XL Recordings

Hello,

Just a quick word……we are playing at the lovely Roundhouse on the 15th July with Magistrates. For a chance to win a pair of tickets all you have to do is email friendlyfiresitunes@xlrecordings.com with your name and mobile. Deadline is the 3rd July though so get cracking…..Also get ready for Jack’s Twitter which will be up on the site soon!
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Checkout our mix we did for Tongy...http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/Show some love for your boys.....oh yeah, just incase you were wondering, our brand new single is complete (video and all)....

Friendly Fires brought the carnival spirit to Glastonbury this evening (June 26).

Hey Folks,

Radio 1’s Essential Mix will be broadcasting a two hour DJ mix made by yours truly this Friday night from 3am-5am. However if like most people you’re gonna be getting down and dirty at this years Pilton Pop Fest then you can catch it anytime for seven days at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1. Lucky you.

In other news we’ve been hanging out in Ibiza (no sign of Jordan yet though…) shooting the video for our new single ‘Kiss of Life’ which will be unveiled exclusively at Glastonbury. Here’s a sneaky peak at what it will look like.

Speak soon!
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Friendly Fires have revealed that they are planning to reveal a Brazilian-flavoured new single, 'Kiss Of Life', this summer.

The relaunching of the independent charts is, at best, seen as a bit of prolonged publicity. At worst, it is considered a marketing ploy to hype twangly guitar bands pushed by the majors

Great news for indie labels: the Official Charts Company has announced an overhaul of the independent charts, the sub-chart launched in 1978 to celebrate the output of the DIY labels that emerged from the punk movement. The previous rules certainly threw up some anomalies â€' Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys were often seen topping the indie charts in the late 90s, before label group Zomba was acquired by the Bertelsmann corporation.

But is it actually great news? Following the Official Charts Company's announcement, some indie labels have responded negatively to the proposals. Under new rules, a download or CD will be eligible for the Official Independent Charts if it is released on a label that is 50% or more owned by an independent company, irrespective of the distribution channel through which it is shipped or delivered.

Allison Schnackenberg of Southern Records, which acts as an umbrella label for Dischord, Kranky, Crass Records and Ipecac Recordings, among others, describes the new rules as "an absolute con". The issue is the "50% or more" rule, meaning that labels can receive a significant chunk of major-label funding and still qualify as "indie". "It's turning the independent charts into yet another marketing ploy for major-funded ventures," she says. "They are blurring the lines...

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Hot alternative artists like The Horrors, Bon Iver and Friendly Fires are set to feature in two new music charts.

Hello there. How are we all? We’re in the middle of our official 12 day holiday. Myself and Ed Mac have opted for recession-friendly ‘staycations’, so if you see us mooching around St Albans or London, be sure to holler at your boys. I’m getting more and more obsessed with Twitter, and, sad fad-crazed moron that I am, I genuinely feel like my life would be much poorer without 5 or 6 little messages from the mind of Tim Westwood every day. Similarly, whatever you think of Calvin Harris’ music, you can’t deny he’s got some strong tweeting going on.

So the festival season has begun. We had some amazing shows at the two Dot2Dots, and just about managed to fight off the rain at Newcastle Evolution, and went to Istanbul for the beautiful but somewhat bizarre Freshtival. We had a Turkish bath afterwards, which is like being beaten up in a sauna and then given a sponge bath by some pretty burly and infragrant old men. After its over you feel like you’ve achieved positively Zen levels of cleanliness. Definitely something everyone should do once in their lives.

Anyway some news to report. We’re playing the iTunes festival at the Roundhouse in London on 15th of July. If you’d like a chance to win some tickets to it simply go to this link and do whatever it says you have to do. www.ituneslive.co.uk

We’re also doing a weird gig in pitch darkness, aided by night...

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