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Strokes Confirm New Album Details

added 12 August 2004 at 15.10

New York’s finest, The Strokes, have confirmed details and a release date for their much-anticipated Alexandra Palace live album. The album was recorded last December at the first of their two nights at the London venue and is set to hit shelves this October.

The band have revealed that the new album will be entitled simply ‘Live In London’ and is rumoured to be  released at mid-price on October 11, however the band's record company Rough Trade have confirmed that there is no set release date as yet. The record will feature 12 tracks including the band’s cover of The Clash track ‘Clampdown’.

The cover is also set to back the band’s new single ‘The End Has No End’ as a B-side and is currently set to hit shelves on September 20.

The album tracklisting will feature 12 tracks from the night’s 16 song setlist which included:

'Reptilia', 'Under Control', 'What Ever Happened?', 'Alone Together', 'The Modern Age', '12:51', 'New York City Cops', 'You Talk Way Too Much', 'Someday', 'Hard to Explain', 'The End Has No End', 'Automatic Stop', 'Soma', 'Take It or Leave It', 'I Can't Win', ‘Clampdown’

In other Strokes news, the band are currently spending the summer working on new material in their studio/rehearsal space with producer Gordon Raphael ready for a rumoured mid-2005 release date for their third album.

The band have also recently sent out a two-track CD to members of their fanclub containing two unreleased tracks: A live version of 'When It Started' recorded in Iceland and demo track 'Elephant Song', recorded by Albert Hammond Jr. and Julian Casablancas in 1999 for an NYU school project.

"Albert was taking a class called Sound 101 in his freshman year at NYU and was required to turn in a recorded tape made using the school's special recording equipment," writes Matt Romano, head of The Strokes fanclub. "The song was later reformatted by the band and played at a few shows before being retired in the year 2000. The 'Elephant Song' recording has never been played for anyone outside of the band (with the exception of Albert's professor at NYU, and a small handful of other people)."

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