Andy Bell’s critically acclaimed electro-acoustic cabaret show and album ‘Torsten The Bareback Saint’ was a brave and unexpected career move in 2014 from his comfort zone of being lead singer with Erasure, one of the world’s most successful synth-pop bands. Classic Pop magazine awarded it 5 stars.
• After performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and before starting to write the second Torsten episode ‘Torsten The Beautiful Libertine’, songwriters Barney Ashton-Bullock and Christopher Frost, producer Michael J. Allison (Olivia Newton-John, Cliff Richard, Freddie Mercury) and Andy Bell himself collaborated in re-fashioning some of the album tracks purely for fun. These remixes include re-sung vocals, alternate and new lyrics and new instrumentation.
• There are three remixes specifically made for the radio; two danceable remixes of ‘Weston-Super-Mare’ connecting the Torsten project back to Andy's more familiar Erasure electro-pop heritage (thanks to synth-pop stalwarts Dancing With Ruby and mOOger!) and there’s a complete electro-pop re-work of fan favourite track ‘Bingo Hall Baby’ which has more than a touch of the Alan Bennett about it. The experimentation was perhaps at its most abstract on the Industrial Soundscape Mix of ‘Weston-Super-Mare’ which perhaps recalls early noise terrorists Cabaret Voltaire and Einstürzende Neubauten.
• This surprisingly innovative 9-track collection is available as a CD packaged in a miniature replica LP gatefold sleeve, featuring a unique black vinyl CD.
TRACK LISTING:
1. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (RADIO SUPER MIX)
2. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (EXTENDED VERSION)
3. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (DANCING WITH RUBY REMIX)
4. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (MOOGER! REMIX)
5. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (INDUSTRIAL SOUNDSCAPE MIX)
6. BINGO HALL BABY (ELECTROPOP REMAKE)
7. I DON’T LIKE (RADIO REMIX)
8. FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (RADIO REMIX)
9. TORSTEN THE BAREBACK SAINT (PROMOTIONAL MEDLEY)
British Nuclear Bunkers is the new album by Luke Haines. It was recorded using entirely analogue synthesisers. Apart from an occasional vocal the only organic sound used is a recording of Camden Borough Control Bunker being attacked late at night by Luke Haines. Maximum Electronic Rock and Roll.
British Rock heroes The Zombies return with their follow-up to 2011’s Breathe Out, Breathe In, STILL GOT THAT HUNGER contains many brand new songs written by Rod Argent, plus ‘Never Get Over You’ by Colin Blunstone, and a new version of their 1965 single ‘I Want You Back Again’.
On the 1st December 2015 WIRE plays at the BOTANIQUE , Brussels.
Wire was founded in the seventies , navigating between punk , post-rock and experimental music. The current Britpop scene owes much to the legendary , atmospheric songs from this trio.
On the link below you can get tickets.
Op 01.12.15 komt WIRE naar de BOTANIQUE.
Het Londense Wire ontstond in de seventies, schipperend tussen punk, post-rock en experimentele muziek. De huidige britpopscène heeft veel te danken aan de legendarische, sferische nummers van dit trio.
Op onderstaande link kan je terecht voor tickets.
Simple Minds are at their most impressive in recent years. Jim Kerr and his band are in top form.The latter album gives a wonderful overview of the impressive thirty-five year career of one of the greatest British rock groups of all time. From"Promised You A Miracle" to "Glittering Prize", "Waterfront", "Sanctify Yourself", "Belfast Child", "Mandela Day" and of course “Do not You (Forget About Me) " and 'Alive & Kicking'.
The release of their brand new LP 'Big Music' is the best proof that they still have a future. First single "Honest Town" was written with Iain Cook Chvrches and is an emotional song in memory of Jim Kerr's mother, who died four years ago in Glasgow.
ON 14 NOVEMBER they are in Forest National, and a day later (15 November) at the Lotto Arena.
For tickets, see the link below.
Een straffe terugkeer voor het Schotse vijftal, zoniet één van de allerstrafste van de laatste jaren. Jim Kerr en zijn band zijn in bloedvorm en dat heeft zich de afgelopen jaren zowel op het podium geuit, met enkele vijfsterrenconcerten (Koninklijk Circus, Vorst, Lotto Arena, Rock Werchter, TW Classic), als op hun platen, ‘5x5’ en natuurlijk ook ‘Celebrate – The Greatest Hits + Collection’. Dit laatste album geeft een prachtig overzicht van de indrukwekkende vijfendertigjarige carrière van één van de sterkste Britse rockgroepen allertijden. Van “Promised You A Miracle” tot “Glittering Prize”, over “Waterfront”, “Sanctify Yourself”, “Belfast Child”, “Mandela Day” en natuurlijk ook de de allergrootste brokkenmakers “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” en “Alive & Kicking”.
De lange lijst onvergetelijke klassiekers maken al vele jaren het mooie weer op menig playlist. Maar Simple Minds hoeft niet uitsluitend te teren op de ongelooflijke discografie uit het verleden, ze hebben ook nog een hele toekomst voor zich en zijn zeker niet van plan stil te zitten. De release van hun gloednieuwe langspeler ‘Big Music’ is daar het beste bewijs van. Eerste single “Honest Town” werd samen geschreven met Iain Cook van Chvrches en is een emotioneel nummer ter gedachtenis aan Jim Kerr’s moeder, die vier jaar geleden overleed in Glasgow.
OP 14 NOVEMBER zijn ze in VorstNationaal, en een dagje later (15 NOVEMBER) in de Lotto Arena.
Voor tickets zie onderstaande link.
