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

Late summer 2024 newsletter

Here are a few current items to mention:

A message from Edward

August 23
The Pink Dots’ new album is entitled ‘So lonely in Heaven’ and is slated for release in mid- January on Metropolis Records. The European tour begins on 30 January and there are still openings for shows in the Netherlands and Switzerland- any tips will be gratefully received! Also in the pipeline is ‘Chemical Playschool Volumes 23 & 24’ on double vinyl and 2 x cd.Both releases are approaching completion.

Rare gig in Extrapool

October 13
Dynasti will play a concert at Extrapool. Dynasti is Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots), Peter Johan Nÿland (of Norn, Trepanerungsritualen, O Saala Sakraal and much more), and Frans de Waard (Modelbau, Kapotte Muziek, and much more). Dynasti recorded a CD, Quantum Primitiv, on the Klang Galerie to wide acclaim. Marc from EXTRAPOOL inquired if we would be interested in playing a concert and, sure, why not? We’ll spend a few days before hand to come up with all new material. Maybe a one-off? We don’t know.
Tickets are for sale, and mind you, tickets are limited! (The other concerts in this series are also highly recommended!)

Get tickets here:
https://extrapool.nl/agenda-events/onderstuur-dynasti/

When Worlds Collide 2xLP

Edward Ka-Spel has a track on this upcoming compilation double LP that is available for pre-order on Fourth Dimension records.  Find all the information here.