Memphis band NOTS, have announced details of the UK release of their debut album, We Are Nots, on Heavenly Recordings on Friday 20th November 2015.
The album is licensed from legendary Memphis rock ‘n’ roll label Goner, sometime home of, among others, such garage punk heroes as Reigning Sound, The Oblivians, Jay Reatard and Ex Cult.
Formed just over three years ago, NOTS recorded the album in the summer of 2014 with Doug Easley (Sonic Youth, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, White Stripes, Townes Van Zandt, Guided By Voices) at his studio in their Tennessee hometown.
Clocking in at an urgent 27 minutes, the track listing of this raucous and primitive 11-track album, which recalls some of the most thrilling and visceral lo-fi post-punk of the last few decades - The Cramps, Bikini Kill, The Fall, The Make Up, The Mummies, Kleenex, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks - is as follows:
1. Insect Eyes
2. Decadence
3. Reactor
4. Strange Rage
5. Get Along
6. Black Mold
7. Static
8. Monochromatic
9. White Noise
10. Televangelist
11. Talk Show
The album will be released with different colour artwork to the Goner edition and will also include a bonus 7” featuring two non-album tracks, Virgin Mary and Shelf Life.
Additionally, Heavenly will also release a 7” of the album track Reactor b/w a previously unreleased demo of album track Televangelist, on 6th November.
Having played regularly around Memphis over the last few years, and more recently nationwide in the US with the likes of the Black Lips and Flamin’ Groovies, NOTS have gained much acclaim for their powerful, furious and incendiary live sets. They play their first shows in Europe in November.
The dates of the short tour, which include three dates in the UK, are as follows:
NOVEMBER
21st Utrecht Le Guess Who Festival
22nd Groningen Vera
23rd Antwerp Het Bos
24th Nottingham Chameleon Café
25th Manchester
26th London Heavenly 25 @ The Garage
27th Luxembourg Rotondes Club
28th Paris BB Mix Festival
NOTS are: Natalie Hoffman (guitar / vocals), Charlotte Watson (drums), Madison Farmer (bass) & Alexandra Eastburn (synthesizer).
For its 4th edition, COALESCAREMONIUM: Brussels Gothic Happening will become a true music festival, with 4 bands and 4 solo projects playing over 2 stages. There will be unseen performances starting every hour alternating between the concert room and the chapel: two high-contrasting atmospheres, one captivating and energetic; the other serene and intimate.
Half of the artists for the 2016 edition have already been announced and the others are soon to follow! The concert room will feature the theatrical Hedera Helix with a special show to mark the release of their long awaited new album and British goth rock band Pretentious, Moi? who are making their first Belgian appearance on our date of April 2nd.
The first revelation to play in the chapel is Belgian superduo KnK, who are bringing us the live debut of their "Dead Body Music". The other is the solo project of Max Lilja, renowned Finish cellist known for his work with Apocalyptica, Hevein, and Tarja, in his electro based solo set that is full of dark influences and upbeat dancing rhytms.
The theme of this year's Coalescaremonium titles "Art Nouveau Noise": a wildly imaginative combination of music and visual styles leaving the unrevealed half of the bands to fill the gaps. Of course there are also still the dance, fashion and art shows that create the setting you are used from us to make a spectacular day festival now lasting from 15h to 3 AM.
Finally a new release on Walhalla Records following the acclaimed - and sold out - Underground Wave series which already four albums have been released.
This time Walhalla Records presents a fine collection of rare cult singles, all originally released on vinyl 7" in the first half of the 80s. Minimal, synth pop, new wave… of mostly Belgian artists with a trip to the Netherlands with Ton Lebbink and to the USA with The Marina Swingers. Tipical Me, Solid State, Van Lukas, Karman, Vitor Hublot,... all well known by the minimal synth collectors and now again available on vinyl.
You can listen to all tracks here
Format: 180 Gr vinyl lp, limited edition with insert, the first 70 copies are numbered and have a special insert signed by four artists
For info & orders:
E-mail: lieven.deridder@telenet.be
Following releases are still available:
Somnambulist: The Withered Land (WR 003)
Secret Life: Nineteen Eighty Four (WR 004)
Kloot Per W - Playback With A Switch (WR 006)
Asmodaeus - Lies And Logic (WR 009)
Mike Oldfield's “The Space Movie” To Be Released On CD For The First Time!
