Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Saturnalia by The Gutter Twins will be released March 4, 2008 on Sub Pop.



From their Myspace:

Idle Hands

We have posted the first public airing from the Saturnalia LP on the player.
Idle Hands is the first of twelve songs to be released by the Gutter Twins.

Enjoy.

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



/jarmo

"Idle Hands" is also available as a free MP3 download right now on the myspace page.  Really looking forward to this album...

Amazing song.

 :D



/jarmo

I really like them!  I'm always looking for new bands...esp. since my band is on hiatus! thanks for posting!

Thanks Jarmo.

I thought both songs were fantastic, especially Stations.  You've mentioned Mark Lanegan quite a few times in this board, so maybe it's time to give him some of my money  ;)

He just keeps putting out amazing music.

The Soulsavers (http://www.myspace.com/soulsavers) album last year was amazing... Nobody seemed to care.


Now with Greg Dulli, who he's worked with in The Twilight Singer ("Powder Burns" is one of the best albums of 2006), I sure have some high expectations for "Saturnalia"...




/jarmo

^ I remember when you posted about the Soulsavers, there was a video shot in black & white for it, right?

I was paying more attention to the lyrics for Stations just now.  Is Lanegan the lyricist?  It seems he is a spiritual man, he has songs about rapture and revival.  I wouldn't label it as Christian rock which is its own genre, but his lyrics are interesting.

This is pretty sweet! thanks jarmo.. i definitely am curious to hear this one!!

Not sure what songs he wrote the lyrics for.


This is their bio from their official site:

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde

"Heaven, it's quite a climb..."
- The Gutter Twins, "Seven Stories Underground"

"It started pretty innocently," Mark Lanegan claims of the genesis behind Saturnalia, the much-anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged by him and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Innocent, however, seems an odd word to lash to anything involving this near-mythic duo, comprised of what Pitchforkmedia.com proclaims are "two of alt-rock's greatest front-men." And its darkest. Saturnalia, however, finds the axis Dulli nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, Saturnalia both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals' individual notoriety. Featuring a caravan of all-star guests giving dimension to its rawly confessional, ambitious themes, The Gutter Twins' debut ascends to a new, surprising place in both artists' canon. "As much as I find it spiritual, it's very much of the flesh," Dulli says of Saturnalia. "The flesh suffers and exults, and it transgresses and transcends."

Transgression, transcendence, sin (in original form and otherwise): Saturnalia personifies all that, and more. The clue to The Gutter Twins' distinctively ominous, searching mood lies in the band's visceral moniker. "It seemed appropriate, especially considering the shape we were in when we started," Lanegan recalls of the confrontational name. "The early songs reflected the place we were at the beginning, but the vibe ended up at a very different place." The pull towards the darkness isn't surprising considering the duo's individual personas. Lanegan rose to fame as singer for the Screaming Trees, one of the most beloved outfits to come out of the 20th century explosion of loud, strange bands from the Pacific Northwest that begat the likes of Nirvana and Mudhoney, amongst others. Greg Dulli intersected with Lanegan first as the magnetic leader of the Afghan Whigs, another shining (black) light from the '90s rock renaissance. Not only were the Whigs the first non-Northwestern band to sign to Sub Pop Records, they also proved to be one of the most revered bands of the era (SPIN placed the Whigs' breakthrough album Gentlemen at number 99 in its list of the top 100 albums in recent memory). In many ways, the heavy psychedelic roar of the Trees and the messianic, psychosexual soul-rock of the Whigs proved different yet oddly parallel: both groups epitomized the times, yet went beyond them in their idiosyncrasy, as did their distinctive front-men in later efforts.

Both the Whigs and Screaming Trees had split by the end of the '90s, yet on their own Lanegan and Dulli went on to achieve significant notice. Lanegan continued to put out successful solo albums, as well as create vivid partnerships with the likes of Belle & Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell (on the Mercury Prize-nominated 2005 album Ballad of the Broken Seas) and Queens of the Stone Age (whose leader Josh Homme had been Lanegan's bandmate in the late-period Screaming Trees). Dulli, meanwhile, innovatively fused indie, soul and electronic sounds fronting his first post-Whigs effort, The Twilight Singers, who released their first album, Twilight as Played by The Twilight Singers, in 2000; the most recent Twilight effort, 2006's Powder Burns, proved a crowning achievement, landing on many year-end best lists. Along the way, the pair had become collaborators while gaining infamy as saviors of misbehavior. Both onstage and in song, Dulli and Lanegan's personas began to epitomize a bird's eye view into decadence, excess, betrayal and mortality. In rock's film noir division, Lanegan and Dulli were always the names on the marquee- and the first ones to have the epitaphs prepared. "We had to become The Gutter Twins, because that's how we were perceived," Dulli says with a laugh.

Saturnalia doesn't revel in Dulli and Lanegan's tendency towards the macabre so much as reflect on it, however. "I hate to say this but, for lack of of a better term, there's a more spiritual nature than usual," Lanegan says. "Then again, Greg was an altar boy." From the hauntingly intense folk-blues of opener "The Stations" to songs like "God's Children" and "Who Will Lead Us?," cosmic concerns of mortality, penance and salvation loom over the proceedings like sacraments. "Whenever one starts writing a record, thematic signposts reveal themselves, pointing you down certain roads," Dulli explains. "There's usually an overarching theme in anything I've done, whether palpable or abstract. I couldn't tell you what Saturnalia's theme is, because it's open to interpretation, but there's a seeking of transcendence that's new. I have never written songs like this before. Lyrically, there's no obvious protagonist or antagonist; spirituality is there, however, both musically and lyrically. It's a foreign land- a different temple I'm visiting." That feeling extends to the album's title, which comes from a week-long ancient Roman festival which climaxes its revelry by having the slaves trade places with their masters. "The conclusion of slaves becoming masters and masters becoming slaves carried a lot of weight to us," Dulli notes. Indeed, The Gutter Twins' debut effort proves that Lanegan and Dulli, in these reunion-obsessed times, aren't slaves to nostalgia. Saturnalia pointedly doesn't rest on the sonic laurels of Lanegan and Dulli's previous successes. Instead, Saturnalia proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve.

Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band's unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger, Saturnalia's eerie modal swirls trap the listener in each song's atmosphere, never letting go. The circular drones evoke everything from Indian sitars to Appalachian folk and Delta grit, creating inadvertently narcotic hooks in the process. Spartan electronica indelibly collides with spooky space blues on "Who Will Lead Us?"; "Idle Hands" fuses Middle Eastern exoticism with shocking guitar riffs that shoot AC/DC boogie into another fucking galaxy. "I Was in Love with You" evocatively hybrids smoky, old-school soul with shimmering modern soundscapes and Petra Haden's gossamer violin. On "All Misery," meanwhile, Lanegan's relentless vocal pulses with a new tribal syncopation, splitting the difference between Kurt Weill's whiskey bars, Eminem's flow, and associative Dylanesque wordplay. Saturnalia ultimately becomes an unsafe emotional dystopia, a place where "Circle The Fringes"' brutal staccato guitar stabs co-exist paradoxically alongside ruminative psychedelic hymns like "The Body." The cumulative effect ultimately proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon. Still, what Dulli and Lanegan achieve here ultimately feels like the determinedly individual product of two auteurs coming together. When Lanegan's ghostly baritone fuses into Dulli's world-weary rasp, the spine-tingling fusion proves unforgettably uncanny. "The album definitely has its own universe," Lanegan says. "I don't know what I would really compare it to- it's totally different musically, but there's always something about it that reminds me of There's a Riot Goin' On." "It's very intuitive and trancelike, changing when it wants to," Dulli adds. "I tried to shake off any kind of Western song structure. We were comfortable riding the groove and letting it take us where it needed to go; sometimes just one single riff will crest and fall, the only change occurring in the vocal melody. More than ever, my impetus to write songs was to satisfy my id's need to hear something we'd never heard before." Largely co-written, from its inception Saturnalia was jointly intended as a leap into the unknown. "When we actually decided to make a record, we agreed that it should be different from anything we've done before," Lanegan explains. "If something sounded like anything we'd ever done, it was rejected," Dulli continues. "Mark was a sentinel for me if I tried to return to my comfort zone- and he was likewise denied by me. That forced us into making a new sound."

