Alex Cameron: Last News

Billy Idol is returning to the road for a late summer/early fall tour with special guest Alex Cameron on select dates.That includes gigs at Brooklyn, NY’s Kings Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 12 and Camden, NJ’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on Saturday, Sept.

This week, Alex Lee Thomson is approving some artists he checked out at last month’s SXSW showcase festival in Austin.If hard work breeds success then Enjoyable Listens are onto something. This band seemed to be everywhere at SXSW last month, and that’s no mean feat.They certainly don’t disappoint when it comes to their name – just one of their self aware tactics to dazzle you with showmanship and suck you into their odd world.

With previous plans curtailed by the pandemic, Bad Dreems returned last year with a revitalised anger and urgency on the singles ‘Mansfield 6.0’ and ‘Jack’. Now they’re back with their first track of 2023, the incendiary ‘See You Tomorrow’, and have announced the release of new album ‘Hoo Ha!’ this spring.‘See You Tomorrow’ is an intense stream of consciousness, which sees frontman Ben Marwe leaping around childhood memories, social observations, Russian history and quoting newsreaders.

A Lanarkshire hotel has scooped a prestigious industry award.

The Horrors are among the 20 new additions to the 2022 line-up of London’s Wide Awake festival.The event, which made its debut last year, will return to Brockwell Park in south London from May 27-28.After recently announcing Primal Scream and Bicep as their 2022 headliners, Wide Awake has now added 20 more names to their bill for this year.As well as The Horrors, the likes of Dream Wife, Alex Cameron, Grove, Harry James, Katy J Pearson, KEG, Sorry, The Golden Dregs, The Lounge Society and The Umlauts have all joined the line-up for Wide Awake 2022.Croatian Amor, Elena Colombi, Fulu Miziki, Identified Patient, Kiara Scuro, Marcus Harris, Melts, Modern Woman and Vladimir Ivkovic round off the other new additions to the bill.These acts join the already confirmed likes of Caribou, Working Men’s Club, Leon Vynehall, Floating Points and Yard Act on the Wide Awake 2022 line-up.Tickets for this year’s festival are on sale now, and you can find them and more information about Wide Awake 2022 by heading here.

Alex Cameron has added North American dates to his spring 2022 North American tour, announced his fourth album and shared its second single, "Best Life." Oxy Music, out March 11 via Secretly Canadian, was inspired by Nico Walker's 2018 addiction novel Cherry. Like the book, Cameron's new project is a character study examining the factors that lead to opiate addiction. "The album is a story, a work of fiction, mostly from the perspective of a man," he writes.

cons.Jimmy Smith, 63, was jailed for life with a minimum of 17 years after he murdered gangland rival Alex Cameron in 2015 with an axe and hid the body in a pile of manure.Cameron’s family vowed revenge and Smith has already been attacked in Shotts prison by Alex Cameron’s great-nephew JJ Cameron, a fellow inmate.Now Smith’s wife, Helen, and son, Richard, say Smith is incapable of defending himself due to advanced dementia and will be killed unless he is moved.Son Richard said: “My dad still has a long time to serve. He’s not an old man but he’s not young either and recently he has become frailer and has lots of health worries.“Shotts seems to be full of ­relatives and friends of Alex Cameron.

Jimmy Smith, 63, is serving a minimum 17 years in Shotts Prison for murdering Alex Cameron, who was 67, in January 2015 at a farm in Kirknewton, West Lothian.After repeatedly smashing his head in with an axe and a fencing mallet, Smith tried to conceal his crime by burying his victim in a shallow pile of horse manure and covering the body with slabs.Last week, Smith, who has a prison job that involves cleaning an area set aside for inmates to make video calls to loved ones – bumped into Cameron’s great-nephew.James John Cameron, known as JJ, 34, had just ended a call with his aunt, Diane, and was going back to his cell when he saw Smith and hit him.A couple of hours later, Diane got a call saying JJ had “laid out” Smith and was in