It seems a lifetime ago when The Space Lady was only a name whispered in niche music circles or bellowed on San Franciscan street-corners. The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits appeared in Autumn 2013 and heralded an exciting few months as the near-mythical “outsider” street musician’s star ascended. Now, not even a year later, The Space Lady will be embarking on a full month-long European mainland tour following her successful “stage-debut” tour through USA and the UK. You can watch her performance of 'Major Tom' at Rudolf Steiner House in London back in April below...
Fast becoming adept at the increased power of live P.As and the acoustic dynamics of new spaces, The Space Lady’s continued tour of planet Earth kicks off in Italy before a whistle-stop tour of the classical world. Heading west into Austria, then the A-Synth Festival in St. Gallen, The Space Lady will touch down in Tilburg for one of Europe’s most prestigious festivals, Incubate. Sweden, Germany, France, Benelux and then Iberia will all experience the open-hearted, life-affirming glow that a Space Lady show promises.
Each performance thus far has seen performer and audience connected in a unique, loving embrace with The Space Lady picking up accolades from and sharing stages with the likes of everyone from Dean Blunt, Julianna Barwick and Tara Jane O’Neil, all perhaps owing a little to a true original. The Space Lady live is a transcendent experience bereft of cynicism and negativity, it is a loving environment in which anything seems possible.
DATES – MORE TO BE CONFIRMED
04.09. IT Macerata - Discodella
07.09. GR Athens
08.09. GR Thessaloniki
10.09. HU Budapest - Kontra Club
11.09. AT Vienna - Rhiz
13.09. CH St. Gallen - A-Synth Fest
16.09. BE Brüssel - Les Ateliers Claus
18.09. NL Tilburg Incubate Festival
19.09. BE Antwerp - The Boss
20.09. NL Amsterdam - OCCII
21.09. DE Darmstadt - Oetinger Villa
24.09. SE Malmö
25.09. SE Stockholm - Mother Shows
26.09. SE Göteborg - Koloni
29.09. DE Berlin - Marie Antoinette
01.10. F Paris - Le Chinois
02.10. F Paris Hartzine - Espace B
03.10. F Nantes - Le Lieu Unique
07.10. ES Barcelona Miscelanea
“It matches the slow burning sound with equally unsettling visuals. Compiling both emotional and cold scenes contrasted against a stark industrial backdrop - each moment is portrayed like a memory as the song climaxes and the tension between the two is brought to the forefront. It's a pretty bold statement from a pretty brilliant new band.”
Last year PSYCHO 44 put together an impressive team to record their debut album ‘Suburban Guide To Springtide’. With dEUS drummer Stephane Misseghers on production duties and Adam Noble, famous for his work with Muse, Placebo, and Basement Jaxx on the mixing board, a hard-hitting cluster bomb was crafted.
The title track to the album now gets released as a single. Think Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ making out with Ash’s ‘Goldfinger’ in a sleazy vermin infested squat. A slow burning track building up to blistering finale, as catchy as an early summer flu.
Director Jef De Smet explains: “The basic idea for this video was to tell an unconventional story. Using human characters, but with a larger than life twist to them. The distinction between these emotionally expressive characters and static characters with a lack of any emotion helped us create a tension between the characters. This tension is made apparent in the second part of the video, when characters start to flow interchangeably, where combinations are created and others are avoided.”
“Suburban Guide To Springtide is about our experiences as teenagers growing up, both good and bad,” singer Gaelian continues, “its theme is similar to The Beach Boys’ 'Pet Sounds' or Arcade Fire’s 'The Suburbs'. In the studio we tried to give the melancholic melody an eerie touch, to give it that vintage feeling. We all interpret the song differently, because of our personal backgrounds, so when it came to drawing up the storyboard we really enjoyed Jef’s approach.”
18.07 – DOUR FESTIVAL
25.07 – ROCK OLMEN
10.08 – MELKROCK, TIELT
12.08 – PAULUSFEESTEN, OOSTENDE
30.08 – MINIROCK, STAMPROY
06.09 – MISTY FIELDS, ASTEN
21.09 – BREDA BARST, BREDA (NL)
Interpol will embark on a 10 date tour of the UK and Europe this coming January. Opening in Amsterdam at the Heineken Music Hall on Friday January 23, the tour includes a performance at London’s historic Roundhouse on Friday February 6 and Manchester’s Albert Hall on Sunday February 8. The tour will close at the Olympia in Dublin on Tuesday February 10.
Last week, Interpol announced the release of their brand new single ‘All The Rage Back Home’, which immediately hit #1 in Billboard’s Trending Chart, having been premiered as Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record on Radio 1 just hours before.
