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November 1, 2016
Boston's Blues Rockers Mr. Airplane Man Relocate to Los Angeles
Margaret Garrett & Tara Mcmanus 
Mr. Airplane Man is Margaret Garrett on vocals and guitar and Tara McManus on drums, keyboard and vocals. The band started in the late '90s and almost immediately joined Morphine for a U.S. tour and recorded a self-titled EP with Mark Sandman (Morphine). They went on to join many more U.S. tours with artists like White Stripes, Detroit Cobras, The Reigning Sound, Holly GoLightly, Hot Snakes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blues Explosion, Dirtbombs, and many others.
Mr. Airplane Man released three albums and an EP on Sympathy for the Record Industry garnering high praises from press including Rolling Stone: “Bostonians Margaret Garrett and Tara McManus are deeply sensitive to the inborn ache of the blues. But Garrett’s guitar is the real salvation. It cuts and swings and explodes, crying.” The Los Angeles Times: “The two young women were playing white-hot, punk-inflected, juke joint blues as if they meant it, and they were doing it with nothing but a guitar and drums, wrenching every bit of soul and sound from their instruments.” 
Guitar Player: “Every riff, scream, moan, chord stab, solo, tribal groove, and rave-up is that real, and Garrett delivers thrilling and impassioned performances.” and Time Out New York: “The duo manages to make the now-familiar line-up of guitar and drums sound urgent again, and they spit out both gritty, saturated blue-rock and airy, almost Spectoresque pop with a quiet strength.” just to list a few. 
In addition to conquering the U.S. with their gutsy live show, they have successfully toured Europe and played two Peel Sessions on John Peel’s BBC radio show.Since re-forming the band after a few years hiatus, Margaret and Tara have been gigging around New England and Europe, writing new songs, and recording new material. In October 2015, Dirty Water Records released "The Lost Tapes, an album recorded at The Money Shot (with Bruce Watson of Fat Possum Records) in 1999 and had not been previously released. Music journalist Jeffrey Morgan put it in his Top 10 in The Village Voice.
This year has seen a recently released a new song called "Over That Hill," a slow burning scorcher, is out now on the Girlsville Records Cassette Day compilation titled The Wild Angels. Their new EP titled, Geneva Session, recorded in Geneva last summer which is out soon on Dirty Water Records.Coming up for early 2017 the band will release a raw, loose, off-the-rails performance captured live on tape in their rehearsal space. Of their recent recordings and shows the band confirms "The magic is still there."
Mr. Airplane Man's music has been featured in a variety of TV shows and films, including multiple episodes of The L Word and the film Crazy Eyes. Margaret created an original score for a scene in The L Word and the soundtrack for Noah Rosenstein’s Over the Coals . They recently placed songs in the TV series Hunters (NBC) and Graves (Epix) and are working on a number of upcoming film and TV projects. The band is currently in the process of relocating to Los Angeles in order to pursue more work in the film and television industry.
Mr. Airplane Man Live in Los Angeles this week!Thursday, November 3rd at Redwood Bar in downtown L.A.Doors 9pm // Tickets $7.00Saturday, November 5th at Permanent Records in Highland Park-Los AngelesSet time 6pm // FREE // All AgesSunday, November 6th at Cafe NELA in North East Los AngelesDoors 8:30 pm // Tickets $5
RUN THE JEWELS ANNOUNCE "RUN THE WORLD" TOUR
RUN THE JEWELS ANNOUNCE FIRST LEG OF 2017 "RUN THE WORLD" TOUR IN SUPPORT OF RTJ3 PLAYABLE RUN THE JEWELS CHARACTERS IN
GEARS OF WAR 4
AVAILABLE TODAY; PREVIEW HERE FIRST HEADLINING TOUR SINCE 2015 TO FEATURE SUPPORT FROM SPECIAL GUESTS THE GASLAMP KILLER, SPARK MASTER TAPE, & CUZ
As anticipation for their forthcoming RTJ3 album continues to mount, megalithic rap duo Run the Jewels have announced their first full scale North American headlining tour since 2015. The "Run the World" tour kicks off mid-January in Philadelphia and continues through to the end of February, with stops in veritably every major city in the US along the way. Support for the tour will be provided byBrainfeeder-affiliated hip hop experimentalist The Gaslamp Killer, mysterious underground MCSpark Master Tape, & longtime Killer Mike collaborator CUZ. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 4th at 10am local time (with exception of New York & St. Paul which go on sale at noon). More announcements detailing worldwide tour dates are expected in the near future.
In conjunction with the tour announce, Gears of War have unveiled their previously announcedplayable Run the Jewels characters for Versus Multiplayer and Horde 3.0.This is the first time two recording artists have been reimagined as playable characters in the Gears of War franchise or any Xbox game. The brotherhood that Killer Mike and El-P represent as Run the Jewels perfectly matches the soul of Gears, which at its core is about that brotherhood and never fighting alone. Available for purchase as part of the Run the Jewels Air Drop, both El-P and Killer Mike have lent their voices, likeness and 'can't nobody save us but us' attitude to Gears of War 4 continuing their partnership with Xbox and The Coalition. Also available alongside the playable El-P and Killer Mike within the Run the Jewels Air Drop are 18 themed weapon skins, emblems and bounties to ensure fans have the appropriate levels of swagger to add to their Gears of War 4 Versus Multiplayer and Horde experience. For more Run the Jewels goodness, check out Killer Mike and El-P's reaction to seeing their in-game likeness at the BAIT shop in Seattle here: https://youtu.be/nhB4nbQR4wQ This all comes on the heels of a big week for the duo, who debuted "Talk To Me," the first single fromRTJ3, to universal acclaim, and guested on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in a raunchy new Halloween anthem "The Halloween Wiggle." LISTEN TO "TALK TO ME"https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/rtj WATCH RTJ & STEPHEN COLBERT PERFORM "THE HALLOWEEN WIGGLE"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPqY0emHmLY
"RUN THE WORLD" TOUR DATES*with special guests The Gaslamp Killer, Spark Master Tape, & Cuz 1.11.17 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory1.12.17 Washington, DC @ Echostage1.13.17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre1.14.17 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues1.16.17 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall1.17.17 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works1.18.17 Norfolk, VA @ The NorVA1.20.17 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz1.21.17 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle1.23.17 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theatre1.24.17 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live1.25.17 Miami, FL @ The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason1.29.17 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre1.30.17 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park2.1.17 Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall2.2.17 San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic Auditorium2.3.17 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater2.5.17 Arcata, CA @ Van Duzer Theatre at Humboldt State University2.6.17 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom2.7.17 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo2.8.17 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre2.10.17 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex2.11.17 Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium2.13.17 Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland2.14.17 St. Paul, MN @ Myth2.15.17 Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theater2.17.17 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre2.18.17 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre2.19.17 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall2.21.17 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis2.22.17 Portland, ME @ State Theatre2.24.17 Boston, MA @ House Of Blues2.25.17 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
As anticipation for their forthcoming RTJ3 album continues to mount, megalithic rap duo Run the Jewels have announced their first full scale North American headlining tour since 2015. The "Run the World" tour kicks off mid-January in Philadelphia and continues through to the end of February, with stops in veritably every major city in the US along the way. Support for the tour will be provided byBrainfeeder-affiliated hip hop experimentalist The Gaslamp Killer, mysterious underground MCSpark Master Tape, & longtime Killer Mike collaborator CUZ. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 4th at 10am local time (with exception of New York & St. Paul which go on sale at noon). More announcements detailing worldwide tour dates are expected in the near future.
In conjunction with the tour announce, Gears of War have unveiled their previously announcedplayable Run the Jewels characters for Versus Multiplayer and Horde 3.0.This is the first time two recording artists have been reimagined as playable characters in the Gears of War franchise or any Xbox game. The brotherhood that Killer Mike and El-P represent as Run the Jewels perfectly matches the soul of Gears, which at its core is about that brotherhood and never fighting alone. Available for purchase as part of the Run the Jewels Air Drop, both El-P and Killer Mike have lent their voices, likeness and 'can't nobody save us but us' attitude to Gears of War 4 continuing their partnership with Xbox and The Coalition. Also available alongside the playable El-P and Killer Mike within the Run the Jewels Air Drop are 18 themed weapon skins, emblems and bounties to ensure fans have the appropriate levels of swagger to add to their Gears of War 4 Versus Multiplayer and Horde experience. For more Run the Jewels goodness, check out Killer Mike and El-P's reaction to seeing their in-game likeness at the BAIT shop in Seattle here: https://youtu.be/nhB4nbQR4wQ This all comes on the heels of a big week for the duo, who debuted "Talk To Me," the first single fromRTJ3, to universal acclaim, and guested on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in a raunchy new Halloween anthem "The Halloween Wiggle." LISTEN TO "TALK TO ME"https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/rtj WATCH RTJ & STEPHEN COLBERT PERFORM "THE HALLOWEEN WIGGLE"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPqY0emHmLY
"RUN THE WORLD" TOUR DATES*with special guests The Gaslamp Killer, Spark Master Tape, & Cuz 1.11.17 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory1.12.17 Washington, DC @ Echostage1.13.17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre1.14.17 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues1.16.17 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall1.17.17 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works1.18.17 Norfolk, VA @ The NorVA1.20.17 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz1.21.17 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle1.23.17 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theatre1.24.17 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live1.25.17 Miami, FL @ The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason1.29.17 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre1.30.17 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park2.1.17 Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall2.2.17 San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic Auditorium2.3.17 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater2.5.17 Arcata, CA @ Van Duzer Theatre at Humboldt State University2.6.17 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom2.7.17 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo2.8.17 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre2.10.17 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex2.11.17 Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium2.13.17 Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland2.14.17 St. Paul, MN @ Myth2.15.17 Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theater2.17.17 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre2.18.17 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre2.19.17 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall2.21.17 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis2.22.17 Portland, ME @ State Theatre2.24.17 Boston, MA @ House Of Blues2.25.17 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
The Afghan Whigs to perform Black Love at two charity events this December (NOLA, LA)
THE AFGHAN WHIGS TO PERFORMBLACK LOVE IN ITS ENTIRETY AT TWO SPECIAL CHARITY EVENTSNew Orleans – The Civic
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Los Angeles – Teragram Ballroom
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Tickets Go On Sale THIS Friday, November 4th
November 1, 2017 – It is with a heavy heart that The Afghan Whigsare announcing two special performances of their classic album Black Love in its entirety in New Orleans and Los Angeles along with performances from other artists.