GONZO Multimedia will be releasing a newly restored and (finally) complete edition of Mike Oldfield and Tony Palmer's “The Space Movie.” For the very first time the original soundtrack featuring all the talk-back between the astronauts and ground control, as well as orchestral versions of music by Mike Oldfield will be released on CD!
This classic film was originally commissioned by London Weekend Television and Virgin Films in 1979 to mark the 10th Anniversary of the first landing on the moon, July 21st 1969. A recent discovery of a print in mint condition has enabled us to issue the film in a sparkling new (and complete!) edition.
Producer Tony Palmer explains, “The invitation to make the film came out of the clear blue sky from NASA in January 1978. I was invited to Washington and shown the mountain of film NASA had collected from the very beginnings with John Glenn, the first astronaut to orbit the earth in February 1962, until Apollo 17 December 1972. Use whatever I wanted, I was told, plus all the talk-back between ground control in Houston and the various space missions. NASA's extraordinary and spectacular images made me realize I had access to a treasure house beyond imagination.
“From the beginning, I wanted Mike Oldfield to write the music, and the soundtrack which emerged – a combination of hitherto unreleased recordings including the orchestral versions of Oldfield's early masterpieces, 'Tubular Bells' and 'Hergest Ridge' - is remarkable, perfect in every way; evocative, powerful, an inspiring match for the images. And I'm sure it is that, plus of course the astonishing NASA footage and the sound of the astronauts chatting away in space. Virgin Films may have long gone, but together these elements made and make the film what it is - something rather special.”
At a Gala Screening in the Egyptian Cinema in Hollywood in 2008, the film was introduced by Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk upon the moon. He said: “It gives me enormous pleasure, and a thrill, to be able to introduce Tony Palmer's remarkable film about our space adventures. I say remarkable because at the time it was made, 1978/9, very little of the footage you are about to see had ever been seen in public, images which are now so familiar as to be truly iconic. But it was Tony who used them first, and we are very pleased that he did, even if he did construct the longest take-off in history! I still get a chill hearing some of the talk-back which, like the footage, NASA had provided for Tony to use. When the rocket takes off, boy is that a roller-coaster ride, bumpy as hell. So when you hear my voice saying 'little bit of shaking there', you'll know what I mean! So thank you Tony for what you did.”
The distinguished film critic Alexander Walker said after the first screenings: “The best British film screened at Cannes (in 1980) was Mike Oldfield and Tony Palmer's 'The Space Movie', with unique footage from NASA and music by Mike Oldfield. Palmer’s film combines both in a wonderful, at times profoundly moving, tribute to the astronauts from Cape Kennedy. The film includes one of the finest space launches ever collated, with footage that is unbelievably spectacular. Full marks to director Tony Palmer. The result is breathtaking, beautiful and brilliant.”
This version comes complete with Director's Cut BONUS DVD of the movie.
Sonic Cathedral will be releasing a live album by one of our favourite bands, Disappears, on November 20. What’s more, it’s a recording of them performing David Bowie’s classic 1977 album ‘Low’ in its entirety, mastered by Sonic Boom. It will be available from all download and streaming services, as well as on limited-edition orange vinyl, housed in a see-through PVC sleeve, complete with a fold-out print.
On November 23, almost a year to the day since the album was recorded, Disappears will run through 'Low' one more time at the 100 Club in London. Full line-up details will be revealed shortly, but tickets are on sale now.
The band also play the following regular shows in November:
November 20 – NL – Utrecht – Le Guess Who
November 22 – BE – Kortrijk – Sonic City Festival
November 24 – UK – Manchester – Soup Kitchen
November 26 – FR – Nantes – Pôle Étudiant
November 27 – FR – Dijon – Deep Inside
November 28 – CH – Düdingen – Bad Bonn
November 29 – FR – Paris – Carré Belle-Feuille
