Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Lanegan Feels 'Relief' On New Solo Set

When discussing his upcoming solo album, "Bubblegum," Queens Of The Stone Age vocalist (and former Screaming Trees member) Mark Lanegan tells Billboard.com the project's main criteria is more cathartic than anything else.

"I don't want to use the word therapy, but it is more like relief from the seriousness," says Lanegan. "Queens is pretty serious and focused, and these other things give me a chance to do music but not have such an importance placed on it. And by importance I mean, with Queens, we really take it seriously but it is still a lot of fun. But with these things, I don't really care how it turns out. It is the doing of it that is the important part, not the finishing of it -- if that makes any sense."

The fall album, which will be preceded by an EP, is Lanegan's first for Beggars Banquet. It finds the singer cajoling familiar friends (QOTSA guitarist Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, Polly Jean Harvey, former Guns N' Roses members Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan, Greg Dulli, and Dean Ween, among many others) to lend a hand. "I seek to pretend I am a drummer, and whenever I get the chance to play drums, I'm there," Homme tells Billboard.com of his contributions.

As for Screaming Trees, who broke up for good in 2000, Lanegan says he is still in contact with the members and doesn't rule out recording together, but not under the Trees moniker. For now, Lanegan is reveling in his role with QOTSA. "It is kind of funny because I couldn't have dreamt up a better job, if that's what you call it," he says. "I get to travel around with my friends and not work very hard."

Indeed, while QOTSA has been on the road constantly in support of its latest Interscope album "Songs for the Deaf," Lanegan is one of three vocalists in the group and often finds himself leaving the stage completely. Where does he go during those moments?

"I sleep," jokes Lanegan. "Actually, I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great. It's not just a band, it is a program to take inner city kids like myself and to sort of empower them."


-- John Benson, Cleveland


http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1900175 (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1900175)



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MARK LANEGAN BAND

Bubblegum
Release Date:2/8/2004

Track Listing:

1 When Your Number Isn?t Up
2 Hit The City
3 Wedding Dress
4 Methamphetamine Blues
5 One Hundred Days
6 Bombed
7 Strange Religion
8 Sideways In Reverse
9 Come To Me
10 Like Little Willie John
11 Can?t Come Down
12 Morning Glory Wine
13 Head
14 Driving Death Valley Blues
15 Out Of Nowhere


 :drool:

This might be really interesting.....




/jarmo

I was wondering what happened to him. I loved the Screaming Trees.

Thanks Jarmo.

Hes playing Leeds headlining the Carling Stage as joint headliner with the QOTSA bassist i think. Definalty gonna check out the Duff/Izzy songs and may do the rest seen as how hes at Leeds.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1488370/20040611/lanegan_mark.jhtml?headlines=true



/jarmo

Copied from the best Lanegan fan site, http://www.onewhiskey.com


2004 Bubblegum European Tour

date location venue info/tickets

13 Aug 04 Oslo, Norway The ?yafestival http://www.oyafestivalen.com
14 Aug 04 Efurt, Germany Highfields Festival http://fkpscorpio.com/highfield/  
15 Aug 04 Bielefeld, Germany Strange Build Festival http://www.fkpscorpio.de
17 Aug 04 Amsterdam, Netherlands Melkweg http://ticketmaster.nl
18 Aug 04 Portugal Paredes de Coura Festival http://paredesdecoura.com/
20 Aug 04 Kiewit, Belgium Pukkelpop Festival  http://www.pukkelpop.be  
22 Aug 04 Berlin, Germany Columbiafritz http://www.fkpscorpio.de
23 Aug 04 Koln, Germany Prime Club http://www.fkpscorpio.de
24 Aug 04 Hamburg, Germany Logo http://www.fkpscorpio.de
25 Aug 04 Utrecht, Netherlands De Helling http://ticketmaster.nl
26 Aug 04 Hampshire, UK The Wedgewood Rooms http://wedgewood-rooms.co.uk
28 Aug 04 Reading, UK Carling Weekender http://virtualfestivals.com
29 Aug 04 Leeds, UK Carling Weekender http://virtualfestivals.com
31 Aug 04 Milton Keynes, UK Woughton Centre http://www.woughtoncentre.co.uk/
1 Sept 04 London, UK Islington Academy http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
2 Sept 04 Paris, France Nouveau Casino try http://www.infoconcert.com
4 Sept 04 Bologna, Italy Independent Days Festival http://www.indipendente.com
6 Sept 04 Duddingen, Switzerland Bad Bonn  
7 Sept 04 Geneva, Switzerland Usine http://www.infoconcert.com
8 Sept 04 Zurich, Switzerland Abart Music Club  
10 Sept 04 Vitoria, Spain Azkena Rock Festival  http://azkenarockfestival.com



/jarmo

Found this on the official ML forum (http://marklanegan.com/forum/index.php):

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MOJO MAGAZINE ? August 2004
Big bubbles, no trouble
Polly Harvey, Queens of the Stone Age, Izzy Stradlin and Dean Ween roll up to help Mark Lanegan rock. Not that he needs much help, says Victoria Segal.

Mark Lanegan Band
Bubblegum ****
Being a survivor is a curious position to hold. While it should indicate vindication and success, a fine tribute to stamina and enduring talent, it also implies cockroaches, skin-of-your-teeth tenacity, by-a-fingernail stubbornness. By rights, Mark Lanegan should have expired in a pyre of plaid at the end of the '90s, a good tarring with the grunge brush helping him to burn. The subterranean-voiced singer of Washington State's Screaming Trees, he could just have been another North-western casualty, eaten up by the lifestyle or the industry. Yet Lanegan, unusually, has become cooler as he's aged, a trick none of his contemporaries have managed ? unless you indulge the sentimental "forever young" rock myth surrounding Kurt Cobain.

While it's hard to imagine Eddie Vedder's new solo album causing much of a frisson, Lanegan, a man with the face of a Wanted: Dead or Alive poster, has increasingly refined his music into high-quality outlaw Americana. He's become the embodiment of the stranger in town, appearing and disappearing at will with his moody solo albums, his songs echoing behind him like a set of saloon doors slamming shut. His recent comradeship with Queens of the Stone Age ? until their surprising, depressing split, very much the modern rock motherlode ? only enhanced his reputation, his tour of service with those notorious hedonists Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri a stem-cell shot of rejuvenating rock'n'roll.

Bubblegum is, at core, updated blues ? yet, while previous solo records saw Lanegan and his six-feet-under voice stuck at the graveside, there's much more light and shade here. None of these songs are exactly merry, largely dealing with fatal bliss or blissed-out fatalism, but musically and texturally, they seem more diverse, complex, striding rangily from seamy rock'n'roll to soulful spirituals. There's not just a little black cloud over his head anymore ? there's a whole weather system. Admittedly, Lanegan uses a pretty well-worn lexicon ? like, say, Spritualized's Jason Pierce, you know where you are with his universe of highways and Jesus, cold turkey and holy ground. "From my fingertips, my cigarette throws ashes to the ground/I'd stop and talk to the girls who work this street but I've got business further down," he sings on the woozy One Hundred Days, and you don't need an A-Z to work out which road to nowhere he's on. A favourable reaction to this album, then, very much depends on accepting this vein of imagery, the classic street-life iconography.

Given its songs of experience, calling the album Bubblegum might at first seem comically flippant ? but anyone feeling uncharitable could say this drugs-and-depression shtick is just as disposable and clich?-ridden as the sparkliest of chart-pop.

