Filed under: 10 Minute Warning, Adventures in Stereo favourite, Bright Eyes, Downloads, Greg Dulli, Grinderman, Guns N' Roses, Isobel Campbell, Jane's addiction, Mark Lanegan, Music News, NME, Nick Cave, Slash, The Gutter Twins, The Panic Channel, Tom Waits, Velvet Revolver, Video, folks on tour | Tags: 10 Minute Warning, Appetite for Destruction, Autobiography, Bright Eyes, Downloads, folks on tour, Fopp, Gears of War, Greg Dulli, Grinderman, Guns N' Roses, Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan, Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell, Mercury Rev, Sigur Ros, Slash, Spiritualized, The Gutter Twins, The Panic Channel, Tom Waits, Velvet Revolver, Video
So, in between going to work and playing Gears of War on the Xbox I’ve been reading Slash’s autobiography (SLASH) and it’s pretty damn good. Those Gn’R fellas were pretty wild … as I’ve said many times, I don’t care much for anything past Appetite for Destuction, but back when I was ‘discovering’ music I sought out everything Gn’R. Although I don’t listen to much of their post-Appetite output, there is a good album within the Use Your Illusion double. I can’t even be bothered discussing this ‘Chinese Democracy’ and the best of all the post Guns projects was Duff McKagen’s record with his old 10 Minute Warning pals. However, I just had to listen to some early Gn’R stuff that I had kicking around so as to hear what Slash was talking about.
Here’s a few early Guns N’ Roses tracks (available for 1 week only):
November Rain demo from 1986, Welcome to the Jungle, Bad Obsession (early Use Your Illusion demo)
… and away from this Guns N’ Roses stuff, the Connect Festival (held in the ancient grounds of an 18th Century castle in the Scottish Highlands) will feature some mighty fine bands this year (as well as not so mighty fine) and although the tickets are pretty pricey, you can expect your weekend of Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August to include entertainment from Sigur Ros, Grinderman, Elbow, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Howling Bells, Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band and … The Gutter Twins! (for the full list of the announced acts visit the Connect Music Festival dot Com).
Speaking of The Gutter Twins, here’s some more dates that are shown on their MySpace:
JUNE
28 - Sled Island Festival, Calgary
JULY
10 - The Roxy, Hollywood, CA
12 - Showbox, Seattle, WA
AUGUST
2 - Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL
6 - Tavastia, Helsinki, FI
7 - Way Out West, Gothenburg, SE
8 - Voxhall, Aarhus, DK
9 - Haldern Festival, Haldern, DE
11 - Zodiac, Oxford, UK
12 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
13 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK
15 - Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt, BE
16 - Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, NL
17 - Highfield Festival, Hohenfelden, DE
19 - Beatpol, Dresden, DE
20 - Ampere, Munich, DE
21 - Palac Akropolis, Prague, CZ
23 - Proxima, Warsaw, PL
25 - Forum, Bielefeld, DE
26 - Komedia, Brighton, UK
27 - Leadmill, Sheffield, UK
29 - Electric Picnic, Stradbally, IE
30 - Academy, Liverpool, UK
Also on tour is Tom Waits. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to catch one of the Edinburgh shows, but here’s a list of dates from the Anti- website …
JUNE
17 & 18 - Orpheum, Phoenix, AZ
20 - Plazza Theatre, El Paso, TX
22 - Jones Hall, Houston, TX
23 - Palladium, Dallas, TX
25 - Brady Theatre, Tulsa, OK
26 - Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO
28 - Ohio Theatre, Columbus, OH
29 - Civic Auditorium, Knoxville, TN
JULY
1 - Times Union Centre, Jacksonville, FL
2 - Saenger Theatre, Mobile, AL
3 - Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, AL
5 - Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA
12 - Auditorium Kursaal, SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN
14 & 15 - Auditorium Forum, BARCELONA, SPAIN
17, 18 & 19 – Teatro Degli Arcimboldi, MILAN, ITALY
21 & 22 – KCP, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
24 & 25 – Grand Rex, PARIS, FRANCE
27 & 28 – Playhouse, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
30 & 31st - The Ratcellar, DUBLIN, IRELAND
AUGUST
1 – The Ratcellar, DUBLIN, IRELAND
There’s loads of other stuff happening (Festival season and all), but I’ve been to busy playing Gears of War to notice! … oh, and Sunday at Devil Dirt (the new Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan album) was released on May 12th, not May 5th! … but it’s a great album. I also got my hands on The Panic Channel’s (ONe) for £3 out of Fopp: it’s anything but brilliant, but enjoyable enough (hopefully something comes from the NME jam with the original Jane’s Addiction line up).
