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December 1, 2008
Don't miss Jim & Marcus play with Sparks! The
Superiors recorded an episode of famed producer, Nigel
Godrich's show, FROM THE BASEMENT
with legendary band, Sparks!
If you are in the UK you can catch the first show of the new
season with Sparks, Gnarls
Barkley, and The
Kills on Sky Arts 1 at 10 pm on Wednesday 3rd December.
IFC
will be broadcasting the series across the US through Jan '09
we will give you specific dates when we have
them.
MARCUS & JIM WILL PLAY A LIVE SHOW WITH
SPARKS IN LOS ANGELES!
SPARKS WILL PLAY A SPECIAL
SHOW IN LOS ANGELES AT UCLA'S ROYCE HALL ON SATURDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY
14, 2009. THEY WILL PERFORM IN THEIR ENTIRETY THEIR NEW ALBUM "EXOTIC
CREATURES OF THE DEEP" AND ALSO THE CLASSIC "KIMONO MY HOUSE." ASSORTED
SPARKS FAVORITES WILL THEN FOLLOW.
NEWS!
Marcus & Jim join Daniel Lanois for two radio broadcasts to air
this week on Canadian radio! Tune in! Turn on! Drop
out!
The first show is called Q with Jian
Ghomeshi and will air on Thursday,
Nov. 13th on CBC Radio 1 at 2
and 10pm!
The second show is Drive (with
Buck 65) and will air on Friday, Nov.
14th between 5&6pm on CBC
Radio 2!
Daniel Lanois' show with Jim & Marcus at Massey Hall in Toronto will be recorded for a
future CBC radio broadcast! Stay tuned!
October 17, 2008
On the road again...
Hello one and all! Just a little over a week
after finishing up our Grande tour of Spain and France, Marcus &
Jim head out to Canada and Boston, Massachusetts to start a tour with
legendary producer/performer, Daniel Lanois! Marcus
& Jim will play bass and guitar respectively and will provide some
delicious harmonies! These shows are not to be missed!
Speaking of Lanois, Marcus & Jim make an
appearance in Daniel's film, Here Is What Is!
This film is an instant classic, showing Lanois thoughts on music and
working in the studio with U2, Brian Eno, Aaron Neville and Jim &
Marcus! While you're in Lanois-land, check out Bob Dylan's recently released cd
set, Tell Tale Signs. This set features tons of Dylan's work with
our friend, Daniel Lanois!
Here our our tour dates with Lanois:
St Catharines - Montebello Park 25 Sep 8PM
St Johns - Club One 16 Oct 9:15PM
Moncton - Capitol Theatre 17 Oct 9:20PM
Halifax - The Marquee Club 18 Oct 10:15PM
Ottawa - Centrepointe Theatre 24 Oct 7:30PM
Belleville - The Empire Theatre 25 Oct 8PM
London - Aeolian Hall 6 Nov 7PM
Mount Forest - Old Roxy Theatre 7 Nov 9PM
Parry Sound - Stockey Centre 8 Nov 8PM
Toronto - Massey Hall 14 Nov 8PM
Boston - Berklee Performance Centre 16 Nov
8:15PM
August 5, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENT! MOTHER
SUPERIOR'S GRANDE TOUR COMES TO SPAIN AND FRANCE!
That's right! Mother
Superior returns to Spain and France for the second leg of their
"Grande Tour "08! Thrills! Surprises! Marvelous music
for your ear holes! Here are the dates:
September
22 - St Etienne,
France - Thunderbird Lounge
23 - Toulouse, France - Saint des Seins
24 - Barcelona, Spain - Apolo 2
25 - Valencia, Spain - Durango Club
26 - Alicante, Spain - Sala Stereo
27 - Vitoria, Spain - Helldorado
28 - Gijon, Spain - Savoy
29 - Vigo, Spain - La Fabrica De Chocolate
30 - Caceres, Spain - El Corral
De Las Cigüeñas
October
1 -
A Coruña, Spain - Mardi Gras
2 - Burgos, Spain - Studio 27
3 - Bilbao,
Spain - Azkena
4 -
Madrid, Spain - Gruta 77
July 22, 2008
Howdy! More
gigs with Jim & Marcus
playing with Sparks:
July 26 - Niigata, Japan - Fuji
Rock Festival
August 29 - Argyll, Scotland - Hydro
Connect Festival
July 1, 2008
With a little
help from our friends...
Hello everyone, one
and all! Just got back from London and Eastern Europe with Sparks!
What an event! What an honor! What a fun bunch of guys from
outer space (do the research, heh)! Where are the Guinness
book people when you need them?
