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| News - 2007
23/12/07 - Chart News: The Enemy made it a fourth successive week where "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" rose in the UK album chart, this week it climbed another 3 places to #61, meanwhile the single with the same name dropped to #97, in a chart dominated by Christmas records. 19/12/07 - Chart News: The Enemy's "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" climbed up the album chart for the third week in a row, it is up a further 5 places to #64 and has consistantly been in the UK Album chart since it's release in June. Meanwhile "This Song" will be the next single to be released from the album in early 2008. 10/12/07 - Isle 0f Wight Festival: The Enemy have been confirmed as one of the acts performing at the Isle of Wight Festival, they will be performing with such artists as The Police, Sex Pistols, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen and Kate Nash. The weekend event takes place on June 13-15th at Seaclose Park, Newport. Tickets are on sale now. 09/12/07 - Single Enters The Charts At........ The new single "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" entered the UK charts today at #21, it is the fourth and final single from the album. The album also climbed the charts for a second week in sucession - up to #69. 05/12/07 - The Enemy: Going Gold, Going to Support Kaiser Chiefs and Gone Japanese! It's another busy old week for The Enemy and our news update has them Going, Going, Gone! The Sun newspaper and NME reported that the debut album "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" has GONE GOLD, meaning it has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK. The album has consistantly been in the UK Album charts since it's release in June 2007. This week the album climbed two places to number 74. Tom, Andy and Liam are GOING Japanese this week as they perform 4 gigs back in Japan for their ever-growing Asian fanbase, The Enemy were in Japan earlier this Summer performing at a festival. Finally, according to the official website, The Enemy are GOING to be special guests of the Kaiser Chiefs at their biggest headline show to date. The Kaisers play their hometown of Leeds on Saturday 24th May 2008 at Leeds United ground Elland Road Football Stadium. Tickets for the show go on sale this Saturday December 8th.
28/11/07 - The Enemy To Play Uni Gig Dec 13th: Tom Clarke, Andy Hopkins and Liam Watts will hardly have time to unpack their suitcases after arriving back home from their tour of Japan because The Enemy will be performing a special gig at one of the following universities on December 13th: Bath, Bournemouth, De Monfort, Leeds Met, Lincoln, Loughborough, Manchester Met, Portsmouth, Plymouth and UWE. The competition will see all ten universities battle it out via text message, and the campus that sends in the most text votes will win a gig by The Enemy. Students can enter by texting “trutap” to 80468 or by visiting trutap.com
27/11/07 - The Enemy on Channel 4: The Enemy will be on Channel 4 this Friday (30th November), appearing in "Beat Stevie" at 00:35. The programme is the second offering from Mike Skinner of The Streets, in this episode he meets The Enemy, The Wombats and Dizzee Rascal and will be chatting to Matt Willis (ex- Busted). 21/11/07 - The Enemy Make XFM Short List: The first ever Xfm UK New Music Award will be announced on January 16 2008 at a very special ceremony at Camden's Koko in London and The Enemy have made it to the last ten so could be up for the award. 12/11/07 - Signed Copies of "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" Single: The Enemy have announced that the first 500 orders of the forthcoming single "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" will be signed by the band when ordered through the HMV link on their official website and you can also order a non-signed copy through the banners on this site. The single will be out December 3rd but the band will be busy in Japan on tour so this will be the only opportunity to grab a signed copy of the single. 09/11/07 - Coventry Tour Tickets Selling Out: Tickets only went on sale at 9am today and within a few hours 6,000 out of the 8,000 tickets had sold for the Coventry RICOH Arena tour date. Saturday 5th April 2008 looks like selling out fast for The Enemy fans. Many fans have also pre-orded the forthcoming single "We'll Live And Die In These Towns", as part of a special bundle for just 79p. Check out www.ticketmaster.co.uk and http://www.seetickets.com/ for details. We predict an extra date will be added for Coventry, and that date could well be Friday 4th April 2008, so keep checking out the official website: www.theenemy.com and as soon as it becomes public www.theenemy.eu will be updated. 07/11/07 - The Enemy In Studio For "Consequences" Track: On Monday The Enemy were in the studio recording their contribution to a special track also featuring Beth Ditto, Pearl Lowe, Paul Weller, Supergrass, Graham Coxon, New Young Pony Club, Drew McConnell. It will be available early in the New Year. ‘Consequences’ Crisis aims to raise awareness and funds to help fight homelessness. Read more: HERE . The following pictures can be found at NME.COM alongside comments by Tom Clarke. The Enemy in the studio for "Crisis" Tom Clarke on Monday. 06/11/07 - Coventry Tour Date Announced: The Enemy will be performing at the Ricoh Arena in their hometown, Coventry. The date is Saturday 5th April 2008 in the 8,000 capacity Jaguar Exhibition Hall and will be their biggest hometown gig to date. The interview with Tom Clarke talking about the announcement given to the Coventry Telegraph can be found on the PRESS page. 02/11/07 - "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" - Track Listing: The next single will be released on December 3rd and is available to pre-order, all three formats for just £3 (check out the link at the top of the page!): Format 1: CD Single
