2004 Headline Archive

11/03/2004 : Carbon/Silicon played their first live show at their west London studio in front of friends.

Carbon/Silicon played their first live show at their west London studio in front of friends… the event was filmed by Don Letts.

21/04/2004 : Carbon/Silicon live club shows in the UK this summer

Carbon/Silicon will play a series of live club shows in the UK during may/june/jul 04.. the first public outing for the bands all new material and live jamming style….see gigs for details.

25/05/2004 : UK Festival dates confirmed

Carbon/Silicon have now confirmed their appearance at Glastonbury Festival this year on friday 25 june in the Strummerville/leftfield tent! the band will be onstage from 11p.m……

16/07/2004 C/S at Glastonbury VIDEO ONLINE NOW!.. Let it rip brother….

Thanks to everybody who came to support Carbon/Silicon at the Leftfield tent at Glastonbury ….good to see Naomi Klein (writer of “No Logo”) hanging out and digging the set….  That weekend also saw the first major interview and pictures published in the Independent Saturday Magazine..

01/07/2004 : Carbon/Silicon to play live at the “U-Music” awards

Mick Jones will be presented with a personal lifetime achievement award at this coming wednesdays (july 7) U-Music awards ceremony….Carbon/Silicon will play 2 songs live at the event …at London’s renowned music venue Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, EC1 The Diesel-U-Music Awards will be hosted by Edith Bowman for a dedicated show on 4Music (channel 4 in the UK), to be screened on July 20th. ther featured artists include… Goldie Lookin’ Chain / X-Press 2 / Tim Westwood / Norman Jay /James Lavelle / Mylo / Kasabian / Shystie / Zoot Woman /The Blueskins / Midfield General / Vinyl Dialect / Damian Lazarus/ Carl Barat (The Libertines) /Abeba / Tom Vek

20/7/2004 : Latest September Gig details

Carbon/Silicon will play another series of UK club gigs during september …see gigs page for details…more southwest shows to follow soon…

22/07/2004 : Discography section now working!

The discography section on the Carbon/Silicon site is now up and working – this will feature free downloads of many of the tracks as soon possible…..as well as the stories behind the 3 CDs…. these are currently not available to buy from us but official CDs will be available in the near future – we hope to have recordings available by the next gigs and for free download ..meanwhile check out the many videos of the live shows from other fansites.. the family section, with info on all the band members will be up next.. The band are currently in the studio recording for the 4th CD album and preparing to play all the new songs live..stay tuned to this site….

19/08/2004 : TJ to Dj at Club “Perversion” this friday 20 Aug

Tj will be playing a special Dj set of his own Bootleg Mash up mixes at Club Perversion this friday evening…on stage 1am – 2 am “Perversion” / club Supreem / 65 goding street / Vauxhall London…..

01/09/2004 : C/S update: Rehersals for tour/New gallery pics added

Carbon/Silicon start rehersals for the forthcoming UK live shows this week…we have also added some live pics and a great picture of james and jones by Pennie Smith in the gallery section.

10/09/2004 : Audio streams of Carbon/silicon songs..

September News: The first of a series of audio streams of Carbon/Silicon songs are coming online….see discography section… the band are rehearsing new songs for the upcoming club shows starting on September 15 in Norwich…Expect to hear new track “Magic Suitcase” live.. bring your DVD cameras… see you there..

14/09/2004 : October Gigs- London/ Leeds/Cardiff details

Ticket details of October shows now posted…. Thanks to everyone who came to the last 4 shows and made us feel so welcome…you make it all worth the climb up the mountain again!….. The tour continues with a special guest appearance at the LMHR gig at the London Astoria with about 7 or 8 other acts, followed by Leeds, Blackburn, Liverpool, cardiff and Exeter……more shows to come..more songs to record… and I know you’re wondering when you can BUY a CD from us…. well, we will put one in stores sometime, but meanwhile you can get the tracks NOW on a P2P network near you… M.P FREE!!! We’ll also be streaming more recordings on the site .. And check the fansites to pick up DVD streams of previous shows …remember we are happy for you all to come and film our shows on DVD or whatever… the future is MP streaming ahead and it will not be stopped by the man! LIVE is REAL, be there…..

20/10/2004 : Nov/December Shows Details NOW..

1. We have just confirmed 5 more Carbon/Silicon Uk shows…. Sun 5 Dec Middlesbrough, Town Hall Crypt Mon 6 Dec Glasgow, The Cathouse Tues 7 Dec Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree Wed 8 Dec Cleethorpes, Beachcomber Thur 9 Dec Derby, Vic Inn 2. Special show live in..* Stockholm Nov 23…details NOW 3. MPFree download live track on discography page NOW working.. remember there are plenty of C/S tracks out there on a P2P network near you..GetEM free!

28/10/2004 : Euro Gigs Confirmed!

We have confirmed the following 2 shows Nov 23 rd Stockholm Dec 2 nd Transmusicales festival/ Rennes/ France aslo We want to thank everyone from Worcester to Exeter who came and made the Oct tour so magical for us.. so great to see so many smiling faces..see you in December for the next ones! Remember – the music is out there…

13/12/2004 : NEW 2005 GIGS announced!

We post today the next 8 gigs from Carbon/Silicon..shows starting in feb 2005.. thanks to everyone who supported us on our journey up the mountain during 2004 and especially on the last north uk dates which saw drummer danny theRed move on to real drums and C/S becoming a real 21c rock band..watch it rock in 2005 ..we’ll be recording even more new material in january…see you there, oh yes, ticket details as soon as we have them.

24/12/2004 : Happy New Year /full gig details NOW

We wish everyone who has supported us during the last year a very happy new year – we’ll see you all at the next shows in the UK…also there’s a great new fansite listed in the links – http://carbonsilicon.info/ with lots of fresh info about Carbon/Silicon……….we’re back to work..oh yes the picture was taken in Scotland on the last tour – we’ll post larger pics on the gallery soon.. full ticket details now posted in GIGS.. xx to 2005