The Zutons

Oscar Rose

Tired Of Hangin' Around
Released: 17/04/2006

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The Zutons are the five Merseyside musos considered among the best live rock acts in the country.

Emerging from The Coral-style sounds of their 2004 Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album, Who Killed The Zutons?, the band have found their own distinctive niche for fun, high-energy sci-fi rock, if you can imagine such a thing.

For this, their second album, the Zutons rope in a producer who has worked with Kaiser Chiefs and the Smiths, Stephen Street, to polish their efforts. This, coupled with the band turning the last couple of summers into three-month long gigs – performing at every festival going - has really paid off.

Commenting on their success, the only girl in the band, saxophonist Abi Harding, reckons they weren’t an obvious choice for success from the Livipudlian scene: “Everyone else had an image and looked like a band,” she tells the Guardian.

“We looked odd. Now it works in our favour, ‘cause we’re different from the rest.”

Harding hits the nail on the head there, because although you can hear hints of Talking Heads on this album, they are far removed from the electro-synth rock which dominates the charts at the moment.

Tired of Hangin’ Around includes the single Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love, which sets the tone for the quick-paced, tongue-in-cheek, stonking rock party which follows.

Source: MegaStar (http://www.megastar.co.uk/essentialmusic/news/2006/04/18/sMEG01MTE0NTM2NDY2MTY.html)

Zutons are back
Feb 19 2008
by Jade Wright, Liverpool Echo

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LIVERPOOL indie group The Zutons have announced their first UK tour in two years.

The seven-date series of gigs will take place at woodland sites around the country, including Delamere Forest.

The band are currently in Los Angeles, recording the follow-up to the multi- platinum selling albums Who Killed The Zutons? and Tired Of Hanging Around.

The album is being recorded at Sunset Sound Studios.

The Zutons play Delamere Forest, near Linmere, Cheshire on June 13. Tickets, £26 subject to booking fee, are available from Friday at 9am from Ticketmaster (0870 1602837) or Gigs and Tours (0871 220 0260).

Source: Liverpool Echo (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/02/19/zutons-are-back-100252-20491975/)

Zutons are back
Feb 19 2008
by Jade Wright, Liverpool Echo

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LIVERPOOL indie group The Zutons have announced their first UK tour in two years.

The seven-date series of gigs will take place at woodland sites around the country, including Delamere Forest.

The band are currently in Los Angeles, recording the follow-up to the multi- platinum selling albums Who Killed The Zutons? and Tired Of Hanging Around.

The album is being recorded at Sunset Sound Studios.

The Zutons play Delamere Forest, near Linmere, Cheshire on June 13. Tickets, £26 subject to booking fee, are available from Friday at 9am from Ticketmaster (0870 1602837) or Gigs and Tours (0871 220 0260).

Source: Liverpool Echo (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/02/19/zutons-are-back-100252-20491975/)

If you have not been to this venue its brilliant in a natural amphitheatre in the middle of nowhere, but open to the elements. :PDT11

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Hi Mandy


THE ZUTONS MEET RINGO
"Last Friday we had a visitor to the studio, I was sitting outside when my jaw dropped 'cos Ringo had just pulled up in front of me, I was proper shocked and ran over to him and gave him a big hug. He came in and talked to us a bit and had a listen to a couple of songs that he seemed to like, he said he liked the way I played sax so I was made up all day. It was boss to meet him, check out the photo.

It's all good in the studio, We're coming to the end of our tracking time and I'm looking forward to having a listen through some of the stuff we've done."

Abi x

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TOUR TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW
The tickets for The Zutons first UK tour dates in two years go on sale tomorrow (Friday 22nd February) at 9am.

The dates are:

June
Thursday 5th - High Lodge, Thetford Forest, Near Brandon, Suffolk
Sunday 8th - Bedgebury Pinetum & Forest, Near Goudhurst, Kent
Friday 13th - Delamere Forest, Near Linmere, Cheshire
Friday 20th - Westonbirt - The National Arboretum, Near Tetbury, Glos
Saturday 21st - Sherwood Pines Forest Park, Near Edwinstowe, Notts
Friday 27th - Dalby Forest, Near Pickering, North Yorks
Saturday 28th - Cannock Chase Forest, Near Rugeley, Staffs

Tickets are priced at £26, subject to booking fee, and are available from 9:00am tomorrow (Friday 22nd February).

Ticket hotline: 01842 814612 or online: www.forestry.gov.uk/music, www.gigsandtours.com & www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Dave slams city's culture tag
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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Dave McCabe isn't buying Liverpool's
culture title

Liverpool's Capital of Culture programme is "bulls***", according to The Zutons frontman Dave McCabe.

The singer, from the Knowsley area of the city, said he thought that the label had been driven by money.

"I don't believe in that Capital of Culture thing much," he said. "I think it's good if it creates jobs, but I just think it's just loads of apartments, and no one's moving into them.

"I think that it's just money, that's all it's about, just pure money. People with money just want to come in and put green glass buildings up.

"If you're going to make somewhere the Capital of Culture, I don't think money is the answer.

"I just think it's a load of bulls*** to be honest. Liverpool is Liverpool, you can't change it. I don't think it's necessarily a bad place but I don't think it's got loads of culture."

The band's bassist, Russell Pritchard added: "They just want to put flags up. That's all the Capital of Culture is, just putting flags up."

Dave, the singer and lead guitarist for the band added that he was angry that he had been used to promote the Capital of Culture label without being consulted by organisers.

"They've got a picture of me up," he said. "A big picture of me, that's dead old, from the first album."

:: The Zutons new single, Always Right Behind You, is released in the UK on May 26th.

Source: Metro.co.uk (http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=145471&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=)

Well put by the frontman.:handclap:
Am with him on this moneymaking bulls&*t.:PDT10