NEW GUITARIST ANNOUNCEMENT
We are pleased to announce Stephen Bell of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire has joined Attica Rage as lead guitarist following the recent departure of Shaun Nelson. Shaun has had to take some time out for personal reasons for an indefinite period and we have left the door open for him. We wish him all the best and will be keeping in touch. However, we've got big plans ahead and we're excited and pleased to welcome Stephen onboard, on a full-time permanent basis as our new lead guitarist. Stephen is an amazing guitarist, influenced by the likes of Slash, Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads, and he's been a friend of the band for a few years now. He was our first choice to bring in and we're looking forward to getting our live set ready for the summer tour. Photos coming soon on
http://www.myspace.com/atticarage !
SUMMER ROAD RAGE 2007
We will be hitting the road for an eight-date tour titled 'Summer Road Rage 2007' between May and July – visiting Ayrshire, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Berwickshire in Scotland plus a visit to Coventry in England to compete in the Rock and Blues Custom Show Battle of the Bands 2007. We're back at AlbaWest Bike Show this year and once again, will be joining up with our Shetland buddies, Ten Tonne Dozer for the Glasgow and Aberdeen dates. Aside from Glasgow & AlbaWest, all the other dates will be our first time visits! We will be performing brand new songs from the forthcoming debut album as well as live favourites from the EP and, as always, some classic rock and metal cover versions. In addition, Jonny will be performing a special solo acoustic set of Attica songs at the PunkRockBlues: Acoustic night in Glasgow also featuring alt.blues songwriter & slide guitarist Dave Arcari of The Radiotones and original punk JonZip of The Zips.
FRI 11 MAY - Harbour Arts Centre, IRVINE, Ayrshire
with Firstfights & Foreplay and Dirge
Doors 7pm - £4 - Ages 14+
FRI 18 MAY - Dexters, DUNDEE, Tayside
with Estrella and Silver Bullet at Sabotage Rock Night
Doors 8.30pm - £3 - Ages 18+
FRI 25 MAY - The Eildon, COLDSTREAM, Berwickshire
with Yashin and 2 more tbc
Doors 7.30pm - £5 - Ages 14+
TUES 29 MAY - The Queens Hall, NUNEATON, Coventry, Warwickshire
Rock and Blues Custom Show Battle of the Bands 2007 - 1st Heat - to win slot on main stage at this years festival alongside Scorpions with Uli John Roth, MSG, The Levellers, The Animals and more! More details at
http://www.myspace.com/ranbbattle SAT 23 JUNE - Alba West 11th Custom & Classic Bike Show, Eglinton Country Park, IRVINE, Ayrshire
Custom & Classic Bike Show for the benefit of bikers with a disability from Friday 22nd June to Sunday 24 June at Eglinton Country Park between Kilwinning & Irvine. Celtic Battle Displays from Clann Atholl and Clann Albannach. Live Bands - The Front, Spleen, Junkyard Dawgs, Thunder Road, Mid-Life Crisis, Healer (from Belgium), Attica Rage, Stitch, Clann-An-Drumma, Stranded, The Usual Suspects, Big Licks and Clachnacuden. Bike shows from Harley Davidson, Triumph & Victories. Stalls including custom bike parts, arts & crafts, tattoos & piercings, late bar, food stalls, army & navy surplus, leatherwork. £1000 worth of prizes & trophies.
Weekend Event from Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th June - Weekend Camping £15 (day entry £5 payable at gate) - Disabled Bikers Free Entry - All ages welcome
FRI 29 JUNE - 13th Note, GLASGOW, Lanarkshire
with Ten Tonne Dozer (from Shetland) and 1 more tbc
Doors 8pm - £4 - Ages 18+
SAT 30 JUNE - The Moorings, ABERDEEN, Aberdeenshire
with Ten Tonne Dozer and more tbc
Doors 8pm - £3 - Ages 18+
THURS 5 JULY - State Bar, GLASGOW, Lanarkshire
PUNKROCKBLUES: ACOUSTIC with Jonny Parr (Attica Rage), Dave Arcari and JonZip (The Zips) - A special night of solo acoustic performances crossing 3 genres - punk, rock and blues.
Doors 8pm - £5 - Ages 18+
Full gig and venue details can be found at
http://www.myspace.com/atticarage
We are trying to book some last-minute gigs in England or Wales for Sat 26th, Sun 27th and Mon 28th May so if you are a promoter, a venue or are in a band - or know someone who is any of these - and can help us out with a gig slot please get in touch asap at
info@atticarage.com
We'll consider any reasonable offers!
NEW EP REVIEW
Two years on and we're still receiving new, positive reviews of the EP! We are currently featured in The Metal Horizon section of Indie IN-TUNE, an online magazine that promotes the best new independent music from around the world. The Metal Horizon provides worldwide coverage of the best up and coming Indie Metal artists across the globe.
Read the full feature review here:
http://www.northeastintune.com/index...reg&sb=mhabout
Quotes:
"Attica Rage engages the purity of rock-hard riffs with a melodic arrangement of verses"
"...well-tuned, fine-blended, old-school adaptations of the masters like Black Sabbath..."
We won't mention the bizarre comparison to Europe here....you'll need to read the full review for that!
FUNDRAISING
We'd like to mention a couple of Attica-related fundraising achievements that have taken place over the last few months: Firstly, well done to our own Big C for raising an amazing £1000 for Comic Relief 2007 by shaving off his signature beard! This is the second Comic Relief that he has taken out the scissors and razor to help raise money. We would have posted a photo of his beard-less cherub face on Myspace but he won't let us (although there is one of the band's last gig supporting Mark E Smith and The Fall on there so have a sneaky peek). He has already started growing it back in so by the time you see Big C next, he'll have the beard back in full grizzly flow! But it was a sight to behold, I tell ye!
Secondly, congratulations to Sikotick Records whose all-day live music event in January in Newcastle-under-Lyme raised over £500 for Cancer Research and the Douglas MacMillan Hospice. This event was to launch the forthcoming compilation CD "Rock Against Cancer" which Attica Rage have contributed a track to. The CD will be released soon and we'll keep you posted on full tracklisting and purchase details as we get them.
NEW PHOTOS ON MYSPACE
We have added some photos from the last few gigs, supporting Mark E Smith and The Fall and KISS tribute Dressed to Kill. We'll also be adding some new group photos with Stephen soon so keep checking back at
http://www.myspace.com/atticarage ALBUM LATEST
Recording is finally in the last phase with just the guitar solos to lay down before mixdown and the tracks are sounding great so far! It'll still be a good while until a release date is confirmed as there's a lot of background preparation, label set-up and stuff to be done. In the meantime, you'll get to hear some new songs live in our summer tour sets so get along to the venue nearest you! For CDs and mp3 downloads of the EP, visit
http://www.resonancestore.com/atticarage and
http://www.scotloads.co.uk
So, we hope you can come out and see us on our Summer Road Rage tour and give Stephen a warm welcome aboard!
Cheers!
ATTICA RAGE HELP SPREAD THE WORD
We want to reach as many new people this year as possible and you can help us out by letting your mates know about our mailing list - anyone that you think might like the hard rock grooves and metal riffage of Attica Rage, tell them to check out www.myspace.com/atticarage and sign up for the mailing list. And if you haven't already, sign up yourself now and get all the gossip first-hand! Your support is always appreciated! 
New Guitarist + Summer Road Rage 2007! 
