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UnGraded HateMail 5th October 2005
UnGraded HateMail
5th October 2005
www.missblackamerica.net
Hello!
There's a fucking shitload of exciting stuff going on at the moment, not least the fact that I might be getting some new, non-minging trainers soon. Release dates for the new single and album are now confirmed, the single's being played on Radio One, XFM and BBC 6music, we've got a Love Music Hate Racism tour and two John Peel Day gigs coming up, new T-shirts and posters and lighters available to buy AND the video will be with MTV2/Kerrang! TV etcetera by next week. As a very wise man once said, "Awooga". Details of EVERYTHING are all below...
The John Peel gigs have been arranged fairly last-minute, so if anyone wants to help us hand out flyers, put up posters or just spread the word on message boards etc then it'd be massively appreciated. In fact, if anyone wants to help us promote any of the gigs, let us know and Richard will personally bear your children.
This, then, is the News:
***JOHN PEEL DAY - Thursday 13th October***
Miss Black America will be playing two gigs next week as part of the BBC's John Peel Day, marking one year since the legendary DJ`s last Radio One broadcast.
The first gig takes place on Wednesday 12th October at The Music Pub in Bury St Edmunds (only 15 minutes from Peel Acres), and will feature local bands The Vaults and The Visions (featuring Greg, ex of Peel favourites The Dawn Parade).
The second gig will be at Colour in Camden, where MBA recently played to a full house at their record label launch party, on Thursday 13th October. Also on the bill will be local heroes Bullet Union, and iDou, featuring Fruitbat of chart-topping indie pop punk Gods Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (whose early-90s hit single "Rubbish" famously sampled Peel). All proceeds go to Amnesty International. The BBC's John Peel webpage can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/johnpeelday/
Wed 12 Oct 2005
Bury St Edmunds
The Music Pub (formerly The Priors)
John Peel Tribute Gig
with The Vaults, The Visions, Burn, Freak Infliction & Vanilla Kick
£5, Doors 5pm, 14+
Tickets available from Sounds Plus & the venue
DOWNLOAD THE POSTER from http://missblackamerica.net/imagelib/323.jpg
Thu 13 Oct 2005
London UK
Camden Colour
JOHN PEEL DAY
with Bullet Union, iDou (feat. Fruitbat ex-Carter USM) & The Siamese Sluts
£2, ALL PROCEEDS TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Doors 8pm
***NEW ALBUM AND SINGLE - both out in October***
Miss Black America's long-awaited second album, TERMINAL, will finally be available in the shops on Monday 31st October. The album will be launched in style at the Ruby Slippers Records Hallowe`en Fancy Dress Party at Nambucca in Holloway Road, London.
The preceding week will see the release of a new single, DROWNING BY NUMBERS, on Monday 24th October. The video for the single, which was shot on the same Boeing 747 used in new Tom Hanks movie The DaVinci Code, will be shown on MTV2 and Kerrang! as of next Monday, 10th October. Radio One's Steve Lamacq, Tom Robinson at 6music and John Kennedy at XFM have been playing the single, please feel free to e-mail them words of encouragement to play it some more...
Steve Lamacq: lamacq.6music@bbc.co.uk
Tom Robinson: tom.6music@bbc.co.uk
John Kennedy: john.kennedy@xfm.co.uk
Zane Lowe: zane.lowe@bbc.co.uk
THE NEW SINGLE:
Drowning By Numbers b/w All I Want Is Out
Monday 24th October
on Ruby Slippers Records
Cat No RSR001 Distributed by Cargo
THE NEW ALBUM:
Terminal
Monday 31st October
on Ruby Slippers Records
Cat No RSR002 Distributed by Cargo
13 Tracks: Terminal One/Dot Dot Dot/Drowning By Numbers/Freefall/Beauty Of Song/Automatic/Reborn/Emotional Junkmail/Once More, With Feeling/Chemical/Voices/Terminal Two
Speaking of radio...
***MBA ON THE RADIO***
Hear MBA on the following stations:
Tues 11 Oct TotalRock
Interview with Lisa on the Metal Lunchbox, 12pm-3pm GMT
www.totalrock.com
Mon 17 Oct BBC 6music
Interview & Live Session
on Tom Robinson's Evening Sequence, 7pm-9.30pm GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/radio
Sun 6 Nov Cambridge Star 107FM
Interview with Neil Jones, 7pm-10pm GMT
www.star107.co.uk
***MBA TO ROCK AGAINST RACISM (again)***
MBA are to head out on the road in support of the Anti Nazi League`s Love Music Hate Racism campaign later this month. The 6-date UK tour will include a Hallowe`en Fancy Dress Party at trendy Islington bar Nambucca (Carl Barat recently DJed there, and it`s run by the chap who started the insanely popular FROG nights at Mean Fiddler). Also on the tour are The Priory, Datapanik (formerly known as all-conquering indie heroes BiS) and Dive Dive.
