Twilight Singers Round 2: Europe
Via www.myspace.com/twilightsingers
Nov 18 The Village - Dublin
Nov 19 Limelight - Belfast
Nov 23 Koko - London
Nov 26 Ancienne Belgique - Brussels
Nov 27 Doornroosje - Nijmegen
Nov 28 Melkweg - Amsterdam
Nov 29 Vera - Groningen
More to come
New TS EP: “A Stitch in Time”
Via blog.myspace.com/twilightsingers
Live With Me
Recorded in Helsinki during their recent European tour, “Live With Me” is the lead track off the Twilight Singers upcoming EP, “A Stitch In Time”.
This studio version of the Massive Attack/Terry Callier collaboration features Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli on vocals and sets the table for the upcoming Twilight run of shows this Fall and early Winter.
Reading Festival Review 2006
The Twilight Singers - Reading Festival reviews
Greg Dulli’s he of the Afghan Whigs is back with this band and Mark Lanegan for a hot desert band who carry with them the sounds of Vegas, California. Their sound is pure, lonely, melancholy and atmospheric. Sounding so good I’ll have to hunt down the albums they’ve produced already, they sound at times like Nirvana Unplugged or The Meat Puppets.
The music is dark and stark and rather lovely, it’s the music made from a gnarled drug survivalist and it’s open honest scars and all. The only downside isn’t down to the band but the elements, the Carling tent is open to the elements on our side, and it starts raining, the music slides from magical to depressing for us as I’m only dressed in a T-shirt and neither of us have a coat. We leave at the last song in search of coke to add to our flask of brandy.
However, the band have played a wonderful set and it goes down really well with the crowd. The Twilight Singers are worthy headliners and very different from Franz Ferdinand rocking out at the same time on the main stage.
review by Scott Williams
Leeds Festival 2006 Review
the twilight singers - live gig review
Greg Dulli and his new line up perform to a packed out Carling Tent and you can only feel sorry for those misguided souls who would rather watch Franz Ferdinand than be here. With no previous The Twilight Singers knowledge I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but what I got was one of the musical highlights of the weekend. With material not a million miles away from the sounds created by Dulli’s previous incarnation The Afghan Whigs, the band churn out some beautiful songs based around strong melodies and highly energetic performances. The band are really going for it as guitarist Dave Rosser wrings the life out of his guitar and new addition Jeff Klein lets his fingers dance across the keys as Dulli’s powerful voice fills the air. There are yelps of excitement as Mark Lanegan joins the band on stage for a couple of songs, his deep rich voice a beautiful counterpoint to Dulli’s. It’s a performance that’s really quite special, there’s just something in the air in the tent and it’s all been created by a fine performance of some sublime songs.
Edinburgh 2006 Review
Evening Telegraph: Features: Grapevine
The Twilight Singers featuring Mark Lanegan
Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
the organisers of T on the Fringe scored another coup this year by bringing two of the best voices in rock to the capital, writes Stefan Morkis.
The Twilight Singers, led by former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli, would be a pretty strong draw on their own, but adding Mark Lanegan into the mix only adds to the occasion.
Of course, the novelty factor of seeing two of rock’s most chemically-battered characters on stage would mean nothing without the music to back it up and fortunately they don’t disappoint.
Although they only share the stage for a handful of songs — this was mostly Twilight Singers show, and a very good one too with Teenage Wristband particularly good — it’s pretty devastating when it happens.
The Twilight Singers themselves are a phenomenal live proposition, with Dulli using all his showmanship to get the crowd on side and their soul influences beefed up for live performances.
Conversely, when Lanegan lumbers on stage for his first number, a cover of Leadbelly’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night? he doesn’t even acknowledge the crowd and in fact, barely opens his eyes.
He doesn’t need to, though — as soon as he opens his mouth all eyes and ears are fixed on the singer. To put it simply, he makes Tom Waits sound like a little girl.
Since leaving the Screaming Trees, he’s spent time with Queens of the Stone Age, recorded a Mercury Music Prize nominated album with Isobel Campbell and released a series of excellent solo albums, so he’s not exactly been hiding his light under a bushel, but neither he nor The Twilight Singers have become anything approaching household names.
