The View Takeover MTV2 Tonight!

Tune into MTV2 tonight at 11pm(GMT) to see The View take the reins choosing their favourite videos and talking about the artists that influenced them.

Doghouse entered for Scottish Award

The View's favourite venue, The Doghouse has been entered for awards in the Scottish Licensed Trade Association Awards 2007 in the Live Music and Innovation categories. If anyone, bands or customers, wishes to send in a message of support could you please email sarah@doghousepub.co.uk as soon as possible and by tomorrow at the latest with a message supporting our nomination. We'll forward them on.

It can be brief or as detailed as you want. Anything you care to say would be much appreciated. Thanks!

The Doghouse

Malaysian Album Review

Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis and now The View. The Scottish guitar army onslaught continues with this young working-class quartet from Dundee that blew up student union bars before crashing into the indie mainstream. The View’s bad-boy image was also sealed early on with the band riding a scooter into a Scottish pub (and getting banned from it) and singer/guitarist Kyle Falconer being busted for cocaine possession, leading to a cancellation of a US tour.

Talk about a train wreck of an indie rock ‘n’ roll band. Hardly a surprise that Pete Doherty is a big fan while (Oasis producer) Owen Morris put this debut album together.

But to their credit, The View’s prodigious and precocious talent shine through their cocksure singles such as Wasted Little DJs, Same Jeans and Superstar Tradesman.

Apart from the indie anthems and swaggering attitude, the strum fest on Face For The Radio, proves that these blokes can do bittersweet with ease.

By MELODY L. GOH, Star Ecentral, Malaysia, 31 May 2007

The View take time for a quick Q&A

Dundee Scotland's The View hit the ground running with their first single, "Wasted Little DJs" and their hit album ‘Hats Off To The Buskers.’ M&C was recently given a chance to chat with the band for a quick Q&A.

The View consists of Kyle Falconer (guitars, lead vocals), Kieren Webster (bass), Pete Reilly (guitar), and Steven Morrison (drums). Their album ‘Hats Off To The Buskers’ entered the UK charts at number one, and they hope to replicate that success with their US release.

The band has achieved platinum status in the UK and reached #1 on the charts week of release in Britain. The View have been touring tirelessly for the last year, acting as a headliner on the Shockwaves NME tour throughout Britain, and even touring Japan on their victory debut album since the Bay City Rollers in 1974 with Rollin. "Wasted Little DJ's" took home an NME award this year for "Best Track."

However, continuing visa and immigration issues have forced the band to cancel their May U.S. tour dates – including dates at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

M&C: You've been banned from pubs and hotels in the past...what's that all about?
The View: We like to get right up for a gig which means lots of adrenaline pumping – it’s takes a few hours to get this out of our system so we often party and play guitars back in the hotel which other guests don’t like much ! It’s all blown a bit out of proportion really, we’re not wrecking places or trying cause trouble, it’s just that we live a different lifestyle to other guests. Some pubs have really bugging security who are just intent on stopping people having a good time – isn’t that why you go to the pub?

M&C: What are things you guys struggle with as a band?
The View: Finding time with our families and girlfriends and also to write new material. We’re so busy as a band and under lots of pressure to perform and sell records so we have to find the balance.

M&C: Where do you guys pull your sound from?
The View: We listen to pop and rock from the last 30 – 40 years so our influences are pretty varied.

M&C: How did you guys come to be such talented musicians?
The View: We’ve been playing together and listening to loads of music since 14 or 15. There’s a lot of dedication and time spent learning our craft which people forget about cause we’re still so young.

M&C: What's the news on the American tour? I've heard rumors of visa issues ... anything you'd like to add that the public probably doesn't know about it?
The View: We’re trying to get over and spent a long time trying to persuade the US embassy in UK to let us in. There’s not really much more to say than that.

M&C: What were the highlights of The Doghouse Years?
The View: Hanging out with our friends in a place we love, writing the album and not really trying to be successful, just trying to keep it real. We could stay there and play for 12 hours a day so when we had an idea for a song we didn’t leave until it was done.

M&C: Where did all the songs come from for Hats Off to the Buskers?
The View: There all real songs about our friends, who we are, and where we come from. There’s no smoke or mirrors, just life in a small town in Scotland – with a soundtrack. The majority of the record was written in a few weeks in the Doghouse.

M&C: What's the message, the point, theme behind the album?
The View: The record was written for our close friends as much as for anyone else. People can take what they want from it, but I think that if anyone wants to analyze it in a few words then they would be “dreams, romance and excess”

By Ben Rhudy, M&C Music, May 30, 2007

Vote for Face for the Radio in NME chart

Vote for 'Face for the Radio' video in the and make it 5 in a row at the top of the MTV2/NME chart!!!

Vote here

Thanks to Undertow for link

Kyle’s better, says Mum

THE VIEW’S lead singer Kyle Falconer is on the mend after spending four days in a Japanese hospital.
Kyle (19) was taken to hospital in Fukuoka on Thursday with blood poisoning after a foot blister turned septic.

His mother Elizabeth said on Friday he was released and played a gig that night, returning to hospital to have fresh dressings on his wound.

A band source said the singer then had to spend the weekend in hospital to ensure his recovery.

“He was a lot chirpier yesterday, he was back to his old self because he was a bit down,” the source said.

“He’s been in hospital for four days and the band have actually done a couple of gigs without him, with Kieren singing. There was some talk about abandoning the tour and coming home, but we’re not sure what’s happening. I think we’ll know more today.

“Kyle was wearing new shoes and got a blister, which turned septic and he wasn’t very well, but I think he’s fine now.”

Evening Telegraph, 28th May 2007

POISONING SCARE FOR POP STAR

THE lead singer with rockers The View has been taken to hospital with blood poisoning while on tour in Japan.

Kyle Falconer, 19, contracted septicaemia from a blister on his foot.

One pal said: "He has been in and out of hospital and has been really ill with infections - particularly septicaemia.

"The medics kept him in overnight and he was given a course of antibiotics. But he has been warned to start looking after himself or he is going to end up very sick indeed."

The band are in Tokyo to promote their debut album, Hats Off To The Buskers, which went straight in at No1 in January.

Last night a spokesman for the band said: "Kyle should be back on his feet for their gigs next week."

By Sean Hamilton Showbiz Editor, Sunday Mirror 27th May 2007

Another US Album Review

Imagine if Oasis and the Libertines had a baby, and that baby didn't think he was the greatest thing in the world. That baby would probably like Hats Off to the Buskers.

