The Dead C. are kinda great after all

That comp is really great - I'm a superfan, own everything they've done, but I bought that CD on tour because the price was right and there were a few things I hadn't heard in years. Forgive the hyperbole, but definitely one of the greatest rock bands ever. Welcome to the club, Adam!

Dead C 'the damned'

Sonic Youth's favourite NZ band: Classic or Dud

7 year rabbit cycle vs. dead c

who has seen the dead c play and where?

Been ramdomly playing tracks for much of the day - just love this, spine chilling toward the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWgsy4IsW8

hell is now love

this is always going to be my favorite i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3uQi2A3CGw

one of my all time favorite bands.

Possibly the last time I'll have a 'my favourite' feeling about any band.

Hello. I just received this note in the mail:

I wanted to get in touch about the new Dead C / Rangda split we're putting out on March 5. The full length features new material from Rangda and newly discovered tracks from Dead C's EUSA Kills sessions!

One track up on SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/badabingrecords/eusa-kills

awesome!

yeah I preordered that mofo as soon as I heard about it, I am excited - even more so now! I like Eusa Kills almost as much as Trapdoor or Harsh 70's.

Tip: that track sounds great w/your morning cornflakes!

Bet they have a box set's worth of this stuff stashed away somewhere...

Can you loop tracks on soundcloud btw?

https://twitter.com/thewiremagazine/status/342584629930360832/photo/1

Cool! Will definitely be buying that.

Volcanic Tongue have just had a batch in of the two Dead C albs on Language Recordings, at mildly eye-watering prices:

http://www.volcanictongue.com/artists/browse/The%2BDead%2BC

Must admit I stumped up for them, they've always been difficult to source legit in the UK. They have a mixed reputation - ie they can't match the Siltbreeze albs - but New Electric Music in partic hit the spot w/ me

Think the Wire feature is by Keennan

I think I like Keenan best when he does long-form band profiles, but I would buy that issue regardless of who wrote it. Seems like a great time to check in with such a long-standing, interesting band.

They only really clicked for me this year, as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fmZTmyN7RA

^ Forced Exposure 7" version of Power, this thing SLAYS

one of the best bands of all time.

Coincidentally, and all y'all probably know about this already of course but these fellows all play on the excellent Peter Jefferies album The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World which just got reissued recently.

Thread here:
Peter Jefferies : Last Great Challenge In A Dull World

http://monsterfresh.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/The-Dead-C-pumpkins.jpg

Saw this today and snapped it up! I hardly ever buy Wire these days but this was straight-up terrific, they were not kidding when they said "we are handing you this article on a plate", with at least a dozen terrific quotes reaching a hilarious high-point when Bruce talked about his year in London, describing Jesus and Mary Chain/The Fall gigs as terrible and all the C86 stuff as piss, and then hurrying back to NZ to "do something about it". And oh my he quite clearly did!

Rudolph Grey aside I expected a lot more talk re: no wave, cause I see Dead C as blues-via-no wave (and Pere Ubu which they do talk about)

It was also quite moving how they describe their early years at the end of the world, trying to draw their own map of rock music/punk/ and the struggle to reach out to others anywhere for records - its that whole business of trying to make your own community, and a culture, and to connect, and that's what you hold onto...

So so good, buy it TODAY at your nearest newsagent if you can!

Man, that sounds great. Last issue on newstands here (U.S.) was the Wolf Eyes issue, which I got not too long ago. Think it will still be a bit before I can get it.

http://vimeo.com/68521234

New Zealander Michael Morley (notably a member of The Dead C) is set to drop his latest work with his solo project Gate. Saturday Night Fever is a reinterpretation of the music from the movie of that name, expanding on the ideas about dance music that Morley established on Gate’s 2010 LP A Republic of Sadness. As fellow noise-guy-turned-dance-enthusiast Pete Swanson puts it: “The resulting album sounds like Morley's pulling out some heaping doses of the hermit boogie and Otago funk and stretching it into some sort of Basinskian disintegration loop gone Bernard Bonnier zonked mutant scene.” The opening track from Saturday Night Fever, a beast of a piece called “Asset,” starts out as a pseudo-disco track with sampled horns and turns into something more like what you’d expect from the hands behind the feedback-drenched and claustrophobic songs of The Dead C. Throw this onto your noise show after-party playlist because it’s the coolest disco is ever going to get.

http://adhoc.fm/post/track-premiere-gate/

This thing is pretty great, though I like some tracks more than others. Just happy for any Dead C related music to keep coming forever.

hey that vimeo above is great! thanks for posting ward fowler

of the Gate releases, really like the one w/ the cut-up of the rolling stones' 'sway' on it, i think it's 'the monolake' on table of the elements

I have been loving this "Saturday Night Fever" album. I haven't been keeping up with what Michael Morley's been doing in a long time but I think this album is incredible. It's no disco album at all, but I see how the inspiration has incorporated itself. Long, throbbing, looping tracks that have been run through Morley's special brand of wood chipper.

Such great stuff. I'll need to check out that Republic of Sadness.

^need to get a hold of the new one.

for those interested: morley & yeats have been playing around town in a trio with shayne carter lately (they seem to have a thing for csn iconography!)

https://youtu.be/aplfZabe_Mo

Really wish I'd made it to the Wgtn Carter, Morley & Yeats show in Newtown, bleh. Been caning Saturday Night Fever.

Anyway - he's now done a Prince tribute! Shades of the Celebrate Psi Phenomenon's Shutupalreadydamn! ...

https://gatemm.bandcamp.com/album/prn

How hard would it be to get Trouble onto the Billboard chart?

ha, recorded at chick's hotel!

!!

https://gatemm.bandcamp.com/album/btylcs

:)

fyi the new Gate album Highway Ghosts is pretty damn killer. Side two is one of the heaviest things Michael has done. Superb.

— Alan Holt (@____ALAN) January 30, 2018

https://gatemm.bandcamp.com/album/highway-ghosts

this rules

http://gatemm.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-album-2

So I guess this is Morley (band name's The Righteous Yeah). NYP. I've only flicked through it but it sounded gorgeous.

Yup, Morley again. Had a great year so far.

He's posting a lot of pay-what-you-want albums under the guise "The Righteous Yeah".

Also, the three Gate volumes of "A word to you who have great possessions" are really nice ambient stuff (although not pay-what-you-want).

Nice, just caught this and now have a good set of listening ahead of me.

How I'm spending my Friday evening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3eMlvqyxs&feature=youtu.be

*sighs*

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