Wed 26 Oct
Edinburgh UK
Cabaret Voltaire
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
Presented by Baby Tiger
with Datapanik (formerly BiS), Sans Trauma & iDou (feat. Fruitbat, ex-Carter USM)
£4 adv/£5 on door, Doors 7pm
Tickets available from Ripping Records & Tickets Scotland
Fri 28 Oct
Grimsby UK
Spiders Web
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
with The Priory
£5, Doors 7pm
Sat 29 Oct
Wolverhampton UK
Little Civic
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
with The Priory & The Reform
£5, 7.30pm
Sun 30 Oct
Ipswich UK
Manor Ballroom
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
Presented by Sonic Midwife
with The Visions, Datapanik, Dive Dive, The Priory, The Khe Sanh Approach & The Ten Year Prospect
£5, Doors 4.30pm, 14+, MBA onstage 9.30pm
Mon 31 Oct
London UK
Islington Nambucca
Ruby Slippers Records Hallowe`en Party
in support of Love Music Hate Racism
with Dive Dive, Datapanik, Bullet Union, The Priory & The Visions
£4 fancy dress/£6 boring, Doors 6pm, 18+, MBA onstage 8pm
Fri 04 Nov
Cambridge UK
Man on the Moon
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
with The Priory & The Ten Year Prospect
£5, Doors 8pm, 14+
Love Music Hate Racism: www.lmhr.org.uk
***MBA MERCHANDISE AT REPEAT.CO.UK***
Currently available from the R*E*P*E*A*T website is a whole host of MBA merchandise: T-shirts, posters, cigarette lighters and releases, including most of our back catalogue and a limited-edition version of the new album, "Terminal", for only a fiver.
GO ON: $£LL¥OUR$OUL
www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/mba%20poster.htm
***AND FINALLY...***
Thanks to everyone who came to the Great Ormond Street Hospital benefit gig last Sunday (25th September) - we had a wicked time, and the night raised around £1,000 for the hospital. Ta! .
ROCK YOU MONKEYS
love from Seymour MBA xxx
* * * * *
POCKET REVOLUTION
by Seymour
When we played last year's Love Music Hate Racism gig at the Astoria with The Libertines, 80's Matchbox and Buzzcocks, we had to share our dressing room with The Others. The first things they proudly told me was that their reason for playing was to "get in" with the cool bands, and that Alan McGee bought them all their drugs. Caring about anti-racist activities didn't even register. Then after we'd come offstage they'd locked us out of their dressing room so they could smoke crack with Pete Doherty's "Personal Assistant". Rock 'n' rooooll, boys!
The tragic thing is that, no matter how briefly these dull stars shine, it's all another chink in the armour of progress towards everything that rock 'n' roll COULD stand for - more than just another vain pose, another empty soundbite, another stupid drug casualty. I've got untold respect for Alan McGee - Creation Records was probably the greatest label of all time and his legacy will live forever - but this adolescent, niggling hard-on he has for Fucked-Up Young Men Who Like Drugs Too Much makes me want to at best throw a bucket of cold water over his balding ginger bonce, at worst perform a John Wayne Bobbitt, pack him and his severed tadger in ice and FedEx them over to spend a year in the Colombian mountains.
The question that always gets me is - at what point did rock 'n' roll get so staid, so retarded, so commodified, so fundamentally useless? Admittedly, it's not like there's ever been a time when certain things didn't stagnate, but it's heartbreaking how quickly any trace of genuine fire and passion is snuffed out, either through bands burning themselves out, being misrepresented in a way that makes them bitter and cynical, compromising themselves to please everyone else or just giving up and creeping home. The Libertines could've been the most amazingly fantastically importantly brilliant band of the next decade, but they were killed off just as they were reaching the status they truly deserved - and yeah, Pete is to blame, but who exactly payrolled his "Personal Assistants"? Who was slipping him cash when they should've been slapping his ass? Pete became the worst kind of tabloid junkie star and people who were old enough to know better did fuck all to discourage him. Malcolm McClarens, one and all.