Perhaps it’s because they’re both still tarred with the grunge brush, despite having long since left the Seattle scene behind them, but they’re both deserving of greater recognition. Of course, being a couple of contrary gents, maybe that’s exactly how they like it.
2006 CEA Music Voting
The Staggering Statistics are up for 3 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, including Best Alternative/Indie Band, Album of The Year and Artist of The Year.
Greg Dulli is nominated as the Best Musical Ambassador to the City of Cincinnati.
You can cast your vote online.
Dulli Discusses the Afghan Whigs Reunion, Retrospective
SPIN.com
Greg Dulli Discusses the Afghan Whigs Reunion, Retrospective
September 22, 2006
The frontman spoke to SPIN.com about getting the band back together five years after breaking up.
Five years after the Afghan Whigs broke up, frontman Greg Dulli is getting the band back together. Dulli and former bandmates John Curley, Rick McCollum, and Michael Horrigan will get back together to record two new tracks for an upcoming retrospective, Unbreakable, on Rhino Records. “We stay in touch regularly and support each others projects,” Dulli told SPIN.com. “I have played with the three of them individually since we split up.”
The group will enter the studio Friday (Sept. 22) with producer Jeff Powell, who worked on the band’s Gentleman, Black Love, and 1965. Still, Dulli insists, this isn’t a full-fledged reunion, and it’s not likely that there will be a full album or tour. “We’re all too busy and happy with our current lives to be doing any more than this,” the frontman said. Still, fans of Dulli and his other projects (Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins) will be happy to know the tireless artist has an upcoming tour planned with Twilight Singers (featuring Mark Lanegan) and will complete a Gutter Twins record with Lanegan, as well. “We’ve been staging dress rehearsals for the past few months,” Dulli said.
Mighty Fine - Tonight in Park Slope
Mighty Fine is headlining tonight at SouthPaw in Park Slope. This show is the debut of their new keys player Gary French.
Doors at 9pm - $8 cover
SOUTHPAW - 125 5th Ave. Park Slope Brooklyn NYC
mighty fine (12:30)
the choke (11:30)
teenage prayers (10:30)
miles robinson (9:30)
Midpoint 2006 Preview
From The Cincinnati Post
Whigs Live: There may be Afghan Whigs sightings during Midpoint as three members of the legendary Cincinnati rock band are said to be in town working on a mini studio reunion. Lead singer Greg Duli, now a Los Angeles resident, and guitarist Rick McCollum, now living in Minneapolis, have returned to rehearse with Cincinnati-based bass player John Curley. Word is they plan to record four new songs soon at a Memphis studio where they recorded their critically praised breakout CD, “Gentlemen.” The songs will be included on an Afghan Whigs retrospective planned for release by Rhino Records.
A separate, unrelated Whigs project is also in the works with the blessing of former band members as some local indie music producers are putting together a Whigs tribute album that will feature Cincinnati and well-known national bands covering Whigs. It is due out in the spring.
Willamette Week Online - Night Cabbie
Willamette Week Online
NIGHT CABBIE
Oh, joy, another music column!
[September 20th, 2006] Oh, joy, another music column! Thus ensuring that some troll will post about how I must think I’m just so cool and should just shut up with the music columns already. Well, you know, some days my passengers talk about politics, or sex, or cats, or math, or space aliens, or the perfidy of the FDA. This guy wants to talk about “the Afghan Whigs! Oh my god, I can’t believe you’re listening to the Afghan Whigs! I thought everyone had forgotten about them!”
“Hell no!” I reply. “Gentlemen is one of the best (and most-overlooked) records of the ’90s. I still listen to them all the time, although the name…. I’ve always wondered about that band name.”
He agrees wholeheartedly about Gentlemen, and we try and figure out why the Whigs didn’t take over the world, as they most certainly should have. “Honestly,” I say, “I think it was grunge that did them in. That wave just swept aside everything in its path. Which is a shame, because back when all those hairy young men in flannel were emoting heavily all over the place, it was Greg Dulli with his dapper suits and eloquent self-loathing that got my panties wet.”
“Oh man, my girlfriend used to have such a crush on that guy,” he laughs.
“Well, then, tell her he’s got a new band called the Twilight Singers. And their Blackberry Belle is now one of the greatest and most overlooked records of…what are we calling this decade again?”
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The long awaited debut from Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
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