I’ll be getting May’s bootleg posted in the next few days, but in the meantime enjoy those Gn’R tracks and this smashing video from Mr. Waits.
Filed under: Adventures in Stereo favourite, Albums of Year, Chris Goss, Downloads, Future releases, Masters of Reality, Music News, folks on tour | Tags: Adventures in Stereo favourites, Chris Goss, Desert Sessions, Downloads, folks on tour, Future releases, Goon Moon, Mark Lanegan, Masters of Reality, Music News, Queens of the Stone Age, Tour Dates
For those of you unaware of Chris Goss or Masters of Reality, check out this incredible show from Roadburn Festival 2001 that I’d found floating around the net. I’ve been a fan of this band since 1998, when I found ‘How High The Moon’ in one of these record fayre events for £7.00. I had been looking for the rare debut album, but I figured anything would do.
‘How High The Moon’ is one of the finest live albums I have ever heard and remains a favourite. I duly purchased the entire back catalogue (including the Def American, Rick Rubin produced debut) and caught the band on tour in 2001.
You may also be interested to learn (if you aren’t aware of Mr Goss) that Chris Goss was also a major player in the founding of Queens of the Stone Age (having ‘discovered’ Kyuss and having helped name the QotSA) and the Desert Sessions, as well as being a collaborator of Josh Homme, Mark Lanegan … well an extensive list of alternative artists who he’s produced records for or appeared on records with. He has even written a track for an episode of ‘Ren & Stimpy’.
Anyhoo, having been busying himself with Queens of the Stone Age’s excellent ‘Era Vulgaris’, gigs with Josh Homme as 5:15er’s and a brilliant full length debut with Goon Moon, Mascot Records have announced that the new Masters of Reality record is due out May 12th.
There’s also some tour dates announced:
May
31st: Bad Bonn Kilbi - Düdingen [Switzerland]
June
6th: Rock-Im-Park - Nürnberg Zeppelinfeld [Germany]
8th: Rock-Am-Ring - Nurburgring [Germany]
12th: Hultsfred Festival - Hultsfred [Sweden]
16th: The Cathouse - Glasgow [UK]
… oh, and the picture? That was from the last night at the Rancho de Luna.
Goss explains: “the idea was to get a photo of us roasting marshmallows on the burning guitar. It was a 12 string. I tuned the strings pretty high hoping the tense strings would pop and make good noises. We set up a microphone and recorded, but nothing happened. Our spirits shrivelled.
Then John and I thought the wood might explode, splashing molten varnish on us, or perhaps the fumes from the plastic pick guard would kill us. So we ran. We forgot to buy marshmallows too.”
– thanks to MastersofReality.co.uk for this (a great fricken’ site).
Filed under: Albums of Year, Future releases, Greg Dulli, Mark Lanegan, Music News, The Gutter Twins | Tags: Saturnalia, Stream, The Gutter Twins
As most of us now now, Mark Lanegan, Greg Dulli and their friends are on the road. Their debut album as ‘The Gutter Twins’ is still a few weeks away, however, you can listen to it here.
I had been trying to avoid listening to the album until the postman delivers my pre-ordered copy on the day of release, however the urge to hear more of the songs (4 tracks are available to listen to on their MySpace) kinda got the better of me. I’ve been listening to it pretty much non-stop since.
For those who don’t know, here’s the tracklisting:
The Stations
God’s Children
All Misery/Flowers
The Body
Idle Hands
Circle the Fringes
Who Will Lead Us?
Seven Stories Underground
I Was in Love with You
Bête Noire
Each to Each
Front Street
‘Who Will Lead Us?’ destroyed me. As too did ‘Seven Stories Underground’. I’ll post a review soon enough, but it’s fair to say that it’s been worth the wait. Likely to be one of the albums of 2008.