Long-time Afghan Whigs, Gutter Twins and Twilight Singers guitarist Dave Rosser was recently diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer.
“Dave Rosser has been my close friend and bandmate for over a decade now,” Greg Dulli commented. “By doing these shows for him we hope to ease any financial stress he may face as he pursues treatment to combat his illness. 100% of the proceeds for these shows will go to his medical care. I’m hopeful that folks will come out and show their support for Dave who will be performing with us.”
The New Orleans show will take place at The Civic Theatre onSaturday December 10th and feature performances from: The Afghan Whigs, Mark Lanegan, Ani DiFranco, Morning 40 Federation, King James & The Special Men, and C.C. Adcock & The Lafayette Marquis along with special guests.
The Los Angeles show will take place on December 14th at The Teragram Ballroom featuring sets from: The Afghan Whigs, Mark Lanegan, Moby and Carina Round.
Tickets for both shows will go on sale this Friday.
For fans who cannot attend either show, we encourage you to donate to Dave Rosser’s medical fund here:https://www.gofundme.com/daverosser
The Molochs Share "No More Cryin" Video On Brooklyn Vegan | 'America's Velvet Glory' LP Out 1/13
The Molochs Share "No More Cryin'" Video Via Brooklyn Vegan
On Tour This Fall With The Mystery Lights
New Album 'America's Velvet Glory' Out 1/13 Via
Innovative Leisure
WATCH & SHARE: The Molochs - "No More Cryin'"
The Molochs have premiered the video for their first single "No More Cryin' " on Brooklyn Vegan. "No More Cryin' " is the first single off their upcoming album 'America's Velvet Glory', which will be released 1/13/17 via Innovative Leisure.First, let’s meet Moloch. You remember him, right? The ancient god, the child eater, the demander of sacrifice, the villain in Ginsberg’s Howl(and also real life) and now the personal antagonist of singer and songwriter Lucas Fitzsimons, who named his band the Molochs because he knew he’d have to make sacrifices to get what he needed, and because he always wanted a reminder of the Ginsbergian monster he’d be fighting against. And so this is how you make a record right now: you fight for every piece, and when Moloch takes apart your relationships and career potential and leaves you sleeping on couches or living in terrifying apartments and just about depleted from awful people involving you in their awful decisions, you grab a bottle of wine (and laugh at the cliché) and put together another song. And once you do that eleven hard-won times in total, you get a record like America’s Velvet Glory: honest, urgent, desperate and fearless because of it. Fitzsimons came to his calling in an appropriately mythic way, born in a historic city not far from Buenos Aires and raised in L.A.’s South Bay—just outside of Inglewood—where he was immersed in the hip-hop hits on local radio. (Westside Connection!) The summer d before he started middle school, a close friend got an electric guitar, and Fitzsimons felt an enirresistible inexplicable power: “I'd go back home and I’d look up guitar chords on the internet—even though I had no guitar—and just imagine how I WOULD play them. I was slowly getting obsessed.” When he was 12, his parents took him back to Argentina, and on the first night, he discovered a long-forgotten almost-broken classical guitar in the basement of his ancestral home: “It sounds made-up, but it’s true,” he says. “I didn't put the guitar down once that whole trip—took it with me everywhere and played and played. When I got back to L.A., I bought my first guitar practically as the plane was landing.” This started a long line of bands and a long experience of learning to perform in public, as Fitzsimons honed intentions and ideas and tried to figure out why that guitar seemed so important. After a trip to India in 2012, he returned renewed and ready to start again, scrapping his band to lead something new and uncompromising. This was the true start of the Molochs: “It didn't make any sense to not do everything exactly the way I wanted to do it,” he says. “I was so shy and introverted that singing publicly sounded like a nightmare come true. But I didn't have a choice—I heard something inside of me and I needed to be the one to express it.” The first album Forgetter Blues was released with Fitzsimons’ guitarist/organist and longtime bandmate Ryan Foster in early 2013 on his own label—named after a slightly infamous intersection in their then-home of Long Beach—and was twelve songs of anxious garage-y proto-punk-y folk-y rock, Modern Lovers demos and Velvet Underground arcana as fuel and foundation both. It deserved to go farther than it did, which sadly wasn’t very far. But it sharpened Fitzsimons and his songwriting, and after three pent-up years of creativity, he was ready to burst. So he decided to record a new album in the spirit of the first, and in the spirit of everything that the Molochs made so far: “I wanted to spend less time figuring out HOW we were gonna do something and just actually do it.” The result is America’s Velvet Glory, recorded with engineer Jonny Bell at effortless (says Fitzsimons) sessions at Long Beach’s JazzCats studio. (Also incubator for Molochs’ new labelmates Wall of Death and Hanni El Khatib.) It starts with an anxious electric minor-key melody and ends on a last lonesome unresolved organ riff, and in between comes beauty, doubt, loss, hate and even a moments or two of peace. There are flashes of 60s garage rock—like the Sunset Strip ’66 stormer “No More Cryin’” or the “Little Black Egg”-style heartwarmer-slash-breaker “The One I Love”—but like one of Foster’s and Fitzsimons’ favorites the Jacobites, the Molochs are taking the past apart, not trying to recreate it. You can hear where songs bend, where voices break, where guitars start to shiver and when strings are about to snap; on “You And Me,” you can almost hear Lou Reed’s ghost call for a solo, and on “I Don’t Love You,” you get that subway-sound guitar and find out what happens when Jonathan Richman’s G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N goes wrong. And of course there’s the charismatic chaos of bootleg basement-tape Dylan—always Dylan, says Fitzsimons—and the locked-room psychedelia of Syd Barrett, especially on “Charlie’s Lips,” Fitzsimons’ ode to—or antidote to—those times when he felt the bleakness completely: “Then a bird lands on a branch nearby, you hear leaves fluttering, you hear a child laughing … all of a sudden things don't seem so bad anymore.”
