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Friday, November 18, 2005 11:56 AM
events

hi people,

intense winter sun over glasgow, it's cold. i thought i could mention a few things coming up...

this evening we're helping the future pilot aka to launch his new single, eyes of love, as part of a creeping bent evening at the bastille tavern ballroom off argyle street.. katrina and i are playing a short dj set, as is the pilot himself and port sulphur. live performances by say jansfield, serf, gareth sager, fake eyelahes and colditz. friday 18th november, 7.30pm. £4.

international airport are playing stereo, kelvinhaugh street on the tuesday 29th november with hank and lily and dot to dot.

then the next evening, wednesday 30th november, is the launch party of this year's project ability exhibition at mono. maybe you know project ability artwork from the painting on the cover of maher shalal hash baz's blues du jour. artist, jim hillis is also included this year as part of a selection made by alison mitchell (trumpet, pastels) bringing colour and wild style to mono through december. the opening party is free and features a live set from the pearlfishers and a dj set from gerard love. mono is at 12 kings court, glasgow. if you want to find out more about project ability you should go to their website. www.project-ability.co.uk

wireless by tommy morrison

we'll be resuming work on the new pastels album in december. been listening to what we've already done and planning our next moves. feel confident and up for the challenge ahead.

current playlist:
tape - rideau (hapna)
delia gonzales & gavin russom - the days of mars (dfa)
galaxie 500 - peel sessions (202020)
jim reid - song for a secret (transistor)
maher shalal hash baz - live aoiheya january 2003 (chapter)
tenniscoats - live wanderus (chapter)
movietone - the sand and the stars (domino). amazing revisit the other day.
nuno canavarro - plux quba (moikai). likewise.

best wishes,
stephen

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:36 AM
slowly taking place

hello,

weather humid. it might rain.

pastels information announcement for you all. we will be playing in paris at the mo'fo festival as part of a sterling line-up which includes, over the festival, teenage fanclub, bonny prince billy, calvin johnson, sonic boom, monade. we play on thursday 30th june.
www.mainsdoeuvres.org/view_article.asp?id=701

international airport are playing at the perfect from now on festival in malmo. television personalities and calvin johnson are also down to play at this. takes place on saturday 25th june. the airport website has been updated too.
www.internationalairport.co.uk
www.perfectfromnowon.tk

meanwhile, maher shalal hash baz are playing at the museu de serralves, porto, portugal on the same day, saturday 25th june.
www.serralves.pt

getting into the tennis and digging mike alway's el reissues. i did the sleevenotes for rita lee's build up. but don't worry, we won't lose shape. pastels album taking place (slowly).

best wishes,
stephen

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Monday, May 2, 2005 2:55 PM
maher over london / northern line w / john chantler

hi everyone,

maher shalal hash baz is making a return visit to north london on wednesday 11th may at bardens boudoir, 38-44 stoke newington road, london, n16 7xj. doors open 8pm, with matt rogers, duke garwood, and carina & pascale djs. £5. stop.

katrina mad descent successful. stop.

best,
pastels / maher
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Monday, April 18, 2005 11:02 PM
geographic music springtime 2005

hello,

this is the third year that we've curated a small part of the triptych festival.

the geographic events take place in the tron theatre, glasgow, and st. brides centre, edinburgh. we're really proud to have the television personalities playing at both shows; some of you will already know of the historical connection between our musics. when i was at school and could really only dream of releasing records and taking part in the music underground, television personalities were completely inspiring with their diy genius and beautiful, sad melodies. when we had our music (sort of) together we sent it to dan treacy who ended up releasing our first single, songs for children, on his whaam! label. so it means everything that television personalities, with dan treacy and ed ball, are back together, and are playing our event. they recently played a sensational show in london, and are now recording a new album for domino. at the shows they'll be joined by maher shalal hash baz, who are always fabulous and new and together and untogether; they're really like no-one, they're the greatest, really. bill wells is telling of a new maher line-up with unison trumpets and brilliant new songs.

