This is a compilation of news articles and announcements from 2003, taken from Brainwashed.com.  Most, if not all, of the links are obsolete. This is for archival purposes only.

PHOTOS FROM PARIS (28 JANUARY 2003) AND NEW MP3 ONLINE AT LEGENDARYPINKDOTS.ORG:

Appx. date: February 1, 2003

Photos from the festival in Paris on 28 January are online now at LegendaryPinkDots.org. There is also a nice version of “Stitching Time” from the Double Door in Chicago (Halloween 2002) here.

 

LIVE SHOW UPDATE:

Appx. date: February 2, 2003

The live shows originally slated for Italy and Greece in March are being postponed until later this year as schedules are juggled. Right now, the Dots are eyeing a potential mini-tour in May and are looking for venues in Sweden (particularly Stockholm), Norway, Finland, Denmark, Poland, and Scandinavia. If anyone can help the Dots with booking/venue information in these countries, please contact Edward. If you do not know how to contact Edward, please e-mail Lisa with the words “Club Info” in the subject line and your messages will be forwarded directly to the band.

 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS UPDATED:

The Legendary Pink FAQs have been updated by Edward, based on the most common inquiries turning up via e-mail correspondence. Please take a moment to read through them and see if your questions have been answered before you contact the band or the webmistress with general queries.

 

SITE UPDATE: CAST OF CHARACTERS:

We have updated the Cast of Characters.

 

UTOPIA UPDATE:

Appx. date: February 3, 2003

In 1999, Terminal Kaleidescope introduced the “Utopia” page to its newsletter. The aim of this section of our website is to pass on information about other worthwhile artists and actions in what could loosely be described as “The International Underground.” We have updated Utopia as of March 5, 2003. You can find the latest additions (Ink and Hotel Encore)here. Long time LPD fans will recall Stephan Barbery’s beautiful cover illustrations for Pink Dot releases such as “The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse” and “The Golden Age.

 

THE RETURN OF THE LEGENDARY PINK NEWSLETTER:

Appx. date: February 10, 2003

Due to an increasing number of requests, we will be re-launching The Legendary Pink Newsletter this spring. If you would like to subscribe, you may do so by clicking here and choosing the appropriate subject line from the drop down menu. We will not automatically subscribe you to this mailing list without your permission (even if we know you personally and we know you would love to receive our updates!), so if you are interested, please remember to take a moment and drop us a line.

This is a compilation of news articles and announcements from  2002, taken from Brainwashed.com.  Most, if not all, of the links are obsolete. This is for archival purposes only.

LEGENDARYPINKDOTS.ORG:

appx. date: January 1, 2002

legendarypinkdots.org is a new page created and run by the Dots themselves (with a little help from their friends). Among other things, you will be able download unique MP3 files.

 

NIELS VAN HORN/MARK SPYBEY CD OUT NOW:

appx. date: February 1, 2002

The longtime LPD hornblower has collaborated with Mark Spybey (Dead Voices on Air) on a new disc entitled “De Klaverland Klompen Voetbal Club”. Read a review and listen to samples in The Brainwashed Brain, then buy it from TEKA mailorder or Soleilmoon.

 

CACIOVALLO COLLECTION SOLD OUT AT SOLEILMOON:

appx. date: March 1, 2002

The new 10 CD collection (limited to 24 copies) has sold out at Soleilmoon. The string of e-bay auctions have also ended. Congratulations to everyone who ended up with one of these sets!

 

LEGENDARY PINK DOTS NOW REPRESENTED BY THE AGENCY WORLDWIDE

appx. date: March 20, 2002

The Legendary Pink Dots are now working with The Agency worldwide for concert and festival booking. We’d like to thank Paperclip Agency for their work on our behalf in Europe over the past few years.

 

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR WEBMISTRESS

appx. date: April 1, 2002

The first edition of the Legendary Pink Newsletter (“Resurrection”) was sent out on April 1. If you subscribed to the newsletter, but have not received your copy via e-mail, please contact me (Lisa). If you have not yet subscribed to the newsletter, but would like to receive a copy, you can sign up by clicking here and choosing “Subscribe to the LPD Newsletter” from the drop-down menu. Please note that you MUST enter your e-mail address correctly in the contact form in order to receive the newsletter.If you subscribed using a hotmail address, please check your hotmail filters. I have not received any notification of any of the newsletters sent to hotmail addresses bouncing, but have gotten some e-mails from people using hotmail who have not received their newsletter. Please get in touch with me as soon as you have checked your account for filters ( use this e-mail address ) and I’ll send you the newsletter again straight away.

TANITH AND THE LION TREE 2 x LP NOW AVAILABLE:

appx. date: April 1, 2002

Over a decade after its initial CD release, Flesh Eating Ants Records is proud to present Edward Ka-Spel’s classic “Tanith and the Lion Tree” in the format it was always intended: on ultra-thick vinyl. “Tanith and the Lion Tree” has been repackaged as a double LP set on grey-coloured, 220 gram audiophile quality vinyl. Edward has also provided 3 brand new bonus tracks to complete the second LP. For those of you who may not know, the original planned vinyl release would have seen the final two tracks omitted to allow the piece to sit as a single LP, however the bonus material fits so well with the tracks (“Phoney War” and “Old Man Trouble”) that a double LP was entirely necessary. The complete work has been remastered by Edward to better fit the medium, and a few changes have been made. The release is limited to 512 hand-numbered copies, and the item is now in stock and has been shipped out to those who have pre-ordered.

 

ELECTRICALLY INDUCED VIBRATIONS:

appx. date: May 1, 2002

Edward Ka-Spel and The Silverman are featured on the new “Electrically Induced Vibrations” compilation which will be released in August 2002 by Anomalous Records. Edward’s song is entitled “Burdon” and the new Silverman piece is called “Cartilage Music”. Both tracks are exclusive to this release. The LP itself is on multi-coloured vinyl and is limited to 414 copies. 100 of these copies will be given to contributors and a large number of pre-orders have already been placed, so act VERY quickly!

 

UPCOMING RELEASES FROM BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDS:

appx. date: May 15, 2002

Many new Pink Dot related releases are in the pipeline at Beta-Lactam Ring Records. First up is “So Close Yet So Far Out”, the latest solo offering from the ultra-talented Martijn de Kleer. This will be a double LP pressed on 220 gram vinyl via direct metal mastering. Packaged with various inserts, the first 250 copies will also include postcards autographed by Martijn. The music itself ranges from pure psychedelia to melodic abstract collages. Martijn is joined on this LP by cEvin Key, The Silverman and Ryan Moore. Expect this release sometime in October, but for now you can listen to a short MP3.

Also due in October is the CD edition of “O’er A Shalabast’r Tyde Strolt Ay”, Edward’s most recent musical masterpiece. The CD edition will be slightly re-mixed and will include bonus material.

Last but not least are two new Legendary Pink Dot CDRs, which will be packed with professionally printed inserts and burned onto white washed discs. More details are coming soon, so stay tuned.

 

ALL THE KING’S HORSES & ALL THE KING’S MEN:

appx. date: June 1, 2002

The first details of the two new LPD studio albums, due this fall, are starting to emerge from Chez Dots. “All The King’s Horses” is actually finished and will be released by Soleilmoon, while “All The King’s Men” (to be released by ROIR) is awaiting the final mix.

Word from Edward is that these albums are more “song based” than the last few releases, with the exception of the 25-minute opus “All The King’s Men”/ “The Brightest Star” which concludes the ROIR CD.

 

EYE SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE:

appx. date: July 1, 2002

Edward is hard at work on the forthcoming Tear Garden release, entitled “Eye Spy With My Little Eye”. This CD is part of the Subconcious Communications “From The Vault” series. The cover art (courtesy of Litany) can be seen here. All tracks will be exclusive to this release.

 

2002 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES (AS OF 10/22/02):

appx. date: October 22, 2002

The Legendary Pink Dots have announced the itinerary for their North American tour. The support act will be Origami Galaktika from Norway.

The obligatory disclaimer: Schedule changes may still occur. Changes of dates and venues will be posted to this website as they occur.

October 6: TORONTO/ Lee’s Palace
October 8: MONTREAL / Cabaret
October 9: CAMBRIDGE/ Middle East
October 10: PROVIDENCE/ Met Cafe
October 11: NEW YORK CITY/ Village Underground
October 12: PHILADELPHIA/ North Star Bar
October 13: WASH. DC/ Black Cat Also: Coven of One
October 15: CHAPEL HILL/ Cat’s Cradle
October 16: CHARLOTTE/ Tremont Music Hall
October 17: ATLANTA/ Cotton Club
October 18: ST. PETERSBURG/ State Theatre
October 19: ORLANDO/ The Social
October 21: NEW ORLEANS/ Shim Sham
October 23: NASHVILLE/ The Church
October 24: CINCINNATI/ 20th Century Theater
October 25: PITTSBURGH/ Rosebud
October 26: CLEVELAND/ Beachland Ballroom
October 27: DETROIT/ Magic Stick
October 29: MILWAUKEE/ Rave
October 30: MINNEAPOLIS/ First Avenue
October 31: CHICAGO/ Double Door
November 1: ST.LOUIS/ Galaxy
November 2: KANSAS CITY/ The Hurricane
November 4: AUSTIN/ Stubb’s Bar
November 5: HOUSTON/ Engine Room
November 6: DALLAS/ Gypsy Tea Room
November 8: DENVER/ Bluebird Theater
November 9: DENVER/ Bluebird Theater*
*Different LPD set + Edward Ka-Spel solo
November 11: SALT LAKE CITY/ X-Scape
November 14: WEST HOLLYWOOD/ The Key Club
November 15: SAN FRANCISCO/ Slim’s
November 17: PORTLAND/ Berbati’s Pan
November 18: SEATTLE/ Graceland

 

ELECTRICALLY INDUCED VIBRATIONS LP NOW AVAILABLE:

appx. date: October 23, 2002

The Anomalous Records compilation “Electrically Induced Vibrations”, which features tracks by Edward Ka-Spel (“Burdon”) and The Silverman (“Cartilage Music”) is now available from Anomalous Records and The Terminal Kaleidescope .

 

“ALL THE KING’S HORSES”, “ALL THE KING’S MEN”, AND “LILITH & THE ROSE” NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:

appx. date: October 24, 2002

You can now pre-order the new studio CDs “All The King’s Horses” and “All The King’s Men” from The Terminal Kaleidescope. Also available for pre-order throughTEKA is Edward’s 10″ picture disc Lilith & the Rose. At the time of this update, it is anticipated that the Pink Dots will be able to ship all of these items to those who order from TEKA before embarking on their 2002 North American tour.

