Nick Cave has just expressed his support for the Warlpiri community of Lajamanu in the Australian Tanami desert, who are crowdfunding an indigenous suicide prevention app and added the campaign to his official website: http://www.nickcave.com/news/kurdiji-1-0-campaign/

"We’re losing three aboriginal people a week to suicide and an indigenous person is four times more likely to take their own life than a non-indigenous person. Most indigenous suicides are children between the ages of 10 and 14.

When a young man committed suicide in 2005, in the remote community of Lajamanu, local Warlpiri elders said ‘Enough is enough’. With help from friends, Lajamanu established Milpirri festival to spread the traditional ideas of ‘Kurdiji’ among their young people. They began to fight for every single young indigenous life in their community. Since 2005 there hasn't been a single suicide in Lajamanu.

Now those same elders want to bring Kurdiji into the digital age, with a community created app based on stories, ceremonies and law. They want to fight for all aboriginal lives, not just those in remote or traditional communities. The app will be called Kurdiji 1.0. This is a community-led and community empowering initiative, with indigenous elders providing all of the app’s content. They have partnered with an expert team to develop the app and roll it out across the whole of Aboriginal Australia."

Here you can see a short video about the project on You Tube.
You can also support the elders via our GoFundMe page: www.kurdijiproject.com or www.kurdijiproject.org

Aboriginal suicide rates are at the level of an epidemic and a genuinely community led technological approach hasn’t been tried before – so we’re in unknown territory to some degree. Your help, in spreading the word about our campaign, will make an enormous difference.

Jake Lee has been making music under the name ‘Sidewalks and Skeletons'.......loud, dark and experimental music without boundaries, an atmospheric dark blend of Witch House electronica.
Perfect for fans of Crystal Castles, Mr Kitty and Marilyn Manson and a fitting soundtrack for walking through graveyards at 3am… VERY DARK!

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The Residents are heading to Europe this autumn with a new show that will guarantee to make your eyes roll to the back of your head.
In Between Dreams tour dates are still coming together but here's a current listing of dates and venues. Ticket purchasing links are available on http://www.residents.com/tourdates/

02 November - Lille, France - L'Aeronef
06 November - Frankfurt, Germany - Mousonturm
07 November - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Grote Zaal
11 November - Copenhagen, Denmark - Bremen Teater
12 November - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller Music Hall
15 November - Hamburg, Germany - Kampnagel
16 November - Berlin, Germany - Columbia Theater
17 November - Reutlingen, Germany - franz.K
24 November - Clermont-Ferrand, France - La Coopérative de Mai
25 November - Bourgoin Jallieu, France - Les Abattoirs
26 November - Ludwigshafen, Germany - Theater im Pfalzbau

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Roger Waters' last studio album, 1992's Amused To Death, was a prescient study of popular culture, exploring the power of television in the era of the First Gulf War. The long-awaited follow-up, 2017’s Is This The Life We Really Want?, is an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times. Waters’ forthcoming LP serves as a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as Animals and The Wall.

Produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2, "From the Basement"), Is This The Life We Really Want? includes 12 new Roger Waters musical compositions and studio performances.

The physical album release includes a double 180-gram vinyl LP in a gatefold jacket and a 4-panel soft pack CD. All album formats, physical and digital, are available for pre-order starting April 21.

Is This The Life We Really Want? Tracklist

1. When We Were Young
2. Déjà Vu
3. The Last Refugee
4. Picture That
5. Broken Bones
6. Is This The Life We Really Want?
7. Bird In A Gale
8. The Most Beautiful Girl
9. Smell The Roses
10. Wait For Her
11. Oceans Apart
12. Part of Me Died

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SAVAGE. THE NEW IMAGE (AND WHY)

"Hello Everyone,

As you may have seen the new UK tour for the forthcoming Savage album has just been announced. Shows in Europe will be announced very soon and a North American tour will be confirmed, hopefully, in the next few weeks. I’m also looking at many other places around the world so, if things come together as I hope, I will be able to add a constant string of shows around the world in the coming months. I can’t deny that I am very excited and optimistic about the next twelve months and what could happen with this album.

