 |        |  |  Diamanda Galás will play at La Cité de la Musique (Paris XIX) on 15 April 2008.
 Faith & The Muse will play on Péniche Loupika (Lyon) on 4 October and at La Scène Bastille (Paris) on 5 October.
 Vive La Fête, Black Strobe and Adult will be at la Locomotive (Paris) on 23 October for the When Electro Rocks festival.
 Our team member DJ Herr Doktor Hell will djay at Snake Pit (Nice) with DJ Andromède and DJ Frank'N'Furter on 31 August. This party will offer a chronological musical panorama of post-punk, batcave, indus, cold-wave, new-wave, rock gothique, EBM, dark-wave, electro-dark and electroclash ! Free and cheap drink price.
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|  |        |  |  Siouxsie will play at Elysée Montmartre (Paris) on 28 October. Her solo album, "Mantaray", will be out on 10 September.
 Agoria will play at La Cigale (Paris) on 12 October. On this occasion Peter Murphy will join them on stage to sing "The Green Armchair" from the album out last October.
 "Hvarf-Helm", a double album with rare and unreleased tracks and exclusive acoustic versions by Sigur Rós will be out on 5 November along with "Helma", a live DVD of the band.
 After Throbbing Gristle's comeback, Genesis P-Orridge has started Psychic TV again for a new album "Hell Is Invisible... Heaven Is Here" which was out last June. The band will play at La Laiterie (Strasbourg) on 27 October and at La Maroquinerie (paris) on 28 October.
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|  |        |  |  Arnaud Michniak (Diabologum, Programme) has just had his first solo album out called "Poing Perdu". He will play dates in France in October/November and will plat at Le Point Ephémère (Paris X) on 31 October.
 Eric Aldéa and former Bästard members have started a new project called Zëro who have played at Villette Sonique last January. The band will have a live album out on 20 October and will be on tour in October/November playing a date at Le Divan du Monde (Paris) on 9 November.
 Pan Sonic will play at Le Nouveau Casino (Paris) on 22 September, Centre d'Art Contemporain in Grenoble on 27 October and Name Festival in Lille on 20 September (with The Orb, Ellen Allien, Nathan Fake).
 Delerium gig at La Locomotive (Paris) on 29 November. |
|  |        |  |  Tony Wilson factory records founder died of a heart attack on Friday 10 August. A party will take place on 15 December in Brussels called "A Factory Night (Once Again)" as a tribute to the Factory Nights in Brussels in the early 80's. Section 25, The Names, Minny Pops, Kevin Hewick and Crispy Ambulance will play gigs, there will be DJs playing, Philippe Carly and Katja Ruge photography exhibitions and screenings of documentaries of that time. Gigs will be followed by an all-night aftershow party with the whole Factory sound from its beginnings until today. Click here for more information. As regards Philippe Carly (read our interview here), some of his pictures can be bought here.
 We'll try not to refer to it everyday but we've just been informed that The Cure's new album release date will be postponed to April/May 2008 to coincide with the band's European tour. |
|  |        |  |  Leaving Sonic Youth for a while, Thurston Moore will have a new solo album out on 18 September called "Trees Outside the Academy".
 After "The House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects", Rob Zombie has directed the ninth episode of the "Halloween" saga which will tell about the origins of Michael Myers and his dark childhood. The film will be out on 30 January 2008 in France.
 She Wants Revenge's second album is called "This is Forever" and will be out on 9 October.
 Wax Tailor offers you to remix Positively Inclined from the "Hope & Sorrow" album. You can download an a capella version of the track here. The contest ends on 31 August. The best 10 remixes will be on MySpace from 1 September and the winner's remix will be on the next EP out in Ocober. |
|  |        |  |  After Peter Hook's recent words about New Order splitting up, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris said in an official announcement on 20 July that was wrong and that they were surprised that Peter Hook had delibarately told the press about a "split up" without even consulting the other bad members. New Order still goes on, without Peter Hook - should he wish to leave the band.
 On the occasion of the Joy Division film "Control" out on 26 September, photographs by Pierre René-Worms of the band's gig at Les Bains Douches on 18 December 1979 will be shown on exhibition in Agnès B. Paris shops.
 Siouxsie's solo album called "Mantaray" will be out on 10 September. Click here to watch the video to the single out 27 August. |
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