For both Dulli and Lanegan, collaboration remains a crucial aspect of what they do. In addition to Queens and Isobel Campbell, Lanegan's history of alliances defies genre categories- he's worked with everyone from PJ Harvey and Kurt Cobain to electronic producers Soulsavers to Guns 'N Roses' Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin. "Collaborating for me is what keeps me interested in music," says Lanegan. "Left to my own devices I might just do the same thing over and over again." Dulli as well has an large string of collaborations to his credit, from producing and co-writing a smash album for Italian superstar rock group Afterhours to working with the likes of British dance-music producers Lo-Fidelity All-Stars. In 2007 alone, Dulli performed onstage with Lucinda Williams and contributed the title track to Intramural's debut album, This Is a Landslide, the acclaimed indie-electronic project spearheaded by Denver Dalley (Desperacidos/Statistics). Dulli also conceived The Twilight Singers as a shifting collective able to encompass disparate musical souls ranging from U.K. downtempo mavens Fila Brazilia to former Prince prot?g?e Apollonia. As such, Lanegan and Dulli's shared collaborative nature extends to their Gutter Twins partnership, as Saturnalia's guest contributions end up indelibly crucial, from loyal bandmates from their respective bands (Twilight's guitar virtuoso Dave Rosser co-produced "Seven Stories Underground") as well as new friends. Here, The Gutter Twins are supported by longtime associates like Troy Van Leeuwen (QOTSA, A Perfect Circle, Failure), madcap troubadour Joseph Arthur, and "Desert Sessions" regular Dave Catching alongside fresh faces like iconoclastic New Orleans music legend Quintron and Fountains of Wayne drummer Brian Young. As well, master duo Alain Johannes and Natasha Schneider (Eleven, QOTSA) make a memorable appearance on "Each To Each." "Working with Alain and Natasha was especially exciting," Dulli says, as was a session with legendary desert stoner-rock icon Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson/QOTSA). "Having Mario Lalli come in and play was a real thrill for me, as I'm a big fan of his," Lanegan says. "When Mario was playing his part, we were staring through the window jumping up and down like little boys," Dulli adds. Martina Topley-Bird also had a transformative impact with her spectral vocal contribution to "The Body." "If you took Martina's phrasing out, it would be a different song," Dulli says. "She made it three dimensional."

It was Lanegan's increasing collaborations with The Twilight Singers, in fact, that paved the way for The Gutter Twins' unlikely beginnings. "In 2003, I got a call from an Italian journalist that I knew, asking me about The Gutter Twins," Dulli recalls. "I said, 'What's 'Gutter Twins'? He said 'a group with you and Mark Lanegan.' And I said, 'I did not know that- it sounds interesting!'" In fact, Mark himself had spread this rumor: "I called him and he said, 'Oh yeah, we're gonna make a record, and that's what it's going to be called.'" Lanegan and Dulli had re-connected in Los Angeles at the eve of the millennium, but didn't record together until late 2002, when Lanegan recorded a part for "Number Nine," the intense album closer on The Twilight Singers' 2003 album Blackberry Belle. After that, Dulli returned the favor, hitting the road with Lanegan's band as piano player and performing on two songs off his much-praised 2004 solo album Bubblegum. Lanegan as well became increasingly visible both as a touring and recording member of The Twilight Singers, peaking with his jaw-dropping performance on a cover of Massive Attack's "Live With Me" off the band's A Stitch in Time EP. The Gutter Twins would go on to make their live debut at a Rome concert on September 11, 2005; however, it was in the studio that these two fiercely individual, personal songwriters collaborated like never before. "For most of the record, we wrote the lyrics together, and that was pretty unique," Lanegan says. "I've only done it a few times, like with Josh [Homme]. There's a similarity between working with Greg and Josh: we laugh and fuck around a lot until we come up with something serious." "Half the album was written by him or me, the other half by both of us," Dulli says. "My songwriting changed largely because of Mark's presence. He's more minimalist and I'm more maximalist, and both tendencies are present throughout the record. Where I begin and Mark ends doesn't really matter."

The Gutter Twins' mutual chemistry was cemented by the evolution of "Front Street," Saturnalia's trenchant closing epic that's one of Dulli's most intimately raw, confessional performances. The pair came together on that song following a Twilight Singers appearance on the legendary radio show "Morning Becomes Eclectic":http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb on L.A. radio station KCRW, repairing afterwards to Dulli's house for an impromptu recording session. "I began to write in front of him almost as an audience member," Dulli recalls. "I'd never written a song that complete, or that personal, in front of someone ever before. In that feral state, we finished it in less than an hour. At the end, he sat there and said, 'The song is great as is, but I've come up with two more verses.' He showed me the words he'd written, and they were phenomenal; then he taught me how to sing it. Mark's a very giving performer: he's there for the song, not for him." Finding such kinship in a collaborator provided the bedrock that made Saturnalia's compelling catharsis possible for both parties. "Everybody has their own demons- their own willful purging," Dulli explains. "But when two people form a common thread, it merges two disparate personalities into one. That we were able to do so collectively made it unique to both of us: as such, this album truthfully captures where we started, and where we've ended up."

"If you could hear me, love/I'd tell you my story/So that you might save me."
- The Gutter Twins, "All Misery/Flowers"

http://www.theguttertwins.com/





/jarmo

cool, sounds like a match made in heaven.

I sampled a few tracks of Powder Burns from pandora.com.  From first impressions, I liked 'I wish I was'.

Don't stop there.  Check out Dulli's former band, The Afghan Whigs.  "Gentlemen" was arguably their defining album, but I'd take "Black Love" or "1965" over most all music that continues to be put out to this day.  His voice may be a bit of an acquired taste, but as a lyricist and songwriter, he's definitely in a league of his own.  Very anxious for The Gutter Twins LP.

I listened to a bit of 'Gentlemen' - from first impressions, it was decent, but nothing hit me in particular.  Then I listened to samples from the covers album 'She Loves You'. 
Dulli covering Marvin Gaye's 'Please Stay' is amazing.  I think I'm gonna get that album...

Thanks for introducing me to Greg Dulli  :beer:

Dulli wrote this 'It's in our heart/It's our head/It's in our love/Baby, it's in our bed' thing, didn't he ? I remember I read this text somewhere and somehow  it got stuck in my head.

The Bjork cover from "She Loves You" - Hyperballad - is amazing as well.  Give it a listen.  Also, 'Gentlemen' never quite struck me as the musical tour de force many critics hailed it as, but lyrically, the brutal honestly Dulli uses to shed a little light on the dark corners of his mind is pretty damn impressive.

If you're going to continue some sampling, I highly recommend "1965."   It's the last Whigs album before they broke up, although they did release a "best of" compilation in June of last year with two new tracks...

He did.  It's from 'Debonair,' one of the tracks on "Gentlemen."

Thanx. Actually,  I never heard the song. Those words were used in some random article I read years ago. If my memory's correct it was about female rock bands. Whatever, those words surely appealed to my  then 16 years old mind.

Gutter Twins tour dates have been posted, and can be seen here, among other sites:

http://www.summerskiss.com/

thank you!!

Do ya wanna add this to our tour itinerary?

sure!

btw when i first saw the name gutter twins i thought it was britney spears and paris hilton!

 :hihi:

Good thing I added their names to the subject then. ;)




/jarmo

European tour in April:

4/5/08 Dublin, IE Ambassador Theater
4/6/08 Belfast, GB Limelight
4/7/08 Glasgow, GB Oran Mor
4/8/08 Manchester, GB Academy
4/9/08 Birmingham, GB Glee
4/11/08 Brussels, BE Ancienne Belgique
4/12/08 Rotterdam, NE Motel Mozaique
4/14/08 Copenhagen, DK Vega
4/15/08 Stockholm, SE Debaser Medis
4/16/08 Oslo NO, Rockefeller
4/18/08 Hamburg, DE Logo
4/19/08 Berlin, DE Postbahnhof
4/20/08 Vienna, AU Szene Wien
4/21/08 Zurich, CH Mascotte
4/23/08 Rome, IT Alpheus
4/24/08 Milan, IT Musicdrome
4/26/08 Barcelona, ES Razzmatazz 1
4/27/08 Madrid, ES Sala Heineken
4/28/08 Bilbao, ES Kafe Antzokia



/jarmo

The Gutter Twins featuring Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli have posted
a new song from their debut record, Saturnalia.