1. We’ll Live & Die In These Towns
2. Ordinary Girl
Format 2: 7’’ Vinyl
1. We’ll Live & Die In These Towns
2. We'll Live And Die In These Towns (Coventry Glory Mix - Jaz Coleman Remix)
Format 3: 7’’ picture disc vinyl
1. We’ll Live & Die In These Towns
2. Happy Birthday Jane (piano version)
29/10/07 - Final Gig Of 2007 Announced: The Enemy have announced their final gig for 2007 will be a one off gig at Year Zero in London with a supporting cast of FIGURE 5 and talk-of-the-festivals bands PREGO and ALVAREZ KINGS. Plus all sorts of festive treats. Doors: 7.30pm-1am, £12. Click HERE to buy tickets. 26/10/07 - Tom Donates Guitar: Tom Clarke has made a cash donation and is giving a guitar for auction to help save Coventry City Football Club from going into administration. Tom told the Coventry Times: "It’s important to support the football club of your home city. Jobs would be lost if it goes under. This city has suffered enough recently with job losses including Peugeot." Fans have been also donating at : http://www.skybluetrust.co.uk/ 20/10/07 - Andy Hopkins Misses Secret Gig: Andy Hopkins missed out on The Enemy secret gig last night at Loughborough Central Train Station as Tom Clarke and Liam Watts performed in front of 100 competition winners. Tom Clarke apologised to fans, explaining that Andy had been taken ill with tonsillitis and was tucked up in bed. The lads were hoping Andy would be well enough for the two weekend dates in Birmingham. Tom said to NME magazine: "It's [tonsillitis] been going round all tour, I think I might even be coming down with it," he explained. "But fingers crossed we both should be well enough to play the two final dates. We don't want to let anybody down." 12/10/07 - Tour Update by Andy Hopkins: Hey.
We're full swing on the NME Rock N Roll Riot Tour and it's the best tour we've ever done. I didn't think the crowd could get any better than the last tour, but they have surpassed themselves - it's wicked.
We played the Barrowlands in Glasgow which was my best show so far - fantastic crowd and a wet one. We just knew we were going to get soaked with drinks being thrown on stage so we made sure some of the equipment was covered up. Great crowd! Our support acts Lethal Bizzle and the Wombats are really ripping it up too.
We won a Q Award for Best New Act! Really proud of that one as it was voted for by fans not industry people so it's really special. We made it down to the awards show where I met the one and only Ian Brown and spotted the gorgeous Kylie although I'm gutted I didn't get to meet her.
We couldn't make the party afterwards as we had a gig in Middlesborough but really happy we made it to the ceremony.
With absolutely no disrespect to the the Q Awards or to all our fans who voted for us, we deciced to give the award away to one of our fans at the show in Manchester. We thought it was the best thing we could do and our way of showing how much we respect our fans.
There was one lad at the front of the crowd who was singing every single word and we all decided he was the one who was going to get it.
We pulled him out of the crowd and got him on stage and gave him the award - poor bloke was shaking. We took him backstage took a photo and booked him a taxi home - he was a bit worried he might get jumped after the gig!
Looking ahead to the Stereophonics tour next month - we saw the boys at the Q awards and we're really looking forward to supporting them again. After that it's back to Japan before a well earned Christmas break and stuffing some Turkey down.
If you've seen us on tour and didn't find what you wanted on our merchandise stall, check out the online store here where we've just added some more clobber.
Andy.
11/10/07 - The Enemy "Ibiza Rocks" on Channel 4 (Thurs 18th October) 12:00am – 12:35am.
The Enemy do what they do best at the infamous Bar M in Ibiza. Meanwhile, having their mobile phones confiscated causes much havoc and embarrassment for the Ibiza Rocks team. You can view part of the programme, thanks to those good folks at Channel 4 by clicking the link HERE Listen in as Tom Clarke talks about some Coventry girls with an obsession for The Enemy! 11/10/07 - Vote for The Enemy! The Enemy are nominated for two different awards: Anthem of the Summer ("Away From Here") and Best Newcomer Award on the UK Festival Awards 2007.Voting is open until Sunday 28th October and the winners will be announced on Tuesday 6th November 2007. You can vote for The Enemy: HERE
 The Enemy performing at the Godiva Festival, June 14th 2007 as captured on film. "Inspired to stand up and make themselves heard following a catalogue of blows to their industrial heritage (something of a car plant mecca, redundancies have been handed out like confetti in recent years), the three-piece were quickly picked up by seminal 1970s label Stiff Records before eventually pricking the ears of Atlantic Records.
A number one LP, Q Award for Best New Act and the patronage of hometown heroes The Specials later – and it all adds up to quite a six months for the Cov lads." You can read the Manchester Evening News Blog HERE and a previous article about The Enemy HERE , where Tom Clarke says: "Coventry’s got something to be proud of again".
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Coventry's The Enemy have scooped "Best New Act" at this years Q Awards held yesterday (08/10/07) in London as the lads debut album, "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" spent a thirteenth week inside the UK Top 40 Album Chart. Tom Clarke, Liam Watts and Andy Hopkins took time out from their hectic nationwide tour to be at the Q Awards at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.
After the lunchtime ceremony, Tom, Andy and Liam travelled 243 miles up north to play at Middlesborough's Town Hall as part of the "NME Rock 'n' Roll Tour". It's not an easy life being in a band but they wouldn't have it any other way! | |
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