 

NEW TEAR GARDEN CD:

appx. date: October 25, 2002

The new Tear Garden CD, entitled Eye Spy With My Little Eye is now finished and expected to be released in October. The track list is as follows:

Perforated Man
A Bitter Pill
The Train To China
Extract From Empathy No.2
Splatterflick
Black Curtains
The Bomb Bomb Loopapa Tribe Drown Themselves In A Vat Of Marmite
All The Stars Are Falling
Extract From Empathy No.3
Changer

To pre-order your copy, click here.

 

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS:

appx. date: November 2, 2002

Now shipping: An authorized lyric collection by Edward Ka-Spel, prolific vocal wizard of the Legendary Pink Dots and The Tear Garden. The illustrated book will present song lyrics selected from the nearly forty albums’ worth of Edward’s musical ventures from 1980 to the present. In addition, the book will be graced by a CD-single featuring an exclusive four-part Edward Ka-Spel creation.

You can check all details at www.loveandloudcolours.com. Numbered books are sold out as of June 2002, but plenty unnumbered books are available. As of now the book & single will be available only through www.loveandloudcolours.comand at select (maybe all?) Legendary Pink Dot appearances along their North American tour.

 

NEW RELEASES FROM BETA-LACTAM RING: “BASILISK” AND “O’ER A SHALABAST’R TYDE STROLT AY” CD:

appx. date: November 5, 2002

Beta-lactam Ring Records has just announced the release of Edward’s “O’er A Shalabast’r Tyde Strolt Ay” on CD. The LP issue of this release is sold out. 999 copies of the CD, due October 3, will be pressed. There will also be a limited sub-edition (35 copies) which is packaged in a handmade wallet with 6 CD size inserts on archival photopaper.

The CD issue of “Basilisk” is due soon from BLRR as well. For the time being, there will only be 500 copies of the CD pressed. The release will be packaged in a standard jewel case with printed inserts. The track list is as follows:

Stigmata Part One (Freiheit) / Klazh / Love Is… / No Reason / 834 / Wall Purges Night (Version) / Basilisk 1 / Methods / Clean Up / Basilisk 2/ The Ocean Cried Blue Murder: A Ferry In A Storm On A Walkman */ Ideal Home ** / The Glory The Glory ***

* This version of “The Ocean Cried Blue Murder” was recorded in 1990 on (what else?) a ferry during (what else?) a stormy night directly into (what else?) the microphone of a Walkman.
** Unreleased version with lead vocals by Keith Thompson and backing vocals by Edward recorded 1981.
*** Unreleased version recorded in 1981.

BLRR will also be issuing the CD release of “Apparition” and “Atomic Roses”. More details are coming soon.

 

“ALL THE KING’S HORSES”, “ALL THE KING’S MEN” & “COLOURS” BY NIELS VAN HOORN ARE NOW AVAILABLE:

appx. date: November 10, 2002

You may now place your order for “All The King’s Horses” and “All The King’s Men” through Soleilmoon and “All The King’s Men” through ROIR.

Track lists are as follows:

ALL THE KING’S HORSES:
1. The Unlikely Event
2. The Way I Feel Today
3. 12th
4. Our Dominion
5. Chain Surfing
6. Just Wave
7. It’s The Real Thing
8. A Bargain At Twice The Price
9. Daisy
10. Birdie
11. Lisa Goes Surfing
12. Wax And Feathers

ALL THE KING’S MEN:
1. Cross Of Fire
2. The Warden
3. Touched By The Midnight Sun
4. Rash
5. The Day Before It Happened
6. Brighter Now
7. Marz Attacks
8. Sabres At Dawn
9. All The King’s Men
10. The Brightest Star

The new Niels Van Hoorn CD is also available through Soleilmoon. According to the label press release: In the middle of 2001, Niels Van Hoorn (Legendary Pink Dots) received a friendly e-mail from Ryan Moore (Twilight Circus Dub Sound System / Legendary Pink Dots) offering assistance with his new solo album. He promised “no stress, just fun!” And that is exactly what happened. Moore ended up playing drums and congas, which were looped and later employed for multi-track recordings. Van Hoorn’s experiments with a Boomerang Phrase sampler resulted in the first sax loop on the album, which were mixed live with effects to a 2-track tape. For the most part, Van Hoorn placed himself in the middle of his studio, encircled by his collection of saxes, clarinets, flutes, analogue windsynths and keyboards, and would walk around to each, improvising. Everything was then recorded by Moore and passed through his “effects kitchen” for some sonic baking. And voila! “Colours” came into being. Both Niels and Ryan hope you enjoy listening to it as much as they enjoyed producing it.

 

“EYE SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE” UPDATE:

appx. date: November 15, 2002

Scott at Litany passed on the following information regarding the new Tear Garden CD:

“Some of the tracks were recorded in the 80’s and sound “lo-fi” at times. The songs are time-sequential-ish and start with demos from 1986 and work up to a new track (entitled “Changer”) which was recorded just for this release. Everything is pretty close to being finalized and “Eye Spy With My Little Eye” should hit the presses relatively soon.”

If you still need to pre-order a copy, you can do it here.

 

TOUR PHOTOS FROM LEE’S PALACE IN TORONTO POSTED AT LITANY.NET:

appx. date: November 20, 2002

Litany has posted some photos from Lee’s Palace in Toronto on 6 October. The gorgeous light show, courtesy of General Chaos Visuals, is prominently featured in these shots.

 

“BASILISK” CD NOW AVAILABLE:

appx. date: November 25, 2002

“Basilisk” is now available from Beta-lactam Ring Records. You will also be able to order this release from TEKA once the Dots return from their North American tour in mid-November. “Basilisk” features all of the music from the original cassette release and three bonus tracks: “The Ocean Cried Blue Murder: A Ferry In A Storm On A Walkman”, “Ideal Home” with vocals by Keith Thompson, and a previously unreleased version of “The Glory, The Glory.”

 

FINISHED COVER ART FOR “EYE SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE”:

appx. date: November 30, 2002

Once again, thanks are due to Scott over at Litany for keeping me in the loop and sending me the final version of the cover art for the upcoming Tear Garden release. Click here to see the image. Edward is very pleased with this release and tells me that it is “the missing album” between “Tired Eyes Slowly Burning” and “The Last Man To Fly”. Pre-orders are still being taken here.

 

“EYE SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE” NOW SHIPPING:

appx. date: December 1, 2002

The wait is over! Per Corey over at Litany, the new Tear Garden CD “Eye Spy With My Little Eye” is being shipped as I type!

 

LIVE DATES FOR EARLY 2003:

appx. date: December 5, 2002

The Legendary Pink Dots and Edward Ka-Spel have tentatively scheduled the following shows for early 2003. More details will be posted to this website as they emerge. The two festival dates in January are “100% confirmed”, according to Edward. He also reports that the shows in Athens, Greece are looking “extremely likely”. These will be the first live Pink Dot performances in Greece.

January 25: Cannes, France (Festival)
January 28: Paris, France/La Locomotive (Festival)
March 14: Vicenza, Italy
March 15: Florence, Italy
March 16: Rome, Italy
March 21: Athens, Greece (Edward Ka-Spel…TENTATIVE)
March 22: Athens, Greece (Legendary Pink Dots…TENTATIVE)

 

BETA-LACTAM RING PRINTS AND ARTWORK FOR SALE:

appx. date: December 10, 2002

Beta-lactam Ring Records is now offering prints of the cover art from Edward Ka-Spel’s “O’er A Shalabast’r Tyde Strolt Ay”, Martijn de Kleer’s “So Close Yet So Far Out.” Prints are available in very limited quantities and can be purchased here.

 

MARTIJN DE KLEER: “SO CLOSE YET SO FAR OUT”:

appx. date: December 15, 2002

Beta-lactam Ring Records is now accepting orders for Martijn’s new 2 X LP.

From the label press release:

” All the I’s are microdotted and all the mushroom teas crossed as Martijn’s guitar gently seeps, crawls, oozes, boils and burns. And even though Martijn’s Dotted past is in some evidence, this is hardly an LPD karaoke album. This is a fully fleshed-out beast of original design. Martijn’s vocals occasionally punctuate the parade, but the majority involves instrumental clusters, some based in rock form and others more like giant swelling clouds, all thick with psychedelia (acid rain?). Besides the requisite fuzzing guitar (see also Damon and/or Helios Creed), Martijn employs such merry men as Ryan Moore and cEvin Key. A beautiful production that is filled with sonic surprises at every turn and is sure to make any day trip, erm, trippier. 8 tracks over 2 albums, exactly the way any good psych record is supposed to be, damnit! The finale is a particularly rewarding climb to Heaven on a honeyed ladder, from which view is all poppies, beautiful poppies, and the sound is perfectly Kleer. 2-220 gram audiophile vinyl lps, packed in a full color gatefold sleeve.”

Click here for MP3 extracts!

 

LETTER TO LPD FANS FROM BENNY (ORIGAMI GALAKTIKA):

appx. date: December 25, 2002

On Christmas Day, I received the following e-mail from Benny of Origami Galaktika. He asked me if I would put it online in the usual places so that he could thank everyone for the kindness they showed him when he opened for the Legendary Pink Dots on their North American tour. So without further ado…here it is:

Hello everybody!

I hope you’re all doing well and that the Great Lord and/or the High Spirits (whichever you prefer) look upon you with grace and that you will all be granted good lives.

I would like to use this as an opportunity to express my gratefulness and appreciation to the following people:

First of all to The Dots and their collaborators for inviting me along on this, my first journey to the US of A, and by doing this giving me the chance to see and meet all you people.

When Edward first asked me (in Oslo, summer 2001) I immediately replied “Yes I’d love to, if it turns out to be possible, and if I’m granted the right to enter the country”…(it’s hard to tell right?!) of a year went by and then I got a mail asking if I was still into it and the ball started rolling…

Luckily, it turned out I was allowed to enter by the authorities that seem to believe they’re in charge…

Then second, to everybody that I will not mention by name, you know who you are!!!!

Then third but no less important, to all you people that were there for treating me so nice and being mostly open-minded to what Origami represents and what I represent within the Origami Republika. It’s about love, it’s about freedom, it’s about life.

Also to the one guy in New Orleans that was shouting so loud during my gig that I was almost scared and to the crowd in Orlando where most people seemed to have way more important things to do than pay attention to this tall, weird guy with the braided beard, making all these slow and drony sounds.

