NEWS

Heys guys...

Here a new media comunication from the UT management:

"Urban Tales with RIPE

The Urban Tales joined the most famous portuguese artists on the RIPE agency's catalogue - www.ripe-espectaculos.com.

In the end of 2004 Marcos decides to leave Soul Despair and form his own musical project; so, in the beginning of 2005, URBAN TALES is born, influenced by a variety of acts, which includes Anathema, Paradise Lost, Charon, Entwine, among others.

With a clear musical vision and all the members assembled, the band starts the recording of a pre demo, which gave them the opportunity to work with the talented and well know director Ricardo Capristano: after hear the band´s music, Ricardo invited Urban Tales to be part of the soundtrack to the dvd “Mais1”, a film that includes the most awesome images of surf together with some of the most promising bands in the Portuguese metal scene (like The Temple, SK6, Fiona@Forty, Urban Tales, and so on...).

After that, and with the path of their sound and uniqueness well marked, Urban Tales decide to record the official demo, Urban Tales (2006)... and that was it! Huge acceptance by the critics and the public, massive airplay, a videoclip for In purity, numerous awards (which included revelation band of 2006 and the inclusion of the demo in some of the “best albums of 2006” list) and a contract deal with Burning Star, all at once!

The demo also gave Urban Tales the title of one of the most exciting and rocking goth metal acts of the planet, creating such a vibe and a huge expectaction on what to come next!

After months of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, Burning Star released the first album of Urban Tales, “Diary of a no”, in November 2007, and, AGAIN, the expectations were pulverized... the album was released worldwide and SOLD OUT... it was acclaimed by the media, with expressions such as “... unique...”, “... the album of 2007...”, “... superb...”, “...MASTERPIECE!...”; the videos that promoted the album, “Farewell” and “Prison inside”, got massive airplay on MTV Headbangers ball; both of the singles got massive airplay during months in Portuguese national radios (and in metal radios all over the world)...

The music, the artwork, the production, the feeling that Marcos voice transmited, the wall of guitars, the power of the rhythm section, the beauty of the keyboards... all of that was praised and the reception of the audience was huge.

And all of that on the first record!!

As the new year starts, Urban Tales and their album were recognized in a great number of polls as best newcomers, best metal act and best album in 2007, giving them and “Diary of a no” a well deserved prize and acclaim.

During 2008, the band is invited to write the anthem for the 1st Portuguese Federation of Rare Desiases (FEDRA). The ALIVE multimedia CD is then created, containing 3 musics, pictures and a videoclip, and it sold out in just 40 minuts on the release day at FNAC, Lisbon. The hit single hits major radio stations like RCP and Best Rock FM, and TV stations such as RTP and TVI, along with massive reports on national newspappers and magazines.

“Urban Tales” are now recording a brand new album, due to be released on June 2009."

Urban Tales on TV

Hey guys!

We´re glad to announce another presentation of Alive on national tv...
just check this out:

http://www.urbantales.net/nl/newsletter_190209.html

Don´t miss it!

Rock on

More news...

A little message from J, directly from the studio sessions:

"hey peeps

Weell man...where can I start?We're tracking drums for the album, it's been some great days of HARD work (not just hangin'out with the guys and drink some beer and cocktails all day long...ok, just a little bit, eheh) and we are halfway through the songs...not kidding;)!

What can I say more...the recorded material is PURE FUCKIN POWER, genuine man...my hands are all fucked up...and the thing that I've heard the most(really... A LOOOOT) these days is "Slap that snare hard man, give all you got!!!" (Daniel thanks bro...LOL)!!

Rock on
J"

Message for the fans

Message for the fans, directly from the studio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElyklzTn5QM

oh man...

Rock on!!

News and some really funny shit...

Hey guys!

A lot happening, as usual...with the promotion of Alive on the road, lots of tv, radios and magazines, the pre production of our second album DONE (Yes, its true...) and the studio sessions already on track (Yes, we´re in the studio recording a bunch of fu**ing great anthems man!!!) we´re a little bit out of time...but you can expect some great news and updates about the upcoming things...be patient friends!

Here´s the funny shit,lol...enjoy!

Yeap... Urban Tales lost it... Here is some footage (extremely rare) of the Portuguese band in their passage through Azores...

A small description:

Place - Some event where a DJ was passing techno music... But, that kind of music so...
Jota (the drummer) - is the one who never stops... He tried to dance or... Whatever is that...
Johny - well, he was drunk all of the days we were there, so... You can imagine
Jon Van Dave - tried to be cool, he tried...
Tiago - the smart one that was behind the camera filming
Bertrand - our cameraman... well, he had something but that wasn't the worst he did in those days...
Rui Pulga - He just wanted to party....
Marcos - well, he pitty the fool... he..s just stupid...

The band is really sad cause in all of the days, Tânia, the reporter from "Arte Sonora", was there seeing all...

But, bottom line, to people don't say we are really depressed persons, here it goes:

URBAN TALES LIKE YOU NEVER HAVE SEEN BEFORE... And will never see again....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSInAU_rzE

LOL...jeeeeeezzuzzz...what a bunch of asses....

cheers

ALIVE airplay

"ALIVE" SINGLE IN BEST ROCK FM

In few weeks to celebrate another "International Day of Rare Diseases", it's with enormous joy that we inform that "Alive", the new single and hymn from FEDRA (Federation of Rare Diseases of Portugal), from the portuguese URBAN TALES, is having airplay in Best Rock FM, one of the most important rock radio of Portugal.

We also inform that the multimedia CD single "Alive" is being sold by Paypal in the band's myspace profile (www.myspace.com/urbantales).

The mentioned single has the participation of Nuno Flores from Corvos.

ALIVE

Hey guys!
Here´s a press release from the band management:

"A banda de rock gótico Urban Tales criou a canção ALIVE, colocou-a em CD e no próximo dia 19 de Novembro vai oferecê-la, publicamente, à Federação Nacional de Doenças Raras (FEDRA), na FNAC do Chiado, às 19H00.
Esta ideia, que nasceu há quase um ano - através do pedido da presidente da FEDRA, Paula Brito, e Costa para que os Urban Tales criassem o hino da associação - concretiza-se agora.
Assim, no próximo dia 19 de Novembro, será feita ma palestra sobre as doenças raras e os problemas de quem vive com estas patologias – doentes e familiares – dando-se depois a conhecer à comunicação social e a todos os convidados presentes o hino ALIVE, através da actuação, ao vivo, desta banda de Lisboa.
Todo o dinheiro conseguido com o CD – que vai ser posto à venda por 5 euros – reverte integralmente para a FEDRA e para os doentes vítimas de doenças raras."

Hope to see you there on November 19th...
Rock on!

Urban Tales