Touch
Sensitive single is out on Mar
22
CD:
Touch Sensitive
Antidote
Touch Sensitive dance mix
12"
Touch Sensitive dance mix
Touch Sensitive
Antidote
New album
The
Marshall Suite will be released on April
19
All venues take advance credit card booking unless noted otherwise:
| Date | Venue | Ticket Price | Phone/Booking |
| May 3 | Leicester, Princess Charlotte | £8.00 | 0115 912 9000 |
| May 4
|
Leeds, Irish Centre | £9.00 | 0113 248 0887 (CC booking: Jumbo Records - 0113 245 5507) |
| May 5 | Birmingham, The Foundry | £7.00 | 0121 643 6101 |
| May 6 | Brigton Centre (east wing), Brighton (change from Hove) | £8.00 | 0870 9009100 |
| May 7 | Salisbury, Arts Centre | £9 adv / £10 door | 01722 321744 |
| May 8 | Hastings, The Crypt | £8.00 | 01273 709709 |
| May 9 | Sheffield, University | £8.50 adv/£9.50 door | 0114 222 8777 |
| May 10 | Cheltenham, The Attic | £8.00 | 01242 516645 (Credit card booking: 01242 250002) |
| May 11 | Cambridge, The Junction | £9 adv/ £10 door | 01223 511511 |
| May 12 | Southend, Chinnery's | £8 adv / £9 door | 01702 460440 (pay on door) |
| May 13 | Luton, Venue 21 | £10adv / £11 door | 01582 749740 |
| May 14 | London, The Forum | £11.00 adv | 0171 344 0044 |
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Here's the NME's Xmas cartoon, click on the thumbnail for the full thing
(200K).
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Oliver:
I was at the Austin Museum of Art today to see an exhibition about Rock'n'Roll in modern art. Most of the stuff was concerned with the usual suspects, Elvis, Jimi hendrix, Chuck berry and what have ya. But then I came across a painting, which consisted of blue onk blots spread on a white canvas, looking like a map of some islands in an ocean. These islands were labelled - by nothing less than the song titles of Infotainment Scan!!! The painting is called "Lost in Music", it's from 1994, and it's by Charles LaBelle, "American, born 1964, lives in California", "Chroma Key Blue and Letraset on canvas". There was an explanation for the painting which goes as follows:
"LaBelle prefers to work with unconventional mediums like Chroma Key Blue, a paint that is normally used for backdrops in music video production. LaBelle operates like a cartographer, mapping out the invisible forces which result in the formation of individual identity. Each composition, modeled after such prototypes as the Rorschach ink blot test or the architectural blueprint, represents what the artist views as the neighborhood of music that people live in - the various genres, cults and institutions that grow up around particular bands or music personalities."
Wot no mention of the Fall? Well, most of the explanations in the exhibition were similarly useless... Right above that painting, incidentally, was another one, quite similar, which was called "Perfect Needle". Later in the museum shop I browsed through the exhibition catalogue and there was a little more, of which I only noted "...where LaBelle has abstracted the personality of anyone who might listen to the groups the Fall or the Telescopes." (So presumably, Perfect Needle is a Telescopes LP?).
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An audience pic from the LA2 in December (thanks to Marcelle van Hoof)
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A picture of Brix, featured in a recent very strange interview about women's attitude to food (from The Independent)
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The lyric sheet for Shake-off, courtesy of Kimmo Heitala and David Williams:
http://www.btinternet.com/~d.i.w/shake.jpg
Shake-OFF
I have an authorised
THUG from THE WATER BOARD
ABOARD PRE-TEND BAILIFF
AT ME DOOR-STOP
I'VE LOCKED 'iM IN
BACK GARDEN AND GIVEN
HEEM WRONG DIRECTIONS
TO STOP TAP - SHAKE-OFF!
Who let your mam out
While you were mixin
SHE GOT
SMASH HIT NINETEEN
LIKE HER ITS FRIKKENing
CRACKPOT!
SHAKE -OFF
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