After some explosive experimentation in their nuclear bunker, The Good The Bad have been testing alternative energy sources for recording their next album. The have released this special video in the run up to their 2nd EP release ‘From 005 – 008″ which will be released on Stray Cat Records on February 22nd.

The video was filmed in their hometown of Copenhagen by Bob Harlow and Martyn Thomas from www.stitchthat.tv.

The Good The Bad return with a new EP “From 005 – 008” to give us all a new year’s dose of their hip-shaking dirty cool. This band always mean business when they roll into town or decide to release something to us mere mortals, so it’s time you got involved.

After signing to London’s freshest label Stray Cat Records and successfully releasing their first EP “From 001 – 004” late last year, TGTB are set for huge things in 2010!

They will be leading the Danish charge at by:Larm (Scandinavia’s biggest music conference Oslo Feb 18-20), have been selected by February’s curator, Bella Union boss Simon Raymonde, to feature on Feb 25th at JaJaJa, The Lexington, London, then return to play their residency and host another UK launch party for their new EP at Whoreditch, The Brickhouse, London on Feb 26th and are off to SXSW in March.

The founder of The Specials and 2 Tone records, the writer of Ghost Town and Free Nelson Mandela, announces the first ever UK tour of JERRY DAMMERS’ SPATIAL A.K.A. ORCHESTRA , which includes such luminaries as Mercury Prize nominated Zoe Rahman, Denys Baptiste, Jason Yarde, Larry Stabbins (Working Week, Centipede), Finn Peters, Nathaniel Facey (Empirical), vocalists Anthony Joseph and Francine Luce and many more.

Mamas Gun, the funked-up five-piece fronted by singer/composer/producer/designer Andy Platts, release their new single Wishing on February 28th. This stunning Hall and Oates-tinged masterstroke (incidentally, in recent years, Platt has worked with the latter) features on the ‘deluxe’ version of the band’s debut album ‘Routes To Riches’ which was co-produced by Julian Simmons (Guillemots), mixed by Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer Jack Joseph Puig (Black Eyed Peas, U2, the Rolling Stones) and mastered by the equally notable Bob Ludwig. It will be released as a double A-side along with another track lifted from the album, the delightfully dirty, ‘Grove is in the heart’ vibe ‘Finger On It’.

Britain’s most ferocious roots guitarist since the heyday of the Yardbirds, 22-year-old Isle Of Man-born Davy Knowles returns to the UK with his band Back Door Slam for a special headline gig at The 100 Club on the 9th February and a performance at the Next Big Thing festival on 11th February.