Six D announce UK 'Best Damn Night' signing tour

Super-cool new UK pop group Six D are set to release their brilliant debut single on Monday (we reviewed it back in May) and to help celebrate, they're giving their fans a chance to say hi and get their CD copies of the single signed!

The dates and locations of the band's signing tour are as follows:

hmv Hanley, The Potteries Shopping Centre - 24th July at 3.00 pm
hmv Milton Keynes, Midsummer Arcade - 25th July at 1.00 pm
hmv London Westfield, Shepherds Bush - 25th July at 5.00 pm
hmv Brighton Churchill Square - 26th July at 1.00 pm
hmv Thurrock, Lakeside Shopping Centre - 26th July at 5.00 pm
hmv Birmingham Fort Shopping Park - 27th July at 1.00 pm
hmv Manchester 90 Market Street - 27th July at 6.00 pm
hmv Reading Oracle Centre - 28th July at 1.00 pm
hmv Oxford, Cornmarket Street - 28th July at 5.00 pm
hmv Sheffield Meadowhall - 29th July at 1.00 pm
hmv Leicester, High Street - 29th July at 5.00 pm
hmv Bristol Cribbs Causeway - 30th July at 5.00 pm

We'll be popping along to the Westfield date where the group will also be performing live - Exciting times!

With Best Damn Night sitting proud on Radio 1's playlist and the band fresh from touring with the likes of The Saturdays, Six D are definitely ones to keep an eye on.

Best Damn Night is released on the 25th July and can be pre-ordered here.

Come join the Parade...

So, Parade's brilliant single Louder is out in the UK and as I write, it currently stands at No. 8 in the iTunes chart. For any band, this is a great achievment, but for a new group, breaking into the ever competitive pop scene, this is frankly amazing.

I went to see the Parade girls perform at GAY on Saturday night and they most definitely gave it their all. Opening with a feisty cover of Cee Lo Green's Fuck You, they had the crowd whipped up into a frenzy of excitement (best of all, it was the expletive laden album version and not the mild-mannered radio edit of the song). The girls' look is perfect too, striding the vital balance between street-smart trends and poppy flash. Continuing on to their performance of Louder, it was plain to see just how much fun they were all having - and it's this enjoyment that really shines through in their music, taking it up to the next level. As for the rest of the night and Olly Murs stripping on stage, I'll leave that to your imaginations... but let's just say it involved him wearing a cow-shaped thong.

The next day, Parade held a signing at that temple of retail enlightenment, Westfield. So it was off on the tube to Shepherd's Bush! The centre's HMV branch had the Louder singles pride of place at the front of the store as well as conveniently placed by the till-points themselves. It made for a refreshing change from music stores who have become so alienated to the CD single format in recent years.

The signing itself was brilliant, well organised and packed with eager fans. Everyone seemed really up for the event and the cheery faces all round definitely inspired a sense of strong community amongst the fanbase. It's bonds and memories like these that'll get the fans sticking with an artist right through their career. Parade are well on their way to dazzling their way across the UK pop charts and this weekend was a energising reminder of how Britain gets it SO right when it comes to girlbands.

If you haven't already, join the Parade and download Louder from iTunes here!