Liebe Musikfreunde,
wie immer freitags - hier die neuesten und aktuellsten Meldungen aus dem Hause Starkult. Schon wieder müssen wir leider eine Tourabsage bekanntgeben: Eric Sardinas. Trotz dieses Ausfalls stehen in der kommenden Woche gute Konzerte an; nachzulesen auf unserer Homepage. Ansonsten sind einige interessante positive Nachrichten in unserem Newsletter.
Ich/Wir wünschen Euch viel Spaß übers Wochende!
Viele Grüße aus Düsseldorf,
Mike Neumayer/die Starkult-Crew
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- ERIC SARDINAS (Favored Nations/Zomba) - Tourabsage
- THE BREAK (MakeMyDay Rec./Zomba) - Neuer Gig
- JOE STRUMMER (Hellcat/SPV) - New Videorelease for "Redemption Song"
- THE FRAMES (Anti/SPV) - Signing new on Anti + Gig
- GENEPOOL - Plattentitel steht
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1. ERIC SARDINAS (Favored Nations/Zomba) - Tourabsage
www.ericsardinas.com
Die Eric Sardinas Tour ist aus unbekannten Gründen vorerst auf Eis gelegt. Alle Daten sind damit vorerst gestrichen.
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2. THE BREAK (MakeMyDay Rec./Zomba) - Neuer Gig
www.thebreakpage.com
The Break, die seit kurzem auf Europa Tour sind, spielen am 27.11 in Nuenchritz. Wem dieser Ort unbekannt ist, dem sei gesagt, er liegt in der Nähe von Riesa. Als Location dient das örtliche JZ "Kombi" am Karl Liebknecht Ring 34. The Break verstehen es mit Energie geladenem (Punk) Rock jedes Haus zu rocken. Also, wer aus der Gegend ist, auf keinen Fall verpassen.
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3. JOE STRUMMER (Hellcat/SPV) - New Videorelease for "Redemption Song"
www.strummersite.com
Zu Joe Strummers Cover des Bob Marley Klassilkers "Redemption Song" (aus dem neuen Album Streetcore) wurde unter Regie von Josh Cheuse ein Video gedreht. Aufgenommen wurde das Ganze in der New Yorker Bar Niagara an der Jesse Malin`s Avenue.
The video begins with classic scenes of the NY skyline - the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building -- then blends into familiar street-level sights and sounds of the city. Speeding taxis and screeching fire trucks fly by as a crew of graffiti artists and painters descends upon a blank wall to begin working furiously on a mural. As the artists consult a sketchbook, the screen is filled with a montage of archival photos and live footage of JOE (including The Clash at Shea Stadium and on the roof of Bonds, and never-before-seen footage of JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS at Brixton Academy). By this time New Yorkers of all ages and ethnicities are watching the artists and listening to the song. Some familiar faces from the crowd include JOE's friends such as Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi, Matt Dillon, Jesse Malin, Cara Seymore (Adaptation, Gangs of New York), Cinque Lee (Spike's brother and co-star, along with STRUMMER and Buscemi, of the Jarmusch-helmed Mystery Train), plus all of Rancid - Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Brett Reed and Lars Fredriksen.
As more details come into focus on the mural, it becomes obvious it's of STRUMMER. The clip ends with passersby lighting candles and leaving tokens at the base of mural, which reads "Joe Strummer 1952-2002."
As for STREETCORE, the critics have been singing the praises of JOE's final album with his beloved MESCALEROS. In the New York Times, Ben Ratliff noted: "…here's an album that conveys who this guy was. He had a punk dimension, a Woody Guthrie dimension, a reggae dimension, and his lyrics found an Englishman's view of America somewhere between John Ford's and Allen Ginsberg's. It's Strummer's best album with his post-Clash group the Mescaleros, and maybe the best work he did since Sandinista! 23 years ago," while Lisa Robinson mused in Vanity Fair: "Streetcore, the final album recorded by the late Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, is poignant, urgent, and wonderful." Elsewhere, Alternative Press concurred: "We're not sure what gets us more misty-eyed: Strummer's moving rendition of Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song,' or the eight originals on Streetcore that prove Strummer's best work wasn't all behind him," and in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Jonathan Takiff enthused: "Joe Strummer leaves us on a high note with the posthumous Streetcore, his third album with the Mescaleros and a set most evocative of his feisty work with the Clash."
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4. THE FRAMES (Anti/SPV) - Signing new on Anti + Gig
www.theframes.ie
Das Label ANTI hat eine neue, verheißungsvolle Newcomerband unter Vertrag genommen: The Frames. Die Iren werden am 8. Januar in Groningen beim Eurosonic Festival (Holland) ihr Können unter Beweis stellen. Das Eurosonic ist eine Musikmesse und vor allem eine ausgezeichnete Plattform für Newcomer sich dem gemeinen Volk und den Medien zu präsentieren.
