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So, Christmas being a time for nostalgia, you’ve got your name down to win a promo of The Kinks’ CD boxset, fingers poised to buy tickets for the Blur Hyde Park gig and you’re all booked in to see the Ian Dury stage show in London. What else can your Christmas stocking hold this year? The first ever official book by the actual real Clash men of course! With unique, never-seen-before content dusted down from The Clash archives comes this very pink and punk book from Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simenon and Topper Headon… called The Clash, of course. Nice. And if there’s still room in Santa’s sack then why not ask him to squeeze in the DVD of The Clash Live - Revolution Rock and the CD of The Clash Live At Shea Stadium? Okay - so has anybody taken the hint? There’s a big empty space underneath my Christmas tree at the moment…

Need some more ideas for Christmas? How about a promo of The Kinks’ CD boxset, tickets to see the Ian Dury play or a place in the queue to see Blur’s comeback gig in Hyde Park next year?

Have yourself a merry little Cribsmas with the Live At The Brudenell Social Club limited edition triple DVD released on Dec 15 in the UK. It includes live renditions of every Cribs song ever recorded - some of which have ever been released. Recorded a year ago, the DVD also includes a bunch of behind the scenes footage and interviews with the likes of Johnny Marr and Alex Kapranos.

The Brudenell Social Club is where The Cribs played their first ever gig and this three-day-long celebratory event sees them play each of their three albums on separate nights in their entirety. They played to an intimate crowd of fans, family and friends… oh and some other impressive types along the lines of Franz Ferdinand, Kate Nash and Kaiser Chiefs also happened to mooch along as well. How lovely.

Perfect stocking filler for your discerning indie fan…

Knife fights, street crime and single parent families… it sounds like the backdrop of a quintessential Panorama special as opposed to your NME touting, Alan McGee championing supergroup, also known as Glasvegas. They’ve had a fruitful summer, selling 56, 000 copies of their debut album ‘Glasvegas’ in it’s first week of release and winging their way into the hearts of the nation. In association with music.virgin.com Eleanor Conway Presents: Glasvegas - in a rare insight into the band, the album and how to clean those grubby doors of perception.

Features videos ‘Daddy’s Gone’, ‘Geraldine’, ‘Please Come Back Home’ (and also a wee bit of strong language).

http://www.glasvegas.net

http://music.virgin.com/author/eleanorconway

http://www.eleanorconway.com

****************WIN SIGNED JUSTICE ACROSS THE UNIVERSE DVD*********************

Whatever happens on tour, stays on tour… until now.

THIS IS FOR DIE-HARD JUSTICE FANS ONLY.

I’ve got 3 signed copies of Justice’s Across The Universe (Live CD + Tour footage) to giveaway…

TO ENTER:
Bribe a mate to leave a comment about you on my fanpage wall.

Remember you both have to be fans and the comment must include your name and the word ‘Justice’.
DO IT HERE…..!

I will choose the 3 most original wall scrawlings and get the boys to sign your swag on the next episode of Eleanor Conway Presents: in association with music.virgin.com…
Enter before 00.00 GMT 4th DEC

Fan of Goldfrapp? Fancy winning yourself one of three signed Limited Edition CD + bonus DVD copies of Seventh Tree? Then read on.

Fresh from their dates at the marvellous Carling Academy this weekend - a show where Narnia meets Pagan folklore, Eleanor Conway Presents: 3 signed LE copies of Seventh Tree to giveaway.

The DVD contains tracks filmed live on the Summer Solstice at the magnificent De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea earlier this year plus backstage footage from the show. The DVD also features the fantastic videos for hit singles ‘A&E’, ‘Happiness’ (which has just been nominated for a Q Award) and ‘Caravan Girl’ as well as live performances of ‘Clowns’ and ‘Road to Somewhere’ from a TV special on Goldfrapp.

All you have to do to win is join the Eleanor Conway Presents: Facebook Fan Page before midnight (GMT) 23rd November 2008.

Also fancy a warm fuzzy feeling and the chance to win a pair of V Festival Tickets to your local festival in 2009?

Well I’m through to the last leg of the Global VPass Competition and could do with your vote to secure a 2009 reporting gig around the globe for V.

Just cast your vote here:
http://music.virgin.com/vpass-voting/?voteuser=Eleanor%20Conway
Voting closes 30th November, so please take the time if you can, cheers… xxxx

Came across this trailer. For those that aren’t aware, Justice is preparing to release a CD + DVD package. The CD will be a live disc, while the DVD is a documentary that was filmed during an 18 month tour for the LP, †. The dude freestylin’ in the opening bits is off the charts, very ill, better then at least 50% of the rappers out there, guaranteed. Besides the freestyler, other reasons to watch this trailer is cus of the boobies, oh I guess I should say this may be NSFW. I’ve yet been to a Justice concert as I missed them the last few times they rolled through Vancouver. Anyways this is a must cop for any fan out there.

So as Justice were about to tour the USA for the second time, multi-award winning directors and intimate friends of the band, Romain Gavras (“Stress” director) and So-Me (“D.A.N.C.E.”, “DVNO”) taped every second of that 3 week tour that looks like it lasted 3 years. This documentary ain’t about how cool Justice’s live show is (the bonus CD is here for that), but is all about the extraordinary things that can happen when a bunch of frogs gets dropped in dreamy America.

This live CD + DVD release will include recordings of Justice’s signature headbanging live sets along with show footage and various hijinks captured as the band toured the US in March 2008. Screenings of the film will be held in each city around the DJ sets late October.