Re: New Video!!

[Chris Sharp <chris.sharp4@vi...net>]

I’ll get Gerard to do the list tomorrow ;-)

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 00:17, GORDON WILHELMI <gordon.wilhelmi192@bt...com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yep, seemed a little steep to me also, but I suppose they add up to 
> something when you look at two releases of Weird Shit, the Janice Long 
> Sessions, Fruit, Glasto '92, Cheltenham Live, and include solo 
> co-operation pieces released by Members whilst Members. All the same, 
> there must be some rarities out there that few of us know about if they 
> amount to thirty........
> 
> G
> 
> ----Original message----
> From : nickw@bl...co.uk
> Date : 14/09/2016 - 23:58 (GMTST)
> To : blueplanes@bl...org
> Subject : Re: [BluePlanes] New Video!!
> 
> 
> 30 albums?!
> 
> 
> 
>> On 14 September 2016 at 21:59 Chris Sharp <chris.sharp4@vi...net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sure!
>> 
>> Here you go:
>> 
>> The Blue Aeroplanes’ unique amalgam of rock, folk, poetry, punk, dance 
>> and art
>> has been an acknowledged influence on a wide range of bands including 
>> REM and
>> Radiohead. Combining pop smarts with serious weirdness, they have 
>> released
>> almost thirty albums on various labels, several of which have charted 
>> in the
>> UK Top 40 and the US Alternative Top 10. Their 1990 album ‘Swagger’ was 
>> Rock
>> Album Of The Year in many publications including The Sunday Times. 
>> Ex-members
>> have gone on to play with Massive Attack, Suede, Placebo, Goldfrapp and 
>> Primal
>> Scream, while for many years they shared multi-instrumentalist Ian 
>> Kearey with
>> folk legends the Oyster Band. They remain the only group to have been 
>> banned
>> from The Rainbow Lounge, Lemmy’s favourite hangout, and been invited to 
>> play
>> at the Hay-On-Wye Literary Festival.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Now comes the release of the band’s twelfth studio album, ‘Welcome,
>> Stranger!’, recorded by the longest-lasting Aeroplanes line up to date.
>> Original members Gerard Langley (poet/singer), and John Langley 
>> (drummer),
>> sometimes with Wojtek Dmochowski (dancer), are joined by Gerard Starkie,
>> formerly the main  man of Witness and an Aeroplane since 2006, Chris 
>> Sharp
>> (bassist and owner of The Fleece venue in Bristol), a band member since 
>> 2008,
>> and the more recent additions Bec Jevons (guitarist and front-person of 
>> I
>> Destroy) and guitarist Mike Youe.  John and Mike also play with Bristol 
>> punk
>> legend (and ex-Aeroplane) Rita Lynch, while Gerard is also Head Of 
>> Songwriting
>> at BIMM Bristol, where he was responsible for guiding the early steps of
>> George Ezra, among others. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Recorded at country house studio Vale by highly-regarded engineer and 
>> musician
>> T.J.Allen (Bat For Lashes), ‘Welcome, Stranger!’ is an instant art-pop
>> classic,  melodic, riff-laden, driving, humorous, serious, delicate, 
>> furious,
>> a defining statement by a band that refuses nostalgia. With newer 
>> artists such
>> as Courtney Barnett exploring the same speak-singing, guitar-driven 
>> territory
>> The Blue Aeroplanes have defined since the late Eighties, the band 
>> remain both
>> contemporary and relevant. Lyrical concerns include relationships, the
>> Universe, the death of Lou Reed, seagulls eating your chips, kids 
>> chucking
>> rocks off motorway bridges, chocolate, the etiquette of x’s, crows and 
>> the
>> existential nature of Elvis Festivals. And what could be more rock ‘n’ 
>> roll
>> than that? 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 14 Sep 2016, at 19:19, Keith smith <kjsmith4082@ho...com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Excellent! Do you have an official press release that I can post on our
>>> website ?
>>> Cheers, Keith
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>> On 14 Sep 2016, at 13:25, Chris Sharp <chris.sharp4@vi...net
>>> <mailto:chris.sharp4@vi...net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone
>>>> 
>>>> Here’s the brand new Blue Aeroplanes video for “Elvis Festival” from 
>>>> the
>>>> forthcoming album “Welcome, Stranger!"
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-AnduoiMQ
>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-AnduoiMQ>
>>>> 
>>>> We will be releasing a 2nd video from the album over the coming weeks 
>>>> for a
>>>> track entitled “This Is The Heart Of All Wild Things"
>>>> 
>>>> cheers
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
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