Circle the Fringes is at:

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




/jarmo

The live band is:

Mark Lanegan- Vocals
Greg Dulli- Vocals/Guitar/Keys
Dave Rosser- Guitar/Vocals
Scott Ford- Bass/Vocals
Jeff Klein- Guitar/Keys/Vocals
Cully Symington- Drums



/jarmo

Saturnalia is available for streaming in full here:

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/39261992

Enjoy!

Interview From The Onion:

In recent years, Greg Dulli?once the frontman of the now-defunct Afghan Whigs?has been concentrating on his moody, R&B-nuanced project The Twilight Singers. Meanwhile, Mark Lanegan, once the brooding leader of Screaming Trees, has concentrated on his solo career, releasing his sixth album, Bubblegum, in 2004. He's also kept busy as a sought-after bristling baritone, contributing vocals to Queens Of The Stone Age and Soulsavers, and collaborating with former Belle & Sebastian vocalist Isobel Campbell.

More recently, Dulli and Lanegan have embarked on a musical collaboration as The Gutter Twins, and they've returned to Sub Pop, after years away from the label that nurtured them both early on. They aren't twins, but they have an impenetrable bond, based mostly on sarcasm and in-jokes. From the first bars of "Idle Hands," their new album Saturnalia sounds like they've been at it for years; it's hard to believe this is their first album together. Around Valentine's Day, The A.V. Club sat down with the two notoriously prickly bachelors for some thoughts on the holiday, but their thoughts ran more toward hate than love. And by the time the conversation veered toward Rance Mulliniks (an '80s utility infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays), we'd learned the hard way that outsiders will never understand the bond between twins, fake or otherwise.

The A.V. Club: Rumor has it that this band started off as a joke.

Greg Dulli: Not as a joke. I think Mark told a journalist we were doing it, and then the journalist called me, and I didn't know we were doing it.

AVC: "Idle Hands" is the first single. Do you personally tend to get into trouble if you have a few hours with nothing planned?

GD: I think in our younger days, we probably defined trouble. Now, if we were to have two or three hours, Mark would probably be watching basketball, and I would probably be TiVo-ing History Channel shows.

AVC: Once, in a discussion with the Gallagher brothers?

GD: The magicians?

Mark Lanegan: [Laughs.] Oh, God.

AVC: The band, Oasis. Noel Gallagher was saying that the band decided who would sing each song, that he'd know immediately whether Liam was "getting it" or not, and that would decide who got to sing it. How do you make that decision when writing these songs?

GD: I was personally relieved when Mark decided to sing "Don't Look Back In Anger."

ML: [Laughs.]

GD: That song's kinda out of my range.

AVC: Do either of you like or celebrate Valentine's Day?

GD: I don't really give it much thought. The only time Valentine's Day has any bearing on my life is when I'm dating someone, or if I'm in a relationship. I would call Valentine's Day the path of least resistance. If I buy you gifts, take you out to dinner, then you won't bust my balls. That is Valentine's Day in a nutshell.

ML: Ditto. What he said.

AVC: Have you had any particularly memorable Valentine's Days? A gift given or received that you remember fondly or with horror?

GD: The only one I can really remember is when The Afghan Whigs played on Valentine's Day at the Kennel Club in San Francisco in 1991. The Dwarves played too, and I'm pretty sure that Blag [Dahlia] peed on the front row of the audience. That's the only Valentine's Day that sticks out in my mind.

ML: I'm sure there's a Valentine's Day I spent with Blag as well.

AVC: The first show of the Gutter Twins tour is in New York City on Valentine's Day. So potentially, your show could be someone's idea of a date.

GD and ML: [Both laugh.]

AVC: With that in mind, is there anything you plan on offering up that evening?

GD: A baby goat. But to be fair, that's what we offer up before every show.

ML: [Laughs.]

AVC: Who do you think is being dragged to that show: the guy or the girl?

ML: I'd like to think it's the guy.

GD: I'd like to think it's the guy too. I'm hoping the guy gets dragged. Although it's not like we're Slipknot.

AVC: Why do you think music and romance go together so well? It seems like no one can write songs without eventually writing about love.

GD: Well, I'm guessing music is a form of communication. If you're feeling kind of horny or sad or unrequited, then you put a melody or a beat behind it, you get your point across faster than some milquetoast letter that's sprayed with Old Spice.

AVC: What are some of your favorite love songs?

ML: "Sometimes When We Touch" comes to mind. "You Light Up My Life."

GD: "Kiss You All Over" by Exile. That's mine.

ML: "Summer Breeze" by Seals And Crofts. Or is it Seals and Marty Krofft?

GD: "Eat It" by "Weird Al" Yankovic. That kinda gets 'em going.

AVC: The song on the new Gutter Twins record called "I Was In Love With You" has to be about someone.

GD: I wrote that one. How can I put this delicately? I believe that song may be somewhat self-reflective.

ML: As in onanism?

GD: Yeah, it's sort of in an onanistic way.

ML: Sweet. I didn't know that. I knew there was a reason I didn't sing on it. [Laughs.]

GD: Perhaps you'll join me onstage?

AVC: In the history of your relationships, was there a big difference between when you were unknown as compared to now?

GD: Well, I was known as a performer when I was 11 years old. But at that time, I did notice a spike in interest from the fairer sex, the tender trap.

ML: Some say I would've never even gotten laid if I hadn't been a singer.

GD: Some would be right!

AVC: Is it difficult to recognize whether someone is genuinely interested in you personally, or just in you as a star?

GD: Well, that depends on whether you're talking about a potential object of affection or a creepy stalker.

AVC: You're probably both fairly intimidating to a lot of women.

ML: The problem is, we always double date. That can be quite intimidating.

GD: Except now I've resorted to writing love songs to myself and about myself. So I'm kind of gutted all out.

ML: You cut out the middleman?

GD: Exactly. There's been a spike in lotion sales.

AVC: Could either of you become kept men, or are you too accustomed to freedom?

GD: Being a kept man implies that I would be taken care of, my bills would be paid for?

ML: No shit.

GD: I'd get a new car, go on fabulous vacations, and maybe even be allowed to experiment with her friends. So I'm open to being a kept man. I quite think I could get into lockstep rather quickly.

AVC: The title of your new song "All Misery/Flowers" could easily describe someone's Valentine's Day.

GD: Ah, man. Enough said. Or it could be someone's epitaph.

AVC: Do the Gutter Twins love each other?

GD: Occasionally, but in a decidedly non-Brokeback way. May he rest in peace. Great actor, good guy. Actually, we did watch Brokeback Mountain together on the tour bus.

AVC: How'd that go?

ML: It brought up some feelings.

GD: I, however, was able to quit him.

ML: Oh God.

AVC: How long have you guys known each other?

GD: We met in an orphanage in 1968. That was a long time ago: Thirty-nine years, or something like that.

AVC: How do you both feel about returning to Sub Pop after all these years away from the label?

GD: It seemed like the perfect place to be for what we were doing. And it was met with passion and a negligible degree of indifference by Mark.

AVC: How long have you been writing this record?

GD: It began on Christmas Day 2003, and that's the God's honest truth. That's four years ago.

AVC: You both write music that you can take to?

GD: Stadiums?

ML: The bank?

GD: Swiss accounts. Diamonds. Furs.

AVC: Mark, you've become a kind of the musical version of a utility infielder?

ML: The Rance Mulliniks? The Ed Armbrister?

GD: Wow!

AVC: Do you miss being in a band with your longtime mates, like in Screaming Trees or Afghan Whigs?