From the Dryburgh district of Dundee comes the biggest thing to hit Scotland's fourth largest city since Average White Band. They are indie-rock-upstarts the View, and their U.K.-acclaimed debut album, Hats Off to the Buskers, has already received high marks for jumping to #1 on the U.K. charts in its first week out on the shelves (the album is out March 13 in "The States"). On the strength of their first single, "Wasted Little DJs," the quartet of Kyle Falconer, Peter Reilly, Kieren Webster, and Steven Morrison have brought their youthful (their website maintains that the average band member's age is 18!) ramshackle pop to realize an immense amount of media potential. Just two years ago, the View was merely realizing its name as they rehearsed in the back room of the Bayview Pub (from which they were later banned in some sort of scooter-riding-on-the-bar incident). Now, the four lads are opening for Babyshambles, a coup accomplished by their own busking efforts in front of Pete Doherty, and working with producer Owen Morris of Oasis fame.

For such inexperience, the View has succeeded in finding its voice—however green it may be—with Hats Off to the Buskers. Relying largely on the thick Scottish warble of Falconer, the songs stay true to their themes of distrust and inadequacy in the face of false perceptions. (You know? Usual teenager stuff.) Falconer's subjects are elusive, though, as he jumps from a pitiable heroine addict on the bouncy "Skag Trendy" to some typically corny love-laments on "Claudia," for whom he sings, "You probably didn't see/ Oh, I'm a nervous one/ My pain, it comes easily." Don't worry, man. I see. Then there are instances like those in "Gran's for Tea" in which poverty in the face of council housing is at stake, and Falconer shows a charming vulnerability as he cries, "You lower your standards and expectations of love/ You never aim for people that you think are levels above." These humble reminders belie the View's youth, and allow Hats Off to the Buskers to be seen through sincere eyes, when it's called for.

Musically, the View assembles a mixture of punk, new-retro riffs (á la Kings of Leon or the Strokes), and otherwise sped-up Americana/rhythm and blues. Couple this with frantic, literally rolling vocals of near incoherence, and you have a somewhat unique sound. Imagine if Oasis and the Libertines had a baby, and that baby didn't think he was the greatest thing in the world. That baby would probably like Hats Off to the Buskers.

On "Superstar Tradesman," there's the "quit your day job" mentality mixed with sweet, longing vocals and ringing leads. With "Same Jeans," there's an immense display of Scottishness, a bob-your-head melody, and a feeling of harmless fun. The album's zenith, though, comes with back-to-back pop/rock perfection in "Face for Radio" and "Wasted Little DJs." The first is a light, acoustic ballad full of cynicism, yet its simple beauty makes for a great Sunday drive. The second, a tight single with an impossibly addictive chorus, holds an element I'd never thought I'd address. For the first ten listens, you'll find yourself singing along, but have no idea what's really being said. Here's a hint: It's Pig Latin. Fucking Pig Latin! What's even more strange is that, despite the stupidity of this, the song is very good, and I think that therein lies much of the View's appeal. As long as you don't take it too seriously, you'll have a lot of fun.

by Dave Jasmon, Playback, USA, 26th May 2007

Face For The Radio from Radio 1

The band popped into Edith Bowman's show yesterday and played a live version of Face For The Radio.

Download here

Link courtesy of Chris

Ryan McPhail Original on Ebay!

Spotted this little beauty on ebay. Was featured on page two of the NME recently. Another stupendous piece of artwork by 'Aremsee'.

This is a 12 x 9 inch Canvas created by "The View's" Official artist Ryan McPhail, this canvas is scribbles and doodles from the tour bus during the NME Tour.

This is a one off piece.

Bid here

FACE FOR THE RADIO

The View release "Face for the Radio" through 1965 records on 25th June, available on enhanced cd and 7" coloured etched vinyl. The cd features not one but TWO videos as well as a live track from the bands homecoming show at Dundee's Caird Hall.

Artwork is another Ryan McPhail Masterpiece

Ryan McPhail Website

Full Tracklisting
ECD
1. Face for the Radio
2. Streetlights (Live from Caird Hall)
3. Face for the Radio (Video)
4. Dryburgh Style (Video)

7"
A. Face for the Radio
B. Etched (No Audio)

Keep checking back at theviewareonfire.com for pre-order details.

theviewareonfire.com 25th May 2007

Amazon US Review

With the fury of a few Humble Pies and the forward propulsion of the Fratellis and Libertines, the View can be forgiven for sharing their name with ABC's daytime talk show. The Scottish quartet's a scrappy and needly bunch, opening their debut with "Comin Down," an angular, barking tune that gets its power dually from Kyle Falconer's short, sharp wail and a piercing twin-guitar slash. Those same guitars dish out sweet strumming for "Same Jeans," a danceably jumping paean to night-clubbing, sidewalk musicians, and "dressing down." The View like their guitars transluscent and sunny, as on "The Don," where they go all call-and-response, making a fast-shuffling vibe that brings Falconer from sweet-voiced narration to a scouring shout, as his mates harmonize, increasing the sunniness. Like their countrymen in the Fratellis, the View ought to find that bigger stage to stumble toward.

by Andrew Bartlett, Amazon, USA, 25th May 2007

Win Reading/Leeds Festival Tickets

The View are playing on the Reading and Leeds festivals this summer and the lovely people at Carling are giving away tickets to see them!

Win here

Austrailian Ticket & Album Giveaway

We'll be giving away five copies of The View's new album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' and five double passes to their show at The Tivoli, Brisbane on Thursday June 7.

All you have to do is be at Ric's Bar on Friday June 1 from 8pm.

Ric's Bar Myspace

The View Thursday June 7 at the Tivoli. Tickets still available at
Ticketek 132 849, www.ticketek.com.au, Rocking Horse or Skinnys

Big Weekend Complete Video Download

Download here

Big Weekend at Preston Video

Watch The View's full set from BBC's big weekend at the link below

Watch here

Behind The Video

NME 19th May 2007

Kyle on Tony Blair

The NME asks a host of stars including Kyle, what they think of Tony Blair now he's going.
"He's come in for a lot of criticism over the years but I think he's done OK, he's pretty good. Unlike most polititions he seems like a good bloke as well and give him credit, at least he's tried."
NME 19th May 2007

Videos From Edith Bowan Show

Performed at Source, Preston on 18th May 2007

Wasted Little DJ's


Superstar Tradesman

Videos from Transmission on C4

Here's the Skag Trendy and Same Jeans Videos from Transmission on the UK's Channel 4.