How do we follow that
up? How about four shows in Montreal with Daniel Lanois
for the
Montreal Jazz Festival! We will be playing in various venues
all over town for the fest! Should be a gas! Do come along
if you're so inclined to! More special things to come.
Watch this space!
Daniel
Lanois with Marcus Blake and Jim Wilson Montreal Jazz
Festival shows
Cabaret Juste pour Rire
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Cabaret Juste pour Rire
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Club Soda
Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Métropolis
Friday, July 04, 2008 at 8:30 PM
May 12, 2008
Additional new Sparks shows with Jim & Marcus playing
in the band have been
announced for June!
6/14 - Tallin, Estonia -
Rabarock Festival
6/16 - Helsinki, Finland - Tavastia Klubi
6/17 - Vilnius, Lithuania - Forum Palace
March 21, 2008
Hello from
Switzerland! We are currently
traveling all over Europe on our Grande Europe tour '08! We will
be
changing the set list nightly so now you have to come to every one of
our shows!
Seriously, we're having a good time and hope to see you at a show
somewhere.
Also, Grande is now up live on most digital music services like iTunes, Lunchbox, AOL
Music, etc. Check it out if you can!
March 2, 2008
Mother Superior start
their "Grande"
2008 European tour this week! New shows have been added:
3/21 - Vicenza, Italy - Sabotage Bar
3/26 - Tubingen, Germany - Eppelhaus
4/2 - Nancy, France - Azimut 854
4/6 - Bergeijk (Eindhoven), Holland - Teater De Kattendans
4/8 - Aalst, Belgium - Negasonic
January 21, 2008
MOTHER
SUPERIOR New CD GRANDE and Europe Tour 2008!!
MOTHER
SUPERIOR are set to release GRANDE, a
CD and LP vinyl compilation of brand new tracks, rare live TV and radio
performances and previously unreleased versions of some of their best
known
songs. “Grande” may or may not be the band’s official ninth album (it
was
originally intended for a vinyl release only), but there’s no doubt
that the
collection will further the band’s notoriety
and international acclaim as a solid rock ‘n roll force. The New
York Post
has described the band as having “an enormous musical vocabulary.”
The 10
songs featured on “Grande” include two brand-new
sludgy rockers Brain
Child
and Moanin’
that are produced by long-time MS cohort Brian Kehew, who has recently
been
touring and playing keyboards with The Who. Kehew also remixes two MS
songs (Get
That Girl
and Meltdown)
that are recorded and mixed completely on analog tape.
The
legendary DANIEL
LANOIS
(Grammy award winning producer of U2 & Bob Dylan) continues his
ongoing
relationship with Mother Superior and joins the band for three tracks
on
“Grande” playing pedal steel guitar on new versions of two MS classics
Four
Walls and Let It Go, both recorded at his Bella Vista
studio. Daniel is also
featured on lead guitar on a new version of the Mother Superior
favorite Jaded
Little Princess that was recorded live at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
There are new versions of MS favorites like Beg
Borrow Steal
(live on national Spain radio) and Five
Stars
(a fiery live version from a music festival in France) and one of the
CD’s
highlights is a great cover version of The Beatles’ classic Happiness
Is A Warm Gun
(which features the lyric “Mother Superior jump the gun” from where the
band
came up with their moniker). The song was originally recorded for a
Beatles
tribute album that was never released but the band liked their
arrangement so
much they re-recorded it especially for this collection.
MOTHER
SUPERIOR
“Grande”
All Tracks Previously Unreleased
GET
THAT GIRL (remix)
FIVE STARS (live)
FOUR WALLS (new version)
BRAIN CHILD (brand new recording)
JADED LITTLE PRINCESS (live)
MELTDOWN (remix)
BEG BORROW STEAL (live)
MOANIN’ (brand new recording)
HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN (brand new recording)
LET IT GO (new version)
AVAILABLE
IN EUROPE JANUARY 28, 2008 ON CD AND
LP from
KICKING RECORDS (www.kickingrecords.com)!!