GD: I will say this about that. No.

ML: If those were my mates, you're better off not having friends.

GD: The band that we're playing with now is the same band we've been playing with since 2006, although we've got a new drummer on account that he became a spokesman for Massengill.

AVC: What? Oh, you're saying he's a douche.

GD and ML: [Both laugh.]

GD: And please print that. Please.

AVC: Did you write Saturnalia together or separately?

GD: The first bunch of songs we wrote, we wrote in tandem. So that made them different from any songs, because we had never done that before. The other songs that we wrote individually were heavily influenced by the other person's contributions and watched over by the other person.

ML: And were written specifically for this.

AVC: What are your long-term plans for this band?

GD: Are you familiar with the locust? The insect? Every seven years, we'll pop out and cause a crazy noise and make the sky go black and cause people to run in fear.

ML: Eat everything in sight.

GD: We'll eat everything in sight and leave weird little shells where we once were.

Saw the Gutter Twins at Koko in London tonight.

Fucking brilliant!


As usual, Mark was just singing and holding onto the mic stand.

---

The Gutter Twins


**** Koko, London

Alexis Petridis
Saturday February 23, 2008
The Guardian

There is a distinct and understandable crackle of anticipation in the air. Former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli and erstwhile Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan began work on their album in 2003: four and half years later, Saturnalia is finally finished. Furthermore, both main protagonists are currently in fighting form. Dulli's eclectic Twilight Singers project has been critically acclaimed, while inveterate collaborator Lanegan is on a remarkable creative roll at the moment, although you would not guess from his onstage demeanour. Dulli's face and racked, gravelly voice suggest a life lived a little unwisely, but he looks and sounds like the epitome of wholesome radiance next to his musical partner. The kind of man who could exude brooding menace while making balloon animals and whistling The Sun Has Got His Hat On, Lanegan tonight manages to cut a hugely unsettling figure while doing virtually nothing, beyond standing very still, singing in his eerie, raddled baritone and the occasional spot of glowering.

An instinct for self-preservation might lead you to applaud Lanegan regardless of what comes out of the PA - you really would not want to annoy him - but the Gutter Twins' music needs no special pleading. It represents a perfect balancing act, the lyrical bleakness, grinding guitars and organ offset by a surprising melodic delicacy. You would perhaps hesitate before calling a song like the piano-led I Was in Love With You poppy - they are not going to be clamouring to cover it on the next series of The X Factor - but its tune is wonderful, not to mention catchy, a chink of light amid the gloom.

In fairness, the gloom is pretty thrilling as well, as evidenced by a startling, diseased cover of Massive Attack's Live With Me. With Terry Callier's lovelorn vocal replaced by Lanegan's subterranean growl, it takes on a disturbing new resonances. "Come and live with me," he growls. Or I'll stab you, seems to be the implication. Like the rest of the Gutter Twins' material, it is an offer that is hard to refuse.

/jarmo

SPIN mag >> March 2008

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From the new Alternative Press (#237):

Gutter Twins
Saturnalia (4.5/5)

Fire and the ocean floor collide.

For the record, this album had an unfair advantage before the first listen - both Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and Greg Dulli (the Afghan Whigs) have established a permanent imprint on alt-rock history.  Luckily, the lofty expectations are met in full with Saturnalia.  There are confusing combinations of influences at work, no doubt; but on tracks like "God's Children," the cosmos align and Dulli's and Lanegan's grizzled harmonies combine with stunning clarity.   Odes like "Idle Hands" resemble Round and Round-era Ratt upon first Spin, but somehow the genius of these two warriors bursts through with velvet-kissed melodies to save the day, making you want to both brood and binge in its wake.  "The Body" is vintage Dulli, perhaps even a Twilight Singers throwaway, and "The Stations" only could have been penned by Lanegan - some relative inconsistency at work, but ultimately, the end result is plain amazing.

Next week is gonna be like Christmas!

 ;D





/jarmo

Indeed it is.  Having previewed the album in full, I can't wait to actually have  a copy.  Several listens in, "God's Children" is still the stand-out track for me...

The whole album is now streaming at http://www.myspace.com/theguttertwins





/jarmo

We meet The Gutter Twins: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/article858871.ece (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/article858871.ece)

The Gutter Twins: Up From the Gutter: http://www.spin.com/articles/gutter-twins (http://www.spin.com/articles/gutter-twins)



/jarmo

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49045-saturnalia

While so many other 1990s alt-rock acts are rehashing their hits on nostalgia package tours, Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan have pushed ahead musically without having to rely heavily on past triumphs. Dulli continues his surprisingly tenacious Twilight Singers project, and Lanegan has released two fairly well-received solo albums, although he's better known for collaborating with Isobel Campbell and Queens of the Stone Age.

Dulli and Lanegan have spent most of the 2000s collaborating flirtatiously, touring and recording together-- check out Lanegan's vocals on the Twilight Singers' cover of "Flashback" by Fat Freddy's Drop, from their 2006 EP A Stitch in Time-- but Saturnalia is their long-in-the-works debut as the Gutter Twins, a partnership that Dulli describes as "the Satanic Everly Brothers." The "Satanic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" might be a little more apt: The album finds them bursting forth from their studio, guns blazing but no clean getaway in sight. Musically, Saturnalia, named after the Roman festival where slaves and masters switch roles, is a concentrated dose of their usual badassery, never straying too far from the territory Dulli explored on the last three Singers albums, and even includes many of the same collaborators: wayward troubadour Joseph Arthur, Mathias Schneeberger, Dave Rosser, Martina Topley-Bird, Queen of the Stone Age Troy Van Leeuwen, and New Orleans organist Quintron (who illuminates "Seven Stories Underground").

The project's sense of familiarity, however, is not a negative. "Each to Each" revisits the eerie electronica of the Twilight Singers' debut, a welcome compliment to Dulli's vocals courtesy of guitarist Jeff Klein and synth player Natasha Schneider. With its odd chorale intro and a string arrangement that shifts chords tectonically, "Idle Hands" builds to a chorus that could scale a skyscraper. Scavenging the gutter, though, Dulli and Lanegan come across some new flourishes. Discordant strings add tension to opener "The Stations", which marches along at a midtempo before Schneeberger's churchly organ raises it aloft. Before the Twins can build to the expected finale, the song simply fades out, redemption thwarted. "God's Children" settles into a Whigsy blaxpoitation mood before drummer Greg Wieczorek hammers out a soaring chorus. "Who Will Lead Us?" is part folk and part gospel, so subdued that the tension never releases but bubbles into "Seven Stories Underground".

With a billion cigarettes between them, the Twins are well matched vocally: Lanegan sings like he's rising from the dead, Dulli like he's falling from grace. Together, they can make a line like "We're gonna have some fun" sound utterly sinister, which lends these lecherously slow burners their peculiar gravity. Lanegan sings "All Misery / Flowers" like a Tom Waits song, his vocal delivery tripping against the song's rhythms as he conjures junkie afflictions: "Little girls might twitch at the way I itch, but the way I burn, it's a son of a bitch." Dulli closes the album with "Front Street", which begins, somewhat morbidly, with the chirping of birds. It's no joke, but a chiaroscuro contrast with the song's pitch subject. "People to use, lovers to break, handful of pills, no life to take," he sings, flirting with the masochist lover/confidence man he perfected 15 years ago on Gentlemen and seemed to abandon with the Twilight Singers.

It's no coincidence that Sub Pop is releasing Saturnalia: The label was home to both the Whigs and the Trees, as well as to Lanegan the solo artist. These songs plumb their persistent themes of sin and redemption, damnation and salvation, but in a way that sounds like they're taking stock of their own long and undeniably tough careers, in which disappointment, death, and drug addiction are public record. As such, the album possesses a gruesome attraction for fans of both musicians, who will hear it as a bloodletting, as well as for newcomers, who may hear it as a violent shoot-out-- Dulli and Lanegan against the world, their fates undecided. The Twins push each other to go darker and deeper, to bare more of their souls, so Saturnalia sounds heavier, bleaker, simultaneously more desperate and more content than anything either musician has done in years. As they both sing on "All Misery / Flowers, "I did all I did just to get through to heaven." Dulli and Lanegan haven't reached the Pearly Gates yet, but that's our good fortune.