argentinian folk-songstress juana molina is also playing at both shows. if you haven't heard her yet check out her casual brilliance on the domino albums, segundo and tres cosas. in glasgow we also have dark folkways troubadour alasdair roberts performing solo this time round, and lucky luke too; they're ramshackle, brilliant, odd, winning, and will have a debut album called patrick the survivor out any day now. joining them in glasgow are the secretive dosimat, playing out in group mode for the first time ever. also open field church from brazil are fantastically making the trip to show us how free and loose things are getting these days in sao paulo; they usually start playing spontaneously at other people's shows and always play open field. this time, for once, a bit of planning is needed. in glasgow we also have andres lokko and lisa milberg (concretes) presenting two episodes of their incredible this is our music show, with maher shalal hash baz and juana molina. miso djs will do their good thing in one space at the tron, and in the other, the pastels and friends. we will also be there in edinburgh, with good humour.

tron theatre, glasgow, saturday 30th april, 4pm.
st. brides centre, edinburgh, sunday 1st may, 7pm.

the music activist, kama aina will be performing his fantastic live show in edinburgh and glasgow with money mark on the 27th and 28th april respectively. all these shows are close to selling out, but monorail have a few tickets for the glasgow shows, and triptych have a few available for both shows online here:

www.triptych05.com

this week international airport play their first show in a while at the grundioso records night in the universal on sauchiehall
lane, glasgow, thursday 21st april, doors 9pm. stephen pastel to dj. the big story is that tom and annabel (aggi) have recently become proud parents of a lovely baby girl, robin morven. so if tom looks freaked out it's not just tom looking freaked out...

the pastels finally started our new album two weeks ago with john mcentire in glasgow. the session went really well; there's five main pieces so far and none are finished or have final vocals. we'll probably do another ten to fifteen in the summer so that we can edit it all down and make something really great when we go to chicago. of our existing music the sound is closest to the last great wilderness, but more lush; it was recorded in cava 1 where we did charlie's theme. that's all there is to say for now. except...

katrina's going to do a 10,000 freefall skydive this saturday to raise funds for phace scotland, a charity which provides support and advocacy for women, men and children living with hiv/aids in scotland, as well as hiv prevention services, information, advice, training, support and outreach. if you would like to sponsor her, please click here -
http://www.charitysponsor.com/SponsorSheet.aspx?s=N%2bOelJfvGwI%3d
and on saturday morning, keep your fingers crossed or a new pastels album may only ever exist as a dream.

best wishes,
stephen

current playlist:
nuno canavarro - plux quba (moikai)
f s blumm - zweite meer (morr music)
ennio morricone - morricone high (el)
pierro piccioni - the seduction of (el)
scars - singles and peel sessions (unreleased)
tarwater - the needle was travelling (morr music)
teenage fanclub - man-made (pema)
bill wells - goes to maher country (unreleased)
various artists - songs for nao / 14 bands from japan (chapter)

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Sunday, December 5, 2004 5:42 PM
geographic music in the world

Hello,

Geographic Music In The World.

The Pastels are playing at The Concretes Christmas Party on December 12th in Stockholm, Sweden. Pastels often imagine their music soundtracking slow-moving, slightly creepy Northern European cities, towns and villages, under a blur of street and neon shop-light. The chance to see what happens at a Concretes Christmas Party is just too good to pass up. A new Pastels album is almost underway with recording to begin in February in Glasgow, with John McEntire on the boards.

Kägelbanan, Mosebacke Torg 1-3, 116 46, Stockholm
tickets available at www.sodrateatern.com or +46 (0) 8-556 97 230

We are also very pleased to announce a rare series of shows by the Bill Wells Trio. Bill has had a triumphant year, travelling to Japan to work with, amongst others, Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Kama Aina. He has also collaborated with Norman Blake, Isobel Campbell and Jad Fair. However, his original trio, with Stevie Jackson and Robert Henderson, is probably the best-loved of all his projects, and we anticipate people camping out overnight in sleeping bags to make sure they're in poll position for these...

Saturday 11th December, The Bush Hall, London W12. Part of a two-day event curated by Chickfactor magazine, and featuring amongst others Bridget St. John, Stevie Jackson (solo) and the return of the Television Personalities. More information at www.chickfactor.com
Wednesday 15th December, Monorail / Mono, Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow. Project Ability Art Opening. Bill Wells Trio will perform around 9pm. Free event.
Sunday 19th December, Salon des Amateurs / Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Bill pops up in the new series of This Is Our Music, lurking ominously behind a keyboard, Hitchcock-style as ever, in the Maher Shalal Hash Baz episode, soundtracking rare moments when Tori Kudo is not on-screen, more or less declaring his genius in the clearest possible terms. Kama Aina and Tenniscoats feature magically in another episode in this important series. Not exactly sure when this is going out everywhere, but there's information and streaming at www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=4769

Winter is in Glasgow. How about you?

