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Bandcamp Friday- December 2024

After nearly 45 years of The Legendary Pink Dots, you’d think we’d be used to the launch of our new album by now. In fact, it’s not the case at all, there’s an almost unbearable childlike excitement at Chez Dots right now as we launch ‘So Lonely in Heaven’. We’ve lived with the finished album for over two months and I can’t deny the temptation to press the ‘Share’ button has been ever present. Still, no need for any more holding back as of today. Here is our link to what feels to us like the first wild daffodil of a Spring Day to come.

Five Edward Ka-Spel solo albums remastered

In the continuing mission to gather all solo titles in one place, a few more are added today. All are remastered (some drastically) while “Textures of Illumina” is also being made available as a limited CDR set as this particular title underwent a massive sonic rebirth. The same applies to ‘The Scriptures of Illumina” as the new master seemed worthy of a physical release . “The Perfect Patch” is being made available on CD-R for the first time.  Find them all here.

love’n’peace EK

Hallowe​’​en Special 2024

It’s Hallowe’en every day in these dark times (sigh)….but hopefully this makes an agreeable soundtrack..

2025 European tour dates announced

The Legendary Pink Dots will be touring Europe in Jan/Feb 2025 and the new Album ‘So Lonely in Heaven’ will be out in January on Metropolis Records.

30.01.25 BE Brussels Le Botanique
31.01.25 Fr Lille Bulle Cafe
01.02.25 Fr Paris Le Petit
02.02.25 Fr Lyon Sonic
04.02.25 DE Munich Backstage Club
05.02.25 IT Bologna Freakout
06.02.25 IT Firenze Circolo arci progresso
08.02.25 HU Budapest Instant
09.02.25 HU Pecs Nappali
11.02.25 AT Vienna Replugged
12.02.25 CZ Prague Futurum
13.02.25 DE Berlin Quasimodo
14.02.25 DE Hannover Subkultur
16.02.25 DE Stuttgart Kipepeo
18.02.25 DE Rüsselsheim Das Rind
19.02.25 DE Cologne Sonic Ballroom
20.02.25 DE Hamburg Hafenklang
23.02.25 LT Vilnius St Catherine’s church.
~ more dates TBA ~

Bandcamp Friday- October 2024

The first fruit of Autumn at Chez Dots drops from the tree this morning. The latest volumes of the enduring “Chemical Playschool “ series- now up to Volumes 23 & 24-can be found right here:

If all goes well, it becomes physical in January in the form of double cd and vinyl sets. What a long strange trip it continues to be…..

Bandcamp Friday- September 2024

An intense Summer of recording at Chez Dots deceived us into believing that there would be no new release for the September Bandcamp Friday. However we were pleasantly surprised to see a new vinyl release of one of our earliest shows brought forward to the end of December. “Live in Kontich” is now on double vinyl via Fractal Records (France) – and we’ll be dispatching them later this month.

Also on today’s menu is a small re-run of the “40 Angels’ 4 x CDR package, and “Chemical Playschool 3-4” 4 x CDR package. This is following many requests. Do allow some time for these to be prepared- they are elaborate! Finally a small cache of the “Only Dreaming” CDR was unearthed (they had been held back for a mini-tour that didn’t materialise).

On Edward’s Bandcamp page:

A quiet Bandcamp Friday here as so much focus has been on recording the new Pink Dots’ material over the Summer. Even so, the last copies of the ‘Tales from the Trenches’ vinyl have been added here , while a number of ‘Live at Cafe OTO’ and ‘A Carrington Event’ CDRs are still available.love’n’peace EK