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November 12, 2008

UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Day 9 – Stonehenge – “It was bigger than 18 inches…”

From NME.com. So we were driving south heading towards Cornwall and casually looked out the window and saw one of the most famous sites in the entire world. From a distance, it looks like a does in the movies. Up close, itÃ‚Â’s much windier. So we stopped for a few […]

November 12, 2008

UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Days 6,7,8 – “In these coastal towns, they forgot to shut down…”

From NME.com. WeÃ‚Â’re starting to get adjusted to life on the road. ItÃ‚Â’s a bit like being in the army, without all the bullets and bombs and clean clothes. You spend a lot of time being cold, eating and sleeping when and where you can. ThereÃ‚Â’s quite a bit of […]

November 7, 2008

UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Day 5 – Are you ready to Ba-Rock?

From NME.com. It is a good day to be an American overseas. Everywhere we go people are shaking our hands, giving the high sign, acting like our country’s wayward foreign policy didn’t just fuck up the world in the past eight years. It’s not so much that all is forgiven, […]

November 7, 2008

UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Day 4 – Could life ever be sane again?

From NME.com. After three days of wandering the streets of unfamiliar English towns, we finally make it into London. We were last here in July, and it feels surprisingly easy and familiar, as if weÃ‚Â’d never left. The city’s similar to Manhattan, except it’s massive, sort of like New York, […]

November 7, 2008

UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Day 3 – Girls allowed

From NME.com. We spent day three of our 30 day tour in Birmingham, looking for curry, drinking vodka in the van, and otherwise preparing for our show at Bar Academy. It was a windy and rainy night (typical, so we’re told) and the sound engineer was a woman named Becky. […]

November 5, 2008

UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Day 2 – Let it disfigure you…

From NME.com. Day two of our tour was spent driving from Derby to York where we played Fibbers. We are adjusting to the rain and meeting people along the way. We sleep off hangovers, we check amps, we dream of faraway landsÃ‚Â… Ã‚Â“When you go through dark times, let them […]

October 7, 2008

NME – New Music Radar

New Music Radar – The Airborne Toxic Event When death haunts you, your music really starts to matter By Mark Beaumont September 13, 2008 Ã‚Â“My whole life I was invincible like everyone else,Ã‚Â” says Mikel Jollett, singer with L.A.Ã‚Â’s The Airborne Toxic Event, fingering the patches of his scalp. Ã‚Â“YouÃ‚Â’re […]

October 4, 2008

NME.com

Go to article By Mark Beaumont Posted on 08/08/08 at 08:28:49 pm Occasionally you get lucky and stumble across a band at the very moment they ignite the engines and blast off into the heavens. Such a band right now is Los Feliz’s The Airborne Toxic Event, a wired and […]