Tuesday, June 01, 2004
The Oz division of EMI is set to release a four CD box-set of the Saints' Harvest recordings, including all three original LPs, B-sides, outtakes, a complete scrapped version of the 2nd LP plus a entire live set recorded at the Hope & Anchor in 1977. Anybody hip to the version of 'Demolition Girl' on the ol' H&A comp from way back when 'll tell ya this might turn out to be nigh on deadly...
Hey cats and chicks!
Tom Ingram & No Hit Records Presents a weekend of desperate rock 'n roll, sixties beats and other cool sounds! Stomp, shout and work it on out with an international cavalcade of the wildest bands and DJs around.
Featuring: The Monks, The Downliners Sect, The A-Bones, The Chesterfield Kings, Sky Saxon & The Seeds, The 5,6,7,8s, Hasil Adkins, The Reigning Sound, Deke Dickerson, Barrence Whitfield, The Swinging Neckbreakers and many more! Shagging, Shaking and Frugging 'til 7am(!) with DJs Mike Stax, Tony The Tyger, Billy Miller, Tim Warren, Todd Abramson, Lee Joseph, Gregg Kostelich plus more to be announced. Go Go girls galore!!
DATES: September 24, 25 & 26, 2004, MAIN BALLROOM HOURS: open until 4am, DJ ROOM HOURS: open until 7am each night, VENDOR ROOM HOURS: 2pm - 2am, VENUE: The Gold Coast Hotel & Casino 4000 W. Flamingo, Las Vegas, NV.
BOOK NOW! ONLINE BOOKING IS AVAILABLE. TICKETS ARE GOING FAST AND WHEN THEY'RE GONE, GONE, GONE WHOA BABY THEY'LL BE GONE!!! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE BABY!!
GET THE GOODS AT rockaround.net
Monday, May 31, 2004
The good news is that the Nomads will be playing the Sjock Festival in Gierle (Belgium) on July 11. The bad news is that public transport won't get me there...
The Fleshtones will make a special appearance at Little Steven’s Battle of Bands at the Double Door in Chicago on Thursday 10th June. The show will then be followed by weekend dates in Madison and Green Bay, WI. While on Saturday 19th June the band return to Troy, NY to participate in the Riverfest.
"Hey! If you're digging that CRAZY-ASSED screaming 60s punk song used in the H&M commercial, HERE IT IS! Both sides of the amazing 1967 garage classic by DR. SPECS OPRICAL ILLUSION on a 7" reissue on Crypt Records. Available SOON!". and…. COMING in late-MAY 2004!!!!!!!! 180-gram LP: REVEREND CHARLIE JACKSON God's Got It (Crypt-094 LP) Wooooweee! On VINYL, baby!! 13 cuts of his 1970s BOOKER & JACKSON label primeness licensed from Aum/Case Quarter from their awesome CD label shots, liners, rip-roarin' ANALOG 180-gram action! "God's Got It/ Something to Think About/ Wrapped Up and Tangled Up in Jesus/ Testimony of Rev. Charlie Jackson/ The Goodness of God Part 2/ This Old Building/ I Gave Up All I Had/ Fix It Jesus/ What a Time/ Trouble in My Way/ I Shall Not Be Moved/ Morning Train/ My Eternal Home" AVAILABLE MAY 24 2004!!!!!
Sunday, May 30, 2004
So here goes. I'm heading down the wormhole back toward reality and as you know, that bites. Back to Death Row having been granted a last request with no sign of being able to initiate an appeal. Shit happens. All the apples fell on me. Etc. There is no chemical solution to a spiritual problem though and thusly when I'm spat out into tomorrow then I gotta work on a clean slate principle. There are worthy things comin' up to stick around for and that's as upbeat as it gets for now.
Saturday, May 29, 2004
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ANT MUZAK is the funniest thing I've clocked in ages. Be sure to play the full 9 minute 50 sec version. Thanks to Sir Hoto for the link.