Yet, just as painters never get bored with nativities and crucifixions, so Lanegan's purist strain of rock'n'roll manages to tap its own passion with style. Maybe ? if the issue of authenticity still matters ? it's because Lanegan has what might be called a colourful (if largely black-clad) past. Better still, it's because his effortless empathy with the dark side has given him the ability to find new twists, new angles. Like Little Willie John should be the kind of retrograde blues track that makes The White Stripes seem like Kraftwerk ? yet while the railroad chug of the percussion aims for an old-style Americana that's as modern as a barroom spittoon, the layered density and lyrical resonance gives it a crisp new edge. "When I heard the news that night I went down like a satellite," sings Lanegan beautifully, before adding "Lord I'm all alone tonight/Don't the sun love his satellite? I don't know."

The Queens of the Stone Age road-rage of Driving Death Valley Blues seems like a sweat-stained bundle of junkie-clich?s ("Don't wanna go cold turkey") but it's powered by such combustible, kerosene-soaked conviction that even dragging Jesus into things is forgivable.

It's the feeling of almost imperceptible menace that makes Bubblegum so unsettling, a record that focuses on the calm before the storm and sometimes after the storm, too, a record about losing things ? your self, your way, your mind. On the soul-rich spiritual of Morning Glory Wine, the lovely fluting in the background can't hide the glint of the sword-blade over Lanegan's head while the intimate whisper of Bombed ? with flesh-warm backing vocals from Wendy Rae Fowler ? offers a metaphor-rich sense of danger. "When I'm bombed I stretch like bubblegum," he sings, revealing the true source of the title and explaining the psychic stress that weighs heavy on the whole album.

At times, though, he makes it all sound like a lot of fun. "It bites like a fish and kicks like a horse," declares the dirty thrust of Sideways In Reverse, giving the requisite charge of street-slang before a filthy refrain of "going down going down/give me your love". Hit The City, featuring Polly Harvey on bleached-out keening, is a blast of needling staccato, while Methamphetamine Blues ? guitar and drums provided by Josh Homme, backing vocals by Nick Oliveri ? adds adrenalin to Feelgood Hit Of The Summer's menu of narcotics.

Yet balancing the conspicuous consumption of the dark side is the purgative quest for redemption. The Everybody Hurts gospel chords of Strange Religion take a turn into Sparklehorse territory, while Come To Me ? again with Harvey ? is a little bit of human contact amid all the introspection. The enchanting One Hundred Days talks up hopes of a ship coming in with heartbreakingly little faith: "There is no morphine I'm only sleeping/There is no crime to dreams like this?" while the timeless lament of Wedding Dress could be a dank folkloric fable from Polly Harvey's own work. "Will you walk with me underground and forgive all my sicknesses and sorrows? Will you be shamed if I shake like I'm dying/When I fall to my knees and I'm crying?/Will you visit me where my body rests? Will you put on that long white dress?" It certainly gives you some insight into his idea of faith. You're with him for the long haul.

Bubblegum is, in many respects, classic Americana, at its simplest level, wide-screen loneliness, the sound of rattling boxcars and rattling lungs, of dusty roads and endless journeys. As Wedding Dress shows, however, Lanegan demands more than a straightforward coast-to-coast road trip. As befits a survivor, he demands commitment. And as he travels through those parts of the map marked "Here Be Dragons" with his eyes and heart open, you're happy to give it.

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/jarmo

Bubblegum is one of the best albums of 2004.  8)


If you don't believe me, here are some quotes from reviews:  :P


A modern-day classic from one of rock's great survivors.
The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/05/1091557978939.html?oneclick=true)


It is hardly user-friendly, but Bubblegum is too good an album to languish in the margins. There is something thrilling in its unpredictable lurches between darkness and light, noise and melody. In every sense, Bubblegum is a staggering record.
The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1271709,00.html)


There's something else you should know. Mark Lanegan is a wrinkled, leathery-skinned, uncompromising punk firebrand. A major label MD's nightmare and a stylist's lost cause. He is the antithesis of the Pop Idol conveyor belt of disposable dross that threatens to eclipse the great rock individual. He is the truth and the light, a diamond in the rough and everything that makes this rock'n'roll lark so all-encompassing.
NME (http://www.nme.com/reviews/11723.htm)



Bubblegum is as rich and fixed a vision as you're likely to find on one CD this year, with little or no room for filler flab.

That rock 'n' roll scenery may be familiar, but its not often it's rendered as beautifully as this.
BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/rockandalt/reviews/mlanegan_bubblegum.shtml)


Emotionally ravaged terrain is traversed here. Bubblegum is a great rock'n'roll records, but I really would advise getting a good night's sleep before you tackle it head-on.
The Evening Standard



/jarmo

(http://mitglied.lycos.de/liberadze/bubblegum.JPG)

Just came out in the US today.  I'm going to buy it!


http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=DJ53IMq9Qo&ean=607618023720

All Music Guide
With the Screaming Trees an increasingly distant memory and his brief tenure with Queens of the Stone Age seemingly over and done, Mark Lanegan appears to have well and truly become a solo artist, and while the dark and blues-shot introspections of Whiskey for the Holy Ghost and The Winding Sheet felt like a respite from Lanegan's usual musical diet of the time, Bubblegum sounds like an effort to fuse the nocturnal atmospherics of his solo work with the impressive brain/brawn ratio of his better-known bands. Credited to the Mark Lanegan Band (though there's no consistent set of musicians from track to track), Bubblegum is hardly short on the moody stuff, with Lanegan's nicotine-buffered pipes leading these songs though any number of empty streets and unhappy events, as on the jonesed-out road trip of "Strange Religion," the pained drift of "One Hundred Days," and the wasted longing of "Morning Glory Wine" -- notice a common theme yet? (Oh, and in case you were wondering, the album's title refers not to teen-centric pop music, but a line from his song "Bombed": "When I'm bombed, I stretch like bubblegum/And look too long straight at the morning sun.") But Lanegan was also of a mind to rock out a bit while making this album (or figured that his newer fans were expecting it of him), and with his QOTSA pals Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri helping out on a few cuts, he does indeed deliver the rock, most notably the clanking menace of "Methamphetamine Blues," the straightforward bash of "Sideways in Reverse," and the organ-driven ooze of "Hit the City" (the latter featuring Polly Jean Harvey in an inspired duet appearance). But while most guys making a solo album after a stint with a successful band create music that speaks of freedom and release, Bubblegum finds Lanegan digging ever deeper into the obsessions and appetites that drag him into the same corner every time. It sure doesn't sound like a life most of us would wish to lead, but it makes for damned compelling art, and the dank emotional caverns of Bubblegum offer some territory well worth exploring for the strong-willed. Mark Deming

Interesting to see so many positive reviews.

I'm not used to liking the same albums as the critics.   :hihi:

I bet a lot of listeners are expecting a QOTSA album, they won't get it by buying Bubblegum.



/jarmo

Tried to d/l your recommendations Jarmo, but had no luck :(

The gave great reviews for Contraband too and you don't like the album THAT much...  :hihi:

At least they got some taste.  :P

4 out of 5 in today's Aftonbladet (Swedish paper).  : ok:





/jarmo

No, this album is not a QOTSA album.  It just might be better. 

This album is one of the best albums of 2004.

I can't stop listening to it. 

Ok, I was j/k...

I really like Lanegan... Well, basically he's the reason I met Bruce Dickinson and Nicko McBrain...  ;)

Glad to hear you like it.

Certainly not the most accessible albums of 2004. It just sounds weird at first.....



