2007 // News & Blog Archive
Posted on December 29th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Recommended Literature & Film
Literature
Thomas Bernhard - Beton
Nicholas Monsarrat - The kappillan of Malta
Anthony Burgess - The pianoplayer
Film
Control by Anton Corbjin
Lions for Lambs by Matthew Carnahan & Robert Redford
Posted on December 1st, 2007 at 9:20 pm
7″ Saw Blade Split Single BOA/Speedway69
The release of Phillip Boa / Speedway 69-split-single was unfortunately postponed until further notice. Through the christmas season, the complex production of saw-blade delayed. The 7 “-single is expected to be in stores in January 2008.
Posted on November 15th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Faking to blend in Tour Part 2 / 2008
In February and March 2008 the “Faking To Blend In” tour will continue with a few gigs. The following dates are confirmed:
02/14/2008 - Siegen, Lÿz
02/15/2008 - Bischofswerda, EastClub
02/16/2008 - Annaberg-Buchholz, Alte Brauerei
02/29/2008 - Rudolstadt, Saalgärten
03/01/2008 - Lüneburg, Garage
Online tickets via eventim.de or buy them at your CTS-dealer.
Posted on October 10th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
X-MAS Concerts 2007
The legendary X-MAS-concerts:
3 live shows in Leipzig!
12/25/2007 Leipzig, Moritzbastei
12/26/2007 Leipzig, Moritzbastei
12/27/2007 Leipzig, Moritzbastei
Order online tickets @ eventim.de or buy them at your CTS-dealer.
Alternative @ ticket shop Moritzbastei Leipzig.
Posted on September 12th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
MySpace Player Update
To celebrate the start of the tour the new Phillip Boa song EMMA, already a classic, from the current Voodooclub album ‘Faking to blend in’ is on Boa’s MySpace player, now.
Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub @ MySpace
Posted on September 8th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Countdown ‘Faking to blend in’ Tour 2007
PHILLIP BOA & THE VOODOOCLUB
‘FAKING TO BLEND IN TOUR 2007′
09/14/2007 ° Cottbus, Gladhouse // 09/20/2007 * Frankfurt, Batschkapp // 09/21/2007 * Magdeburg, Factory // 09/22/2007 * Halle, Steintor Varieté // 09/24/2007 * Oldenburg, Kulturetage // 09/25/2007 * Hanover, Musikzentrum // 09/26/2007 ° Berlin, Postbahnhof // 09/27/2007 ** Erfurt, Gewerkschaftshaus // 09/28/2007 ** Dresden, Alte Reithalle // 09/29/2007 ** Glauchau, Alte Spinnerei // 10/02/2007 *** Hamburg, Markthalle // 10/04/2007 *** Bochum, Zeche // 10/05/2007 *** Cologne, Gloria // 10/11/2007 ° Karlsruhe, Substage // 10/12/2007 ° Munich, Muffathalle // 10/13/2007 ° Osnabrück, Rosenhof
Support: ° The Baby Universal
Special Guests: * Monta // ** Klez.e // *** Delbo
Ticket Hotline 01805 4470
Ticket Online // CTS-Eventim // Kartenhaus
The gentleman wears black, but always a suit, sings of heart ache, but screams, with a thunder of drums and guitar rhymes creating on these peaks heavenly melodies and feigns good sounding pop with crashing background noise. So much for sure: without Phillip Boa and his great talent for beautiful pop-melodies (and krautrock like Can, pop electronics like Kraftwerk, experimental rock like Neubauten) a piece of the German Indie scene would be missing in Anglo-America. For new fans who have missed Boa at legendary concerts so far, a short intro: Boa underwent his musical socialization with the punk wave of the late 70’s, when bands such as Sex Pistols and The Clash, like Boa later, were riding high, breaking the rules of well established pop to create a new and freer understanding of music between crash disharmony and conserved non-conformism.
Posted on August 28th, 2007 at 9:00 am
MySpace - A Kind Of Diary
Exklusiv on MySpace
Phillip Boa - A kind of diary
Furthermore the song “Drinking and belonging to the sea” from the new album by Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub is now on player. And a rare song called “For what bastards”, mixed by Felix Kendall of Livingstone-Studios, London and Dave Kitson/Red Flame Records
for free download.
-> Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub MySpace site
Posted in News
1 Comment » a kind of diary - exclusively for myspace members - what´s all this good for? that simply sucks!!!! a fairly long time ago i decided to delete my myspace account, amongst other things, because i had no time to keep it lively and up to date respectively to take care of it regularly. being excluded from information because of not having an account at myspace - it´s sort of weird … and a bit humiliating.
