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Heydeeho,
Cap'n Tarpals.
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I've returned
all fresh and a-buzz from my extracurricular 10 days, I thought I'd just
tell you about what it all was. After a time-consuming but enjoyable trip
to Toronto for my friend Emm Gryner to do a couple of T.V. shows, we headed
for Boston for the gigs that I was to play on. Now these things were a
totally new experience for me. They're called Living Room Shows (pretty
self-explanatory, huh), and apparently they're getting quite popular in
the States. So a fan of whoever (Emm in this case) e-mails a bunch of friends
and puts on a gig in his or her living room. And that's it. Me and Emm
turn up with an electric piano and an acoustic guitar, and sit at the end
of the room and play a bunch of songs. It sounds weird, but believe me,
it's a great experience. For starters it's (obviously) incredibly intimate,
but it's also as much about the music as any gig could possibly be. Nobody's
there to get drunk or have a crazy night out with friends, each and every
one (about 15 at the shows we played) is there to hear good songs well
played in their purest form. We even had a support act, Jessica Weiser,
you can find out about her on the net, but I regret I don't know exactly
where. Emm herself is stunning. I'd only heard her records prior to this,
but live she is a gobsmacker, she has a truly amazing voice, is a wonderful
piano player, and it was an honour to guitar on her songs. She insisted
that I do some singing as well, so I struggled through Forget About me
a couple of times, and also did A Name from WSAYO?, a song of mine called
The Everlasting Mile that I did at The Bully gig, Hurry Please Hurry, and
My Funny Valentine (for Valentine's day). Emm sang Be Ready rather wonderfully
at all the gig's also. Do find out more, and maybe think about buying her
last CD Science Fair (she's currently working on a new one) at http://www.emmgryner.com/.
You can also read (and hear) her journals, with her view on the whole party.
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At the
end of my time away I also had time to pop in on Mark Mulcahy who is close
to finishing his new album (apparently the working title is 'The Great
Wall of Mark Mulcahy'). I played some very sparse shaker on a new track
called Wake Up Whispering, and then, as the hour grew late and the vibes
grew loose me, Mark and a friend of his called (I think) Chris Harford
had a go at a couple of songs from scratch, first a cover of Moonbeams
by the great Harry Nillson, and then a completely new Mark song bordering
on the rockabilly. In the cold light of day I doubt the latter two will
ever make it out to the public in any form, but they were way fun to do,
even if it did mean only getting 1 1/2 hours sleep before I had to get
up to catch my plane home. I'll write more when I'm not so tired, but a
couple of things to float out to the great mailing list opinion mill. First,
I had half a notion that when Emm is over here next as part of her 'day
job' (she sings backing vocals for David Bowie) that I might try and convince
her to return the favour by helping me out on the living room shows that
I'm vaguely thinking of doing. I kind of enjoy getting out there and singing
a bit and playing some of the songs I've written that UBT haven't used...
what say you? The other thing is a bit of a moral dilemma. Given our current
well documented situation, it may be hard to get out and do gigs, particularly
outside of the U.K. We've been offered a pretty good deal to headline a
fifteen date tour of France in May, but the dilemma is this: it's sponsored
by a tobacco company, Chesterfield. It's hard to weigh the desire to get
out and play to people who want to hear us, and the responsibility of not
wanting to condone a habit that is proven to cause cancer and heart disease,
particularly not wanting to promote it to young people. Well, I don't know.
If any of you out there have any suggestions for cool labels in your home
country that we should find out about (if you can find phone numbers, all
the better), post them up as well. Time for some sleep, methinks.
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Drowsy
Nigel
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i believe
in loving all people.
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POSTED
BY Thom ON FEBRUARY 07, 2000 AT 19:50:25: IN REPLY TO: THOM who's side
are you on ? POSTED BY quidam ON FEBRUARY 07, 2000 AT 19:43:13:
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: Did
they sorted out things for the release of the album ? : You saying Andy
will go back to study russian politics is not very optimistic...
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they got
dropped by Virgin. but they get to keep the album. they might release it
on shifty disco instead.
