Maximo Park To Play At London's Forum For Charity

Maximo Park have teamed up with Blood Red Shoes, Pete and the Pirates and Mystery Jets for a very special gig at London's Forum in support of The Royal Marsden Hospital and the No Surrender Charitable Trust on May 28th.

After Maximo Park's good friend, Jason Boas, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, the band took action and put together the gig.

“When someone you know is up against cancer it makes sense to give them your full support. Since that is currently the case, and that person is being treated at The Royal Marsden hospital, which was recently damaged by fire, we decided to do what we can as a band. What we do best is play concerts and we intend to give all profit from our gig at The Forum to help rebuild the cancer unit where they not only look after sufferers but continue to further our knowledge and treatment of the disease. We've never been a preachy band or asked people to shell out daft amounts for tickets, but this show will be well worth the entry fee for a number of reasons.”, says Paul Smith.

Tickets are priced at £20 and go on sale from 9am on April 9th and are available from:
www.gigsandtours.com/?a=maximo+park&site=maximopark

Likely Looks: Maximo Park - Karaoke Plays

The fact that Maximo Park utilized a party bus for their latest video, "Karaoke Plays" basically made my day.

Maximo Park - Karaoke Plays


"Karaoke Plays" is out December 3rd in the UK (of course...you think the US would be cool enough to release a Maximo Park single?!)

Maximo Park Plan More North American Tour Dates

Maximo Park continue to play the biggest shows on their career in the States and this fall is no exception.

This time around they leave the east coast out and focus on the left coast :(

Here are the upcoming dates:

November
13 - MacEwan Hall, Calgary
14 - Edmonton Event Centre, Edmonton
16 - Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver
17 - Moore, Seattle
18 - Crystal Ballroom, Portland
20 - Warfield, San Francisco
21 - Wiltern, Los Angeles
23 - Joint, Las Vegas
24 - House of Blues, Anaheim
25 - Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix
26 - House of Blues, San Diego

Maximo Park Does Jimmy Kimmell

Maximo Park has really grown on me lately and so has their latest album "Our Earthly Pleasures". Paul Smith lightens up on the kung fu for this Jimmy Kimmel performance but still dances a load and manages to take his coat off mid song.

Here is the video of "Girls Who Play Guitars" on Jimmy Kimmel:



NY Broad x

Likely Looks: Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars

Lately I've been on a big Maximo Park kick so I was pleased to find out they've made a video for their new single "Girls Who Play Guitars"



Enjoy!

NY Broad x

Maximo Park Live At Webster Hall

Maximo Park is a band I have missed time and time again when they come to New York. Finally, last week I got the opportunity to see Newcastle's finest perform to a packed (and mental!) house at Webster Hall.

Paul Smith has always been one to entertain. I am sure he's taken a load of karate classes because at the rate he is goes on stage it appears he's a black belt. The crowd was so into it...I was almost blown away by the reaction the band was getting for each song. Singers, jumpers...and I don't think they were Brits for once!

Hopefully, they come back around because I won't miss them again...ever!

Here is the set list:

'Graffiti'
'A Fortnight's Time'
'Now I'm All Over The Shop'
'Our Velocity'
'Parisian Skies'
'The Coast Is Always Changing'
'Girls Who Play Guitars'
'Want You To Stay'
'Karaoke Plays'
'Books From Boxes'
'By The Monument'
'Apply Some Pressure'
'Your Urge'
'The Unshockable'
'Going Missing'
'Nosebleed'
'Limassol'

Their sophomore release Our Earthly Pleasures is out now on Warp Records.

NY Broad x


Photo Credit: forklift

Maximo Park Play Kansas City MySpace Secret Show

Not so secret anymore...but Maximo Park will be doing a MySpace Secret Show tonight in Kansas City with The Cribs.



Doors @ 7:00 PM
July 18th, 2007
The Record Bar
1020 Westport Road
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816)753-5207

Maximo Park's New Video For "Books From Boxes"

Here's the deal with Maximo Park and me...they are one of those bands that I can forgive for doing stupid things. Now the new video for "Books From Boxes" I don't LOVE but I can forgive them for it



Who cares..the song is brilliant as is the new record "Our Earthly Pleasures".

NY Broad x

Maximo Park - North American Tour Dates

Newcastle favorites Maximo Park have announced their biggest North American tour to date in support of their upcoming album "Our Earthly Pleasures".

The album comes out May 8th on Warp Records...and as much as I didn't LOVE "Our Velocity" at first listen it grew on me slowly to LOVE status.

Here are the tour dates:

07-11 Boston, MA - Great Scott
07-12 New York, NY - Webster Hall
07-13 Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe
07-14 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club
07-16 Chicago, IL - Double Door
07-17 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre
07-19 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
07-20 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound
07-22 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
07-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
07-24 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
07-26 San Francisco, CA - Popscene
07-27 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
07-28 San Diego, CA - Casbah

I'm not going to lie...I'm pretty excited for the Webster Hall show!

NY Broad x

Maximo Park Announce US Release Details

The boys of Maximo Park are back with their sophomore release "Our Earthly Pleasures" which actually gets a Stateside release on May 8th.

The first single "Our Velocity" definitely grew on me...so this album is going to be one to look forward to.

The U.S. version will have a couple of bonus tracks (but that still doesn't make up for the late release)

Here is the tracklisting:

01 Girls Who Play Guitars
02 Our Velocity
03 Books From Boxes
04 Russian Literature
05 Karaoke Plays
06 Your Urge
07 The Unshockable
08 By the Monument
09 Nosebleed
10 A Fortnight's Time
11 Sandblasted and Set Free
12 Parisian Skies
13 Pride Before a Fall (bonus track)
14 Distance Makes (bonus track)

A full U.S. tour will be coming around in the summer...

NY Broad x

Maximo Park - Our Velocity

Here is the new Maximo Park video for "Our Velocity"



The song sort of sounds like it could be on Broadway but its grown on me...give it a chance and I promise you'll love it.

NY Broad x