Setlist from last night's show in Amsterdam:

1. Hit The City
2. Wedding Dress
3. No Easy Action
4. Miracle
5. One Way Street
6. Come To Me
7. Sideways In Reverse
8. Low
9. Creeping Coastline Of Lights
10.Like Little Willie John
11.I'll Take Care Of You
12.Resurrection Song
13.Death Don't Have No Mercy
14.Metamphetamine Blues

Encore:
1. When Your Number Isn't Up
2. Sleep With Me
3. Fix

from http://marklanegan.com/forum/



/jarmo

SPIN >> SEPTEMBER 2004
Breakdown
More bands, more albums, more opinions.
Let's do this.
By Charles Aaron, Doug Brod, Adrienne Day, Jon Dolan, Caryn Ganz, and Alex Pappedemas

Mark Lanegan
Bubblegum
Beggars Banquet

As Screaming Trees' chief lumberjack and Queens of the Stone Age's go-to vocalist, Lanegan and his barrel-chested baritone have been grunge's closest sonic connection to the blues.? His sixth solo album is gruff stuff, moving beyond his Beefheart fixation to nail a genuine, slow-burning Leadbelly brutalism.? A few rockers lighten the load, but not by much.? B+

saw him live on ?ya-festivalen on Friday the 13th, awesome music! but he only did about 5 songs...why, I don't know!
he had this tattoo covered girl with him on backup vocals, and from where i was standing, she looked pretty damn hot! anyone know who it was?

I think he had a 45 minute slot at Oya (that's what I heard).


Nobody seems to know who that girl singing with him is. She's not listed as part of the touring band.



/jarmo

I don't thikn he played more than maybe 30 minutes, kinda short.
I wanna know who the girl is!! she looked smokin cool! :yes:

Saw Lanegan at the Islington Academy last night. A really nice venue for this kind of show.

The opening act wasn't any good. I don't even know what they were called.

Great show. Played lots of tracks from Bubblegun as well as stuff like "Pendulum", "I'll Take Care Of You", "No Easy Action", "Miracle" etc.  8)



/jarmo

The opening act were called The Duke Spirit ;)


It sucked, there was no breakdancing contest, no MC, no mad beats.


The music was great, he sang great, played great tunes.
Methamphetamine Blues was amazing.

First day in London (ever) and I'm gonna go see Mark Lanegan.

We got to the venue after being a little lost in Islington. Finally we found it (and a bar) so we went in and had a beer. Then AdZ shows up and after a while we head to the venue. It's basically a club with two bars on the sides. We wait and then the opening act starts playing. All of their songs sounded the same to me, maybe because I wasn't familiar with any of them.

Mark starts his set and I can't believe how good it sounds.

The set list for the show was:

When Your Number Isn't Up
Hit The City
Wedding Dress
Creeping Coastline
No Easy Action
Miracle
One Hundred Days
Sideways In Reverse
One Way Street
Come To Me
Resurrection Song
Driving Death Valley Blues
I'll Take Care Of You
Little Willie John
Skeletal History
Methamphetamine Blues

Encore:
Message To Mine.
Sleep With Me
Pendulum
Fix


Basically the whole show I was just standing there and watching him in amazement.? ;D I know AdZ did the same.


I read a review about the show the day after and it mentioned how Mark is lacking in charisma or something. I thought he had the crowd hypnotized the whole night. He just stands there and sings. He doesn't run around or do any dancing. He sings, that's what he's there for and he sings it like he's really meaning every word he's singing.

It was just great.




He's gonna tour in USA later this year, I suggest you go check him out. This guy can sing live, not just on the album.? : ok:


/jarmo

It is. It might not be as "weird" since the tracks on that EP didn't "fit" on "Bubblegum".

It's a mix of everything from slow ballads to fast more traditional rock songs.  : ok:


/jarmo

I've got Field Songs and Here Comes That Weird Chill. Both excellent. I really should get a hold of Bubblegum. I think my brother has it. I must go round and borrow it. It looks like he is doing quite a tour at the moment. I wish he would come to Scotland though. I've seen him sing a few times with QOTSA and I though he was great. Looking forward to Bubblegum now. You guys have put me right in the mood for it!

Did anyone read his most recent interview in Kerrang? They didn't come right out and say it, but they hinted at the possibility that Mark Lanegan was back on the H. He was feeling ill during the interview and blamed it on some chocolate he ate. I think Kerrang ended the article with something like, 'Chocolate kids, just say no.'

He's probably gonna be back in Europe in November or so, maybe he'll get to Scotland then.


I haven't read that Kerrang! interview.....



/jarmo

http://www.beggars.com/artists/mark_lanegan/index.htm

Click Video to see the 'Sideways In Reverse' music video.




/jarmo

I going to order Bubblegum and one or two more, so I was wondering which ones you guys would recommend?

thanks for the link Jarmo,

You could get the "Here Comes That Weird Chill" EP and "Field Songs". That way you're working your way back during the years. :)

He hasn't released that many solo albums:

Bubblegum [2004]
Here Comes That Weird Chill [EP] [2003]
Field Songs [2001]
I'll Take Care Of You [1999]
Scraps At Midnight [1998]
Whiskey For The Holy Ghost [1994]
The Winding Sheet [1990]




/jarmo

Yeah yourright Jarmo he really doesn't have that many , for some reason I thought that he had a pretty good bit . well I I ordered them all from Amazon today and can't wait for them to come in. :drool:

 :beer:

This gig got KKKK (out of 5 possible K's) in this week's edition of Kerrang. I thought you may be interested to read about it. I'll transcribe:

For a man whose voice alone sounds like it was fashioned from oak cask soaked rotten from the sting of centuries-old bourbon, you can't help but feel what a peculiar choice of title 'Bubblegum' was for MArk Lanegan's latest album. Nothing this lone ranger of the broken heart and shattered soul has ever put his name to has remotely resembled the disposable, and watching him tonight, shadowed from the spotlightson some dark road to redemtion, the contrast seems more apparent.

Still,? the record does mark something of a departure, and with half the set given over to the new material, it's evident that Lanegan's tenure in QOTSA has upped the rock quotient considerably. And it's not just on current cuts like the fuzz-heavy 'Hit The City' or the driving 'Sideways in Reverse' - his earlier folk-blues outing? (try the fragile 'Resurrection Song') haunt the air with a greater weight tonight as well. Although for sheer amped magnificence, nothing beats the finale of 'Fix' as it explodes into an extended whiteout of blistering feedback.

A beautifully strong return.

Thanks for posting that. :)

Now, wonder where I could get a bootleg of it....



/jarmo

Mark recently completed a European tour, and we are pleased to announce a US tour, with a massive tour being booked for late October, right through to the beginning of December, which will include dates in Australia, going right across Europe- see the dates below, there are more to be added!

'Hit The City' from the 'Bubblegum' album will be released as a single in November to coincide with the tour. It will be released on 7" and CD, and will include two new unreleased tracks, 'Mud Pink Skag' and 'Mirrored'.

