March) at 9am from See Tickets.

Friday 2nd May - Oxford Carling Academy
Saturday 3rd May - Bristol Thekla
Sunday 4th May - Norwich Waterfront
Monday 5th May - Brighton Concorde 2
Tuesday 6th May - Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Thursday 8th May - Birmingham Carling Academy 2
Saturday 10th May - Glasgow Arches
Sunday 11th May - Newcastle Carling Academy 2
Monday 12th May - Manchester Academy 2
Wednesday 14th May - London Mean Fiddler
Thursday 15th May - Stoke Sugarmill

The Go! Team have announced that they’ll be headlining the NME Freshers tour of universities across the land in late September and early October. They’ll be joined by Operator Please and The Satin Peaches.

The tour is reportedly open to both students and non-students… expect tickets to go quickly when they go on sale.

Tuesday 25th September - Edinburgh Uni
Thursday 27th September - Northumbria Uni
Friday 28th September - Liverpool Guild
Saturday 29th September - Loughborough Uni
Monday 1st October - Preston 53 Degrees
Tuesday 2nd October - Bangor Uni
Thursday 4th October - Cardiff Uni
Friday 5th October - Warwick Uni
Saturday 6th October - Plymouth Uni
Sunday 7th October - Bournemouth Old Fire Station
Tuesday 9th October - London Astoria

I’d never heard of Connect festival before yesterday, when I saw that their lineup had been announced. Wow. Whilst they don’t have bands who have the mass appeal of the likes of Arctic Monkeys (booo! Hisss!) or Snow Patrol, they do have some truley innovative, exciting and interesting bands that make you have faith in the music industry for once.

On the Friday they have:
Beastie Boys
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Go! Team
CSS (Boooo! Hiss!!)
Nouvelle Vague
King Creosote
James Yorkston
Alex Smoke
Trashcan Sinatras

On the Saturday they have:
Primal Scream
Mogwai
Teenage Fanclub
The Divine Comedy
Modest Mouse
Sons & Daughters
Rilo Kiley
Vashti Bunyan
The Black Dog
The Only Ones
The New Pornographers
1990s

On the Sunday they have:
Bjork
LCD Soundsystem
Idlewild
Big Star
The Polyphonic Spree
My Latest Novel
Tilly & The Wall
Patrick Wolf

(my favourites in italics, in case you didn’t know!)