Tell us about the new album ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are’ it sounds like it’s a bit of a stomper?
Yeah it’s a stomper, very direct, whatever I’m talking about whether it’s positive or about love or being angry I’ve really let go with the lyrics, there’s no hiding behind mystical meanings or anything like that. It’s the kind of songwriting where you just have to let it all out. I think it’s the most honest thing I’ve ever done. I like being direct like that, although I’m not the kind of person who posts about what they’ve been eating on twitter!

You’re a stylish man, how important is style to Miles Kane?
It’s very important, it goes hand-in-hand with the music. I don’t really think about it, I just love clothes. I like feeling smart and looking sharp! Like when you put something on and it gives you a boost, then you feel great for the rest of the day.

Who are your style icons?
The Beatles, Oasis, French singer Jaques Dutronc, he was a very good looking fella! I did a cover of one of his songs recently, he was kind of like a mod Serge Gainsbourg. I also like Lee Hazelwood with his turtle necks, not so much the moustache, that’s not really me.

You’ve got a big tour coming up with loads of festival dates, what are you most looking forward to?
We just can’t wait to play the new songs, it’s going to be very epic live, very pounding and high energy.

Do you ever feel apprehensive about debuting new material live?
Obviously you get a little bit of nerves about playing new material to the crowd but we feel very passionate about the new songs so we can’t wait to play them.

What first got you into music and made you as passionate as you are?
I think it was my mom playing The Beatles, David Bowie, Motown.. it was kind of always there in the background. Then when I was at school I got into Oasis, I remember watching a live video “There And Then”, it kind of blew my mind. It seemed like another world, a mystical world, how could I get on that stage? Even watching local bands, it seemed impossible for me to do that and it has taken me a while to get there but I’ve worked for it and now it feels solid. I’m glad that I’ve worked for it.

You’re a pretty cool cat, what are your guilty pleasure songs that your fans might not imagine you being into?
I love “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees and “Young Hearts Run Free” by Candi Staton.

Is there anything a bit darker/more embarrassing that you’d be less likely to admit?
2Unlimited ‘No Limit’, I remember that from when I was a kid.

Are there any current bands that you really rate at the moment?
We toured with Peace who are a great band, really nice lads and I love their record. Love that song ‘California Daze’. I also really like The Unknown Mortal Orchestra, they’ve got a couple of really good tunes I love and The Strypes are a great band.

What about any unsung heroes?
I suppose Lee Hazelwood. I love the stuff he did with Nancy Sinatra. Lana Del Ray did a really great cover of a song they did together ‘Summer Wine’.

You’re a Liverpool FC fan, what did you think of the Suarez incident and the 20 month ban?
He’s a crazy m*therf*cker but people buzz off him for it. He’s always on the edge of his fuse and that’s why people like him.

Maryam Snape 

Catch Miles Kane on tour with support from Findlay

01/06 – Academy 2 – Birmingham
02/06 – Ruby Lounge - Manchester
07/06 – Dingwalls – London
10/06 – Roamneder – Northampton
11/06 – Corn Exchange – Bedford

JOB DETAILS

We’re looking for an experienced and talented all-round graphics whizz to work on a magazine layout project with up to 15 young people over the summer of 2013.

You’ll be working with a team of facilitators on an intensive project to produce the official brochure of the ‘Discovery Season’ for the opening of Birmingham’s new Library based around the designed Discovery Season logo.

During a 2 week summer school (based in Birmingham city centre) an editorial team will produce text, images and artwork. We’re looking for an individual to work closely with the group (during the second week) to help turn their vision of the brochure in to reality with a highly professional finished product.

Download the Job Description and details on how to apply here: GD_JobDescription.

The label has a solid background in denim manufacturing in which they have founded their own men’s label.

Revealing a landmark moment in their development, MQT showcase the ‘life of denim’, by developing a ‘wash palette’ from fresh to formidable.  Along with a broad colour palette of soft summer shades and pastels chinos, the SS13 collection features an arsenal of unique denim styles.  With new shapes including low rise, relaxed tailoring, twisted, skinny, and more, all chinos are engineered with a timeless appeal and a vintage aesthetic.

Stockists include Selfridges, Flannels and ASOS.

Kicking off the 20/20 celebrations, Gatecrasher has announced a 10,000 capacity warehouse party that will be taking place at Castle Donington on the 5th of May. The event features a line-up of epic proportions, which includes thrilling Pendulum DJ duo KNIFE PARTY, chart topping Dutch house star NICKY ROMERO, electro-house producer, globetrotting DJ and Dim Mak label boss STEVE AOKI, heavyweight house master LAIDBACK LUKE, and Gatecrasher favourite EDDIE HALLIWELL.

