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Pete and Kieren backstage at LMHR

LMHR Supergroup

Members of Babyshambles, Reverend And The Makers, The View, Guillemots, The Pan I Am and The Noisettes joined forces for a live set at the Love Music Hate Racism carnival in Victoria Park, London today (April 27).

Fionn Regan, ex-Arctic Monkeys bassist Andy Nicholson and former Sham 69 vocalist Jimmy Pursey also joined the collective at points throughout the set.

Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell led the band through the opening ’Ampersand’ at around 4:15pm (BST), playing guitar and singing. The song is by McConnell’s side project Helsinki, a band with a revolving line-up that he organises, and the moniker the collective was playing under today.

Irish singer/songwriter Fionn Regan joined the band for ’Genocide Matinee’, while singer Joe Fox provided vocals for ’This Love’.

The View’s Kyle Falconer and Keiran Webster then walked on stage and added vocals and guitar to a rendition of their hit ’Same Jeans’, which was rapturously received by the crowd.

McConnell was vocal between the songs, leading the audience through a chant of “Fuck the BNP”. After ’Same Jeans’ he invited Sham 69 singer Jimmy Pursey onstage to sing a cover of ’White Riot’ by The Clash. The Clash performed at the Rock Against Racism concert in 1978 at the same park, making the rendition poignant. Suitably, the loudest cheers of the day were heard during the song.

The bassist had planned to invite his Babyshambles band-mate Mick Whitnall on stage after ’White Riot’, but the Whitnall was nowhere to be seen. McConnell led the crowd through a good-natured chant of “Where the fuck is Mick?”, before introducing Jon McClure of Reverend And The Makers and Andy Nicholson, formerly a member of Arctic Monkeys.

The duo joined the band as they played a cover of ’Son Of A Gun’ by The La's, with McClure on vocal duties. They remained on stage to play ’Paris At Night’, a Reverend And The Makers B-side.

Following the latter song Mick Whitnall was finally found. He sung while playing guitar on the Babyshambles song ’I Wish’.

The collective closed their set with a cover of ’Dancing In The Dark’ by Bruce Springsteen, with Guillemots’ Fyfe Dangerfield and The Pan I Am’s Edward Larrikin both playing guitar and sharing a microphone to sing.

Helsinki played:

’Ampersand’
‘Genocide Matinee’
‘This Love’
‘Same Jeans’
‘White Riot’
‘Son Of A Gun’
‘Paris At Night’
‘I Wish’
‘Dancing In The Dark’

Aremsee on stage at Victoria Park gig

PAUL Simonon will be taking to the stage at the Love Music, Hate Racism festival in Victoria Park on Sunday, 30 years after appearing there with The Clash.

Dundee rockers The View will be performing a special early set while graffiti hotshot Ryan McPhail will bedeck a massive backdrop with his artistic wizardry.

A tribute will be staged to east London Auschwitz survivor, Leon Greenman, a popular supporter of Love Music, Hate Racism, who died last month.

The music starts at noon and goes on until 6pm. More than 50,000 people are expected to turn up to make it a party to rival the one from 1978 it has been organised to celebrate.

V Festival dates added

The View will be performing on the Cannel 4 Stage at the V Festival 2008 at Weston Park Saturday 16th August and Hylands Park on Sunday 17th August

Other band lined up tp play are The Verve, Stereophonics, Prodigy, Pigeon Detectives, Ian Brown, Jamie T, The Zutons, Kings Of Leon, The Charlatans and View favourites Squeeze.

V Festival Website

Charity auction

Signed and framed T-Shirt from Dundee band 'The View' - reserve price of £150.

The T-Shirt is in a pine frame measuring 93cm x 108cm. Approx weight is 11KG.

Donated by a Dundee businessman to the 'Heather and Jackie Cycle Cuba' fund.

'Heather and Jackie Cycle Cuba' is a charity bike ride to raise money for 'Women-for-Women'. Women-for-Women raise funds and awareness of illnesses that effect women and babies.

Bid here

LMHR Videos by Helsinki Films

Helsinki Films are a small independant film company making documentaries and music videos. Videos featured on the site include artists like The View, The Paddingtons, Stagecoach and Tim Burgess from The Charlatans.

Same Jeans

Superstar Tradesman

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Spotted!

Babyshambles' Drew McConnell and Kyle Falconer and Kieran Webster from The View wandering the Soho streets at 3am.

NME, 17th April 2008

More info on LMHR Carnival

Two major acts have confirmed that will be performing at the upcoming Love Music Hate Racism Carnival in London.

Dundee rockers The View have said they will be performing a special early set on the LMHR stage of the event, which is set to take place in London's Victoria Park on April 27th.

What's more, MOBO-winning rapper Akala will grace the second headline slot of the Unite Stage.

Other major acts already confirmed for the Carnival include Hard-Fi, Roll Deep, Wiley, The Paddingtons, Skream & Benga and Patrick Wolf.

The first ever Rock Against Racism event look place in Victoria Park in 1978.

