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Forget freshers week, forget Summer Balls, forget every student event you have ever been to, Summer Break is the ultimate post exam blow-out!! Taking control of Newquay from June 1st, Summer Break will see 12,000 students put up camp on the Cornish coast for four sunny weeks of non-stop fun and frolics! Expect pimpin parties, beautiful beaches, awe…

It’s that time of the week again where we cast a critical eye over a couple of songs in musical history and honour those special something’s that stick out head and shoulders above the rest.This week it’s time for that little fox Michael Stipe and his pals in R.E.M to get a pat on the back for their 1993 hit, Everybody Hurts, taken from the s…

The video to Mercury Summer, the new single from Fightstar album be human, is now up on the bands Myspace page. Despite being added less than 24 hours ago, it’s already notched up almost 15,000 plays across the web!The first single from the album, The English Way, was released late last year and was not only play-listed by Radio 1 but was also at t…

Mega unit-shifting Canadian rockers, Nickelback release their new single, ‘I’d Come For You’ on 23rd March. The track is taken from their current sixth album, ‘Dark Horse’ which debuted at No.4 on the UK album charts upon its release last November.‘I’d Come For You’ sees the band temporarily hanging u…

“Condoms were very difficult to obtain those days in Ireland. They smuggled them in inside crates of heroin.” So ends one of the night’s many anecdotes. It’s difficult to ascertain whether we are watching a stand-up comic or a spoken-word poetry performance. John Cooper Clarke is standing up and the near-capacity crowd is la…

Muse have decided to ditch their rock music roots for their fifth studio album; instead deciding that classical is the way forward.Frontman Matt Bellamy said the band were halfway finished writing their fifth studio album and joked that it was set for Classic FM. Speaking to BBC 6 Music, he also revealed that Muse would be back on tour at the end o…

Poison drummer Rikki Rockett has dismissed a fall-out with fellow rockers Def Leppard - insisting the bands share a “real mutual respect”.Rockett’s group was reported to have clashed with Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott in June 2008 after the star criticised Poison’s music - accusing them of lacking “substance” in their songs and relying too much on…

Muse’s next album will be “symphonic”.The ‘Plug In Baby’ rockers say their forthcoming LP is set to be “kind of classical” and even features a “full on collaboration with an orchestra.”Frontman Matt Bellamy told BBC 6 Music: “There’s definitely a few things on the album which are segueing into each other and it’s all very orchestral, but that could…

Manic Street Preachers are “nervous and excited” about their next album.The Welsh trio have completed work on the record, tentatively titled ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’, and bassist Nicky Wire admits to having mixed feelings about the LP, which features lyrics from missing guitarist Richey Edwards. In a handwritten note posted on the band’s website…

Oasis have been banned from playing in China by the country’s government.The ‘Shock of the Lightning’ rockers have been forced to axe two planned concerts after their links with the Free Tibet campaign saw authorities revoke their performance licenses, deeming them “unsuitable”.According to a statement issued on behalf of Oasis, the Chinese governm…