The cult Anglo-Dutch experimental rock act The Legendary Pink Dots will tour Europe in February 2020 to promote their current studio album 'Angel In The Detail', which was released in the late summer of 2019 via Metropolis Records.
Coming off the back of an extensive US trek in the autumn, the tour also marks the band's 40th anniversary since forming in 1980 and it concludes with a London show on February 29th.
LPD's co-founder and frontman Edward Ka-Spel states: "We're cramming this anniversary with a lot of special, often handmade releases. Next up is a DVD-A edition of '40 Angels - The Archive', with just 89 being individually made that contain all 4.5 hours of the epic archive which appeared on our Bandcamp page last autumn."
The full itinerary is as follows:
07.02.20 GOTHENBURG (SE) Musikens Hus
08.02.20 COPENHAGEN (DK) Alice
09.02.20 MALMO (SE) Inkonst
11.02.20 HAMBURG (DE) Markthalle Club
12.02.20 BERLIN (DE) Quasimodo
13.02.20 GDANSK (PL) Drizzly Grizzly
14.02.20 POZNAN (PL) U Bazyla
15.02.20 PRAGUE (CZ) Cafe V Lese
16.02.20 VIENNA (A) Replugged
17.02.20 BUDAPEST (H) Robot
18.02.20 MUNCHEN (DE) Backstage
19.02.20 LJUBLJANA (SLO) KUD Channel Zero
20.02.20 BOLOGNA (IT) Freakout
21.02.20 MILANO (IT) Ligera
22.02.20 LUZERN (CH) Sedel
23.02.20 FRANKFURT (DE) Nachtleben
24.02.20 PARIS (F) Le Petit Bain
26.02.20 KOLN (DE) Helios
27.02.20 AMSTERDAM (NL) OCCII
28.02.20 NAMUR (BE) Belvedere
29.02.20 LONDON (UK) Moth Club
We are happy to announce we have succeeded once again in compiling yet another printed edition of Peek-a-boo Magazine, Issue #36 is out now!!
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Reviews within this magazine:
- BLAC KOLOR : Nephi
- DAGEIST : Sexy
- DIE KRUPPS : Vision 2020 Vision
- EMPUSAE : Iter In Tenebris
- KIM GORDON : No Home Record
- KMFDM : Paradise
- M73 : Tainted
- MONICA RICHARDS & ANTHONY JONES : AESTUARIUM
- ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO : Let's Play (Two girls and a goat)
- PLASTIKSTROM : Beton Gegen Angst
- PRO PATRIA : Executioner
- PSY'AVIAH : Soul Searching
- RIDE : This Is Not a Safe Place
- RINGFINGER : Pressure
- SYRENOMILIA : A Rose Shattered
- THE HERESY GENE : La Luz Del Padre
- TWIN TRIBES : Ceremony
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On this day, 29 years ago (19 January 1991), The Cure performed at The Great British Music Awards!
On this day, 29 years ago (19 January 1991), The Cure performed at The Great British Music Awards in London Wembley arena (UK) with a.o. Ride, The La's, Jesus Jones, New Model Army and The Wedding Present.
For this special occasion The Cure played a very rare selection of songs and lots of fans agree some of the performed versions are considered to be pre-eminent.
The entire show was broadcast by British tv & radio
Setlist
Pictures Of You, Fascination Street, Just Like Heaven, Lullaby, The Walk, Let's Go To Bed, Why Can't I Be You?, In Between Days, A Forest, Never Enough
Encores:
Three Imaginary Boys, Boys Don't Cry, Disintegration
Line-up
Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams, Perry Bamonte
On this day, 40 ago, John Foxx released his first solo project album Metamatic!
On this day, 40 ago, John Foxx released his first solo project album Metamatic (Virgin, 18 January 1980), after leaving Ultravox the previous year. Opposite to Utravox' mix of rock and synth-pop, Metamatic became a pure electronic album. Although John Foxx performed ’Touch & Go’ and ’He’s a Liquid’ already with his former band Ultravox, the band was not credited on the Metametic album. Not surprisingly the remaining and continueing members of Ultravox didn’t credit Foxx when they adapted parts of ‘Touch and Go’ for their song ‘Mr.X’ (What’s in a name?) on their next album Vienna.
Foxx used a.o. a Minimoog, an ARP Odyssey synth, an Elka Rhapsody 610 “string machine” and a Roland CR-78 drum machine to produce the album. It was recorded on 8-track and engineered by Gareth Jones.
The album features one of John Foxx' greatest hits ‘Underpass’, which was previously released as the album’s announcing single.
'Metamatic' was named after a mechanical artwork (a painting machine) by Swiss sculptor and artist Jean Tinguely and became a must have album for (electronic) music lovers.
It spent seven weeks in the UK charts, peaking at #18. The album was generally well received by critics and is still cited as his most influential solo release.
The album was re-released on CD several times, amongst them some with bonus tracks (+ 6 in 1993 & + 7 in 2001) and even with a complete bonus CD featuring 15 extra tracks (2007).
In 2014 the original album finally got a vinyl re-released on Record Store Day with a gatefold sleeve featuring some new and rare artwork.
Metamatic (1980 - Original 12" tracklist)
- Plaza 3:52
- He's a Liquid 2:59
- Underpass 3:53
- Metal Beat 2:59
- No-One Driving 3:45
- A New Kind of Man 3:38
- Blurred Girl 4:16
- 030 3:15
- Tidal Wave 4:14
- Touch and Go 5:33
Today, 35 years ago, Alien Sex Fiend recorded their live album and VHS video Liquid Head in Tokyo (17/01/1985). Liquid Head In Tokyo was recorded at Tsubaki House, at the end of a sell-out Japanese tour. It consists of selected recordings of both shows the band played that same day.
The VHS video and LP have a different tracklist
A 1997 CD re-issue features 4 bonus tracks, though these are not live recordings but normal and 12" studio versions.
Liquid Head In Tokyo (VHS 1985)
1 RIP
2 Dead & Buried
3 Back To The Egg
4 E.S.T.
5 Crazy
6 Hee Haw
7 Ignore The Machine
8 In God We Trust
Liquid Head In Tokyo (LP 1985)
A1 R.I.P. (Blue Crumb Truck) 3:45
A2 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) 5:33
A3 Dead And Burried 5:00
A4 In God We Trust (In Cars You Rust?) 4:27
B1 Back To The Egg 4:47
B2 Attack!!!!!! # 2 5:22
B3 Lips Can't Go 5:19
B4 Wild Women 4:56
