THE HORRORS are playing tonight with The Stepkids at Detroit Bar, Sept 13th. And on Thursday, Sept 15th, at the El Rey.
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9/13/2011
The Horrors @ Detroit Bar
THE HORRORS are playing tonight with The Stepkids at Detroit Bar, Sept 13th. And on Thursday, Sept 15th, at the El Rey.
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9/12/2011
George Kuchar
| THE CELLULOID SINS OF GEORGE KUCHAR (1942-2011) Thursday, Sept. 22 - Saturday, Sept. 24 + Friday, Sept. 30
“George and Mike Kuchar’s films were my first inspiration.” -- John Waters |
| IT CAME FROM KUCHAR + GEORGE KUCHAR'S NYC SHORTS Thursday, September 22nd | 7:30pm
It Came From Kuchar - 7:30pm
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| IT CAME FROM KUCHAR + GEORGE KUCHAR'S SAN FRANCISCO SHORTS Friday, September 23rd | 7:30pm
It Came From Kuchar - 7:30pm
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| GEORGE KUCHAR'S NYC SHORTS Saturday, September 24th | 2:00pm
Made during the heyday of the heady 1960s New York City filmmaking underground, these are the films that almost defined the term. And, they’re funny as hell; George’s Hold Me While I’m Naked is worth the price of admission alone. This fifteen-minute camp classic easily transcends the limitations that such a term as “camp classic” might impose, as it adds true poignancy and pathos into the mix amongst its garish color palate, playfully aggressive stylization, manic dialogue delivery and giggle-fit melodrama. “Described by Ken Kelman as ‘a perfect fusion of mock-Hollywood and mock-avant-garde styles’, Hold Me While I’m Naked is a virtual lexicon of camp characteristics that stands as George Kuchar’s most perfectly realised example of ‘the theatricalisation of experience’ that lies at the core of this sensibility.” (Deborah Allison, Senses of Cinema) Join us for a slate of George’s very best work from his fertile filmmaking post-adolesence!
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| GEORGE KUCHAR'S SAN FRANCISCO SHORTS Saturday, September 24th | 5:00pm
After George lost his job doing commercial art work in New York City, he accepted a position as an associate professor at the San Fransisco Art Instiitute. Now on the West Coast, he not only continued his own personal output, but began making films with his students, films that range from the insane to the mildly pornographic, and often both. Plus, they’re funny as hell. Included in this program is one of George’s most incredible works, and one of our favorites: I, An Actress. “A short film made as a kind of screen test for one of Kuchar's acting students during a filmmaking workshop. The student, Barbara Lapsley, is given a page from a ludicrously melodramatic script, set opposite a dummy draped in a coat with a curly wig to represent her husband, and then set loose to read her lines. The whole thing quickly degenerates, however, as Kuchar himself steps into the frame as the director, instructing his actress in how to read her lines and how to act, constantly urging her further and further over the top. The whole thing quickly becomes less a screen test...and more a demonstration of the sheer joy of moviemaking, the hands-on fun of the director in dictating what happens on a movie set.” -- Ed Howard, Only The Cinema
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9/09/2011
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9/07/2011
First Aid Kit @ Troubadour
FIRST AID KIT return to LA on November 8th, 2011, at the Troubadour for the first time.
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Psychic Ills "Hazed Dream"
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9/06/2011
CAN "Tago Mago"
CAN – TAGO MAGO
40th ANNIVERSARY 2-CD EDITION OUT NOVEMBER 15, 2011
DELUXE VINYL BOX SET & UNRELEASED LOST TAPES BOX SET DETAILS FOR 2012
PLUS HALLELUWAH! EXHIBITIONS IN GERMANY
Spoon Records and Mute announce the release of the 40th anniversary edition of the classic Can album Tago Mago on November 15, 2011.
The new edition of this genre-defying album comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971, and includes a bonus CD featuring 50 minutes of unreleased live material from 1972, remastered in 2011.
Tago Mago, the first album with Damo Suzuki on vocals, features the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and was recorded at Schloss Nörvenich in 1971, released later that year on United Artists.