Same Jeans


Skag Trendy

Download both videos here

The Don on Jonathan Ross Show

The Don on BBC 1's Jonathan Ross Show broadcast last week.

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Boys In The Band

The View's Keiren and Kyle: best mates and in a chart slaying band together. They talk to NME about breaking each other's ankles and that drugs bust

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Edith Bowman Show MP3's

Superstar Tradesman (acoustic)
Interview
Wasted Little DJ's (acousitc)

Download here

Link courtesy of Orange Pekoe

Band Playing Live on Radio 1 Today

According to Chris Moyles the The View will be performing live on Edith Bowman's tradio show oday. Listen from 1pm

Listen here

Buzznet Competition

Hey View fans, head over to Buzznet.com to enter to win a Levis jean jacket, View T-shirt and copy of the new record from The View! Join the View community and meet other fans of the View and be the first to know about interactive View contests in the future. Click this link to enter the contest And good luck!
Buzznet.com

Face For The Radio New Video

The video for Face For The Radio is now up on the official website

Watch here

US Album Review

The dense thicket of UK "lad rock" bands like Razorlight and Kaiser Chiefs has made it tough to sort out who's worth a second listen and who's just coasting on sound and attitude. Dundee, Scotland's The View runs about half and half on Hats Off To The Buskers, but that good half is legitimately exciting, marrying the requisite jaunty guitar hooks to witty lyrics about the sort of layabouts who "watch Trainspotting 15 times a week." To the growing pile of instant-classic lad-rock singles, add The View's "Skag Trendy," a fresh, frenzied sing-along that slows down twice over the course of its three minutes, to give everyone a chance to take another drink.

Reviewed by Noel Murray, AV Club, USA, May 15th, 2007

Secret Show in Preston

The View will be playing a very special warm up show this Friday ahead of the weekends 'One Big Weekend' in Preston

All details here

The View Are Coming To Oz This June

Sharpen your pencils, get your tickets 'cos this ones going down in the history books. It's riot rock and it's the sound of a teenage band euphorically re-energising guitar music with a swagger, a grin and a belly full of real life punk and you can hear it for yourselves for the first time ever when The View hit town to tour this June.
THE VIEW, THE VIEW, THE VIEW are on fire... so goes the chant from their rabid fans at their apocalyptic sold out UK gigs and you'll be doing the same once you see the buzzed-about UK rockers when they tour Australia for the first time ever THIS JUNE.

Adored by Bobby Gillespie and ass-kissed by the NME as "total unquestionable genius", The View have sprung from the Scottish streets of Drysbrough to #1 in the UK album charts, bagging the NME song of the year along the way and leaving a trail of rabid fans in their wake.

With an average age well under 20, The View are fronted by the charismatic Kyle Falconer alongside school friends Keiren, Peter and Steve and their debut album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' is rammed with incredible tunes from 'Wasted Little DJs' to 'The Don', 'Skag Trendy', 'Superstar Tradesman' and their cracking tune 'Same Jeans' - get it on Aussie Tour EP June 9.

If you miss 'em, you're mad. Get your tix on sale Wednesday, May 9.

The View Australian Tour 2007

Wednesday, June 6 - Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne
Tix thru www.thehifi.com.au, 03 9654 7617, Missing Link, Polyester

.Thursday, June 7 - The Tivoli, Brisbane
Ticketek 132 849, www.ticketek.com.au, Rocking Horse or Skinnys

Friday, June 8 - Metro, Sydney
www.moshtix.com.au, 02 9209 4614

TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY, MAY9

The album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' out now
'Same Jeans' Australian Tour EP out 9th June

Face For The Radio Announced as New Single

The View have announced details of their next single from debut album 'Hats Off To The Buskers'.

The band will return with 'Face For The Radio' on June 25. B-sides have yet to be confirmed.

Meanwhile the band have confirmed several of their festival appearances this summer, including two nights at Glastonbury playing the Pyramid Stage (June 22) and the Other Stage (24). In between the slots they shoot to Knowsley Hall to play the Liverpool bash (23).

They also play T In The Park on July 7 and the Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals, which take place between August 24 and 26

NME.com 14th May 2007

Photos from Cub NME in Mialn

The View along with The Futureheads helped launch Club NME, Milan on Sunday Evening. Here are a few photos from the night.
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Photos by Cecilia

THE VIEW ON RADIO 1

The guys will be popping in to Edith Bowmans Show this Friday, tune in to BBC Radio 1 between 1pm & 4pm.

Listen here

theviewareonfire.com

Amsterdam Webcast

Amsterdam Gig - Full Audio

Download all 17 tracks here

thanks again to orange pekoe for upload

The View was celebrating a victory lap tour

FOUR fresh faced Catholic boys who are barely out of school created a testosterone fuelled petrol bomb of madness in Belfast on Sunday night. Now you may be forgiven for mistaking this as some deeply hilarious prank by some tanked up mob of Holyland boys involving water balloons, Fairy Liquid and a Chinese delivery man but no, this is not the work of the Holyland's tour de force of tomfoolery, it is the work of indie's young players of the season, The View.

This is their victory lap around Britain, celebrating their No. 1 album and their three Top 20 singles. Of course, no victory lap would be complete without a bouquet of flowers thrown onto the stage, or in the Mandela Hall's case, an array of trainers aimed at singer Kyle Falconers head. Unaware of this the band launch into Coming Down, the opening track of the album and of their set. This song throws bangers at the crowd's feet and makes them bounce hard and fast. It creates a perfect balance of euphoria and fear for your own safety resulting in uncontrollable bouncing and a Cheshire grin a mile wide.

After Coming Down (something I definitely wasn't) they raced through Don't Tell Me and probably one of the highlights of the night, Wasted Little DJs. After this breath-taking opening they stumbled into a plateau of clumsy and unimpressive versions of latest double A side, The Don and Skag Trendy (imitation Pete Dohertry squawk anyone?), two of their songs that I find very average and live they were performed more like the ramshackle noise of an ADHD Nirvana cover band than that of The Libertines.

