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Zu Ehren und zur Erinnerung an John
Robert Parker Ravenscroft, hat BLUE FRED in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Koelner „Blue
Shell“ fuer den 24.10.09 zum 4. JOHN PEEL FESTIVAL HONEY BANE, NO MORE + THE
SECRET SHINE eingeladen. Los geht es ab 20 Uhr, der Eintritt betraegt 9 Euro und
die Einnahmen gehen komplett an die Deutsche Herzhilfe!
ABC News is reporting that 20th Century Fox division Fox Searchlght is in
negotiations to adapt the upcoming memoir I Slept With Joey Ramone, written by
Joey's brother Mickey Leigh and longtime Ramones historian Legs McNeil. The
studio involvement would give a significantly higher profile to the project,
which has been under works independently by manager-producer Rory Rosegarten.
Rosegarten secured the rights to the book back in 2006. At the time he also
negotiated the rights to Joey's life story from his mother and the executrix of
Ramone's estate, Charlotte Lesher.
I Slept With Joey Ramone, the book, is scheduled to be published by Simon &
Schuster imprint Fireside in December.
New on Cherry Red Records: The New Hearts - A Secret Affair (The CBS Sessions
1977 – 1978) CD
(Released 19/10/09.) The New Hearts were a power pop/new wave act who evolved
into Mod Revival band secret affair. New hearts issued just two singles for CBS
in 1977/78 but recorded a whole unissued albums worth of material. New Hearts
were a popular live act, supporting the likes of The Jam during their two-year
existence. 19 of the recordings are previously unissued; all 23 tracks are new
to CD; three tracks are pre-CBS demos.
Out soon on the “Devils Jukebox”:
BRIJITTE WEST AND THE DESPERATE HOPEFULS CD/Ltd LP
The ex NY Loose gets down and dirty for maxmimum rock'n'roll effect.
THE LOYALTIES 'So Much For Soho - Redux Edition' CD
Album reissued with bonus tracks!
THE HUMPERS 'WAR IS HELL/MY MACHINE' CD/ Ltd LP
Previously unreleased album and bonus!!!
SLUM LORDS CD/Ltd LP
(ex/current SWEET ZEROS/GABBA/CLASSIC RUINS/LOYALTIES members)
produced by Brian James of the Damned!)
SCOTT DRAKE/SLUMLORDS Split 7"
Ex Humpers mainman and spiffing chap goes head to head with the Slum Lords. 20
paces
SOCIAL DISTORTION has picked the studio where they will record their
long-awaited new album. Frontman Mike Ness explained: “I went up to L.A. to look
at the studio that the Foo Fighters own, and I just started to get really
psyched up for the new record. It's been a long time - five years. I'm really
going into this record with a new outlook. I really want this record to be
unique but also hold the signature Social D. element. It's gonna be a good
record. I can feel it.”
LONG TALL SHORTY were formed in 1978 as one of the earliest and best Mod Revival
band, split up in 1982 and reformed in 2000. Now they are back with a new
full-length called “The Sound Of Giffer City”. 15 new songs incl. a Re-working
of their old live classic “Anti CND” which has never been previously recorded by
LTS. And the music is more or less the same as in the early stages - Mod Punk
with powerpop and 60´s influences. So once again they epitomized the pure Mod
Revival sound with incorporate the agression of Punk and call it today Giffer!
Sleeve notes by Garry Bushell. Limited Edition: First 100 vinyl copies comes
with a printed GIFFER BOTTLE OPENER and on coloured vinyl (hand numbered)!
They will tour Germany for several shows coming autumn.
CD/LP Release Date: 08 October on “Time For Action”.
And....., THE JAYBIRDS started with recording of new songs for an upcoming
release on TFA. Also THE Q works on new songs and will go to the studio in
December to record their first full length album.
FAT WRECK CHORDS – NEWS:
September 29, 2009
STRUNG OUT "Agents of the Underground" Album LP/CD (FAT739)
October 27
THE LAWRENCE ARMS "Buttsweat & Tears" 7"/Digital EP (FAT236)
October 30, 2009
FEST compilation 7” with Dead To Me, Flatliners, Banner Pilot and… (Fest &
Mailorder only)
November 10, 2009
DEAD TO ME “African Elephants” LP/CD (FAT749)
JESSE MALIN is currently hard at work on the new studio album to be released
early 2010, produced by Ted Hutt (Lucero, Flogging Molly, The Gaslight Anthem).
