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Live on Lauren Laverne's show today at midday. Watch it live online http://bbc.co.uk/6music
Also, DiS might get 5mins with Mr Spaceman...anyone got any questions they might want asked?
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does he ever where those ace silver trousers around the house?
do they come in size W36 L38?
What does "Huh?" mean on his new album cover?
I'm going to see them in a small venue on Saturday
Excited...
I was offered a ticket for this.
But I couldn't be arsed.
ask him why songs in a&e was rubbish
Sweet Talk, Soul On Fire and Death Take Your fiddle are all pretty strong.
Although in saying this I haven't listened to the album since it came out.
soul on fire is a great track, yes
interestingly these three were played live ages before the album was recorded, and i'd agree they're the strongest. makes me wonder if the album was rushed.
I concur. Think he probably needed some pocket money though after being ill for so long.
Sweet Talk live is one of my all time favourite live tracks.
Wow, they're still going?
Where's Thighpaulsandra now?
Heard Lauren's interview with him.
Good luck with any questions, he seemed like really hard work to interview.
I don't think he's a man who really enjoys the promo side of things.
yeah
and he didn't have time/wasn't available, for a chat. oh well. i got to watch him from about three steps away. it was immense.
I wouldn't want to chat Jason. He made one of my favourite albums ever
and in that situation you're only ever going to be disappointed if he turns out to be an absolute arse. Much better to build some kind of mythology in your head and leave it like that.
Exactly
This has happened with a few acts. I kinda don't want to know that he's just a miserable guy who plays guitars and likes gospel and that. Rather than this genius who MADE LADIES AND GENTS!
to sort his shit out with Sonic Boom
and write some new Spacemen 3 material
I adore Spacemen 3
but I really hope this never happens
I concur.
I met Will Carruthers a little while ago and he basically spelled out that the 2 men are insufferable egomaniacs with a god complex who could barely stand to be in the same room as each other by the end.
exactly what I would've thought
<3 Will Carruthers
So much this. Although his band was terrible.
can you beat this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00q3m0l
one of the worst live experiences I've ever had.
"ladies and gents" still rocks though, before you ban me.
seen 'em three times
once was a crushing disappointment at brixton academy but the ladies & gents show at royal festival hall is in the top 5 gigs of my life, and yesterday's isn't too far behind it!
That is good to know...
saw them on pure phase tour '95. that was their peak for me
utterly incredible space rock trance fest. seen them a few times in the last few years and they were very disappointing.
I wished I'd got to see them in the 90s
before they went total balls-out gospel like they are now.
Not enough distortion maaaaan
Nobody's done this yet, but...
Lazer Guided Melodies > Pure Phase > Ladies and Gentleman > The Rest (bothered...)
Their debut was an awesome record. Four 15 minute multipart tracks, great pop, great guitars. Splendid.
Pure Phase built on that with more drone, more pop, more diversity and gospel / strings that added to the tunes rather than took away.
Ladies and Gentlemen had some good bits (Cop Shoot Cop, I Think I'm In Love) but was over sentimal gloop in places. To be honest, if Ego Ashcroft had nicked my girlfriend, I'd be depressed (although at least he was pre-Urban Hymns at that time so not entirely disappeared up his own anus).
Bit harsh on the rest...
Lazer Guided Melodies > Ladies & Gentlemen > Pure Phase > Live At Royal Albert Hall > Amazing Grace > Songs In A&E > Let It Come Down
Sorry, "the rest" meant "I haven't bothered to listen to them"...
...I am happy to be corrected. Perhaps I'll try Amazing Grace...
Amazing Grace was the one...
...that they recorded in a couple of weeks having fucked about for years recording the distinctly underhwleming Let It Come Down. It's a refreshing change from the gospel stuff that he seems to favour these days.
I love Let It Come Down
Sure it's overblown, but kind of in a good way.
Ladies and Gentlemen (calling this sentimental gloop in places? Crazy) > Let it Come Down > Lazer Guided Melodies > Pure Phase > Songs in A&E > Amazing Grace
But I do like all of them. The two Complete Works records have some ood stuff too (though not so sure about the acapella 200 Bars!).
yeah, all of the first four albums are superb
It took me ages to really get Let It Come Down, the kind of over-the-top layering of that new organic sound came over as a bit leaden, especially in comparison to the effortless production on Ladies And Gentlemen, but gradually it got stronger and stronger until...BLAM! The songwriting's top dollar all the way through.
The two live albums and the first Complete Works are essential too, needless to say.
I'd put Amazing Grace over A&E. I think Death Take Your Fiddle is the worst thing they've ever done. I mean...a Spiritualized song that actually makes my heart sink when it comes on. Sad days man, sad days.
by 'BLAM!'
I take it you mean 'Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)' which is by a distance my favourite Spiritualized song and one of my favourite tracks of the 00's
it's a fucking belter
Whether that was actually what I meant is a mere detail brother.
the speaker-busting version of Lord Can You Hear Me practically brings me off too
Why are people so deaf to the glory of this album???
it takes 10 songs to rise above 'decent'
is your answer
probably harsh on 'Don't Just Do Something' tbf
gah
I was at that RFH show...
...and it really was incredible - seeing them in the tiny little Wedgewood Rooms on Saturday and I don't think it's even sold out...good old Pompey...
I'm going to that too :)
I think I was at that Brixton gig
2001 right? Only time I've ever walked out of a gig halfway through. Absolute fucking shite. And I'm a big fan.
ask him if he needs a drummer
office jobs suck
He may have seen me play for a band called The Interceptors back in the day in Rugby.....
they also played a bunch of other new songs – "Mary", "Life Is a Problem" and "So Long You Pretty Things" – live that I think people missed http://thenjunderground.com/blog/2012/3/5/building-the-leak-spiritualized-sweet-heart-sweet-light.html
Probably my fave band ever, seen them 12 or 13 times
But the new album has 2 great songs on it (Hey Jane/SLYPT) and the rest are awful.
really?! have you heard the live versions or the album?
hey jane is one of the best?
wow...
how'd you hear the album?
Saw them lots in the early-mid 90s
and Lazer Guided Melodies was one of my favourite records at the time, but it just sadly feels like they've been on a slow but steady decline for a long time. Listening to LGM the other night just confirmed it. Great record.
seems a good place to say
they're playing London's Hackney Empire on monday, some tickets still available in advance from http://www.atpfestival.com/events/spzdhackney.php
lovely and underused venue that one.
Sweet Heart Sweet Light streaming now on NPR
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/08/149860995/first-listen-spiritualized-sweet-heart-sweet-light?ps=mh_frhdl1
Well,
this is pretty fucking terrible then
nah
i like it!
Its just so dreary and midpaced
and MIDDLE-AGED
in reply to zahidf, obvs
That video to Hey Jane....oh my.
I saw it on the DiS music video article (which is ace by the way).
The Hey Jane video is like a punch to the gut, so so good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U_EqgBWnmc&ob=av3e
(p.s L&G > LGM > PP > LICD > AG > SIA&E)