THE BEAT Edition presents THE LAST CALL

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Core Facts

1. The Last Call is a brand new dance competition running from now until July 8th 2009, across Europe.
2. On July 7th, chosen contestants from around Europe will compete in a 24 hour dance-off at Matter (nightclub) at the O2 in London.
3. With a Samsung BEAT Edition DJ music phone, continuous playlist and a set of headphones, all 100 finalists must dance non-stop, hoping not to receive a single phone call or text from friends or family over the 24 hour period. If they do, they’re eliminated. There Can Be Only One!
4. The last contestant dancing will be crowned champion and will win €10,000 to spend on a night out with Swedish pop star September – and keep the change! Plus their trusted Samsung Beat DJ music phone.
5. Fresh from the huge success of her massive pop smashes ‘Cry For You’ and ‘Can’t Get Over’, Swedish superstar September returns triumphantly to the summer airwaves with the surefire hit ‘Until I Die’, released through Hard2Beat records on July 20th 2009.
6. September, a pseudonym for the stunning Petra Marklund, is a proud owner of a Grammis, the Swedish equivalent of a Grammy. She recently embarked on HARD2BEAT’s massive ‘Dance Nation’ UK Arena tour, performing to over 50,000 fans. This was September’s second major UK arena tour appearance in under a year, after playing on the huge ‘Clubland Live 2’ Arena Tour in late 2008.
7. From now until June 15th, anyone over 18 can enter The Last Call via the www.thelastcall.tv
8. In the lead-up to the final, each of the finalists will create a campaign page, with user-generated photographs and videos, and links to follow them on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, showing off their dance moves etc.
9. The entire 24 hour final will be streamed live and online through www.thelastcall.tv and a channel on the Beat DJ widget.

Paul Steel is back with an animated movie version of his critically acclaimed debut album ‘April & I’ on July 20th after a 10 week serialisation on his You Tube and My Space Channels.

VBS release their new video for Multiplayer directed and produced by Simon Deshon. – Multiplayer is out on Split Records March 2nd 2009

‘Strike Sparks Anywhere’ is the first EP release from This Is Radio Freedom, a band dedicated in both name and spirit to action, movement and excitement. They named themselves after the ANC’s pirate radio station, which was famous for subversive and inspiring broadcasts during the years of South African Apartheid. Many may also recognise this segueway which was famously used as the intro to the KLF’s 3 AM Eternal.

By chance rather than by design, TIRF made a huge leap from their roots in Wales with a growing fanbase throughout the rest of the UK, to making a name for themselves in the States when their songs were synched on nine U.S TV stations including MTV. They toured the United States and Canada, radio DJs fell for the band; they were picked up by over 280 college radio stations and they band; they were picked up by over 280 college radio stations and they headlined last year’s closing party for North By North East which lead on to performances at this year’s CMJ conference.

Returning to Europe TIRF supported Echo and The Bunnymen and The Bees, were chosen for a UK academy tour with Alabama 3 and played this September in Valencia with Primal Scream.
The ‘Strike Sparks Anywhere’ EP is intended to reflect a movement of change, impetus, direction and drive – hence extracting its title from a section of Hunter S Thompson’s finest work:

“Madness in any direction, at any hour… you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right… that we were winning.”

The EP was recorded with acclaimed producer Junk Scientist and includes a remix of their first U.S TV success ‘Family Man’, by Dan Le Sac; the man behind the top hit Thou Shalt Always Kill with Scroobious Pip. This Is Radio Freedom will be touring the UK and releasing their full-length debut album in 2009.