The reason for this post though is as an explanation. A few people seem concerned about the imagery of the new photos, the tour flyer, the type face used, the title itself ‘Savage’ combined with those things and so on. It seems that some misunderstanding is occurring and that some of you feel that, in these troubled times, it could be taken the wrong way. So, I would obviously like to clear that up before it goes any further because none of that is intended.

The majority of the songs on the new album are taken from ideas I’ve been working on for a novel. Yes, embarrassingly, the same novel I’ve been talking about for years. My long neglected Science Fantasy epic that will probably never see the light of day but, much as the short stories I was writing around Replicas time did for that album, so this permanently unfinished book is giving me a huge amount of material to write new songs about. The ideas for the book gave me songs for Dead Son Rising, a few for Splinter and now quite a few for Savage.

Savage then is a theme album by and large. Set in a post apocalyptic future where the earth has been devastated by global warming and what remains is mostly harsh, barren and desert like. The various cultures of the people that survived have, over generations, essentially merged into one. That merging driven mostly by the necessities of surviving in the environment that remains. The language spoken in this future world is essentially English, but the Middle Eastern influence is seen everywhere (hence the typeface I’ve chosen for the artwork). There is therefore a subtle but definite Middle Eastern influence musically on this album here and there, in some melodies especially, and that was deliberate. The music has to reflect the idea of cultures merging that exists in this fictional future. The book (and therefore the album) is based upon concerns about the catastrophic effects of ignoring global warming, and how the survivors must adapt, and nothing at all to do with comparing existing cultures, terrorism, religion or nuclear war. The title, Savage, does not refer to a person, or to a culture, but to the environment the people exist in in this forbidding future, and the new photos are meant to depict a scene from that. It is certainly not meant to imply that people that live in a desert region are ‘Savage’. The clothes I’m wearing are not desert clothes, they are pseudo military looking (and meant to look worn out in the harshness of that world) and represent the way we may all need to look if policies designed to stop the effects of global warning are abandoned or ignored in certain vitally important key regions of the world over the next four years.

The world the album describes is savage, and the people in it need to be equally savage to survive, but that’s all there is to it. It’s fantasy, but based on my fears about what’s going to happen to future generations if we don’t do what needs to be done to protect the planet. It is not particularly political, not anti religious (for once), not anti anything other than the almost unbelievably ignorant decisions in one part of the world to walk away from agreements and commitments concerned with combating climate change and protecting our environment. Not every song is about this, I have other things that have found their way in to the album, but the image and style of ‘Savage’ is very much guided by the concerns mentioned above.

I will now climb down from my little soap box and get back to the studio. The album is very close to being finished now. The main album is done apart from one vocal/lyric, I’m finishing off the extra track for the Deluxe CD today and the final extra song for the vinyl version will completed by the end of the week. By the skin of our teeth, it really does look as though it’s going to be ready on time.

A special word of thanks here to Joseph Cultice for taking such extraordinary photos in a genuinely harsh environment. I’m very grateful to his skill and enthusiasm in getting the visual side together.

I’d also like to thank Ade Fenton who, as always, is doing an absolutely remarkable job on the production and turning my rough ideas into music to be proud of.

Not long now."

Gary Numan
April 24, 2017

SAVAGE TOUR DATES

Jul 27 Exhibition centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jul 30 Standon Calling Festival, Standon, United Kingdom
Sep 30 Tramshed, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Oct 02 O2 Academy Bournemouth Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Oct 03 O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Oct 05 Colston Hall, Bristol, United Kingdom
Oct 06 O2 Academy Oxford, United Kingdom
Oct 07 Rock City Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom
Oct 09 O2 Academy Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Oct 10 O2 ABC Glasgow, United Kingdom
Oct 11 O2 Institute Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom
Oct 13 Manchester Academy 1 Manchester, United Kingdom
Oct 14 O2 Academy Brixton London, United Kingdom
Oct 16 Brighton Dome Brighton, United Kingdom
Oct 17 Norwich UEA Norwich, United Kingdom
Oct 18 Southend Cliffs Pavilion Westcliff-On-Sea, United Kingdom
Oct 19 Het Depot, Leuven, Belgium.
Oct 20 France. Paris. Le Trabendo.
Oct 21 Paradiso. Amsterdam. Netherlands.
Oct 24 Majestic Music Club, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Oct 25 Essigfabrik. Cologne. Germany.Oct 26 Columbia theater, Berlin, Germany.

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