Can’s influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have cited Can as a major influence is varied. Of all the band’s oeuvre, Tago Mago has been most often cited as an influence for a host of artists including John Lydon, Radiohead, The Fall, Ariel Pink, F*CK Buttons, Sonic Youth, Factory Floor and Queens Of The Stone Age. Just last week Geoff Barrow (Portishead) mentioned Can as his favorite and most inspiring band ever (The Quietus).
Listen to ‘Bring Me Coffee Or Tea’, as featured on the OST for the 2010 film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood here:
http://soundcloud.com/muterecords/can-bring-me-coffee-or-tea
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Michael Karoli's death on the November 17 2011, Spoon Records will offer a Best Of Michael Karoli Edit for free download on their site www.spoonrecords.com.
Can was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music.
TAGO MAGO – 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION – TRACKLISTING
CD1
Paperhouse (07:29)
Mushroom (04:04)
Oh Yeah (07:23)
Halleluwah (18:33)
Aumgn (17:37)
Peking O (11:38)
Bring Me Coffee Or Tea (06:47)
CD2
Mushroom (Live 1972) (08:42)
Spoon (Live 1972) (29:55)
Halleluwah (Live 1972) (09:12)
www.spoonrecords.com / www.mute.com
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9/05/2011
The Horrors come to Los Angeles
THE HORRORS return to Southern California for the first time in two years. They are playing four shows in the southland. They are playing with The Stepkids. The tour dates announced are as follows:
9/10 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club
9/12 – Pomona, CA – The Glass House
9/13 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Detroit Bar
9/15 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theater
9/16 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
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9/03/2011
Iggy and The Stooges @ Hollywood Palladium
Breaking news! Iggy and The Stooges have canceled and postponed the Hollywood show on September 7th and the whole west coast tour this week. Iggy has broken his foot and needs 6-8 weeks to heal. Stayed tuned for more news and new dates.
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Jim Jones Revue @ the Echo
JIM JONES REVUE will be playing at the ECHO on THURSDAY September 8th. They are one of the best rock and roll live bands today. In celebration of all those great shows over this year, we are giving away two pairs of tickets to you amazing LA music lovers out there. All you have to do is send your name or email address and mention JIM JONES REVUE.
To win, please do one of the following:
1) Leave a comment below with name or email.
2) Follow us on twitter, or
3) send an email to PORTINFINITE @ aol.com and we will pick a winner.
Don't just stand around. This is for real. Enter sooner than later. Good luck.
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9/01/2011
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra announces Fall headlining dates, watch their Noisey.com feature now
VIDEO: Noisey.com feature - http://www.noisey.com/#!/view/meet-unknown-mortal-orchestra
STREAM: "Little Blu House" - http://soundcloud.com/fatpossum/unknown-mortal-orchestra-1
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra (photo by Angel Ceballos)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra already has an insane touring schedule for the rest of 2011, today the band added even more North American dates to their tour, which will find the band headlining in October.
Bio:
Unknown Mortal Orchestra first dropped into the world in late 2010 as a bandcamp account carrying a single called "Ffunny Ffrends."
"Ffunny Ffrends" was everything you imagined it might be - alien beatnik pop music that echoed 60s psychedelia and krautrock minimalism with just a hint of gentle weirdness that suggested its roots might equally lie in the verdant indie of the equally distant New Zealand scene.
Ruban Nielson is a New Zealand native who had transplanted to Portland, Oregon with his band Mint Chicks. UMO was a project conceived as Ruban's escape hatch to a new musical dimension where his vision of junkshop record collector pop could be realized in a sound that recalled Captain Beefheart, Sly Stone and RZA jamming on some kids TV theme too dark to ever be broadcast.
Out of the home studio, Ruban was joined by local Portland producer Jake Portrait on bass and teenage prodigy Julien Ehrlich on drums. They have been on the road all year, sleeping in ditches and running drunkenly from venues when need be, curling ears and turning heads with their intoxicating sound all the way.