And I must not forget the guy in St. Petersburg that went to the wrong gig. I guess Lynyrd Skynyrd were playing somewhere else and you, my dear friend, didn’t notice that it wasn’t where you bought a ticket to enter. But I’m not angry, (I’ve heard that hillbilly life isn’t always easy and you had probably had a hard day throwing rocks at your neighbours) I’m sorry that I could not play “Freebird in Chains” for you.

Maybe next time…

Those of you that I have promised to write will hear from me sooner or later and those of you that would like to get in touch, my e-mail is galaktika@hotmail.com.

But please remember to write “Pink Dots” or something I will understand in the subject line, ok!? It is hotmail and as those of you that have hotmail know I do get a lot of shit there…

I could go on but my point is just to say thank you all, hope to see you again!!!!

All the best to all of you, take care, make a difference.

Sing while you may and treat your neighbours nice.

Love + light,

Benny

 

THE OFFICIAL LIVE ARCHIVES HAVE BEEN RESTORED:

appx. date: December 29, 2002

The Official Live Archives, which have been offline for several months, have been fully restored. The Live Archives contain about 30 live Pink Dot shows and several solo performances by Edward Ka-Spel, all of which are available for public download. As an extra bonus, all the MP3 files hosted over the past year atLegendaryPinkDots.org have been put online again as well. Download while you may!

 

This is a compilation of news articles and announcements from  2000 and 2001, taken from Brainwashed.com.  Most if not all of the links are obsolete. This is for archival purposes only.

ONLINE UPDATE – 10th February, 2000

RELEASE DATES

Soleilmoon has announced the release dates for the next few items:

• February 22, 2000 – Edward Ka-Spel “Red Letters” CD (Caciocavallo CAD 2)
• April 18, 2000 – Dark Star “Travelogue II” CD (Soleilmoon SOL 102 CD) [not sure if the Dots are involved with this one or not]
Edward Ka-Spel “Scriptures of Illumina” (Cacciocavallo CAD 8)
• May 23, 2000 – Legendary Pink Dots “A Perfect Mystery” CD/double LP(Cacciocavallo CAD 11/CAL 11)

The Legendary Pink Dots will tour North America from late May into July.

Look for an exclusive Dots CD available only at the shows.

NEWSLETTER 5

The question is, what the hell am I going to do with the 350 cans of peas I stockpiled for the apocalypse? It was a cosy retreat out there on the Ombahba Islands, at least 3 kilometres under the ground…plenty of candles, a few thousand boxes of matches, vegetarian cup-a-soup (3 cartons),… I won´t go on. Didn´t bother with a TV because I was counting on hearing the ceiling rumble a little when the 4 horsemen thundered across the planet on January 1st. When the rumbling stopped I figured it was safe to come out again.
The reason why I am writing this now is that I forgot my can-opener, and when I emerged to make a swift dash to the local Ombahba Supermarket to buy one I noticed it was January the 8th and everything was still there. It has occurred to me, however, that I may have inadvertently slipped into another dimension where everything simply looks the same. Nevertheless my behavioural patterns will remain the same. So happy new millenium, folks… welcome to the Legendary Pink Dots’ latest newsletter.

On a more serious note,everyone here was shocked and saddened to hear about the death of our old friend Tomasz Beksinski in Warsaw on Christmas Eve. Tomasz was a DJ with Radio 3 in Poland and introduced our music to the whole country many years ago. We met him for the first time early in the 90s in Wroclaw, liked him enormously and the friendship grew each time we returned. Tomasz.. wherever you are now… may you have found the peace you deserve.

THE YEAR 2000….PLANS,DELUSIONS etc.

Legendary Pink Dots have resumed recording their latest album. Release date is scheduled for March/April and a long North American tour is planned for end May/June. A taster for the album will be made available here at the Dots website at the end of February thanks to the miracle of the MP3.
Before this album is available, a new TEAR GARDEN CD should be in the shops entitled “Crystal Mass.” Tear Garden´s first tour looks set to occur in the Fall in North America. Also imminent is MIMIR 3 on Streamline/Anomalous Records.
Legendary Pink Dots are planning only a few shows in Europe this year, though dates listed below are confirmed. We have just received an invitation to play in Greece (possibly end -April) and want to do this.. but no promises as our previous attempts to play there ended in disappointment. Israel, Russia, Mexico and The Baltic States remain possibilities for this year as well.
A new album by Edward Ka-Spel is planned for release in February entitled “Red Letters”, while “The Scriptures of Illumina” along with other long unavailable Terminal Kaleidoscope titles will be reissued by Soleilmoon. This doesn´t mean the end of the TEKA label… it simply isn´t feasible for re-presses without any distribution in Europe.
All Play it Again Sam titles will re-emerge via Soleilmoon this year,while the last of LPDs cassettes on CD series is slated for the Spring (“Stained Glass Volume 2”- APPARITION/ATOMIC ROSES/BASLISK. A double). Also likely is the appearance of “Under triple Moons” on vinyl.
LPDs were sad to see Edwin Von Trippenhof leave the band at the start of December for personal reasons. We wish him all the best, and would like to point out that he is also making some fine music as a solo artist. If he wants to release it, look for it here. 
Martijn de Kleer has rejoined the Pink Dots on guitar and occasional violin.

LPD 2000
Year 2000 marks 20 years that LPD has been playing and recording together as such. There’s now a brand new miniature biography authored by EKS where the history page is.

RECENT RELEASES

• DNA LE DRAW D-KEE – Reissue on CD of very obscure vinyl release project of Edward Ka-Spel, Elke P., Ryan Moore.
• Sing While You May – Russian compilation CD in Cyrillic fonts. 2 new tracks, one new version of Supper at J’s, domestic USA price from Soleilmoon…
• LEGENDARY PINK DOTS Live at the metro (35 DFL/20 $ US/ 17 goddamn Euros).
First full-length live CD from the Dots. A good audience recording of our show in Chicago last November (thanks to Nick who provided the CDRs for us). Original plan was to issue multi-tracked recording from Poznan a couple of years ago…but the fire and spirit of this performance in Chicago simply came across much stronger even if it isn’t quite so hi-fi. Parts of the Poznan show (3 tracks) will eventually emerge …possibly as a mini-CD.
This “Live at Metro” CD is a Polish import, features many photographs and includes CD-rom material of a rather silly interview.
• EDWARD KA-SPEL, “Share the Day/Dream Stealer” (15 DFL/8 $ US)
2 new tracks on a 7″ vinyl single released by long term LPD friend jon Whitney of the excellent Brainwashed website (www.brainwashed.com).

For other news and older archives, check out Dirk Ruster’s LPD Newsticker at home.rhein-zeitung.de/~druster/news.htm

 

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ONLINE UPDATE – 29th May, 2000

INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD KA-SPEL

A recent radio interview with Edward Ka-Spel was done on May 25, 2000, by Jon Whitney and Daniel McKernan concerning their latest album and tour. It is available in streaming real audio and text formats.

LPD NEWS UPDATES

• A PERFECT MYSTERY CD is out now and will be on sale at the Toronto show of LPDs.
• FAREWELL MILKY WAY (best ever LPD live recording on CD) will also be on our stall throughout the tour. That will hit the shops , and Europe when the tour is finished.
• There are 4 new T-shirt designs, one of which is a special shirt made only for Canadian shows (100 only)….some of these may be available at the first US shows.
• THE SCRIPTURES OF ILLUMINA has been drastically remastered, given a new cover and now has a lyrics booklet- it will be released during the tour.
• THE TEAR GARDEN have a compilation CD appearing while the Dots are on the roads entitled “For Those who would walk with the Gods”. Label issuing it is BRUDENIA and as with LPDs comp. last year, all typesetting is in the Russian (cyrillic ) alphabet.There is bonus material.
• Khataclimici China Doll has ben reissued in a run of 750 copies.
• LPDs are no longer working with Paperclip Agency in Europe following practices by the latter which shocked all members of the band. We’ll seek new representatives here when we return from the States.
• There is a POSSIBILITY that LPDs last scheduled US show of the tour on San Juan Island may be moved back one day to the Friday.
• Martyn de Kleer has released a solo album on CDR in an edition of 100. Title is “Flow”.Its beautiful, and will be available on the tour.

WEBSITE ADDITIONS

Press releases for the forthcoming LPD and Twilight Circus albums are now available in the text section of the website.

Also, that exclusive track from the Stone Circles Anthology, Gladiators Version Apocalypse is now available for download in the full version via MP3 technology. This is in the media page.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR UPDATE

The following are the latest confirmed dates for the LPD tour of North America for 2000. All dates so far include Dead Voices on Air as special opening guest. More dates will be posted when they’re confirmed.

5/24 – Toronto, ON          Lee’s Palace

5/25 – London, ON           Call the Office

5/26 – Montreal, PQ         Cabaret Music Hall

5/27 – Cambridge, MA        Middle East Downstairs

5/28 – Winooski, VT         Higher Ground

5/31 – Rochester, NY        Water St. Music Hall

6/01 – New York, NY         Wetlands Preserve

6/02 – Washington, DC       Black Cat

6/03 – Philadelphia, PA     Upstage

6/04 – Richmond, VA         Twisters

6/06 – Carborro, NC         Cat’s Cradle

6/07 – Charlotte, NC        Tremont Music Hall

6/08 – Atlanta, GA          Cotton Club

6/09 – Jacksonville, FL     Jack Rabbits

6/10 – Orlando, FL          Sapphire Supper Club

6/11 – St. Petersburg, FL   The State Theatre

6/12 – New Orleans, LA      Howlin’ Wolf

6/14 – Cincinnati, OH       Bogart’s

6/15 – Cleveland, OH        Peabody’s Down Under

6/16 – Columbus, OH         Little Brother’s

6/17 – Pittsburgh, PA       Club Laga

6/18 – Pontiac, MI          7th House

6/20 – Milwaukee, WI        Rave Bar

6/21 – Minneapolis, MN      First Avenue

6/22 – Chicago, IL          Double Door

6/23 – St. Louis, MO        Side Door

6/24 – Lawrence, KS         The Bottleneck

6/26 – Austin, TX           Stubb’s Bar-B-Q

6/27 – Houston, TX          Instant Karma

6/28 – Dallas, TX           Curtain Club

6/30 – Denver, CO           Bluebird Theatre

7/01 – Denver, CO           Bluebird Theatre

7/03 – Salt Lake City, UT   DV8

7/05 – Los Angeles, CA      Roxy Theatre

7/06 – Santra Ana, CA       Galaxy Theatre

7/08 – San Francisco, CA    Slim’s

7/10 – Portland, OR         Barbati’s Pan

7/11 – Seattle, WA          The Showbox

7/12 – Vancouver, BC        Richard’s On Richards

7/13 – Friday Harbor, WA    Egg Lake Saw Mill

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS
Production is under way for release of an authorized lyric collection by Edward Ka-Spel. The illustrated book will also include a CD-single featuring two exclusive Edward Ka-Spel creations. Due January 23, 2001, the collection will be available mostly through mail order. If supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following the January 2001 publication.