Anbei der Link fürs Eurosonic:
www.eurosonic.nl
Bio - The Frames
If every underdog has its day, for The Frames that day was in late August 2003, co-headlining a festival in Dublin in front of some 30,000 people, a couple of months after topping the Irish charts with the live album Set List (their third platinum record on home turf).
Up until this point, the quintet was known as the biggest cult act in Ireland, and arguably the most inspiring live band to come out of that country in the last ten years. But after that triumphant homecoming show, they could no longer play the usurper card. The Frames were Ireland's state secret, but it was time to go public.
Hence the worldwide release of Set List, the first fruits of an alliance with Anti, one of the few record labels in the world the band could regard as their spiritual home, a rooming house for such aesthetic bedfellows as Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Merle Haggard.
Set List contains optimum performances of songs culled from The Frames' four album repertoire, honed and refined over 14 years of intense, elating and near-legendary live shows. The sense of profound connection forged between the band and its audience has often been compared to the evangelical feeling at shows by Springsteen and U2 - albeit with more skewed sensibilities - and it's there for the hearing on Set List: in the indoor fireworks of 'Revelate' and 'God Bless Mum'; in the audience's full-throated contribution to the warped earthenware folk of 'Lay Me Down'; in the rambling, poignant and funny monologue that prefaces the aching 'When The Heart Just Stops'; in a version of the epic 'Fitzcarraldo' so incendiary one of the guitar amps went up in flames.
"With The Frames, it's the throwing your arms around the room thing," says singer/guitarist Glen Hansard. "When our gigs are at their best, you throw the energy out and it gets thrown back twice the size. I mean, I find myself saying things on stage that I would never say in my life, it's almost like a whole new character or creature is born when you walk on. If you trust in the moment, if you're willing to be the fool and make the mistake and get it wrong, then you've great potential to get it absolutely right. And I think that can be the scary thing about a Frames gig and the great thing about a Frames gig."
The Frames' open-heart surgery songs deal in love and anger, mourning and ambition, art and blood, stealing from sources as diverse as Werner Herzog and John Fante as much as Dylan or The Pixies or Sparklehorse or maverick figures like Steve Albini (who produced the band's fourth album For The Birds). The band have followed an evolutionary arc that has as much in common with filmmakers, painters and writers as fellow musicians, and having found their voice - and their audience - in their own back yard, they're ready to leave home.
"If I could point out what the Frames strength has always been, I'd say stamina," says Glen Hansard. "The one thing we always had was, 'Things are good now, things are bad now, whatever. We're on the long road, we set off on this a long time ago and we all know that it's not five years, it's not ten years, it might not even be twenty years, it might be more again.' But I think it's absolutely vital that you live your life and that you share what you do, that you share your energy, 'cos if you don't, you become a miser, and if you become a miser you become lonely. I want to belong to a community, I want to feel like someone from Dublin who makes music and hangs out, but I also want The Frames to travel the world and be nomadic, because I think by nature that's what we do."
So, Set List is the testimony of a band that has always operated by its own compass, obeying laws that have little to do with conventional music industry logic. A couple of albums into their career, The Frames realised that they just didn't fit with the machinations of the mainstream record business, the sort of strategic short sightedness that meant Charles Laughton never got to make another film after Night Of The Hunter. And rather than trying to fit where they didn't belong, the musicians cultivated their own extended community in the underground network at home and abroad, and over the last few years have been harvesting the fruit of their convictions.
"If there's been one consistent element through the years that we've been together, it's been that when we follow our gut instincts and do things ourselves, we get rewarded," says violinist Colm Mac Con Iomaire. "That's where the people recognise something and help us out, and that's when the wave of goodwill carries you."
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5. GENEPOOL - Plattentitel steht
Neues auch aus den bluBox-Studios: Die Herren Guido Lucas (SCUMBUCKET, Bass), Jack Letten (SMOKE BLOW, Vocals), Thilo Schenk (Gitarre), Jan Delgado (Gitarre) und Drummer Kolja Matzke kommen mit der Produktion des GENEPOOL-Debüts sehr gut voran. Der Albumtitel steht mittlerweile auch
fest: "Everything Goes In Circles" wird das Baby heißen. Die Spannung steigt, wir bleiben am Ball. Mehr Infos in Kürze. Natürlich auch über diesen Kanal. Und sicher bleibt: GENEPOOL sind die Guten.
Checkt erste (rohe) Demo-Hörproben auf der Bandsite! 3 Mp3s stehen für jedermann zum Download bereit.
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