Over in the US, Beggars have launched a minisite, which includes a competition to win signed artwork by Mark - head over here http://www.beggars.com/us/marklanegan/2004/bubblegum/

September
28th Chicago, IL - Double Door
29th Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall

October
2nd Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar
3rd Washington DC - the Black Cat
4th Boston, MA - Middle East
5th New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
10th San Diego, CA - Casbah
11th Los Angeles, CA - El Rey
12th San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
14th Seattle, WA - Showbox
15th Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge

20th Melbourne ? Corner Hotel
21st Sydney ? Gaelic Club
23rd Brisbane - Festival

26th Brussels ? Ancienne Belgique
27th Bochum - Matrix
28th Amsterdam - Paradiso
30th Stockholm - Mondo
31st Oslo - Rockefeller

November
2nd Luxembourg - Kulturfabric
3rd Frankfurt - Batchkapp
4th Berlin - Kalkscheune
6th Vienna - Arena
7th Munich - Backstage
8th Stuttgart ? Die Rohre
10th Treviso ? New Age
11th Rimini - Velvet
12th Rome - Horus
13th Milan ? Rolling Stone
14th Berne - Reithalle
16th Barcelona - Razzmatazz
18th Zaragoza - Oasis
20th Paris ? Trabendo Theatre
21st Brighton ? Old Market
22nd Birmingham ? Academy II
23rd Dublin - Ambassador
25th Belfast - Limelight
26th Glasgow - Garage
27th Manchester ? Academy 2
28th Leeds - Cockpit
30th Sheffield - LeadmIll

December
2nd London ? Shepherds Bush Empire

Mark Lanegan Beggars Artist Section
http://www.beggars.com/artists/mark_lanegan
Mark Lanegan Beggars Banquet forum
http://beggars.bway.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=51

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http://onewhiskey.proboards2.com/index.cgi


/jarmo

Damn no date close to me :'( , oh well maybe next time.

Without me you wouldn't have known where the venue was! ;)

Hopefully tickets will go on sale for 2nd soon, can't wait to see him again. ;D

We knew where the venue was.  :P

The "problem" was finding the right entrance...  :hihi:


/jarmo

hey - thanks for the link.  At first I didnt like the song, but now I cant stop listening to it.  The part where he repeats 'going down, going down, people give me your love' is stuck in my head!

Some of these posts say that Izzy & Duff worked on the album.  How did Mark Lanegan become friends with them?

I don't know how exactly, but Duff has worked with him before. I think Mark lived at Duff's house in Seattle or something like that.

Maybe Izzy was introduced to him by Duff.



/jarmo

BLENDER >> OCTOBER 2004 Issue 30
THE GUIDE NEW RELEASES[/b]

MARK LANEGAN BAND
BUBBLEGUM? ? * * * * (Four stars = GREAT. CHECK IT OUT)
BEGGARS BANQUET
On sixth album, former Queens of the Stone Age singer celebrates famous friends, alcohol
For 20 years, Mark Lanegan has lent his low, meaningful growl to balls-out rock monsters the Screaming Trees and, later, Queens of the Stone Age. All the while, he?s had extracurricular angst to spare, kicking out five solo albums: 2001's potent but sketchy Field Songs was the last. A full-time solo artist since QOTSA?s implosion earlier this year, Lanegan has finally produced his long-threatened masterpiece. Bubblegum is a keg party thrown for close friends who share at least one deep bond: rehab. Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan of G?N?R and Velvet Revolver fame add muscle to "Strange Religion," while former QOTSA mucker Josh Homme lends his knowledge of sadness and pills to "Methamphetamine Blues." But it?s Lanegan?s duets with PJ Harvey - "Hit the City," and the high moisture content booty call "Come to Me" - that really make this set essential.
MICHAEL ODELL
DOWNLOAD THESE "When Your Number Isn?t Up," "Hit The City," "Come to Me"

Photo Credit:? Anita Hmjak
(http://gypsysoul.lunarpages.com/blender1004.jpg)
Mark Lanegan:? "Hasn't anyone got a light?"

Everybody loves the album.  ;D


Thanks for posting.



/jarmo

ok ok jarmo u have peaked my interest, ive seen u posting in the "what are u listening to" thread about his guy for a long time and now all this had me interested.

If there was one song or a few songs that u would recommend to a new listener that would best represent what he is what would they be?

ill check out a couple and if i like them  i will go and get this.

Not really.? :hihi:


The new album is so diverse. But you can check out the singles "Sideways In Reverse" and "Hit The City".


Then there's slower stuff like "One Hundred Days", "Out Of Nowhere" and the opening track "When Your Number Is Up".

And the almost industrial influenced "Methamphetamine Blues".



/jarmo

i love diverse music and what u just described sounds awesome. ok ill return later with my opinion. i cant wait to give it a listen.

FILTER (mag) >> FALL ?04 >> FILTER 12

GETTING TO KNOW Mark Lanegan
by: Kurt Orzeck

MARK LANEGAN WEARS all 40 years of his life on his face.? His skin, once puffed in that Tom Waits sort of way, is now ironed out into a smooth sheet.? His thin amber eyes pierce his surroundings with a devastating gravity.? Even his tick maroon mane, which spikes out beneath an indescript black hat, seems to be spun by the hands of time, hammered by hard living.

So it?s a peculiar feeling to take a seat across from him at a nameless, sparkling Starbucks in Studio City, California surrounded by lattes, SUVs, aspiring actors and the Valley that gave birth to the mini-mall.? Lanegan doesn?t seem to mind.

He exudes an ease he didn?t have for the first 12 years of his musical career as the figure-head for the Screaming Trees.? He?s just left a birthday party thrown for a more recent ex-bandmate, Josh Homme, of the Queens of the Stone Age.? He sits down across from me and smiles, his face alighting at the sight of a stranger, silhouetted against a backdrop of idle chatter and banana muffins.

Lanegan split with QotSA to concentrate on his sixth full-length record, the cannily titled Bubblegum.? Though his break with the band nearly coincided with Homme?s firing of longtime partner, bassist/singer Nick Oliveri, it?s clear that Lanegan?s departure has not caused the tears and heartache Oliveri?s has.? The crooner continues to write with Homme and appears regularly at Oliveri?s solo performances.

?Whatever?s going on between those guys doesn?t have shit to do with me,? he says with that parched voice, chain-smoking and pumping bottled water.? ?I don?t concern myself with other people?s dramas.? But it is a shame, because both those guys are my friends.? I have a feeling though, that since they?ve known each other for a long time, they?ll patch it up.?

That he was able to salvage both friendships amidst such turmoil is an example of the Lanegan?s social grace.? He?s also preserved relationships with his ex-wife, Wendy Rae Fowler, two former members of Guns N? Roses, and the temperamental Greg Dulli of Twilight Singers and Afghan Whigs.? All of the above appear on Bubblegum, as does PJ Harvey. (Lanegan and Dulli have also conspired to form a new group, the Gutter Twins.)

Rarely does someone who is reaching his autumn years sound so vibrant.? This is supposed to be bottom-rung time, when the excesses of youth begin to show their influence.? Let us not forget what got him to this place in his career: 12-plus years with the tumultuous Trees (?For a lot of years I didn?t enjoy music...probably however long I was in the Trees?), compiled with heavy drug use and a wanderlust streak that left him with more than 20 different addresses in the last three years alone.

Maybe it?s a nine-month-old Boston terrier named Archie that?s rekindled the embers in his heart.? Or the languid feeling of having completed an unexpected marathon tour that lasted two-and-a-half years after the release of QotSA?s Songs for the Deaf, an album which placed the Queens of the Stone Age squarely into the vanguard of popular rock?n?roll.

?I spent more time with the band than I originally intended to,? he says, ?because the record did so well (commercially) and I said that I would stay with it until all the touring was done.? It ended up being a full year longer than I anticipated.?

Whatever the change is, it?s been good for him.? Because Bubblegum is, perhaps the best album he?s ever made.? He?s joined by more friends than ever, but more importantly, he rallies them with expertise and excitement.? The once intense and at times morose Lanegan is actually laughing at the beginning of the first single, ?Methamphetamine Blues.?