Advance reservations are being accepted now, with payment requested for just before the book goes to press^×in November of 2000. For more information, and to place your reservation, please go to: www.slip.net/~apologia/loveloud.htm.

NEWSLETTER 6
Spring. The new millenium. The battered Winter fields transforming into a riot of colour.
Ah, glorious isn’t it? Can see a beam from the almost forgotten sun reflecting on the roof of a Mercedes as it speeds down the highway which runs past this window. Happy demolition workers roll up their sleeves as the big metal ball smashes into what’s left of a farmhouse across the road. Happy workers part the curtains in the automatic door factory which backs onto the demolition site. 
Spring….

THE YEAR 2000…. PLANS,DELUSIONS etc.
Legendary Pink Dots are pleased to announce that the new album ,”A Perfect Mystery” is completed, and we’re quite pleased with ourselves this time around. It feels like an especially good one to all who made it. Look out for it perhaps sometime in April.

Mimir 3 and Edward Ka-Spel’s new solo album, “Red Letters” are out now, but new Tear Garden (“Crystal Mass”) is now slated for Summer release.

LPDs’ USA/Canada tour with Dead Voices on Air is in advanced planning stage now and first date should be in Toronto on May 24. There are still plans to visit Greece. A special CD will become available at shows on the USA tour, reaching the shops when it has finished.

Tear Garden may play a handful of shows in Europe in September, with a USA tour tentatively planned for November.

STAALPLAAT/OPEN CIRCUIT
Staalplaat have embarked on a project offering bands and artists who have not yet had anything commercially released,or have gained no serious exposure,a real chance to have their music heard. Anyone supplying them with a finished ,coded CDR and artwork can have this work manufactured (as CDRs) and distributed to their regular outlets as well as advertised in their catalogues.For further information contact Staalplaat via www.staalplaat.com and click on the “news” item. The project/distribution outlet is known as Open Circuit.

A WORD OF ADVICE FOR NEW BANDS
In the jubilation of creating a new CD and receiving a contract from a record company, mistakes can sometimes be made.
Chances are, a representative of the record company will wave a SECOND contract under your nose stating how the label’s publishing wing wants to publish your songs. Chances are, this contract will be in an obscure branch of English known as “legalese”. Should you ask a question about it, you will be assured that it’s “just standard industry practice” for a label’s publishing wing to publish the songs of its sister company.
Chances are, there will be an innocuous sentence telling you that the contract is valid for the “period of the copyright”.
Don’t sign it! We did to find out that Play it Again Sam’s publishing wing (SC Confidence) apparently has us under contract until 70 years after our deaths. We are making trouble about this. 
Standard industry practice….

RELEASE DATES
Soleilmoon has announced the release dates for the next few items:

• Out now – Edward Ka-Spel “Red Letters” CD (Caciocavallo CAD 2)
• April 18, 2000 – Dark Star “Travelogue II” CD (Soleilmoon SOL 102 CD) [not sure if the Dots are involved with this one or not]
Edward Ka-Spel “Scriptures of Illumina” (Cacciocavallo CAD 8)
• May 23, 2000 – Legendary Pink Dots “A Perfect Mystery” CD (Cacciocavallo CAD 11/CAL 11)
double LP will follow shortly thereafter

OLDER BITS OF INTEREST
All Play it Again Sam titles will re-emerge via Soleilmoon this year,while the last of LPDs cassettes on CD series is slated for the Spring (“Stained Glass Volume 2”- APPARITION/ATOMIC ROSES/BASLISK. A double). Also likely is the appearance of “Under triple Moons” on vinyl.
LPDs were sad to see Edwin Von Trippenhof leave the band at the start of December for personal reasons. We wish him all the best, and would like to point out that he is also making some fine music as a solo artist. If he wants to release it, look for it here. 
Martijn de Kleer has rejoined the Pink Dots on guitar and occasional violin. LPD 2000
Year 2000 marks 20 years that LPD has been playing and recording together as such. There’s now a brand new miniature biography authored by EKS where the history page is.

RECENT RELEASES

• DNA LE DRAW D-KEE – Reissue on CD of very obscure vinyl release project of Edward Ka-Spel, Elke P., Ryan Moore.
• Sing While You May – Russian compilation CD in Cyrillic fonts. 2 new tracks, one new version of Supper at J’s, domestic USA price from Soleilmoon…
• LEGENDARY PINK DOTS Live at the metro (35 DFL/20 $ US/ 17 goddamn Euros).
First full-length live CD from the Dots. A good audience recording of our show in Chicago last November (thanks to Nick who provided the CDRs for us). Original plan was to issue multi-tracked recording from Poznan a couple of years ago…but the fire and spirit of this performance in Chicago simply came across much stronger even if it isn’t quite so hi-fi. Parts of the Poznan show (3 tracks) will eventually emerge …possibly as a mini-CD.
This “Live at Metro” CD is a Polish import, features many photographs and includes CD-rom material of a rather silly interview.
• EDWARD KA-SPEL, “Share the Day/Dream Stealer” (15 DFL/8 $ US)
2 new tracks on a 7″ vinyl single released by long term LPD friend jon Whitney of the excellent Brainwashed website (www.brainwashed.com).

 

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ONLINE UPDATE – 12th July, 2000

SUMMER 2000
Here is the latest Legendary Pink newsletter for the curious,and the first to appear after our USA tour, which may have been the most enjoyable adventure we’ve had on the highway. Many thanks to all those who turned up and made us feel so welcome.

Alas the two European festivals planned in Dresden and Trutnov are going ahead without LPDs, but the band is planning shows in Europe in the near future, so suggestions would be welcome. Also all apologies for the new LPD album, “A Perfect Mystery” not being available yet in Europe. Thank you for your patience.

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS
Production is under way for release of an authorized lyric collection by Edward Ka-Spel. The illustrated book will also include a CD-single featuring two exclusive Edward Ka-Spel creations. Due January 23, 2001, the collection will be available mostly through mail order. If supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following the January 2001 publication.

Advance reservations are being accepted now, with payment requested for just before the book goes to press^×in November of 2000. For more information, and to place your reservation, please go to:www.slip.net/~apologia/loveloud.htm.

STAALPLAAT/OPEN CIRCUIT
Staalplaat have embarked on a project offering bands and artists who have not yet had anything commercially released,or have gained no serious exposure,a real chance to have their music heard. Anyone supplying them with a finished ,coded CDR and artwork can have this work manufactured (as CDRs) and distributed to their regular outlets as well as advertised in their catalogues.For further information contact Staalplaat viawww.staalplaat.com and click on the “news” item. The project/distribution outlet is known as Open Circuit.

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ONLINE UPDATE – 27th August, 2000

LATE SUMMER 2000

A new section has been added to the website, a Frequently Asked Questions place where the band themselves have answered some of the questions that have been asked a lot as of late. This has no overlap from the FAQ from the Cloud-Zero mailing list, so please take a look as there’s newsworthy items in there.

Alas the two European festivals planned in Dresden and Trutnov are going ahead without LPDs, but the band is planning shows in Europe in the near future, so suggestions would be welcome. Also all apologies for the new LPD album, “A Perfect Mystery” not being available yet in Europe. Thank you for your patience.

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS
Production is under way for release of an authorized lyric collection by Edward Ka-Spel. The illustrated book will also include a CD-single featuring two exclusive Edward Ka-Spel creations. Due January 23, 2001, the collection will be available mostly through mail order. If supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following the January 2001 publication.

Advance reservations are being accepted now, with payment requested for just before the book goes to press^×in November of 2000. For more information, and to place your reservation, please go to: www.slip.net/~apologia/loveloud.htm.

STAALPLAAT/OPEN CIRCUIT
Staalplaat have embarked on a project offering bands and artists who have not yet had anything commercially released,or have gained no serious exposure,a real chance to have their music heard. Anyone supplying them with a finished ,coded CDR and artwork can have this work manufactured (as CDRs) and distributed to their regular outlets as well as advertised in their catalogues.For further information contact Staalplaat via www.staalplaat.com and click on the “news” item. The project/distribution outlet is known as Open Circuit.

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ONLINE UPDATE – 9th October, 2000

CRYSTAL MASS

The first new Tear Garden in four years is scheduled to be released in North America by Nettwerk on October 24th. Here’s a sneaky peek at it: Lament. It’s the first of 9 brand new tracks. The CD clocks in at just under an hour and a cover scan is located in the image archive. More sound samples due soon!

REISSUE SCHEDULE

Soleilmoon has given us their tentative plans for LPD reissues. The release dates can and may change at any time so don’t be surprised if they do:

• January 18, 2001
• >>> CAD 17 Legendary Pink Dots “Any Day Now”
• >>> CAD 18 Legendary Pink Dots “The Golden Age”
• >>> CAD 20 Legendary Pink Dots “Crushed Velvet Apocalypse”
• >>> CAD 21 Legendary Pink Dots “The Maria Dimension”
• February 20, 2001
• >>> CAD 16 Legendary Pink Dots “Island of Jewels”
• >>> CAD 19 Legendary Pink Dots “Legendary Pink Box”
• March 20, 2001
• >>> CAD 14 Legendary Pink Dots “The Lovers”
• >>> CAD 15 Legendary Pink Dots “Asylum”
• April 17, 2001
• >>> CAD 22 Legendary Pink Dots “Shadow Weaver”
• >>> CAD 23 Legendary Pink Dots “Malachai”

FAQs

A new section has been added to the website, a Frequently Asked Questions place where the band themselves have answered some of the questions that have been asked a lot as of late. This has no overlap from the FAQ from the Cloud-Zero mailing list, so please take a look as there’s newsworthy items in there.

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS
Production has been slightly delayed on the Edward Ka-Spel lyric collection book. The illustrated book will also include a CD-single featuring two exclusive Edward Ka-Spel creations. Due Spring 2001, the collection will be available mostly through mail order. If supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following the publication.

Advance reservations are being accepted now, with payment requested for just before the book goes to press (hopefully by December). For more information, and to place your reservation, please go to: www.slip.net/~apologia/loveloud.htm.