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
09/08 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater / MFNW %
09/09 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club #
09/10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Music Festival $
09/11 Washington, DC Black Cat #
09/12 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church #
09/14 New York, NY Webster Hall #
09/15 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands Gallery +
09/16 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club #
09/17 Montreal, QC Cabaret Mile End #
09/18 Toronto, ON Opera House #
09/19 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre #
09/20 Bloomington, IN The Bishop #
09/21 Grinnell, IA Grinnel College Gardner Lounge
09/22 Urbana, IL Pygmalion #
09/23 Cincinnati, OH Midpoint Music Festival #
09/24 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall #
09/25 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock #
09/26 Fargo, ND The Aquarium (Dempseys Upstairs)
09/28 Seattle, WA The Crocodile #
09/29 Vancouver, BC Venue #
09/30 Portland, OR Branx #
10/01 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall #
10/02 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall #
10/03 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre #
10/04 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
10/05 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
10/06 El Paso, TX Lowbrow Palace #
10/07 Dallas, TX Club Dada #
10/08 Austin, TX The Mohawk #
10/09 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's #
10/10 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jack's #
10/11 Tallahassee, FL Club Downunder #
10/12 Mobile, AL Alabama Music Box
10/13 Birmingham, AL Bottletree #
10/14 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade #
10/15 Columbia, SC New Brookland Tavern #
10/16 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle
10/17 Winston-Salem, NC The Werehouse
10/18 Richmond, VA Strange Matter
10/19 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
10/25 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place
10/28 Columbia, MO University of Missouri
10/29 St. Louis, MO Billiken Club
10/30 Kansas City, MO Recordbar
10/31 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
11/05 Santa Cruz, CA 418 Project
11/06 San Diego, CA Casbah
11/07 Oakland, CA The New Parish
* = w/ The Submarines
# = w/ Toro Y Moi
% = w/ Little Dragon
$ = w/ Times New Viking
+ = w/ Woven Bones, Blouse, Man/Miracle
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Gary Numan "Dead Son Rising"
GARY NUMAN:
LEGENDARY NEW WAVE PIONEER RETURNS WITH
‘DEAD SON RISING’
NEW ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 24
LEGENDARY NEW WAVE PIONEER RETURNS WITH
‘DEAD SON RISING’
NEW ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 24
DEAD SON RISING originally developed out of a collection of demos GARY had from previous projects. “The original ideas behind these songs are now barely visible,” he explains. “In the last nine months, the album has grown into another animal, something more experimental and fluid. It’s ended up being something I’m really very proud of.” The new material ranges from the heavily anthemic “The Fall” to the Arabic and ghostly “We Are Lost” as well as the standout, “Dead Sun Rising.” The latter two contain elements from a science-fiction fantasy story NUMAN has been writing.
Additionally, troubled relationships are explored on “For The Rest Of My Life” and “Not The Love We Dream Of.” Elsewhere, two striking instrumentals “Resurrection” and “Into Battle” showcase some of the more cinematic, soundtrack material GARY and ADE have focused on of late. DEAD SON RISING adds up as one of NUMAN’s most atmospheric albums to date, while containing a handful of direct, streamlined electronic rock with “Big Noise Transmission,” “The Fall” and “When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come.”
GARY NUMAN and his bandmates ADE FENTON (keyboards), DAVID BROOKS (keyboards), RICHARD BEASLEY (drums), STEVE HARRIS (guitar) and TIM MUDDIMAN (bass) will launch a U.K. tour beginning September 15 with dates into December including a performance at the “Nightmare Before Christmas” All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival curated by Battles on December 10 (see dates below).
NUMAN continues to put the finishing touches on his new album for 2012 titled SPLINTER. This summer, he collaborated with Battles for their new single “My Machines,” out now on Warp Records. No doubt the renewed vigor came partly from his critically acclaimed tour last fall celebrating the 30th anniversary of his seminal album The Pleasure Principle. GARY and his band thrilled sold-out crowds across the U.S. late last year; see a handful of critical soundbites below and hear a stellar live performance from GARY and his band on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” (NPR Los Angeles) here:
http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb101103gary_numan.