So Moloch might still be out there, devouring his sacrifices, but the Molochs are still fighting, too. And that’s why Fitzsimons picked the band name—it’s so he remembers what he’s up against. He’s not celebrating the destroyer of youth and individuality and creativity, he says: “I’m just keeping him in sight so that he doesn't win.” – Christopher ZieglerTOUR DATES:
Nov 6 - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Nov 7 - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Nov 8 - Starline Social Club - Oakland, CA W/ Night Beats, The Mystery Lights
Nov 18 - Aceregomi - Pomona, CA W/ Night Beats, The Mystery Lights
Nov 20 - The Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Nov 22 - The Bootleg - Los Angeles, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Dec 9 - Pappy + Harriet's - Pioneertown, CA W /Hanni El Khatib, The Buttertones
On Tour This Fall With The Mystery Lights
New Album 'America's Velvet Glory' Out 1/13 Via
Innovative Leisure
WATCH & SHARE: The Molochs - "No More Cryin'"The Molochs have premiered the video for their first single "No More Cryin' " on Brooklyn Vegan. "No More Cryin' " is the first single off their upcoming album 'America's Velvet Glory', which will be released 1/13/17 via Innovative Leisure.First, let’s meet Moloch. You remember him, right? The ancient god, the child eater, the demander of sacrifice, the villain in Ginsberg’s Howl(and also real life) and now the personal antagonist of singer and songwriter Lucas Fitzsimons, who named his band the Molochs because he knew he’d have to make sacrifices to get what he needed, and because he always wanted a reminder of the Ginsbergian monster he’d be fighting against. And so this is how you make a record right now: you fight for every piece, and when Moloch takes apart your relationships and career potential and leaves you sleeping on couches or living in terrifying apartments and just about depleted from awful people involving you in their awful decisions, you grab a bottle of wine (and laugh at the cliché) and put together another song. And once you do that eleven hard-won times in total, you get a record like America’s Velvet Glory: honest, urgent, desperate and fearless because of it. Fitzsimons came to his calling in an appropriately mythic way, born in a historic city not far from Buenos Aires and raised in L.A.’s South Bay—just outside of Inglewood—where he was immersed in the hip-hop hits on local radio. (Westside Connection!) The summer d before he started middle school, a close friend got an electric guitar, and Fitzsimons felt an enirresistible inexplicable power: “I'd go back home and I’d look up guitar chords on the internet—even though I had no guitar—and just imagine how I WOULD play them. I was slowly getting obsessed.” When he was 12, his parents took him back to Argentina, and on the first night, he discovered a long-forgotten almost-broken classical guitar in the basement of his ancestral home: “It sounds made-up, but it’s true,” he says. “I didn't put the guitar down once that whole trip—took it with me everywhere and played and played. When I got back to L.A., I bought my first guitar practically as the plane was landing.” This started a long line of bands and a long experience of learning to perform in public, as Fitzsimons honed intentions and ideas and tried to figure out why that guitar seemed so important. After a trip to India in 2012, he returned renewed and ready to start again, scrapping his band to lead something new and uncompromising. This was the true start of the Molochs: “It didn't make any sense to not do everything exactly the way I wanted to do it,” he says. “I was so shy and introverted that singing publicly sounded like a nightmare come true. But I didn't have a choice—I heard something inside of me and I needed to be the one to express it.” The first album Forgetter Blues was released with Fitzsimons’ guitarist/organist and longtime bandmate Ryan Foster in early 2013 on his own label—named after a slightly infamous intersection in their then-home of Long Beach—and was twelve songs of anxious garage-y proto-punk-y folk-y rock, Modern Lovers demos and Velvet Underground arcana as fuel and foundation both. It deserved to go farther than it did, which sadly wasn’t very far. But it sharpened Fitzsimons and his songwriting, and after three pent-up years of creativity, he was ready to burst. So he decided to record a new album in the spirit of the first, and in the spirit of everything that the Molochs made so far: “I wanted to spend less time figuring out HOW we were gonna do something and just actually do it.” The result is America’s Velvet Glory, recorded with engineer Jonny Bell at effortless (says Fitzsimons) sessions at Long Beach’s JazzCats studio. (Also incubator for Molochs’ new labelmates Wall of Death and Hanni El Khatib.) It starts with an anxious electric minor-key melody and ends on a last lonesome unresolved organ riff, and in between comes beauty, doubt, loss, hate and even a moments or two of peace. There are flashes of 60s garage rock—like the Sunset Strip ’66 stormer “No More Cryin’” or the “Little Black Egg”-style heartwarmer-slash-breaker “The One I Love”—but like one of Foster’s and Fitzsimons’ favorites the Jacobites, the Molochs are taking the past apart, not trying to recreate it. You can hear where songs bend, where voices break, where guitars start to shiver and when strings are about to snap; on “You And Me,” you can almost hear Lou Reed’s ghost call for a solo, and on “I Don’t Love You,” you get that subway-sound guitar and find out what happens when Jonathan Richman’s G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N goes wrong. And of course there’s the charismatic chaos of bootleg basement-tape Dylan—always Dylan, says Fitzsimons—and the locked-room psychedelia of Syd Barrett, especially on “Charlie’s Lips,” Fitzsimons’ ode to—or antidote to—those times when he felt the bleakness completely: “Then a bird lands on a branch nearby, you hear leaves fluttering, you hear a child laughing … all of a sudden things don't seem so bad anymore.”
So Moloch might still be out there, devouring his sacrifices, but the Molochs are still fighting, too. And that’s why Fitzsimons picked the band name—it’s so he remembers what he’s up against. He’s not celebrating the destroyer of youth and individuality and creativity, he says: “I’m just keeping him in sight so that he doesn't win.” – Christopher ZieglerTOUR DATES:
Nov 6 - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Nov 7 - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Nov 8 - Starline Social Club - Oakland, CA W/ Night Beats, The Mystery Lights
Nov 18 - Aceregomi - Pomona, CA W/ Night Beats, The Mystery Lights
Nov 20 - The Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Nov 22 - The Bootleg - Los Angeles, CA W/ The Mystery Lights
Dec 9 - Pappy + Harriet's - Pioneertown, CA W /Hanni El Khatib, The Buttertones
Mega Bog Announce New Album "Happy Together," Premiere 1st Single "Fwee" on NPR
MEGA BOG ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
HAPPY TOGETHER
OUT FEBRUARY 3 ON NICEY MUSIC
PREMIERE FIRST SINGLE "FWEE" ON NPR
Photo credit: Adam Gundersheimer
Mega Bog, the experimental pop project of New York's Erin Birgy, will release new album Happy Together on February 3 via Nicey Music. NPR's Songs We Love premiered the record's first single "Fwee" today and said the song "echoes the liberationist vibe of the West Coast's hippie heyday... her surprisingly fleet-footed seven-piece evokes a classic-rock band blissing out by a glimmering shoreline. Idly hypnotic guitar and deep vocal harmonies toy with the intensity, until 'Fwee' makes literal Birgy's observation that 'Fweedom is certainly useful / Pouring love in a musical being.'"
LISTEN TO "FWEE"
Mega Bog is the moniker of song-dribbler Erin Birgy, a Pacific Northwest rodeo child with an unmistakable laugh who was allegedly cursed upon conception. Over the past 8 years the band has stretched and wandered in a crescendo towards musical freedom. Now based in New York City, Birgy has adopted a band of wiggly jazz cartoons lifted from bands like Big Thief, iji, Big Eater, Causings, Hand Habits, Heatwarmer and others.
Melodies always lush, erotic and free. Chords always dissonant, abstract and evolutionary. On their 2013 album Gone Banana, Bog settled into their homemade cloud of pop and jazz. Spreading the discs around the world over countless tours of dim zones. On their new bug, Happy Together, Mega Bog leapfrogs further into the storm. Dizzying fusion of lounge, pop and bouncing rocks under poetic tantrums of love gone all the way wrong. Listen closer.
MEGA BOG,
HAPPY TOGETHER
FEBRUARY 3, 2017NICEY MUSIC
PRE-ORDER
1. Diznee2. She's History3. Marianne4. TV MAC5. 1920146. London7. Modern Companion8. Worst Way9. Blackout10. Black Rose11. Fwee
OUT FEBRUARY 3 ON NICEY MUSIC
PREMIERE FIRST SINGLE "FWEE" ON NPR
Photo credit: Adam GundersheimerMega Bog, the experimental pop project of New York's Erin Birgy, will release new album Happy Together on February 3 via Nicey Music. NPR's Songs We Love premiered the record's first single "Fwee" today and said the song "echoes the liberationist vibe of the West Coast's hippie heyday... her surprisingly fleet-footed seven-piece evokes a classic-rock band blissing out by a glimmering shoreline. Idly hypnotic guitar and deep vocal harmonies toy with the intensity, until 'Fwee' makes literal Birgy's observation that 'Fweedom is certainly useful / Pouring love in a musical being.'"
LISTEN TO "FWEE"
Mega Bog is the moniker of song-dribbler Erin Birgy, a Pacific Northwest rodeo child with an unmistakable laugh who was allegedly cursed upon conception. Over the past 8 years the band has stretched and wandered in a crescendo towards musical freedom. Now based in New York City, Birgy has adopted a band of wiggly jazz cartoons lifted from bands like Big Thief, iji, Big Eater, Causings, Hand Habits, Heatwarmer and others.
Melodies always lush, erotic and free. Chords always dissonant, abstract and evolutionary. On their 2013 album Gone Banana, Bog settled into their homemade cloud of pop and jazz. Spreading the discs around the world over countless tours of dim zones. On their new bug, Happy Together, Mega Bog leapfrogs further into the storm. Dizzying fusion of lounge, pop and bouncing rocks under poetic tantrums of love gone all the way wrong. Listen closer.
MEGA BOG,
HAPPY TOGETHER
FEBRUARY 3, 2017NICEY MUSIC
PRE-ORDER
1. Diznee2. She's History3. Marianne4. TV MAC5. 1920146. London7. Modern Companion8. Worst Way9. Blackout10. Black Rose11. Fwee
Arrows Of Love share new single, 'Beast' out Dec 9th via Tape Records
Arrows Of LoveListen to new single ‘Beast’ HEREout on December 9th via Tape Records
[image error] “Suitably riotous” – Wonderland
“Alongside their trademark psychotic heaviness, there’s a sense of maturity about them now.” – NME
“Everything’s F*cked stands tall with the best of them. Its eleven tracks could quickly become your soundtrack to morning, noon, and night.” – The Line Of Best Fit
Following the pulsating grit of their last single, ‘Toad’, Arrows Of Love are set to release ‘Beast’, a full-throttle triumphant blitz, out on December 8th via Tape Records. This noise-doom anthem fuzzes and spits while frontman Nimaapproximates a swaggering demigod as if Geddy Lee was howling into a maelstrom kicked up by Sleep. At other moments the mix of mayhem and heaviness brings to mind the likes of Harry Pussy and Black Sabbath playing at the same time.