ANT MUZAK is the funniest thing I've clocked in ages. Be sure to play the full 9 minute 50 sec version. Thanks to Sir Hoto for the link.
From the tickets-scotland.com site....
At last, the news many of us have been waiting for... MC5 at the Garage! The Detroit legends now called DKT/MC5 for legal reasons bring their original full-throttle, white noise, politically charged psych out Rock 'N' Roll to Glasgow's Garage on Tuesday 31st August. God fathers of every band in your Rock & Roll record collection, if you like it raw this is the one YOU'VE been waiting for!
At last, the news many of us have been waiting for... MC5 at the Garage! The Detroit legends now called DKT/MC5 for legal reasons bring their original full-throttle, white noise, politically charged psych out Rock 'N' Roll to Glasgow's Garage on Tuesday 31st August. God fathers of every band in your Rock & Roll record collection, if you like it raw this is the one YOU'VE been waiting for!
Seems to be a few "happenings" with regard to celebrating the birth of this thing called "rock'n'roll". Apparently (according to the radio yesterday) it's been narrowed down to July 5th 1954 when Elvis cut "That's Alright Mama". Voila the 50th Anniversary of the beastie. As you all know, fine as that event may have been in terms of booting any mainstream jacksy, this stuff was bubbling away way before that but I digress. So auld yin and young yin alike, take a walk on yon wild side...
Belfast Rockabilly Roots Round-Up - Barrow Square, Belfast July 2-4th 2004 Celebrating 50 years of rock n roll
We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of rockabilly music in Laganside’s Barrow Square. Artists from the United States, Europe, the UK and Ireland are coming together in Belfast with their individual brands of modern rockabilly music as a living art form. Rockabilly - that mixture of blues, country, hillbilly and gospel music that came together and started the musical revolution we now know as rock n’ roll.
Historians may never agree about when and where rock n roll was born. But all historians do agree that the Sun Studios, 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee began a revolution that spawned a legacy which still resonates today.
Sun Studios was responsible for some of the legends of modern music: Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Howlin’ Wolf, Roy Orbison, B.B. King but on July 5th, 1954, Elvis Presley recorded That’s Alright Mama in Sun Studios and created a world of rock n roll music.
Nic Roulette & the Blue Moon Boys- From Fort Wayne, Indiana. If you didn’t experience Elvis in the fifties, experience Nic Roulette now. This is high octane rockabilly, rooted in the fifties sound and equally loved by the punk and psychobilly audience.
The Rimshots- Proving once again that you don’t have to come from Memphis to make good rock n roll. These Welsh hillbillies will root and toot their way through their classic repertoire and Belfast will resonate with the cheer of lechyd Da!
The Sabrejets -hard boiled, no holds barred, no punched pulled, low-down white-knuckled, revved up hot rodded rockabilly from Belfast's greaser kings. The biggest and baddest band to come out of Belfast. Screaming guitars and lots of attitude are what to expect from this outfit.
Ponchartrain - A four-piece outfit fronted by Paul Godden, specialising in vintage (almost acoustic) country music with Cajun, Tex-Mex and a whole mess of influences thrown in for good measure. Joining Paul in the line-up are fellow "Rimshots" John Lewis and Mandy Davidson on guitar and vocals and double bass respectively (not forgetting Paul’s wife Jean on fiddle and accordion).
The Ranch House Favourites- From Holland, formed in 1992 and influenced by the great western swing bands of the 1940's and 1950's, this 5-piece outfit achieve a sound that is at once authentic and timeless. Over the years, the band has grown to become one of the hottest European retro outfits to burn up a dance floor.
The SureShots - Countless are the legends related to this quartet from the North East of England - this band is one of the hottest rockabilly outfits on the rockin' circuit, and, beside Newcastle Brown Ale, one of the most important exports from Newcastle!
