Keith
Levene has began relaunching
the MurderGlobal.comwebsite.
Check out Area 51 to hear new tunes or
Research to play Asteroids! The accompanying
blog at MurderGlobal.net also
makes mention of new releases…
"Keith is concentrating on his own
projects under the Murder Global banner
which is made up of a team of like minded
individuals. With new releases in the pipeline
and other innovative concepts, Murder Global
is a space well worth watching!" -
MurderGlobal, 2009
Allan
Dias DJ's
every Tuesday night at The Beauty
Bar, 231
East 14th Street, New York City. Allan is
a resident DJ at The Skinny Jeans Club Night. Thanks to Olé Koretsky
Martin Atkins' Pigface released
the new studio album 'Pigface 6'
via Full
Effect Records in June. This is the
first Pigface album not to be released
through Invisible…
Atkins will also be holding a retrospective
gallery show The
Religion of Marketing at The Metro
Gallery in Baltimore,
July 10th and 11th.
For further Atkins / Invisible
/ Pigface listings and news etc see
the Invisible
Community.
Thanks to Jonathan Childers
June
1st 2009
Jah Wobble appeared
with Gary Crowley on BBC 6Music last
Friday night, May 29th. In the the hour long
special Wobble picked a selection of tracks
and talked about his career; including meeting
John Lydon and recording 'Metal Box'.
He
also received his Songlines
Music Award live on air (see News May
3rd for more info…). The interview
is currently available via the 6Music
website and the BBC iPlayer service.
Car Ad
Music, Jah Wobble's 2004 download-only
album is finally available on CD via the
(newly revamped) 30
Hertz website.
30 Hertz Description: This album was recorded in the year 2005.
It was never Jah Wobble's intention to
release it on CD. It was to be a download
only album. Indeed up to now that’s exactly
what it has been. However due to public,
(and some private), demand here it is on
CD. This album is mix of South American
and African rhythms with jazz licks and
‘ambient North European swaths’ along with
some Nigerian ‘Ju Ju music’ influenced
Pedal Steel, (courtesy of the excellent
BJ. Cole).
A
review of Wobble and Jon Savage's spoken-word
appearance at
The Brighton Festival is
available via Drowned
in Sound.
May
3rd 2009
Jah
Wobble's autobiography – Memoirs
of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem – is
scheduled for a September release via Serpent's
Tail.
Amazon
Description:
Mercury-shortlisted musician, punk rebel
and genuine geezer, Wobble spills all in
his autobiography.
Written in his own unmistakable
voice, this is a frank and fascinating
account of a geezer’s
life in the music business. Jah Wobble
begins by offering the most authentic
insider’s account of the
beginning of punk rock yet written, but
there's much more to him than that.
His
is an eventful life, as the celebrated
ups – PiL’s The Metal Box,
90s hit Visions Of You with Sinead O’Connor – are
balanced by major downs – chronic
alcoholism and marital breakdown.
It begins
with an East End childhood in a London
barely recovered from the War and ends
with Wobble finally turning his back on
London that no longer feels like home.
Through the book Wobble tell it like he
sees it: his opinions of the great and
good from Malcolm Mcclaren to Peter Gabriel
to Brian Eno to Iain Sinclair are refreshingly
disrespectful.
Oh and if you ever wondered
how got his name, the answer is here: his
teenage pal Sid Vicious gave it to him
when he drunkenly slurred Wobble’s
real name, John Wardle.
Wobble will be
taking part in a spoken-word event
with Englands Dreaming author Jon
Savage at The Brighton Festival on
May 15th at Thistle Hotel, 4pm. See the Brighton
Festival website for more info.
Wobble also appeared on BBC Radio 6, Cerys
Matthews Show
on April 1st. And Radio 4, Inheritance
Tracks, March 28th. Both interviews can
be found via archive links on "The
List".
Songlines world-music
magazine have awarded Jah Wobble & The
Chinese Dub Orchestra their "Best
Cross-Cultural Collaboration".
See Songlines
interview with the worthy winner for
more info... "I’ve won? I’ve
never won anything in my life!"
John
Lydon appeared
on 'Queens of British Pop' (BBC1, April
1st) talking about
Kate Bush. The interview is
available via YouTube.
Martin
Atkins will
be bringing his TourSmart talk to
the UK in May-June. Dates are still
being confirmed. See tstouring.com for
more info... Pigface will also release
a new album.
Photographer Chester
Simpson has a wide selection of PiL pictures
available to view and purchase via his website.
His work includes rare interview and live
images from the 1980 US Tour, plus 1982/86.
Totally
Wired – Simon Reynolds
companion book to Rip
It Up and Start Again – features
an interview with Jah Wobble and two
of Simon's recent PiL review articles. Totally
Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews was
published in February by Faber and Faber.
Rock
Town Hall website were supposed to
interview Keith Levene a few months
ago. You can read all about the "official
non-interview" on their blog. In a
recent interview with Quietus.Com Mark
Stewart again claimed to be working with
Levene. Thanks to The Back Office
PiL and
Sex Pistols were the "Show Stoppers" on
yesterday's (Saturday May 2nd) Liz
Kershaw Show on BBC 6 Music. Fans were
invited to email song requests and gig reviews
etc. Safe to say Liz isn't a "P.I.L" fan
as she can't pronounce John McGeoch's name
and mixes up 'Annalisa' with female pop
star Anastacia... Thanks to Chumley
Jah
Wobble's autobiography – Memoirs
of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem – is
scheduled for a September release via Serpent's
Tail. 