However they did redeem themselves with the annoyingly catchy radio friendly Same Jeans which had everyone from the paint faced emo at the front to the pony tailed bouncer at the back singing along. It was during this song that it occurred to me that there was not one woman (may be an exaggeration) in the Mandela Hall. Not a whiff of fake tan or hair spray, well with the exception of the metrosexuals in attendance.

This began to manifest in my mind and I began to believe that I had actually been swallowed whole by a great big grunting, sweaty, testosterone fuelled frenzy. It was shocking that these flop top pin-ups hadn't more females in attendance. The only reason I could offer to explain the female absenteeism was the impending GCSEs. The fairer sex aside, The View hammered through Street Lights and some unknown tracks with the same flaming vivacity they had at the beginning of their set leaving their brief mid set shambles nothing but a fleeting memory. These pop gems laid out the red carpet for the A-list end to the night, the trumpets sounded and Kyle Falconer spoke to the audience, "arite we dinnae play neh encoors, this is superstar tradesman." It took me a few seconds to decipher his barely audible dialect but as soon as I heard the opening riff it all became clear, "ahhh, he means Superstar Tradesmen." This anthemic distaste of good honest work had every bone idle philosopher in the Mandela Hall (which was basically the capacity) throw their fist in the air and scream in agreement. This concluded their victory lap pit stop in Belfast in impressive fashion. The View's fire burns bright.

Ulster Herald, Thu, May 10, 2007

Ibiza Rocks

The View, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, CSS and The Fratellis have all been announced for this year's Ibiza Rocks.

Back in its third year, the line-up will also include the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Mika and The Enemy.

The ongoing summer event will hit Manumission's beach side music venue, Bar M between June 19 and September 11.

Long standing Ibiza Rocks resident DJ Zane Lowe will return alongside Rob Da Bank and Mark Ronson, who will appear as special guest disc-spinners throughout the season.

The current line-up is as follows:

The View (June 19)
Kasabian (July 16-17)
CSS (10)
LCD Soundsystem (18)
The Enemy (31)
Mika (August 7-8)
Arctic Monkeys (September 1)
The Fratellis (3-4)

NME.com, 14th May 2007

A VIEW Not To Be Missed...

So you never saw the Sex Pistols, Oasis or Arctic Monkeys play a tiny pub?

With a huge grin on their faces Solid Entertainment, 95bFM and C4 announce The View at The Kings Arms.

The hottest and most exciting guitar band out the UK, and already one of the biggest.

You wanna see some history...

THE VIEW, THE VIEW, THE VIEW are on fire…..so goes the chant from their rabid fans at their chaotic sold out UK gigs. Seemingly from nowhere to an NME Best Track Of The Year (Wasted Little DJs), a Number 1 UK album and audiences in excess of 5000 in a matter of minutes…...there can be no doubt that THE VIEW, THE VIEW, THE VIEW are indeed, well and truly, on fire.

Kings Arms June 4th (Queens Birthday) – it will be a bit like seeing the Sex Pistols, Oasis or The Arctic Monkeys in a tiny pub before anyone else knew about them. Get your tickets now coz this one’s going down in the history books. You what, you saw them where ?

Do recommendations come any higher than from Primal Scream? Not in our book they don’t. Bobby Gillespie has declared The View his favourite new band. “They’ve just finished touring with us. They’re a top band, great songs and they look right. Spot on. They’re proper cheeky monkeys as well and I like that.” (Mani).

With an average age well under twenty, The View are fronted by the charismatic and truly original Kyle Falconer alongside school friends Kieren(bass), Peter(lead) and Steve(drums). A blast of fresh air, self-taught and spontaneous, they casually blew away other established bands at every gig they played and crazy scenes from demented fans only served to fuel a frenzied bidding war.

James Endeacott (the man who signed the Strokes and Libertines to Rough Trade) won their hearts and signatures for his newly formed 1965 Records label and lined up Owen Morris (Verve, Oasis, Ash, Fratellis) for album production duties.

"When James told people that he was sending us off to record with Owen, everyone apparently said to him, 'Why the hell are you sending the boys off to work with him? He's mental!' and James replied by saying, 'Well, Owen's mental - but the boys are fucking insane!'" (Peter).

Some chemistry – Hats Off To The Busker is a massive album rammed with incredible songs and bursting with irrepressible energy. From Wasted Little DJs (described by NME as “total unquestionable genius”) to The Don, Skag Trendy and Same Jeans, The View recall everything from Iggy through the Buzzcocks, the La’s, the Libs, the Clash and the Undertones (‘Superstar Tradesman’ quite possibly being this generations Teenage Kicks).

It’s the sound of a teenage band euphorically re-energising guitar music with a swagger, a cheeky grin and a belly full of real life punk flecked top pop tunes. It’s riot rock and it’s the sound of the streets of Dryburgh, Dundee filtered into songs that are certifiable anthems reaching for the stars and changing lives.

“A stunning live band.” (NME)

Some people are saying The View are a generation defining zeitgeist band.

Us? Lets just say its one not to miss!

Tickets on sale NOW. $39.Ticketek (307 5000 / www.ticketek.co.nz) & Real Groovy Queen St.

Vamped Up, 14th May 2007, New Zealand

Swiss Interview with Kyle

Students.ch: In the UK you played this year only in sold out venues. Is it annoying to start all over in Continental Europe?
Kyle Falconer: No it`s easy. We`re enjoying it. It`s really cool as we`re young and free. We had off for 18years in our lives.

What does it mean to you being the Frontman of The View?
I`m really enjoying it. I love the music we make. I like the people with whom I`m on the road. So, it`s good.

Are you considering yourself as a busker?
Yes, in a way. It`s great when we play acoustic. The funny thing is now that everytime I see a busker, I give him some coins. And there are so many of them in the UK that after an hour I usually run out of coins.

2007 has been a great year for you: you won the NME-Award for the best song, the album went to number one, the UK-Tour sold out within an hour. What was the most special experience?
Playing for Noel Gallagher! Definitely! We had this show at the Royal Albert Hall in London in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust when we had the honour to support Noel and Gem. It was really mystic- such a special venue. Something never to forget in your life.

Who do you prefer: Noel or Liam?
Noel. It`s because he writes all the songs. Don`t get me wrong, I like Liam as well, but it`s because Noel is the mind behind Oasis.

You played as well as a tour-support-act for Pete Dohertys Babyshambles. How was it?
This was amazing. We played Dundee, thats where we from. And to be on stage with Pete Doherty was something spectacular as not many bands play in Dundee. After the concerts we met in the bus and Pete played these wonderful tunes.