Oona Fortune and the Millionaires- From Dublin, Oona has sung with some of the most entertaining bands in Ireland. She’s put together an all-star cast of Dublin rockabillies for her Belfast appearance. Mixing up hillbilly and rockabilly, Oona kick starts Sunday afternoon’s show.
Tickets £12 per day ticket. £20 for a two day pass. And can be bought in advance from the Belfast Visitor Centre: Tel: 02890 246609 or info@belfastvisitor.com
Belfast Rockabilly Roots Round-Up - Barrow Square, Belfast July 2-4th 2004 Celebrating 50 years of rock n roll
We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of rockabilly music in Laganside’s Barrow Square. Artists from the United States, Europe, the UK and Ireland are coming together in Belfast with their individual brands of modern rockabilly music as a living art form. Rockabilly - that mixture of blues, country, hillbilly and gospel music that came together and started the musical revolution we now know as rock n’ roll.
Historians may never agree about when and where rock n roll was born. But all historians do agree that the Sun Studios, 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee began a revolution that spawned a legacy which still resonates today.
Sun Studios was responsible for some of the legends of modern music: Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Howlin’ Wolf, Roy Orbison, B.B. King but on July 5th, 1954, Elvis Presley recorded That’s Alright Mama in Sun Studios and created a world of rock n roll music.
Nic Roulette & the Blue Moon Boys- From Fort Wayne, Indiana. If you didn’t experience Elvis in the fifties, experience Nic Roulette now. This is high octane rockabilly, rooted in the fifties sound and equally loved by the punk and psychobilly audience.
The Rimshots- Proving once again that you don’t have to come from Memphis to make good rock n roll. These Welsh hillbillies will root and toot their way through their classic repertoire and Belfast will resonate with the cheer of lechyd Da!
The Sabrejets -hard boiled, no holds barred, no punched pulled, low-down white-knuckled, revved up hot rodded rockabilly from Belfast's greaser kings. The biggest and baddest band to come out of Belfast. Screaming guitars and lots of attitude are what to expect from this outfit.
Ponchartrain - A four-piece outfit fronted by Paul Godden, specialising in vintage (almost acoustic) country music with Cajun, Tex-Mex and a whole mess of influences thrown in for good measure. Joining Paul in the line-up are fellow "Rimshots" John Lewis and Mandy Davidson on guitar and vocals and double bass respectively (not forgetting Paul’s wife Jean on fiddle and accordion).
The Ranch House Favourites- From Holland, formed in 1992 and influenced by the great western swing bands of the 1940's and 1950's, this 5-piece outfit achieve a sound that is at once authentic and timeless. Over the years, the band has grown to become one of the hottest European retro outfits to burn up a dance floor.
The SureShots - Countless are the legends related to this quartet from the North East of England - this band is one of the hottest rockabilly outfits on the rockin' circuit, and, beside Newcastle Brown Ale, one of the most important exports from Newcastle!
Oona Fortune and the Millionaires- From Dublin, Oona has sung with some of the most entertaining bands in Ireland. She’s put together an all-star cast of Dublin rockabillies for her Belfast appearance. Mixing up hillbilly and rockabilly, Oona kick starts Sunday afternoon’s show.
Tickets £12 per day ticket. £20 for a two day pass. And can be bought in advance from the Belfast Visitor Centre: Tel: 02890 246609 or info@belfastvisitor.com
Mr Percival laid the following info on we and it sounds like something you should be makin' an effort to get to... I just saw The Chesterfield Kings just over a week ago and they brought back some eminent memories. Particularly the show in Berlin 1988 where they went "glam" and broke the hearts of the purists. Now they do The Rolling Stones better than Jagger and Co could ever expect to do and most importantly they deliver the rock (and roll) that is seemingly extinct these days in spades.
Three days of wild twisted city rock & teenage kicks!
