IPC subeditors no longer dictate our youth; no longer IPC subeditors

IPC is IPC no more. The NME publisher is rebranding as Time Inc UK.

It's unlikely the new brand will ever inspire anything as glorious as this Clinic track, though:

Embed and breakfast man: Clinic

A new video from the lovely, lovely Clinic. It's called I'm Aware. And it's directed by Super Furry Animal designer Peter Fowler:




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Decade Null: 2001 - Clinic

"Sometimes good, sometimes bad - like Alexi Sayle" reckons a review on Amazon when considering Internal Wrangler by Clinic.

Um... yes. So this is more 'first-series-of-Stuff' than 'Dremel-advert-voiceover', on that basis: The Return Of Evil Bill:



[Part of Decade Null: 2001]

Clinic in the clinic

Some bad news for Clinic fans:

Due to continuing illness the Clinic gig at The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen has been cancelled and is due to be rescheduled for next year. The promoter has started refund procedures with wegottickets and musicglue so all people who bought tickets will be contacted by the ticketing agent and refunded. Sorry to everybody who bought tickets, we were really looking forward to this.

This was supposed to be taking place on Thursday.

Clinic bookings

Not only can you now follow Clinic through the Twitter (they're @clinicvoot), but you can stalk them for real for they have shared their planned movements:

May 9th - Street Festival/Block Party, Graz AUSTRIA

May 21st - Clinic & The Seal Club Clubbing Club - EARLY EVENING PERFORMANCE 6pm - 9:30pm - oh, and that's in a genuine autospy theatre, in Liverpol University's Victoria Building.

May 25th - Cafe De La Danse, Paris FRANCE

May 30th - The Viking of 6th Ave - The Music of Moondog at the Barbican, London

Clinic reopens

We love Clinic, and the appearance of something fresh on YouTube always sets our pulse racing faster: The new single, Tomorrow, for example:

Embed and breakfast man: Clinic live

This is Mary and Eddie, live earlier this week, from when Clinic played Chapel Hill:

Clinic laugh in the face of the Laughing Gnome

Clinic are, somewhat bravely, inviting requests from fans about what they should play on their forthcoming tour. Look where that got David Bowie, men.

They're also showing their generosity by giving away the new singe, Free Not Free, for Free: The official website has it all.

Booking some time at the Clinic

More good news from Merseyside: Clinic have lined up a spring tour:

08 / 04 Bristol, The Thekla
09 / 04 London, 229 Club
10 / 04 Brighton, Audio
11 / 04 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
12 / 04 Manchester, University

Prior to that, they're doing a show for BBC Radio Merseyside. The recording takes place on February first; tickets are being given away to lucky winners of a mail-in contest on the band's website. More fun than Ringo Starr stood on a rooftop, innit?

A quick dash round the Clinic

Clinic are going to do a very, very brief UK tour in 2008:

April 8 Bristol - Thekla
9 London - 229
10 Brighton - Audio
11 Leeds - Brudenell
12 Manchester - Academy 3

Fire service Clinic

In a lovely spot of tipping their hat, Arcade Fire have covered Wirralites Clinic's Distortion at their Portland gig. NME.com has videoage.

Grammy extra

We managed to ignore our own post-it note when we covered the Grammys yesterday, and didn't mention the excellent and slightly discombobulating news that Clinic have been nominated for a prize. They're up for Best Alternative Music Album against fellow scouser Elvis Costello, Beck, Soundtrack of our Lives and, erm, Coldplay.