MOTHER SUPERIOR
EUROPEAN TOUR
MARCH/APRIL 2008
(more dates TBA)
MARCH
5
- Lille,
France - La Malterie
6
- Clermont Ferrand, France - Rat Pack
7
- Rodez, France - La Guiguette Lautrec
9
- Toulouse, France - L'Autan
11
- Angoulême, France - Mars Attack
12
- Montpellier, France - TAF
13
- Nice, France - Le Volume
14
- Zurich (Uster), Switzerland - Rock City
15
- Montreux, Switzerland - NED
19
- Winterthur, Switzerland - Gaswerk
20
- Leoben, Austria - Kuke
21
- Italy - tba
22
- Konstanz, Germany - Kantine
25
- Besançon, France - Les Passagers du
Zinc
27
- Genève, Switzerland - L'Usine
28
- Oullins, France - MJC - Le Clacson
29
- Selestat, France - le Tigre
30
- Strasbourg, France - la Péniche
APRIL
2
- Erfurt, Germany
-
Engelsburg tbc
3
- Verviers, Belgium - Spirit of '66
4
- Leeuwaarden,
Holland - Teater Romein
5
- Paris (Savigny Le Temple), France - L'Empreinte
10
- Harelbeke (Kortrijk), Belgium - CC 'T Spoor
11
- Heilbronn, Germany - Stereo Total
12
- Montbeliard, France - L'Atelier des
Môles
Plenty more shows to be
announced soon!
Historic
SPARKS concerts in London to feature Jim & Marcus!
Ever
known for their audacious behavior, Sparks
will be performing a jaw dropping 21 night residency in London next
year. The
record-breaking event is in honor of the band’s twenty first album.
“How do we best unveil our new album, Sparks as yet untitled twenty
first?”
the brothers Ron and Russell Mael
were quoted
as saying, “How about playing in concert every single song off of every
album
that preceded it, all 20 albums on 20 consecutive nights, culminating
in the
premiere of our latest? That’s approximately 250 songs, or for you
musicians,
4 million, 825 thousand, 273 notes. Come celebrate each and every one
of those
notes with us!”
JIM WILSON and MARCUS BLAKE from Mother Superior will be performing
with SPARKS
for these 21 concerts!!
The Islington Academy will host the first 20 nights of
the event culminating
in the unveiling of the new album which will be performed at Shepherd’s
Bush
Empire. Tickets will be priced as follows: £20 per show, three or
more nights
will cost £18 per show, and a golden ticket for every show is
£350 (the latter
comes with a signed poster and exclusive CD).
Sparks will perform the following albums on the following nights:
May 16 - Halfnelson / Sparks
May 17 - A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing
May 18 - Kimono My House
May 20 - Propaganda
May 21 - Indiscreet
May 23 - Big Beat
May 24 - Introducing Sparks
May 25 - No 1 In Heaven
May 26 - Terminal Jive
May 28 - Whomp That Sucker
May 30 - Angst In My Pants
May 31 - In Outer Space
June 1 - Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat
June 2 - Music That You Can Dance To
June 4 - Interior Design
June 6 - Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins
June 7 - Plagiarism
June 8 - Balls
June 10 - Lil' Beethoven
June 11 - Hello Young Lovers
June 13 - Untitled New Album premiere (Shepherds Bush Empire)
For further ticket information visit:
www.allsparks.com
New
DANIEL LANOIS Documentary DVD “HERE IS WHAT IS” features Mother Superior
Daniel
Lanois recently
debuted a documentary about his life as a producer and musician
entitled, “Here
Is What Is”. Lanois produced and directed the film, which showcases
his
life over the course of 18 months working in his Toronto studio as he
records
his new solo album, planned for release in March 2008. The movie will
be
premiered in the States at SXSW
in March also.
The behind-the-scenes film also includes many of his frequent
collaborators,
including co-producer Brian Eno and U2 working on a new album in
Morocco,
Emmylou Harris, Billy Bob Thornton and Brian Blade. The documentary is
co-directed by Lanois with photographer Adam Vollick and recording
engineer Adam
Samuels, and also features guest appearances by Garth Hudson, Willie
Nelson,
Aaron Neville and Sinéad O’Connor.
Also in the film is a smoking version of “Duo Glide” filmed at Daniel’s
Toronto studio with Jim Wilson on piano and Marcus Blake on bass.
Lanois has also launched his own label Red Floor Records which will
release the
film’s soundtrack as well as the soundtrack for the Pixies documentary
“loudQUIETloud” which features Jim & Marcus.
For
more info:
http://redfloorrecords.com/
December 12, 2007
Mother
Superior music is now available to digitally download through
Snocap! As
well as iTunes, Napster and Yahoo! Music Unlimited. Check out the
store
to listen and purchase!
November 11, 2007
Pearl's
new EP featuring Scott Ian, Jerry Cantrell, Ted Nugent and Mother
Superior is
now available to download on Amazon
and iTunes!
The Pearl tour with Meat
Loaf was unfortunately cancelled due to Meat Loaf being diagnosed
with with
an inter-vocal cord cyst.
October 23, 2007
The
Mother Superior song "Did You See It" (from "13 Violets") is
going to be on the CW
show, "Supernatural"
this Thursday night, Oct. 25th at 9pm!
Store
update - Three Headed Dog is currently out of stock.
October 10, 2007
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