The most touching moment on the album is a duet he performs with his ex-wife called ?Wedding Dress.?? The song includes a fleeting, obscure reference to Johnny Cash in the final line: ?We got buried in a fever? (Cash and his late wife, June Carter Cash, originally sang, ?We got married in a fever? on his song ?Jackson?).? Sure, it?s a more somber take (or perhaps more sly), but that?s just the sort of thing he?s always excelled at.? And a guy could do a lot worse than to emulate the Man in Black.

?I actually started doing shows because of Johnny Cash,? he says.? ?I had two solo records before I ever did one of my own gigs.? I would get asked all the time to do them, but I didn?t want to; making solo records was something I did for fun.? Then I got asked to open for Johnny Cash, and I thought, ?I just can?t say no to this one.?? I put a band together and was lucky enough to spend some time with him in 1995 for his second American record.?

Lanegan was also able to harvest recordings with another preeminent star before his more untimely demise: fellow Seattle neighbor Kurt Cobain.? The Nirvana guru surfaced on Lanegan?s 1990 effort, The Winding Sheet, which included the pair performing a noisy rendition of ?Where Did You Sleep Last Night.?

Known for his collaborative spirit, the snaring of PJ Harvey for Bubblegum didn?t require any courting whatsoever.? ?She was a fan of Queens of the Stone Age and she approached me at one of our shows,? he recalls.? ?She said she had Whiskey and really liked it... I just jumped in, like I always do, and said, ?Well, you have to do something for my new record, then.?? I mean, of course, who doesn?t want to do a record with her??

Or more to the point, who doesn?t want to do a record with Mark Lanegan?? The surprisingly humble sage smirks as we finish off our coffee, ?As the years have gone on, I?ve recognized that I have a gift, that a lot of people would love to do what I do, and I?m really lucky.?? Which is something they all say, but in his case it might actually be true.? It?s a long winding road full of potholes and wrong turns for a person such as he to end up where he is (even if that?s just a Starbucks in the Valley on Wednesday).? He?s got some people to call and some errands to run and a tour to plan.? Twenty pairs of eyes watch him as he stands to leave, ?If someone had told me that I?d still be doing this when I was 40,? he says, shaking my hand with that now-easy smile, ?I would have laughed.?? F

PHOTO BY HEIDI HARTWIG
(http://gypsysoul.lunarpages.com/filterfall04.jpg)

Nice article, thanks for posting. :D



I didn't know that.  8)




So D, did you listen to any of those tracks yet?  :P


/jarmo

i searched for him on Ares which is where i download music and a few tracks popped up, i tried to download meth blues but it hasnt yet.

im still tryin, when i get some cash im gonna just order it, from what everyone has described and the reviews it must be really great.


when i was searchin it had him mentioned with kurt cobain some, did they ever collaborate or duet or anything together?

D Bubblegum is definitely worth buy I got mine to day and it is fucking fantastic. Now if only Amazon would send the other album out  :yes:

errrr... why does it keep saying that he was the singer in QOTSA and Josh Homme was the guitarist... that's right for a couple of songs but it was the other way round
 :peace:

Singer/songwriter Mark Lanegan was injured in a car accident in Los Angeles last night, forcing the cancellation of seven upcoming East Coast tour dates. Lanegan was not at fault and was not seriously hurt, but is under doctor's orders to rest for several weeks, his spokesperson tells Billboard.com.

The artist is expected to return to the road Oct. 10 in San Diego, with dates on tap through an Oct. 26 performance in Brussels. The former Screaming Trees/Queens Of The Stone Age vocalist is touring in support of his new Beggars Banquet album, "Bubblegum," which reached No. 39 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart last month.

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.




/jarmo

aww...
btw jarmo, do you know the answer to what i asked above? Jodh Homme was the singer so why does it keep saying it was Mark?

Well Mark did sing with QOTSA. Since that band is the most well know of the bands he's been in, it always gets mentioned.

Josh, Mark and Nick sang. Just because Josh sang on most tracks doesn't mean the others didn't. ;)


He sings on the following QOTSA songs:
Auto Pilot and In The Fade from R.
Song for the Dead, Hangin' Tree, God Is In The Radio and Song for the Deaf from Songs For The Deaf.



/jarmo

that sucks that Mark got hurt but at least is wasn't to bad .

I attempted to download some songs.

All I was able to get so far is a song called Head (I hope it is from Bubblegum...)

I liked immediately on my first listen.? It's a slow-tempo song and the 'layered' feel is cool - the hard, grittier guitar in the background of the softer sounds.? You can listen to it from many angles.

As for lyrics, they're pretty dark and spooky.? I couldnt exactly make out what he was singing, but I think his girlfriend died from drugs, and she was in the porn business?? (something like that - he describes it very eeriely).

well, so far I've heard Sideways in Reverse, and Head, and I really liked the slower song.? Hope I can find some more songs, next time.

Yeah, "Head" is indeed from "Bubblegum".


For all your Lanegan lyric (and other) needs, visit http://www.onewhiskey.com/



/jarmo

okey doke  : ok:

D, any luck in downloading any tracks?

The Kurt Cobain / Mark Lanegan track is probably "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" from Mark's first solo album "The Winding Sheet".



/jarmo

Still mouth to mouth advertising is one of the most efficient ways to advertise. Best of all, it's free. I haven't seen this interest in an album non-GNR related since I've been a member here.

Anyway, as everybody kept talking about this CD, I gave direct orders to one of my friends to buy it for me for my b-day. This was a couple of days ago but I'll celebrate it tonight.

I'll give you guys my two cents in a couple of days.

Really am going to have to check out some of Lanegan's stuff, have heard nothing but good things about his stuff, i also really dug The Screeming Trees.

His record company should pay me for all the free publicity I'm giving him. ;)


So far, "Bubblegum" is the album of the year. There's no other album that has spent as much time in my cd player is that one has.



/jarmo

To anyone who has Bubblegum what are some of the standout tracks ? I am going to DL a few songs to see if i like this which i am certain i will and then probably order it from Amazon.  What song does Duff and Izzy make an appearance on ? Do they play guitar and bass or sing ? Thanks :peace:

Duff and Izzy help out with the vocals on Strange Religion.

I can't say what the stand out tracks are, but Hit The City is the next single and Sideways In Reverse was the first video.

All of these three songs are different. Might give you an idea on how diverse the album is.



/jarmo

Hey Thanks Jarmo, I just ordered the cd it is pretty good, different but good.

Jarmo , just got the cd today , i really dig it, Lanegan owes you some money for promotion. :beer:

Yeah, I've lost count on how many copies of the album I've "sold".  :hihi:

Plus concert tickets.....  8)



/jarmo

It's November, 55 days left of the year and I find it really hard to believe that there will be anything better released this year.

"Bubblegum" is still at #1 on my Best Albums of 2004 list.

This album is also the perfect soundtrack for the month of November. It's dark......  : ok:



/jarmo

I saw sideways in reverse on scuzz the other day, i liked it alot  :)

I agree - this album is killer and along with the new Green Day is at the top of my list fro years best. The track that Izzy and Duff feat. on ( "Strange religion") is a standout too. : ok:

Bubblegum is right behind Contraband as my favorite release for 04' with Green Day's American Idiot right after Bubblegum. :yes:

Source:? Blabbermouth.net

MARK LANEGAN Joins QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE At Tour Kickoff?
 
