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Festive IV

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

December 27, 2023
UK/NL CD-R self-released on Bandcamp

July 26, 2024
UK/NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. The Eternal Optimist
  2. Warm Bank
  3. Murder of Crows Parts 1-3
  4. Wrath of Dog
  5. Golden Redeemer
  6. Seasonal Chill

Credits
  • The Legendary Pink Dots

Artwork by Edward Ka-Spel


Notes

Lovingly home made CDR release featuring the Christmas Specials for 2022 & 2023 plus Hallowe’en 2023. Each copy individually prepared . Artwork by Edward Ka-Spel. Copies will begin shipping immediately after Christmas in order to avoid the chaotic seasonal mail.  Edition of 99.

Ape #6 Spring 1999

By Jim Anderson on November 21, 2023:

Been listening to LPD for 29 years, ever since a kind Belgian freak posted me a mysterious unlabelled cassette.

I wrote this feature a few years later for the London magazine ‘Ape’. I think I wanted to express something of the sheer mystery – in those strange old pre-internet days – that surrounded this otherworldly band…

2023 European Tour August update

European Tour update

The closing chapter of the ‘Post Pandemic’ tour originally planned for late autumn is now scheduled for February of 2024.  It will include Scandinavia, Lithuania, Poland and London.  Please check back later for more information.

 


 

August 17, 2023

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2023

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

December 1, 2023
UK MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Golden Redeemer
  2. Seasonal Chill

 


Credits
  • The Legendary Pink Dots

Notes

The tradition is maintained….

These tracks will also be released as part of Festive IV, a homemade CDR compilation of Christmas Specials from 2022 and 2023 as well as the Hallowe’en Special from 2023.


Lyrics

GOLDEN REDEEMER

The order was unambiguous…………
“Everything has to go… Every creature…. The great and the small. The microscopic, the gargantuan and everything in between. All that buzzes, all that swims, all that slithers, all that walks. Two legs, four legs, no legs, 100 legs. Everything….. make sure it’s painless”.
Officers Iz and Itso regretted their mission but Planet 51963 was truly a liability.
It seemed like such a bold experiment way back in the past. The benefits of a perpetual struggle. Dog eat dog, big fish eats small fish, while the bipeds ate everything………….Two legs, four legs, no legs, 100 legs.
But now those bipeds were looking at the stars, and they would surely get there and plant flags, exploit the new lands, dominate the new lands… Officers Iz and Itso took their orders from The Guardians whose sole purpose was to preserve balance in a fragile Universe. However, that curiously beautiful Planet 51963 now seemed destined to upset the balance and pollute that vast expanse.
An antidote had been prepared. The end would be swift and painless, beginning with the first sentient creature the officers encountered, then going on to sweep the globe. It was a bit like deleting a folder stuffed with corrupted files.
Two legs, four legs, no legs,100 legs.
Mournfully the pair stalked the forest. Officer Iz spoke into his communicator…..”Trees live. Shall we administer? ”
Central Command dismissed the idea, “We do not consider them to be sentient”
Grimly the officers walked on. There were flies, bees, ants and again the question was posed, “Shall we administer?”
“Negative!” came the curt reply. Then the opportunity arrived at last. A creature with four legs, long ears, a longer tongue and a special kind of self awareness. “The creature is sentient. Shall we administer?” barked Officer Iz.
“Affirmative” came the reply.
A golden retriever eccentrically named Captain Pondpot bounded towards the strange beings. Maybe they wanted to play…Officer Iz prepared to administer the potion to this rather affable creature. Then it happened. Pondpot…LICKED … the Officer’s glove.
Mother!! That first love!! Ice cream on the shores of the great sea of Planet Purity. Image after image. OVERWHELMING EMOTION…….”I cannot administer” wept Officer Iz.
His partner snatched the communicator. “Central Command.. Shall I administer?” he shouted. But there was no reply, only the bubbly sound of radiophonic sobbing.
Clearly a decision was needed.
In the meantime Pondpot had sunk his teeth into a disheveled and foul smelling tennis ball.
“I must administer”, Officer Itso muttered to no-one in particular.
Still, the good Captain prodded him with the ball – he wanted the officer to throw it.
Mother!!!! Sweet Selina on their wedding night! The nectar from God’s own garden…..An emotional EARTHQUAKE!!!
He could not administer.
At last the command came from the mother ship where a large audience had gathered around a screen.”Return to base” croaked the emotional commander.” It seems the experiment was a success after all”
Captain Pondpot chewed on a mud pie and bounded off in the direction of a distant light. A slightly disappointing day as no one had thrown the ball for him, but at least he had saved the World

HAPPY SOLSTICE EVERYONE EVERYWHERE.

Bandcamp Friday- December 2023

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2023

Available as a digital download- It’s Bandcamp Friday and the first day of December. In reality the end of a truly brutal year, but hopefully this offering will be a gentle reminder that there is always hope.

Festive IV

Available as a lovingly home made CDR release featuring the Christmas Specials for 2022 & 2023 plus Hallowe’en 2023. Each copy individually prepared. Artwork by Edward Ka-Spel. Copies will begin shipping immediately after Christmas in order to avoid the chaotic seasonal mail. Limited edition of 99.  Find it HERE.

 

… And three more long available titles from the Edward Ka-Spel solo catalogue present on The Legendary Pink Dots’ Bandcamp page are now also available on Edward’s Bandcamp page in the continuing mission to bring all EK releases under one roof.