Television Personalities Prep First Album in 11 Years!
Matthew Solarski reports:
Post-punk has bred few sons more enigmatic, charismatic and straight-up erratic than Mr. Dan Treacy, frontman for the Television Personalities. And even fewer more endearing. When Treacy miraculously resurfaced last year after serving jail time on a British prison boat (allegedly for burglary), TVP acolytes the world over rejoiced, and when Treacy went on to declare he'd "written [his] best and most meaningful music of the last couple years" and wanted to release a new record, those acolytes wet themselves with glee. Championed by Kurt Cobain, John Peel, Jens Lekman, and Creation Records founder Alan McGee among others, the Television Personalities exert a lifetime hold over those whose lives they touch. And that jolly lot is about to grow with exponential furor.
Domino Records recently announced that they will release the fruit of Treacy's foreshadowing, entitled My Dark Places, on February 27 in the UK and March 7 in North America. It will be the first record of new Television Personalities material in eleven long years. Fixin' for a taster? Domino drops the first single on February 6, the oh-so-cheekily-entitled "All The Young Children On Smack, All The Young Children On Crack". Featuring a cover of the Who's "All Love Is Good Love" on the b-side, the song was inspired in part by Pete Doherty. We jest not.
And don't the kids still love it:
01 Special Chair
02 All the Young Children on Smack, All the Young Children on Crack
03 Sick Again
04 Ex Girlfriend Club
05 You Dream the Sweetest Dreams
06 Velvet Underground
07 My Dark Places
08 I'm Not Your Typical Boy
09 You Kept Me Waiting Too Long
10 They'll Have to Catch Up First
11 She Can Stop Traffic
12 Tell Me About
13 Knock It All Down
14 I Hope You're Happy Now
15 No More I Hate You's
16 There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye
My Dark Places was recorded with Simon Trought at London's Soup Studio. A press release proclaims the record is "as sad as it is uplifting, as gentile as it is noisy", and says that Treacy penned the entire album while serving his prison boat sentence. We could invoke any number of prison-related jokes here, but we're on a sincerity kick of late. Must be the season.
Dan Treacy's blog, which totters rather amusingly between precocious brilliance and unnerving hysteria, features allusions to a U.S. tour in 2006. Until those glorious dates arrive, UK denizens may shake their bums to Treacy's selections at this Friday's "How Does It Feel To Be Loved?" event at London's Phoenix, where Dan will work the decks:
12-16 London, England - The Phoenix (DJ Set)
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We have the Broadcast Flag on the ropes, but its supporters are flailing back. The Broadcast Flag, a plan to give Hollywood remote control of how you record, copy, transfer, or replay over-the-air digital television, was knocked flat by the courts.
Now the film and TV industries are running to Congress to get the fix in.
The current plan: sneak a few lines of innocuous-sounding law past legislators to give the FCC the sweeping regulatory authority it needs re-instate the Flag. That would restore Hollywood's power to dictate the design of any digital equipment capable of receiving broadcasts - and once again, technology innovators would be forced to beg permission to provide you with the features and functionality for exercising your fair use rights.
The lawyers and lobbyists are moving fast, but you can move faster. Tell your representative you don't want Hollywood to hobble your digital media devices, and knock out the Broadcast Flag for good.
The ancient Sumerians, who built advanced city-states in the area of present-day Iraq, began fermenting beer from barley at least 6,000 years ago.
"When people started agriculture the first crops they produced were barley or wheat. You consume those crops as bread and as beer," Standage noted. "It's the drink associated with the dawn of civilization. It's as simple as that."
Beer was popular with the masses from the beginning.
"Beer would have been something that a common person could have had in the house and made whenever they wanted," said Linda Bisson, a microbiologist at the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis.
"The guys who built the pyramids were paid in beer and bread," Standage added. "It was the defining drink of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Everybody drank it. Today it's the drink of the working man, and it was then as well."
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