Black Kids To Headline Vice Live Tour

Three hotly tipped bands Black Kids, Friendly Fires and Ipso Facto are playing the Vice Live Tour in 2008 and tickets won't cost you a penny farthing.

The Vice Live Tour gang will be hitting the road for four dates next year, kick-starting in Glasgow on January 30 and includes a date at London's 93 Feet East on February 1.

The event - which is presented by Topshop - will also be bringing special guests and DJ's to the party and all for free.

To get your tickets go here and register.

Black Kids - whose debut EP was released in August and is available for free download at blackkidsmusic.com - are one of the bands tipped for the top in 2008.

Teamed with St Albans indie-electro lads Friendly Fires - whose recent single 'Paris' was released on December 10 - and haunting female foursome Ipso Facto the Vice Live Tour should be a stonking sesh of new talent.

The full dates are below:

01/30 - Glasgow ABC2
01/31 - Manchester Mint Lounge
02/01 - London 93 Feet East
02/02 - Bristol The Fleece

Thanks for the info to XFM.co.uk.

Comments

[Pretty_Much]

Who?

[alptekin]

ohh greaddsss

[SixStringSicko]

and I thought UG was being racist lol

[Green_Jelly]

SixStringSicko wrote:

and I thought UG was being racist lol

I thought this was about The Jackson Five.

[jxmxaxn]

SixStringSicko wrote:

and I thought UG was being racist lol

haha yeah dude i thought the same thing

[stef123]

I thought it meant they just picked some random black kids off the street.

[Phish]

Blackkidsmusic.com... hahahah!

[A7X/GD/MCR]

SixStringSicko wrote:

and I thought UG was being racist lol

how is saying black kids racist?

[TeenBite]

Because it shouldn't matter what their skin colour is? N00b.

[BlindSilence917]

A7X/GD/MCR wrote:
how is saying black kids racist?

Good point...technically it's not racist. It's just not politically correct.

[bluesrocker101]

Checked.

[Flying Afros]

never heard of any of these bands. and i was wondering who The Black Kids were when i saw the title lol.

[AngerIsAGift06]

BlindSilence917 wrote:

A7X/GD/MCR wrote:
how is saying black kids racist?

Good point...technically it's not racist. It's just not politically correct.

Well if UG was making a point of a bands ethnicity it would be

[Putchuk]

I thought this was about The Jackson Five.

LOL

[hippyguitardude]

haha. funny

[last_biscuit]

Calling someone black isn't racist, unless you add some kind of negative word to that. I don't care about over-the-top political correctness.

Black people aren't a bad thing, so calling someone black isn't a negative thing, it is a descriptive thing. If you call a black person black and they take offense, that is stupidity and trying to find something to complain about.

Why would a black person be offended about being called black, if they are proud to be black.

Oh and famous names like 'Black History Month' (in UK at least) and 'Black Music' as a genre name at record shops isn't considered racist.

[SilentGhost]

'Black Music' as a genre name at record shops isn't considered racist.

Its not being racist, but it is stereotyping

[BetrayingChinO]

looks like i'm the only one who knows these bands....sad, but i wish i could go to these shows they'll be pretty tight.

[E V H 5150]

If the only defining characteristic of them is that they are black, then it could be seen as racist. If you call Jimi Hendrix a black guitarist, the important part of that is guitarist. It depends on how it's interpreted. I really don't care though. I'm not black. I think it's just that Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton make such big issues of that stuff because they have to pay for their huge houses somehow, right?

[HelloHalo]

Hahah. I thought they were being racist. "Black kids headline Vice Live"

[TheZookeeper]

Damn I read the first few comments and couldn't stop laughing. I could see them coming as soon as I read the title.
Pretty bad name for a band really!

[bathroomboy]

haha this page made my day

[kwsevenfold]

HelloHalo wrote:

Hahah. I thought they were being racist. "Black kids headline Vice Live"

[kwsevenfold]

HelloHalo wrote:

Hahah. I thought they were being racist. "Black kids headline Vice Live"

lol, i saw that on the homepage and started lmao

[gopherthegreat]

thats one of the greatest headlines ever.

[contagiousfury]

I, like everyone else here, chuckled when I saw that headline. I guess UG really does have a sense of humor.

[Castroph]

god I thought the same thing. again, these bands suck and are foreign to me.

[[travis]]

I saw "Black Kids" on Conan or Jimmy Fallon, and they completely sucked big time. They really need to get rid of the porky girls on the synths.