Newsround :: Featuring Surfer Blood, Jahcoozi & Bestival

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Surfer Blood, the West Palm Beach quartet, have announced their maiden voyage to the UK. They’ve set up a series of live dates for May, including an ATP slot:

May
1 – Camden Crawl, London
2 – Camden Crawl, London
3 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
4 – Thekla, Bristol
6 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
7 – Academy 3, Birmingham
8 – Ruby Lounge, Manchester
9 – King Tuts, Glasgow
11 – Cockpit, Leeds
12 – Heaven, London
13 – The Great Escape, Brighton
14 – All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead

The Bestival Festival have announced a couple of new additions to the Rob Da Bank curated festival… JÓNSI (y’know, that guy from Sigur Ros), has signed up, plus there’s a ‘BACK TO THE PHUTURE’ party featuring Heaven 17. Nice.

Jahcoozi are to release a new album called Barefoot Wanderer. The disco-funk once shouted about by John Peel himself, will release their latest on the 19th April. It’ll feature the following:

01 Barefoot Dub
02 Zoom In Fantasize
03 Powerdown Blackout feat M. Sayyid
04 Close To Me
05 Lost In The Bass
06 Speckles Shine feat. Guillermo Brown
07 Read the Books
08 Msoto Millions feat Uko Flani
09 Barricaded feat Barbara Panther
10 Watching you (Deadbeat stalker dub)
11 Wasteland