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Rostock Festvial 24. & 25.08.2007
24.08.07 Rostock, M.A.U. Club
Unfortunately, the festival in Rostock was cancelled on the part of the event agency :-(((
Posted on August 15th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Rare Mix of Boa Song & Aphex Twin Version
On the Boa MySpace player now, partly as download:
A rare mix of Phillip Boa-live-classic and former single of the week
” I dedicate my soul to you”; mixed by Felix Kendall / Livingstone Studio & Dave Kitson of Red Flame plus a great interpretation of another Boa-classic “Deep in velvet” by electronic genius Aphex Twin.
Open MySpace player
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:30 am
BOA Release
Posted in News
1 Comment » Ich hab`s! Das Jahr scheint gerettet. LG.
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 am
Recommended Literature
Alec Guinness - My Name Escapes Me
(The Diary of a Retiring Actor)
“I never liked New Year’s Day,” begins Guinness, but he decided to start this diary with his 1 January 1995 entry; and he ends the diary on 6 June 1996, in acknowledgment of the momentous day in 1940 when his son Matthew was born, or “possibly” the Normandy invasion. The point is that Guinness is concerned so much with beginnings and endings that he calls the reader’s attention to them, reminding one and all that the sun is most certainly setting on the end of a sublime actor’s days. And there is deep sadness to his recordings of the passings of dear friends and the preparations for memorials. Yet, the diary is about so much more than reflections on death; it is about the full life being lived by a much-beloved actor whose name will long be remembered. Sir Alec’s friend John le Carrehas written a warm foreword that complements the diary nicely. Consider it a coda to Guinness’ best-selling 1986 autobiography, Blessings in Disguise.
Posted on August 1st, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Interview ‘Faking To Blend In’
Interview with Germany’s greatest musician, songwriter and pop-figure since the days of Can and Kraftwerk
Interview by Marius Meyer alternativmusik | myspace
At the beginning already a question concerning the new record… A lot of people were wondering about the choice of Tobias Siebert as the producer. Why did you decide for him?
The record label seemed to like the songs already as I produced them before and then we got to a big disagreement.
So at first I started to work with my drummer (‘Der Rabe’). Some time later Tim (Tim Renner from Motor Music) proposed some producers to me and than I decided to take Tobias. It’s a simple story.
Are there any musical preferences that you share?
Yes, I think so. He is a lot younger than me and so he comes from another generation. I think he is 28. The similarity is already given because he came to my concerts. So there is a basis from where we understand each other pretty good. There are other bands that we both like as well. He used to be The Cure fan just as I did (and still am) and also today we listen to a lot of bands that we have in common. We talked about this very long as we met in Münster at a show of his band. There is a big similarity.
Which role would you give him considering the new record as a whole? Producer seems to be a role that is more standing in the background.
He helped me a lot – from different stages. It was important to me to work with a producer that comes from the ‘now generation’ and you really hear that out of his work. He mixes respectively produces like a lot of these bands that are making quite a splash today such as Arcade Fire, Killers, Maximo Park, Interpol and so on. I like this a lot. I like to listen to these bands and so we had a common basis.
The producers I had before – if it was not I producing – were more from a generation like the generation that I live in. For example Tony Visconti. These are all luminaries and they are brilliant, but this time I wanted to make it different.
An interesting formulation in the press sheet for the record was that they wrote about your ‘anti-singing’. Would you use this formulation yourself as well? How do you value this appraisal?
I wouldn’t have written it. But I stay out of those press sheets for years now. So, ‘anti-singing’… Maybe each singer of the indie and alternative sector thinks that he is singing better than he does in reality. But the way I do my singing is certainly anti in some way. If you don’t want to be cliché pop, cliché mainstream, cliché metal or cliché anything you have to develop your own way of singing. Maybe that’s a way to describe it.
Described this way it already sounds a lot more versatile. How did the recording sessions to the new record work? In an interview on Decadence & Isolation I’ve read that you were at daggers drawn some times. Is it still like this or are the waves more calmed these days?
This was correlation to Pia. And it is still the same: If I work with Pia it is definitely a torture. This time I also had quarrels with my long-time engineer and sometimes with co-componist David Vella who is sitting in the studios in Malta. These were not the best suppositions. The album was a long odyssey. I always believed in the songs. Finally Tobi has helped me a lot and I was very satisfied with this cooperation. The work with Tobi and his drummer was really harmonic without any quarrels.
In the same interview I’ve read that you hated the question about the meaning of the record title Decadence & Isolation. Do you have the same problem with Faking To Blend In?
(laughs) This time I’ve chose the easy way. There are names of my records that I hate like hell. Decadence & Isolation is one of them, God too. They are awful to me.
Faking To Blend In was just the song and someone told me it would be a great socio-politic metaphor of today’s life. I thought: ‘Oops that is not the way it meant to be. But I like it that you have such a different interpretation of it.’ So for that reason I thought it could be the title of the record. Someone from the record company also proposed this title then.