A precursor to their anticipated second LP, ‘PRODUCT’, ‘Beast’ was produced by Mikko Gordon (Thom Yorke, Gaz Combes), in the studio he built himself at Goldsmiths University, and mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac.
During the last few months Arrows of Love stepped away from their album recording process to fight a campaign against the ex-Olympic Authority LLDC. With their own warehouse community threatened with demolition as London continues to lose parts of its soul to gentrification, Vittoria Wharf hit local and worldwide news when residents stood up to fight closure. The band and a slew of local artists spearheaded the defence of what i-D called “a thriving centre for cultural and artistic output” during the #savevittoriawharf campaign.
‘Beast’ is a song built for speed. Its anthemic forward march is a sensibility that runs counter to the over-stuffed, of-the-moment world we live in and its context runs parallel with the bands defiant nature. “A lot of people have asked me if I’ve written any songs about this fight with the corporation” says Nima, “This song was actually written over a year ago, but as we've been playing and recording it this summer the lyrics turned out to be prophetically relevant”. Proving that Arrows Of Love are one of a rare breed of bands that stand by what they preach when the moment calls.
The 5-piece led by co-writers Nima and Nuha recently found themselves backed by the UK's highly competitive PRS Momentum Music Fund. After accepting an invite from CMJ Music Marathon the band confirmed a string of US dates, followed by a headline London show with Parallel Lines before the album recording began.
Arrows Of Love are, above all, a live phenomenon. Originally aligned with the early East London wave of bohemian rock bands, it was their fiercely independent and creative drive that has taken them across the globe, to the likes of SXSWand End of the Road, to sharing stages with the likes of The Fall, Buzzcocks, British Sea Power, 80’s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The King Blues and many more. It’s on stage where London's own Arrows truly hit home.
Now, gearing up for the release of ‘PRODUCT’, the band are set to prove themselves the real deal. Drawing comparisons to the discordant, emotive musicianship of Sonic Youth to the raw power of McClusky, this second LP sees a band fully diversified, ready to release something truly unique.
Photography by Jamie Morrison
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Live dates –
December 7th, Supersonic – ParisDecember 8th, The Lexington – London
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“Alongside their trademark psychotic heaviness, there’s a sense of maturity about them now.” – NME
“Everything’s F*cked stands tall with the best of them. Its eleven tracks could quickly become your soundtrack to morning, noon, and night.” – The Line Of Best Fit
Following the pulsating grit of their last single, ‘Toad’, Arrows Of Love are set to release ‘Beast’, a full-throttle triumphant blitz, out on December 8th via Tape Records. This noise-doom anthem fuzzes and spits while frontman Nimaapproximates a swaggering demigod as if Geddy Lee was howling into a maelstrom kicked up by Sleep. At other moments the mix of mayhem and heaviness brings to mind the likes of Harry Pussy and Black Sabbath playing at the same time.
A precursor to their anticipated second LP, ‘PRODUCT’, ‘Beast’ was produced by Mikko Gordon (Thom Yorke, Gaz Combes), in the studio he built himself at Goldsmiths University, and mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac.
During the last few months Arrows of Love stepped away from their album recording process to fight a campaign against the ex-Olympic Authority LLDC. With their own warehouse community threatened with demolition as London continues to lose parts of its soul to gentrification, Vittoria Wharf hit local and worldwide news when residents stood up to fight closure. The band and a slew of local artists spearheaded the defence of what i-D called “a thriving centre for cultural and artistic output” during the #savevittoriawharf campaign.
‘Beast’ is a song built for speed. Its anthemic forward march is a sensibility that runs counter to the over-stuffed, of-the-moment world we live in and its context runs parallel with the bands defiant nature. “A lot of people have asked me if I’ve written any songs about this fight with the corporation” says Nima, “This song was actually written over a year ago, but as we've been playing and recording it this summer the lyrics turned out to be prophetically relevant”. Proving that Arrows Of Love are one of a rare breed of bands that stand by what they preach when the moment calls.
The 5-piece led by co-writers Nima and Nuha recently found themselves backed by the UK's highly competitive PRS Momentum Music Fund. After accepting an invite from CMJ Music Marathon the band confirmed a string of US dates, followed by a headline London show with Parallel Lines before the album recording began.
Arrows Of Love are, above all, a live phenomenon. Originally aligned with the early East London wave of bohemian rock bands, it was their fiercely independent and creative drive that has taken them across the globe, to the likes of SXSWand End of the Road, to sharing stages with the likes of The Fall, Buzzcocks, British Sea Power, 80’s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The King Blues and many more. It’s on stage where London's own Arrows truly hit home.
Now, gearing up for the release of ‘PRODUCT’, the band are set to prove themselves the real deal. Drawing comparisons to the discordant, emotive musicianship of Sonic Youth to the raw power of McClusky, this second LP sees a band fully diversified, ready to release something truly unique.
Photography by Jamie Morrison
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Live dates –
December 7th, Supersonic – ParisDecember 8th, The Lexington – London
Man Of The World - The Peter Green Story DVD
Man Of the World - The Peter Green Storycoming to home video on November 18thThe incredible story of the man who formed Fleetwood Mac
After replacing the legendary Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Peter went on to form Peter Green'sFleetwood Mac, one of the most successful bands to come out of Britain in the 60's. Peter's genius on the guitar was matched by the songs he wrote including Black Magic Woman, later a huge debut hit for Santana, and the supernatural and sublime instrumental Albatross, as well as the classic Oh Well.
The film traces that early success, explores Peter's drug use and his eternal spiral into schizophrenia. The film also examines how the treatment he received (Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT) prolonged his illness and extended absence from the music scene.
The story continues with Peter's fragile mental and artistic recovery, his return to the recording studio and live music scene in the mid 1990's that saw his most positive creative output for many years. It portrays an artist who has now come to express his feelings, not just through the guitar music he still loves, but also his art and photography.
The film contains extensive and rare archive footage of live and studio performances, stills and original in-depth interviews with Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Mike Vernon, (legendary producer of the original Fleetwood Mac "Blue Horizons" albums), Noel Gallagher, John Mayall,Dennis Keane (road manager), Martin Celmins, (Peter's official biographer), Carlos Santana,Jeremy Spencer, (the original Fleetwood Mac guitarist) and many others who were fortunate to work with or know this extraordinary Man Of the World .
The DVD can be ordered at the MVD Shop or on AmazonHi Res Cover Art: http://mvdb2b.com/i/300dpi/MVD9484D.jpg
Product Details
Format: DVD
SKU: MVD9484D
UPC: 760137948490
Street Date: 11/18/16
PreBook Date: 10/14/16
Label: HENRY HADAWAY ORGANIZATION »
Genre: Pop/Rock
Run Time: 150 mins
Number of Discs: 1
Audio: STEREO
Year of Production: 2009
Director: Steve Graham
Producers: Steve Graham
Actors: Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Noel Gallagher, John Mayall, John McVie, Carlos Santana
Box Lot: 30
Territory: NORTH AMERICA
Language: English
After replacing the legendary Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Peter went on to form Peter Green'sFleetwood Mac, one of the most successful bands to come out of Britain in the 60's. Peter's genius on the guitar was matched by the songs he wrote including Black Magic Woman, later a huge debut hit for Santana, and the supernatural and sublime instrumental Albatross, as well as the classic Oh Well.The film traces that early success, explores Peter's drug use and his eternal spiral into schizophrenia. The film also examines how the treatment he received (Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT) prolonged his illness and extended absence from the music scene.
The story continues with Peter's fragile mental and artistic recovery, his return to the recording studio and live music scene in the mid 1990's that saw his most positive creative output for many years. It portrays an artist who has now come to express his feelings, not just through the guitar music he still loves, but also his art and photography.
The film contains extensive and rare archive footage of live and studio performances, stills and original in-depth interviews with Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Mike Vernon, (legendary producer of the original Fleetwood Mac "Blue Horizons" albums), Noel Gallagher, John Mayall,Dennis Keane (road manager), Martin Celmins, (Peter's official biographer), Carlos Santana,Jeremy Spencer, (the original Fleetwood Mac guitarist) and many others who were fortunate to work with or know this extraordinary Man Of the World .