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their
A+R man was scum. he was a fucking idiot. he messed up my brothers life
for a while leaving them all dangling on a piece of string for almost a
year while he told them how much he hated them. if i ever meet him face
to face i will punch his lights out.
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andy si
much happier now they have been released. and i await my revenge. >>
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We've
decided to go ahead with the Borderline show
(who
knows if any tickets are sold, or if we'll sell any), this is the only
date we'll do until something is firm on the album, hope to see those of
you who are near enough down there.
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Nigel
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P.S. it's
on Thursday 2nd March.
I just read that back, and I did type
it correctly.(30 Jan 2000)
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A brief
update on my hasty message of yesterday. The Borderline gig may still go
ahead. We're going to take a couple of days to decide (and see if anyone
is buying tickets now that they're on sale), but we've been rehearsing,
and (forgive the lapse in modesty) we are sounding much better than we
have ever done. If we feel confident about it, we'll go ahead and do that
and hopefully a few other gigs. We've already begun approaching other labels,
the feedback so far has been encouraging. Thank you for all your messages
of support. More news as it breaks. Nigel (27 Jan 2000)
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Hello
all.Virgin have dropped us. Sorry to bear bad news, but that's the
way it is, we only found out a couple of hours ago. The immediate effects
of this are, of course, there is no release dates for anything, and we're
going to cancel the Borderline gig. I will write more later, but to add
a silver lining right now they have given us the completed album to do
with as we will, so it still seems likely to me that it will get some kind
of release. Nigel
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Le second
album de Unbelievable Truth s'appelle "Whose
Side Are You On?'".
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Il sortira
le3 avril 2000 (au UK).
L'album sera précédé le
20 marsd'un
single : "Agony".
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Unbelievable
Truth commenceront à tourner à partir de février.
la seule date confirmée pour l'instant est The Borderline à
Londres le 3 mars.
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From:
Nigel Powell Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999
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By way
of a vaguely happy Christmas type thing to y'all, here's some news, that
may or may not turn out to be true through no fault of ours. The new
Unbelievable Truth album 'Whose Side Are You On?' is due for release
on April 3rd 2000, preceded by a single, 'Agony', on 20th March.
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This is
what Virgin have told us , but they've lied before, and these things do
have a way of getting shifted about anyway. Hopefully we will be touring
from the beginning of February, although the only confirmed date so far
is a headline at The Borderline in London on March 3rd. Initially we are
hoping to be out supporting some other band, but again given our success
at getting support slots last time around, you just never know. More news
as it comes in.
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Happy
Christmas and a Merry New Year, one and all!!!
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"Whose
Side Are You On?'"
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1 Landslide
2 A Name 3 Disarm* 4 Pedestrian 5 Home Again 6 Daylight 7 Shed Your Skin
8 Advice to a Lover 9 Agony 10 Covers 11 Hypnotist 12 I Can't Wait 13 Let
it Flow
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*no, it's
not a Smashing Pumpkins cover. I'll post the single tracklists when we've
settled upon them.
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Nigel
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Unbelievable
truth nuevo album
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El segundo
album de la banda inglesa Unbelievable truth ya tiene titulo, "Whose Side
Are You On?' y fecha de salida, al menos en su pais, el 3 de abril del
2.000. Antes de esto el 3 de marzo saldra el primer adelanto del trabajo
en forma de single,
"Agony". La gira comenzara el 3 de marzo en
The Borderline en Londres.
< I
know it's a question that's been asked in this forum before, but since
it's closer
to the time and the situation is now clearer, I thought I'd run it up the
flagpole encore une fois. We've ended up with lots of songs for this album
(etc.), and in order for them all to be released, at least here in England
where the chart rules are only two b-sides and three formats per single
and we are signed to a major label who wouldn't
accept
a non-chart eligible single, we are looking at the likelihood of doing
multiple formats for each single. Actually, since nowadays to have
a three
track single basically means a CD single, we would have to release each
single as a three CD set each with two new b-sides. So what's the story
people? Is it conning the fans? If it is and we don't so that, how are
we going to get these tracks to the people (like you), given that our money
grabbing record company, having spent many thousands getting the things
recorded and finished, won't give them away for free as MPEGs on the website?
