23 June 2008
Happy Birthday Alan
+ to mark this occasion blastfirstpetite is releasing a year-long, monthly, series of Limited Edition 10” Vinyl EPs
Each release will feature an established recording artist paying tribute to Alan by covering one of his songs, plus a previously unreleased Suicide/Vega rarity from the archives and, showing that Vega’s work even now continues to inspire, a cover version by a young and upcoming band.
Major artistes are:
Bruce Springsteen, Primal Scream, Peaches, Grinderman (feat. Nick Cave), Spiritualised, The Horrors, Sunn 0))+Pansonic, Julian Cope, Lydia Lunch, Vincent Gallo, Liars, Klaxons.
Upcoming bands are:
Beat The Devil/Shilpa Ray, No Bra, HTRK, X-Vectors, Nik Void (ex Kaito) , Effi Briest, S.C.U.M, Stephen Burroughs (ex Head Of David).
The sleeve images are all by contemporary visual artists who have been inspired by Vega including Edward Mapplethorpe, Alex Rose, Cary Kwok, Colter Jacobsen.
The series kicks off with …….
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23rd July PTYT 017 Two editions of 4000 each, both in 10” Vinyl & a Limited Download A Side Bruce Springsteen - “Dream Baby Dream A live recording from The Boss’s 2005 “Devils & Dust” solo tour. Sleeve by Edward Mapplethorpe. Physical distribution & Mail Order by Cargo (UK), Forced Exposure (USA) Digital Distribution State51. |
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blastfirstpetite also release a six cd 3000 limited edition box set called “Live 1977/78”. Culled from the archives of Howard Thompson, the man who originally signed Suicide to Bronze/EMI outside of the USA. This box set features thirteen live Suicide sets from the early New York performances and their legendary first European tour supporting both The Clash & Elvis Costello. Hear so called “Punks” out-punked... more details at blastfirstpetite.com |
Alan's new album "Station" is released in America on 31st July on Mute USA (mute.com)
Great reaction from fans and promoters alike to Alan's recent blistering solo sets on his europeon tour, especially at All Tomorrow's Parties where the set enraptured Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Spirtualised, and curators The Dirty Three amongst many others.
Saturday 16th June @ The Roundhouse Freed'm Room.
Alan plays a special low key London solo show
roundhouse.org.uk
8pm > 11pm Support from HTRK + Special Guests + Dj's
>>>>>FREE ADMISSION<<<<<
SUICIDE have
been added as special guests to Nick Cave's only scheduled "Grinderman"
concert.
20th June @ The Forum. The show is already sold out.
SUICIDE will
play a secret short warm up set on 19th in a small venue for all you London
Art Rockers. The set will filmed for a proposed TV documentary on Suicide.
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We've now agreed terms for the Alan's new album "Station" to be released on 30th April 2007 via Blast First/Mute Records (mute.com) who are handled internationally by your the local EMI company & in America contact Mute Records USA. (mute.com) |
Later in the year will see a
Blast First/ Mute Records double CD Retrospective CD covering Alan's entire
solo career plus all his solo albums to date will be made available via
Blast First / Mute download. More details and a official release date
soon.
To celebrate the release of the Station album Alan will play the following solo shows in Europe:
| APRIL 2007 | ||
| 23 | Berlin Volksbuhne (volksbuehne-berlin.de) | with Jon Spencer's "Heavy Trash" (heavytrash.net) |
| 25 | Paris La Locomotive | in co-production with D Side Magazine (d-side.org) |
| 26 | Lille, France | |
| 28 | Minehead, UK | All Tomorrows Parties curated by The Dirty
Three. (atpfestival.com) Alan will play on the main stage with Nick Cave and Spiritualised. Both these artists have expressed their love of Alan's work. This is a fabulous residential three day festival that has become a role call to the Who's Who of Cool "Alternative" Musics. Our thanks to The Dirty Three (anchorandhope.com) for the invitation... apparently there is film of festival is on its way too via Warp Films. |
| 29 | Austria, Krems, near Vienna | Donnau Festival (donaufestival.com) on a bill with Throbbing Gristle. (throbbing-gristle.com) |
Art
Coming soon: the dates & location for Alan's first showing of his
Art in the UK ever.
Suicide
Have approved the use of a live clip of "Death Machine"
from their recent 2006 Agnes B anniversary show from the Paris Olympia
to be included in a unique free DVD that will be only available via Agnes
B stores sometime very soon, possibly March 07.
The DVD will include clips from all the artists involved, amongst them
Sonic Youth, Placebo, & Patti Smith. Check agnesb.com
March 2007
D-Side magazine in France will offer a free cover
mount CD featuring a track from Alan's new album and an extensive new
interview in French. d-side.org
February 2007
Public Relations:
Sarah Lowe/Fifth Avenue, PR extraordinaire is now the Press Contact for
all things Vega in the UK
Contact her via fifthavenuepr@googlemail.com
New Promo Shots by photographer Earl Grey can be downloaded direct from
the Vega Solo page (please note the lo-res
look is deliberate!)
January 2007
The Wire magazine (wire.co.uk)
featured Alan in their favorite record artwork section "The Inner
Sleeve". Alan choose 2 Pac's Machavelli album, and in typical nonconformist
style delivered his text as a lyric. The page is shown on Vega
Solo.
December 2006
The Wire magazine (wire.co.uk)
free covermount CD "Wiretapper 16" which features a special
edit of "13 Crosses, 16 Blazin' Skulls" a new track from Alan's
forthcoming album "Station".
Live
Alan's not into long tours so if he's playing make the effort and travel
to see him play.
"Solo" is actually Alan (who is threatening to add a live keyboard
played by himself) with Liz Lamere on air-efx, playback and backing vocals.
The new live set is based around Alan's new album, "Station",
his hardest, heaviest album for quite a while, all self-played and produced.
We are recording all the shows for a possible limited edition live series,
so come make some noise yourselves!