So it is meant not to have a narrow interpretation?
Right. It is the same as with a lot of my lyrics. They are already encoded and they are not easy to understand if one does not deal with it. And they are never one-dimensional. It’s the same with the new record. I could be a metaphor for our opportunistic society or something like that but it doesn’t have to be this way. Actually it is taken out of the song, out of a complicated love song called Faking To Blend In…
In the following I’ve picked out some song examples out of the record. The first song I’ve noticed was Girl Is A Runner, because it has this strong influence of minimal electronic. Where does this influence come from?
Oh, good question. Where does it come from? In earlier days – when I was in school I think – I was a fan of DAF. It reminds of old DAF-stuff and today these sequences are still in use. It is done on an analogue synthesizer and then got logged. I don’t have anything to say against electronic, it simply has to fit. And here it did. The first part of the song was this electro rhythm and it harmonized well with the lyrics about the girl that uses to run away.
Another title I’ve realized was Collective Dandyism, already because of the name… What is the song about?
Actually I should have called it ‚Dandyboy’. The dandyboy is a person that would really attract attention on the streets. Probably he could survive in Berlin or in Barcelona. The original idea as well as the song is very old. No record label ever liked this song and at one point I said: ‘I’ll do it anyway.’ The original idea is about a horse jockey in Malta, a 16 year old boy. The original song with four or six lyric lines is from 1993.
Another title was In Today’s Parties, already because of its name. Was the dependence on The Velvet Underground’s All Tomorrow’s Parties intended?
I don’t know how the song was originated, but this picture In Today’s Parties was there all the time, with the guitar and the Velvet Underground touch. Then these words came up to my mind. The influence is definitely there. In some way it is a homage to The Velvet Underground & Nico. Nico, this fragile character and so on…
How would you descibe your relationship to Lou Reed in general? It is like a red line in your work and there are often songs by Lou Reed in your setlists for the Christmas shows in Leipzig. Which role does Lou Reed have for you?
Velvet Underground is an important band for me. I’d never say that the Voodooclub sounds like The Velvet Underground, but there is this influence. Lou Reed is a very strong individualist and a great lyricist. He is very authentic to me. He is even 20 years older than me but is still able to get out of all affairs with style. All his life he was incorruptible and he was never buyable for the media. He always did what he wanted. It might be too much to call him a roll model, but: There are situations where I doubt if want to continue doing music because I am so old. Then you search for examples, how it could work with a high standard and you see people such as Lou Reed. And you know: It works.
At the same title there is this line ‘like a drunken seaman on a rainy day in Malta’. Where does this metaphor come from?
It is the same character as in some other songs. It is a sailor. You also find him for example in Drinking And Belonging To The Sea or in The Night Before The Last Was Saturday Night. You could interpret it all from the sailor’s point of view. When I sing ‘looking to the stars’ I mean real stars as you could see them while looking at the heaven. The sailor is standing on the deck and sees them. The sailor sometimes tells the stories. Nevertheless they can be autobiographic, but he is kind of a protagonist.
So to say it is kind of a red line in microcosm?
I am against concept records, so it is not really a red line. Although there is a red line there are still songs like the first one, which have nothing to do with this character. And there are songs like Girl Is A Runner, that even have no connection to the sailor. The first two songs do not have anything in common with the rest of the record, although they were developed at the same time. But I like this, because so the record is versatile and a little antithetic.
Coming to another topic connected to the record: On the press preview version of the record every song got faded out after approximate two and a half minutes. Such practices are coming more and more within the last time. How would you see the situation: Is the situation of the music scene really as bad that such practices are necessary?
Sometime I also have to accord with the record label and can’t give a veto against every decision. I had two possibilities: I could have had a voice talking over the songs every 30 seconds as I had at the last record or the alternative that I use this time. The voice was really negative, so I decided for the other option. It is a pity at certain songs that develop more and more towards the end such as Emma, Faking To Blend In, Queen Day or In Today’s Parties. They get more and more intensive until the end and you don’t hear that on the promo version of the record. But – as I said – at this moment I’m a slave to the time we live in and I am not able to change it myself.
Are you also affected by the situation of the music scene?
I’m not interested in this: I had my commercial success and its benefits already in the 90s. I can’t claim anything anymore, so I have no problem with it. I am not representative in this case.
Are there any expectations still left concerning the success of the new record?
I cannot say that commercial success is completely indifferent to me but it does not mean this much to me. There are three components: That you get criticized with respect, that the concerts will work well in some way and that the fans will like the record. These are the important aspects to me. If they work in some degree I am satisfied.
You already talked about concerts now… Can you tell what the visitors of the show could expect at the shows?
I will do everything I can to make the people who go there happy.