What's worst of all of this, time and time again, all the fame and misfortune aside, is the human element: that two best friends whose love for each other made the band so special were divided across the Coxon/Albarn divide, with one side genuinely caring about a wonderful thing and retaining a sense of perspective (and with it credibility), and the other seduced by celebrity and thus made a public laughing stock. How can anyone who's seen Johnny Rotten crying at the end of The Filth And The Fury then laud Sid Vicious as some kind of punk rock icon? Yeah, he looked cool, but all he burned with was a furious emptiness, a walking vacuum, a backdraft waiting for the tabloids to kick open the door - perhaps in that sense he was the first truly 21st century boy.
I don't require my idols to "say something", to make political statements or sweeping gestures. Neither do I require them to be either amazingly attractive or dead ringers for The Doves. In fact, I don't require anything at all in either sound, image or presentation. Music either gets you or it doesn't. What I think is needed, in all aspects of popular culture right now, is a sense of perspective in the face of a million words and images that distract us from who we are and where we're at - we're all so dazzled by the lights we can't even see what we're made of. On the one hand, yeah, we need icons to show us what we're capable of - watching The Clash's Rude Boy video made me go and buy a Telecaster and start singing about Things That Really Meant Something To Me, rather than "lalalala I looove yooouuuu". On the other hand, it's dangerous to start seeing anyone who gets on telly or in a magazine in the same way as old people see the Royal Family - ie, that they are fundamentally BETTER THAN YOU, and therefore EXACTLY the way you should be.
I've had countless pub arguments about the meaning of "punk" - in many ways it's the greatest pub argument you can ever have, 'cause it could go on forever. But for me the definition lies purely in the attitude, and especially in the attitude towards yourself: as Paul duNoyer puts it, it's about "Self-respect in the teeth of snobbery. An answer to the poverty of aspiration. The Holy Communion of Rock and Roll."
It's time we turned our backs on the retarded, decadent notions of "rock and roll" that have haunted us since the 50's. All they do is drag us down. We can never be perfect and we should never try to be, but all that can save us really is self-respect. We're not expected to have self-respect, to have aspirations. In a time when you can buy yourself a fully-formed identity from a Kerrang! catalogue, the most punk rock thing you can do is to stop giving a fuck what other people think.
As dEUS might have it: Long live the Pocket Revolution.
www.missblackamerica.net
5th October 2005
www.missblackamerica.net
Hello!
There's a fucking shitload of exciting stuff going on at the moment, not least the fact that I might be getting some new, non-minging trainers soon. Release dates for the new single and album are now confirmed, the single's being played on Radio One, XFM and BBC 6music, we've got a Love Music Hate Racism tour and two John Peel Day gigs coming up, new T-shirts and posters and lighters available to buy AND the video will be with MTV2/Kerrang! TV etcetera by next week. As a very wise man once said, "Awooga". Details of EVERYTHING are all below...
The John Peel gigs have been arranged fairly last-minute, so if anyone wants to help us hand out flyers, put up posters or just spread the word on message boards etc then it'd be massively appreciated. In fact, if anyone wants to help us promote any of the gigs, let us know and Richard will personally bear your children.
This, then, is the News:
***JOHN PEEL DAY - Thursday 13th October***
Miss Black America will be playing two gigs next week as part of the BBC's John Peel Day, marking one year since the legendary DJ`s last Radio One broadcast.
The first gig takes place on Wednesday 12th October at The Music Pub in Bury St Edmunds (only 15 minutes from Peel Acres), and will feature local bands The Vaults and The Visions (featuring Greg, ex of Peel favourites The Dawn Parade).
The second gig will be at Colour in Camden, where MBA recently played to a full house at their record label launch party, on Thursday 13th October. Also on the bill will be local heroes Bullet Union, and iDou, featuring Fruitbat of chart-topping indie pop punk Gods Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (whose early-90s hit single "Rubbish" famously sampled Peel). All proceeds go to Amnesty International. The BBC's John Peel webpage can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/johnpeelday/
Wed 12 Oct 2005
Bury St Edmunds
The Music Pub (formerly The Priors)
John Peel Tribute Gig
with The Vaults, The Visions, Burn, Freak Infliction & Vanilla Kick
£5, Doors 5pm, 14+
Tickets available from Sounds Plus & the venue
DOWNLOAD THE POSTER from http://missblackamerica.net/imagelib/323.jpg
Thu 13 Oct 2005
London UK
Camden Colour
JOHN PEEL DAY
with Bullet Union, iDou (feat. Fruitbat ex-Carter USM) & The Siamese Sluts
£2, ALL PROCEEDS TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Doors 8pm
***NEW ALBUM AND SINGLE - both out in October***
Miss Black America's long-awaited second album, TERMINAL, will finally be available in the shops on Monday 31st October. The album will be launched in style at the Ruby Slippers Records Hallowe`en Fancy Dress Party at Nambucca in Holloway Road, London.
