The man behind IrishRockers.com, Aidan Curran, has launched a new venture, called MusicianSites, which builds websites for bands and musicians at very affordable prices. The website for this new venture can be found at musiciansites.net. MusicianSites‘ first launch was the website for Frantic State, a four piece alternative rock band from Kilkenny. MusicianSites is currently offering introductory promotional rates to all their customers.

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Belfast man Mark McClelland who along with Gary Lightbody formed Snow Patrol in 1994 is now suing the band for a quarter share of the bands earnings since he was booted from the band in 2005. And that must add up to quite a heafty sum which I’m sure is a great source of regret for McClelland who could be a rich man if he had remained in the band during it’s meteoric rise of the last couple of years. So now he is resorting to a legal battle to get his hands on what he thinks are his just deserves.

When the band booted McClelland they claimed their working relationship had deterioated from the pressures of touring to a point where they couldn’t work with him any more. But according to Mark it came as a complete surprise to him. At the time he was quoted in the Glasgow Daily Record as saying - “I didn’t see it coming because there was no real indication of these pressures they were talking about. I went down for a meeting to discuss what I thought was about when we were going to start rehearsing and writing for the new album. And it was just sprung upon me. It’s quite a surprise.”

Since the split McClelland formed a new band called Little Doses.

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There are reports circulating about an expected reformation of the pioneering band My Bloody Valentine. According to a report at the Daily Swarm, the band is close to signing a deal that will see a reunited My Bloody Valentine headline the Coachella music festival in April of next year, before embarking on a world tour later in 2008.

A new album is also expected. The bands singer/guitarist, Kevin Shields, said in an interview published earlier this year in Magnet magazine - “We are 100% going to make another My Bloody Valentine record unless we die or something”. Back in 2004 there were rumors of that recordings were taking place in Berlin but nothing ever surfaced. My Bloddy Valentine’s last recorded song made available for release was a cover of “Map Ref. 41N 93W” by Wire, appearing on Whore: Tribute to Wire in 1995.

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