JULY 1-2-3 SUMMER 2004. WaterFront, Rotterdam
The time has come that a long cherished juvenile dream will come true. The first Dutch International Garage Festival is in the works and is aptly named Primitive! Rotterdam’s infamous rock venue WaterFront, which has a very credible reputation concerning its involvement with elementary rock ‘n’roll, will present a festival bill featuring everything inbetween the pioneering original raw sixties sounds to the mayhem of nowadays decent garage bands. No lame retro crap, not a boring old farts’ band from the stone age, and no dull bandwagon jumpers of the so-called new garage groups. The garage music, as originated in the mid sixties, is celebrating its third major revival these days and Primitive! is all about the raw, pure exciting sound driven by teenage energy and a never ending search for the kicks in life.
Primitive! will be a wild garage punk blow out; three days of the best bands and deejays available. On the bill are amongst others: The Remains, a legendary group responsible for great godlike classics, they toured the States with The Beatles and are still worshipped by fans of sixties music all over the world. The Chesterfield Kings, the absolute rulers of the early eighties garage-revival, The Buff Medwayswith renaissance man Billy Childish, The Solarflares, who came from the ashes of The Prisoners. Also on the bill are new comers Thee Exciters from Southampton, local trash blues duo The Low Point Drains, Dutch surf & garage veterans The Firebirds, The Satelliters orthodox sixties punk from Germany, Spanish party band Dr. Explosion and Dutch garage-beat purveyors The Nederbietels. All this and The Von Bondies from Detroit and many, many more.
As if this is not enough to blow you out off your socks, the promotors of Primitive! have booked the hottest deejays to keep the dancefloor boiling: Tim Warren(U.S.A., Crypt Records), Ritchie Screaming Apple & Lutz Soundflat (Germany), Dirk Dutronic (Belgium), Jorge Explosion (Spain), Michel Da Capo, Roccalberti, Señor Alberto, Jan & Jan Prime Time and Dandy Dave (Holland) to name but only a few.
To keep people off the streets, WaterFront also has organised a movie program in cooperation with WORMbeeld. A once in a lifetime chance to see cult-movie classics from the last four decades on the big screen. And there is more to meet the eye: around the time of the festival, Showroom Mama runs an exhibition featuring custom art, record sleeves and concert poster design and the phenomenal world of fanzines from all over the globe.
For even more information CLICK HERE!
Three days of wild twisted city rock & teenage kicks!
JULY 1-2-3 SUMMER 2004. WaterFront, Rotterdam
The time has come that a long cherished juvenile dream will come true. The first Dutch International Garage Festival is in the works and is aptly named Primitive! Rotterdam’s infamous rock venue WaterFront, which has a very credible reputation concerning its involvement with elementary rock ‘n’roll, will present a festival bill featuring everything inbetween the pioneering original raw sixties sounds to the mayhem of nowadays decent garage bands. No lame retro crap, not a boring old farts’ band from the stone age, and no dull bandwagon jumpers of the so-called new garage groups. The garage music, as originated in the mid sixties, is celebrating its third major revival these days and Primitive! is all about the raw, pure exciting sound driven by teenage energy and a never ending search for the kicks in life.
Primitive! will be a wild garage punk blow out; three days of the best bands and deejays available. On the bill are amongst others: The Remains, a legendary group responsible for great godlike classics, they toured the States with The Beatles and are still worshipped by fans of sixties music all over the world. The Chesterfield Kings, the absolute rulers of the early eighties garage-revival, The Buff Medwayswith renaissance man Billy Childish, The Solarflares, who came from the ashes of The Prisoners. Also on the bill are new comers Thee Exciters from Southampton, local trash blues duo The Low Point Drains, Dutch surf & garage veterans The Firebirds, The Satelliters orthodox sixties punk from Germany, Spanish party band Dr. Explosion and Dutch garage-beat purveyors The Nederbietels. All this and The Von Bondies from Detroit and many, many more.
