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Last Updated: 12/8/2009

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City: Yorkshire
State: London and South East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 10/24/2005

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 
Heartache was on Tom Robinson BBC6Music again…

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Thanks Tom. We are now officially ‘friends of the show’ and have made it on to the monthly 6Music podcast. You know what? It feels pretty good.
1:42 PM 
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Friday, October 09, 2009 

Current mood:  aroused
That brilliant music magazine Q have made "Heartache" their Track Of The Day on the website www.qthemusic.com. 

Thanks guys and thanks for the support. We love you.

2:42 PM 
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Friday, September 11, 2009 
"it wasn’t long before Tarrbaby finished, to be replaced by a band who my sister thought sounded like The Killers.Rob Cowen & The Dissidents certainly had anthemic rock’n’roll songs suited perfectly for the best of any festival stage and were the first band to really get people up dancing and making new friends. Erin, my sister, was up at the front loving every minute of it. I felt a bit guilty leaving her to do all the dancing, after all, they were very good."Mint Music Review Festibelly 09. Read Full review.
9:50 AM 
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 
Thanks to everyone who came down on Friday and made it the best show yet. Big love to the Cambridge Cowen fans - cheers guys.

While we were on stage, it seems Kissy Sell Out was spreading some more RC & The D's love on Radio 1. 

Listen to the latest Kissy Sell Out show

Thanks Kissy and to everyone for the support.


10:13 AM 
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 
The blasting mixmaster and new Rob Cowen & The Dissidents fan, Kissy Sell Out, bust out his brilliant remix of Heartache on his show on Friday (28th August).

Bigging up the band, Kissy said he loved the track and compared us with Arcade Fire, which is nice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00m47bk

Listen again at the link above. We're on at 1.49.


Big Love to Kissy !
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 
The excellent Rory McConnell show will be playing Heartache on thursday night from midnight.

Tune in and blast out.

We love you.

Fix up. X
6:19 PM 
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 
It was always going to be interesting to see which radio station would bust ROB COWEN & TEH DISSIDENTS debut single 'Heartache' out first and we are delighted to say that it is...Xfm.

John Hillcock played it on his Xposure show last night. What a great guy.

We love Xfm. And John.

Now, who is going to get that coverted silver...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 

Artist: ROB COWEN & THE DISSIDENTS
Release: ‘Heartache’ (single)
Formats: Download-only
Release date: 28th September 2009
Label: Self-Raising Records/PIAS

“Excellent, creative and fully-fashioned songwriting” **** - Q Magazine

Rising epic-folk five-piece, ROB COWEN & THE DISSIDENTS release their outstanding debut single “Heartache" on the 28th September 2009.

Drawing comparisons with the likes of Arcade Fire, Springsteen and Elbow, the band creates swaggering rock ‘n’ roll songs of passion and hope, infectious tales of survival and social observation that come straight from this country's heartlands.

A firm fan favourite during the band’s powerful live performances, ‘Heartache’ already sounds like a classic – timeless, yet absolutely of its time. From the start of the driving drum intro, we are thrown into a hook-laden mini-epic that flows like a river in flood, held together by Yorkshire-born singer/songwriter Rob Cowen's impassioned vocals.

In a world-obsessed with the fashionable and fickle, the song stands out with its mixture of steering-wheel-smashing beat, emotional honesty and poetic story: ‘Everybody knows this feeling never goes and all the silhouettes in the windows look like you. And I’ve been working late on the industrial estate and I need a little rescue.’ Small wonder ‘Q’ Magazine has hailed Rob’s lyrics as being ‘worthy of John Betjeman’.

The single also features an exclusive and exquisite stripped back version of ‘Alice In Sunderland’, showcasing the breadth of the band’s sound with its Nick Drake-like guitar and the heartbreaking real-life story of teenage drug addiction in the industrial wastelands. Close friends and electro-wizards James Yuill and Bright Light Bright Light also provide stunning remixes of the title track.

The full tracklisting for Heartache is as follows:

  1. Heartache
  2. Alice In Sunderland (Exclusive Acoustic Version)
  3. Heartache (James Yuill Remix)
  4. Heartache (Bright Light Bright Light Remix)
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Email: rob@robcowen.net
Visit: www.myspace.com/robcowen

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........ROB COWEN & THE DISSIDENTS are:

Rob Cowen (vocals/guitar)
Charlie Westropp (guitars/piano)
John Stevens (bass)
Danny Williams (synths/glockenspiel)
Olly Samuels (drums)
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Friday, May 22, 2009 
Hi folks,


Just a quick update as things are a wee bit busy at the moment. All good, all very exciting for you RC & the D fans. New mixes of Heartache and Down in the Heartlands are on the page. Tuck in.


Sellindge Festival next (6th June) and then 229 club. Oh, and Heartache is on BBC 6 music soon...


Keep em peeled.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 

Current mood:  fermented
www.sellindgemusicfestival.co.uk/music-profile.php?id=90

***ROB COWEN & THE DISSIDENTS are confirmed at the Sellindge Music Festival in Kent on the weekend of the 6th/7th June. We are hitting the acoustic tent and will be supporting the brilliant Ben's Brother and Karima Francis. Later on, a little known Oxford group, Supergrass, will be hitting the main stage.

And the gigs don't stop there...Fly bar on the 8th April, Bull & Gate, Kentish Town, on the 20th - oh and the wonderful Festibelly Festival confirmed for August. Keep checking back for news folk...
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