Out now on TKO CH3 - "To Whom It May Concern: The 1981 Demos" Limited LP
For the first time ever, Channel 3’s original 1981 demos are collected on this
13-track LP. These are the recordings that gained the band the attention of Posh
Boy Records’ Robbie Fields, and the rest, as they say, was Punk Rock history.
Included are songs that became CH3 classics, previously unreleased tracks, and a
WHO cover thrown in for good measure. This LP is a great snapshot of this early
SoCal band in their formative stage: a must for any Channel 3 fan. Limited to
1,000 copies on purple & white vinyl. Includes CD version.
New Releases on “Captain Oi! Records”:
THE PURPLE HEARTS - Mod Singles Collection. (First ever compilation gathering
together every A and B side issued by Mod Revival legends The Purple Hearts.
Includes the chart hits “Millions Like Us” which reached No.57 and “Jimmy”
(No.60) plus 4 tracks never previously issued on CD before. Detailed booklet
includes liner notes by Mojo journalist and Mod expert Chris Hunt plus pictures
of all the relevant singles sleeves, now all highly sort after (and expensive)
collectors items.)
EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS – The Singles Collection (First ever Singles Collection
by seminal 70’s Pub / Punk Rock heroes Eddie & The Hot Rods featuring all of
their releases for both Island Records and EMI between 1976-1979. Includes the
UK National Chart hit singles “Get Out Of Denver” (No.43), “Teenage Depression”
(No.35), “I Might Be Lying” (No.44), “Do Anything You Wanna Do” (No.9) and “Quit
This Town” (No.36). Booklet contains pictures of each of these releases (including
many rare foreign issues for all the collectors) and detailed liner notes on
each single Totally remastered by Tim Turan this release is the ultimate Hot
Rods Collection.)
A new TOXIC REASONS box set entitled 'Essential Independence' is scheduled to be
released sometime in 2009 on “Beer City. It will contain the original
'Independence' full length as well as several bonus tracks (many never before
released). Plus a DVD.
Also plans to reissue 'Killed By Remote Control' and 'Within These Walls' are
also in motion.
Clash members MICK JONES and TOPPER HEADON were reunited in the studio for the
first time in 27 years when they joined Billy Bragg for a recording aimed at
promoting the folk singer’s Jail Guitar Doors campaign.
Started two years ago, the Jail Guitar Doors initiative helps to supply musical
instruments to prison inmates, to aid with their rehabilitation, and has so far
seen several ‘graduates’ of the scheme pursue careers as performers after their
release from jail.
Bragg, Jones and Headon were backed by a band comprising former inmates Leon
Walker, Jonny Neesom, Kevin Hawkins and Jon Smillie on a spirited re-recording
of the 1978 Clash song Jail Guitar Doors, from which the campaign takes its name.
“The guys were telling us how much this scheme had helped them move on from
their previous lives before prison,” said Clash guitarist Mick Jones, who in
2007 donated the money for the first ever JGD acoustic guitars to be delivered
to a jail. “It was really touching to think we’ve helped, even if it’s in a
small way.”
Drummer Nick ‘Topper’ Headon added: “To see it all come to fruition is
absolutely beautiful. It was great to meet these guys. When I was in prison
myself, many years ago, I was lucky enough to have access to a guitar, which
belonged to the prison vicar! I know how much it helped me get through it.”
Billy Bragg, who says his life was changed after seeing The Clash play live at
Victoria Park in 1978, inspiring him to write about social and political issues,
explained: “Prison has to be about much more than just locking people up. We
want people to be able to move on from their situation and reconnect with the
outside world, and my hunch was that playing an instrument – particularly a
guitar – could help that.”
The recording session was filmed for Alan Miles’ ‘Breaking Rocks’, a gritty and
uplifting documentary about the Jail Guitar Doors initiative, which will be
premiered as part of the Raindance film festival at Proud Gallery, Camden Town
on 1 October. The film will be followed by performances from Billy Bragg, Mick
Jones, the MC5’s Wayne Kramer, Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters, Get Cape Wear
Cape Fly, Jail Guitar Doors graduates Leon Walker, Jonny Neesom, Louise Wells
and Theone Coleman, plus Night of Treason.