Fans can preorder a copy of DEAD SON RISING directly here: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/garynuman.
Following is the complete track listing for DEAD SON RISING:
1) Resurrection
2) Big Noise Transmission
3) Dead Sun Rising
4) When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come
5) For The Rest Of My Life
6) Not The Love We Dream Of
7) The Fall
8) We Are The Lost
9) For The Rest Of My Life (Reprise)
10) Into Battle
11) Not The Love We Dream Of (Piano version)
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8/31/2011
Richard Swift "Walt Wolfman"
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| About a year ago, Richard Swift horrifically fractured his left ring finger. For a moment his nimble guitar and piano work flashed before his eyes. Doctors were saying things like "movement and feeling could eventually return," etc, etc. Certainly, not even a little blip on the sadness radar of humanity, but a massive bummer for a fellow who has carved out a niche as one of independent music's sought after session players and producers — and especially in relation to the astounding Richard Swift solo output we all know and love. So, it's with a great, collective sigh of relief that he's back to churning out new material like "Whitman." It's chugging, chiming and triumphant, featuring Swift's always-endearing falsetto and casual call-and-response lyricism. "I've got my own Whitman...Farewell, farewell/I hope it did you good/To say the things/My father never could," Swift pines. The song is a cryptic salute to Walt Whitman, whose American lineage of primal, urgent art can be traced to include Kerouac and Dylan, Bo Diddley and Beefheart — right on through to modern outsider-pop wunderkinds like Swift. And according to Swift, "Whitman" is a nice taste of what we can expect from his next longform recording.
The same can be said for the remainder of the Walt Wolfman EP. Conceived in the same spirit that gave us 2008's cult favorite Ground Trouble Jaw EP, these blown-out, basement R&B rippers are not for the faint of heart. They require movement and sweat, dancing with a cocktail glass in your grip until your shoes are soaked in booze. Highlight of the set, "MG 333," is a raw and ghostly trance, a blast of kinetic energy and jazz cigarette smoke. Meanwhile, the neu-vintage jive of "Drakula (Hey Man)" and "Zombie Boogie" pack a timelessness that transcends their seasonal titles. And yeah, that's Swift himself on rapid-fire drums across the whole damn set. Shit, he might have been fine without that measly finger after all. Richard Swift is performing as a touring member of The Shins this fall. | |
| Walt Wolfman EP will be released by Secretly Canadian on October 18th, 2011 in digital and vinyl formats Tracklisting: 1. Whitman 2. MG 333 3. Laugh It Up 4. Zombie Boogie 5. Out & About 6. Drakula (Hey Man!) 7. St. Michael
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8/30/2011
The Human League Interview
THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Interview by Alexander Laurence
The Human League are an important electronic band from Sheffield, England. They started in 1977, during the height of the Punk movement. They achieved worldwide success with their album Dare (1981). In their 35 year history they have released nine albums and 29 singles. This makes them one of the most successful and influential British bands ever. Since 1987, the band has been a trio of members Philip Oakey, Susan Ann Sulley, and Joanne Catherall. They are playing this Friday at the Hollywood Bowl with The B-52s, The Fixx, and Berlin. I got to speak to Susan from the band, and talk about so many questions that I had over the years.
AL: You are playing the Hollywood Bowl this week on September 2nd, 2011. You played there a few years ago. Are you looking forward to that big show?
Susan: Yeah, we did. I can’t remember how long it’s been. We have been lucky to have this international career. We had a few number one hits in America. We are all looking forward to coming back.
AL: Where else have you traveled to this year?
Susan: You want me to tell you? We have been to Hong Kong, Manila, Toyko, and Australia. We have been to South America this year. This has been a tough year for us. I am going to The Maldives on holiday in February.
AL: You like this jet set life?
Susan: People want to see us. They pay money to come to see us. We like to go around and play. We get to travel the world. We love going places.
AL: Did it work against the band that you were from Sheffield? Were things more London-centric back then?