The preceding week will see the release of a new single, DROWNING BY NUMBERS, on Monday 24th October. The video for the single, which was shot on the same Boeing 747 used in new Tom Hanks movie The DaVinci Code, will be shown on MTV2 and Kerrang! as of next Monday, 10th October. Radio One's Steve Lamacq, Tom Robinson at 6music and John Kennedy at XFM have been playing the single, please feel free to e-mail them words of encouragement to play it some more...
Steve Lamacq: lamacq.6music@bbc.co.uk
Tom Robinson: tom.6music@bbc.co.uk
John Kennedy: john.kennedy@xfm.co.uk
Zane Lowe: zane.lowe@bbc.co.uk
THE NEW SINGLE:
Drowning By Numbers b/w All I Want Is Out
Monday 24th October
on Ruby Slippers Records
Cat No RSR001 Distributed by Cargo
THE NEW ALBUM:
Terminal
Monday 31st October
on Ruby Slippers Records
Cat No RSR002 Distributed by Cargo
13 Tracks: Terminal One/Dot Dot Dot/Drowning By Numbers/Freefall/Beauty Of Song/Automatic/Reborn/Emotional Junkmail/Once More, With Feeling/Chemical/Voices/Terminal Two
Speaking of radio...
***MBA ON THE RADIO***
Hear MBA on the following stations:
Tues 11 Oct TotalRock
Interview with Lisa on the Metal Lunchbox, 12pm-3pm GMT
www.totalrock.com
Mon 17 Oct BBC 6music
Interview & Live Session
on Tom Robinson's Evening Sequence, 7pm-9.30pm GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/radio
Sun 6 Nov Cambridge Star 107FM
Interview with Neil Jones, 7pm-10pm GMT
www.star107.co.uk
***MBA TO ROCK AGAINST RACISM (again)***
MBA are to head out on the road in support of the Anti Nazi League`s Love Music Hate Racism campaign later this month. The 6-date UK tour will include a Hallowe`en Fancy Dress Party at trendy Islington bar Nambucca (Carl Barat recently DJed there, and it`s run by the chap who started the insanely popular FROG nights at Mean Fiddler). Also on the tour are The Priory, Datapanik (formerly known as all-conquering indie heroes BiS) and Dive Dive.
Wed 26 Oct
Edinburgh UK
Cabaret Voltaire
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
Presented by Baby Tiger
with Datapanik (formerly BiS), Sans Trauma & iDou (feat. Fruitbat, ex-Carter USM)
£4 adv/£5 on door, Doors 7pm
Tickets available from Ripping Records & Tickets Scotland
Fri 28 Oct
Grimsby UK
Spiders Web
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
with The Priory
£5, Doors 7pm
Sat 29 Oct
Wolverhampton UK
Little Civic
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
with The Priory & The Reform
£5, 7.30pm
Sun 30 Oct
Ipswich UK
Manor Ballroom
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
Presented by Sonic Midwife
with The Visions, Datapanik, Dive Dive, The Priory, The Khe Sanh Approach & The Ten Year Prospect
£5, Doors 4.30pm, 14+, MBA onstage 9.30pm
Mon 31 Oct
London UK
Islington Nambucca
Ruby Slippers Records Hallowe`en Party
in support of Love Music Hate Racism
with Dive Dive, Datapanik, Bullet Union, The Priory & The Visions
£4 fancy dress/£6 boring, Doors 6pm, 18+, MBA onstage 8pm
Fri 04 Nov
Cambridge UK
Man on the Moon
Love Music Hate Racism Tour
with The Priory & The Ten Year Prospect
£5, Doors 8pm, 14+
Love Music Hate Racism: www.lmhr.org.uk
***MBA MERCHANDISE AT REPEAT.CO.UK***
Currently available from the R*E*P*E*A*T website is a whole host of MBA merchandise: T-shirts, posters, cigarette lighters and releases, including most of our back catalogue and a limited-edition version of the new album, "Terminal", for only a fiver.
GO ON: $£LL¥OUR$OUL
www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/mba%20poster.htm
***AND FINALLY...***
Thanks to everyone who came to the Great Ormond Street Hospital benefit gig last Sunday (25th September) - we had a wicked time, and the night raised around £1,000 for the hospital. Ta! .