Launch Radio Networks is reporting that QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE officially kicked off their 2005 world tour in Milan, Italy on Monday night (Feb. 14), and were joined onstage for eight songs by vocalist Mark Lanegan, according to NME.com. Although it was announced that Lanegan had left the group early last year, frontman Josh Homme said Lanegan is basically free to come and go as he pleases. "What would be a good phrase for what Mark has? He's got kind of carte blanche for QUEENS, and so I think the idea that he's able to come back, kind of at his own free will, whenever the hell he wants to, gets misunderstood by other people, but not really by Mark or I," he said.

The former SCREAMING TREES frontman joined the QUEENS on 2002's "Songs for the Deaf" album, singing several songs and becoming part of the group's touring lineup. Lanegan has also recorded a number of solo albums and has toured behind those as well.

Although the band played a secret show as the Clocks in Los Angeles earlier this month, the Milan gig was the first official QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE concert in a year.

The group kicks off a U.S. tour on March 15 in Austin, Texas, with its fourth album, "Lullabies To Paralyze", arriving in stores on March 22.?
 

Who else thinks 2004 was a poor year in rock?

Go buy "Bubblegum". Even after more than six months of heavy rotation it's still extremely good.


I just realized it's about six months since I saw the MLB show in London..... What a perfect ending for a great sunny day in London. Some really dark music.  ;D

Still no bootleg.  :-\



/jarmo

It was still ridiculously good. >:(

Yeah, it was.

I remember standing outside after the show and the band's drummer shows up.....

I also remember they had Grolsch at that venue even though it's names the Carling Islington Academy.  ;D


Where's my "Hit The City" single?






/jarmo

Bubblegum gets better and better with age .

I read something on Vh1news.com that Mark Lanegan left Queen of the Stone Age

O think this is what your talking about D.

NME.com is reporting that vocalist Mark Lanegan has left the QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE U.S. tour under mysterious circumstances, fuelling rumors of a fight between him and QUEENS leader Josh Homme.

On Monday (April 4), the band released a statement on their official web site, confirming that Lanegan had taken a break due to "exhaustion," but rejected Internet rumors that there was anything more to it.

"Mark Lanegan is taking a brief sebatical from the ongoing QUEENS tour due to exhaustion," the statement reads. "The band would like to wish a speedy recovery, so that he can return back tour the touring QUEENS circus ASAP. Joshua & Mark have already been in discussions to figure out when Mark will be able to return. And finally the band stresses that all other rumors regarding this subject should be written down, burned & the ashes pushed in to your eyes so that you are unable to find your watercooler/sewing circle."


http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=35116

Bumping this for Skeletor.  ;)

---

Some Lanegan news:

Isobel Campbell Sets Sail
Former Belle and Sebastian singer collaborates with Mark Lanegan on "Seas" 

When Isobel Campbell couldn't find anyone in her native Scotland to sing the low part on a song for her upcoming Ballad of the Broken Seas, the ethereal-voiced singer reached across the Atlantic and connected with one of rock's deepest, growliest voices: former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan.
The collaboration began with a single song, but, pleased with the results, the two agreed to extend their partnership over the course of a full-length album. "I just really loved Mark's voice," says Campbell, a former member of Belle and Sebastian. "For a while, I've been really obsessed with Johnny Cash, and Mark's got that kind of voice. But then also there's sort of an otherworldly element to his voice as well -- just a bit of a psychedelic element to it -- which I'm really sort of bewitched by. Our voices go together pretty well -- night and day, really. Because I was in a group before, I enjoy it most when I get to sing with other people."

Due in September, Broken Seas features what would seem to be a strange pairing, given the contrasting sounds favored by Campbell and Lanegan's previous bands. But Lanegan's sound was particularly well-suited to the darker tone of Broken Seas. "I wrote a lot of the stuff in January 2004, and there's hardly any daylight in Scotland then," says Campbell. "Christmas is over, and all the fun times are over. So I was writing these quite dark songs."

Campbell has also cooked up a second album, the folk-leaning Over the Wheat and the Barley, targeted for stores in January. Recorded with former Soup Dragons guitarist Jim McCulloch, the LP also features a guest spot from former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha. "I was in Virginia last summer for about three weeks, and I bought the Harry Smith anthology, and this record was really influenced by that," says Campbell. "It's like half-and-half: some new songs, and some traditional songs. I've loved folk music for decades, and I just wanted to do something stripped-back and see how it would sound."



COLIN DEVENISH

http://www.rollingstone.com




/jarmo

I got The Screaming Tree's best of the other week, they strike me as pretty good, Lanegan has a good voice too, I have been thinking about getting 'Bubblegum' - how does it stand up to his Screaming Trees stuff? Is it better/worse and is it in a similar style or something new?

Better.


Well, I think so.

I'd say it's less... Screaming Trees and more Mark Lanegan, but that makes no sense.

What?s his story with Queens? I mean, he?s in then he?s out, his participation in the new album is very short.

True. I hope he'll "focus" on his solo career instead.....


The Screaming Trees collection is nice. If you like it, also check out "Sweet Oblivion" and "Dust" which are my favorite Trees albums.


/jarmo

I agree with you as well i hope he concentrates on his solo work, i am not that big of a Queens fan, they have some decent tracks but it reminds me of Kyuss , too much stoner rock.

The Screeming Trees were cool , i like Sweet Oblivion alot as well.

I read Kurt Cobain's journal again the other night and  he mentioned Mark alot, i would love to hear some of the stuff they recorded together, it has to be great.

Well it seems he's returning to Qotsa in September  : ok:

Been listening to Bubblegum a few times now, have to say it's a great album. The music's really atmospheric, I like the pictures it paints. There's some good variety there too.

Still doesn't beat Tom Waits though ;)

...Not that it should.

Another one "converted".  :hihi:

I've lost count on the number of people I've told to listen to/buy that album......




/jarmo

I've had this album since sept last year and I've just finished listening to the album for the first time. I left it in Madrid and never got back until last weekend...anyway...

First listen, I'm not too amazed. Maybe it's the kind of album that grows on you after a few listens, but I do have a tendency to judge albums on first listenings and I must say, I was expecting something better after all the hype.  Seems like Lanegan left the best song for last "Out of Nowhere".

I'll give it a few more listens and see...

Listen to the following since you liked "Out Of Nowhere":

"When Your Number Isn't Up", "One Hundred Days", "Strange Religion".

Then the faster songs: "Hit The City", "Sideways In Reverse", "Driving Death Valley Blues"

After that explore the rest including all the "weirder" songs....  ;D




/jarmo

Gave it another listen again a while ago...

I like One hundred days and also a song he does with PJ Harvey (not Hit the City...) I just can't remember the title.

Strange Religion is ok, but I can't barely hear a voice other than Lanegan's (or maybe is not Lanegan). You can hear a back up vocal, but I wouldn't know those singing are Duff & Izzy. I think it's Duff on the line" Almost call it day..." (1'28").

Speaking of that collaboration, how come this guy managed to guest Izzy on a song?

I still say the best song of the record is Out of Nowehere by a mile.

I reallyl ike this album it got me into all of his stuff. Whiskey' is also a great album. I think his work sounds better in the later parts of fall as dumb as that sounds, It just fits the mood.

As for Duff and Izzy's parts in Strange Religion, it is preety easy to tell when Duff is singing background's and Izzy as well. Duff sings the high harmonies and Izzy sings the lower parts , he sounds like Tom Petty to me on that song.