Susan: No. I think at the time you didn’t have to be from London. There is always a big music scene from London. One of the biggest bands from that time were Duran Duran and they were from Birmingham. It was a different time. Young people in the UK were rebelling against the government and trying to find an outlet for their creative juices. People were making music everywhere. OMD was from Liverpool. People wanted to be creative and form bands, because there was nothing else to do.
AL: What about people in the street in Sheffield? When you were walking around town, and Philip Oakey had that asymmetrical haircut, did people bother you?
Susan: We were ordinary. People around us were way more outrageous. People didn’t take notice of us. You are way more creative when you haven’t a job and are looking for an outlet for your creativity. My best friend is called Trevor and he was the most outrageous person in Sheffield. He would walk around with a corset and stocking. Nobody took any notice of myself or Joanne, because we were ordinary.
AL: Do other Sheffield musicians like Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley, or Arctic Monkeys come up to you and say “Human League was a big influence on me. You guys made all this possible.”
Susan: The only person who would do something like that is Richard Hawley. He is the only one who stayed in Sheffield. Everyone else moved away. The only person you would bump into at the pub or the supermarket is Richard. Not anyone else. Arctic Monkeys don’t live here anymore. Jarvis has lived in Paris for about five years.
AL: Did Jarvis Cocker move away because people would bother him?
Susan: Sheffield isn’t like that. It’s not like living in New York, London, or Los Angeles. You can be pretty anonymous. I have seen some pretty crazy things in Sheffield that have never been reported in the press. Nobody can be bothered. You can live in Sheffield without being bothered. Jarvis comes to Sheffield all the time. His sister is the best friend of Joanne. They see Jarvis all the time.
AL: My idea of punk was that it was supposed to be anti-rock and roll. Many of the punk bands didn’t get rid of the tools of rock and roll (guitar, bass, drums). Bands like Suicide and The Human League were possibly “more punk” because they got rid of the guitars and created this new music with synthesizers. What do you think of that notion?
Susan: We would all consider ourselves part of the punk ethic. We didn’t think punk was about safety pins and spiky hair. We saw punk as an opportunity for people who weren’t classically trained musicians. You could just go out there and do it. The people who originally started The Human League were Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh. They both had great paying jobs and they were bored. Instead of buying cars, they bought synthesizers. They didn’t have to be musicians. They could just make weird sounds with their synths all night. None of us could play guitar, but all of us could play a synthesizer. We could come up with some tunes.
AL: In the early days of The Human League, you guys played with many punk bands. What was that like?
Susan: That was before I was in the band. I joined in 1980. They had toured with Iggy Pop, The Rezillos, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Philip told me some stories about those early tours. There was a lot of spitting and animosity. If you look at the album credits of Dare, you can see that we thank Siouxsie and the Banshees. Philip said that if it wasn’t for the Banshees, we wouldn’t have gone out on the road and continued to tour.
AL: The Human League and John Foxx are some of the first bands who played shows with just synthesizers. What did you think of when Gary Numan first came out?
Susan: Gary Numan took everyone to the post really. I watching him on Top of the Pops. I called up Joanne and said “Oh my God! Did you see this?” I love Gary Numan. I could never slag him off. It was a good time in music.
AL: People were really resistant to electronic music. Then Gary Numan broke through first and had a hit. It took the Human League almost five years to have some success.
Susan: All we ever wanted to do was to make pop music. I know some people don’t think pop music is serious, but that’s all we wanted to do. I think there is room for us and Gary Numan and everyone.
AL: Do you still play “Being Boiled?”
Susan: Of course we do. We are not a band who doesn’t play the old hits. We don’t always play “Being Boiled.” Sometimes we are playing these festivals and we play a shorter set. Me and Joanne are not on stage when we play “Being Boiled” but we still do it.
AL: You have a new album Credo. It’s the first new album in ten years. How do you go about writing songs?
Susan: We were all bored with how things went on the last album. Philip wanted to write some new music. He went into the studio with our drummer Rob. They came up with some tunes. The head of the label got involved. Dean and Jarrod from I Monster got involved. We were thinking about doing a few singles. We didn’t think about doing a full album. But things came around.