COMPETITION

We have 5 x pairs of tickets to give away.  All you need to do is tell us the name of Steve Aoki’s record label.

Email your answer along with your name, address and date of birth to competitions [@] fusedmagazine.com.

Deadline for entry is 30th April, 2013 at 12noon. Winners will be notified via email.

For more info please visit: www.gatecrasher.com

Over 4 days from 12th-15th April, visitors in London will have the chance to see some of Istanbul’s leading design, art galleries, and fashion designers.

Visitors to the show will also have the chance to sample a specially designed menu of Luxury Street Food and pastries devised by leading chef Silvena Rowe, sample traditional Turkish Coffee and a chance to learn about the authentic way to drink Turkish Raki.

The event will run from 11am until 7pm each day. Tickets are now available for free courtesy of the Turkish Culture and Tourism Office in London via eventbrite http://www.innlondon.org/event/.

Having already supported The Vaccines, Mystery Jets and Tame Impala, Peace also took the coveted opening slot on the annual NME Awards tour, performing with the likes of Django Django and Miles Kane. Peace are now set to embark on their biggest headline tour to date to coincide with the release of their much anticipated debut album, In Love, a breezy, psychedelic and eclectic mix of indie tracks, which will no doubt be receiving many plays this summer. After blowing everyone away at SXSW, we caught up with a jetlagged Harry (singer) to discuss the album and the tour, amongst other things.

Hi Harry, how’re you doing?
Yeah I’m good. Just re-adjusting to the English time zone. We’ve been in Texas for South By Southwest.

How was that?
Goooooooooood. Very good, but now I’m a bit laggy, bit groggy. I’ve lost my voice a little bit.

‘In Love’, your debut album is out on 25th March. How was recording that for you? Tell us a little bit about the album.
It was a breeze. Yeah it was a good time recording that. We did the EP in like 9 days maybe, but we had more time with the album so it let us get more obsessive about tiny things and waste more time, like going over things we didn’t use…but it was all a laugh. We had a lot of time to experiment.

Do you feel you’ve experimented a lot on the album?
Yeah, on stuff that’s barely noticeable, but it all matters to us. There’s a lot of sounds which took a lot of time and a lot of sounds in there which are barely noticeable, but hopefully people will pick up on it.

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Also, you’ve generated a lot of hype from very early on, The Guardian even hailed you ‘the future of indie music.’ Did you feel a lot of pressure when making the album based on this?
Nah… we were out in the countryside, which was like, a rare change. So we were in the glorious country and we were staying in the studio which was this lovely chapel, so we kind of forgot about everything. We just made what we wanted to. It was very good.  It was a good plan. I don’t know who’s idea that was.

As with all new bands, people have made a lot of comparisons. So you’ve been likened to Wu Lyf, Vampire Weekend and even Radiohead. How do you feel about those comparisons?
I don’t think we sound like any of those, but, you know, they’re all good bands. I think those comparisons were made pretty early on when we were just experimenting and playing live was the only form that we could do it in.

Do those comparisons match up with your influences at all?
Um, not really. Maybe Vampire Weekend were into bands like Talking Heads. I don’t know much of their [Vampire Weekend] stuff but then Radiohead are good to be fair. I guess in the industry today it’s best not to aspire to be like bands past because I think the industry is very different nowadays. There’s lots of classic bands that I look up to.

Tickets are on sale for your tour, are you excited for that after coming off the NME Tour?
Yeah, it’s going to be really good to get out and do a headline tour. Really good. I’m excited and we did that for years before so we’re prepared.

Is being on the stage where you’d rather be? Are you happier live than in the studio?
Um, not necessarily ’cause a studio it’s completely different. We’ve built everything we have from playing live, so it just feels natural to us. So it’s very easy for us to go on a really long tour and not worry about it and just get on with it.

You and your brother Sam (who plays bass) are both in the band. Is there an interesting dynamic there between brothers?
Everything comes naturally to us. We’re on the same level. Its not weird or anything, it’s just quite natural.

So there’s no family squabbling there? No Gallagher-esque nonsense? 

No, no squabbling. Not yet. I mean…it’s early days.

Inspired by that, I thought I’d let my little brother work with me and write a few questions. He’s asking the big questions, such as, what’s the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to you as a group?
As a group? Um…I’m trying to think of the most embarrassing thing…. In Austin Doug (Castle, guitar) smashed a glass table in the Four Seasons Hotel..and that was embarrassing. He now says that it was an accident, but at the time I was very convinced it wasn’t.

You could probably pass it off as rock’n'roll….
Yeah it’s not really that embarrassing. At the time I remember being like ‘Oh no!’ but I’m sure its easier to just be like ‘Yeah, whatever.’