ROCK YOU MONKEYS
love from Seymour MBA xxx
* * * * *
POCKET REVOLUTION
by Seymour
When we played last year's Love Music Hate Racism gig at the Astoria with The Libertines, 80's Matchbox and Buzzcocks, we had to share our dressing room with The Others. The first things they proudly told me was that their reason for playing was to "get in" with the cool bands, and that Alan McGee bought them all their drugs. Caring about anti-racist activities didn't even register. Then after we'd come offstage they'd locked us out of their dressing room so they could smoke crack with Pete Doherty's "Personal Assistant". Rock 'n' rooooll, boys!
The tragic thing is that, no matter how briefly these dull stars shine, it's all another chink in the armour of progress towards everything that rock 'n' roll COULD stand for - more than just another vain pose, another empty soundbite, another stupid drug casualty. I've got untold respect for Alan McGee - Creation Records was probably the greatest label of all time and his legacy will live forever - but this adolescent, niggling hard-on he has for Fucked-Up Young Men Who Like Drugs Too Much makes me want to at best throw a bucket of cold water over his balding ginger bonce, at worst perform a John Wayne Bobbitt, pack him and his severed tadger in ice and FedEx them over to spend a year in the Colombian mountains.
The question that always gets me is - at what point did rock 'n' roll get so staid, so retarded, so commodified, so fundamentally useless? Admittedly, it's not like there's ever been a time when certain things didn't stagnate, but it's heartbreaking how quickly any trace of genuine fire and passion is snuffed out, either through bands burning themselves out, being misrepresented in a way that makes them bitter and cynical, compromising themselves to please everyone else or just giving up and creeping home. The Libertines could've been the most amazingly fantastically importantly brilliant band of the next decade, but they were killed off just as they were reaching the status they truly deserved - and yeah, Pete is to blame, but who exactly payrolled his "Personal Assistants"? Who was slipping him cash when they should've been slapping his ass? Pete became the worst kind of tabloid junkie star and people who were old enough to know better did fuck all to discourage him. Malcolm McClarens, one and all.
What's worst of all of this, time and time again, all the fame and misfortune aside, is the human element: that two best friends whose love for each other made the band so special were divided across the Coxon/Albarn divide, with one side genuinely caring about a wonderful thing and retaining a sense of perspective (and with it credibility), and the other seduced by celebrity and thus made a public laughing stock. How can anyone who's seen Johnny Rotten crying at the end of The Filth And The Fury then laud Sid Vicious as some kind of punk rock icon? Yeah, he looked cool, but all he burned with was a furious emptiness, a walking vacuum, a backdraft waiting for the tabloids to kick open the door - perhaps in that sense he was the first truly 21st century boy.
I don't require my idols to "say something", to make political statements or sweeping gestures. Neither do I require them to be either amazingly attractive or dead ringers for The Doves. In fact, I don't require anything at all in either sound, image or presentation. Music either gets you or it doesn't. What I think is needed, in all aspects of popular culture right now, is a sense of perspective in the face of a million words and images that distract us from who we are and where we're at - we're all so dazzled by the lights we can't even see what we're made of. On the one hand, yeah, we need icons to show us what we're capable of - watching The Clash's Rude Boy video made me go and buy a Telecaster and start singing about Things That Really Meant Something To Me, rather than "lalalala I looove yooouuuu". On the other hand, it's dangerous to start seeing anyone who gets on telly or in a magazine in the same way as old people see the Royal Family - ie, that they are fundamentally BETTER THAN YOU, and therefore EXACTLY the way you should be.
I've had countless pub arguments about the meaning of "punk" - in many ways it's the greatest pub argument you can ever have, 'cause it could go on forever. But for me the definition lies purely in the attitude, and especially in the attitude towards yourself: as Paul duNoyer puts it, it's about "Self-respect in the teeth of snobbery. An answer to the poverty of aspiration. The Holy Communion of Rock and Roll."
It's time we turned our backs on the retarded, decadent notions of "rock and roll" that have haunted us since the 50's. All they do is drag us down. We can never be perfect and we should never try to be, but all that can save us really is self-respect. We're not expected to have self-respect, to have aspirations. In a time when you can buy yourself a fully-formed identity from a Kerrang! catalogue, the most punk rock thing you can do is to stop giving a fuck what other people think.
As dEUS might have it: Long live the Pocket Revolution.
www.missblackamerica.net