Dead Can Dance 2005 Tour

They have re-formed for a world tour! I only saw them once when they were touring for the Spiritchaser album, and it was fantastic. Strongly recommend, and here are some photos from the European leg of the tour so far this year. North American tour dates below.





SEPTEMBER:

17 - United States SEATTLE - Paramount Theater
18 - United States SEATTLE - Paramount Theater
21 - United States OAKLAND - Paramount Theater
22 - United States OAKLAND - Paramount Theater
25 - United States LOS ANGELES - Hollywood Bowl
27 - United States SAN DIEGO - Humphreys
29 - Mexico MEXICO CITY - Auditorio Nacional

OCTOBER:

1 - Canada TORONTO - Massey Hall
2 - Canada MONTREAL - St Denis Theater
4 - Canada MONTREAL - St Denis Theater
5 - United States BOSTON - Orpheum
8 - United States NEW YORK - Radio City Music Hall
10 - United States WASHINGTON DC - Music Center
12 - United States CHICAGO - Auditorium Theater

You Built a Time Machine? Out of a DeLorean?

as Marty McFly once said. I must admit im only posting this since im a big fan of the fantastic Back to the Future movie, but regardless, this eccentric car maker passed away yesterday....

AP Article

The Office : An American Workplace

Or now simply called, like the original, 'The Office', debuts on NBC Thursday March 24 at 9.30 pm. I certainly cringed at the thought of their being an American version of this classic British TV show, as of all the remakes that would bomb (and have so far), this was the worst choice to try and recreate. Obviously the verdict is still out, but its getting very positive press, and I've seen a few clips online (link below), and it looks promising!

NBC's The Office

Downfall (der Untergang)

Just saw this excellent movie yesterday, and would recommend it to anyone into history, or even just great acting, which this movie had plenty of. Bruno Ganz played Adolf Hitler and was just incredible. His looks, manerisms, etc made the character absolutely terrifying just to see on screen. One of the best performances ive seen in a long time.

www.downfallthefilm.com



SONG OF THE DAY : Priest Alley Song by Red House Painters

Pneuma

50FootWave
Originally uploaded by neonair.

Did I just hear you try
To lemon scent the sky?

Sulphur
Yellow sulphur
Yellow sky

I tongue a socket
You feel the jolt
You're like a warped godmother with your baffling love

I know what's in the air
I know what's in the air
I know what's in the air

You know what?
You know what?
You know what?
Shut the fuck up!
Oh oh oh
...
Aquamarine
And video green
Hot water and pink soap
Our teeth full of holes
And our guts full of holes
And our thighs stick to hot vinyl

Sex is for Fags

www.sexisforfags.com

"I understand that abstaining from sex protects me from the regret and guilt caused by the disgusting, squishy act of stupid sex, which is basically like going to the toilet from the front side."

Doves - Some Cities

Doves - Some Cities
Originally uploaded by neonair.

Completely fantastic new album. What their second album should have sounded like. Buy it NOW.

"Underpinned by the magnificent single Black And White Town, this is Doves at their brooding best. Like U2, the Mancunians lift rock to a higher celestial plain and this is their definitive album." - Q

"The title track and Black And White Town are as good a start to an album as you'll hear all year. Upbeat and euphoric, both are driven by Andy Williams emphatic, roaring drums. This record swings and stomps like anything the new breed of British upstarts could create. The first major league, epic British album of the year. A must have record." - NME

"An early marker for album of the year. The diversity of ideas is breathtaking." - Time Out

"No difficult third album, just deeper excursions into rain-drenched melancholy from Manchester's most adventurous." - Uncut

"An outstanding return. The first essential guitar album of the year." - Observer Music Monthly

"Doves have created something of accomplished beauty. And in doing so may just have become the best band in Britain." - The Fly

"The Storm opens with with an electronically tinkered vocal and develops into the kind of atmospheric beauty that could soundtrack a million late night drives. This nocturnal claustrophobia dominates much of the record, before collapsing in on itself for the ethereal, and oddly serene, closing track Ambition." - Word

"Could already be the best record of 2005." - GQ

"You have to own this album." - The Sunday Times Culture

"The Manchester trio have produced another masterpiece. From start to finish Some Cities is blindingly brilliant." - The Sun

"Doves make music with a huge heart, and play it with almost elemental power. Impressive stuff." - The Times, The Eye

"CD of the week." - The Observer

"A Doves record has a way of quietly getting under your skin and Some Cities is poised to do the same." - Metro

"Both uplifting and melancholy, Doves hit gold three times running. Doves have once and for all ditched the miserablist tag and produced and album of glistening euphoria and elegant introspection." - Classic Rock

"Another fine release from one of Britain's best bands, with even more memorable anthems than their last record." - The Daily Express