Stephen & Katrina

Robin Hood screenprint by Ronnie McCulloch. From the Project Ability exhibition, from December 15th, Mono and Monorail, 12 Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow G1.
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Friday, September 17, 2004 3:40 PM
kama aina shows

hello,

a very short geographic announcement.

japanese musician takuji aoyagi aka kama aina is currently in the uk. maybe some of you even saw him last night at the foundry. if not, dont worry, you have three more opportunities to experience his very special music in full three dimensional sight and sound.

this sunday, 19th, at 8.30pm with james yorkston.
mono, kings court, glasgow. 0141 553 2400

wednesday, 22nd, with juana molina.
stereo, kelvinhaugh street, glasgow. 0141 576 5018

thursday, 23rd, with juana molina
bush hall, london w12. 0208 222 6933

thanking you.

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Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:31 PM
geographic, electricity, the moment

Hello,

Geographic is hitting some kind of high season with three incredible albums about to land. First up on Monday, 30th August is the new album by International Airport called Reunion Of Island Goose; a gallant, loose, experimental pop album, in which Tom sings of pelicans and swans and other late-summer idyllic moments accessible by ferry-boats and other secret means. In the shops now is their Association! single split with Teenage Fanclub. International Airport and Teenage Fanclub are on BBC Radio 6 this Saturday in session on the Mark Riley show at 2pm. Check it out, a really special one-off.

Moving into September, we've got an album which we're declaring the most beautiful electronic album of the year, by Stefan Schneider, Barbara Morgenstern and Paul Wirkus; the September Collective. A series of improvisations and moments which originated on a Polish tour, this lush music is somehow both nostalgic and modern, warm and cold, always reminding you of the neo-1960s world of Polish screen-prints, and a Polanski film wthout Komeda. The
September Collective will be touring extensively in January and February.

Finally we've got something else we think you'll love. Music Activist by Kama Aina is an introduction to a Japanese musician, Takuji Aoyagi, who is somehow unselfconsciously bridging two great Japanese styles, the folk psych of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and the Org scene, and the very different underground of Susumu Yokota; particularly the time when he expertly made new tracks out of Young Marble Giants cut-offs. Aoyagi describes his own style as exuberant, and his music is captivating and disarming and magic. Thrillingly, Kama Aina is visiting the UK in September and has so far confirmed three shows:

Thursday 16th September, Foundry, London
Wednesday 22nd September Stereo, Glasgow (with Juana Molina)

Thursday 23rd September, Bush Hall, London (with Juana Molina)

This Sunday, 29th August, The Pastels will DJ in Bar Brel, Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 between 3pm and 9pm as guests of Alan Miller (Slush Puppy). Indoors outdoors soundtracks, the hill is open, regional rock, disciplined jazz (strict parameters), not too much electro, some old-school indie, talking tennis and table-tennis, folk and soul, european stuff old and new. Smiles, friendship, good stuff.

Thanks.

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:42 AM
live from our city

Hello,

We would like to invite you all down to the Geographic event at Glasgow's Tron Theatre this Saturday. It starts at 4pm and features To Rococo Rot, Colleen, International Airport, Directorsound, Movietone, Camera Obscura, Craig Armstrong & AGF, and The Pastels and David Mackenzie (dj sets). The Tron is a good place for a slow geography and it will be excellent to see you all. Tickets are available from Monorail (0141 552 9458) and Triptych (www.triptych04.com).

Geographic is one of the subjects of This Is Our Music, an excellent Scandinavian series joining up dots across the globe. Amazingly, MTV funded this unlikely endeavour, and the Glasgow episode is already out in slo-mo in some places like Estonia. It features me, Katrina, Bill Wells, Sushil, Gerard, Norman, some live Mahers and other good people going about our lives purposefully and helpfully live from our city (www.nordic.mtve.com/shows/thisisit).

On Friday, Tom and I mastered the new International Airport album at Abbey Road, London. We're thinking it all sounds quite late summer, so that's where we'll put it. It's an amazing effort, as rambly and beautiful as a walk through the hedgerows; the insects, wild fruit and scenery make it a journey you'll never forget. How should we market it? As a Caledonian Tropicalia or a 21st Century Slanted and Enchanted? Who knows? We'll be leading off with a brilliant new single, Association: sing it, 'I'm part of the association'.

