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This Year a brand new track from Sweden’s  Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck – a melancholy upbeat indie-pop Christmas song announced by the band to celebrate the 1 st Sunday of Swedish advent. Read more: Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck / Facebook / Twitter

Finally! A brand new single from Swedish indie-pop 8-piece Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck . ‘ Leaving For A Day ‘ will be taken from a new edition of their debut album ‘ Days Come and Go ‘ which will shortly be rereleased in an expanded form to include additional tracks.  The video is a compilation of footage filmed during the bands last visit to the UK, including a Rough Trade East in-store, an appearance at Dot-To-Dot Festival Bristol, a support slot with Camera Obscura at King’s College, a show at the Blow Up Metro Club on Oxford Street and an acoustic session at the V&A. Read more: Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck / Facebook / Twitter Buy single on iTunes

In association with Record Club / Club Underground / Shake Appeal, Blow Up returns to California this October, with two 19th Birthday dates in Los Angeles at Club Underground and then San Francisco at The Monarch . On Friday 26th October we’re back with our friends at the excellent Club Underground at The Grand Star Jazz Club – LA’s best indie night! Plus get your costume ready, as this week they’ll be celebrating Halloween. Great Music, Candy, Costumes, Groovy Ghoulies, Spooky Photobooth, Horror Film Screening, Prizes & Halloween themed drinks! And then on Monday 29th October we’re back again in San Francisco at the lovely Monarch. Blow Up founder/DJ Paul Tunkin + rotating DJs Galine Tumasova (Shake Appeal) + Major Sean (Tailor Made, Club Leisure) + Liam Caton (Shake Appeal) and a special live performance by excellent The Bang girl group! Plus as its our 19th anniversary party there’ll be some Blow Up vinyl give aways at both events, so get down early! Facebook links: Blow Up / Blow Up USA / RecordClubSacto / Club Underground / The Monarch Twitter: Blow Up / Underground / Monarch BLOWUPCLUB.COM

Blow Up Records is excited to be part of Oxjam this year, with 3 artists Baltic Fleet ,  The Bongolian & David Woodcock all appearing live as part of the Leicester Music Takeover on October 20th: David Woodcock  12.50-1.20pm Outdoor Stage The Bongolian 7.30-8.30pm  Outdoor Stage (headline) Baltic Fleet   10.30-11.15pm The Exchange Bar (headline) £8 Early Bird Tickets / £10 After more details at oxjamleicester.co.uk and oxfam.org.uk/oxjam Read more about…. DAVID WOODCOCK THE BONGOLIAN BALTIC FLEET

‘The Zodiac’ by David Lindup featured on Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend Volume 1 and originally from the KPM music library spotted in new UK Fiat 500 ad ‘Colour Therapy’. Read more about the Exclusive Blend Series here . Volume 1 is avialble on CD, LP and digital here .

We’re in the Olympic mood here at Blow Up HQ, and have compiled a 4 track EP of appropriately titled tracks. …Yes its the ‘ Triumphs Of The Olympians EP ‘ featuring The Bongolian , Big Boss Man (who have already dedicated title track to Wiggo), Neon Plastix and SILVERY . AND it’s free for a very limited time from http://blowup.co/Th3EkK …spread the word!

Blow Up SF: San Fransisco & Lost In Sound Launch Mod Soul New-Wave & Britpop Action For Pop Stylists! Blow Up returns to SF and to the Monarch with a great line-up of DJs from the SF scene: Carlos Perez (Tailor Made), Major Sean (Tailor Made, Club Leisure), Galine Tumasova (Shake Appeal) & Russel Quan (Teenage Dance Craze) and a live show from The Chuckleberrys. Plus FAY HALLAM & THE BONGOLIAN Record Release Party! (Blow Up Records) This is a brand new collaboration between Fay Hallam (Makin’ Time, The Prime Movers, Phaze) and Blow Up Records’ Nasser Bouzida (The Bongolian). Please note event is 21+. More info: blowupclub.com • monarchsf.com • Facebook Event • Map Connect: Facebook • USA Facebook • Twitter • mySpace

