The Airborne Toxic Event #3 - New Album, UK Residency

The Airborne Toxic Event have announced the follow up to their 2009 self-titled debut. 'All At Once' will be released on 18th April.

The 11 tracks from the album will be revealed exclusively online.  A unique acoustic video version of every track on the album, entitled The Bombastic will be showcased in the eleven weeks leading up to the album release, starting with the title track All At Once. Each video is one take, one shot and completely live. Each  Bombastic will be shown every Tuesday on the bandʼs website www.theairbornetoxicevent.com starting Tuesday 15th February 2011.

They'll be back in the UK playing a few live dates around the release too, including five in London, tickets will go on sale next Friday. Season Tickets available for the London dates costing £40, the first 50 purchases will get entry to the "Special" album release show. All sounds very exciting, I first saw TATE at the Dublin Castle quite some time ago now, I'll be hoping to repeat that with these gig announcements.

The Americans are getting a song called "Changing" for the first single, us UK folks get "Numb". You can hear that below and a live version for "Changing"

Those tour dates:

APRIL
04 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
05 Manchester Academy 2
06 Glasgow QMU
08 Leeds Cockpit
09 Dublin Academy 2
10 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
18 London "Special Show"
19 London Dublin Castle
20 London Barfly
21 London Kings College
22 London Koko





Edit: Here is the first of those new acoustic videos:

The Airborne Toxic Event #2 - Echo Charity Show

The Airborne Toxic Event have been off the radar for a while (my CD player too), in all honesty they deserve the break in schedule after touring relentlessly until the back end of last year.

It will be interesting to see how good the new material is - if it's anywhere as good as the debut LP it'll be a treat.

Their show at the 100 Club last year was one of my favourites of 2009, they are great live, real fun and the live arena adds an extra dimension to them - especially Innocence - what a song.
Can't wait for their UK return.

I think they have an LA show coming out on DVD soon, maybe it's an American only thing though.

This was a charity show, so here is a link about the charity the show was supporting.
http://www.takepart.com/news/2009/07/16/the-neda-project/

The Airborne Toxic Event - New Music "Introducing"

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Watch: Sometime Around Midnight + Gasoline
Buy: Amazon

Album Rating: 9.1 / 10

One of my favourite finds of the past year, TATE are simply fantastic live and on record to and their self titled album released this year in the UK will be in my top five of this year no doubt.

I only discovered them in October last year when they played Camden's Dublin Castle for consecutive Tuesday gigs, the UK rumblings could be seen in the big cities, a gig at the 100 club sold out quickly, as did one at Kings College. The airplay for Sometime Around Midnight got as far as BBC radio, this time the hype is deserved. Gasoline, a fantastic guitar pop/rock song was the first song I heard and it's still great today. Somewhere Around Midnight has rightly propelled them towards commercial success. The sweeping violin, the slow-burning build up to a spectacularly frantic finish. Perfection. The pinnacle of this album is the last song of the US release, Innocence a Jim Steinman-esque intro, and as with the whole album a tour-de-force of lyrical story-telling.

I've seen a lot of bad reviews for this album, but what do these critical 'expert' reviews mean precisely? I mean Queen II got critically smashed on it's arrival and that is one of Rocks classic pioneering albums and everyone know what followed from the minds of Mr Mercury and co.

I'd rather bands go for something to please their fans, then the critics. I am sure they'd love an experimental shin-dig if it was done for the first ever time but a band with a violinist the isn't Win Butler and entourage - oh my, oh no.

Similarities to The Arcade Fire, The Hold Steady and other bands from the other side of the pond will be drawn, but let that not detract that The Airborne Toxic Event are most definitely unique. Highly recommended 9.1/10

Innocence - Amazing



Sometime Around Midnight Promo: