New GT Single, UK Dates
Sub Pop will release a new Gutter Twins single “God’s Children” on August 11 to coincide with the short tour.
Busy man, Lanegan, is also on the road in the UK with Isobel Campbell this June, showcasing their second album collaboration ‘Sunday At Devil Dirt. (Dates Below)
Lanegan and Dulli will play the following venues:
Oxford, Zodiac (August 11)
Nottingham, Rescue Rooms (12)
London, Shepherds Bush Empire (13)
Brighton, Komedia (26)
Sheffield, Leadmill (27)
Liverpool, Academy 2 (30)
Lanegan/Campbell Dates:
London, Shepherd’s Bush Empire (June 10)
Brighton, St Georges Church (11)
Manchester, Academy (12)
Glasgow, ABC (13)
Ford Radio Expands
Twilight Singers/Gutter Twins bassist Scott Ford has expanded his online radio stream to accommodate up to 250 simultaneous listeners. So, if you’ve been frustrated with the limitations in the past, it’s time to give it another try.
The Shoutcast page URL: http://208.53.147.183:8912/index.html
The Stream URL: 208.53.147.183:8912
Daily weekday shows from 12pm -2pm PST will be starting this Monday.
Ed Harcourt To Make US TV Debut On “The Tonight Show”
…the illustrious Ed Harcourt will return to the States from his native England to perform on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Friday, June 6.
Harcourt just wrapped up an opening stint (and sideman position) with The Gutter Twins in Europe. His new album “The Beautiful Lie” (Preorder) comes out in the US on June 3.
Gutter Twins to perform at Hydro Connect
Hydro Connect festival which is located in the ancient grounds of an 18th Century castle in the Scottish Highlands and held over the weekend of Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August in 2008 has announced more acts for the line-up who will all also make their Hydro Connect debut this year.
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) will make his Scottish debut with his new musical project The Magic Valley Band. Joining Colin and his band on the bill will be Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli’s new project The Gutter Twins, Michael Franti & Spearhead, beatboxer Beardyman, Belfast’s Foy Vance, electro acoustic indie stars Howling Bells, and New York’s Asobi Seksu.
They join the acts which have been announced so far who include Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Paulo Nutini, Manic Street Preachers, Bloc Party, Goldfrapp, Duffy, Nick Cave’s Grinderman, Amy MacDonald, Elbow, The Gossip, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, The Coral (Acoustic), Roots, The Breeders, Levellers, and Camera Obscura, and Sia.
Gutter Twins Seattle Date
Saturday July 12th
Showbox and Sub Pop present
SUB POP’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY
featuring
THE GUTTER TWINS
BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH (featuring Tad Doyle)
$20.00 ADV / DOS & at the door
Doors at 8pm - 21+
Saturnalia - RTÉ.ie Entertainment
RTÉ.ie Entertainment: The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
They’ve been teasing fans with their collaborations since The Twilight Singers’ ‘Blackberry Belle’ in 2003 and now, after what seems like forever, grunge’s two great survivors Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan satisfy every desire with the colossal ‘Saturnalia’.
Longtime masters of sun-goes-down music, the duo have created one of those very rare albums that would make you happy to see shorter days. For either man each of these 12 journeys to the dark end of the street warrants a place on a Best Of and the atmosphere of love, lust and religious references they lure you into is so addictive that you’d scour the Internet for the outakes, the unfinished and the cast-offs.
There are rockers (’God’s Children’, ‘Idle Children’), ballads (’I Was in Love with You’, ‘The Body’) and dirges (’All Misery/Flowers’, ‘Bete Noire’), stunning duets (’Front Street’, ‘Who Will Lead Us’) and a guitar solo so maniacal that any metal overlord would be thrilled to call it theirs. And with every listen grows the feeling that this is far too great to be a one-off.
One of the best reasons to remember 2008.
Harry Guerin
Afterhours Wins CMJ Sonicbids Spotlight
Afterhours are the winners of this week’s CMJ Sonicbids spotlight competition. The Italian band, which has been making music since 1989, is set to release their eighth album, I Milanesi Ammazzano Il Sabato, today on Universal.
Over the course of their nineteen-year career, the band has shared the stage with R.E.M., played as the backing band for the Gutter Twins’ (Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan) first live show, and founded the Tora! Tora! festival, a traveling alternative music festival in Italy.
The group gained attention almost immediately after the release of their first album, All The Good Children Go To Hell, when Italy’s leading alternative music magazine, Mucchio Selvaggio, named it one of the best albums of the eighties. The Italian six-piece went on to record variously in Italian and English, and to tour extensively, continuously selling out shows in Italy.
Their latest effort, which is preceded by two DVD anthologies released by Virgin, sees them collaborating with Greg Dulli, Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes), and John Parish, who also co-produced the album.
Video: Gutter Twins on Later
The Scotsman Talks Devil Dirt
Now the pair have locked horns again on the assured follow-up Sunday At Devil Dirt, which is altogether more grimy and sultry than their more innocent, plaintive first date. Campbell takes more of a back seat vocally this time round, but she has still captured their innate chemistry, even though the notoriously taciturn Lanegan can be an inscrutable workmate.
“He’ll be jolly one day and then he’ll go back to being quieter than ever and it’s as if you’re not even there. I try not to take it personally but it’s not always easy. For me, it’s actually quite masochistic. Sometimes you want to put a whoopee cushion on his chair or blow a big raspberry at him – which I actually do sometimes!”
So why work with him again? “I suppose I’m just a sucker for a good voice,” she admits. “He brings a lot of my writing to life and I’ll do anything for my songs. It’s never been easy, but I hated touring when he wasn’t there. Because I do actually love singing with him, it’s a total honour. When we’re on stage, it’s totally the right thing.
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The long awaited debut from Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
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