MUSIC LIVE 2008 special features

The Gibson Guitar Tour Bus at Music Live 2008

The Gibson Guitar Tour Bus – one of only five in the world – will be parked exclusively at this year’s Music Live 2008. The Gibson Guitar Tour Bus will be available for use by Gibson’s special guest artists such as Joe Bonamassa and The Mexicolas with more names tbc.

The Gibson Guitar Tour bus will also be available for use by Music Live’s various media partners and attending press as an interview and photographic space as well as hospitality. Members of the public will be welcome to view the Gibson Guitar Tour bus over the three days at various scheduled times.

The Gibson Guitar bus contains all the necessary requirements and luxuries for today's artists, press and specially invited guests to enjoy and feel like a rock star. The Gibson Guitar Tour Bus is a rock’n’roll experience in its own right and provides a taste of the heritage and prestige that Gibson Guitar represents around the world.

For more information on Gibson Guitar - www.gibson.com

Gibson Unique online guitar riff competition

Tune up your guitar and work on that riff – you could be the lucky winner of a brand new Gibson Les Paul guitar!

Haynes, the world famous publishing company, and Gibson Guitar, makers of the world’s most prestigious guitars, are collaborating on a special competition for guitar players of all ages. This is a great opportunity for guitarists to demonstrate their skills to the whole nation and win great prizes – including a fabulous Gibson Les Paul guitar plus editorial in Guitarist Magazine.

The competition went live on 2 September and will close at midnight on 12 October 2008. To enter, players from 12 years and upwards should create an original guitar riff (not exceeding 40 seconds) and upload it as a music file to the special Haynes microsite for this competition – www.haynes.co.uk/gibson

This unique competition has been set up to celebrate the forthcoming publication of the long awaited Haynes book the Gibson Les Paul Manual – How to buy, maintain and set up the legendary Les Paul electric guitar, by Paul Balmer.

Introduced in 1952, the Gibson Les Paul is the instrument of choice for legendary guitarists such as Jimmy Page, Sir Paul McCartney, Kelly Jones, Neil Young and Slash. Designed by the great musician and innovator, Les Paul, with help from Gibson craftsmen, this guitar has constantly evolved and in 2007, a self tuning Robot Les Paul model was launched. Today, while vintage and rare models change hands for thousands of pounds, almost identical Epiphone and Gibson models are produced for sale worldwide. The Gibson Les Paul remains a classic instrument and, with the help of this practical ‘how to’ manual, it will last a lifetime.

The new Gibson Les Paul Manual will contain essential information such as pre-gig checks, tuning, routine maintenance and servicing, set-ups and customising options and data on model identification.

Author and guitar expert, Paul Balmer, together with Mick Taylor editor of Guitarist magazine, will judge all entries for the competition.

The first prize will be a Gibson Les Paul guitar, two tickets to Music Live (Birmingham NEC November 7-9 November), a signed copy of the Haynes Gibson Les Paul Manual and a profile in Guitarist Magazine. The lucky winner will receive their prizes on the Gibson Tour Bus at Music Live.

In addition, the first 20 online entrants to the competition at www.haynes.co.uk/gibson made after the opening date of Monday 2 September will each receive a signed copy of the Haynes Gibson Les Paul Manual when it is published later this year.

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Saturday 8th - brigade

Here Comes The Crusade……….

If there was ever a band to capture the essence of powerful dynamics, emotional sincerity and perfectly crafted songwriting then Brigade are that band.

Residing in London but with roots in Suffolk, Japan and Bristol, Brigade are a shining example of a band that fall outside the remit of genre classification. No rising young band can take a music fan on such an emotional roller coaster journey as Brigade.

When it came to the creation of second album ‘Come Morning We Fight’, Brigade’s only option was to aim their sights high – in every sense of the word. ‘Come Morning We Fight’ sounds huge. It’s an album that towers over the majority of today’s rock bands and will ensure Brigade catapult into the major playing field.

Here’s a band that write enormous songs; songs that wrap themselves around you like a grappling, hugging bear and won’t let go!

Saturday 8th - MIDAS

Midas, are a Stourbridge based quintet emerging from a resurgent Midlands scene who deliver songs of passion, intensity and energy. Combining powerful guitars, electro stabs and tight rhythms the band creates an immensely unique sound.

Kris - lead vocals and guitar
Rich - backing vocals and Synths
Jake - backing vocals and Bass
Lee - Guitar
Dave - drums

Sunday 9th - logan

Formed in 2003, Logan are a five piece hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. Their self funded debut album First Leaf Fallen was released in 2003 and followed this up with Welcome To The Wasteland a year later, building an impressive UK fan base and selling in excess of 8000 copies.

2008 is the year of Logan. Airplay of the forthcoming single "Lost & Found" won the band a support slot with Bon Jovi at Hampden Park in front of 40000 and the subsequent 8 date UK headline tour pushed sales of Cruel Little World to sell out status.

Total sales of all three releases are now nudging 30,000 with no label support.

A new pressing with bonus tracks will be launched in October to compliment a 25 date UK and European tour in support of Alter Bridge

Sunday 9th - templeton pek

Following from the critical acclaim for their debut album ‘ No association’, Templeton Pek released the stunning track ‘No association’ as a single through hip independent ‘Smalltown records’ on July 21st 2008. Backed by a breaktaking video, directed by Ben Thornley – this release is sure to continue the band’s rapid success in the UK.

The Birmingham trio are already no strangers to the big time, Templeton Pek having completed four arena dates including both legs of the Give It A Name Festival (2007) and Rock Star Taste Of Chaos Tour (2006, 2005), alongside the likes of The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Funeral For A Friend, HIM, Killswitch Engage, Alexisonfire and recently Mindless Self Indulgence.

In 2007 the self managed band completed close to 100 shows; dates included an Academy tour – for which the band were hand picked by Academy Events.

"AN EXCELLENT ALBUM...RAZOR SHARP LITTLE NUGGETS." - BRUCE DICKINSON

"SOARING MELODIES AND HUGE POTENTIAL FROM BIRMINGHAM ROCKERS" - KERRANG!

Meet Mr Fret-King - Trev Wilkinson

Since their international launch at the start of the year, Fret-King guitars have been proving to press and public alike that they really are something special.

Find out why from 'Mr Fret-King' in person - acknowledged guitar expert and designer Trev Wilkinson will be on hand in the Fret-King lounge throughout Music Live to personally answer any queries about his exciting UK-based guitar series Plus - Trev's got a few surprises up his sleeve, to be revealed exclusively at the show - don't miss out!

UK session guitar player supremo, Geoff Whitehorn along with JHS guitar clinician, Gav Coulson will be putting a selection of Fret-Kings through their paces in the Fret-King lounge and on the JHS P4 stand - see it, hear it, believe it. Come along and be a part of the Fret-King fraternity..

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