Pete is very interested in culture and art like reading, poems, paitings,... what about you?
Nothing. I`m not interested in it. The only thing I make is writing songs and making music. Thats all. I don`t care about the other stuff.

You write your songs with the bassist-player; is this easy?
Yes it is. We have a good mix together and not very often a problem. I collect things while I`m on the road and sing them in my recordplayer or write it on a paper. At the end of the tour I`ll have a lot of things to put together. I can`t sit down and say: 'Okay, right. Now I write a song.' They are coming like dreams do.

Tomorrow you will launch the Club NME in Milan. What do you think about the Magazine?
It has helped us a lot. They`ve done a lot of previews and reviews of our concerts. I like to read it as its short and easy written but has not the style of the british tabloids.

What about the money you earn?
I have to buy all the time new things as I`m losing them. Like my mobile, shoes... I don`t know but most of my things get lost somewhen. The other thing is: I spent a lot of money for my friends.. making them presents, buy them tickets for our gigs and pay for their trip and so on. One other thing is: We have been in Cancun, when it was spring-break. Just chilling around.

Spending it as well for drugs anymore?
No.

Cigarettes or Alcohol?
Alcohol! I have to have a beer before going on stage. I love beer, `cos you can get drunk. Thats the main difference to cigarettes. I just like the taste of them, that`s all.

Last question. What can we expect tonight?
An evening to dance.

Thanks for taking your time.
Cheers

Students.ch, Switzerland, 13th May 2007

The View Hit Up a Strip Club

Shambolic Scottish four-piece and "it" U.K. act of the moment, the View, dropped their debut album, 'Hats Off to the Buskers,' Tuesday. Originally, the effort was supposed to see U.S. store shelves this past winter but visa problems after an alleged drugs possession charge against singer Kyle Falconer forced the band to cancel a stateside trek and postpone the release.

Still, the band have their memories, bassist Kieran Webster shares with Spinner, of their first American stint several months ago, which saw them playing one rather famous 'Strip (as in Sunset) club. "I'm not sure how we got the Viper Room gig, but we were looking forward to playing [it]," Webster says. "It was a really good club. Once we knew we were playing there, people told me that it was owned by Johnny Depp. I was like, 'Johnny Depp? I love Captain Jack Sparrow.' I thought that was very cool."

If you're familiar with the band, who were signed by James Endeacott -- the man who previously "found" the Libertines -- you'll also know the View are young. This, of course, explains why when they think of Depp, they immediately recall the 'Pirates' franchise rather than characters from when Depp actually frequented the Strip like super cool officer Tom Hanson from '21 Jump Street' or the title character in 'Edward Scissorhands.'

Another thing that will show their youth? The View's elation over working with Owen Morris, who produced Oasis, and who they hit up regularly to regale them on the farm they recorded their album with Gallagher-brother tales. "He had some really funny stories," Webster says. "When we met him we got a long like a house on fire."

With no third-hand Oasis stories at hand (boo!), conversation turns back to the Viper Room. "I liked the Viper Room," he begins again. "Waitress would come serve you in bikinis in the backstage bit. It was over the top. It was a laugh."

by Jolie Lash, Spinner.com, USA 11th May 2007

Netherlands Tour Vids

Follow the links below for some great videos from Dutch leg of the European Tour

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MOJO Awards

The View have been nominated for 2 Mojos this year...

The MOJO Song Of The Year[supported by BBC 6 Music]
Phil Alexander: “Whether it's to do with the advent of downloading or not, the last 12 months have marked the rebirth of the song. This category reflects as much, with five diverse tracks that have provided us with a genuine soundtrack to what's going on - culturally, emotionally and, of course, musically.”

* Amy Winehouse – Rehab
* Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm
* The Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
* Guillemots – Made Up Love Song No 43
* The View – Same Jeans

The MOJO Breakthrough Act
Phil Alexander: “MOJO has always been proud to champion new music, and this year it’s been a vintage year for that. This category features just a few of the artists that we've supported over the last 12 months and whose music has fired up the imagination of the magazine's readers.”

* The Hold Steady
* Joanna Newsom
* Midlake
* Seasick Steve
* The View

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US Album Review

Barely out of high school and earnest as they'll ever be, indie quartet the View have been burning up the U.K. pop charts since being snatched by 1965 (the record label) in 2006. As a result, a trail of hype has since followed the teen Scots (originally from Dryburgh) with every step, only encouraged by the fact that the troupe hangs out with the likes of media-magnet Pete Doherty and manages to get arrested here and there.

Since the View set up shop at the Bayview Pub (also the origin of their name) two years ago, they've received comparisons to similar natural-born hit makers like the Arctic Monkeys and even Oasis. But with inexperienced youth comes misguided exuberance; their debut begins with an energetic hustle of moshpit guitar squeals and self-deprecating lyrics - all in Kyle Falconer's thick R-rolling brogue - like "With the stones you cast so fast/ It makes me think we never last."

The proceeding first half of Hats Off to the Buskers is dashed with astute observations about drug abuse and the plight of the everyman, filtered through the boys' kicking guitar solos and bouncy glam rock. Songs like "Wasted Little DJs" highlight their wishy-washy charm - talking shit on DJs who play the same song 16 times but soon admitting that they don't even really mind - and introduce delightfully foreign, slangy gibberish like "Artedwae ittlae ejaysdae/ They're the cleverest blond we ken." The entire latter half of the album is similarly upbeat, but pales in comparison to the spunky entrance, and soon descends into a barrage of bland Scottish ska and chipper, background-noise love ballads, each blending into the next.

The View do give it their all, and in turn manage to put a together a little somethin'-somethin' that's not altogether shabby. If they can learn to lay off the constant guitar solos and focus on the more beautifully tragic ballads like "Face for Radio" or the bizarre screech of the crazily off-key "Skag Trendy," then I can't say we'd mind them sticking around for a bit.

By Autumn Schuster, 10th May 2007, The Gaurdian, San Diego, USA

Bevrijdings Festival Photos

Photos from Bevrijdings Festival, Groningen, Netherlands on 5th May 2007

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The View on Transmission

Here's 'Skag Trendy' and 'Same Jeans' from Channel 4's Transmission show from 4th May 2007.

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The View on Jonathan Ross

Heres the audio of 'The Don' on Jonathan Ross on 4th May 2007

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Album in stores in USA now! Featuring three bonus tracks!

