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
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
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