AL: Did you ever take a break to have families?
Susan: No. We never took a break. We only slowed down in the 1990s because nonody wanted to hear synthesizers. It was all about Grunge and Nirvana and Britpop and Oasis and Blur. We never took a break because neither Philip nor I have a family. Joanne has a son. We have done The Human League almost my whole life. We are not just a band from the 1980s. We are far busier now than we ever were.
AL: How did the song “Night People” come together?
Susan: Philip loves music and going to nightclubs. He loves the spectacle. The biggest club in England a few years ago was in Sheffield at The Republic. It was called Gatecrasher One. It burned down. It was massive and the biggest club in the UK. Philip loved going. That song is about the people who went to Gatecrasher.
AL: There is a show called The Mighty Boosh. Vince Noir says “The Human League invented music. Before them it was tuning up….” What do you think of that?
Susan: I am not in love with The Mighty Boosh. But Philip, and the other boys in the band, think it’s fantastic. Philip went on the show once. Whether we were the start of music? I don’t think that we were. We were lucky and in the right place at the right time. Others came before us like Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer.
AL: The Mighty Boosh is a show that appeals to only males?
Susan: Well, me and Joanne don’t like it. I like CSI Miami but what do I know? Yes. I suppose that it’s for the lads.
AL: I read today that the song “Don’t You Want Me?” has been played on American radiom over 20 million times. That is great for you that one song can take you around the world. But The Human League is a band with many great songs: The Sound of The Crowd, Love Action, Mirror Man, Fascination, The Lebanon, and more….
Susan: We do. Thank you for noting that. We are not ashamed of “Don’t You Want Me?” We are proud of it. It has enabled us to go around the world a few times. It makes me smile when I am on stage and the audience goes “Ooh! Didn’t know they did that song?” People can think of us as having one song, but we are more than that. If people come to see us live, they can worked that out.
AL: In the early days of MTV, The Human League were on all the time because you had all these great videos.
Susan: Absolutely. MTV was very important for us. We were very popular in the early 1980s. We couldn’t get to every territory. Having videos was great so people could see us, and what we looked like. It’s sad that MTV only plays Jersey Shore now. MTV should have more music.
AL: Do you like any new bands?
Susan: We all have different tastes in music. I like pop music. I listen to Rhianna and Katy Perry. We just went to Ibiza and I got to see Kool and the Gang. I am going to get some new 1970s disco ringtones for my iPhone.
AL: When people come to see you this week at the Hollywood Bowl, what should they expect?
Susan: It’s not taped and it’s not mimed. We sing live and have a band. We do some costume changes. We do songs from the early days, the middle days, and the recent days.
THE HUMAN LEAGUE plays in San Diego on Sept 1st, 2011. And this Friday, Sept 2nd 2011 at the Hollywood Bowl 730pm. Opening bands are the B-52s, The Fixx, and Berlin.
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8/29/2011
Happy Birthday: Anton Newcombe
Happy Birthday to Anton Newcombe today.
AND THIS IS OUR MUSIC
Track One- Don't leave stupid shit on my message machine, also: my mom and dad were married before I was conceived, I have my fathers last name you fucking psycho bitch get out of my life and get medical help now.
Track Two- This is the sound inside my head when people talk at me instead of with me.
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Track Three- I'm glad John Lennon is dead, He died in 1980, could you imagine how he would react to Paul, to this fucked up world? He left at a great time. Matthew J. Tow forever. He is my brother. I loved the look in his eye when I said, you're singing the first track! He didn't get it, I bet some of you don't either, but that's the point, I don't do this for you, I do this for me, and I do this for my Lord. Don't be too surprised when you remember who I really am, when you hear that sound. The time is Now, get your shit together and get with God. I ain't going to be the one to say I told you so. Just do it, now or cease to exist.
Track Four- Jason Pierce, Beck pretending to be Nick Drake and getting away with it, girls, Meher Baba and God consciousness. There is no God but God and I am His loyal servant. This is not a game of monopoly. We are here. We are here to go in fact. Amnesiac (go team) if your feeling sinister, Elliot Smith, the Zombies, etc, etc...