Album in stores in USA now! Featuring three bonus tracks!

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The View in Amsterdam

Here's the audio of 'Dance Into The Night' performed at the Melkweg, Amsterdam on 8th May 2007.

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Romancing the Stoned

The joyous excesses of the View

As a UK band, you know you’ve made it when you have your own football terrace-style chant. “The View, the View, the View are on fire!” is the chorus that has pursued these Scottish scallywags for the last year as their following has snowballed—it started with a hardcore of hometown evangelists, but now practically all-comers are seduced by their ragged, uplifting anthems. Like last year’s UK success story Arctic Monkeys, the View are scarily fresh-faced—average age 19—and like the Monkeys, they have effectively demolished the barrier between band and audience. The kids in the front row are the same kids who “treasure beer cans” and “talk of dreams, romance and excess” throughout the View’s breathless urban hymns.

“Pretty much every one of our songs is about our friends,” reckons deceptively cherubic singer Kyle Falconer. “We’ve got loads of interesting mates. There’s no point in racking your brains trying to come up with a lyric that’ll change the world—if you write about what you know best, people will be able to relate to it.” The View learned to play along to Oasis, Fleetwood Mac and The White Album but, as for so many bands of their generation, the Libertines were the catalyst. “Other bands taught us how to play music, but they had the attitude,” Falconer says. The totemic Libertines frontman Pete Doherty also influenced the View’s career rather more directly. When he visited their hometown of Dundee, Scotland with his post-Libs outfit Babyshambles, the View ambushed his tourbus; the evening ended with Doherty playing harmonica along to their demo and inviting them to open for him the following night. A few weeks later, former Libertines A&R man James Endeacott made them the flagship band of his new 1965 Records imprint.

With mentors like Doherty and legendary drug repositories Primal Scream, it’s no surprise that the View have attracted a reputation for hijinks. They are named after a local inn in which they used to rehearse, but were banned from for racing microscooters through the function suite and stealing beer from the bar. Falconer also recounts tales of the group branding each other with rosemary beads, driving cars in reverse down one-way streets and running through winter streets wearing nothing but a Scotland-flag thong. He is unsure as to whether the View’s hedonistic outlook constitutes a philosophy, but concedes, “We like to have a drink in our hand, aye.”

Everything has happened rapidly for the View, with the self-confessed “noise and thrashiness” of their invigorating debut album Hats Off To The Buskers a direct result of the band transporting its live show into the studio and getting out again quickly in order to enjoy life some more. “We’ll give it a bash,” Falconer says, when pressed on his ambitions for breaking America. “But we don’t think much about the future.”

By Sam Richards, Rader Magazine, USA, 9th May 2007

US Album Release Listening Events

There will be listening events going on at music.MSN.com, music.aol.com, and www.artistdirect.com in addition to the Myspace one.

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Webcast From Amsterdam

Webcast tonight live from The View's show in Amsterdam....

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Competition for US Fans

With the highly anticipated release of The View’s album,
Hats Off To The Buskers, we want you to see them in Scotland!

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The View The Making Of Superstar Tradesmen Video

Sadly, Dundonian tykes The View are unable to come across to the US to promote their new album Hats Off To The Buskers and meet their new American fans, so the boys are introducing themselves in a slightly more unique manner – a behind the scenes look at their new video.

Here you can see The View in their natural habitat – Dryburgh, Scotland – where they shot the video for “Superstar Tradesmen.” Behind the cameras you can see them carousing with their neighbours, boozing all day, and being looked after by lead singer Kyle’s mom.

In other The View news; the band are offering one lucky fan the chance to fly out and see the band play T In The Park, one of Europe’s biggest

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Filter Mag, USA, 5th May 2007

The Making Of "Superstar Tradesmen"

Kieren Webster talks to John Pienaar

The View's Kieren Webster talks to John Pienaar on Dundee, elections and fame for Up All Night on BBC Five Live.

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USA Album Review

At one point in musical history, the term pop music wasn’t necessarily a derisive label – the Beatles were pop. Through the years, as music became more and more formulaic, the term came to take on the meaning of material that was essentially crap – Britney Spears is pop. Side note: I think it’s no accident that Britney’s initials are BS.

Enter The View. Four kids from Dundee, Scotland and when I say kids, I mean youngins! The average age of the quartet (bassist Kieran Webster, lead guitarist Pete Reilly, lead singer Kyle Falconer, and drummer Steve Morrison) is a very tender, 19. Sometimes age and supposed inexperience can work against a band. I would say in this case, it’s a promise of the best is yet to come. But man, how good it is right now. Their debut album, Hats Off to the Buskers is set to drop May 8 in the United States with it already being released in the U.K. January 22.

Not only do I encourage you to get a copy, I encourage you to be at the record store at midnight on the 8th to be the first one on your block with a copy.

Hats off to the Buskers is what a pop album should be; full of hooks, bright melodies, catchy lyrics, and just a rollicking damn good time from start to finish. Someone else said it perfectly, The View are about three minute power-pop explosions of controlled mania!

Most albums I listen to get the Charlie Brown test; this of course needs a bit of explanation.

In the old Charlie Brown cartoons, invariably there would be one scene where all the kids were dancing. There was that one little kid that would bop his head from shoulder to shoulder in time to the music, that’s me. If an album makes me tap my foot and bounce my head from shoulder to shoulder then it’s on to something. Hats Off to the Buskers gave me a wonderful neck cramp I was bouncing my head to the music so much.

This isn’t the type of pop that’s like cotton candy, sweet for a second and then it dissolves leaving your teeth gritty. The album doesn’t stop, it’s infectious. I woke up one morning singing the lyrics to the breakout single from the album, “Same Jeans” as I made the morning coffee.

“I’ve had the same jeans on for four days now / I’m gonna go to a disco in the middle of the town / Everybody’s dressing up, I’m dressing down,” sings lead vocalist Kyle Falconer with a voice that was made for rock-n-roll.

This album will get into your head and stay there - all of the songs are as catchy, I couldn’t find a dud on the entire album. I only have one criticism of the album and truly it’s a matter of personal opinion in regards to flow. I would have made track 8, “Wasted Little DJ’s” the albums opener. How nit-picky is that?!