STAALPLAAT/OPEN CIRCUIT
Staalplaat have embarked on a project offering bands and artists who have not yet had anything commercially released,or have gained no serious exposure,a real chance to have their music heard. Anyone supplying them with a finished ,coded CDR and artwork can have this work manufactured (as CDRs) and distributed to their regular outlets as well as advertised in their catalogues.For further information contact Staalplaat via www.staalplaat.com and click on the “news” item. The project/distribution outlet is known as Open Circuit.

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2001-

FIRST SOLEILMOON RE-RELEASES ARE NOW AVAILABLE:

appx date: January 1, 2001

“The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse” (1990) and “The Golden Age” (1989) have now been re-released on CD. Visit www.soleilmoon.com for more info.

ONLINE UPDATE – 6th January, 2001

NEW CD-Rs
Beta-Lactam Ring Records is announcing the release of two more CD-Rs from the dots: “KOLLABARIS,” TeKa05/B-LRR features drastic re-workings of Tear Garden pieces previously only available on compilation CDs plus unreleased sessions; Artwork/Bring the Rain; rare unheard LPD pieces and quite a bit more. “Needles 3,” TeKa04/B-LRR collects many pieces from the long deleted “Thin Blue Line” LP plus very obscure/exclusive pieces. It includes “Moments” from Dance China Doll 12″. “Live ’91” isn’t going to happen now. Out now is “Public Disturbance,” a live Edward Ka-Spel performance.

REISSUE ISSUES
The Soleilmoon reissues scneduled for January 18th have been pushed back. There is no current date set but the following is the plan for reissues of PIAS products:

first round
>>> CAD 17 Legendary Pink Dots “Any Day Now”
>>> CAD 18 Legendary Pink Dots “The Golden Age”
>>> CAD 20 Legendary Pink Dots “Crushed Velvet Apocalypse”
>>> CAD 21 Legendary Pink Dots “The Maria Dimension”

second round
>>> CAD 16 Legendary Pink Dots “Island of Jewels”
>>> CAD 19 Legendary Pink Dots “Legendary Pink Box”

third round
>>> CAD 14 Legendary Pink Dots “The Lovers”
>>> CAD 15 Legendary Pink Dots “Asylum”

fourth round
>>> CAD 22 Legendary Pink Dots “Shadow Weaver”
>>> CAD 23 Legendary Pink Dots “Malachai”

CRYSTAL MESS

The brand new Tear Garden CD, “Crystal Mass” has been released by Nettwerk in North America. The track listing, however is rather mismatched to the track numbers on the CD. While we here at brainwashed are still awaiting confirmation on the music, we can say with 100% certainty that track one is “Lament” while two different songs share track four. Those songs which share track four and the rest of the CD have been debated upon.

FAQs 
A new section has been added to the website, a Frequently Asked Questions place where the band themselves have answered some of the questions that have been asked a lot as of late. This has no overlap from the FAQ from the Cloud-Zero mailing list, so please take a look as there’s newsworthy items in there.

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS 
Production has been slightly delayed on the Edward Ka-Spel lyric collection book. The illustrated book will also include a CD-single featuring two exclusive Edward Ka-Spel creations. Due Spring 2001, the collection will be available mostly through mail order. If supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following the publication.

Advance reservations are being accepted now, with payment requested for just before the book goes to press (hopefully by December). For more information, and to place your reservation, please go to: www.slip.net/~apologia/loveloud.htm.

STAALPLAAT/OPEN CIRCUIT
 Staalplaat have embarked on a project offering bands and artists who have not yet had anything commercially released,or have gained no serious exposure,a real chance to have their music heard. Anyone supplying them with a finished ,coded CDR and artwork can have this work manufactured (as CDRs) and distributed to their regular outlets as well as advertised in their catalogues.For further information contact Staalplaat via www.staalplaat.com and click on the “news” item. The project/distribution outlet is known as Open Circuit.

 

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LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS – UPDATE:

appx date: January 15, 2001

Production is still underway for an illustrated book of lyrics by Edward Ka-Spel, which will also include a CD-single featuring an exclusive four-part EK creation. The collection will be available mostly through mail order, but, if supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following publication.

Production update: the music and corrected lyrics arrived from Holland in the spring of 2001. As such, we’d like to set a new (and hopefully final) publication date of 23 January 2002 (with heartfelt apologies to the anticipant and ever-patient). Advance reservations (without payment yet) are being accepted now for the first 834 copies, which will be numbered and beribboned. For more information, go to the website at its new address:www.loveandloudcolours.com.

 

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EXCLUSIVE LPD TRACK ON BENEFIT CD:

appx date: January 30, 2001

A new compilation CD from moving on music features an exclusive Pink Dots track entitled “Out There Pt 2”, which is a companion track to the first track on the forthcoming Chemical Playschool boxset. It’s available now from TEKA mailorder (38 Dutch guilders/20 US $). For more info visit Moving On Music’s website.

 

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MORE RE-ISSUES:

appx date: February 1, 2001

“The Maria Dimension”, “Shadow Weaver”, “The Golden Age” and “Any Day Now” have now been re-released by SPV Poland, and more LPD re-issues are to come. All CDs have new artwork, which bears no resemblence to the original covers. Curious? More info here.

 

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LPDs CONTRIBUTE TO NEW CEVIN KEY SOLO LP:

appx date: February 15, 2001

Cevin Key’s new album is called “The Ghost of Each Room”. Edward Ka-Spel sings on one track, and other Dots can be heard performing as well. Visit Metropolis Records for more info.

 

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SINCE THE LAST UPDATE:

appx date: March 15, 2001

Beta Lactam Ring Recordings have released “A Perfect Mystery” on vinyl (with an extra side of unreleased material), and the Russian Teargarden compilation “For Those Who Walk With the Gods” has seen the light of day. Soleilmoon has also re-released the classic Legendary Pink Dots album “Island of Jewels” from 1986 and “The Lovers” from 1985. The latter has fully restored artwork, featuring “all five faces”.

 

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“CASTE O’ GRAYE SKREEENS”

appx date: March 17, 2001

Brand new Edward Ka-spel solo album album entitled “Caste o’ Graye Skreeens” has now been released by TEKA / World Serpent. The album consists of two tracks; “Our Captain’s Eye” and “Lights Out”. The CD is a digipak, “My first” says a proud Edward. Jon Whitney has reviewed the album in The Brain. Go there to read the review and listen to soundclips.

 

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OFFICIAL LIVE ARCHIVE UPDATE:

appx date: March 20, 2001

Five whole new LPD concerts are now available from the LPD Official Live Archive. The shows in question are Amsterdam 1986-01-07, London 1990-05-12, Wuppertal 1991-06-12, Chicago 1993-05-15 and Copenhagen 1995-09-18. It’s fun, it’s free and it’s MP3!

 

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“BRAIN IN THE WIRE”:

appx date: March 25, 2001

The compilation CD “Brain in the Wire” includes the exclusive LPD track “Old Sparky”. It was originally given away to subscribers of The Wire. Now it’s released “officially” by Brainwashed Recordings, this time with a second disc of (non-LPD) material from various artists who reside on Brainwashed. A ‘secret’ third disc will contain a few surprises. Read more here.

 

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ONLINE UPDATE – 28th March, 2001

NEW RELEASES FROM TEKA / BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDINGS

THE SILVERMAN: STATE OF UNION

A brand new CDR from LPD keyboardist. Colourful artwork supplied by the man himself. Eight tracks, 20 dollars!

EDWARD KA-SPEL: EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE

LP-only release. All new material. Limited edition of 300.

As usual, you can buy these records from Soleilmoon and Anomalous.

EXIT RYAN MOORE

Ryan Moore has left the Legendary Pink Dots. A message from Ryan can be found here.

“After nearly 10 years of intensive recording & touring activity, I have left the Pink Dots. The reason is that I really feel the need at this time to move on to new experiences & challenges in life and music. I’m pleased with the significant body of recorded and live work we accomplished over the past 10 years & I can think back on some great moments which were had in the studio, onstage, travelling on some distant highway / sonic tangent etc – none of which would’ve been possible without the support of YOU, the fans of the Pink Dots. All in all, it has been a life enriching experience.

My departure shouldn’t have an effect, other than the lineup change, on upcoming LPD european tour plans & you can bet, in one form or another, the Pink Dots will continue to keep making their unique music for some time to come.

For anyone who is interested, you can check on my upcoming projects as they arise, most likely at: www.twilightcircus.com

kind regards

ryan moore
So, thank you!”

LPD TOUR DATES (TENTATIVE)

April

13 Sittard – Fenix

24 Poznan – Blue Note

25 Krakow – Miasto Krakoff

26 Warszawa – t.b.a.

27 Riga – t.b.a.

28 Vilnius – t.b.a.

May

08 Praha – Palac Akropolis

09 Plzen – Divadlo Pod Lampou

10 Budapest – t.b.a.

13 Wien – B72

31 Leipzig – Die naTo

June

02 Bremen – Schlachthof

07 Jena – Kassablanca Gleis 1

08 Köln – Underground

09 Bochum – Zwischenfall

NEW CDR RELEASES

The following CDR releases are now available. For more detailed info on each release see the new releases page.

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS WITH FRIENDS AND RELATIONS: KOLLABARIS

Long awaited CDR featuring the various members of the Dots in the role of collaborators. Among other things you get four exclusive/compilation tracks from Teargarden, a never before heard Mimir track plus lots of hard-to-find or out-of-print material with artists such as Lydia Tomkiw , Artwork in collaborations with the LPDs. This is a TEKA/Beta-Lactam Ring Recordings release available also through Soleilmoon or Anomalous.

EDWARD KA-SPEL: NEEDLES THREE

Another TEKA/Beta-Lactam Ring Recordings CDR, this time featuring tracks from Edward Ka-Spel’s long deleted “Perhaps We’ll Only See a Thin Blue Line” LPD plus a number of previously unheard tracks. Also available through Soleilmoon or Anomalous.

EDWARD KA-SPEL: ANGELOS OBSCUROS 16-5-85

This Beta-Lactam Ring Recordings CDRis now available through Soleilmoon or Anomalous. It’s a recording of a solo concert at the Paradiso, Amsterdam with Edward Ka-Spel, Hero Wouters and Patrick Paganini performing a set of early EKS songs as well as a few LPD classics.This is a limited edition of 250, so hurry up if you want to lay your hands on one of these. Delivered in “poly box” with a sticker!

Tracklist:

Mirror Soul, Six Cats On A Dead Man’s Chest, Blowing Bubbles 2, Even Now, Avengalist, God In A Cupboard, Hotel Blanc, Black Zone, Spontaneous Human Combustion and Love in a Plain Brown Envelope.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE?

• LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

A PERFECT MYSTERY as a double vinyl release.With (sorry…) a bonus 4th side and (sorry) limited to 500 copies.

STAINED GLASS Volume 2. Double CD release taking in the cassette albums “Apparition”,”Basilisk” and “Atomic Roses.” We are working on the original tapes to maximise quality.

CHEMICAL PLAYSCHOOL 11,12 and 13.A 3 x CD box set.A statement of intent, and hopefully the release that will quell rather unreasonable fears that the Dots are considering dropping into a lower gear or calling it a day.Music and artwork is finished but release will probably not occur until after the summer.

Reissues of all titles from the back catalogue from “The Lovers” through to “Malachai” by Soleilmoon in USA and SPV in Poland. Artwork for Polish editions is unique and very special with Polish translations of the lyrics. Alas, we still have no distribution in Western Europe but a series of compilations is planned by a small Italian label focussing the releases which are hard to find in this part of the World.

A European tour., beginning at Sittard (Fenix) in Holland on April 13.

• THE TEAR GARDEN

FOR THOSE WHO WALK WITH GODS.Compilation set for release by Brudenia Records , Russia with 20 mins of exclusive material.Waiting for the blessing of Nettwerk ,USA.

• EDWARD KA-SPEL

THE TEXTURES OF ILLUMINA…Cuts from the now rare Das Digitale vertrauen double Cd plus ultra-obscure “Atomic Roses 95”.A 73 min album. On Soleilmoon.

EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE (working title). Vinyl only release on TEKA which should be available for forthcoming Euro tour.

• THE SILVERMAN

REQUIEM SETTINGS. New solo CD completed with release scheduled for later this year.

(Untitled). CDR release of pieces made through the last years slated for release by TEKA and beta lectam ring records.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

REISSUE ISSUES
The Soleilmoon reissues scneduled for January 18th have been pushed back. There is no current date set but the following is the plan for reissues of PIAS products:first round
>>> CAD 17 Legendary Pink Dots “Any Day Now”
>>> CAD 18 Legendary Pink Dots “The Golden Age”
>>> CAD 20 Legendary Pink Dots “Crushed Velvet Apocalypse”
>>> CAD 21 Legendary Pink Dots “The Maria Dimension”

second round
>>> CAD 16 Legendary Pink Dots “Island of Jewels”
>>> CAD 19 Legendary Pink Dots “Legendary Pink Box”

third round
>>> CAD 14 Legendary Pink Dots “The Lovers”
>>> CAD 15 Legendary Pink Dots “Asylum”

fourth round
>>> CAD 22 Legendary Pink Dots “Shadow Weaver”
>>> CAD 23 Legendary Pink Dots “Malachai”

CRYSTAL MESS
 The brand new Tear Garden CD, “Crystal Mass” has been released by Nettwerk in North America. The track listing, however is rather mismatched to the track numbers on the CD. While we here at brainwashed are still awaiting confirmation on the music, we can say with 100% certainty that track one is “Lament” while two different songs share track four. Those songs which share track four and the rest of the CD have been debated upon.

FAQs
 A new section has been added to the website, a Frequently Asked Questions place where the band themselves have answered some of the questions that have been asked a lot as of late. This has no overlap from the FAQ from the Cloud-Zero mailing list, so please take a look as there’s newsworthy items in there.

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS
Production has been slightly delayed on the Edward Ka-Spel lyric collection book. The illustrated book will also include a CD-single featuring two exclusive Edward Ka-Spel creations. Due Spring 2001, the collection will be available mostly through mail order. If supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following the publication.

Advance reservations are being accepted now, with payment requested for just before the book goes to press (hopefully by December). For more information, and to place your reservation, please go to: www.slip.net/~apologia/loveloud.htm.

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FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

appx date: April 1, 2001

• The Legendary Pink Dots
  “EL KALEIDOSCOPO TERMINAL”
• Edward Kaspel
  “O’ER A SHALABST’R TYDE STROLT AY” LP & CD
• Tear Garden
  “EYE SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE” CD

“El Kaleidoscopo Terminal” is the title of a new “best of” CD, soon to be released on Mexican label Noise Kontrol Discs. Caciocavallo will do a vinyl edition and distribute the CD version in the US.

The double CD version of “Textures of Illumina” was released in March.

“Synesthesia” is the title of a CD of previously unreleased LPD recordings which was released in March on Italian label SPKR. It’s described by Edward Ka-Spel as a “companion to the CP box”.

And as if this wasn’t enough, another Edward Kaspel LP/CD will be relased by Beta Lactam Ring Recordings in late April/October (respectively). The title is “O’er A Ahalabast’r Tyde Strolt Ay”. Tracks include “An Ill Wind”, “O’Riley’s Comet” and “Safer Than The Open”. Listen to soundclips at the BLLR site. The CD version, set for an October release, will include remixed versions of the LP tracklist as well as bonus material.

Subsconscious are planning to release a series of “outtake” CDs with many of their artists under the title “FRom tHE vAult”. This includes a Teargarden outtake CD entitled “Eye Spy With My Little Eye “. It will be released sometime next year, and will be limited edition of 1000. To be sure to get a copy, one might “subscribe” and get all “FRom tHE vAult” CDs at a special price. Read more about ithere.

 

CHEMICAL PLAYSCHOOL 11/12/13 IS OUT NOW:

appx. date: April 5, 2001

Brand new 3CD box set now available from Soleilmoon. Most likely Beta Lactam Ring Recordings will do a 6LP (!) vinyl edition of the whole thing. Support the band and buy your copy from TEKA.

Tracklist:

VOLUME 11 (“EXCESS”) The Truth Is Out There \ In The Jar…O \ A Problem With The Natives \ In One \ London’s Burning\ In The Blink Of An Eye \ Further Further Further Further Further\ 10th Shade* \ Schatten*

VOLUME 12 (“WHERE THE HELL????”) Guinevere \ You Again \ Vavavavava\ Christmas On A Sunspot \ Shanty \ Rascal Helmut \ Bridge \ Where We’d Choose To Be \ Snarling At My Shadow \ And My Shadow Snarled At Me

VOLUME 13 (“I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW (I THINK)”) Touched By The Moon \ No Names \ It’s Ticking (But Not For You) \ Cat \ On A Hot Tin Roof \ Sleeping (But Not Sick) \ Push The Pie\ Part Two\ Part Three \ Learning To Swim \ Still No Names \ Pedestal \ I Told You…NO GODDAMN NAMES \ OK, It’s Betsy The Bumblebee \ Bye Bye

* Previously available only as bonus tracks on the vinyl edition of Nemesis Online.

Read a review of Chemical Playschool 11,12 and 13 here.

 

LEGENDARY PINK BOX RE-RELEASED:

appx. date: April 10, 2001

This US reissue contains full lyrics and two fold-out posters of artwork reproduced from the original vinyl box set. This classic LPD release is available now fromSoleilmoon.

 

THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN FOR “OPEN CIRCUIT”:

appx. date: April 15, 2001

Staalplaat‘s “Open Circuit” project (previously mentioned on this page) was supposed to be re-launched this year. However, the people at Staalplaat are now uncertain if this will happen. It possible that “Open Circuit” won’t make a comeback at all.

 

MIMIR 3 FINALLY AVAILABLE ON CD:

appx. date: May 1, 2001

The third Mimir album was released in 1999, but it’s not been available on CD until now. Streamline is the label behind the re-release.

 

THE LPDs TOUR EUROPE:

appx. date: May 3, 2001

All dates are tentative so far.

14/5 – Studio Desmet (Radio Human) – Amsterdam (NL)
15/5 – Merelyn – Nijmegen (NL)
16/5 – Ekko – Utrecht (NL) (note: date changed)
17/5 – Paris – La Maroquinerie (Legendary Pink Dots) (F)
18/5 – Paris – La Maroquinerie (Edward Kaspel) (F)
19/5 – Swamp Room Happening Festival -Hannover (D)
20/5 – Wave Gotik Treffen Festival – Leipzig (D)
21/5 – La Fete -Wroclaw (PL)
22/5 – Kuznia – Bydgoszcz (PL)
23/5 – Szczecin – Harmon Club (PL)
24/5 – Mega Club – Katowice (PL)
25/5 – Freeport – Budapest (H)
26/5 – Roxy – Praha (CZ)
28/5 – Boa – Luzern (CH)
29/5 – La Laiterie – Strasbourg (F)
30/5 – Reithalle – Bern (CH)
1/6 – Starclub – Dresden (D)
2/6 – Kassablanka/Gleis 1 – Jena (D)
4/6 – Knaack – Berlin (D)
5/6 – Logo – Hamburg (D)
6/6 – Underground – Kšln (D)
7/6 – Colos-Saal – Aschaffenburg (D)
8/6 – CafŽ Central – Weinheim (D)
9/6 – t.b.a. – Innsbruck
11/6 – Waschhaus – Potsdam
12/6 – Kulturzentrum Schlachthof – Bremen ( LPD and Edward Ka-Spel solo) (D)
14/6 – Zwischenfall – Bochum (D)
15/6 – La Grand Mix – Tourcoing (F)

 

NEW RELEASES AND OLDER NEWS:

appx. date: May 5, 2001

Silverman: “Requiem Settings”
Brand new album. Read a review here.

The Legendary Pink Dots: “Synesthesia”
Described as a companion album to CP 11-13. All new material. Read a review here.

Edward Kaspel: “Textures of Illumina”
Tracks from Das Digitale Vertrauen CD + previously unreleased material.

All albums available from Soleilmoon or from TEKA mailorder.

“Tanith and the Lion Tree” by Edward Ka-Spel will be issued for the very first time on LP by a new label, Flesh Eating Ants.

 

NEW EDWARD KA-SPEL 10″ PICTURE DISC – “LILITH & THE ROSE”:

appx. date: May 15, 2001

To coincide with the Legendary Pink Dots European tour, a 10″ picture disc entitled “Lilith & The Rose” will be released this summer. The first edition of this release will be limited to 513 copies. The disc contains the following tracks: “Lilith (Version Apocalypse)”, which is a completely re-recorded version of the classic “Lilith’s Daughter” and an absolutely gorgeous piano piece entitled “The Rose”. Both tracks are approximately 11 minutes in length. A postcard and 26″ x 19″ poster featuring the disc art will be included with the 10″. You will also be able to order the poster separately. More information is forthcoming and will be posted in the usual places… or you can contact info@aurinia.de if you have questions. There is also an official website for this release: LilithAndTheRose.com.

