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Final Kickstarter ‘Live in Liverpool’ Launched

Electric Six have launched their sixth, and final, Kickstarter project, which is available to support now online.

The gig, to be held at the Arts Club in Liverpool, UK, on Saturday 18th May 2019, will be recorded for a blu-ray, DVD, CD and digital download, in the style of Absolute Pleasure and Absolute Treasure, several years after a London show was due to be filmed before the company planning to do so ceased trading.

The CD / DVD / Blu-Ray – presumed to be entitled ‘Live In Liverpool’ – will include “old favourites and new material” but will definitely include the following previously unrecorded live tracks:

  • Bride Of The Devil
  • Daddy’s Boy
  • How Dare You
  • She’s Guatemalan
  • Bite Me
  • Mr. Woman
  • Dance Pattern
  • Lenny Kravitz

Kickstarter backers can look at various packages which include the physical and digital media, as well as posters, a photo-book and White Wolf’s suit and guitar pedals, which have already gone.

There will also be a third year of the subscription club for fans and a third karaoke disc of the following tracks:

  •  Infected Girls
  • Slices Of You
  • I Buy The Drugs
  • Dirty Ball
  • Escape From Ohio
  • Clusterfuck
  • Free Samples
  • Kids Are Evil
  • Arrive Alive
  • How Dare You
  • Bride Of The Devil
  • Daddy’s Boy

You can buy a ticket for the actual gig online.

Dick Valentine Announces Fourth Solo Studio Album ‘robocalls’; live dates

A post on skiddle.com to announce an accompanying live date has revealed the title of Valentine’s fourth solo studio album.

come one, come all to the intimate and festive occasion that is the dick valentine solo acoustic experience! experience a seven-or-eight-times-in-a-lifetime chance to be up close and personal with an american music icon. it’s a low pressure, good time affair as the electric six frontman strips down all your favorite songs from the electric six catalog, plays original solo material and swims in a sea of requested good-time covers.

this tour will be your chance to reach directly into dick valentine’s bag and be one of the first to buy a copy of his latest solo work “robocalls.” “robocalls” is valentine’s fourth solo album and there can be no doubting it will go down as his magnum opus. imagine mac demarco being spliced with gordon lightfoot…and you’ve got two canadians being fused into one. in the background during the splicing procedure, you might hear a trace of “robocalls” emanating from the anesthesiologist’s ipod.

so you know the drill….drop everything and come see dick valentine behaving as a cornered animal as he comes face to face with you, the fans. an night of merriment and frivolity awaits! come see the american troubadour dick valentine take the stage in your town for one unforgettable evening. you will not see electric six in 2017 so this is the next best thing!

According to a release on his Patreon page the album has mostly been recorded and includes a track called ‘The Room Where You and I Will Make Out’.

Nine tracks were done the other day at Figure 8 studios in Brooklyn (three doors down from Hood Hing).   The other three tracks are being done in Michigan with The White Wolf.  Gonna be a good one!

Other dates on the tour include York, Hull, Newcastle and Cardiff.

Electric Six Launch ‘You’re Welcome’ Kickstarter

Electric Six have launched their fourth Kickstarter campaign for a new live album recorded in Oxford in April 2017.

The album, entitled ‘You’re Welcome’, will be recorded at the Oxford Academy on 22nd April 2017 and released to Kickstarters alongside a range of incentives including a t-shirt, poster and karaoke disc, alongside other one-offs such as choosing a track to be performed live for the album, a special encore and a tarot reading from lead singer Dick Valentine.

The 2-disc set will include an album of covers and the live album, which will consist of songs that didn’t feature on live album ‘Absolute Pleasure’ or DVD / Blu-Ray ‘Absolute Treasure’, some not having been played live before.

Alongside backers being able to pick live songs, the following five tracks have been confirmed for inclusion on the live disc:

  • Newark Airport Boogie
  • I’m The Bomb
  • Night Vision
  • MC Sucka DJ
  • Rock and Roll Evacuation

Alongside the usual offers there is a chance for backers to become part of a subscription network where they get a special track every three months, which may be a demo, remix of fully finished track preview.

The Kickstarter campaign is looking for $30,000 and had already reached $18,000 within twenty-four hours of its launch.

You can also buy tickets for the event at www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/DEH2204Z

 

New Album Title Confirmed

According to this post on Amazon the new album will be called ‘Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres’, which has now been confirmed on Electric Six’s official Facebook page.

Due for release on October 7th here is the press statement:

Eternal life can seem like an eternity. Ask any vampire. The continuous march of sun ups, sun downs, transformations of form, seductions, cape fittings & exsanguinations. Eventually it all just becomes an endless, tired routine. It all seems so exciting & so sexy to those of us who operate knowing we have limited time. But ask any vampire about the downside of eternal life, & you won’t be surprised to hear tales of binge eating garlic bread just to feel the hurt, or of the occasional dangling of a wooden stake just over the center of the rib cage. Electric Six knows all about eternal life. Electric Six has been around forever & it can never die. That’s lovely, but it’s also very tiring. Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres is the new release by Electric Six on Metropolis Records. One listen & you will immediately understand that the sexiest vampires are urban vampires. Where E6 has dabbled in dance, hip-hop & R&B in the past, Fresh Blood is the whole enchilada. It’s thirteen songs designed to make the listener interested in smooth & nasty fuckin’, the way they do it in the city. From the Grandmaster Flash-inspired Number Of The Beast to the super smooth tour of the NYC outer boroughs Mood Is Improving, the listener finds himself immediately deposited into an urban drop zone with hustlas & dickblockas coming from behind every corner. The radio-ready pop hits I’ll Be In Touch & Dance With Dark Forces are the tracks that get the listener off the street & into the club. & it would not be an Electric Six album without an epic closer, that being the beautiful & haunting Spacewalkin’, the ballad that assures the listener that the vampire has now fed & will live a thousand more years, albeit in outer space. Electric Six changes more frequently than change itself, but ultimately this just means they’re never gonna put out the same album twice. Fresh Blood for Tired Vampires is poppy & smooth, nasty & raw…& oh so life affirming, especially if you are undead

More as we hear it.