Organisers from this year's event explained: "A huge rally of 100,000 people marched the six miles from Trafalgar Square through London's East End - the heart of National Front territory - to a Rock Against Racism concert in Victoria Park.

"The concert and march spelled the beginning of the end for the NF in the face of a young and diverse mass movement."

Ben Sebborn, skiddle.com 15th April 2007

LMHR Show in London

The View have confirmed they will play The Love Music Hate Racism Carnival in Victoria Park, London on April 27th. Other artists lined up to play are The Paddingtons, The Good The Bad The Queen, Helsinki (Drew McConnell of Babyshambles & Friends ft very special guests) and the Rock Against Racism All-Stars. Admission to the event is absolutely free!

www.lmhrcarnival.com

View’s T-shirt up for grabs

A T-shirt signed by Dundee band The View will go under the hammer this week to raise money for a charity cycle ride around Cuba.

Sisters Heather Judge (46) and Jackie Soutar (49) and their friend Rhonda Spence (40) will all take to the Cuban roads for the five-day, 230-mile cycle ride in November.

The framed T-shirt — a gift from Dundee slater and charity-fundraiser Charlie Kean — will be sold on Internet auction site eBay to finance the ride.

Mrs Judge said the women were keen to take on a new challenge after completing the Dundee Cyclathon in 2006.

“It’s just getting the sponsorship in now,” she said.

In order to take part in the Cuban event, each woman must raise £3000 for Women-for-Women — a charity which raises awareness and funds for the treatment of conditions that affect women and their babies including cancer, genetic diseases and stillbirth.

The online auction will open at 7.30 pm on Thursday and close on Sunday, April 27.

The T-shirt has a reserve price of £150.

Potential buyers should search the site for item number 110242618943 to make their bid.

More information is available from the sisters’ website at http://www.heatherandjackiecyclecuba.co.uk.

Evening Telegraph, 14th April 2008

Charity auction for signed T-Shirt

Charlie Kean, owner of Kean Slaters (Dundee), has donated a signed, and framed, T Shirt from Dundee band The View to ‘Heather and Jackie Cycle Cuba’. The T-Shirt is shown below.

Charlie is well known in the Tayside region for his charity work, Charlie is also an ambassador for the ‘Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust’.

Charlie has raised many thousands of pounds for local children's charities; Charlie also organised a trip for 700 ill and disabled young children, and their carers, to Dundee Ice Rink to see Peter Pan.

The T Shirt will be auctioned off to help Heather and Jackie raise £3000 each for Women-for-Women,

The T-Shirt is framed in a pine frame. The text with the picture of the band reads ‘The View get fired up in New York’.

Full details here

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“Hats Off to the Buskers” (Columbia) drew me in with a really great guitar track on the second song, “Superstar Tradesman.” I heard it on the radio, got the single and played the hell out of it. It has Clash-like guitars, and the lyrics are very funny. It’s basically talking about someone who’s a carpenter or plumber making a lot of money in a town where people aren’t making a lot of money. “You have a house in the ferry and a new guitar that’s never been played before and it never will.” I know guys like that with a Les Paul on a stand in their living room, gathering dust. Might as well put it on the mantelpiece.

The View sing as if their lives depended on it, and they have a great joy in what they sing. They’ve got self-knowledge about what a stupid job we do. I like bands that give a wink and a nod that they know they’re having a great time and getting paid for it, hurrah.

by Billy Bragg, The New York Times, April 6th, 2008

Read full article here

The View make the most of night off

The Enemy re-opened the London venue Proud last night (April 3) with a short acoustic set.

Watched by members of The View the band kicked off the short set with 'It's Not OK'.

The Enemy played:

'It's Not OK'
'This Song'
'You're Not Alone'
'Cosmic Dancer'

Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell opened the night fronting his new five-piece side project Helsinki.

As well as performing a jazz version of his full-time band's single 'Delivery', McConnell also covered Manu Chao's 'Lagrimas De Oro' and threw in an organ-driven instrumental.

Tonight's show cancelled

The View have decided to cancel their 'secret' show at The Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes this evening, Thursday 3rd April.

The gig was intended as a secret show to road-test new songs, however, a number of leaks have compromised the initial intentions of the show.

The band apologise to any of their fans who had planned to come to the show.

Surprise London show tonight

The View will play a headline set tonight (April 3) at the London Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes.

The band are expected to play new tracks from their forthcoming second album, and will be supported by hotly-tipped Austin band White Denim, plus Red Light Company and The Joy Formidable.

The evening's entertainment begins at 7.30pm, with entry costing £6.

NME, 3rd April 2008

The View To Release Live DVD

The View are to release a live DVD to bridge the gap between their first and second albums.
The DVD will featuring a recording of the band's homecoming gig at Dundee's Caird Hall, from last April and the footage was shot by former art students from the city.

Although a release date has not been announced, the DVD will receive its first airing at the Dundee Contemporary Arts venue in June.

AngryApe.com 1st April, 2008