BRITISH SEA POWER
Newsboost Dolomite
15 November 2007
* UK and Irish dates.
* Hottest Record In The World Ever.
* Desirable new merchandise, including bag.
* Brian Clough and food on table Vs Hitler and Sting.
Kim Yong-il and Han Duck-soo have spoken for the first time in 15 years. In the same spirit as the North and South Korean prime ministers meeting up for a chat, British Sea Power have been communicating widely this week. The radio waves have been alive!
On Monday on Radio 1, Zane Lowe made forthcoming BSP single Waving Flags his 'Hottest Record In The World Ever'. On the 6 Music Round Table panel vote with Steve Lamacq, Waving Flags triumphed over Fightin' Amy Winehouse, The Futureheads and even Wyclef Jean. Marc Riley and John Kennedy also weighed in with style on 6 Music and XFM. Special mention must go to Radcliffe and Maconie and their Radio 2 show. First they played the new BSP track Canvey Island - and then discussed it with vigour. The next night they announced the BSP 'Rock Music/Non-Rock Music' initiative to the great British public - more below. As Stuart Maconie insisted, "This is boardgame everyone will be playing this Christmas."
On the print front, there was a rapturous review of BSP's recent Scala show in leading UK newspaper The Independent: "Precise... primal... one of our most compelling bands." To read the review:
http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article3164444.ece
Better still, there is more BSP live-on-tour rock music on the way. The following UK and Irish dates are now confirmed.
Thurs 17 Jan - Belfast Spring And Airbrake
Fri 18 Jan - Dublin Whelan's (Tel: 00 353 1890 200 078)
Sun 20 Jan - Norwich Waterfront (Tel: 01603 508 050)
Mon 21 Jan - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (Tel: 023 9286 3911)
Tues 22 Jan - Nottingham Rescue Rooms (Tel: 0871 3100 000)
Weds 23 Jan - Leeds Irish Centre (Tel: 0113 245 5570)
Thurs 24 Jan - Kendal Brewery (Tel: 0871 424 4444)
Sat 26 Jan - Glasgow The Arches (Tel: 08444 999 990)
Sun 27 Jan - Manchester Academy 2 (Tel: 0161 832 1111)
Mon 28 Jan - Oxford Academy (Tel: 0844 477 2000)
Tues 29 Jan - Brighton Komedia (Tel: 01273 647100)
Thurs 31 Jan - London Koko (0870 0600 100)
24-hour credit-card line: 0870 2200 260
Most tickets online at http://www.gigsandtours.com
All shows will feature beer bar and amplified rock music. And we would like to further canvass your views on these important areas.
Perhaps the overriding theme of the forthcoming BSP album, Do You Like Rock Music?, is good versus evil. Or rock music versus non-rock music. For, surely, 'rock music' and 'non-rock music' are synonyms for all that this is truly good and truly bad in this world.
To this end, BSP are compiling a list of all that is truly rock music and all that is truly non-rock music - please see the starter selections below.
The enlightened radio broadcasters Radcliffe and Maconie have already come to our assistance, inviting entries for the fields of rock music and non-rock music on their Radio 2 show. Radcliffe and Maconie opened this important contemporary debate on Thursday 15 November.
You can listen again at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffemaconie/
The BSP rock/non-rock content starts about eight minutes in. (You can also listen again to the track Canvey Island - about 18 mins in on the Wednesday show).
Please do suggest your own rock/non-rock dipoles and include them on this BSP Forum thread: http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/forum.htm
Even better if you also fancy e-mailing your rock/non-rock suggestions to Radcliffe and Maconie:
[email protected]
And, of course, do feel at liberty to froth, fight and disagree. But, REMEMBER, in their self-sealed role as the moment's supreme rock-music authority, BSP will have final say. Oh yeah.
ROCK MUSIC: Brian Clough, Iggy Pop, Little Richard, Tommy The Buzzard, second-hand bicycles, Charles Francis, Johnny Kingdom, Jose Mourinho, sweet chestnuts, Jamelia, having enough food to eat, Bob Nastanovich Of Pavement, Winston Churchill, Wayne Coyne, affordable cider, Roy Keane, The Who, Jordan, Thin Lizzy, Big Daddy, Arthur Brown, James Brown, Ian Brown, Pamela Brown, The Brown Bottle, Hedy Lamarr, dominoes, cherry wood, Bill Clinton, soap, Nick Cave, good manners, Ol' Dirty Bastard.
NON-ROCK MUSIC: U2, Hitler, Royal rat Prince Harry shooting hen harriers (allegedly), the Red Hot Chili Peppers, continental lager made in Britain, malnutrition, being the bassist in a Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute band, George Bush, Kevlar, Green Day (aka The American Alarm), Jlo, Tony Blair still being a politician when he should be reforming his Rolling Stones-style rock band, Nine Inch Nails, accidentally shooting the wrong person on a train, Sting, owning more mobile phones than you have hands, shower gel, being seen at a Rolling Stones after-show party.
Finally, please note that there are some remarkable new product lines now available at the BSP web shop: http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/shop.htm.
These include a brown T-shirt with a horse brass and motivational slogan, plus a shopping bag and mugs, stickers, hair pomade and tats.
But which are rock music? Surely not the latter?
With thanks.
Yours,
The Secretary