Also we are very pleased to introduce two new albums on the label. Firstly, The September Collective, featuring Stefan Schneider, Barbara Morgenstern, Paul Wirkus; being a really special series of improvised musics which flow gracefully and memorably into a secret place for lovers, dreamers and the occasional realist. September in September. Why not?

Next we're going to present an introduction to Kama Aina, music activist. Some of you will already know that Kama Aina is Takuji Aoyagi, a really sensitive and brilliant Japanese musician and compiler of other musics. His style connects completely with Geographic, and his sense of melodic invention will sit well with Bill Wells and International Airport. The first time ever I heard him it reminded me of some of Susumu Yokota's Young Marble Giants translations, but now I see there's so much more. I think you'll love this.

On a Japanese theme, Katrina has just completed an incredible triangular track with Hideki Kaji and Directorsound. It's all a bit mysterious as no-one outside Japan seems to have heard everything in the track. I can't stop thinking about it. It's definitely my favourite ever thing she's done outside The Pastels or Melody Dog and we're counting down the hours until the Fedex guy rings the bell. We've been writing songs for a new Pastels album and hope to be able to get seriously down to it over the summer. It's hard for us to move quickly and not turn into paths we've already been down, but we're nearly ready (to start). Also, we will soon be starting a Pastels reissues / unissues series with Mobile Safari and Sittin' Pretty remasters.

Ok, going to post this. Keep it vigilant. Look out for the bright colours of the new Future Pilot AKA 12" with Mein Nahi Jana (mixes from Tigerstyle, White Town, Max Tundra), and the slightly softer tones of the new Bill Wells album, Pick Up Sticks, on Leaf (beautiful artwork by Annabel). Check out the incredible Directorsound Tales From the Tightrope Vol. 1 (from Domino and Monorail), and the To Rococo Rot album too (nothing to do with us). Me, I'm loving Godard more and more, I'm hot at table-tennis, and looking out for beautiful moments this summer. I even hope to make some.

Best,
Stephen

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Thursday, March 4, 2004 6:53 PM
Future Pilot AKA launch party

Hello,

Geographic is very proud to announce the release of a stunning new kaleidoscopic work by Future Pilot AKA. Salute Your Soul is out on Monday 15th March, on vinyl and cd, and features contributions from Philip Glass, Mikey Dread, Vic Godard, James Kirk, and Gerard Love and Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub. Acknowledging the current political situation, Sushil K. Dade and his comrades are on hand to provide a sonic solution to help ease the pain with an offering of spirituals and gospel framed musics to soothe the soul. The stunning opening cut, Mein Nahi Jana (version) is available at the Domino website (www.dominorecordco.com).

There will be an album launch in Monorail, Glasgow, on Saturday March 13th at 4pm, where Sushil and his co-pilot, Vinita, will be on hand to meet their people, sing, play, hang-out, and pass out the daal. We are encouraging everyone to bring along their family; young folks, old folks, you'll love the vibe. Future Pilot AKA for everyone.

Monorail Music, 12 Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow G1 5RB. 0141 552 9458
www.monorailmusic.com

Coming soon: International Airport album, The September Collective album, our website.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:32 AM
maher are here

Hello,

Sorry for the delays with our website. It seemed simple at the time, but then we didn't have time...

Just now we have incredible Maher Shalal Hash Baz here in Glasgow with us, hanging around the kitchen and playing their beautiful music. They have a series of shows here in the UK and a John Peel Session going out in December. They have a new ep out on Monday called Open Field which is the perfect Maher intro for anyone who still hasn't encountered their enchanted world. The album is called Blues Du Jour and is out on November 17th. Impossible to follow; last Geographic release of the year.

Early next year will see new albums by Future Pilot AKA and International Airport. And a lovely record by the September Collective. Naturally we've got a few other projects underway, but hopefully the website's going to be up and running before long and we can tell you through that. Meantime you can check us out via our esteemed partners, Domino (www.dominorecordco.com) and Monorail (www.monorailmusic.com).

Anyway here's some details for the Maher shows. Hope to see you there.

