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Well, Celebrity Big Brother has been on, I’ve been 05 SCREAMING EAGLES
sidetracked by eBay far too many times (the latest pur-
chases include a mouse and a panda costume... don’t 06 BITERS
ask!), but still I’ve managed to get this issue out earlier 08 ESTRELLA
than planned. Go me! It’s been quite a quiet couple of
months as far as gigs in the Midlands go though. I per- 10 DON BROCO
sonally missed the festivals and instead did more phone 14 WILSON
interviews and Black Velvet work at home than usual. As
you can see, we’ve put Lifehouse on the cover, as they’ve 16 LIBERTY LIES
returned with an awesome new album following their hia- 18 WE ARE THE OCEAN
tus. Sad news was that their US tour with Nickelback got
cancelled due to Chad Kroeger needing surgery for a 22 LIFEHOUSE
cyst on his vocal cords. This left Lifehouse without a tour 27 BV CV / FANSITE FOCUS
to promote ‘Out Of The Wasteland’ - and so they them-
selves also had a little bit more time at home. Luckily, 28 THE DIRTY YOUTH
Lifehouse’s own UK and European headline shows were 30 SHINEDOWN
not affected - if you are heading to a Lifehouse show
soon, enjoy! We hope they return again after this leg for 33 ALBUMS
a much longer tour - Birmingham in particular needs a 36 SINGLES / EATIN’ AIN’T CHEATIN’
show!
One of the few gigs that we did get to go to recently 37 CONCERTS
was Don Broco’s intimate tour that coincided with their 41 SUPERSONIC FUTURE SUPERSTARS
new album release. Congratulations to the boys for enter-
ing the charts at no. 6 with ‘Automatic’. I’ve been playing 42 ZOMBIE WALK BIRMINGHAM
the album a lot and really loving it. It’s great to see a UK
band really emerging into a class, top quality act on par
with more well known international bands. They also rule
for being involved in the tandem skydive for Stephen
Sutton the other month. And it was awesome to see and A Bit O’ Twitter
speak to Rob’s mom and dad at the Birmingham show.
We’ve got some great up and coming bands for you Words of Wisdom (or otherwise) from Twitter.
to read about in this issue - Liberty Lies are long time Compiled this issue by Carissa Thorne
Midlands boys while Estrella from Scotland have solidi-
fied our love for them with their latest album, ‘We Will Go Mikey Chapman @MikeyKn0x (Mallory Knox)
On’. In our interview Luke tells us how they have a kitted Bands don't save lives. You do that on your own. Bands simply pro-
out tour bus. We really think every band should do this. vide the soundtrack and it's a pleasure to do so.
Put beds in your van and you won’t need to crash at any-
one’s house or pay for hotels ever again. Not sure what Sam Douglas @Sam_Mallory (Mallory Knox)
they do for running water though. Service stations, You don't know fear until you sit in a portaloo and hear a truck right
maybe?
outside the door reversing.
Y & velvet kisses Jenna McDougall @jenalive11 (Tonight Alive)
Just typed lol and it autocorrected to lolz. This makes me want to
Shari Black Velvet reassess my life choices.

Eric Bass @ebassprod (Shinedown)
Go out of your way to make a stranger smile today. Ask how their day
is or tell them they're beautiful. You'll be surprised by the reaction!

Harry Radford @Harry_Radford (Yashin)
I love how music can take you to another place - for example 1
Direction is playing in this cafe so now I’m going to another cafe.

BLACK VELVET STAFF
Publisher/Editor/Features Editor/Art Editor/Online Editor:
Shari Black Velvet
Writers:
Shari Black Velvet, Sam & Penny Gower, Clare Huckett, Carissa
Thorne, Emily Clarkson, Hayli Zuccola
Photographers:
Shari Black Velvet, Carissa Thorne, Sam Gower
Proofreader:
CONTACT Ian Trigg

Front Cover Photos: Lifehouse Photo By Ted Newsome. Shinedown
BLACK VELVET MAGAZINE Photo By Darren Doane. Don Broco Photo courtesy of Chuff Media.
Email: editor@blackvelvetmagazine.com We Are The Ocean Photo By Pip.
www.blackvelvetmagazine.com Page 3 Photo: Renny Carroll (Forever Never) By Carissa Thorne
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