VidZonians are you ready?! Riot Squad are you ready!? No this isn’t a protest rally (VidZone does not condone violence people), this is my call to anyone who’s a fan of rock or more specifically the six-man Welsh rock machine that is The Blackout. Their mammoth latest single “Higher And Higher” featuring America’s newest hip-hop prodigy, Hyro Da Hero was released on Feb 14th. And VidZone is proud to announce that we have the VIDEO EXCLUSIVE!
Merthyr Tydfil has been put on the rock radar since the lads emerged from the humble town in 2003. Fast-forward to 2011 and their highly-anticipated 3rd album “Hope” is set to explode on 4th April. Back at the beginning of Jan the first single “Ambition Is Critical” was announced (and is still available) as a FREE download on theblackout.net, and members of the Riot Squad (or HUGE fans of The Blackout to you and I) lapped it up. Now, “Higher And Higher” is set to well, take them higher… and higher! So if you want to check out the high-speed, highly intense and highly awesome new video then boot up VidZone now!! What are you waiting for?!
Plus if you haven’t seen The Blackout at their best, which is rocking out Welsh style (whatever that is…!) on stage, then you can catch them on tour through March and April with support from Hyro Da Hero and US punk-rockers The Swellers. Tour dates are as follows
Tues- Mar-29 Oxford O2 Academy 2
Wed-Mar-30 Liverpool O2 Academy 2
Fri-Apr-1 Cork Ireland Cyprus Avenue
Sat-Apr-2 Dublin Ireland Academy
Sun-Apr-3 Belfast N.Ireland Speakeasy, Queens Student Union
Tue-Apr-5 Glasgow Garage
Wed-Apr-6 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
Thu-Apr-7 Northumbria University
Fri-Apr-8 Manchester Academy 2 (SOLD OUT)
Sat-Apr-9 Birmingham HMV Institute
Sun-Apr-10 Norwich Waterfront
Tue-Apr-12 London Koko
Wed-Apr-13 Bournemouth Old Firestation
Thu-Apr-14 Plymouth White Rabbit
Fri-Apr-15 Falmouth Princess Pavillion
Sat-Apr-16 Cardiff Solus
Hey! Ben here, Content team employee Candice is a gold plated, diamond encrusted, 5 star fan of The Blackout and also a bit of a writer so we thought it best she write this one this week… Thanks Candice, good job 
I’m off to look for another job!
Candice (featuring Ben)
12 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 3:07 pm by rospondek
When Poland? Meh… whatever…
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 3:17 pm by xchris2008x
enjoying the service so far ( use it regular )
no idea who the above is lol (blackouts)
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 3:40 pm by almighty-slayer
WHEN POLAND.
Oh wait…
Awesome stuff Ben, good to see more exclusives coming
I have NO IDEA who this band are but i’ll have a gander 
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 3:50 pm by almighty-slayer
Haha i read that all the way through and didn’t even notice it wasn’t Ben. My brain must have not absorbed a word of that last paragraph.
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 3:52 pm by bravo9zero
Are there plans to relase Vidzone on the NGP (PSP2) when it’s released?
That would be awesome!
Especially with the 3G model.
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 4:02 pm by KC-alpha-14
Did you ever stick up the TRON:LEGACY daft punk album. I seem to remember you said you were?
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 4:21 pm by sully1311
Why hasn’t Sony sent you any videos for ages now?
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 5:04 pm by hjm50
Any plans for a subscription ad free service?
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 5:36 pm by elephant_stone
The Swellers are ace!
Shame the Blackout aint…
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 5:45 pm by Bumblebee
Here’s a video for ya… ’twas my birthday last week and I decided we should go out as zombies, just for the heck of it. So before we left my friend Danny fancied a quick blast of SingStar on one of his favourite songs (because he usually gets a great score on it) and this is the result. I’m the one in the bowler hat. Enjoy!
It’s not been very well rated though so far
I guess people like toddlers prancing about and not horrific undead types. Oh well.
http://www.singstar.com/en_GB/my-singstar.html?user=Bumblebee #/?tab=mediaspace_mymedia&filter=mymedia_all&fileId=2870267
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Posted on 28 February, 2011 at 5:46 pm by Bumblebee
Oh nuts, that wasn’t supposed to go there. I don’t know who or what The Blackout is but they don’t look like my cup of tea. Curses, where’s the SingStar post…
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Posted on 2 March, 2011 at 1:16 am by shortfuse14
I know this is completely of topic but when are you guys gonna update the PS3 internet browser. Youtube search button does not work and Facebook is practically useless nothing shows on the pages except for my profile pic and photos. I dnt have a PC of my own so use the PS3 browser alot. please update ASAP Sony!!!!!
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