New Twilight singers album, but no Lanegan...

[rimb]

From the lastest blog posting - blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=5709712&blogID=85571603

Toward the Waves

Powder Burns, the first record of all new Twilight Singers material since 2003's Blackberry Belle, will be released worldwide May 16, 2006.

In anticipation of this release, the band will perform at the 2006 SXSW in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 16 and 17.

Rumors of a warm up show prior to SXSW in Los Angeles are currently unfounded....

The Twilight Singers will be coming to a town near you once the world tour commences in May 2006.

The band remains Greg Dulli, Scott Ford and Bobby MacIntyre, with the addition of Dave Rosser on lead guitar and Scott Bennett on keys and vocals.

Birmingham, Alabama native, Rosser, is a long time friend of the band who has appeared on Blackberry Belle, Amber Headlights and Powder Burns.

Scott Bennett is the musical director for Brian Wilson. Nuff said...

[Buttercup]

From Summer's Kiss. I love Dulli for not shunning the Midwest.

"The tour will begin May 20 in the Midwest and consist of approximately 25 dates. The band will then head to Europe for a series of performances."

[Trans4mur]

He appears in some photos on the twilight singers website that were taken at the recoding of the album. Who knows though?

Has anyone read the latest Homme interview on the QOTSA site? He mentions mark briefly, depressing reading really

[katey]

was that the interview that everyone was crying about a few months ago?

[strangelight]

from www.qotsa.com

With ‘Lullabies’, it seems the record took a more emotional direction, with songs like ‘I never came’ and ‘The blood is love’ having a poignancy that is mostly unheard of on previous releases. I love the surprises that this record brought, the diversity is even more apparent on this CD. Did you realise that it would lead to division amongst some of the fans?

It’s been intense. I knew I was walking into a situation where I could not make everybody happy & before we’d even started recording the unhappy people were so vocal about how they felt. But I hadn’t really said why I had done what I’d done with Mark & Nick, so that question got answered by rumor & by an angry Nick. Music has saved me so many times before & I didn’t wanna say “Nick is violent w/ the ladies & mark is gonna die without help. I’m not on my own cause I wanna be, but because I don’t have a choice. Now forget all that cause here’s the new Queens record!” In hindsight, I was naive. Sometimes words make me feel like I’m trying to do calligraphy with a brick. Music communicates intangible, complex feelings where words fail. So yeah, I sorta stupidly thought I’d play my way out of the mess I was in. “I never came” is about Life knocking you down until you’re ready to give up, but finding a way to rise up again. & “The Blood..” is about looking into the eyes of someone you care about as they pass away & it’s what I said to a special person right after they were gone. When we’d finished recording lullabies, I was confident that everyone would hear honesty & know it was real. I thought ney sayers would respect that it doesn’t hide the emotions of the moment & that its sound is all 3 records rolled into one. But, by the time it finally came out, I think lots of people had made up their minds. Everyone wanted it to be exactly what they wanted it to be or else. I wouldn’t change one note. Albums should be a historical record of their time frames, right? Isn’t that why they’re called records? lullabies is what was goin on for me.
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kinda depressing. but there it is.

[harro]

fuck thats honest and much overdue!!!!


I should say timely.

[Trans4mur]

Someone on the QOTSA message board was speculating that the bands line up is due to change again, I wander if Lanegan could be joining up with them again.......probably not but who knows.

Has the QOTSA gig in Hyde park been discussed yet? I can't afford tickets at the moment so think i'll hold out and hope they do a couple of smaller shows in london around the same time, the gig seems like a one off so it's feasable that they might do some warm up shows

[darklight]

i think Mr Josh Homme wants a big hug.

[flyingv]

trans4mur said:

Has the QOTSA gig in Hyde park been discussed yet? I can't afford tickets at the moment so think i'll hold out and hope they do a couple of smaller shows in london around the same time, the gig seems like a one off so it's feasable that they might do some warm up shows

I think it's safe to assume that some guerilla-type shows might happen. Fingers crossed...but you're probably right about Mark, I doubt he'll be there.

[katey]

darklight said:

i think Mr Josh Homme wants a big hug.

a bear hug, perhaps.