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gordo
Third Love
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 Posted - 29/06/2005 : 14:54:06
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The new Big Star album (currently untitled) is set to be released August 28th on Rykodisc.
The Posies who contribute 2 of the Big Star line-up are on tour in Europe in July and August so it looks like being September at the earliest for a US tour and it's likely to be November for any UK dates.
I believe the plan is that when the Posies do their full blown US and UK tours the Posies will play mid week gigs and the Big Star ones will be on the weekends, though this might well change.
Gordo
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Aake
Fourth Love
Sweden
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Posted - 30/06/2005 : 00:59:21
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Thanks for the info gordo,booked posies ticket for the debaser stockholm show...see you in London then..
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/07/2005 : 12:46:29
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no problem Aake
there's a new song on the CD free with the new issue of Q magazine and it says that the new album will be called 'In Space' |
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Bobinbed
Fourth Love
Sweden
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Posted - 04/07/2005 : 11:08:36
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Does anyone here know the exact lineup?
Got to check this out. Even though I generally don't like the idea of "old" bands getting together with only one or two original members left... I'll keep an open mind.
~Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love~
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/07/2005 : 14:39:02
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it's Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens from the original line-up along with The Posies' Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow who've been helping out since the early 90's
there was live album in 1993 called Columbia: Live at Missouri University which got good reviews at the time that features the same line-up |
Edited by - gordo on 04/07/2005 14:40:16 |
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pie head
First Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/07/2005 : 23:57:07
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your not from the hightown area are you Gordo?
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
91 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2005 : 15:05:52
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not only am I not, but I don't even know where the Hightown area is |
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
91 Posts |
Posted - 19/07/2005 : 14:41:19
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the latest on the Big Star tour
according to Ken Stringfellow it won't be til 2006 and only a small handful of shows, so the tickets will be hot |
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/07/2005 : 13:29:38
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taken from the latest issue of Billboard magazine
Big Star Looks Forward Despite Years
Having thrown its hat into the ring as a reunited touring band in
recent years, Big Star has set a Sept. 27 release for its first new studio
album since 1978's "Third/Sister Lovers." The Rykodisc set "In Space"
was recorded at Memphis' Ardent Studios, the site of the original Big
Star recordings, with the latter-day lineup of Alex Chilton and founding
drummer Jody Stephens alongside Posies principals Ken Stringfellow and
Jon Auer.
"We had no expectations," Auer tells Billboard.com of the recording
sessions, "and I think we came up with a pretty credible record. It's
impossible, of course, to compete with the original Big Star, but it's
pretty crazy that a band that broke up 30 years ago made a new record."
Highlights include the ballad "Lady Sweet," replete with Big Star's
signature harmony vocals and expert sense of melody, plus prototypical
loose rockers like "February's Quiet" and "Best Chance We've Ever Had."
The original Big Star released three albums -- 1972's "No. 1 Record,"
1974's "Radio City" and "Third/Sister Lovers," which was released after
the band's breakup and founding member Chris Bell's tragic death in a
car accident.
But the group's influence stretched far, inspiring, among others, a
young Auer & Stringfellow, who would later prove catalysts in the band's
rejuvenation when called upon to join Stephens and Chilton for a 1993
reunion concert. Since then, the group has been an on-and-off
proposition, touring sporadically.
"In 2003, we played a show in Memphis that corresponded with the
opening of the Stax museum," Auer explains, "and we decided that we'd learn
some of the back catalog of Big Star. We did a rare actual rehearsal.
Once we ran through a couple of the songs, Alex sat down and said, 'I'm
not into playing some of these old songs. I really like the standard set
we play, but these ones don't really mean anything to me.' But then he
said, 'Something I would consider is doing a new record with y'all.'"
An impressed and intrigued Auer says the idea was tossed back and forth
a bit and everyone seemed into it, so Rykodisc was brought into the
picture, and sessions were scheduled. The recording was very much a
collaborative process, as all four members of the current lineup contributed
writing and vocals. Recording with their idols after all this time
never became too surreal for the Posies, Auer admits.
"If there's anything strange about it, it's that we've been in the band
longer than the original lineup was together," he notes. "Ken and I
consider ourselves hired guns, but Alex and Jody clearly think of us as
equal members at this point."
Still, Auer cautions fans to approach this new album on its own terms
and not stacking it up against the Big Star legend. "You can't compete
with a myth," he says. "I hope people don't expect it to be like it was,
but there's enough of what made Big Star 'Big Star' on this record."
The group is hoping to play select shows in North America in the fall.
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Aake
Fourth Love
Sweden
112 Posts |
Posted - 27/07/2005 : 23:07:30
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Any reviews from the Posies tour ?
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
91 Posts |
Posted - 28/07/2005 : 13:31:58
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you can download a load of MP3's from the Paris show at
http://www.theposies.net/media.htm
there are some updates and links to photos on www.jonauer.com as well as Ken Stringfellow's tour diary at www.kenstringfellow.com
they're currently lining up another tour in the Autumn supporting Teenage Fanclub who they know from way back. Only the German dates have been confirmed so far
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Aake
Fourth Love
Sweden
112 Posts |
Posted - 28/07/2005 : 22:57:55
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Thanks Gordo great stuff,got my ticket and look forward for the Debaser Stockholm show Aug 10.
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
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Aake
Fourth Love
Sweden
112 Posts |
Posted - 31/07/2005 : 17:10:41
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Thanks for the pics 
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
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mikeb
Old Love
United Kingdom
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