Thursday, 30 Oct - Glasgow School Of Art with The Pastels and Twitch (DJ set).
168 Renfrew Street, 0141 332 4864, £8.
Saturday, 1 Nov - Bristol Cube Cinema with Movietone and Pastels DJs
Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JD, 0117 907 4190, www.cubecinema.com, £6
Monday, 3rd Nov - Leeds Brudenell Social with Empress, Deerpark, and Pastels / Hood DJs
33 Queens Road, Leeds LS6 1NY, 0113 243 5866, £6.
Tuesday, 4th Nov - London Arts Cafe with Directorsound and Pastels DJs
28 Commercial Street, London E1 6LS, 0207 419 4696, £7.
November 8th - November 30th (noon - midnight). Project Ability exhibition.
Tori Kudo will give a piano recital at the opening which is on Saturday, 8th November at 6pm, Mono. Mono, 12 Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow G1 5RB. 0141 552 9458.

'It has been one of joyful memories in Glasgow that I went to the Project Ability exhibition this spring. Each of their paintings were wonderful like the CD jackets of the Pastels. And it is my greatest pleasure to be able to have the painting of Jim Hillis for our forthcoming album. Around the same time, I also went to an exhibition of layouts of Gaelic books. It was my impression that the Gaelic sense of pale colours were seen in common in all Glaswegians'. The art of people who have learning difficulties in Japan is also remarkable. The topic of traffic is also favoured here as well. Outstanding is their calligraphy. Their genuineness is expressed more directly in this media and I feel as if it cleanses my dirty and sinful heart. Unfortunately there are not many successful facilities like Project Ability in Japan. In many cases such galleries are run personally and are trying to sell paintings, and crafts, but in most cases they are experiencing economical hardships'.
Tori Kudo

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02.03.2002 > News > Pastels
Geographic is Domino's Pastels-styled affiliate label.

It tries to reflect under-represented music in a beautiful way and is responsible for introducing artists like Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Bill Wells to a wider audience. Geographic's relationship with Domino is close and trusting, but everyone should be aware that it is a much smaller operation and that their desire to keep everything hands-on means that each project can take a little longer than you might expect. Don't worry, they even talk in slow-motion.

news (2.03.03)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz have just completed an absolutely incredible new album which will come out in early autumn. Entitled Blues De Jour, it was recorded in two mammoth sessions at East Kilbride Arts Centre, under the loving care of David Scott. It naturally features some of Tori Kudo's best ever compositions, around 70 of them in fact. We will precede the album with a single which most of The Pastels and Bill Wells had the privilege to play on. It's called Open Field and will probably turn into some kind of extended play. We're aiming for June with this. Other exciting Maher news is that Stone In The River features in a short film by Graham Eatough, from the acclaimed Suspect Culture theatre company. The song is an 'our song' in a dissolving relationship; the film is really, really warm and funny. We intend to show it at Triptych at the Tron Theatre show.

And we would also like to announce the long-awaited Directorsound long-playing debut, Redemptive Strikes. Maybe some of you will know that we were absolutely captivated by the 'Dorset sound' (Plinth, DS) which we came to around the time of our compilation, You Don't Need Darkness To Do What You Think Is Right. Fantastically, DS came through with a storming album which was impossible to resist. In places it sounds like incidental music from Jacques Tati movies or even Tom Waits playing not singing; at times organised, kinda-composed, then at other times it just seems to burst forth into rapturous melodic chaos that even Bill Wells would surely want to stand in the middle of. An actual triumph and testament to the human spirit (like first man at the Antarctic or something). Jolly, jolly good work, sir.

Future Pilot AKA also have a wild new album on the way. As you'd imagine, it has many sublime, uplifting moments but it's definitely a little more eclectic this time round, quite epic in places, a couple of exotic pop songs that should, you know, be hits. It is mc'd in absolutely fantastic style by Philip Glass, proving that it's not all 'minimalist compositions' in these somewhat 'renaissance man' times. Future Pilot AKA will also be making selective live appearances starting with the Tron Theatre show at Triptych.

International Airport will be starting work on a new album in May which seems certain to see them build on the ensemble approach which devastated on their Cordial Arrest track on the Darkness comp. Meanwhile, Empress have a new album coming out on the Pehr label and will soon be visiting Scotland (Triptych, naturally). Bill Wells is about to make some of his incredible Octet performances available as absolute limited editions via himself and our excellent new Monorail Music shop (be sure to check it out if you're ever in Glasgow). He contributes piano to two tracks on the new Arab Strap album and some arrangements to the forthcoming Quinn set.

