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Dustbombers- This is not my Dystopian Future

While Erik Drost is on tour with The Legendary Pink Dots, his band, The Dustbombers, released a song on Spotify. It’s the last one (this year).

“This is not my Dystopian Future” is a track on their EP Away, which is available on their Bandcamp page.

“We wrote ‘This is not my Dystopian Future’ a while ago (I think before this whole pandemic started) and we did already release it to our Bandcamp page. The song is about the broken promise of a bright and beautiful future. There’s some work left to do I guess.”

 

A brief message from the road

We’re a third of the way through our ‘Post Pandemic Tour’ and Randall Frazier has made an incendiary start with the Pink Dots after filling the big shoes left by The Silverman. Even so, Randall’s history in music goes back decades with his own wonderful Orbit Service project. In fact he teams up with Erik Drost for a spellbinding opening set on the current tour. The pair also combine on the new Orbit Service album, “Dreamless” which you can find here: orbitservice.bandcamp.com/album/dreamless Consider this link as a starting point to an intoxicating Universe of delights. -EK

 

Coming soon- The Maria Dimension- The Complete Recordings on CD

Originally released in 2015 as a beautifully packaged 5xLP box set, Soleilmoon Recordings will be releasing The Maria Dimension- The Complete Recordings as a limited edition 3xCD 8 panel digipak with a 12 page booklet. 

The official release date will be November 11, 2022, but pre-orders can be made with Soleilmoon.  European customers will be able pre-order from the LPD Bandcamp page beginning on November 4th (Bandcamp Friday).

For more information, please go here.

 

The Post Pandemic Tour Diary 2022

Five more days until the tour officially commences, but Edward has already started his tour diary!

THE POST PANDEMIC TOUR DIARY 2022 Day One

October 13
Of course, referring to this tour as ‘Post Pandemic’ is wildly unrealistic but it sounds better than the “Everyone Stopped Bothering to wear masks and pretend COVID was no longer a problem Tour 2022”. I’m sitting in Heathrow Terminal 5; a busy, hassling sort of place but nestling in my list of ‘airports I hate’ at a respectable 15th.

So what is my least favourite transport hub? Frankfurt is certainly a contender for its rudeness, size and its ability to make the innocent traveler feel like a cockroach.

But no… The VERY WORST airport in the Kaspelian Diary of Horrors is Amsterdam Schiphol.  I recall one horrendous night after a one hour flight in a frightening storm where it took nearly double that time to get through Passport Control ( pre Brexshit too!). The crowd was crammed into a small corridor . Here and there it actually swayed from side to side. People screamed , small children were crying incontrollably. And the unnecessarily pedantic officer in his uniform wanted to see the whites of everyone’s eyes. Naturally I did make a complaint.. it was acknowledged and passed on. Bah!!!

Let’s be positive and dwell on the wonder of Southend Airport. You have to go there….

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