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Re: New Video!!
- Subject: Re: New Video!!
- From: Nick Walters <nickw@bl...co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:58:05 +0100 (BST)
30 albums?!
> On 14 September 2016 at 21:59 Chris Sharp <chris.sharp4@vi...net> wrote:
>
>
> Sure!
>
> Here you go:
>
> The Blue Aeroplanes’ unique amalgam of rock, folk, poetry, punk, dance
> and art
> has been an acknowledged influence on a wide range of bands including
> REM and
> Radiohead. Combining pop smarts with serious weirdness, they have
> released
> almost thirty albums on various labels, several of which have charted in
> the
> UK Top 40 and the US Alternative Top 10. Their 1990 album ‘Swagger’ was
> Rock
> Album Of The Year in many publications including The Sunday Times.
> Ex-members
> have gone on to play with Massive Attack, Suede, Placebo, Goldfrapp and
> Primal
> Scream, while for many years they shared multi-instrumentalist Ian
> Kearey with
> folk legends the Oyster Band. They remain the only group to have been
> banned
> from The Rainbow Lounge, Lemmy’s favourite hangout, and been invited to
> play
> at the Hay-On-Wye Literary Festival.
>
>
>
> Now comes the release of the band’s twelfth studio album, ‘Welcome,
> Stranger!’, recorded by the longest-lasting Aeroplanes line up to date.
> Original members Gerard Langley (poet/singer), and John Langley
> (drummer),
> sometimes with Wojtek Dmochowski (dancer), are joined by Gerard Starkie,
> formerly the main man of Witness and an Aeroplane since 2006, Chris
> Sharp
> (bassist and owner of The Fleece venue in Bristol), a band member since
> 2008,
> and the more recent additions Bec Jevons (guitarist and front-person of I
> Destroy) and guitarist Mike Youe. John and Mike also play with Bristol
> punk
> legend (and ex-Aeroplane) Rita Lynch, while Gerard is also Head Of
> Songwriting
> at BIMM Bristol, where he was responsible for guiding the early steps of
> George Ezra, among others.
>
>
>
> Recorded at country house studio Vale by highly-regarded engineer and
> musician
> T.J.Allen (Bat For Lashes), ‘Welcome, Stranger!’ is an instant art-pop
> classic, melodic, riff-laden, driving, humorous, serious, delicate,
> furious,
> a defining statement by a band that refuses nostalgia. With newer
> artists such
> as Courtney Barnett exploring the same speak-singing, guitar-driven
> territory
> The Blue Aeroplanes have defined since the late Eighties, the band
> remain both
> contemporary and relevant. Lyrical concerns include relationships, the
> Universe, the death of Lou Reed, seagulls eating your chips, kids
> chucking
> rocks off motorway bridges, chocolate, the etiquette of x’s, crows and
> the
> existential nature of Elvis Festivals. And what could be more rock ‘n’
> roll
> than that?
>
>
> > On 14 Sep 2016, at 19:19, Keith smith <kjsmith4082@ho...com> wrote:
> >
> > Excellent! Do you have an official press release that I can post on our
> > website ?
> > Cheers, Keith
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On 14 Sep 2016, at 13:25, Chris Sharp <chris.sharp4@vi...net
> > <mailto:chris.sharp4@vi...net>> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone
> >>
> >> Here’s the brand new Blue Aeroplanes video for “Elvis Festival” from
> >> the
> >> forthcoming album “Welcome, Stranger!"
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-AnduoiMQ
> >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-AnduoiMQ>
> >>
> >> We will be releasing a 2nd video from the album over the coming weeks
> >> for a
> >> track entitled “This Is The Heart Of All Wild Things"
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >> Chris
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