 

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ONLINE UPDATE – May 22, 2001

EXIT FRANK VERSCHUUREN – ENTER RAYMOND STEEG

After six years with the Legendary Pink Dots Frank Verschuuren (aka Frankie Pett) has decided to move on to other things. New soundman is Raymond Steeg, who worked with the Dots in the early nineties. Raymond will do the sound on the current european tour.

LPD EUROPEAN TOUR 2001 (UPDATED May 22th)

All dates confirmed. Note that the date has changed for the Bolkow Castle Party.

April

13 Sittard – Fenix

24 Poznan – Blue Note

25 Krakow – Miasto Krakoff

26 Warszawa – Club Remont

27 Vilnius – St Christopher Chamber Orchesta Hall

May

08 Praha – Palac Akropolis

09 Plzen – Divadlo Pod Lampou

10 Budapest – Kultiplex

11 Bratislava – Cultural House Luky

12 Brezno – Bombura

13 Wien – B72

23 Bremen – Kioto / Lagerhaus (+Edward Ka-Spel)

25 Göteborg – Pusterviksbaren

26 Uppsala – Black Orchid (Flustret)

27 Olso – So What

31 Leipzig – Die naTo

June

01 Rostock – MS Stubnitz

02 Sindelfingen – Movida

03 Bielefeld – AJZ (+ Edward Kaspel)

05 Dresden – Starclub

06 Hamburg – Marx

07 Jena – Kassablanca Gleis 1

08 Köln – Underground

09 Bochum – Zwischenfall

10 Berlin – Knaack

July

21 Králiky – Festival Králiky.Com2001

29 Bolkow – Castle Party Festival

 

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UPCOMING RELEASES:

appx. date: July 20, 2001

There’s been a lot of LPD-related releases this year, but there’s more to come.  ROIR will release Chemical Playschool 15, a collection of older cassette-only tracks from LPD and EKS. Said label will also release “All the King’s Men”, one of two upcoming LPD studio albums. The other will be called “All the King’s Horses” and will be released through Soleilmoon. There’s no date yet for CP15, and the two studio albums will be out this fall, “…at the very earliest.”.

 

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THE TERMINAL KALEIDOSCOPE:

appx. date: August 1, 2001

Say hello to the new, revived and very useful TEKA website!

The Dots’ own website terminalkaleidoscope.com is now more than just a mail order service. The site is run by Lisa Amend, who has given it a new design. Among other things, you can listen to snippets from newer Dots releases. Lisa is now also in charge of the Dotsography found on this site.

 

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ONLINE UPDATE – AUGUST 17, 2001

LPD/EKS CONTRIBUTES TO NEW CEVIN KEY SOLO ALBUM

Cevin Key’s new album is called “The Ghost of Each Room”. Edward Ka-Spel sings on one track, and other dots can be heard performing as well. Visit Metropolis records for more info.

MORE RE-ISSUES

The Maria Dimension, Shadow Weaver, The Golden Age and Any Day Now have now been re-released by SPV Poland. All CDs have new artwork, which bears no resemblence to the original covers. Curious? More info here.

EXCLUSIVE LPD TRACK ON BENEFIT CD

A new compilation CD from moving on music features an exclusive Pink Dots track entitled “Out There Pt 2”. It’s available now from TEKA mailorder (38 Dutch guilders/20 US $). For more info visit moving on music’s website.

LOVE AND LOUD COLOURS – UPDATE

Production is still underway for an illustrated book of lyrics by Edward Ka-Spel, which will also include a CD-single featuring an exclusive four-part EK creation. The collection will be available mostly through mail order, but, if supplies last, copies will be available at select Legendary Pink Dot appearances following publication.

Production update: the music and corrected lyrics arrived from Holland in the spring of 2001. As such, we’d like to set a new (and hopefully final) publication date of 23 January 2002 (with heartfelt apologies to the anticipant and ever-patient). Advance reservations (without payment yet) are being accepted now for the first 834 copies, which will be numbered and beribboned. For more information, go to the website at its new address: www.loveandloudcolours.com.

FIRST SOLEILMOON RE-RELEASES ARE NOW AVAILABLE

The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse (1990) and The Golden Age (1989) have now been re-released on CD. Visit www.soleilmoon.com for more info.

 

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NOW AVAILABLE: EDWARD KA-SPEL: “O`ER A SHALABAST’R TYDE STROLT AY”:

appx. date: September 1, 2001

Contact Beta Lactam Ring Records for more information. A *limited* number of “Shalabast’r Tyde” posters and t-shirts are also available now, so act quickly!

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ONLINE UPDATE – NOVEMBER 7, 2001

“CASTE o’ GRAYE SKREEENS”

New brand new Edward Ka-spel solo album album entitled “Caste o’ Graye Skreeens” has now been released by TEKA / World Serpent. (the record is not yet on the World Serpent website, but it’s been confirmed that they have it in stock). The album consists of two tracks, one of them split into “11 or 12” sections. The CD is a digipak, “My first” says a proud Edward.

SINCE THE LAST UPDATE….

…Beta Latcam Ring Recordings have released “A Perfect Mystery” on vinyl, and the russian Teargarden compilation “For Those Who Walk With the Gods” has seen the light of day. Soleilmoon has also re-released the classic Legendary Pink Dots album “Island of Jewels” from 1986.

THE DOTS AND THE CURRENT SITUATION

“To put it mildly, it has been a traumatic year so far. Unexpected and unwelcomed changes in the Dots’ line-up could not have occurred at a more awkward time, and it meant a hectic, nervous preparation for the European tour. Having said that, the later shows felt particularly joyful and now the debate concerns whether the band actually needs to expand …or not.

Recordings for the next LPD album begin in the Autumn, and there are tentative plans to work with a drummer, a cello player and even a brass band. Whatever happens,the Dots plan a return to USA and Canada next Summer.

Slowly the band is recovering from what seemed to be quite a crisis at the beginning of the year. The disappearance of so much of our back catalogue for 2-3 years indeed put us in trouble (as you are aware, there are many mouths to feed at Chez Dots), but a big thank you to Soleilmoon, SPV Poland and Beta Lactam Ring Records for putting things back together.

“Sing while you may”

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ONLINE UPDATE – DECEMBER 1, 2001

CHEMICAL PLAYSCHOOL 11/12/13 + NEW “BEST OF” + TEXTURES OF ILLUMINA DCD

The new CP box set is at the pressing plant, and will be available soon from Soleilmoon/Caciocavallo. Most likely Beta Latcam Ring Recordings will propably do a vinyl edition of the whole thing.

“El Kaleidoscopo Terminale” is the title of a new “best of” CD, soon to be released on mexican label Noise Kontrol Discs. Caciocavallo will do a vinyl edition and distribute the CD version in the US.

The double CD version of “Textures of Illumina” will most likely be out in February/March.

“BRAIN IN THE WIRE”

The compilation CD “Brain in the Wire” includes the exclusive LPD track “Old Sparky”. It was originally given away to subscribers of The Wire. Now it’s released “officially” by Brainwashed Recordings, this time with a second disc of (non-LPD) material from various artists who reside on Brainwashed. A ‘secret’ third disc will contain a few surprises. Read more here. 

OFFICIAL LIVE ARCHIVE UPDATE

Five whole new LPD concerts are now available from the LPD Official Live Archive. The shows in question are Amsterdam 1986-01-07, London 1990-05-12, Wuppertal 1991-06-12, Chicago 1993-05-15 and Copenhagen 1995-09-18. It’s free, it’s fun and it’s mp3!

This is a compilation of news articles and announcements from  1998 and 1999, taken from Brainwashed.com.  Most if not all of the links are obsolete. This is for archival purposes only.

 

ONLINE UPDATE – 21st November, 1998

TOUR NEWS…

Changes to LPD Show in Mexico: Originally this tour-closing event was supposed to be full enchilada (pardon me, I couldn’t resist) of LPD, Twilight Circus, Edward Ka-Spel that’s been touring the US and Canada this fall, but an unexpected currency devaluation made the purchase of so many plane tickets impossible. Fortunately for Mexican LPD fans Edward will still put in an appearance on Saturday December 5th. Here are the details:

EVENT:                  EDWARD KA SPEL

HUMAN DRAMA

EL CLAN (Mexico)

VENUE:                  PARQUE ECOLOGICO 18 DE MARZO

ADDRESS:                AV.5 DE MAYO s/n -ATZCAPOTZALCO

ENTRE TEZOZOMOC Y AUILES SERDAN

METRO REFINERIA

DOORS:                  7:00 PM

SHOWTIME:               8:00 PM

TICKETS:                PRESALE $ 130.00 PESOS

LIBRERIAS GANDHI & ROCKSHOP

BOX OFFICE $ 150.00 PESOS

NIGHT OF THE EVENT

INFORMATION:            ++ 52 5 782 3906 (Mexico D.F.)

arteria@compuserve.com

Here’s the rest of the North American tour dates:

Sat Nov. 21 Ventura, CA – Ventura Theatre (all ages)

Sun Nov. 22 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore/Maritime Hall (all ages)

Mon Nov. 23 Las Vegas, NV – Huntridge Theatre, (unconfirmed)

or Palo Alto, CA – The Edge, (unconfirmed)

Tue Nov. 24 Portland, OR – La Luna (all ages)

Wed Nov. 25 Seattle, WA – Showbox (21+)

Thu Nov. 26 Vancouver, BC – Starfish Room (19+)

Sat Nov. 28 Mexico City, DF – Salon Mexico (unconfirmed)

 

End of January: LPDs in Greece – Athens & Thessaloniki

Feb/March: London, UK, Paris, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Czec Republic

NEW RELEASE NEWS:
Silvermandalas and The Blue Room are finally available through Soleilmoon.

OLDER NEWS

• SPV Poland has re-emerged and paid royalties. To the unknowns who contacted Poland , we salute you!!!!
Anyhow, I do get a sense that SPV ARE trying now- so we indeed will go on. At least they had the decency to say sorry (try getting a “sorry” out of PIAS and you’ll understand how much it means to us).
• Meanwhile “Nemesis” seems set for European release on KODEX in Germany.
• We’re looking for someone to licence in Greece, Russia, Japan, Israel and Australia. If anyone knows anyone ….then pass it on .
• First Tear Garden Tour (with Download) planned for Summer, ’99
• New solo album by EKS (“The Blue Room”) + Phil (“Silver Mandela”) finished, and due in October. “Blue Room” will also be on vinyl with a bonus side.
• “Lullabies” pic disc box set is the start of getting the albums available on vinyl again. We want to go on with the likes of “9 Lives,…” + “From Here,…” which never appeared in vinyl format.
• PIAS contract ends in ’99, so Soleilmoon will take over + make everything at least twice as affordable.
• TENTATIVE plan for an EKS solo tour of South America (Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia). “I’ll believe it when I step off the plane.” – EKS
• LPD should go to Greece in January + there will be plans for shows in North of Norway, White Russia, Baltic States, as well as the usual places. Advanced plans for a show in London (early ’99).
• Mimir 3 approaches completion.
• First OFFICIAL live CD (a double) approaches completion (due out on World Serpent in ’99).