We are also extremely proud to be issuing four new songs by Eugene Kelly which are downtempo, folky acoustic and somewhat gorgeous. We believe this music to be Eugene's best ever and it just seemed like such a good idea as he was still lining up a record label for his album. We hung out with Eugene a lot around the time of The Last Great Wilderness and it just felt that these slower songs had a Geographic vibe so now we can't wait to turn you onto Older, Faster, which to us is just as great as anything on Neil Young's On The Beach. That will be our next release.

Our connection to the Domino world is as we say, 'close', and you probably won't be too surprised to learn that we are currently working on a re-release of Movietone's absolutely awesome debut set, which is something really special for us as we've long admired them and just feel a real affinity with the way that they do everything. The album will be re-mastered with extra tracks (including Kate's very first demo for Rachel!), comprehensive sleeve-notes and photos, and we'll try to make it even better than it was, if that's possible.

Finally, finally, we have some new Pastels music which we are nearly ready to issue; The Last Great Wilderness soundtrack will come out on Geographic, coinciding with a general release for the film in May. If you don't know, the film, by fast-rising Scottish director, David Mackenzie, is a supernatural thriller / horror and most of the music could probably best be described as 'dark and pretty'. Except for one song, which is absolutely a pop song and is called I Picked A Flower, and features an amazing vocal from Jarvis Cocker. Maybe that can be a single!

Geographic has, as usual, a strong presence at this year's Triptych festival (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, 25, 26, 27 April). Full details will appear elsewhere on the site but The Pastels (first live shows for over three years), Future Pilot AKA, Empress, Barbara Morgenstern and Mapstation are all playing.

Other than that, we have actually started to develop our own Geographic website, and hope that we may be able to launch at the beginning of April. But in the meantime, please keep checking back here. SP

07-2003
www.dominorecordco.com

Eugene Kelly – Older Faster
Geographic is very proud to announce four new songs by Eugene Kelly, a landmark release from the charismatic sometime stranger, being both the first music in his own name, and the first opportunity for 21st century people to roll up at a record shop, and say the hopeful words: ‘I’ll have the new Eugene ep, please.’ The music they’re about to find is closer to the innocent sound of The Vaselines than most of his 1990s output, albeit richly coloured by a reflective neo-folky quality, which for some may recall the optimistic sadness of Neil Young’s On The Beach or Big Star’s Third, and even some of the earlier Johnny Cash Columbia sides.

But this music is more importantly confirmation that Eugene is now making his most personal and best music in over a decade. Check out the gorgeous slurred sound of it all, from Older Faster (the highlight of his recent triumphant shows with Teenage Fanclub), through The Healing Power Of Firewalking (inspired by his participation in The Last Great Wilderness), through to the freefalling acoustic charms of Something Wrong and Blessed And Misplaced, which show that Eugene is always about ‘the song’.

Kurt Cobain liked his songs so much he recorded three of them (Molly’s Lips, Son Of A Gun and Jesus Doesn’t Want me For A Sunbeam) for the legendary Nirvana Unplugged In New York set. Eugene has also written with Evan Dando, and with Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub. He was a founder member of the incredible Scottish avant-folk pop group The Vaselines, whose original records, if you can find them, go for insane prices to Japanese and American collectors. The story of The Vaselines is of course that they only found their true audience after they’d split, when groups like Beat Happening, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth and Nirvana started citing them; maybe in the future some other hipsters will dig up nuggets from Eugene’s subsequent groups, Captain America and Eugenius. But at the moment the main thing is not to let these beautiful new songs pass you by.

Eugene, who lives in Glasgow, has also completed a new album, Man Alive.

Available for presale today at a special price.
Items despatched this Friday (release date is the following Monday - 07/07/03):
CD Single (£3.50 - 50p off)
Track listing
1. Older Faster
2. The Healing Power of Firewalking
3. I Done Something Wrong
4. Blessed and Misplaced

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject : maher are here

Hello,
Sorry for the delays with our website. It seemed simple at the time, but then we didn't have time...

Anyway here's some details for the Maher shows. Hope to see you there.

November 8th - November 30th (noon - midnight). Project Ability exhibition.
Tori Kudo will give a piano recital at the opening which is on Saturday, 8th November at 6pm, Mono.
Mono, 12 Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow G1 5RB. 0141 552 9458.

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