The DVD can be ordered at the MVD Shop or on AmazonHi Res Cover Art: http://mvdb2b.com/i/300dpi/MVD9484D.jpg
Product Details
Format: DVD
SKU: MVD9484D
UPC: 760137948490
Street Date: 11/18/16
PreBook Date: 10/14/16
Label: HENRY HADAWAY ORGANIZATION »
Genre: Pop/Rock
Run Time: 150 mins
Number of Discs: 1
Audio: STEREO
Year of Production: 2009
Director: Steve Graham
Producers: Steve Graham
Actors: Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Noel Gallagher, John Mayall, John McVie, Carlos Santana
Box Lot: 30
Territory: NORTH AMERICA
Language: English
Lee Fields & The Expressions | SPECIAL NIGHT debuts at Billboard ahead of Nov 4 release
LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS
SPECIAL NIGHT STREAMS EXCLUSIVELY VIA BILLBOARD AHEAD OF NOV 4 RELEASE
TOUR STARTS FRIDAY AT RAY-BAN X BOILER ROOM WEEKENDER
WITH KAMASI WASHINGTON
“[Lee Fields & The Expressions] continue to evolve while still remaining true to their 60s roots”
- Billboard
"While others of his era burned out or faded away, Fields is still here,
his voice now more passionate and ecstatic than ever"
- Noisey
New York, NY (November 1, 2016) – Lee Fields & The Expressions will release Special Night thisFriday, November 4 via Big Crown Records and today, Billboard has the exclusive stream where you can witness the band's incomparable soul-sound musicianship ahead of the release. Last week, Lee stopped by the Billboard offices for a rare acoustic performance that was broadcast live via Facebook and archived HERE. Special Night is available for pre-order at Big Crown and all digital retailers HERE.
Produced by Leon Michels (El Michels Affair, The Arcs) and Thomas Brenneck (Daptone), and brilliantly performed by the Expressions, Special Night was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely to tape in three weeks at the legendary Diamond Mine Studios in Queens, NY. A sense of urgency, equal parts fun and inspiration, and a decent amount of beer and Jack Daniels were the driving forces during the sessions that produced Lee Fields & The Expressions latest offering.
The album's title track debuted this summer at Noisey and Kyle Meredith at WPFK says, “’Special Night’ should produce a few babies named Lee around nine months from now.” The current single is album standout “Make The World”, which works both as militaristic funk and a cautionary tale about the health of the planet. Paste says, "If a red hot, core-stirring song is what will inspire passive citizens to fight for social and political justice, then Fields is the man for the job."Listen to Special Night in full HERE
"Make The World" at Big Crown | Soundcloud | YouTube | Spotify | iTunes | Apple Music
"Special Night" at Big Crown | Soundcloud | Spotify | iTunes | Apple Music
Fields kicks off his album release tour this Friday at the Ray-Ban x Boiler Room Weekender with Kamasi Washington before heading south and over to the west coast. Fields and his six-piece band return to NYC for a headlining show at Irving Plaza on Saturday, January 7 with Big Crown label-mates Lady Wray and Paul & The Tall Trees.
“I feel that every human being’s purpose is to do what their inner voice says to do,” says Lee Fields. “And my inner voice, my driving force, wants me to put out music and keeping making better records.”
Whether tackling a tune about love lost, found, or broader topics like the state of humanity, Lee has a very unique and honest perspective that is on display with each unforgettable performance. Also, The Expressions have never been sharper, they, along with Lee, have created a collection of music on Special Night which holds court with pretty much any soul music that came before it.
Lee Fields & The Expressions Tour Dates:
Nov 04 - Lake Harmony, PA - The Ray Ban + Boiler Room Weekender *
Nov 11 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk
Nov 12 - Dallas, TX - Untapped Festival
Nov 30 - San Diego, CA - Belly Up Tavern (TIX) &
Dec 01 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey (TIX) &
Dec 02 - Pomona, CA - Glass House (TIX) &
Dec 03 - San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine (TIX) &
Dec 05 - Portland, OR - Aladdin (TIX) &
Dec 06 - Seattle, WA - Neumos (TIX) &
Dec 07 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore (TIX)
Jan 07 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza (TIX) #
* w/ Kamasi Washington
& w/ Lady Wray
# w/ Lady Wray & Paul & The Tall Trees
SPECIAL NIGHT STREAMS EXCLUSIVELY VIA BILLBOARD AHEAD OF NOV 4 RELEASE
TOUR STARTS FRIDAY AT RAY-BAN X BOILER ROOM WEEKENDER
WITH KAMASI WASHINGTON
“[Lee Fields & The Expressions] continue to evolve while still remaining true to their 60s roots”
- Billboard
"While others of his era burned out or faded away, Fields is still here,
his voice now more passionate and ecstatic than ever"
- Noisey
New York, NY (November 1, 2016) – Lee Fields & The Expressions will release Special Night thisFriday, November 4 via Big Crown Records and today, Billboard has the exclusive stream where you can witness the band's incomparable soul-sound musicianship ahead of the release. Last week, Lee stopped by the Billboard offices for a rare acoustic performance that was broadcast live via Facebook and archived HERE. Special Night is available for pre-order at Big Crown and all digital retailers HERE.
Produced by Leon Michels (El Michels Affair, The Arcs) and Thomas Brenneck (Daptone), and brilliantly performed by the Expressions, Special Night was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely to tape in three weeks at the legendary Diamond Mine Studios in Queens, NY. A sense of urgency, equal parts fun and inspiration, and a decent amount of beer and Jack Daniels were the driving forces during the sessions that produced Lee Fields & The Expressions latest offering.
The album's title track debuted this summer at Noisey and Kyle Meredith at WPFK says, “’Special Night’ should produce a few babies named Lee around nine months from now.” The current single is album standout “Make The World”, which works both as militaristic funk and a cautionary tale about the health of the planet. Paste says, "If a red hot, core-stirring song is what will inspire passive citizens to fight for social and political justice, then Fields is the man for the job."Listen to Special Night in full HERE
"Make The World" at Big Crown | Soundcloud | YouTube | Spotify | iTunes | Apple Music
"Special Night" at Big Crown | Soundcloud | Spotify | iTunes | Apple Music
Fields kicks off his album release tour this Friday at the Ray-Ban x Boiler Room Weekender with Kamasi Washington before heading south and over to the west coast. Fields and his six-piece band return to NYC for a headlining show at Irving Plaza on Saturday, January 7 with Big Crown label-mates Lady Wray and Paul & The Tall Trees.
“I feel that every human being’s purpose is to do what their inner voice says to do,” says Lee Fields. “And my inner voice, my driving force, wants me to put out music and keeping making better records.”
Whether tackling a tune about love lost, found, or broader topics like the state of humanity, Lee has a very unique and honest perspective that is on display with each unforgettable performance. Also, The Expressions have never been sharper, they, along with Lee, have created a collection of music on Special Night which holds court with pretty much any soul music that came before it.
Lee Fields & The Expressions Tour Dates:
Nov 04 - Lake Harmony, PA - The Ray Ban + Boiler Room Weekender *
Nov 11 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk
Nov 12 - Dallas, TX - Untapped Festival
Nov 30 - San Diego, CA - Belly Up Tavern (TIX) &
Dec 01 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey (TIX) &
Dec 02 - Pomona, CA - Glass House (TIX) &
Dec 03 - San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine (TIX) &
Dec 05 - Portland, OR - Aladdin (TIX) &
Dec 06 - Seattle, WA - Neumos (TIX) &
Dec 07 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore (TIX)
Jan 07 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza (TIX) #
* w/ Kamasi Washington
& w/ Lady Wray
# w/ Lady Wray & Paul & The Tall Trees
Tove Lo Debuts Short Film "Fairy Dust" - Lady Wood Out Now!
TOVE LO RELEASES SHORT FILM “FAIRY DUST” WORLDWIDETICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR TOVE LO’s 11-CITY “LADY WOOD TOUR” OF U.S. AND CANADA, OPENING FEB. 6TH IN SEATTLE TOVE LO TO JOIN iHEART RADIO JINGLE BALL TOUR FOR DEC. DATES IN 7 U.S. CITIES
WATCH“FAIRY DUST” "LADY WOOD"
iTunes | Apple Music | Spotify | Amazon | Googe Play“My short film about the never ending escape and all the rushes and pain that comes with it. I always dreamt about doing something like this, and that I get to share this with all of you now feels unreal.” –Tove Lo
--------------------------- Swedish Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling artist Tove Lo has officially entered the “Lady Wood” era with the worldwide release of her critically acclaimed sophomore album,which reaches #1 on the Alternative iTunes Charts, and the debut of her short film “Fairy Dust” which premiered at the release party at the Los Angeles’ in Hollywood.
“Fairy Dust” – directed by Tim Erem – is available worldwide on VEVO and is by far her most ambitious video project to date. Raw and bold, "Fairy Dust" stars Tove Lo alongside American actress, producer, director and activist Lina Esco (Kingdom, Flaked) and was co-written by her with director Tim Erem.
Featuring five songs from LADY WOOD, including the newly released track “True Disaster” along with “Influence,” “Lady Wood,” lead single “cool girl,” and “Vibes,” the 31-minute film can now be viewed online here .
