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APRIL 15TH 2009
Lordly brothers and sisters. With the exception of the ATP Vs The Glands festival appearance in a couple of weeks, other business has put paid to a flurry of Lordular gig activity. We apologise but confirm that we will deliver 45 whole minutes of pant-soiling rock in Minehead to compensate. We look forward to seeing you.
This non-gig-based period has however meant that we can get on with other things. Firstly, we demoed about 7 new songs with the intention of somehow getting them together into album form sometime before the world ends. They sound mighty. We will be playing at least a handful of them at Minehead. You will know them from their confusion and looseness.
There have been many other developments of a non-Lordy basis. Here are some of them...
Lord Philip hired a castle - yes, a f*cking CASTLE - and married Lady Joanne last week. Featuring Led Zeppelin karaoke and a cocktail that involved blending a blender. Also featuring light tears, heavy emotion and all round good feelings.
Here our Doctor of Sonic Waveforms, Lord Mark Simms, enjoys the bar:
Philip is currently in Mick Jagger's pad in Marakesh. Strangely, this is not a lie.
Philip also put together his first photography exhibition in January exploring the world of stationary stationery. www.philipwelding.co.uk will sort you out:
Elvis has been doing some of this:
plenty of this:
and a lot of this:
He told us he was moving to Ireland but turns out he lives on Mars:
September hopefully sees a minature hybrid version of Elvis and Jo enter the world. That's right, not only is Elvis a good cook, a dab hand with DIY, an above-average drummer and a great surfer but he also has a fully working set of plums. Congratulations Elv and Jo!
Though Lordy activities have been slender, Elvis and myself have a new record out soon thanks to our involvement in the lovely FELIX. Here we are trying not to look too old:
Our first album, You Are The One I Pick, is due for release on the splendid Kranky label out of Chicago later this year. We are duly honoured, chuffed and excited to be on the same label as so many awesome bands past and present. Go looksy: www.kranky.net
Live dates will surely follow once we work out how to replicate the 14 guitar parts and 76 cello parts on every song in a live format.
Felix Myspace
I'm also involved in a new band called KOGUMAZA. It's a 3 piece with Neil from Bob Tilton/Wolves Of Greece taking up the other guitar duties and Ms Katharine Eira Brown wo-manning the echo drumkit. Inspired by Neil and me's involvement with composer Glenn Branca as well as the inevitable Lungfish, Velvets, Sabbath etc we just did a few shows with Zomes, the new project from Asa Osborne and we had fun. We are recording a seven inch single for the Low Point label once we figure out how to do what we've got in mind. In the meantime we're playing live this weekend:
FRIDAY APRIL 17TH
BIRMINGHAM HARE & HOUNDS with EARTH and STEBMO
SATURDAY APRIL 18TH
LONDON CROSS KINGS with QUACK QUACK and EMBERS
Kogumaza Myspace
Low Point
I've also been enjoying the naughty thrill of playing indie rock in standard tuning as a member of Glasgow's STAGE BLOOD with fellows from Eska and Mogwai. We even recorded some tunes. Not to mention got involved in a bizarre ruck at Toddington Services with the Nottingham branch of the Discharge Fan Club. Oh well. More gigs planned. Here is some shaky video from our recent Nottingham gig:
Stage Blood Myspace
Some fun music was made with PW Long late last year as well but time and a distinct lack of timekeepers meant little of it went to tape. The future should see that changed one way or another which is grand news as Preston has some genius ideas up his sleeve. In the meantime, have a look at some films he's been working on:
http://www.youtube.com/user/projectnoisetv
If you're in the US of A be sure to go and see Sonic Boom's Spectrum on tour in May. Our friend Jason is ably handling the guitar duties on a Fender Jaguar he's borrowed off me, so my guitar gets to tour the US before I do. Should be killer.
Playlist:
Club Tropicana - Wham!
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Dear Thief - new live stuff
Red Eyed Legends - new LP
McWatt - LP
Zun Zun Egui - live actions
Supergrass - Richard III
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Obits - I Blame You
The Hipshakes - Live
See you at ATP. Buy us a pint.
c/LORDS
MARCH 4 2009
News. Brief-style. We spent a week recording demos for new stuff with a view to a split single later this year put together by our friends at We Be Records. We churned and polished about 7 new song-snippets that have been kicking around for a while.
We're taking it easy right now, gig-wise. We have one live show lined up and that's thanks to YOU as we're playing ATP Vs The Fans on May 9th alongside (but hopefully not at the same time) as THE JESUS LIZARD, SLEEP, DEVO, HARVEY MILK and more. Come see us whydontcha? Click the link above to get yourself a ticket. Don't be text-massaging us on the day to try and get in either as we all ate our mobile phones.
The Lords who play in LORDS
Our first outing was 29.05.03. Here's where we have been since
We have created warm soundmilk for your ear
You will be keen to know what we look like
Our sound is smothered in sauce. Find out why
What the fuck are we on about?
"I'm just second hand newwwws, I'm just second hand newwwwwwwwssssss!!! Ye-ahhhh!!!"
Fellow Lords
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