Looks like things are shaping up for the new FORGOTTEN REBELS album. Mickey
DeSadist posted that "About 1/2 the songs for the new Forgotten Rebels recording
are written." The album is as of yet unnamed.
The canadian documentary “The Last Pogo Jumps Again” is set for a DVD release in
March 2010. This movie is a followup to the 1978 film The Last Pogo
THE SLITS will tour the UK and Europe in support of their new album, Trapped
Animal (released October 5).
The current line-up of the band features original members Ari Up and Tessa
Pollitt alongside Hollie Cook (daughter of Sex Pistols' drummer Paul), Anna
Schlute and Adele Wilson.
The sale of an original copy of God Save The Queen on A&M, has ended on eBay
some weeks ago. Winning bid £8,100.
THE SCENICS, an early Toronto-based punk / new wave act that ran from 1976 to
1982, are returning with a new (lost) record and a short tour. The band's
upcoming album is titled “Sunshine World” and features previously unreleased
material, recorded to a four-track recorder between 1977 and 1978. It features
13 original songs along with covers of the Kinks and Tommy James and the
Shondells. The record will be released on October 13th via Scratch/Sonic Unyon.
MESSAGE FROM RICK BUCKLER: "It is with some regret that I can no longer be
involved with FROM THE JAM, many thanks to the fans for all their support over
the last few years and who have made it possible, it has been a pleasure and an
honour.”
Both Bruce and Russ are sad that Rick has now left the band but are happy to
continue onwards with a new drummer soon to be announced.
THE STOOGES will reunite with Raw Power guitarist James Williamson in 2010. Ron
Asheton, the band's original guitarist, died in January, but Iggy Pop and Ron's
brother Scott have now announced that the Raw Power line-up will play the All
Tomorrow's Parties event on May 2/3.
"If I wanted to play guitar again...I figured, 'What the hell, let's do it!'"
Williamson told Rolling Stone. "We're rehearsing songs from Raw Power, The
Stooges, Fun House and Kill City," explained Williamson. "By the end we were
sounding pretty great."
In early August frontman Billy Hopeless commented on the future of Vancouver's
THE BLACK HALOS. He explains that while he could go out and rebuild the band
with new players (he mentions SNFU, Social Distortion and D.O.A. as examples)
he'd rather start a new. Hopeless comments "At the best the Halos was always a
band that I would have loved to go see and hear at worst it was everything that
I despise and I battled to keep it exciting as hard as I could... I believe with
the line up I'm gathering that we will be able to achieve the same if not
greater admiration from myself and hopefully all of you."
Billy's new band is THE BONITOS featuring members of Cristol Pistol, Saddle
Sores, the Daggers, and Black Diamond. The group doesn't have any music online
yet, but they're promising a New York Dolls, Dead Boys and The Stooges inspired
glam-punk sound.
In a bid to repeat their first ever performances of 1978 which took place at
London's Rainbow Theatre on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. have
reformed and are set to play a series of festive shows in the UK.
Led by John Lydon, PiL formed in 1978 after the latter had quit the Sex Pistols.
This time around Lydon has reformed the group following last year's hugely
successful Pistols world tour. So why has he elected to resurrect PiL now?
"Basically, I'd never split PiL. I always felt we were taking a break," explains
Lydon on the phone to MOJO from his home in Los Angeles. "The time felt right to
me (to reform the band) because PiL is a very personal thing for me and I'd been
through a lot of personal things recently. PiL is the one band in which I can
really express myself and I can be myself, so I decided to do it."
The ex-Pistols frontman has assembled a new line-up of the band that consist of
former PiL members Lu Edmonds (guitar), Bruce Smith (drums) as well as newcomer
Scott Firth (bass).
Public Image Ltd will see John Lydon joined by Damned guitarist Lu Edmonds,
former Slits drummer Bruce Smith and bassist Scott Firth.
While the band's return is loosely linked with celebrating the 30th anniversary
of the band's seminal second album, Metal Box, Lydon is keen to point out that
the band's set will span the band's entire catalogue.
"Metal Box is an important album but we don't want to limit ourselves," he says.
"PiL is all about being unlimited, so to speak, so we'll be playing a lot of
different material. There may even be something new in the set."
The new incarnation of PiL will play the following UK shows:
Birmingham O2 Academy (December 15)
Leeds O2 Academy (16)
Glasgow O2 Academy (18)
Manchester Academy (19)
London Brixton O2 Academy (21)