On Friday, October 28th, Tove Lo celebrated the release of her highly anticipated album by premiering “Fairy Dust” -- the brainchild of Tove Lo and Swedish director and co-writer Tim Erem -- at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. 500 special guests joined to celebrate the release, premiere and Tove Lo’s birthday by drinking cocktails under the stars at Tove’s own Carnival Rave which featured a silent disco ferris wheel, dry slide, black light body dips, a contortionist, and many more fun festivities for guests to enjoy. Notable guests who joined in on the fun included best friends Icona Pop, plus Erik Hassle, Bonnie McKee, Kate Nash, members of Maroon 5, Citizen Four, and many, many more.Also on Friday, tickets officially went on sale for Tove Lo’s first North American tour of 2017. The 11-city “Lady Wood Tour” of the U.S. and Canada opens February 6th at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, and wraps up at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC on February 24th. Tickets can now be purchased at www.tove-lo.com . Tove Lo will also be joining the lineups in seven U.S. cities for select iHeart RadioJingle Ball Dates. (Please see complete tour dates below.)
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATESiHeart Radio Jingle Ball12/01 - SAF Center - San Jose, CA12/05 - Energy Center - St. Paul, MN12/07 - Wells Fargo Center - Philadelphia, PA12/11 - TD Garden - Boston, MA12/12 - Verizon Center - Washington, DC12/14 - Allstate Arena - Chicago, IL12/18 - BB&T Center - Miami, FLLady Wood Tour 201702/06 - Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA02/07 - Rosalind Theater - Portland, OR02/08 Fox Theater - Oakland, CA02/10 - The Novo - Los Angeles, CA02/15 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN02/16 - House of Blues - Chicago, IL02/17 - Massey Hall - Toronto, ON02/19 - House of Blues - Boston, MA02/20 - The Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA02/22 - Hammerstein Ballroom - New York, NY02/24 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DCFor ticket information, go to: www.tove-lo.com
October 31, 2016
Colin Newman (of WIRE) Announces Reissues Of Three Classic Solo Albums
Colin Newman (of WIRE) Announces Reissues Of Three Classic Solo Albums
‘A-Z’/ ‘Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish’/ ‘Not To’ Due October 28th Via Sentient Sonics
Colin Newman is best known as singer and chief songwriter with the ground breaking post-punk band WIRE. From their internationally influential 1977 debut ‘Pink Flag’ right up to 2016’s critical acclaimed ‘Nocturnal Koreans’, Newman and Wire have always been at music’s cutting edge. Throughout 1980-82, Newman released a series of solo work. From sound-tracking The Silence of the Lambs to being covered by This Mortal Coil, this solo work sought a place in history in it’s own right and has been unavailable for many years. Today we announce the reissue of three of Colin Newman’s classic solo records, to be made available in on October 28th via his own new imprint
Sentient Sonics
(originally released via Beggars Banquet/ 4AD):
‘A-Z’ (1980)‘Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish’ (1981)‘Not To’ (1982)The ‘A-Z/ Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish/Not To’ vinyl release will consist of the 3 re-mastered original albums, released as three single albums. The ‘A-Z/ Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish/Not To’ CD release will consist of the 3 re-mastered original albums, each accompanied by a companion CD of extra tracks, B-sides & demos - many of which have never been released before, which will be released as 3 double-CDs. Pre-order here: https://swim.greedbag.com/colinnewman/
COLIN NEWMAN - ‘A-Z’Single Vinyl (SS01 LP) // Double CD (SS01/02 CD)In 1980, Newman released his debut solo album
‘A-Z’
, which, as the title suggests, offers up a wide spectrum of musical approaches and sees multiple envelopes being pushed. Now, for the first time, the album has been completely re-mastered, and is augmented with an additional disc of bonus tracks, including out-takes, alternate versions, B-sides, demos and home recordings.
‘A-Z’
picks up exactly where Wire’s classic first three albums left off. In fact, Newman’s debut is one of post-punk’s great lost masterpieces, mixing slanted lyrics, fizzing analogue synths and Newman’s trademark angular guitar work. Highlights include the bass propelled stomp of album opener ‘I’ve Waited Ages’, which features heavily distorted guitar loops and some seriously bizarre lyrics which could give Spike Milligan a run for his money. While the Syd Barrett on steroids mania of ’S-S-S-Star Eyes’ sees Newman constructing a strangely catchy song from just one note, around which are woven numerous counter melodies.Elsewhere, the melancholic and brooding ‘Alone’ (which has text by Wire’s Graham Lewis) propels itself into view with such majestic menace that it would later earn a well deserved place on the‘Silence of the Lambs’ soundtrack. Despite the unforced experimentation, tracks such as ‘Inventory’, with its brisk guitar and synth stylings, prove that Newman never lost touch with his ‘pop side’. As the NME review of the time so accurately observed,
‘A-Z’
is “An album in which experiment and accessibility co-exist”.The CD only
‘A-Z’
bonus disc includes an additional 17 tracks - only 4 of which have previously been released. The demos recorded at Riverside Studios, are a revelation. Without the more obvious studio interventions of their final incarnations, tracks such as ‘But No’ and ‘The Classic Remains’ offer startlingly different takes on the material. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the demo of‘Life on Deck’. While the album version is heavy with absurdist punk abrasion, the original comes over as a piece of hook laden guitar pop. Other treats include the poignant ‘Alone on Piano’ which does exactly what it says in the title, and one of Newman’s great lost songs ‘Not Me’ - later covered by This Mortal Coil on their epochal album ‘It’ll End in Tears’. Meanwhile, Newman’s original lo-fi home demos present the songs in more stark, experimental form.
‘A-Z’
shows Newman at the height of his powers, fashioning music which sounded utterly unlike anything else at the time. Or indeed since.
A–Z - Vinyl & CD disc 1 tracklist:1. I’ve Waited Ages / 2. & Jury / 3. Alone/ 4. Order for Order / 5. Image 6. Life on Deck / 7. Troisième / 8. S-S-S-Star Eyes / 9. Seconds to Last 10. Inventory / 11. But No / 12. BA–Z - CD disc 2 track list:Studio Demos1. Life on Deck / 2. The Classic Remains / 3. Don’t Bring Reminders / 4. Image 5. Not Me / 6. But No / 7. Troisième / 8. I’ve Waited Ages/ 9. Order for OrderStudio Recordings10. Alone on Piano / 11. The Classic RemainsHome Studio Demos12. Order for Order / 13. Not Me / 14. The Classic Remains / 15. Troisième 16. Standard Practice/ 17. Part of Our HistoryA–Z CD 1 Performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, MIKE THORNE, COLIN NEWMAN + CHARLES BULLEN (clarinet, Track 7). Producer: MIKE THORNE. Recorded at Scorpio Sound (London). Engineers: DENNIS WEINREICH & STEVE PARKER. Original paintings by COLIN NEWMAN. Paintings & design re–imagined by BEN NEWMAN.A–Z CD 2 Tracks 1–9 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Riverside Recordings (Chiswick). Track 10 performed by MIKE THORNE & COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Media Sound (New York). Track 11 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, MIKE THORNE, COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Scorpio Sound (London). Tracks 12–17 performed by COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded in West Norwood.
COLIN NEWMAN - ‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’Single Vinyl (SS03 LP) // Double CD (SS03/04 CD)Colin Newman’s second solo album, the perversely named
‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’
, was released in 1981 and proves that Newman was more than able to work outside the traditional rock format.A collection of imaginary soundtrack pieces in the manner of Brian Eno’s ‘Music For Films’,
‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’
is a diverse collection of instrumentals, encompassing the atmospheric, the abstract and the thrillingly propulsive. Now, for the first time, this album has been completely remastered and augmented with a whole disc of additional tracks, including alternate vocal versions, B-sides and demo recordings.Sounds described it as “Wonderfully cinematic”. And it’s not hard to see why. Witness the misty, ambient marshes of ‘Fish 4’, or the tripped out Morricone-esque soundscape of ‘Fish 11’. But there are moments of intensity here too. Check out the deliriously insistent krautrock of ‘Fish 7’, or ’Fish 9’, where Newman speeds up the rhythm tracks to dadaist effect. The album as a whole displays a true desire to endlessly experiment.Newman’s first self produced set, its ambition and scope show why he would go on to become producer of choice for post punk luminaries such as Minimal Compact and Virgin Prunes.The CD only bonus disc presents an additional 20 tracks, only 5 of which have previously seen the light of day. There’s a number of fascinating vocal versions of the Fish tracks, including the wide eyed ‘No Doubt’ (‘Fish 1’) and the skeletal psych of ‘You And Your Dog’ (‘Fish 11‘). Meanwhile, Newman’s home recordings from the era reveal that aside from experimenting with more abstract soundscapes, he was also simultaneously developing a set of vocal songs. Of particular note are the fuzz bass driven ‘Is It Worth Repeating?’ which features one of Newman’s most relaxed vocals and the airy Canterbury Scene stylings of ‘Crystal Clear’. In contrast, the menacingly insistent ‘Vox Pop’ sees a snarling vocal riding atop waves of pulsing distorted guitars.In the late 80s, numerous artists as diverse as Barry Adamson and In The Nursery would go on to release so called imaginary soundtracks. But with 1981’s
‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’
Newman proved that, as ever, he was well ahead of the curve.
provisionally entitled the singing fish - Vinyl & CD disc 1 track list:1. fish1 /2. fish2/3. fish3/4. fish4/5. fish5/6. fish6/7. fish7 8. fish8/9. fish9/10.fish10/11.fish11/12.fish12provisionally entitled the singing fish - CD disc 2 track listStudio Recordings1. You and Your Dog / 2. Here Come the Fleeing Rabbits / 3. No Doubt 4. The Grace You Know / 5. This PictureHome Studio Demos6. fish 9 / 7. fish 11 / 8. Crystal Clear / 9. A Passing Parade / 10. Soft Option 11. Original Suicide / 12. You and Your Dog / 13. Is It Worth Repeating?