Track Five- The Dandy's used to rule ok? Now we rule!. Join us!
Track Six- Will Sergeant, too bad he couldn't or wouldn't be on this song, I wrote it for him and Mac. Oh well listen to the first three Echo albums and you'll get there at some point. Also note that I am basically claiming to be the son of God, telling you to try and keep it together until you make it Heaven of just lay low until kingdom come. That's right folks, we are taking this show on the road. This is fun!
Track Seven- I wrote this song for Tim Burgess to sing. Why he bailed out one can only guess. I think I scare people, I guess I can be kind of intense at times. Recording an album with a Sufi-Avitar can really take a lot out of you. I wrote it after I listened to a Telescopes song on our website. I wish Stephen could have been on this album. Oh well next time.
Track Eight- M.A., Maryanne. You infected my mind so many years ago. I often wonder what me life would have been if I would have chosen you instead of Nancy Gallo. Ha! I married you to my heart anyway. I love the shape of your eyes....Yummy. Truth be told, we would have fucked each other into oblivion, you with your ballerina body, me with the metabolism of a fifteen year-old. Shit! Thanks for making me smile just now. Darren Radamaker from The Tyde sings the lower vocal, buy his album. This fucked up world, romantic shit and my love of the piano, things and stuff,
Track Nine- Sergio Leone, Ennico Moricone, drugs, girls, Star Trek, romanticism, the magic of the moment, Jim Jarmusch, and other fine cinema.
Track Ten-Dawn Thomas, Naut Humon, being really bummed out about the way everyone just gives up and excepts this shitty world as is. Ed Harcourt. Daniella.
Track Eleven- The way girls hips look when they are fucking the air @ carnival in Brazil. Damn, I want that sweet-shit-right-now! San Paolo here I come....
Track Twelve- Mark Todd, Kraftwerk, C. Voltaire Clockwork Orange, Astronaut Crack-Pipe. DMT, acid, mushrooms, my room, Petsounds and fucking huffing and puffing after great sex. Yeah!
Track Thirteen- The Church (No, not the empty building where they fuck boys in the ass) Marty Wilson Pieper and Steven Kilby! I don't care if they cook up dog shit and inject it. They are the tops! If I had the money Matt Tow and I agreed we would have flown the boys over to sing this song we did for them. Buy their albums now and listen. Neil Young.
Track Fourteen- Hard Days Night, the scene in the train car where they play the song. Wonderful impression it made, it left a hole in the back of my head 'Poptones'.
Track Fifteen- Thanks you Kurt for singing this song for me. Did you know I cried the whole take, don't tell Rob my tears leaked into the mixing board. Your children are blessed. I love you man, I really do! Also: everyone let me just make my albums the way I want them to be. Let me be the boss. Start your own band, it worked great for the BRMC and The Warlocks.
Track Sixteen- Do you know the work of Bill Viola? You should find out about him. Read the song title and imagine peoples faces, waiting, worrying. I love kids. I want 1000 of them. Come on girls. I'm up for it. We can practice first too!
Track Seventeen- Awe! Sarah Jane. You are beautiful. I dropped you a line, be it the internet or otherwise....I chose the later. Sent today etc............."
--Anton A. Newcombe
(these are his notes for "...And This is Our Music")
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Handsome Furs @ Echoplex Sept 2nd
HANDSOME FURS will be playing at the ECHOPLEX on FRIDAY September 2nd. They will be joined by Suuns and Talkdemonic. They are all amazing live bands. In celebration of all those great shows over this year, we are giving away two pairs of tickets to you amazing LA music lovers out there. All you have to do is send your name or email address and mention HANDSOME FURS.
To win, please do one of the following:
1) Leave a comment below with name or email.
2) Follow us on twitter, or
3) send an email to PORTINFINITE @ aol.com and we will pick a winner.
Don't just stand around. This is for real. Enter sooner than later. Good luck.
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