Beyond being my favorite track on the album, “Wasted Little DJ’s” is a truly majestic cut. From the opening crescendo of guitars to the final driving drums and incantation of “It’s the latest, it’s the latest thing,” the song truly is majestic in scope and REALLY gets to what, I feel, The View is all about.

With summer fast approaching, I think it’s no exaggeration to think that The View will be THE summer band of 2007 with hopefully a long career ahead of them. Like I said, these guys are young, so as they mature in age and their craft, the sky is their only upper bound.

Benjamin Cossel, BC Music, USA, May 6th, 2007

NYCD Pick Of The Week

THE VIEW - HATS OFF TO THE BUSKERS. These young Scottish louts have caused quite a stir in the UK with their blend of punk energy, killer hooks and unintelligible singing that can probably only be understood by other Scotsmen. But when you're busy jumping around the room to the infectious music, you won't really care about the lyrics. They're one iPod commercial away from becoming big stars.

NYCD, New York, 6th May 2007

Doghouse Review

The Doghouse, Dundee, Saturday 28th April 2007

As the latest event in Red Stripe’s Bring it On Back series, Saturday found The View taking time out from converting the rest of the world to their rumbustious rock n roll rumblings to return home and perform back at their old stomping ground in Dundee to a rapturous rabble of their nearest and dearest.

Tickets for this homecoming gig at local pub The Doghouse, the band’s spiritual home and one-time practise room, were understandably like gold-dust. Allocated by the band, Red Stripe & Clash (as production and media partners for the show), it was always going to be a close knit evening and indeed it seemed that the whole of The View’s home area, Dryburgh, had come along for the party. With welcoming cans of Red Stripe handed out on entry, the family celebration vibe of the night was apparent from the word go, and rarely do you get to see a crowd so friendly.

Amidst the packed out Doghouse venue, after short opening sets by local bands Dave and Corellos, local five piece Luva Anna’s acoustic rock n roll really made a strong start to proceedings. Signed to local label 2 Thumbs, their sound brings to mind Elvis Costello running riot amidst a Dundee Derby. Good ole’ jangle pop is right at the heart of their music, Luva Anna are the opposite to the neon-clad scenesters making music to be forgotten as soon as it’s aired. A band to truly look out for.

Next up were homegrown rock n soul strummers, The Law, cited by The View as Dundee’s true greatest band. Bounding on with enough gusto to suggest their current LP recordings could rival their Dryburgh brethren, their debut single’Milk & Honey’ pushes the sweat drenched mass before them into overdrive, more than enough to invoke an onlooking Kieren View into bopping like a scalded chicken. The dance floor became a heaving mass of smiling faces and sweaty arms hugging and punching the air. Their support slot of The View’s tour has given them increased confidence and they sound bigger than ever, like an asbo-hungry Yardbirds barn-jamming above an inner city tower block. Bring on the album, that’s all we’re saying.

And so it is, after a hurricane year involving court appearances, pneumonia, a chart raping Debut LP and throwing up at award ceremonies, The View strut onstage to the kind of welcome which could deafen the most ardent of Slayer fans. As the last note of opener ‘Coming Down’ echoes around the hall things really erupt when they blast through lost Bayview classic ‘Screamin’ n
Shoutin’, pint tumblers fly skyward and the in-house camera crew begin to twitch nervously. Pig Latin junk anthem ‘Wasted Little DJ’s’ follows, each crowd member yelping out their own slightly off-kilter chorus of muddled vocab. The Wasted Little DJs themselves clamber on-stage for a jive, followed by emphatic synchronized stage dives.

Tonight’s faultless set is rewarded time and again by delirious fans, themselves now surging and surfing the waves above their sweating beaming and sweating heads, only too aware the View could sell out venues ten times this size. We get a super-rare live outing of ‘Face For The Radio’, the crowd joyously replacing lighters with Red Stripe cans, shouting every word back at Falconer in shoulder clambering abandon. ‘Grans For Tea’ sees Kieran take the lead, pummelling his fretboard and thwaking his boots against the monitors whilst lamenting urban isolation via a “mile long queue in the chipp-y”. Then, after a thunderous stomp through ‘Superstar Tradesman’, they
down tools and stroll off stage, sticking to their no-encore ethos. Encore or not, The View can dance into the night in the knowledge they’ve just played a sure-fire contender for gig of the year. Hats Off, indeed.

The world spanning tours and never-ending on road debauchery have truly galvanized and improved The View. From the affinity they have with their crowd here, to the throngs of worshippers in far off lands like Japan, you can tell that people realise the smiling scruffs in front of them truly are a special little band of brothers. And you can tell that those present tonight realised they’d witnessed something special, as they thanked Clash and the guys from Red Stripe and clamoured to say goodbye to their heroes who were immediately setting off on their new state of the art tour bus to Belfast.

I remember the last time I saw The View, one year ago. They were driving a Ford Transit, it¹s amazing what you can come back with when you bring it back home after a year like the View have just had.

Clash Magazine, 4th May 2007

The View to launch Club NME Milan

The View are set to kick off proceedings at Club NME: Milan.

The world's greatest indie night - with branches in New York and Los Angeles as well as many across the UK - will launch in Italy on May 13 at the Transilvania Club at 10pm.

The first night will see The View and The Futureheads playing live, along with Club NME DJs manning the decks.

The night costs 12 Euros in advance or 15 on the door, see Ticketone.it or Dnaconcerti.com for tickets.

NME.com, 4th May 2007

The View on TV!

Hey folks,

Just a reminder that you can catch the band on tv tonight not once but TWICE!
They will be performing "The Don" on The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC1 @ 10.35pm

Plus

They will be making their 2nd appearance on Channel 4's Transmission performing Skag Trendy & Same Jeans @ 11.40pm
Miss it and Miss out!!

The View's Myspace, 4th May 2007

In Sight/ Music & Arts: View ready to play 'nice' in Japan

You're 19 or 20, and already people expect you to be a role model. This is the situation faced by members of one of Britain's hottest new rock bands, the View, who will tour Japan in May.

In March, less than 24 hours after receiving the prestigious NME award for Best Track of the Year for their ebullient "Wasted Little DJs," the band's singer and co-songwriter Kyle Falconer was fined ￡1,000 (243,000 yen) for possessing cocaine last August and was criticized by anti-drug campaigners for being a poor role model for Scotland's youth.

Almost as quickly as the members of the View have shot to stardom with their energetic brand of street rock, they have also earned one of rock's most notorious bad-boy images. This is something that Kieran Webster, the bassist and co-songwriter, said he found unfair during a recent telephone interview from Glasgow's famous Barrowlands music venue, where the band was sound checking for a gig.