If we keep the price to 1.99, is six pounds for seven tracks very much
over the odds? What opinions have you?
And on
similar lines, what about albums and their length. Do you want as
many tracks
as can fit on a CD? Or something put together to be listened
to from
start to finish, and for that reason necessarily shorter? Not so
vital
this one, just interested.
Post soon,
Nigel >>
Sunday
October 3rd Nigel Powell (from The Unbelievable Truth apparently) + plus
guests The Bullingdon Arms, Cowley Road Oxford.
Pour
vendre les tickets les propriétaires de la salle ont fait circuler
des rumeurs comme quoi des invités seraient là...Radiohead
? En fait, andy, Jason et Jim faisaient le soundcheck. Nigel a joué
deux chansons en solo. Puis Jim est venu avec lui sur scène pour
une chason. Puis Jason les a rejoints pour une autre chanson. Puis tous
les trois on repris "Hurry please hurry" de Mark Mulcahy. Enfin Nigel a
demandé à Andy de venir sur scène. Et le concert s'est
terminé en un concert de Unbelievable Truth. Il aura duré
en tout deux heures dont moitié des titres étaient nouveaux.
Ulen a dicuté avec Nigel à la fin du concert, il en ressort
qu'il n'y aura pas de single avant la fin de l'année, qu'une tournée
sera envisagée en début d'année prochaine, que l'enregistrement
du second album continue. Et les nouveaux titres "rocks" !
SAT
24th MARK MULCAY
THE POINTDefinitely one to be seen at,
this. Mark is a New York singer, and former Miracle Legion frontman (contemporaries
of REM in the late 80s). On his own, Mark is closer to the likes of Jeff
Buckley and Elliot Smith, with grainy songs about obsession and stuff;
new album 'Fathering' has been getting rave reviews in the national press,
from NME to Mojo. For his brief UK tour he'll be backed by the
Unbelievable Truth, which should make
this Oxford date all the more special.(Nightshift)
le concert
de Mark Mulcahy au Point à Oxford : le concert était très
bien, Mark Mulcahy a une superbe voix. Nigel était à la batterie,
Jason à la basse et Jim à la guitare. Andy n'était
pas sur scène...mais a filmé le concert avec une caméra
!
"Hello,
Just to
say, Jim is very much still around and will be playing on the next tour
with us. The more astute of you may have noticed, however, that he's a
great guitarist who, er, "dabbles" in the keyboard arts (ref the look of
fierce concentration and the beads of sweat whenever he's required to lunge
in that direction...). That, and the fact that many of the arrangements
on the new album have become a bit more intricate, mean that Jim will now
concentrate on guitar, and we will (hopefully) be getting someone else
to play keyboards on the road.
More news
as it breaks, as always...
Nigel"
.Unbelievable
Truth enregistrent actuellement leur deuxième album.
Pour ce qui est du contenu : "Landslide", "Shed your skin", "Who's side
are you on?" (trois titres joués régulièrement lors
des concerts) et "From this height" (le titre bonus de l'édition
japonaise de "Almost Here") seront sur le prochain album ou des b-sides
de celui-ci(L Boisnard)
<<
Hello everyone,
Sudden
urge to reply.
>From
This Height - could well be a b-side for the UK during the next album,
or something like that, so that it's a bit more easily accessible. [...]
Most of the mp3/live stuff is being or has been recorded for the new album,
so, providing everything is groovy in the corporate world, they will appear
on the album or as B-sides. [...] Sorry. I may seem random. We're in the
studio. We're recording. I think it sounds good. I'll try and find time
for a more complete diary presently.
Nigel
press
NME
Almost here
Almost
Here /Toronto Sun
**Il y
a une page sur Unbelivable Truth dans Raygun
n°61
de Novembre 98. Une interview effectuée
en août dernier à New York.
+SPIN
: "Unbelievable Truth Almost Here (Virgin) It's bleak, it's melancholy,
and it's not Radiohead -- it's Thom Yorke's brother's band! But frontman
Andy asserts his independence with a more acoustic sound and lyrics far
removed from android paranoia."
Unbelievable
Truth Official Information Service
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