June 2006 - The acclaimed Passport Approved, USA tastemaker show champions Popgenius (Song for Brian Wilson) by Blaknoisewhitesoul two weeks running on KDLD "Indie 103.1FM" Los Angeles, KNRK Portland and WEQX Manchester, VT/Albany, NY in the United States, all across Canada and also worldwide on the web.
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Pop Experimentalists...Serial Collaborators...Signed to U Discs Dec 2004.New Single Double A side Limited Edition 7 inch and CD A...Dirty Darkness AA...Sometimes Without The Pet Shop Boys [Distributed in the UK and Eire through Shellshock, Distributed in Japan through Ultra Vybe] Digital download www.itunes.com www.udiscs.com....................Discography April 2005 First single released ...Rave Reviews and Radio play in the UK,Italy,Spain and Portugal............ November 2005 Second single Released ...Controversy [poor little pet shop boys]...Rave Reviews...more Radio plays also released in Japan............ Jan 2006 12 inch Vinyl with remixes released includes remixes by 'Go home productions' [Bowie,Gang of Four, Kasabian]............ Feb 2006 the Eagerly Awaited Debut album by BNWS released, again a bit different as it includes an album of remixes............. Join the mailing list on www.blaknoisewhitesoul.com and you will get access to FREE BNWS BOOTLEGS...[Rumour has it that a certain withdrawn single 'Sometimes with The Pet Shop Boys' is in there somewhere]...as we said it is only a rumour............The story below has created an incredible amount of interest and debate especially on The Pet Shop Boys forum...www.thepetshopboys-forum.com.................. The Daily Record - Sometimes with the Pet Shop Boys Showbiz & Entertainment THE RAZZ 26 October 2005 With Beverley Lyons And Cath Bennett......WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS, BOYS Pet Shop Boys wanted our earnings say up-and-coming Scots band......AN up-and-coming Scots band have been forced to withdraw their next single because the Pet Shop Boys demanded they receive all of the profits. Blaknoisewhitesoul used lyrics from West End Girls on their forthcoming track Sometimes With The Pet Shop Boys. The Glasgow duo wrote the music themselves and sampled the words from a verse of the chart-topping Eighties hit. But, while they claim that Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe gave their permission for the band to use their lyrics, the pair demanded 100 per cent of the royalties. Blaknoisewhitesoul and their record label U Discs have now been forced to delay the October release of the track and rewrite it. Dex White, who is the writer producer and the vocalist for Blaknoisewhitesoul, said: "The Pet Shops Boys, their management and publishers know they have no right to claim any writing credit for this piece of music. "We credited the Pet Shop Boys with the words and ourselves with the music. "We expected to have a 50/50 split of the profits." His bandmate Tom McGarrigle added: "This kind of thing goes on far too often in the music industry, where established bands or artists lay 100 per cent claim to music that by rights they should only have a part of." Despite this setback, the pop experimentalists plan to release a re-jigged version of the track. They have added new lyrics and the renamed Sometimes Without The Pet Shop Boys will hit record stores on November 21. Thomas McGovern, director of U Discs, said: "We couldn't believe that a band as big as the Pet Shop Boys would do this. "It's not like it was a cover - this was a very dark, subversive track in which you'd barely know the Pet Shop Boys lyrics had been used." A spokeswoman for the Pet Shop Boys commented: "The information about the Pet Shop Boys and Blaknoisewhitesoul is correct. "However, the details are no ones' business other than ours and Blaknoisewhitesoul's. If they have decided to speak out, that's up to them..................Is this Music OCT 2005 Review Blaknoisewhitesoul Dirty Darkness (Udiscs)......Label mates of itm? faves Salon Boris, its sitar rather than balalaika which heralds the Glasgow outfits second single, but soon were back in the west - grimy bass and sultry vocals squeezed out of the lungs of Kirsty M for a crossover dance tune as at home on the floor of the Hacienda or an Ibiza club. Sometimes With the Pet Shop Boys, the partner of this double-A side, sees Mr Applebys phased vocals mutter Neil Tennant lyrics atop more pulsating electro rhythms. [BB] 4 Stars Out of 4....................Is Dirty Darkness This is one of the most interesting things i have heard in a long time, there's so much going on in it is totally infectious, outstanding I'm loving this...Jim Gellatly Beat 106.....................'Popgenius' and 'Sal The Swindler' 'This really does stand out from the crowd, I'll make damn sure it sees the air' Eddy Temple Morris [XFM London].....................BNWS good taste DJ list includes the following who have played BNWS...... Steve Lamacq [BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 music]...... Eddy Temple Morris [xfm London]...... John Kennedy [XFM London]...... Jim Gellatly [Beat 106]...... Billy Sloan [Clyde 1]...... Dougal Perman [Radio Magnetic]...... The Martini Brothers [Italy]...... Steve Jones (Indie 103.1).... Christian Hendrickson (This Modern Beat WRIR-LP 97.3FM)
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