It pains me to say this and i will never live it down in the eyes of the humble dictator...

...

But...

I heard "Hit The City" on Scuzz (English TV channel) about a week ago and i was like, who the fuck has this great fucking voice? And it was none other than Mr Mark Lanegan and friends.
Well fuck me, i was blown away by just how good this guy is.. Ive downloaded Bubblegum from Itunes and its a beautiful piece of musicianship!

Jarmo you bastard! Stop recommending!

 :)

You know, I saw your name listed as the last poster in the Lanegan thread and was wondering if you had gotten this thread confused with the "Songs you like to listen to while getting beaten up by a drunk Irishman" thread.... ;)

But you're right, "Bubblegum" still sounds fresh and just great even after a year of being released.


I can't believe it's almost a year since we saw him live in London. That was a great show.  8)



/jarmo

Great idea for a thread.
However, the only time Chris touched me was when i was asleep or unconcious and it was neither violent nor satisfying so he failed to fulfill me on both counts.

Back on topic.

Loving this album, why do you always turn me on to music I wouldnt normally touch with a 10 foot barge pole?

Mind you with that being said, im always looking for something different or unique and Mark definately has that with his awesome voice...i cant help feeling he would be a lot better doing some fast rock and roll tracks not taking away from "Hit the City" in anyway cus its a fantastic tune!  : ok:

Maybe after you've listened to his solo work, you could check out Screaming Trees....  : ok:





/jarmo

Yes, this is Lanegan related:

Isobel Campbell to Deliver Two Albums Next Year

Zach Vowell reports:
As Belle & Sebastian soldier on without her, chanteuse Isobel Campbell recently signed V2, who will release not one but two albums by the dewy-voiced indie-pop goddess next year. The product of a long-distance collaboration with Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age howler Mark Lanegan, Ballad of the Broken Seas will appear sometime early in 2006, but a single, the duo's cover of Hank Williams' "Ramblin' Man", will come out as soon as November in the UK. The single will feature two B-sides, "Further into the Night" and "Revolver (Part 2)", the latter being an alternate version of a Lanegan-penned number that appears on the proper album. You can find it in here somewhere:

01 Deus Ibi Est
02 Black Mountain
03 The False Husband
04 Ballad of the Broken Seas
05 Revolver
06 Ramblin' Man
07 (Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me
08 Saturday's Gone
09 It's Hard to Kill a Bad Thing
10 Honey Child What Can I Do?
11 Dusty Wreath
12 The Circus Is Leaving Town


http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-09/28.shtml#isobelcampbell



/jarmo

Well, I for one can't wait.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan "Ramblin Man" single is out now in the UK!

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BZN11O.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)


The album, "Ballad Of The Broken Seas" is coming next week:

(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000CNEQ64.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)


1. Deus Ibi Est
2. Black Mountain
3. The False Husband
4. Ballad Of The Broken Seas
5. Revolver
6. Ramblin' Man
7. (Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me?
8. Saturday's Gone
9. It's Hard To Kill A Bad Thing
10. Honey Child What Can I Do?
11. Dusty Wreath
12. The Circus Is Leaving Town



/jarmo
   

I bought a new receiver and speakers a while ago, and Bubblegum is one of those albums with such a rich aural landscape, that it sounds like a whole new record when listened to with quality equipment.

Bought the album today.. it's really incredibly enjoyable.


Not much like Bubblegum though, for all you people hoping for Bubblegum II.

Following the successful two week American tour as a member of The Twilight Singers, Mark Lanegan will again join the band for their month long European tour beginning August 3 in Portugal and concluding August 31 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Aug 3 2006 8:00P  Sudoeste Festival Zambujeira do Mar
Aug 5 2006 8:00P  Haldern Festival Haldern
Aug 6 2006 8:00P  Knust Hamburg
Aug 7 2006 8:00P  Vega Copenhagen
Aug 9 2006 8:00P  Debaser Stockholm
Aug 10 2006 8:00P G?teborgskalaset/EM-festen G?teborg
Aug 11 2006 8:00P Oya Festival Oslo
Aug 12 2006 8:00P Tavastia Helsinki
Aug 14 2006 8:00P Postbahnhof Berlin
Aug 15 2006 8:00P Flex Vienna
Aug 16 2006 8:00P Open Air Ziegeloh Lac @ Rote Fabrik Zurich
Aug 18 2006 8:00P Pukkelpop Festival Hasselt
Aug 20 2006 5:00P Lowlands Festival Biddinghuizen
Aug 21 2006 9:00P Academy 2 Bristol
Aug 22 2006 9:00P Dingwall's/Lock 17 London
Aug 23 2006 8:00P Academy 2 Liverpool
Aug 24 2006 9:00P Boardwalk Sheffield
Aug 25 2006 8:00P Reading Festival Reading
Aug 26 2006 8:00P Leeds Festival Leeds
Aug 27 2006 8:00P T on the Fringe/Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh
Aug 30 2006 8:00P Barby Club Tel Aviv





/jarmo

Twilight Singers featuring Mark Lanegan live in Gothenburg, Sweden August 10th, 2006:

Live With Me (Massive Attack cover) / Where Did You Sleep Last Night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAvRrdXPh9s

Sideways In Reverse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6f9UIrTyGg


Somebody had the good taste of recording this! :D



/jarmo

Really need to get into this guy

Jarmo- is Bubblegum the best place to start?

-Greg

Yeah, Bubblegum has everything on it.




/jarmo

Personally i'd say Whiskey for the Holy Ghost is better

Has anyone heard or got the unreleased Screaming Trees album with Ash Grey Sunday???? REALLY want that

lanegan is the man.i still love the stuff he did on above,mad season.his and laynes voices together.doesnt get much better than that.

Check out the Twilight Singers' "A Stitch In Time" EP on iTunes. Especially their cover of Massive Attack's "Live With Me" with Mark on vocals.

You'll enjoy that one... A lot!



Mark and Greg Dulli's project The Gutter Twins are also planning on releasing an album in 2007.






/jarmo

I gotta be in the mood to listen to lanegan but when I am in the mood, his music is incredible. It vibrates through me.  I sit back and let my imagination take me away seeing some movie running through my mind about some wandering traveler going from town to town in some beat up old classic car chain smokin cigarettes stoppin at diners along the way meeting all different types of people.  Like meeting people and hearing depressing shit about their lives.

Bad news boys


Tattoos, drugs, beatings, stalkers, prison, betrayal and years of making great music - could Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan be any more rock'n'roll? They talk to Paul Lester

Friday December 8, 2006
The Guardian

http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1966667,00.html




/jarmo

Check out http://www.myspace.com/soulsavers   :P

The Soulsavers are to return with the new album "It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land" This time round, Soulsavers have joined up with Mark Lanegan who provides vocals on 8 of the albums 11 tracks. The album also features cameo appearances by Will Oldham, PW Long & Jimi Goodwin(Doves). It's an eclectic recording, a unique mix of hip-hop, rock, country, soul & gospel. The album was recorded throughout 2005 & 2006, between the bands home base in the North of England, and Los Angeles. The record is due for release in March '07 on V2 Records.


Great!  ;D



/jarmo

Here's the video for the Soulsavers' "Revival"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1rL7DI_D4


Best video of the year so far....





/jarmo

thanks for posting the link Jarmo. saves me from having to look for it.

great video :beer:

A couple of Unreleased Lanegan tracks
From the Here Comes That Wierd Chill outtakes
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5UFVBJTI  - Josephine

And a song that was only played live and has no name, but is very cool
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F1Q0OBFA - Unknown Song

p.s Jarmo your the Lanegan aficionado around here, what you think of The Soulsavers album?

