Ben Howard debuts new track 'Oats In The Water' on BBC

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added: 4 Feb 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Ben Howard kicks off his huge UK tour on Monday week with a homecoming show in Truro (13th Feb) before heading out on a run of sold-out dates that includes two back-to-back nights at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire.

On Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show Ben (and his band) performed a brand new track in the form of 'Oats in the Water'. Clocking in at 5 minutes, it finds Ben on electric guitar and seems a natural companion to the brooding 'Black Flies' - one of the stand-out tracks from his debut album 'Every Kingdom'.

You can give it a listen/ watch the session video here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nsr4g

Ben releases his new single 'The Wolves' on the 27th February via Island Records. It's taken from 'Every Kingdom', which climbed into the Top 10 on release last year. 'The Wolves' is currently B-listed on Radio 1.

The full list of UK tour dates are as follows:

13th February ' Truro, Hall For Cornwall (SOLD OUT)
14th February ' Portsmouth, Pyramids (SOLD OUT)
15th February ' Brighton, Concorde 2 (SOLD OUT)
17th February ' Manchester, Ritz (SOLD OUT)
18th February ' Edinburgh, Queens Hall (SOLD OUT)
19th February - Glasgow, ABC (SOLD OUT)
20th February ' Newcastle, Northumbria University (SOLD OUT)
22nd February ' Norwich, UEA (SOLD OUT)
23rd February ' London, Shepherds Bush Empire (SOLD OUT)
24th February ' London, Shepherds Bush Empire (SOLD OUT)
25th February ' Oxford, Academy (SOLD OUT)
27th February ' Leeds, MET (SOLD OUT)
28th February ' Birmingham, HMV Institute (SOLD OUT)
29th February ' Bristol, Academy (SOLD OUT)

Support on all dates comes from Daughter.

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Steel Panther in hot water with advertising standards agency

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added: 25 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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The band's poster for 'Balls Out' has is being deemed "overtly sexual" by the Advertising Standards Agency reports xfm.co.uk.

The poster ads featured a skantily clad woman reclining and not much on with her hand by her crotch holding a sting of two metal balls.

A domestic abuse charity complained to the Advertising Standards Agency claiming the posters were offensive as the picture of the woman was demeaning and overtly sexual.

They also questioned if it should be shown where children might see it.

The band's label, Universal Island Records, countered that it was meant to be so over the top that no one would take it seriously and so it didn't actually undermine women, adding that it was mostly put up in places like clubs and bars where adults went for nights out and they weren't aware of them being close to any schools.

They hadn't actually checked though and admitted more care should have been taken in choosing where to put the posters.

ASA upheld the complaint though, noting that "the poster was not meant to cause offence or be seen as demeaning to women," but continuing, "we considered that the main image on the poster was overtly sexual. We noted that the pose of the woman showed her with her legs apart, her hand between her legs and her breasts partially exposed and considered that her facial expression was suggestive of an orgasm and sexual activity. In addition to this, we considered that the album title "Balls Out" was sexually suggestive particularly when viewed in the context of the poster, where the woman was seen dangling two silver balls between her legs in a way that we considered was suggestive of male genitalia."

ASA comcluded that it "was likely to cause serious and widespread offence, was unsuitable to be seen by children and therefore was not appropriate for outdoor advertising."

It can't be put up in its current form again.

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