Blow Up feat. DC Fontana + Electric Stars + David-Woodcock Blow Up’s monthly West London residency at Ginglik in Shepherd’s Bush with live guests this month DC Fontana and The Electric Stars. Plus Blow Up DJs Paul Tunkin & Ian Jackson spinning their trademark mix of Pop Stylism, 60’s Soul, Beat, Garage, Funk, Ska, Soundtracks, Electronica, Library Music colliding with British Pop, Glam, Indie-Pop and New-Wave. More info: blowupclub.com • Facebook Event • Map Tickets £6 adv. from: Stargreen.com • We Got Tickets • Gigantic • SeeTickets • Ticketweb Connect: Facebook • Twitter • mySpace DC Fontana live at Blow Up Turned-on music to shake your hips & pluck your heartstrings… DC Fontana are on a mission.The 2012 edition of the band is fronted by Louise Turner while founding member Mark Mortimer plays bass & is one of the two main song-writers along with Scott Riley who used to play with Spectrum, the psychedelic off-shoot of the Spacemen 3.With producer Donald Ross Skinner (Julian Cope, Prolapse, Salad, Cud etc) at the helm the DCs delivered the kitchen-sink drama Six Against Eight after camping inside the famous Parr Street Studios in Liverpool where they had been invited to record by legendary Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant, a fan of the band. Electric Stars at Blow Up THE ELECTRIC STARS Infectious melodies, lyrics that become part of your life & songs that you NEED to own! If there was a modern mash up of Stones/Who/Kinks/Beatles…This is what it would sound like! David Woodcock live at Blow Up DAVID WOODCOCK New Blow Up Records’ signing David Woodcock returns to Blow Up as part of his monthly residency. Expect great songs delivered in Dave’s own inimitable Essex style. Best described as the closest thing to a knees-up with Chas’N’Dave and The Kinks’ Ray Davies!

Blow Up presents the album launch for Fay Hallam & The Bongolian ‘s new album ‘Lost In Sound ‘ (Blow Up Records) with a rare live London show by the Mod Queen herself, with a brand new band line-up, and featuring special guest appearances by ex-Prisoners/ Prime Movers/ Phaze/ Solar Flares, bass-legend, Allan Crockford . Blow Up’s monthly West London residency at Ginglik in Shepherd’s Bush with Blow Up DJs Paul Tunkin & Ian Jackson spinning their trademark mix of Pop Stylism, 60′s Soul, Beat, Garage, Funk, Ska, Soundtracks, Electronica, Library Music colliding with British Pop, Glam, Indie-Pop and New-Wave. The Blow Up playlist includes classic tracks from both its past and present, from its Brit Pop era favourites, (the scene of which the club helped kick-start way back in 1993 in Camden Town) to the current new things tickling our fancy – the new Pop stylists putting the art back into pop alongside essential New Wave, Glam and indie classic cuts. All this alongside Blow Up’s trademark mix of 60’s killer dance floor tracks in the following genre’s – 60’s Swinging Soundtracks, TV Themes, 60s Exotica & Electronica, 60s Club Soul, Northern Soul, Beat, Mod Jazz, French Pop, Library Music and Ska. Bloody marvellous! More info: blowupclub.com • Facebook Event • Map Tickets £6 adv. from: Stargreen.com • We Got Tickets • Gigantic • SeeTickets • Ticketweb Connect: Facebook • Twitter • mySpace

BLOW UP IS BACK IN THE USA for APRIL/MAY 2012! Friday 27th April – Los Angeles – Underground @ Grand Star Jazz – Info / Facebook Saturday 28th April – Sacramento – Townhouse Lounge – Info / Facebook Tuesday 1st May – San Francisco – Monarch – Info / Facebook (Friday 4th May – London – Ginglik – Info / Facebook ) Blow Up in association with Record Club / Club Underground / Shake Appeal is excited to announce another return for Blow Up to California in 2012: On Friday 27th Blow Up teams up with the Club Underground again in LA in their new home at the Grand Star Jazz with Blow Up DJ/Founder Paul Tunkin and Club Underground DJs Larry G (aka Supercrass), Diana M. (Sweater Girls), Liz O. ( Bang!), Bip Jeffington (Bang!, Beat It). Running since 2001, Club Underground has been the premiere Britpop, Indie, Eletro Pop, Twee, Post-Punk, Soul, Sixties and New Wave party in Los Angeles…      …Followed the next day on Saturday 28th at The Townhouse Lounge in Sacramento, with DJ Paul Tunkin, Record Club’s Roger Carpio, a live set from San Francisco’s Cellar Doors plus a light show by George Holden (lightshow artist since 1966 and one of the pioneers in the field. He first worked with Abecrombe Lights featured by Bill Graham at the original Fillmore West and Winterland shows in San Francisco) and an art show by the talented Galine Tumasova who collaborated with Blow Up’s Claudia Arnold for the ace series of club posters this year…    …Followed by San Francisco on Tuesday 1st May at The Monarch with DJs Paul Tunkin and a great line-up of DJs from the SF scene  Carlos Perez (Tailor Made), Major Sean (Tailor Made, Club Leisure), Liam Caton (Shake Appeal) & Galine Tumasova (Shake Appeal)! Sponsored by Ben Sherman (thanks Mikey Tashjian!)   …followed by Blow Up back in London on Friday 4th May at Ginglik with a special anniversary show for B-Movie… phew! blowupclub.com • facebook:  blowup •  blowupusa •  recordclubsacto • clubunderground