14. It Isn’t Quite Enough / 15. I Can Feel It / 16. Atmos 1 / 17. Atmos 2
18. Now You Know / 19. Kiora Kora / 20. Vox Pop
provisionally entitled the singing fish CD 1 Instruments, mouth noise, cover and production: COLIN NEWMAN. Engineering and facilitating: STEVE PARKER. Track 9 drums ROBERT GREY. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London). Photographs by ANNETTE GREEN.provisionally entitled the singing fish CD 2 Tracks 1–4 additional recording by JOHN FRYER at Blackwing Studio (London). Track 5 recorded by STEVE PARKER at Scorpio Sound (London). Tracks 6–9 & 11–20 performed by COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded in West Norwood. Track 10 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, SIMON GILLHAM, COLIN NEWMAN in Rob’s basement studio in Brixton.
COLIN NEWMAN - ‘Not To’ Single Vinyl (SS05 LP) // Double CD (SS05/06 CD)Newman’s third album
‘Not To’
(1982) is probably the finest of them all. Now, for the first time, the album has been completely remastered and augmented with a whole additional disc of unreleased tracks.
‘Not To’
sees Newman developing his distinctive art-rock in a more melodic pop direction. Songs such as the gorgeous ‘Lorries‘ with its chiming Byrds-like guitars and serpentine bass line, or the reflective‘Remove For Improvement’, contribute to an album with a strong psychedelic sensibility - complete with an unexpected Beatles cover - a deeply woozy take on George Harrison’s ‘Blue Jay Way’.Other highlights include the beautiful, meditative title track and the minimalist stream of consciousness of ‘Truculent Yet’. Where Newman’s previous albums had foregrounded studio experimentation,
‘Not To’
keeps the focus clearly on the band dynamic. For this reason, the collection of songs has a timelessness which many albums of the period lack. Contemporary reviews were unstinting in their praise. NME called it “icicle-cool pop” . Hot Press described it as “Newman’s most commercial offering to date... this man could be a major force.” While Melody Maker summed it up even more neatly; “Originality and a determined lack of compromise...what more could you want?”The additional disc presents the luminous single ‘We Means We Starts’ alongside 21 previously unreleased songs, which essentially constitute the demos for what would have been Newman’s 4th solo album. And it turns out it would have included some absolute gems. ‘But Either Way’ wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Wire’s ‘154’, while the fizzingly optimistic ‘You Must Decide’ is up there with Newman’s finest songs. Some of the demos also feature early sequencer work which point towards both Wire’s mid-80s incarnation and the ideas Newman would develop in his later solo work. Another treat is an early incarnation of the
‘Not To’
track ‘1, 2, 3, Beep Beep’ . Far superior to the quirky album cut, here it comes across as much more intense, yet also far more melodic.What shines out from both
‘Not To’
itself and these demo recordings is an abundance of ideas and approaches, showing an artist with an ever evolving creative drive.Not To - Vinyl & CD disc 1 track list:1. Lorries / 2. Don’t Bring Reminders / 3. You, Me and Happy
4. We Meet Under Tables / 5. Safe / 6. Truculent Yet / 7. 5/10
8. 1, 2, 3, Beep, Beep / 9. Not To / 10. Indians! / 11. Remove for Improvement 12. Blue Jay WayNot To - CD disc 2 track list:Home Studio Demos1. Truculent Yet / 2. Remove for Improvement / 3. You, Me and Happy
4. 1, 2, 3, Beep, Beep / 5. I’m Still Here / 6. It’s Just My Heart
7. If Time Had Been / 8. Hello Mr. Sandman / 9. Greensleeves / 10. This Time 11. Keeping It to Myself / 12. You Must Decide / 13. Don’t You Disagree?
14. Lunaris / 15. At Rest / 16. A Word in Your Ear / 17. Where Was I? / 18. Wo Hoe 19. But Either Way / 20. We Means We Starts / 21. Ye Rama Dabble AmStudio Recording22. We Means We StartsNot To CD 1 Music performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, SIMON GILLHAM, COLIN NEWMAN + BRUCE GILBERT (guitar, Track 10 ). Produced by COLIN NEWMAN. Engineered by STEVE PARKER. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London). Cover by ANNETTE GREEN.Text tracks 3,5 & 7 GRAHAM LEWIS, track 11 BRUCE GILBERT all other tracks COLIN NEWMAN.Not To CD 2 Tracks 1–21 performed by COLIN NEWMAN + ROBERT GREY (drums, Tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 9–12, 14, 17, 19, 21). Tracks 1–4 recorded in West Norwood. Tracks 5–13 recorded in Chalford, Gloucestershire. Tracks 14–21 recorded in West Norwood. Track 22 performed by SIMON GILLHAM, CHARLES ARTHUR, TOM MORLEY, COLIN NEWMAN. Engineered by STEVE PARKER. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London).
‘A-Z’/ ‘Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish’/ ‘Not To’ Due October 28th Via Sentient Sonics
Colin Newman is best known as singer and chief songwriter with the ground breaking post-punk band WIRE. From their internationally influential 1977 debut ‘Pink Flag’ right up to 2016’s critical acclaimed ‘Nocturnal Koreans’, Newman and Wire have always been at music’s cutting edge. Throughout 1980-82, Newman released a series of solo work. From sound-tracking The Silence of the Lambs to being covered by This Mortal Coil, this solo work sought a place in history in it’s own right and has been unavailable for many years. Today we announce the reissue of three of Colin Newman’s classic solo records, to be made available in on October 28th via his own new imprint
Sentient Sonics
(originally released via Beggars Banquet/ 4AD):‘A-Z’ (1980)‘Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish’ (1981)‘Not To’ (1982)The ‘A-Z/ Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish/Not To’ vinyl release will consist of the 3 re-mastered original albums, released as three single albums. The ‘A-Z/ Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish/Not To’ CD release will consist of the 3 re-mastered original albums, each accompanied by a companion CD of extra tracks, B-sides & demos - many of which have never been released before, which will be released as 3 double-CDs. Pre-order here: https://swim.greedbag.com/colinnewman/
COLIN NEWMAN - ‘A-Z’Single Vinyl (SS01 LP) // Double CD (SS01/02 CD)In 1980, Newman released his debut solo album
‘A-Z’
, which, as the title suggests, offers up a wide spectrum of musical approaches and sees multiple envelopes being pushed. Now, for the first time, the album has been completely re-mastered, and is augmented with an additional disc of bonus tracks, including out-takes, alternate versions, B-sides, demos and home recordings.
‘A-Z’
picks up exactly where Wire’s classic first three albums left off. In fact, Newman’s debut is one of post-punk’s great lost masterpieces, mixing slanted lyrics, fizzing analogue synths and Newman’s trademark angular guitar work. Highlights include the bass propelled stomp of album opener ‘I’ve Waited Ages’, which features heavily distorted guitar loops and some seriously bizarre lyrics which could give Spike Milligan a run for his money. While the Syd Barrett on steroids mania of ’S-S-S-Star Eyes’ sees Newman constructing a strangely catchy song from just one note, around which are woven numerous counter melodies.Elsewhere, the melancholic and brooding ‘Alone’ (which has text by Wire’s Graham Lewis) propels itself into view with such majestic menace that it would later earn a well deserved place on the‘Silence of the Lambs’ soundtrack. Despite the unforced experimentation, tracks such as ‘Inventory’, with its brisk guitar and synth stylings, prove that Newman never lost touch with his ‘pop side’. As the NME review of the time so accurately observed,
‘A-Z’
is “An album in which experiment and accessibility co-exist”.The CD only
‘A-Z’
bonus disc includes an additional 17 tracks - only 4 of which have previously been released. The demos recorded at Riverside Studios, are a revelation. Without the more obvious studio interventions of their final incarnations, tracks such as ‘But No’ and ‘The Classic Remains’ offer startlingly different takes on the material. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the demo of‘Life on Deck’. While the album version is heavy with absurdist punk abrasion, the original comes over as a piece of hook laden guitar pop. Other treats include the poignant ‘Alone on Piano’ which does exactly what it says in the title, and one of Newman’s great lost songs ‘Not Me’ - later covered by This Mortal Coil on their epochal album ‘It’ll End in Tears’. Meanwhile, Newman’s original lo-fi home demos present the songs in more stark, experimental form.