Buy the album now and thank me later!

 ;)






/jarmo

For anyone who needs more convincing, a collection of press and reviews can be found here, as well as a direct link to iTunes:

http://www.summerskiss.com/

The album is good . But maybe a little disappointing . Course that can change with another spine or two.

Amazing album that gets better over time.

 8)


/jarmo

The Gutter Twins will perform on the Late Show With David Letterman on
Wednesday, March 19 at 11:30PM ET/PT.

 :D



/jarmo

Magic: http://stereogum.com/archives/video/the-gutter-twins-offer-letterman-their-idle-hands_008505.html

Same clip on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTsrzJUViGs



/jarmo

I'm planning on seeing them tomorrow at the Avalon, I don't know if I should risk taking a camera?

My new favorite song is the haunting Seven Stories Under, doesn't it make you feel hot and cold at the same time  :yes:

I've only seen Dulli live w/ The Afghan Whigs, and he's amazing onstage.  Can't say I've seen Lanegan, though.  Hopefully, that will change before too long.  Enjoy the show!

Don't know what the camera policy is at the venue, but I'm sure the show will be great.

Saw them in London in February and plan to catch them again somewhere later this month when they return to Europe.



/jarmo

I saw Cornell there last year.  My friend got her camera in there, all they ask you to do is to remove everything from your pockets.  Just keep your camera in your hands and away from their prying eyes.  Also, there are no metal detectors at the Avalon, so you have a better shot at getting your camera in.

Jarmo, there are no opening bands right?  If I can scrape together 40 dollars, I'm going tomorrow.

I think there is. Don't remember their name though.


Tickets are $24 + fees.




/jarmo

I found a pair on Craigslist for $40.  ;)

Did you manage to get the money together?




/jarmo

You better believe it, my friend.  When someone wants something really bad, they find a way to get it.

(http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n17/GarryCarlson/Twins.jpg)

I'm gonna be on my way soon, to get a good spot.  : ok:

EDIT:  Forgot to mention, Chief will be joining me at this show, it's gonna be good fun!

Please give a review when time permits.   Enjoy!

Well?

You haven't recovered yet?

 :hihi:


/jarmo

Ahhhh, what a fantastic show last night!

But first, I have to mention the weird encounter I had with Billy Bob Thornton.  I was waiting outside the venue for Chief, and this white Scion pulls up.  I realize that the drive the driver is talking to me, so I go up to see what he has to say.  I realize it's old Billy Bob.  He asked me if there were any tickets available.  I said that there probably were, but I wasn't 100% sure.  He said that he didn't want to pay $8 for parking, thanked me and drove off.

Cheap bastard!

Anyway, there was this lame opening band.  The guitarist must have been confused, because he also had a drum next to him that he would occasionally pound on, and a tambourine.  His idea of guitar playing was making those feedback sounds whenever he pleased.  The last 2-3 songs were OK though. 

The Gutter Twins hit the stage at around 10:10 and ended the show at around 11:30.  There was no encore, unfortunately.  But they played one killer show!

They opened with Idle Hands, a great song!  Mark just stood by his mic stand the whole night, but he was so cool even by just standing there!  Greg often disappeared in a cloud of his own cigarette smoke.  Greg was kind of like the host of the party, cracking jokes and talking to the crowd.

There were a few guys from around the Los Angeles area, as we found out during band introductions.  The bass player being one of them, the crowd really gave him a good welcome.  And the crowd was really fantastic, singing along to some of the songs and really rocking out!

My favorite song was definitely God's Children. 

Each to Each was also a highlight.  For the love of me though, I can't remember which song had Greg on the keyboard!  That was also one of my favorites.  They did a little intro of "When The Levee Breaks" before going into it.

The last song was Front Street.  Everyone help up five fingers during the "five minutes" bit. 

It was awesome witnessing this collaboration. 

Haha!

I believe that's a running joke they do every night.

In London, Greg said the bass player, Scott Ford, was "from London, England"......


Sounds like a cool show! :D



/jarmo

Oh really?  Because he said Scott was from West Hollywood, the "gay" part of town!  And he mentioned that someone else was from Echo Park, a really ghetto part of town!  Sounds like those guys enjoy being around each other!

I hope this isn't a one time thing!

Me too!

?I think we?ll both make our own records after this,? Dulli says. ?But the Gutter Twins is not a one-off project. As long as we?re friends and enjoy writing together, then we?ll be Poncho and Lefty. Neither one of us has been a star or a superstar, but we?ve both quietly done our things for 20 years.? He smiles. ?And now we have come to proclaim our eminence.?

http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/greg-dulli-and-mark-lanegan-once-upon-a-time-in-la/18590/ (http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/greg-dulli-and-mark-lanegan-once-upon-a-time-in-la/18590/)



/jarmo

I had a great time!  I agree about the opening band, they were somewhat lackluster.  This gave me plenty of time to stare at the ceiling and admire all the art deco in the venue.  By the time the band came on, the place was packed.  I could sworn they opened with Stations followed by God's Children. The heavy drumming bits of God's Children is amazing live!  Idle Hands was a pump your fist in the air rocker and Seven Stories was cool and dark.  When Dulli would sing in his smooth voice, Lanegan would bob his head to the music and then when it was his turn, he would bellow in his deep gravelly voice.  I have to say that Misery Flowers sounds much better live, it was the highlight of the night for me.  Lanegan also did a Twilight Singers song, something like 'I've been thinking about you baby, come stay with me', I dont know the song it but it sounded good.  Thanks Jarmo and bazgnr for sending me to the Gutter  :)


yup, I'd go again for sure!

It's a cover of Massive Attack's "Live With Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxui0uFr3g)".

The Twilight Singers did it live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbmGM56XYeo) on their last tour with Mark singing it and they also recorded a version of it for the "A Stitch In Time" EP. Highly recommended......





No problem! :D



/jarmo

I was at the Avalon show, and it was amazing.  Me and my friends were in the front row in front of Lanegan.  The Stations was fucking amazing, and so was their cover of St. James Infirmary.

I loved the show and they way they harmonized.. some great rocking tunes too, i liked the drummer and guitarist a lot.
I didn't know any of the songs really but i still had a great time so i would go again, yes!

i really want to see the twilight singers now.. i missed them last time.

When I saw them I thought the drummer was just perfect.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with *living* in the Gutter.  It's amazing just how much quality music these two guys have produced in their respective careers, and the fact that they're now creating music together as The Gutter Twins is even better.    If you have the time, you really should track down some of the more obscure Whigs work.  Who ever thought Dulli could cover "Creep" by TLC and make it sound so good?

I'm just envious that you caught a show.  I'm still hoping for some east coast dates....

There is some speculation going around that they will tour the U.S. later on in the year.  I hope it's true!

Also, before I went to the Avalon, I went over to Amoeba Records, and I saw a vinyl copy of Bubblegum that would definitely find a good place in my collection.

New interview up at Pitchfork:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/49608-interview-the-gutter-twins

Apparently they're playing Lollapalooza (http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2008/04/perry_pepe_and_the_full_lollap.html#more).




/jarmo

Dulli just went up a notch in my book for looking Pitchfork straight in the eye and saying 'snarky hipsterism, exclusionary thing. It's like, "We listen to bands that haven't even formed yet." That punk rock thing of trying to be cool...'   ha! take that Pitchfork!   

nice little ChiDem reference too  ;D

Nice catch on that.  I didn't want to draw attention to it in the original post, but it was rather cool to have one of my favorite bands reference my absolute favorite band, regardless of the context... 

Saturday, April 12, 2008

For Immediate Release: Gutter Twins AB Show

Last night's show at Ancienne Belgique was unfortunately cut short after 9 songs, when singer Greg Dulli became seriously ill during the performance.