As if this is not enough to blow you out off your socks, the promotors of Primitive! have booked the hottest deejays to keep the dancefloor boiling: Tim Warren(U.S.A., Crypt Records), Ritchie Screaming Apple & Lutz Soundflat (Germany), Dirk Dutronic (Belgium), Jorge Explosion (Spain), Michel Da Capo, Roccalberti, Señor Alberto, Jan & Jan Prime Time and Dandy Dave (Holland) to name but only a few.
To keep people off the streets, WaterFront also has organised a movie program in cooperation with WORMbeeld. A once in a lifetime chance to see cult-movie classics from the last four decades on the big screen. And there is more to meet the eye: around the time of the festival, Showroom Mama runs an exhibition featuring custom art, record sleeves and concert poster design and the phenomenal world of fanzines from all over the globe.
For even more information CLICK HERE!
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Word is that the Excelsior label is planning to reissue the 1980 'A Treat Of New Beat' LP by legendary Dutch band The Rousers. A classic slice of punk/powerpop, this disc has remained in obscurity way too long, and it's good to learn it'll be finally gettin' the red carpet treatment it deserves; 'cause work is bein' done on a full-length documentary to be included as a bonus DVD in the package. Anyone with access to video and or filmed material of the band is encouraged to contact us, and we'll pass on the info.
OK. I'm back and I know why I'm a little jumpy about going anyplace these days. Fact is that there's never enough time and ergo a lot of unfinished "business" is the result. People have schedules and these have a tendancy to conflict. Reality is a nonstop kick in the stones alright. All in all though, we had a bloody chuffing ball and I salute those of our extended family that we did see. More of which later...
Meanwhile lets get back to the purpose of all this, to connect you folks with the stuff you need as a regular transfusion, perhaps antidote to the shit you get fed on a day to day basis...
"Ross McIntyre and Martin Percival, who run Rezillos.com on behalf of the band, will be interviewing the Rezillos next month for an exclusive interview to appear on the band's site. This is your chance to ask the Rezillos those questions you've been waiting half a lifetime to ask!!! Please keep it to the Rezillos (no Revillos, Shake, Human League etc at this stage). They're looking to strike a balance in the questions between looking back at the 76-78 era as well as 2001 and forwards. They'll give a name check, of course, for everyone who has questions asked in the interview. The best place to post the questions is on the Yahoo
Groups Rezillos site: RIGHT HERE.
Meanwhile lets get back to the purpose of all this, to connect you folks with the stuff you need as a regular transfusion, perhaps antidote to the shit you get fed on a day to day basis...
"Ross McIntyre and Martin Percival, who run Rezillos.com on behalf of the band, will be interviewing the Rezillos next month for an exclusive interview to appear on the band's site. This is your chance to ask the Rezillos those questions you've been waiting half a lifetime to ask!!! Please keep it to the Rezillos (no Revillos, Shake, Human League etc at this stage). They're looking to strike a balance in the questions between looking back at the 76-78 era as well as 2001 and forwards. They'll give a name check, of course, for everyone who has questions asked in the interview. The best place to post the questions is on the Yahoo
Groups Rezillos site: RIGHT HERE.
Sunday, May 23, 2004
After a good night's sleep I figure it's time to give you the lowdown on the Lille trip. Came home late last night realizing that in the previous 3 days I slept all but 9 hours, and that's tuff goin' at this advanced age... but hey, it was well worth the bother.
Arrived early on Friday morning and went straight to the excellent Musee d'Art Moderne in Villeneuve d'Ascq. I won't bore you with too many details but I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of cubist stuff on display and a large number of works by the great Fernand Leger. Spend most of the afternoon strollin' thru' the city of Lille, the place had gone seriously upmarket since it collapsed as one of the last bastions of the industrial revolution several decades ago. The old city and it's numerous small shopping streets were busy to the point of being overcrowded, but the nice weather and relaxed atmosphere made sure I didn't feel the need to wipe out the busloads of tourists gettin' in my way.
