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The Aliens second album Luna is available to pre-order from HMV right now for just £7.99 delivered

On the HMV site, they have the tracklisting for the new album as:

1. Bobby’s Song
2. Amen
3. Theremin
4. Everyone
5. Magic Man
6. Billy Jack
7. Luna
8. Dove Returning
9. Sunlamp Show
10. Smoggy Bog
11. Daffodils
12. Boats
13. Blue Mantle

The release date is listed as 29th September 2008, and the catalogue number is PETROCK002

Pre-order Luna from HMV »

Here’s a couple of Black Affair live videos I spotted on Youtube today:

Black Affair at Crawdaddy, Dublin (Friday 25th July 2008)
Japanese Happening
8m12, uploaded by peteeed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue__G7Vd2mo

And here’s a small video of Black Affair playing You And Me at the Sonar Festival (in June 2008)
1m25, uploaded by stasgunko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgWw4040AUo

If you’ve spotted any Black Affair videos please leave a comment

Here are some new Black Affair tour dates that we’ve been sent by Steve’s management

Friday 8th August 2008
Belladrum Festival, Phoineas, Bealladrum Estate,
By Beauly, Inverness-Shire, IV4 7BA
Second stage, Penultimate slot.
http://www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk/

Friday 15th August 2008
Audio, Brighton, Part of Loop Festival
http://www.loopbrighton.com/
http://www.myspace.com/loopbrighton

Friday 19th September 2008
Fabric, London

You can find the latest Black Affair tour news on our forum here

You can listen to a new The Aliens tune ‘Magic Man’ (from the forthcoming album ‘Luna’) courtesy of the BBC iPlayer

Magic Man had it’s debut airing on Marc Riley’s Brain Surgery show last night (Mon 28th July) on BBC 6Music. There was also a Black Affair live session on the same show

You can listen to it at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00crrdf
The Aliens new tune can be found at 1h37m10 into the show

Black Affair played a live session on BBC 6 Music last night (Mon 28th July 2008 at 7pm) on the Marc Riley Brain Surgery Show. The show was hosted by Rob Hughes in Marc Riley’s absence.

You can use the BBC’s iPlayer service to ‘listen again’ to the session (here’s a direct link to Monday’s show)

Steve played 3 songs live – being joined by Jamie and Danny from The C90s (Steve revealed he met The C90s when they messaged him via MySpace about a remix, and they’ll now be playing with Black Affair on the road – see here for Black Affair tour dates).

We’ve listed the show times below if you want to skip straight to the Black Affair related bits:

00:10 Black Affair – Will She Come 04:36
04:36 Interview with Steve (part 1) 05:53
43:09 Interview with Steve (part 2) 46:59
47:00 Black Affair – It’s Real 50:43
50:44 Interview with Steve and Jamie & Danny from The C90s (part 3) 54:38
54:39 Black Affair – Japanese Happening 58:26
58:26 Interview with Steve (part 4) 59:33

and here’s the full tracklisting from the show:

Marc Riley’s Brain Surgery Show tracklisting
Monday 28th July 2008

Black Affair – Will She Come
Gilberto Gil – Pega A Voga, Cabeludo
Modey Lemon – The Peacock’s Eye
Kelly Stoltz – The Sun Comes Though
Sister Rosetta – Don’t Take Everybody To Be Your Friend
Robert Wyatt – Alfib
The Hold Steady – One For The Cutters
Giant Sand – Stranded Pearl
Black Affair – It’s Real
Black Affair – Japanese Happening
Robert Wyatt – Soup Song
Kevin Ayers – Oh! Wot A Dream
White Denim – Mess Your Head Up
Fleet Foxes – Your Protector
Dizzy Jones – I Don’t Care
Robert Wyatt – Sea Song
Grantura – In Dreams
The Aliens – Magic Man
Suicide – Diamonds, Fur Coats, Champagne
Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Robert Wyatt – I’m A Believer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00crrdf

Thank you to Joanne on The Aliens board for the news!

You can pre-order Pressure Pleasure Point and find the cheapest price online for the album via this forum thread