While the rest of the band returned to the stage for a three song encore, Greg was rushed by ambulance to the local hospital where he was diagnosed with dehydration and hyperthermia, requiring an overnight stay and continued observation.

We are happy to report that Greg is now doing well after being put on bed rest, which unfortunately resulted in the cancellation of the show in Rotterdam.

Under doctor's orders, Greg has been told to rest for the next couple of days and as such the Gutter Twins tour will resume at Vega in Copenhagen on April 14th.

The band will make every effort to return to Belgium and Holland this Summer, and we thank those of you who sent well wishes.

Sincerely,

Scott Ford

---

/jarmo

Damn that sucks!

They need to stock the backstage area with Gatorade!

Well we got the full set at the show in Oslo.

I think the encore looked something like this River Rise, Papillon/Shadow Of The Season, Hit The City, Methamphetamine Blues, King Only and Number Nine.

Greg did Amazing Grace as well which was a fantastic surprise!




/jarmo

The Gutter Twins to perform on Later With Jools Holland/Postpone Two Shows

The Gutter Twins will be one of musical guests on Later With Jools Holland during their LIVE broadcast April 29th on BBC2 at 10:00PM. The band will share the stage with James, Mable John, Operator Please, Pentangle and Melody Gardot. The full show will then air on Friday May 2nd at 11:35PM on BBC2 as well.

Due to this opportunity we will need to reschedule our shows in Bilbao and Lisbon. We will be returning to Europe later this summer so we hope to see you then.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/

http://www.myspace.com/laterwithjoolsholland




/jarmo

Later... with Jools Holland tonight!

Friday May 2nd at 11:35PM on BBC2.




/jarmo

Live on Later.... with Jools Holland:

Idle Hands (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxrlOfHkl34&fmt=18)

All God's Children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYjlee-THs&fmt=18)






/jarmo

thanks! good quality too.. nice to see youtube stepping it up!

Good news!

The next leg of the tour starts this summer. The following dates are from their Myspace unless otherwise noted.


Jun 28 2008     6:00P    Sled Island Festival    Calgary AB
Jul 10 2008   The Roxy Theatre   West Hollywood, CA (Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1188271))
Jul 12 2008    8:00P    Showbox    Seattle WA
Jul 16 2008   10:00 P    One Eyed Jacks   New Orleans, LA (Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1188271))
Jul 19 2008  9:00 PM    The Social   Orlando, FL (Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1188271))
Jul 29 2008    Warsaw   Brooklyn, NY (Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1188271))
Aug 2 2008    6:30P   Lollapalooza    Chicago IL



Aug 6 2008    8:00P   Tavastia    Helsinki FI
Aug 7 2008    8:00P   Way Out West    Gothenburg SE
Aug 8 2008    8:00P   Voxhall    Aarhus DK
Aug 9 2008    6:00P   Haldern Festival    Haldern DE
Aug 11 2008    8:00P   Zodiac    Oxford UK
Aug 12 2008    8:00P   Rescue Rooms    Nottingham UK
Aug 13 2008    8:00P   Shepherd?s Bush Empire    London UK
Aug 15 2008    11:00P   Pukkelpop Festival    Hasselt BE
Aug 16 2008    8:00P   Lowlands Festival    Biddinghuizen NL
Aug 17 2008    8:00P   Highfield Festival    Hohenfelden DE
Aug 19 2008    8:00P   Beatpol    Dresden DE
Aug 20 2008    8:00P   Ampere    Munich DE
Aug 21 2008    8:00P   Palac Akropolis    Prague CZ
Aug 23 2008    8:00P   Proxima    Warsaw PL
Aug 25 2008    8:00P   Forum    Bielefeld DE
Aug 26 2008    8:00P   Komedia    Brighton UK
Aug 27 2008    8:00P   Leadmill    Sheffield UK
Aug 29 2008    8:00P   Electric Picnic    Stradbally IE
Aug 30 2008    8:00P   Academy    Liverpool UK




/jarmo

You don't say?

Maybe you'll get an encore this time around.... ;)




/jarmo

The 25 Best Alternative Rock Bands Of The 1990s

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/55358/the-25-best-alternative-rock-bands-of-the-1990s

16) Afghan Whigs: Greg Dulli was always destined for semi-greatness. In another era, with Andrew Loog Oldham promoting him, he might've been huge. Instead, he had to settle for mostly hated. He makes my fan club look like a gentlemen's auxiliary. But no matter many slings people take at this poor chap, he comes back stronger, angrier and more seductive. Black Love still sounds like a film noir where nobody survives. But they must because he went on to the Twilight Singers and the Gutter Twins with Mark Lanegan, where he continues to entertain and irritate with maximum efficiency. But stop hitting on my sister!

5) Mark Lanegan: The Screaming Trees were his day gig. His solo career was where he belonged. This dark, serious blues singer has always had the ear of the cognoscenti--from Kurt Cobain (who learned at his feet) to Greg Dulli (who now collaborates)--and with good reason. The man has a Leonard Cohen gravitas attached to his Nick Cave heart of darkness. And he'll kill you if you disagree.

Again, from http://www.summerskiss.com/

Latest News:
GUTTER TWINS 7″

CMJ posted a story with the upcoming Gutter Twins US tour dates as well as this nugget of info:
Around the same time, they will releasing a 7-inch vinyl single for their die-hard fans overseas.

The new video, Idle Hands (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUmdjgW-r0&fmt=18).




/jarmo

/jarmo

it seems that spanish doors is going to be the b-side to the god's children 7 inch ;D

Saturday, June 21, 2008

    
Gutter Twins/Summer Tour 2008

The Gutter Twins will return to the road for 35 shows
this Summer.

http://www.myspace.com/theguttertwins


28 Jun 2008 Sled Island Festival Calgary AB

10 Jul 2008 The Roxy Hollywood CA
12 Jul 2008 Showbox Seattle WA
24 Jul 2008 Ottobar Baltimore MD
25 Jul 2008 Stone Pony Asbury Park NJ
26 Jul 2008 Fillmore at TLA Philadelphia PA
29 Jul 2008 Warsaw Brooklyn NY
30 Jul 2008 Mr. Small's Theater Pittsburgh PA
31 Jul 2008 Newport Music Hall Columbus OH

01 Aug 2008 St. Andrews Hall Detroit MI
02 Aug 2008 Lollapalooza Chicago IL
06 Aug 2008 Tavastia Helsinki FI
07 Aug 2008 Way Out West Gothenburg SE
08 Aug 2008 Voxhall Aarhus DK
09 Aug 2008 Haldern Festival Haldern DE
11 Aug 2008 Zodiac Oxford UK
12 Aug 2008 Rescue Rooms Nottingham UK
13 Aug 2008 Shepherds Bush Empire London UK
15 Aug 2008 Pukkelpop Festival Hasselt BE
16 Aug 2008 Lowlands Festival Biddinghuizen NL
17 Aug 2008 Highfield Festival Hohenfelden DE
19 Aug 2008 Beatpol Dresden DE
20 Aug 2008 Ampere Munich DE
21 Aug 2008 Palac Akropolis Prague CZ
23 Aug 2008 Proxima Warsaw PL
25 Aug 2008 Forum Bielefeld DE
26 Aug 2008 Komedia Brighton UK
27 Aug 2008 Leadmill Sheffield UK
29 Aug 2008 Electric Picnic Stradbally IE
30 Aug 2008 Academy Liverpool UK
31 Aug 2008 Hydro Connect Festival Argyll UK

03 Sep 2008 Barby Club Tel Aviv IL
04 Sep 2008 Barby Club Tel Aviv IL
06 Sep 2008 Azkena Rock Festival Vitoria ES
08 Sep 2008 Santiago Alquimista Lisbon PT

Great to see them returning to Europe again. :D




/jarmo

Great to see them coming to Pittsburgh, too!    :beer:

Might be the last leg of the tour. It's their third time in Europe if you count the little pre-album release tour.


Go see them!




/jarmo

Spanish Doors is very epic sounding  :D  I like the change in pace in the ending too.