When it was time to head for the hotel I took off in the completely opposite direction, thank god I ran into Steve and French Superrock fan extra ordinaire Jean Marc Rimette at that point who probably saved me from walkin' all the way to Antwerp. After shootin' the shit with these guys over a few beers and some microwaved "food" it was time to head for the main reason of our stay: The Fleshtones show at the Aeronef.
We walked in halfway opening band Toxic Waste's set and I amost started whishin' for another one of those nuked to death pizzas. Next up were French punk legends Metal Urbain, who are in the midst of some highly touted reunion tour, and I'm glad to report they did not disappoint. The two guitar/beatbox line-up was still intact and they played fiathfull versions of old classics like 'Paris Maquis' and 'Panik'. Good as it was tho', nothin' could have preparad me for the total onslaught that was the Fleshtones set, from the git go they seemed intend to tear the place up at max velocity. Hey, this Superrock stuff sure ain't for the weak of heart; jumpin', runnin', standin' still (Powerstance!) while constantly poundin' out song after great song ('Destination Greenpoint', 'Burnin' Hell', 'Hitburg USA', 'Ten Dollars More', you name it), these guys are still a force to be reckoned with. Even after close to three decades there's still no sign of 'm headin' for the rightlane, whatever fuels their engine is still in large supply.
The crowd loved it and seemed to have come from all over; including a bunch of German soccer holligans from Gelsenkirchen and a car full of Dutch kids, one of 'm apparently livin' just around the corner from HQ (!), well whadda you know?. If the Fleshtones never made it in the "real world", to a dedicated number of loonies these guys will forever be one of the finest rockin' units to grace this planet's stages. Please be sure to count me in among the latter.
(Check out Steve's tales on the Fleshtones' Hall Of Fame)
Arrived early on Friday morning and went straight to the excellent Musee d'Art Moderne in Villeneuve d'Ascq. I won't bore you with too many details but I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of cubist stuff on display and a large number of works by the great Fernand Leger. Spend most of the afternoon strollin' thru' the city of Lille, the place had gone seriously upmarket since it collapsed as one of the last bastions of the industrial revolution several decades ago. The old city and it's numerous small shopping streets were busy to the point of being overcrowded, but the nice weather and relaxed atmosphere made sure I didn't feel the need to wipe out the busloads of tourists gettin' in my way.
When it was time to head for the hotel I took off in the completely opposite direction, thank god I ran into Steve and French Superrock fan extra ordinaire Jean Marc Rimette at that point who probably saved me from walkin' all the way to Antwerp. After shootin' the shit with these guys over a few beers and some microwaved "food" it was time to head for the main reason of our stay: The Fleshtones show at the Aeronef.
We walked in halfway opening band Toxic Waste's set and I amost started whishin' for another one of those nuked to death pizzas. Next up were French punk legends Metal Urbain, who are in the midst of some highly touted reunion tour, and I'm glad to report they did not disappoint. The two guitar/beatbox line-up was still intact and they played fiathfull versions of old classics like 'Paris Maquis' and 'Panik'. Good as it was tho', nothin' could have preparad me for the total onslaught that was the Fleshtones set, from the git go they seemed intend to tear the place up at max velocity. Hey, this Superrock stuff sure ain't for the weak of heart; jumpin', runnin', standin' still (Powerstance!) while constantly poundin' out song after great song ('Destination Greenpoint', 'Burnin' Hell', 'Hitburg USA', 'Ten Dollars More', you name it), these guys are still a force to be reckoned with. Even after close to three decades there's still no sign of 'm headin' for the rightlane, whatever fuels their engine is still in large supply.
The crowd loved it and seemed to have come from all over; including a bunch of German soccer holligans from Gelsenkirchen and a car full of Dutch kids, one of 'm apparently livin' just around the corner from HQ (!), well whadda you know?. If the Fleshtones never made it in the "real world", to a dedicated number of loonies these guys will forever be one of the finest rockin' units to grace this planet's stages. Please be sure to count me in among the latter.
(Check out Steve's tales on the Fleshtones' Hall Of Fame)
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