News: Rescue Rooms launch new clubnight

Tuesday sees the launch of Rescue Rooms' new clubnight, Pressure, with the action kicking off at 10pm and going on til the early hours. 2 for 1 drinks offers run all night and some lucky sods will win a pair of tickets to see the sold-out Doves gig at Rock City next month. Entry's free before 11pm if you put your name on the guestlist here, so you've really got no excuse. Oh, and This City are on the decks throughout. See you down the front...

www.rescuerooms.co.uk

News: Summer Sundae announces local acts

Leicester's Summer Sundae Weekend has announced its local line-up for this year's festival. Speaking on this evening's The Beat, festival promoter Richard Haswell confirmed Nottingham acts Yunioshi, Frontiers and The Breakdowns for the three-day jaunt which takes place from 14th-16th August in the grounds of De Montfort Hall. The festival is headlined by The Streets, The Charlatans and The Zutons and also features Saint Etienne and The Noisettes. Weekend and day tickets are now available through the festival and De Montfort Hall.

www.myspace.com/yunioshi
www.myspace.con/thebreakdownsband
www.myspace.com/frontiersofficial

News: Swound! to play BBC Festival

Punk upstarts Swound! have been confirmed to play Radio 1's Big Weekend in Swindon next month, as part of the Beeb's Introducing Stage line-up. The band will be playing half-way up the stage's ruddy good Saturday running order, amongst Bombay Bicycle Club and Master Shortie while the bigger stages host the likes of Kasabian, Basement Jaxx and Franz Ferdinand. The festival takes place on the 9th and 10th of May in Swindon's Lydiard Park and tickets are free but limited, so require pre-registration; take a look here for details and best of luck!

www.swound.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend

News: Frontiers on Radio 1

Frontiers were played for the first time on Radio 1 overnight, during Huw Stephens' BBC Introducing show. The show was broadcast to England and Northern Ireland from midnight - 2am and had the band played within the same half-hour as signed acts La Roux and Future of the Left, amongst others. For those of you who missed it, three cheers for iPlayer...

The band also have two headline gigs in the next few days - Rescue Rooms (early show) on Friday and Seven on Saturday with The Jet Boys, Rugosa Nevada and yours truly playing records till late. Both are expected to be pretty rammed, so get there early!

www.myspace.com/frontiersofficial
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/huwstephens/

News: Junktion 7 to close

Something we all hoped never to hear, I'm sure: one of Nottingham's best venues in Junktion 7 has been forced to shut up shop. A statement was released earlier on today:

"Due to the grim economic climate, the subsequent decline of the live music scene and the unbridled brutality of our beloved corporate friends, Junktion7 will be closing its doors for the last time on December 31st 2008.Over the last many months we have all worked desperately hard to keep this venue afloat, but in the end our efforts have come to nothing and we've been left with no choice.So, after almost 7 years of truly live independent music in Nottingham, it's time to say goodbye.We do hope, however, that when you walk past our building in the future and see a soul-less trendy wine bar or a faceless supermaket or whatever they choose to do with our little corner of the world, you will see the mark of where the high tide of Nottingham's independent music scene once stood, and spare a second or two for all the awesome memories we've all had in this little concrete rock n roll bunker.It's now in the hands of the other independent live venues in the city... we know it will rise again. Support your local scene, and don't let this happen again."

The venue still has a wealth of quality gigs before the end of the month and details and tickets can be found here

News: Frontiers head into the studio

Nottingham buzz-band Frontiers headed back to Alan Smyth (Arctic Monkeys, Pulp)'s 2Fly studios in Sheffield earlier today to begin recording the follow-up to July's Republic EP. Guitarist Charlie told This City earlier: "It's nice to see everything coming together after months of writing, and we're confident that the result will surpass even our expectations." The band will be back up to Sheffield later this week and This City will have the exclusive first review of the EP come Friday night.

www.myspace.com/frontiersofficial

News: Jivecats to support The Holloways

Grantham's Radio 1-featured The Jivecats have announced an exclusive support slot with The Holloways at Wakefield's Escobar on November 15th. Tickets are available from all major retailers for around a tenner.

www.myspace.com/thejivecats