Possibly my favorite album of 2007 so far.....



/jarmo

I still got to pick up this album.

Been listen to Bubblegum a lot today. that album gets better with time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcXz7b2Bk0


Soulsavers feat. Mark Lanegan "Kingdoms Of Rain".




/jarmo

Greg Dulli is my hero.  Aside from GnR, Dulli's projects - The Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins, etc. - are what consume most of my listening time.  I'm so looking forward to the Gutter Twins album...

It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land by Soulsavers, with Mark doing vocals on most tracks is out now in the US.

 : ok:




/jarmo

Mark Lanegan with the soulsaver Na Tour dates.

11/27/2007 10:00 PM - Grammercy Theatre (Mark Lanegan w/ Soulsavers)     
, New York, - $19

11/28/2007 10:00 PM - Northstar Bar (Mark Lanegan w/ Soulsavers)    
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - $15

11/29/2007 08:00 PM - Black Cat (Mark Lanegan w/ Soulsavers)    
, Washington DC, Washington DC - $15

12/01/2007 08:00 PM - The Independent (Mark Lanegan w/ Soulsavers)    
, San Francisco, California - $18

12/02/2007 10:30 PM - Troubadour (Mark Lanegan w/ Soulsavers)    
, Los Angeles, California - $17.50

I will be checking out atlest the first two dates.

Gotta agree with you on that . Hell bubblegum has hardly left my disk changer since it came out. The Winding Sheet is also becoming a favorite. Great stuff...

Here is an album that I can't wait for in 2008...

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003678691

Hell yes!!!


easily an early contender for the best album of 08.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ERUtd1Fb8



/jarmo

http://www.myspace.com/soulsavers (http://www.myspace.com/soulsavers)


Two new Soulsavers tracks.
One is a cover of Mark's song "Sunrise" and the other one is with Mark singing







/jarmo

I've only heard a little Lanegan stuff. I heard a few songs off of Oblivion by the Screaming Trees, some of his QOTSA work, and a few songs from the Gutter Twins. He's pretty good, and I don't know why I haven't gotten around to buying a full album with him on it.

I just heard a bunch of new songs on myspace.. i may have to get this album!!

Got the album last week in London, but didn't have time to listen to it until this weekend.

It's quite amazing.




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Will be getting my first live glimpse of Lanegan at Reading this weekend. Sexy, sexy stuff.

I just got the album and listened once, it is pretty sweet.. i like the two singer thing.

looking forward to the show!!

Enjoy the show! :D




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I just got the Screaming Trees album Dust and am loving it!!!


i was thinking, what if Layne Staley had done a full album with Lanegan? it would have been so Epic!!!!!!

I can not believe how good Broken is. It is strangely euphoric.

Yeah, it's awesome.

 8)

Also get Sweet Oblivion if you didn't already.



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is that on the Dust album?

Man, that show on Thursday was the worst of my life!

To quote a Republican, "you lie!".

 :P





Broken is the new Soulsavers album.



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Bravo Jarmo!  You have no insecurities in the new Man in Black!

Yes, I lied.  That was such a great show, my first one at the Troubadour.  I've been in nicer barns, but I digress...

He only played for 50 minutes or so, but he packed a lot of songs in there.  He has an amazing band behind him.

oh right.. i temporarily forgot the album name.  it's a pretty sweet album, i am enjoying it.

the show was pretty awesome too!
here are the rest of the dates, check them out!

http://www.pollstar.com/resultsArtist.aspx?ID=142714&SortBy=Date

He just came out with a new album and is touring.  looking forward to hearing it, i've heard great things about it!

http://marklanegan.com/tourdates

I was not happy first time through, as I'm really not a fan of the whole drum machine sound.
After a few spins it's grown on me, though. Lyrics are good, and his voice just seems to get better as time goes on.
It's no Scraps at Midnight, but looking forward to hopefully catching it live. There's some live versions available here.

http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb120209mark_lanegan

Mark Lanegan Band U.S. Date on sale today.

Just scooped up my Boston tickets.


Thu-May-10-12 ? New York, NY ? Webster Hall
Fri-May-11-12 ? Washington D.C. ? 9:30 Club
Sat-May-12-12 ? Philadelphia, PA ? Theatre of the Living Arts
Sun-May-13-12 ? Boston, MA ? Paradise Rock Club
Tue-May-15-12 ? Toronto, ON ? Mod Club
Wed-May-16-12 ? Detroit, MI ? Small?s
Thu-May-17-12 ? Chicago, IL ? Metro
Sun-May-20-12 ? Denver, CO ? Bluebird Theater
Tue-May-22-12 ? Los Angeles, CA ? Gene Autry Museum- Heritage Courtyard
Wed-May-23-12 ? San Francisco, CA ? Great American Music Hall
Fri-May-25-12 ? George, WA ? Sasquatch!
Sat-May-26-12 ? Portland, OR ? Wonder Balroom

So far, I love the album. It is awesome as I expected!

Yeah it's pretty damn good.
Can't say I'm in love with it, but it's the only record I've found myself listening to since it came out.
It's a grower.

Deep Black Vanishing Train almost sounds like it could fit in on Scraps at Midnight.

Quiver Syndrome, St Louis Elegy and Riot In My House are the highlights so far for me.

Disco beats make me nauseous, but I can listen to Ode To Sad Disco.
Now Mark Lanegan joins Axl Rose (Oh My God) as the only two people that have made it tolerable for me.

Looking forward to the Boston show!

Yes, Blues Funeral is really, really good. Best Mark Lanegan album so far IMO   :yes:

His voice IS something special. And yes Long Gone Day the Disco beat works : ok:

Caught the great Mark Lanegan in Boston last night.
Great show as always. One of the few singers from his era to escape the nineties with his voice in tact. Maybe better than ever.

The Gravedigger's Song
Sleep With Me
Hit the City
Wedding Dress
One Way Street
Resurrection Song
Gray Goes Black
Crawlspace
Quiver Syndrome
One Hundred Days
Creeping Coastline of Lights
Black Rose Way
Riot in My House
Ode to Sad Disco
St. Louis Elegy
Tiny Grain of Truth

Encore:
Pendulum
Harborview Hospital
Methamphetamine Blues

Stumbled upon this whacky and great music just in time for the holidays!
Guess he's only selling it on current tour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhgfLvqp-xI

New US Tour Dates:

Oct 04   Troubadour   Los Angeles, CA
Oct 07   Wonder Ballroom   Portland, OR
Oct 08   Neptune   Seattle, WA
Oct 10   Old Town School of Folk Music   Chicago, IL
Oct 11   Royale Boston   Boston, MA
Oct 12   Underground Arts   Philadelphia, PA
Oct 14   Sixth & I Historic Synagogue   Washington, DC
Oct 15   Gramercy Theatre   New York, NY

Should be a sick show with Sean Wheeler and Zander Schloss opening.
Going to check out the LA and Boston dates myself.

He just released an anthology called Has God Seen My Shadow a few weeks ago.

Anybody who's curious about his solo work should check it out, and fans of his work get a bonus with all those previously unreleased tracks.  : ok:




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Just picked it up on wax.
Very cool.

New Lanegan from his upcoming album:

I Am The Wolf (Live on KEXP)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjeUpiTZel0
Reaching for the Moon (Live on KEXP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf8B2FBWmc




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Check out the new album Houston (Publishing Demos 2002).



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