‘A-Z’
shows Newman at the height of his powers, fashioning music which sounded utterly unlike anything else at the time. Or indeed since.A–Z - Vinyl & CD disc 1 tracklist:1. I’ve Waited Ages / 2. & Jury / 3. Alone/ 4. Order for Order / 5. Image 6. Life on Deck / 7. Troisième / 8. S-S-S-Star Eyes / 9. Seconds to Last 10. Inventory / 11. But No / 12. BA–Z - CD disc 2 track list:Studio Demos1. Life on Deck / 2. The Classic Remains / 3. Don’t Bring Reminders / 4. Image 5. Not Me / 6. But No / 7. Troisième / 8. I’ve Waited Ages/ 9. Order for OrderStudio Recordings10. Alone on Piano / 11. The Classic RemainsHome Studio Demos12. Order for Order / 13. Not Me / 14. The Classic Remains / 15. Troisième 16. Standard Practice/ 17. Part of Our HistoryA–Z CD 1 Performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, MIKE THORNE, COLIN NEWMAN + CHARLES BULLEN (clarinet, Track 7). Producer: MIKE THORNE. Recorded at Scorpio Sound (London). Engineers: DENNIS WEINREICH & STEVE PARKER. Original paintings by COLIN NEWMAN. Paintings & design re–imagined by BEN NEWMAN.A–Z CD 2 Tracks 1–9 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Riverside Recordings (Chiswick). Track 10 performed by MIKE THORNE & COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Media Sound (New York). Track 11 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, MIKE THORNE, COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Scorpio Sound (London). Tracks 12–17 performed by COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded in West Norwood.
COLIN NEWMAN - ‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’Single Vinyl (SS03 LP) // Double CD (SS03/04 CD)Colin Newman’s second solo album, the perversely named
‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’
, was released in 1981 and proves that Newman was more than able to work outside the traditional rock format.A collection of imaginary soundtrack pieces in the manner of Brian Eno’s ‘Music For Films’,
‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’
is a diverse collection of instrumentals, encompassing the atmospheric, the abstract and the thrillingly propulsive. Now, for the first time, this album has been completely remastered and augmented with a whole disc of additional tracks, including alternate vocal versions, B-sides and demo recordings.Sounds described it as “Wonderfully cinematic”. And it’s not hard to see why. Witness the misty, ambient marshes of ‘Fish 4’, or the tripped out Morricone-esque soundscape of ‘Fish 11’. But there are moments of intensity here too. Check out the deliriously insistent krautrock of ‘Fish 7’, or ’Fish 9’, where Newman speeds up the rhythm tracks to dadaist effect. The album as a whole displays a true desire to endlessly experiment.Newman’s first self produced set, its ambition and scope show why he would go on to become producer of choice for post punk luminaries such as Minimal Compact and Virgin Prunes.The CD only bonus disc presents an additional 20 tracks, only 5 of which have previously seen the light of day. There’s a number of fascinating vocal versions of the Fish tracks, including the wide eyed ‘No Doubt’ (‘Fish 1’) and the skeletal psych of ‘You And Your Dog’ (‘Fish 11‘). Meanwhile, Newman’s home recordings from the era reveal that aside from experimenting with more abstract soundscapes, he was also simultaneously developing a set of vocal songs. Of particular note are the fuzz bass driven ‘Is It Worth Repeating?’ which features one of Newman’s most relaxed vocals and the airy Canterbury Scene stylings of ‘Crystal Clear’. In contrast, the menacingly insistent ‘Vox Pop’ sees a snarling vocal riding atop waves of pulsing distorted guitars.In the late 80s, numerous artists as diverse as Barry Adamson and In The Nursery would go on to release so called imaginary soundtracks. But with 1981’s
‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’
Newman proved that, as ever, he was well ahead of the curve.provisionally entitled the singing fish - Vinyl & CD disc 1 track list:1. fish1 /2. fish2/3. fish3/4. fish4/5. fish5/6. fish6/7. fish7 8. fish8/9. fish9/10.fish10/11.fish11/12.fish12provisionally entitled the singing fish - CD disc 2 track listStudio Recordings1. You and Your Dog / 2. Here Come the Fleeing Rabbits / 3. No Doubt 4. The Grace You Know / 5. This PictureHome Studio Demos6. fish 9 / 7. fish 11 / 8. Crystal Clear / 9. A Passing Parade / 10. Soft Option 11. Original Suicide / 12. You and Your Dog / 13. Is It Worth Repeating?
14. It Isn’t Quite Enough / 15. I Can Feel It / 16. Atmos 1 / 17. Atmos 2
18. Now You Know / 19. Kiora Kora / 20. Vox Pop
provisionally entitled the singing fish CD 1 Instruments, mouth noise, cover and production: COLIN NEWMAN. Engineering and facilitating: STEVE PARKER. Track 9 drums ROBERT GREY. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London). Photographs by ANNETTE GREEN.provisionally entitled the singing fish CD 2 Tracks 1–4 additional recording by JOHN FRYER at Blackwing Studio (London). Track 5 recorded by STEVE PARKER at Scorpio Sound (London). Tracks 6–9 & 11–20 performed by COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded in West Norwood. Track 10 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, SIMON GILLHAM, COLIN NEWMAN in Rob’s basement studio in Brixton.
COLIN NEWMAN - ‘Not To’ Single Vinyl (SS05 LP) // Double CD (SS05/06 CD)Newman’s third album
‘Not To’
(1982) is probably the finest of them all. Now, for the first time, the album has been completely remastered and augmented with a whole additional disc of unreleased tracks.
‘Not To’
sees Newman developing his distinctive art-rock in a more melodic pop direction. Songs such as the gorgeous ‘Lorries‘ with its chiming Byrds-like guitars and serpentine bass line, or the reflective‘Remove For Improvement’, contribute to an album with a strong psychedelic sensibility - complete with an unexpected Beatles cover - a deeply woozy take on George Harrison’s ‘Blue Jay Way’.Other highlights include the beautiful, meditative title track and the minimalist stream of consciousness of ‘Truculent Yet’. Where Newman’s previous albums had foregrounded studio experimentation,
‘Not To’
keeps the focus clearly on the band dynamic. For this reason, the collection of songs has a timelessness which many albums of the period lack. Contemporary reviews were unstinting in their praise. NME called it “icicle-cool pop” . Hot Press described it as “Newman’s most commercial offering to date... this man could be a major force.” While Melody Maker summed it up even more neatly; “Originality and a determined lack of compromise...what more could you want?”The additional disc presents the luminous single ‘We Means We Starts’ alongside 21 previously unreleased songs, which essentially constitute the demos for what would have been Newman’s 4th solo album. And it turns out it would have included some absolute gems. ‘But Either Way’ wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Wire’s ‘154’, while the fizzingly optimistic ‘You Must Decide’ is up there with Newman’s finest songs. Some of the demos also feature early sequencer work which point towards both Wire’s mid-80s incarnation and the ideas Newman would develop in his later solo work. Another treat is an early incarnation of the
‘Not To’
track ‘1, 2, 3, Beep Beep’ . Far superior to the quirky album cut, here it comes across as much more intense, yet also far more melodic.What shines out from both
‘Not To’
itself and these demo recordings is an abundance of ideas and approaches, showing an artist with an ever evolving creative drive.Not To - Vinyl & CD disc 1 track list:1. Lorries / 2. Don’t Bring Reminders / 3. You, Me and Happy4. We Meet Under Tables / 5. Safe / 6. Truculent Yet / 7. 5/10
8. 1, 2, 3, Beep, Beep / 9. Not To / 10. Indians! / 11. Remove for Improvement 12. Blue Jay WayNot To - CD disc 2 track list:Home Studio Demos1. Truculent Yet / 2. Remove for Improvement / 3. You, Me and Happy
4. 1, 2, 3, Beep, Beep / 5. I’m Still Here / 6. It’s Just My Heart
7. If Time Had Been / 8. Hello Mr. Sandman / 9. Greensleeves / 10. This Time 11. Keeping It to Myself / 12. You Must Decide / 13. Don’t You Disagree?
14. Lunaris / 15. At Rest / 16. A Word in Your Ear / 17. Where Was I? / 18. Wo Hoe 19. But Either Way / 20. We Means We Starts / 21. Ye Rama Dabble AmStudio Recording22. We Means We StartsNot To CD 1 Music performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, SIMON GILLHAM, COLIN NEWMAN + BRUCE GILBERT (guitar, Track 10 ). Produced by COLIN NEWMAN. Engineered by STEVE PARKER. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London). Cover by ANNETTE GREEN.Text tracks 3,5 & 7 GRAHAM LEWIS, track 11 BRUCE GILBERT all other tracks COLIN NEWMAN.Not To CD 2 Tracks 1–21 performed by COLIN NEWMAN + ROBERT GREY (drums, Tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 9–12, 14, 17, 19, 21). Tracks 1–4 recorded in West Norwood. Tracks 5–13 recorded in Chalford, Gloucestershire. Tracks 14–21 recorded in West Norwood. Track 22 performed by SIMON GILLHAM, CHARLES ARTHUR, TOM MORLEY, COLIN NEWMAN. Engineered by STEVE PARKER. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London).