Described by NME as, “the jewel in ‘El Pintor’s’ crown”, ‘All The Rage Back Home’ will be released on August 18. Watch the accompanying video here, which was co-directed by Paul Banks and Sophia Peer: http://youtu.be/-u6DvRyyKGU
Tour dates:
2015
January
Friday 23 Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam
Saturday 24 Forest National, Brussels
Sunday 25 Palladium, Cologne
Tuesday 27 Olympia, Paris
Friday 30 Fabrique, Milan
February
Monday 2 Vega, Copenhagen
Wednesday 4 Colombiahalle, Berlin
Friday 6 Roundhouse, London
Sunday 8 Albert Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 10 Olympia, Dublin
Interpol will release ‘El Pintor’, their first album in four years, on September 8. ‘El Pintor’ can be pre-ordered now from iTunes worldwide at itunes.com/Interpol. Fans who pre-order the album will receive an instant download of ‘All The Rage Back Home’. The track will also be available as a limited edition 7”.
Laboratory 5 is a collaboration between Max|Static from the UK and Technomancer from Norway. Since 2010 the duo have been working together, always with the goal of making whatever the fuck they want. Laboratory 5 is a project without limits or boundaries that blends genres into an exciting mix of dubstep, drum'n'bass, electro, house and industrial to create something truly unique and special.
"Awake In The Dark" is the duo's second album, following the release of their official debut release "Rise Of The Machines" in 2012. Carrying on their signature drumstep style, the album delves deeper into exploring hardcore beats and deep basslines. Once again Lab5 have loaded their guns and are locked and loaded for a full on electro assault! Brace yourselves for the ride!
As he approaches his 50th birthday Mark Lanegan has assembled one of the most extraordinary bodies of work in modern music. Phantom Radio will be the ninth bearing his own name and third with his band, but combine it with the collaborative albums he’s made, be it with Isobel Campbell, or Duke Garwood, or as 50 per cent of the Gutter Twins, or his legendary first band the Screaming Trees, then the total is nearer 20. Then there’s his guest spots with Queens Of The Stone Age and his many collaborations as the singer on records by the varied likes of UNKLE, Martina-Topley Bird, Moby, Soulsavers and Melissa Auf der Maur. In total, Mark Lanegan has made close to 50 records.
Lanegan's solo debut was 'The Winding Sheet' in 1990 but it would be the masterful follow-up, 'Whiskey For The Holy Ghost' that confirmed his credentials as a truly unique artist. 'Bubblegum' in 2004 saw Lanegan emerge from the wreckage of the Screaming Trees to create a new version of the blues: part-acoustic, part-electro-rooted contexts mostly produced by Alain Johannes, with a floating cast of helpers, some illustrious (Josh Homme; PJ Harvey) others not. Seven years of collaboration followed before Mark Lanegan Band delivered the towering 'Blues Funeral', its Krautrock curlicues adding new textures to his molasses-thick doom canvas.
And now 'Phantom Radio' builds on the same foundations: produced by Alain Johannes, and that voice intoning deep truths hewn from the bleakest realm. “I saw the feet of pilgrims bleeding,” Mark sings on Judgement Time. “I saw whole cities drowning, I saw whole armies dying.” You believe every word; no other living singer’s voice feels so charged with Biblical portent.
Which is all part of the craft, because Mark Lanegan is not as black as he’s been painted. His chief compositional tool on 'Phantom Radio' was his phone – specifically an app called Funk Box. “I didn’t bother to hook up my 909 and 808 this time,” he says, “because the app had ’em. I’d write drum parts with it then add music with the synthesizer or the guitar.”
'Phantom Radio' grew organically from these synthetic roots, taking in Mark’s ongoing love of Krautrock and also an ’80s new wave show on Sirius satellite radio, his favoured aural companion as he drives around Los Angeles. “They have a few good shows but the ‘80s one in particular I like,” he says. “That’s the music that was happening when I started making music. And although the Trees drew on Nuggets psychedelia, 13th Floor Elevators and Love, we were actually listening to Echo And The Bunnymen, Rain Parade, the Gun Club. A lot of British post-punk. We loved that stuff. I just waited until I was in my late forties before I started ripping it off.”
The album title stems from a lyric in Smokestack Magic, which features on the EP, No Bells On Sunday, that will precede the album’s release – five songs written during the same period but which were, in Mark’s judgment “too goofy” to fit with the rest. “I’m less apt to throw away a song that might be a little weird nowadays. I can make it work with whatever I’ve got going.”
Phantom Radio will be released in the Autumn on Flooded Soil / Heavenly Recordings. The album artwork, tracklisting and more information on the record will be revealed in a few weeks. Following the vinyl-only release of No Bells On Sunday on 25th August the EP will become available digitally and on CD as part of a Deluxe edition on album release date. No Bells On Sunday artwork below:
