Spiritualized

A heads up that Pete Bain will be telling stories from his soon to be published Spacemen memoir Sick Notes at the 100 Club in London on June 7th. Also on the bill are The Flowers Of Hell (who'll play some Spacemen songs with him), and The Confederate Dead, with interim music selected by Death In Veg...

This year's Record Store Day releases got announced today. Here's the ones Space Age are doing:

Spectrum & Silver Apples - A Lake Of Tear Drops
EAR - Mesmerised
John Massoni with Sonic Boom - Think Of Me When You Hear Waves
The Flowers Of Hell - Odes

Quick mention that the Tate Britain are exhibiting the 2009 Flowers Of Hell 'Come Hell Or High Water' LP that Sonic, Will Carruthers, and former Spz sax player Ray Dickaty all guest on - it's one of six albums in their upcoming Aubrey Beardsley exhibition Mar 4 - May 25 (others include The Beatles' ...

So the Flowers Of Hell’s 2nd album Come Hell Or High Water is now out. It took 40 sessions with 30 musicians in London, Prague, Toronto, Detroit, & Abilene, Texas. Sonic mixed a couple of the tracks and Will Carruthers plus ex-spz saxman Ray Dickaty guest on it - as do folk from the Patti Smit...

That's hilarious, I've been abused by an internet geek who calls himself 'Muscles'. Clearly someone's got some ego issues going on! Poor dear.

I've recently been reunited with some of my old possessions and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what they reckon the following Spiritualized posters are worth - not that I'd ever part with them, just curious as I suspect they don't come up on the market much. First up is an absolutely mint Lazer...

Yup so it's available now from http://www.awkwardsilencerecordings.com/awkward26.htm.

Dare I say it's a genuine sp3/spz rarity as opposed to 24 pages of hospital photos put out by a mutli national corporation in an attempt to have you fund the next Gwen Stefani album.

This will be out in UK shops in mid July although I believe the Awkward Silence label will start selling it from their website this week http://www.awkwardsilencerecordings.com . Tracklist & details are: 1. Flowers Of Hell - Opus 66 (Parts 1 - 4). It's a nine minute symphonietta with Will Carrut...

Opinions are like assholes, so I'll bare mine: 'Lord Give Jason Back His Creativity' (hmmm, a possible facebook group for disgruntled spz fans) A&E is a great album...for people who are into Damian Rice. I think those who are into more Velvets, MC5, Suicide, Kraftwerk, & Sun-Ra inspired mate...

Can any of you suggest what my best bet is for downloading a cracked copy of Melodyne? (It's an audio editing program that enables you to work with real audio as if it were midi, pretty damn amazing). I miss the Drone On forum from Chris Barrus's original Spiritualized website! That was such a great...

There'd be at least a good 10,000 glow in the dark ones if not more I'd imagine - they were used to service all the world's music media as a priority act on a major during an 'alt-rock' boom + if I remember right the initial consumer releases in Europe, Japan, & the US were in the glow in the da...

Interesting stuff - I'll pass them on and see what some of the band say about them. The 'digeridoo' one indeed sounds like an spz writing jam to me - given the runs on the guitar playing front there's no doubt to me that it's spz.

Early Spiritualized with a classical element is what most of the reviews of the Flowers Of Hell album on Earworm are saying. Here’s mainly the most spz/sp3 relevant quotes: “If you like Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized and Spectrum, prepare to be very happy!” complicateddancesteps.blogspot.com “...

What? Someone ripped off the blues? God that's horrible and shocking. The RIAA ought to pursue the arrest of anyone committing such a crime.

poppy, have you got already any ideas how long will it take you to release Friendly Fire 2?

Naw man - it ain't me that put that out or that'll be putting out the second one. Doubt the second one will get called Friendly Fire 2 now given that Friendly Fire's the title of the new Sean Lennon album!

That said it was the CD pressing that was 8000 but there's also the vinyl of it eh.

Actually FUI was a pressing of 8000 not 10,000 - showing my geekery here, but hell its a messageboard isn't it.

In terms of those LGM rarities I posted about ages ago, I've since passed them onto Will Carruthers who I met while working on a Flowers Of Hell track with Sonic in the summer (it's up on http://www.myspace.com/flowersofhell ) Those work-in-progress LGM tracks will no doubt surface on a second Frien...

Quick post to say that Sonic Boom will be doing a DJ set at the Flowers Of Hell album launch on Saturday Nov 25th at London's Nottinghill Arts Club(21 Nottinghill Gate). It's one of those free entrance Rough Trade shops Sat afternoon things (4pm - 8pm). Other Earworm Records acts on the bill are Sha...

Good cover indeed - well done

Heya - The Flowers Of Hell did a track with Sonic Boom a few weeks ago called 'Through The F Hole'. If you fancy an early listen, it's been posted at http://www.myspace.com/flowersofhell . It's a Neon Sigh/Ecstacy Symphony kind of thing. The album it's from was mainly produced by at the Contino Room...

Record the radio stuff on Feb 17th and check out Mark Refoy & Jonny Mattock (LGM period SPZ members & former Spacemen) playing live as Slipstream Upstairs @ The Garage in London that night.

Hey guys - thought some of you would like to know that Mark Refoy & Johnny Mattock from the 'Laser Guided Melodies' spz line-up (and the Recurring Sp3 line-up too) have reformed Slipstream and are doing a show in London, Fri Feb 17th, Upstairs At The Garage for the Take Me To The Other Side club...

Heya - if you happen to be in London on July 12th Club AC30 are doing one of their spacerock/post rock/shoegazing nights at the Water Rats (328 Grays Inn Road) On at 8 are The Flowers Of Hell who are currently doing a bit of work with Sonic Boom. They've got a hammond, a trumpet, a viola player, and...

Nick Cave, Spiritualized, & Primal Scream: shouldn't this have been a benefit for Narcotics Annonymous instead of Palestine? The night should have ended with Bobby Gillespie, Jason Pierce, and ol' Nick covering Heroin together. Fucking good show though!

There's two different Elvis promos I think your talking about - one is the sleaveless one, the other is in a pillbox (1CD not 12). The pillbox Elvis CD is ultra rare - it only went out to Mercury Music Prize judges (which I'd forgotten about!) and label managers. Until reading that post about Record...

Sorry is this The Clash's message board or Spiritualized's? Hate to break the news but Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space was not a political commentary on the end of the cold war space race. Go have a joint and listen to some records man.

To be honest, I'm 99.9% certain that I'm sitting on the only copy of these earlier versions of LGM tracks. And I suppose that only one copy of something makes it as rare as rare can be, but now that there's clearly no dosh in it, I'm quite happy to get these out so that people can hear them. I'd alw...

Would very much like a copy of the 'real complete works' and have some stuff to add. I used to work for BMG and am sitting on some very rare alternate studio versions of three Laser Guided Melody tracks that I'll pass back to whoever sends it to me (and will add on for whoever I burn the 'real compl...