Sunday, June 29, 2008
     
U.S. Summer Tour Changes

Due to scheduling conflicts, we regret to announce that The Gutter Twins will be postponing/cancelling some of their upcoming U.S. dates in July. The seven shows from July 24th (Baltimore) to August 1st (Detroit) will not be taking place at this time. The band sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused.

A new set of U.S. dates, following their performance at this year's Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans in late October will be announced shortly. The band hopes to make up as many of the dates as possible during that time.

The shows in Los Angeles (July 10th), Seattle (July 12th) and at Lollapalooza (Aug 2nd) will take place as scheduled.




/jarmo

....dammit.

HTGTH Roxy Roll Call:

1. Archie Bunker's Chair
2. Chief

You lucky bastard.  I was counting on those East Coast dates at the end of the month.  Hopefully they'll be rescheduled at some point.

I was surprised that a few board members went to the Avalon show, hopefully they all come out again and this time we could all meet up and say konichiwa!

You'll get your shows someday!

i'm planning to go to the roxy!

I wont be able to make this one  :(  sucks too because I've never been to the Roxy (yes, I dont get out much...)

I hope the East Coast dates come through for you bazgnr!

"A new set of U.S. dates, following their performance at this year's Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans in late October will be announced shortly. The band hopes to make up as many of the dates as possible during that time."



/jarmo

the show was SWEEETNESS!!!
heavy and dark.. loved it!!  opened with idle hands but unfortunately didn't do spanish doors.

ready for another round and some new tunes!

I read that they did Bonnie Brae by the Twilight Singers.  8)





/jarmo

Gutter Twins post Belles

Belles is a cover of the Vetiver song from the forthcoming iTunes release, Adorata. It will feature covers and outtakes recorded during the various Saturnalia sessions and will be available by the new moon. Enjoy.

www.myspace.com/theguttertwins




/jarmo

THE GUTTER TWINS LOLLAPALOOZA WEBCAST

Via AT&T:
The Gutter Twins performance will be webcast live on the AT&T blue room. Tune in on Saturday, August 2nd at 3:30 PM ET for their performance.

Other performances throughout the weekend include Wilco, The Raconteurs, Love and Rockets, Flogging Molly, and many more. Visit http://www.attblueroom.com/music to view the performances as well as the full list of artists scheduled to appear in the webcast.

Plus, AT&T blue room will be sharing live updates and behind-the-scenes festival info from Lolla via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/attblueroom.

http://www.summerskiss.com/

Saw them for the third time last Thursday night at a packed Sticky Fingers club in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Great show as usual.

They got a 4/5 in the local paper the day after so I'm not the only one who thought so.  :hihi:


Got to hear a bunch of songs they didn't do on the last leg.

Like the new B-side "Spanish Doors" which sounded amazing.




/jarmo

    Sub Pop veterans Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan will release a brand new eight-song Gutter Twins EP titled Adorata exclusively through iTunes on September 2nd. Recorded mostly during the original sessions for their debut album Saturnalia, Adorata finds The Gutter Twins drawing material from a wide range of artists and capturing the energy and excitement of their live performances. The eight track EP includes: ?Belles,? (Vetiver), ? Down The Line? (Jose Gonzales), ?Deep Hit Of Morning Sun,? (Primal Scream), ?Flow Like A River,? (Eleven), ?St. James Infirmary,? (Traditional) ?Duchess,? (Scott Walker), and two previously unreleased original Gutter Twins songs ?Spanish Doors,? and ?We Have Met Before.?

    A portion of the proceeds from the release of Adorata will go to the Natasha Shneider Memorial Fund. Shneider, a long-time friend of the band, was the lead singer for Eleven and a member of Queens of the Stone Age.



 : ok:


/jarmo

excellent, thank you for the news!

Pretty much the same here:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/144936-gutter-twins-cover-jose-gonzalez-scott-walker-on-ep

For their first substantial release after Saturnalia, the Gutter Twins have kept their vaguely Roman theme intact. On September 2, Sub Pop will release an iTunes-exclusive Gutter Twins EP called Adorata.

Adorata features two previously unreleased originals ("Spanish Doors" and "We Have Met Before") alongside covers of "Down the Line" (Jos? Gonz?lez), "Deep Hit of Morning Sun" (Primal Scream), "Duchess" (Scott Walker), "Belles" (Vetiver), "Flow Like a River" (Eleven), and "St. James Infirmary" (traditional).

A portion of Adorata's proceeds will go to the Natasha Shneider Memorial Fund. Shneider-- a friend of the Twins and the late lead singer of Eleven-- recently received the benefit concert treatment from Queens of the Stone Age and friends.

Finally, the dirty duo has added a few dates to the end of its tour itinerary, two of which (the ones in Philly and Brooklyn) look to be make-up dates for shows the band canceled in July.

The Gutter Twins:

08-27 Sheffield, England - Leadmill ^
08-29 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic
08-30 Liverpool, England - Academy 2 ^
08-31 Argyll, Scotland - Hydro Connect Festival
09-03 Tel Aviv, Israel - Barby Club
09-04 Tel Aviv, Israel - Barby Club
09-06 Vitoria, Spain - Azkena Rock Festival
09-08 Lisbon, Portugal - Santiago Alquimista
10-24 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Experience
11-05 Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts
11-06 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
11-07 Washington, DC - Black Cat
11-09 Boston, MA - Paradise

http://www.spinner.com/2008/08/29/greg-dulli-comes-full-circle-with-gutter-twins-return-to-sub-po/




/jarmo

Thanx Jarmo

I know you are a huge Lanegan fan like me and you have great taste in music

glad to read there might be another Soulsavers cd to continue the legacy that is the Lanegan Saga
Soulsavers has been my favorite recent work by Mark

also curious as to whether that Dulli acoustic show will feature Mark

Will we ever see a Lanegan live disc released officially - it is long oversue

anyway thanx for the link Jarmo and thanx for regulating this message board - this is the only sight I go to to keep up with GNR

thanx

Rock on

Alex

It's out now.  :D


Nice way to start September.


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Adorata.jpg)

01.    "Belles"     Originally released by Vetiver in 2004 on the "Vetiver" album
02.    "Down The Line"  Originally released by Jos? Gonz?lez in 2007 on the "In Our Nature" album
03.    "Deep Hit"  Originally released by Primal Scream in 2002 on the "Evil Heat" album
04.    "Flow Like A River"     Originally released by Eleven in 2003 on the "Howling Book" album
05.    "St. James"     Traditional    Previously released by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan in 2005 on the "Ramblin' Man" EP
06.    "Duchess"     Originally released by Scott Walker in 1969 on the "Scott 4" album
07.    "Spanish Doors"        Previously unreleased original The Gutter Twins song
08.    "We Have Met Before"  Previously unreleased original The Gutter Twins song




/jarmo

...and it's fantastic.  I just can't believe the creative output of Dulli on his own, let alone with Lanegan.  Amazing stuff. 

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145144-the-gutter-twins-adorata-ep

Over the course of his career, whether in the Afghan Whigs or Twilight Singers, Greg Dulli has covered acts as diverse as the Supremes, TLC, Fleetwood Mac, Bj?rk, and John Coltrane with often striking results. At the very least, such earnest, even revelatory stunts revealed a craftsman's grasp of context, the notion that even the tried and true can be taken in a new direction by a different voice. Indeed, Dulli's honed his personality as the premier alpha letch to such perfection that he's able to twist whatever material he's singing to suit his needs. Were his schedule lax enough to allow such an indulgence, he'd make one hell of a wedding singer.

Given Dulli's track record, it's no shock that the Gutter Twins would get around to recording some covers of their own. At the least, Dulli and partner/complement Mark Lanegan have just a single album's worth of material to their collective name, so an eight-song EP of mostly cover tracks (plus a couple of previously unreleased originals) injects some new blood into a project. Another impetus for Adorata was the passing of Eleven/Queens of the Stone Age singer/organist Natasha Shneider, who died of cancer earlier this year. Portions of the EP's proceeds will go to her memorial fund.

