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All the onsales we're allowed to print -

• SIMPLY RED at the O2, 3rd December

• CSS - which stands for Cansei de Ser Sexy, pop trivia buffs will know - are at Shepherd's Bush Empire on 6th October

• COLD WAR KIDS are "keen backers of organic farming". They play the Astoria on 7th Nov

• GOLDFRAPP have the weirdest web site I've seen all day - ok, so I don't get out much. Brixton, 9th November.

• NOAH AND THE WHALE: "My mum is a total folkie," says 21-year-old songwriter Charlie Fink, who [says The Guardian] until he was about 14 believed his mum had written This Land Is Your Land. 6th Nov

• One for sorrow, Two for joy, 5th December for COUNTING CROWS

• "I've got an ego - I want the album to do well. I want our singles to come on the radio and for people to literally have their heads blown off by them" says KOOKS frontman Luke Pritchard. Literally? Neck braces may be a good idea for their Roundhouse gigs (1st, 2nd, 3rd December), then, in case live performance has the same effect

NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB’s sound is, according to last.fm, "a punk funk jerkout that sounds like a distaff version excursion on disco-era The Rolling Stones fronted by The Slits’ Ari Up". OK, fine.

They're at the Metro Club on Wednesday (depending on when you read this, that's tomorrow, or it's today, or you've missed it already) and we have a few last-minute tickets left. You need to be able to collect them from our shop at Oxford Circus (about five minutes walk from the venue)

Thanks to the customer who alerted us to the problem with our search box: looking for UNDERWORLD lists several months of gigs at the famous Camden venue before the 1st November date by the famous Karl Hyde/Rick Smith electronic music duo.

We've set our crack(ed) team of tech experts to deal with this (realistically, anything could happen now) but in the meantime you can get tickets for their Brixton gig here or through the artists a-z link at the top of each page

• VAMPIRE WEEKEND is an amateur film created by Ezra Koenig, who later went on to form a band of the same name. Tickets (for the band, not the film) available Friday morning: 24th and 25th October at the Forum

• The PIGEON DETECTIVES' drummer Jimmi Naylor "never liked the name at first. But it's stuck - and it's probably got us more attention having a silly name."

• NIGHTWISH is said to be the name of one of NIGHTWISH's early songs. We read that on the Internet, it must be true. Brixton, on 11th March next year.

• SIMPLE PLAN: the French Canadian pop punk band formed in 1995, so we can probably assume is not named after their 2008 album. That would be weird. At the Forum, 29 November

GOMEZ are listed in the allmusic guide both as "British Trad Rock" and as "Experimental Rock", but we suppose after all that the British do have a tradition of experimental rock, so perhaps it makes sense.

Anyway, they're playing at the Forum on 2nd September, and tickets are on sale now.

We're still waiting on final details (prices and suchlike), but this is your headsup that KINGS OF LEON will be playing the O2 Arena on 11th December. More news of that when it happens, but ticket sales start on Friday morning.