Make Sparks - Your Heart's On Fire

It's the classic indie lads tale of wanting to break out from the hum drum of normal, everyday life, that yearning for something more.

Dundee band Make Sparks know this tale only too well, writing sick notes for school to get out of classes - they'd then sneak back home to play all day long. It's a romantic tale, the passion for music offering that window out into a world of promise and adventure.

And it's evident in their new single Your Heart's On Fire too, all angular, spiky Kids In Glass Houses style guitar hooks and impassioned vocals akin to fellow Scot-rockers Biffy Clyro.

Here Make Sparks build their own foundations - energetic, powerful music to break out of towns with. As one particular line recalls 'Forever is over... forever is such a long time' - the eagerness to escape the stagnation of their old lives is plain.

Their debut album is lined up for a 2012 release and an autumn tour accompanies the single release.

Your Heart's On Fire is released on the 5th September.

A summer in the sun for hot new girl group Fanfair

We like new girl group Fanfair a lot. We wrote a bit about them and their brilliant track The Vaccine back in March, and since then, things have been hotting up rather nicely for them.

All this has culminated in a slot for them supporting those endearing lads The Wanted at a massive gig in Scotland's Hamilton Park on the 22nd July. The British summer has always been a brilliant excuse to get together with mates for a few drinks and a bit of a party, and anyone heading up to the gig can count on a suitable injection of pop fun too.

Meanwhile, the band - comprised of Roberta, Anara, Jessica and Aimee - have been busy recording new tracks in Sweden, which we can't wait to hear!

Fanfair's full list of upcoming summer live dates is as follows:

•7th July 2011 - GP Ball – The Hurlingham Club
•9th July 2011 - Lifehouse Spa, Essex
•17th July 2011 - Leeds Castle, Maidstone
•22nd July 2011 - Hamilton Park supporting The Wanted
•23rd July 2011 - Ponty Festival, Pontypridd
•6th August 2011 - Lake Meadows, Billericay
•13th August 2011 - Livewyre Festival, Burnley