Frankly, getting Shneider's name out there, not to mention covering Eleven's "Flow Like a River", could make more of an impact than whatever money is raised by the internet-only sales of this solid EP. "Flow Like a River", from Eleven's 2003 disc Howling Book, is a perfect fit for the Gutter Twins, who don't reinvent the song so much as give it a little kick. The same could be said of some of the other cover choices on Adorata-- Vetiver's "Belles", for example, is pushed slightly out of psych-folk mode, but the version here sticks pretty close to the spirit of the original. 

Swedish songwriter Jos? Gonz?les, however, gets the full treatment with his "Down the Line", which is given a set of cojones courtesy tough drums and some pounding piano, transforming this track into a veritable anthem. Elsewhere Primal Scream's "Deep Hit of Morning Sun" is given a funky facelift that streamlines the hallucinogenic cyber-punk "Venus in Furs"-isms of the original to suit Dulli and Lanegan's collective M.O. 

The traditional "St. James Infirmary", which Lanegan recently recorded with Isobel Campbell, is reprised here, with Dulli as duet partner and Lanegan's baritone once again perfect for the mournful blues of this death ballad. He's great on Scott Walker's "Duchess", too, another track that the Gutter Twins leave largely alone, wisely recognizing it as a song you don't mess around with. While no one would ever accuse the enigmatic Walker of excessive sunniness, there's an airiness and openness to this reading at refreshing odds with the Twins' more typical claustrophobic sound.

Which brings us to the band's new tracks, which should surprise no one by reverting back to the expected darkness and intensity. It's called playing to your strengths, which the slow-burn "Spanish Doors" and the particularly Whigs-y "We Have Met Before" (both led by Lanegan) do well. Or well enough, since flipped on their head those same strengths could be seen as limiting weaknesses. Certainly no one expects smiley face music from these guys, but it'd be nice to know such a side exists in more than just fleeting glimpses. As the pair gets more and more comfortable with the idea of being a band rather than a one-off, maybe we'll start to get more of the risks this EP only hints at. Until then, Adorata simply keeps the fire stoked and the scent of brimstone swirling as the group's smoke-obscured future comes into focus.

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- Joshua Klein, September 4, 2008

http://www.antiquiet.com/reviews/2008/09/gutter-twins-adorata/

I discovered The Gutter Twins? debut LP Saturnalia a month or two too late to give it a formal jerking off here, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a relatively substantial eight song EP hit shelves out of nowhere on Tuesday. Saturnalia is one of the best, most overlooked albums of the year so far, and this new one, Adorata, is close behind.

For those of you who don?t know, The Gutter Twins is a super-duo of sorts featuring Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens Of The Stone Age, awesomeness) and Greg Dulli (of The Twilight Singers, and the Afghan Whigs, who were supposedly really great).

The first six songs on Adorata are covers, but I didn?t realize that until I sat down to write this review. I have been listening to this album for a few days now, and the only song I recognized was St. James Infirmary. Which has of course been performed by more people than The Birthday Song.

The disc starts off slow with the pretty, droning, downtempo track Belles, written by a band I?ve never heard of before called Vetiver. It?s a track I really don?t need at this point in time; if I need help going to sleep, I can just as easily start a conversation about the presidential election.

So I usually skip right to the meat of the disc, tracks two through four; Down The Line (originally by Jose Gonz?lez), Deep Hit (originally by Primal Scream), and the swaggering, vaguely bluesy Flow Like A River, written by Eleven; yet another nod to the contributions of the late Natasha Shneider, who we paid respects to a couple weeks ago.

All three are very single and / or mixtape worthy, richly textured with dynamic energy. Here?s Down The Line:


To get an idea of how The Gutter Twins handled their cover of St. James Infirmary, imagine Pink Floyd doing it. It?s another downtempo track of course, but what it lacks in danceability, it makes up for in soul.

Need more convincing that The Gutter Twins are worth a closer look? Here they are doing Idle Hands (from Saturnalia) on Jools Holland?s show:


I don?t hear any singles or classics on the last third of the disc, but they go down easy enough. It?s hard to get too much of Lanegan?s voice as I go about my business, and before long the proverbial needle makes it to The Stations, track one of Saturnalia, which as I said is incredible.

But Adorata is for sure the best album brought to market this week.

    

An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan

Sub Pop veterans Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan will return to Europe beginning January 15th 2009 for sixteen special intimate performances. Dulli and Lanegan along with guitarist Dave Rosser will perform a 'Stripped Down In The Gutter' set. By sheer virtue of the intimacy of the show, it will be unique, as neither Dulli nor Lanegan have toured in this capacity before.

"Since our instrumentation for this tour is going to be radically different, the shows will include many songs neither of us have performed in quite sometime or ever," Dulli commented.

"An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan" will kick off on January 15th in Glasgow at the Oran Mor and will run through February 2nd in Athens, Greece at Gagarin 205. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (November 14th) for all sixteen shows.

The Gutter Twins have had a massively successful year with the release of their debut album Saturnalia, and their follow up EP Adorata for Sub Pop Records. It's been a welcome homecoming to Sub Pop for both artists.

Mark Lanegan rose to fame as singer for the much-loved Seattle band Screaming Trees and Greg Dulli as the magnetic leader of the Afghan Whigs. Following the break up of both groups, Lanegan and Dulli went on to achieve significant notice on their own. Lanegan continued to release successful solo albums, as well as create vivid partnerships with the likes of Belle & Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell and Queens of the Stone Age. Dulli, meanwhile, innovatively fused indie, soul and electronic sounds in his post-Whigs ensemble the Twilight Singers, who released their first album, Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers, in 2000; the most recent Twilight effort, 2006's Powder Burns. Saturnalia is sure to make many 'Best Of 2008′ lists.

Following the conclusion of this tour, Dulli will begin work on a new Twilight Singers album; while Mark Lanegan has an upcoming project with Soulsavers and will begin work on his first solo album in five years.

'AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI & MARK LANEGAN'
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 TOUR DATES
1/15 UK Glasgow Oran Mor
1/16 IRELAND Dublin Academy
1/17 IRELAND Galway Roisin Dubh
1/19 UK London Union Chapel
1/20 BELGIUM Hasselt Muziekodroom
1/21 BELGIUM Brussels Ancienne Belgique
1/22 HOLLAND Haarlem Patronaat
1/24 GERMANY Berlin Babylon
1/25 AUSTRIA Vienna WuK
1/26 ITALY Milan La Salumeria Della Musica
1/27 ITALY Rome Auditorium Parco Della Musica
1/28 ITALY Florence Auditorium Flog
1/30 SPAIN Barcelona Apolo
1/31 SPAIN Bilbao Kafe Antzokia
2/2 SPAIN Madrid Joy Eslava
2/4 GREECE Athens Gagarin 205

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DUFF LOVES THE GUTTER TWINS

In his column for Seattle Weekly, Duff McKagan included this bit in his Random Thoughts (and Experiences) of 2008:
- Go see the Gutter Twins: I was afforded this opportunity last September in Spain and it was an almost religious experience. It is not very often these days for me to be completely awed by a band or artist, so I am completely pleased when it finally does happen. The Gutter Twins are not something you can quite put your finger on musically, they are just equal parts ?kick-ass? all the way around!

thx rlv

The band's song "Front Street" was used in the season five premiere of Rescue Me.




/jarmo

Not GT related, but Bubblegum is an awesome record!

Did you get the Soulsavers one yet?

"It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land"



/jarmo

No, but with Darren's help, we'll get that chicken!

I just have Sweet Oblivion and Saturnalia.  I heard Bubblegum at a buddy's house.  There are so many albums to buy and digest.  What with work and all, I haven't even opened a bunch that I have recently purchased.

It's that voice that makes me come back every time.  No matter who he's jamming with, his voice makes those albums what they are.

Playlist

Duff McKagan

Mon, 18 May 2009

Duff shared his playlist with ARTISTdirect.com for this exclusive feature. Check out what he's spinning below.

Duff McKagan's Playlist:

1. The Gutter Twins ? Saturnalia

You want a record to be a journey from the beginning to end. The Gutter Twins made that record last year.

http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/playlist-duff-mckagan/6005088