"Depressingly good." - FHM

"It is refreshing and rare in today's magpie culture that a band can release an album that sounds simply like themselves and not a facsimile of another act's recent success. Doves have achieved this, honing their sweeping musical style into something they can truly call their own. The creativity prevalent throughout the album does not dilute the strength of their songwriting either - there are a handful of potentially huge singles here." - Music Week

"Storming new anthems such as Walk In Fire and Sky Starts Falling show that Doves remain masters of sounding sad and happy at the same time." - Evening Standard

"Jimi Goodwin and brothers Jez and Andy Williams are Doves, and as such, skilled sonic terrorists. Thrillingly, they continue to kick up a hell of a racket. 'Some Cities' is a distinctly different proposition to previous album 'The Last Broadcast', which dropped the occasional acoustic moment before unleashing salvoes of guitar rage. If anything, the follow-up has even more moshtastic moments (like the skeleton-shredding charge of first single ' Black And White Town'), yet these are now offset by quirkier, 60s-sounding throwbacks like 'Shadows Of Salford' and 'Someday Soon'. Get ready to be pulverised." - Music Zone (in-store magazine)

"An evocative offering which has moments of ecstatic loftiness while, of course retaining all the Manchester swagger we know and love." - Esquire

"Their best yet." - Arena

"These Manchester lads have created what so many bands strive for - their own unique sound. And this, their third album, consolidates it. The huge echoing soundscapes couldn't possibly be anyone else." - Glamour

"Some of the most life-affirming music around." - Elle

"Doves' third album is their finest yet. Powerful rhythms, spine-tingling guitars, a hard-won sense of achievement - this is music with true emotional heft, the missing link between My Bloody Valentine's bliss-outs and U2's stadium rock, and the best album to come from Manchester since Definitely Maybe." - FT magazine

"Some Cities is an ambitious and atmospheric album. A triumph." - Heat

"Jimi, Jez and Andy return with what could be their masterpiece. A big, brave and blissfully perfect album that should make Doves superstars. Truly essential." - What's On


"Magical and transcendent... completely flawless." - Treble

"[A] wondrously exhilarating, shimmering pop masterpiece." -
Entertainment Weekly

"Some of the best-sounding modern music available in record stores." - USA Today

"Truly astounding." - Details

"More than just re-energized... Doves seem to have undergone a soul
transfusion." - Jane

"Some Cities beams with revivified looseness some of the band's
darkest and prettiest music to date." - Pitchfork

"Positively euphoric." - Urb

"Their best overall album yet." - MSNBC

"On their third full-length, Doves solidify their reputation as
masterful composers as well as songwriters." - CMJ

"Even tracks that start off small and lonesome build to OK Computer
arena levels." - Spin

"A poetic rock masterpiece." - Sentamentalist

"Immediate and escapist, ephemeral and painstakingly constructed." - Filter

"Doves didn't break big on their two earlier records, but I think this
one will do it." - Nic Harcourt/KCRW

"Some Cities brims with confidence... contains choruses more
infectious than the bird flu."- E! Online

"Given the recent rash of interchangeable records from so-so British
indiepop bands, it's a pleasure to hear the textured self-assurance of
Some Cities." - Forbes

"Catchy, creative and daring." - Decoy Music

50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean

Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses fame) has a new band called 50 Foot Wave, as as their name sounds, its quite an overwhelming sound. Fast and ferocious i must say.

Debut album, Golden Ocean, out this week, check them out for sure:

PopMatters says :

"It does give meaning to rock 'n' roll, though, in an exciting way. Rarely do records come around that are such a great mix of a physical adrenaline rush combined with intellectualism. There will certainly be plenty of interesting records to come out this year, but if you were true to yourself, you would recognize early on that this deserves to be on your top 10 already.

(Kristin Hersh's new band) 50 Foot Wave's Golden Ocean, is a tremendous and immense record. It solidifies rock 'n' roll, specifically punk rock, as an important force in the music world. Golden Ocean makes punk rock vital. It brings it beyond the thrill of the three-chord art and pulls it to broad dynamics, personal and therefore more truly thought-provoking lyrics, and musicianship that must rival any ensemble of any sort in existence today. To look at it one way, Golden Ocean is easily the equivalent of Husker Du's Zen Arcade or the more recent Mission of Burma's onOFFon. It's that good. It contains all of the ferocity, musical divergences, and the bonus of a thinking adult's lyrics. To look at it in a more ethereal manner, imagine Kurt Cobain never killed himself. It's been more than a decade since In Utero and Nirvana has put out a few great records since then. They continue to update their distinct loves -- melody, punk rock, old folk and blues -- to create some masterpieces. Now, in 2005, Kurt has decided to go back to his roots, propelled by the continued vibrancy of bands like Fugazi and Sleater-Kinney. Golden Ocean may very well be the record Cobain & Co. would have put out, complete with early mid-life crisis questions and raging vocals to prove that getting older does not necessarily mean mentally settling down."