WE’re really trying to build up a directory of sympathetic shops, mail-order services, clubs and labels, radio stations and fanzines to try and overcome this distribution vacuum. Consequently we’d really like people to send information about what is decent in their own parts. In turn, we’ll make this information freely available to bands we know + like, or who write to us – encouraging them to circulate it as well. Maybe the idea is Utopian, but energry usually produces results and it’s time for a pre-millennial underground explosion!

For even more detailed news, check out Dirk Ruster’s LPD Newsticker at home.rhein-zeitung.de/~druster/news.htm

 

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ONLINE UPDATE – 26th August, 1999

FALL INTO THE DOTS

The autumn is coming and the LPDs are planning to hit Europe again for a few dates. Also imminent are a few new releases. DNA Le DRAW D-KEE CD, also expect a New Twilight Circus in October plus a new Edward Ka-Spel solo album (“Red Letters” ) before the end of year (it´s finished; cover being worked on).

CONFIRMED DATES

Oct  2 DARMSTADT…Oetinger Villa

Oct  3 FREIBURG….Atlantic Cafe

Oct 15 POTSDAM ….Waschhaus

Oct 16 COPENHAGEN..Stengade 13

Oct 18 GOTEBORG….Pusterviksbaren

Oct 19 OSLO……..John Dee

Oct 20 STOCKHOLM…Fritz Larner

Nov  6 AMERSFOORT..De Kelder

We hope to go on to FINLAND,RUSSIA and POLAND from Stockholm but await more news.Help is always appreciated,and thanks to those who have been sending tips.

DATE SOUGHT
We´re desperately looking for a show in Germany (anywhere), Belgium (anywhere) or Eastern France (Nancy/metz) for Friday October 1. If anybody has any serious leads, please contact kaspel@euronet.nl.

VISUAL STIMULATION  
Fellow Dotter, and cover artist for one of them Triple Moon Tribute tapes, Jared Butler now has available his short film, Underneath ready to send out to folks and friends. The LPDs granted him permission to use some of their songs in his low budget hi-fi filming effort. Filmed in Sweden and San Francisco, it’ll be a neat thing to have once our friend has made the big time! It is on an NTSC-only stereo VHS tape. Sorry, no European machine compatible copies…

MIMIR NEWS…
Mimir did not play the Nevers festival in July this month as planned nor did they do the VPRO radio show. Andreas Heemann sprained his arm and they were unable to perform. Mimir 3 and a possible Mimir 4 are nearing completion and should be due soon.

WEBSITE NEWS…
The Live Connections web page has finally been automated for those looking to trade LPD live cassettes with other LPD friends around the world. Go check it out!

OLDER ISSUES…
  Help sought for Scandinavia and Baltic States: LPD are looking to book a string of dates in October/November and are looking for any leads in Sweden, Norway and Finland. If you have any ideas of clubs in Malmo, Stockholm, Jonkoping, Norrkoping, Sundsvall, Uppsala, Umea or Tornio, please email kaspel@euronet.nl.

RELEASE NEWS  Just out are the following….

• DNA LE DRAW D-KEE – Reissue on CD of very obscure vinyl release project of Edward Ka-Spel, Elke P., Ryan Moore.
• Sing While You May – Russian compilation CD in Cyrillic fonts. 2 new tracks, one new version of Supper at J’s, domestic USA price from Soleilmoon…
• LEGENDARY PINK DOTS Live at the metro (35 DFL/20 $ US/ 17 goddamn Euros).
First full-length live CD from the Dots. A good audience recording of our show in Chicago last November (thanks to Nick who provided the CDRs for us). Original plan was to issue multi-tracked recording from Poznan a couple of years ago…but the fire and spirit of this performance in Chicago simply came across much stronger even if it isn’t quite so hi-fi. Parts of the Poznan show (3 tracks) will eventually emerge …possibly as a mini-CD.
This “Live at Metro” CD is a Polish import, features many photographs and includes CD-rom material of a rather silly interview.
• EDWARD KA-SPEL/ Share the Day\Dream Stealer (15 DFL/8 $ US)
2 new tracks on a 7″ vinyl single released by long term LPD friend jon Whitney of the excellent Brainwashed website (www.brainwashed.com).
• MIMIR/Mimiryad LP (40 DFL/25 US $)
Hyper limited vinyl only, drastically re-worked from original CD.
• For completists, the old cassette compilation,”Voices in a Dark Room” has been reissued as a CDR by Staalplaat. LPDs, contribution is “MIRROR MESSIAH” recorded live in Cologne in 1983 (the first ever official live show). To be fair, it’s a patchy release… though the pieces from Mekanik Kommando (now known as The Use of Ashes) and Kapotte Musik made these ears dance a little. It’s available directly from us or Staalplaat.
• Also available is the industrial compilation “Triton”, which features “Sterre” from the “Hallway of the Gods” CD. The only remarkable feature of this release is the ugliness of the cover.

Imminent…

• Second full length live double CD will be issued by World Serpent in the Summer (“Farewell Milky Way” is the title).
• New TEAR GARDEN CD planned for release in Autumn.
• SOLEILMOON reissue of PIAS catalogue slated for the start of 2000.

There is more,but these fingers ache….

VARIOUS RANDOM OLDER NEWS TOPICS…

• Did you know the correct title of the album should be: “To Be An Angel Blind, The CRIPPLE Soul Divide” and that Edward wanted “The Last Man to Fly” to end with “Last Post” and not include “3-D Technicolour”?
• The Mimir gig in Nevers France is part of a festival that also includes Autechre, but I really can’t get any further info on it so far. In addition, they should be doing a radio session for VPRO in Holland. And last I heard Babs Santini has finished the cover for the third Mimir album. Oh, one more thing, neither Christoph nor Edward has ever heard of a Greek edition of the first Mimir album as listed in the Dots-o-graphy.
• No new album for the Dots for a while still, but the live CD is here and Russian CD is coming soon, Edward reports. The US edition of “Tanith and the Lion Tree” has been cancelled as the SPV in Poland have made good on themselves. By the “Phoney War” and “Old Man Trouble” were actually bonus tracks on this album (which was supposed to come out on LP originally) and Ed doesn’t really consider them part of the album.
• “Four Days”, “Prayer for Aradia” and “Scriptures for Illumina” are all pretty much sold out from them. It’s advised to grab these whereever you can if you don’t have them already. I don’t think they mean to let any of them go out of print, but it wouldn’t be unlikely if it’s a little while before they can press more of any of the three. Dna Le Draw D-Kee as well as “Basilisk”, “Atomic Roses” and “Apparition” are due to be reissued by Soleilmoon someday, though probably not any time in the immediate future.
• The contract with PIAS ends this year, so hold off the temptation to buy any of those cheap imports which they probably won’t see any money from anyhow. These titles all will be reissued by Soleilmoon Recordings someday (next year?).

For more news and older archives, check out Dirk Ruster’s LPD Newsticker at home.rhein-zeitung.de/~druster/news.htm

 

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ONLINE UPDATE – 10th November, 1999

WINTER APPROACHES

As the last month of the millennium approaches, the LPDs are making plans for 2000. On the agenda right now is a brand new North American widescale tour (no, there’s no confirmation of a Tear Garden set at this time so stop asking). In the meantime, LPDs would like to get psyched by playing some dates to essentially warm up for the show. LPDs are looking to book the last week of January and the first of February for some dates in France, Belgium and possibly Spain. If anybody can help arrange some shows for these dates, please email kaspel@euronet.nl.

In the meanwhile, please be on the lookout for a New Twilight Circus release plus a new Edward Ka-Spel solo album (“Red Letters” ) before the end of year (it´s finished; cover being worked on). Mimir 3 and a possible Mimir 4 are also nearing completion and should be due soon.

OLDER ISSUES OF REMOTE RELEVANCE
The Live Connections web page has finally been automated for those looking to trade LPD live cassettes with other LPD friends around the world. Go check it out!

Fellow Dotter, and cover artist for one of them Triple Moon Tribute tapes, Jared Butler now has available his short film, Underneath ready to send out to folks and friends. The LPDs granted him permission to use some of their songs in his low budget hi-fi filming effort. Filmed in Sweden and San Francisco, it’ll be a neat thing to have once our friend has made the big time! It is on an NTSC-only stereo VHS tape. Sorry, no European machine compatible copies…

Help sought for Scandinavia and Baltic States: LPD are looking to book a string of dates in October/November and are looking for any leads in Sweden, Norway and Finland. If you have any ideas of clubs in Malmo, Stockholm, Jonkoping, Norrkoping, Sundsvall, Uppsala, Umea or Tornio, please email kaspel@euronet.nl.

RECENT RELEASES

• DNA LE DRAW D-KEE – Reissue on CD of very obscure vinyl release project of Edward Ka-Spel, Elke P., Ryan Moore.
• Sing While You May – Russian compilation CD in Cyrillic fonts. 2 new tracks, one new version of Supper at J’s, domestic USA price from Soleilmoon…
• LEGENDARY PINK DOTS Live at the metro (35 DFL/20 $ US/ 17 goddamn Euros).
First full-length live CD from the Dots. A good audience recording of our show in Chicago last November (thanks to Nick who provided the CDRs for us). Original plan was to issue multi-tracked recording from Poznan a couple of years ago…but the fire and spirit of this performance in Chicago simply came across much stronger even if it isn’t quite so hi-fi. Parts of the Poznan show (3 tracks) will eventually emerge …possibly as a mini-CD.
This “Live at Metro” CD is a Polish import, features many photographs and includes CD-rom material of a rather silly interview.
• EDWARD KA-SPEL, “Share the Day/Dream Stealer” (15 DFL/8 $ US)
2 new tracks on a 7″ vinyl single released by long term LPD friend jon Whitney of the excellent Brainwashed website (www.brainwashed.com).

For other news and older archives, check out Dirk Ruster’s LPD Newsticker at home.rhein-zeitung.de/~druster/news.htm