"Things did happen," he said, admitting he was hungover during the interview. "But you can focus on other things apart from that. Other great stuff happens that never gets mentioned. But as soon as you get chucked out of a hotel or something, it's all over the place."

In one incident, the group was banned from the Bayview pub in Dundee, Scotland, an early rehearsal venue and the source of the group's name, after band members rode a motor scooter on the bar.

Of course, for a rock band, getting into a bit of trouble can be great publicity, but it can also have its downside. Falconer's conviction for drug possession has already led to visa problems and the cancellation of a trip to the United States, including an appearance at the influential South by Southwest rock festival, where they were being touted as the next Arctic Monkeys.

Webster dismissed the idea that the band acts up in an attempt to be seen as rebellious.

"I don't think it's really rebellious taking drugs," he said. "I think there's better ways to be rebellious, like writing a rebellious song or whatever. We don't try to have any kind of image. We just do our thing and play our gigs. As long as people come, we keep playing them."

Much of the negative publicity the band attracts seems to be caused by its association with British rock's No. 1 bad boy, Pete Doherty, the Babyshambles singer whose chaotic lifestyle and convictions for a variety of criminal offenses, combined with his high profile relationship with supermodel Kate Moss, has aroused frenzied interest from the British media.

Doherty played a key role in the View's breakthrough when Webster pressed a demo CD into his hands during a visit by the Babyshambles to the View's hometown of Dundee. After a quick live audition, the band was invited to support Doherty's band onstage and subsequently invited on a national tour. According to Webster, the demo contained four tracks, including "Street Lights," "Face for the Radio" and "Comin' Down," which are on the band's British No. 1 debut CD "Hats Off to the Buskers," released earlier this year.

To those familiar with Doherty's media image as a heroin junkie, it seems surprising that Webster chose him as the person to give the band's demo CD to. But Doherty is also known as an artiste who does not set himself above his fans, and rejects the self-importance of the rock world.

"We never pushed ourselves too much," Webster recalled. "We just used to give our demo CDs to people who asked us for them or one or two bands that were playing in Dundee. I know Pete's reputation, but I also know that he really likes music. I thought he might let us play, so I asked him and he did, so I got it right. I knew he would. There wouldn't be many people who would do that--only him."

Members of the View have sought to maintain a similar borderless approach to their fans. This is all part of the new guerrilla, DIY ethic of the British music scene since the success of Doherty's first band, the Libertines, and the Arctic Monkeys. But, as Webster says, it's getting harder to keep the informal relationship between band and fans that existed in the early days.

Luckily, with its off-the-cuff lyrics and rousing ensemble playing, the band's debut album has managed to capture much of the intimacy and warmth of the band's early fan-centered period, when songs like "Wasted Little DJs" were cranked out on the spur of the moment at the behest of fans.

As for the bad-boy image, Japan should take care of that. Webster remembered the positive influence Japanese fans had on him during the band's brief trip here last December.

"The people are really nice," he said. "It makes you want to be a better person being in Japan."

BY C.B. LIDDELL, CONTRIBUTING WRITER, 05/04/2007, Asahi.com

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The View will perform May 24 (7 p.m.) at Drum Be-1 in Fukuoka. Call Kyodo Nishi Nippon at 092-714-0159.

May 30 (7 p.m.) at Nagoya Club Quattro. Call the venue at 052-264-8211.

All shows 5,500 yen in advance.

Sold out: May 28-29 in Tokyo and May 31 in Osaka.(IHT/Asahi: May 4,2007)

US Album Review

For some people, some things never get old. Personally, I never get tired of bands that channel the woozy rawk of the early Stones, Stooges, Libertines or Exploding Hearts. The Scottish band The View are of this lineage. They play an unbelievably derivative (but undeniably great) style of rock, replete with big guitars and even bigger hooks. Their debut album, Hats Off to the Buskers, is a smart, snappy slice of Brit-rock, ensuring that the music Pete Doherty should be making gets made.

Of course, the band's drummer, Steve, has already gotten arrested once with Doherty; they were speeding (the wrong way) down a one way street in Birmingham. (Sidenote: Do the British police even bother to follow Doherty around anymore? At this point, they should just arrest the dude weekly. It would save time, manpower and indirectly ruin the NME - all good things.) But considering that Doherty was instrumental in the band's rise in the UK--he was apparently blown away by their first EP--at least the supposed prophet of rock has passed the torch to some solid blokes.

With swagger to spare, Hats Off has bravado and charm in abundance. On the album's opener, "Comin' Down," the band plays a demonic little blues shuffle that kicks everything into high gear. It's a fun rave-up that plays to all the bands strengths: catchy vocals and dirty riffs. The rest of the album doesn't deviate from that formula, and why should it? "Superstar Tradesmen," "Wasted Little DJs" and "Same Jeans" are enough to convince me experimental indie-rock is for losers and losers with glasses (like me). As their myspace humbly proclaims, "The View have arrived just in time to give us back true rock & roll spirit with a basis in great songwriting." I'm not sure if I'd go that far, but Hats Off is certainly worth a listen when it drops on May 8.

By Pete Farrell, Minneapolis Fucking Rocks, 2nd May 2007

Win tix to Strummer film Premiere!

NME are running a competiton now to win tickets to the premiere of the new Joe Strummer movie "The future is unwritten". We are also playing at the event which takes place at London Coronet, to enter the competition follow the link below.

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The Don Review

WHILST they may be living the rock’n’roll lifestyle better than most of their peers at the moment, the scruffy Glaswegian four-piece never let it get in the way of writing a good tune with latest The Don continuing their run of quality singles.

Not as immediately lovable or catchy as Same Jeans or the recent recipient of a Best Track award at the NME Awards, Wasted Little DJs, the bouncy rhythm and ramshackle guitar clatter is just as enduring.

Kyle Falconer’s song writing is brimming over with Messrs Doherty and Baratisms and strong melodies that thankfully raise them beyond the mire of other post-Libertines groups.
Released on April 23.

Mike Caulfield, 1/ 5/2007 Manchester Evening News

The View - Dundee Doghouse, 28th April

We’ll have a review for you soon but in the meantime enjoy these cracking photos taken by Clash’s Cat Morley.

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Clash Magazine, 1st may 2007