My brother’s also asked me ‘Can anyone do any good impressions?’
(Laughs) I can do one but I’m not going to say because it’s of a band that I actually love and they might see this, so I’m not going to say that, but Dom does a great… I dunno if that’s a bit taboo actually, but he does a great Jimmy Saville impression.

And finally he’s asked ‘Who’s got the weirdest habits?’
Um…either…. I want to say Dom because he seems to have a lot of habits, but I dunno if they’re that weird. But then like Doug maybe…the way that Doug operates, like, everything he does is really confusing. He doesn’t work like a normal human. He doesn’t have many habits but everything he does is unusual. He’s just like an animal. He just doesn’t function in a normal way.

In Love is out now, and tickets are available for the tour dates listed below:

April:
12th – MANCHESTER – Club Academy
13th – YORK – Duchess
14th – NEWCASTLE – Cluny
16th – GLASGOW – The Arches
17th – EDINBURGH – Electric Circus
18th – PRESTON – 53 Degrees
19th – SHEFFIELD – Leadmill
21st – GLOUCESTER – Guildhall
22nd – BRISTOL- Fleece
23rd – PORTSMOUTH – Wedgewood Rooms
24th – BRIGHTON – Concorde2
25th – READING – Sub89
26th – OXFORD – Academy 2
27th – BIRMINGHAM – Academy 2
30th – LONDON – Birthdays

May:
1st – LONDON – Birthdays
2nd – LONDON – Birthdays
3rd – LONDON – Birthdays
4th – LEEDS – Live At Leeds

Words: Dave Heslop

A selection of the biggest names in international graffiti culture will be taking to the streets, including Faith47 (South Africa), DALeast (China), C215 (France), Peeta (Italy) as well as Bristol natives Turroe and Inkie.

Upfest will be based at the Tobacco Factory and throughout North Street, Southville, Bristol throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend between the hours of 11am-9pm.

For more information on events and locations visit www.upfest.co.uk and follow the festival on Twitter @upfest #upfest2013

“I’ve been a fan of Mark’s from his early SST Records days and i’ve always wanted to work with him. He has one of the best and most distinctive voices of the last 25 years. now that we live near each other it ended up being really easy working on a song together.” MOBY

The Lonely Night 7” comes backed with a remix from electronic music legend Photek and is being released on Moby’s own label Little Idiot.

You can see a list of the releases for this year’s event over at the Record Store Day website here.

As part of the exhibition photographer Brian Duffy’s striking images will be on display. Between 1972 and 1979, Duffy worked closely with David Bowie, shooting him in five incarnations for Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Thin White Duke, Scary Monsters and the Lodger, and helping to create some of the most iconic images in music history.

After a successful career shooting images for Vogue and helping to create a hugely influential documentary style of fashion photography, in 1979 Duffy had a break down, burnt many of his images and never took another photograph.

It wasn’t until almost 30 years later, when his son Chris discovered a number of boxes of his father’s negatives, that Duffy was restored to his rightful place in the pantheon of photographic greats. His work has stood the test of time and the shots that defined an era look as fresh and arresting today as they ever did.

The original Aladdin Sane Dye Transfer print will be on show as part of the V&A’s exhibition. Vintage Seekers will be selling an exclusive limited edition book of Duffy’s photographs that includes two prints – the famous Aladdin Sane cover shot and a second, rare outtake of Bowie in the same pose with his eyes closed for £250.

The entirety of Andy Warhol’s photographic artistic output from the mid-1960′s until the time of his death in 1987 include polaroids, photo booth strips from times square in the 1960′s, stitched photo collages, and unique 8×10 silver gelatin prints.

Andy Warhol used his cameras unlike any artist before him, and possibly ever since.  Often called “his date,” Andy’s camera was with him at all times: late nights at Studio 54, art gallery openings, travels to Aspen, LA, Europe, China, weekends at his Montauk beach estate and, mostimportantly, in his studio, “The Factory,” where he relied on the camera like other artists use a pencil, a paintbrush, or a sketchpad, but ever diaristic.

Warhol used either his Polaroid or Minolta 35 mm camera to document the worlds he moved in:  sports stars like Pele or Kareem Abdul-Jabarr, fashion designers like Halston or Diane von Furstenberg, film and tv stars like Liza Minelli and Farrah Fawcett, rock ‘n rollers like Mick Jagger or Debbie Harry, artists like Francesco Clemente or Man Ray, politicians like the Kennedys or Regans and the very rich all populated Warhol’s universe.

The prices for Polaroids range from $10,000 -$50,000 and are available from this site.