Are there any plans for the Moritzbastei this year yet? I’ve see that Leipzig is missing on the tour schedule again.
We usually decide this during a tour. If the tour for example would not work well we won’t play the Moritzbastei this year. If the Christmas shows would be bad it would be like the end of the band. It is such a tradition that it would hurt. So we usually talk to the Moritzbastei quite late.
A last question concerning the concerts: Some years ago there were rumours that you don’t want to play festival shows anymore. In the last years there were some festival shows again. Why did you change your decision?
Things that I do not want are these events like Rock am Ring. When I was younger these shows somehow worked but today I don’t reach the people anymore. I also had problems at the last show I played at the M’era Luna open air: We had to play while it was bright and the audience was ten meters away. When I realize that the show will not work I don’t want to play it. It gets harder and harder for me. I think this year there is no festival show. It gets less and less.
Are you sad about this or do you also subsume this under the fact that your expectations on your success have already changed?
No, it’s just a mental bullishness when I say that I won’t play at 4 pm in the evening with lots of headliners playing after me including three bands that I don’t like. I just don’t want this.
With this we are already at our last question… Is there anything you could tell the fans and listeners what they could expect from you and the Voodooclub in the near and far future?
As I already said there are these three components. They have to be correct. If this framework falls together I think I would stop making music. At first I will continue playing concerts within the next year or the next two. If they are okay and I get positive feedback that the songs still have a meaning to the people I will definitely do another record. If not, it will be hard. Maybe than I would re-master some records again and tour as I did last year, but there probably won’t be any new songs. If this framework collapses it would probably be my creative ending.
So we have to hope that the framework will continue holding together…
Until now it only just did.
Okay, that’s all! Thank you!
Gladly!
Interview by Marius Meyer
alternativmusik | myspace
Posted in Backstage
1 Comment » good interview, good questions, good responses… oh, and to make 4-in-a-row: very good record too. i hope the framework of the “3 components” will continue to work, it’s hard to get good rock-solid music nowadays. to cheer mr. boa up a little, here in the uk he’s still considered one of the best german musicians alive.
Posted on August 1st, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Review ‘Faking To Blend In’
Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub – Faking to blend in
Review by Marius Meyer alternativmusik | myspace
Release 03.08.2007 (Motor Music)
It is hard to write something about this man, that has not been written yet. Too often one had to hear the stories about the ex-halfpopstar, withdrawn single releases and all the other stories one already knows. All this belongs to the past, we are in the present now. And Phillip Boa is still there in this present and with ‘Faking To Blend In’ he presents a new record again, where already the choice of the producer surprised: He decided for Tobias Siebert (Delbo, klez.e). The music itself: Without any doubts Phillip Boa. There are a lot of elements that are already known, but there is still no sign of Phillip Boa copying himself.
An aspect you often see at his work: The appreciation of Lou Reed. With ‘In Today’s Parties’ there is homage to Lou Reed again with its dependence on ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’. Seen under musical aspects it is a well-done boa song in mid-tempo. Based on synthesizer-soundscapes, guitars that sound amazingly clear and the contrasting voices of Boa and Pia Lund. There is another aspect that is important for Phillip Boa in this song: Malta. He sings about “a drunken seaman on a rainy day in Malta”. It is about a seaman who is kind of a leitmotif in microcosm. He also encounters in other songs as in ‘Drinking And Belonging To The Sea’, where he is lying on the deck of the boat. A song that goes straight ahead on the one hand while there are melancholy and reflectiveness on the other hand. It sounds like typical boa-esque indie rock with a high quality standard.
But – and Boa clearly points that out – ‘Faking To Blend In’ is not a concept record. The seaman is just one aspect of it all. Other songs have nothing to do with him. For example the first two songs ‘On Tuesdays I’m Not As Young’ and ‘Girl Is A Runner’ deal with completely different topics. Especially ‘Girl Is A Runner’ has a surprising sound: To a great extent it could be a minimal electro song, where the guitars can mainly just be found within the chorus of the song. In some ways one is reminded of bands like DAF – sounds from the youth of Phillip Boa. Meanwhile On ‘Tuesday’s I’m Not As Young’ is a typical opener for a Boa record and shows that he has not unlearnt the rock music. It sounds edgy but still amazingly harmonic and catchy.
Generally speaking Phillip Boa has again done a record that is definitely worth being heard: Versatile indie music in a typical Boa sound that cannot be pigeonholed and outclasses current hypes. It is really nice to see when musicians still release such valuable records after so many years. Due to the fact that the upcoming tour is seen as an indicator for the continuing of his work by Boa himself it is entreated to visit the tour.
Review by Marius Meyer
alternativmusik | myspace
Posted on July 30th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Rare Song On MySpace Player!
The new album by Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub, out august 3, is already receiving excellent reviews everywhere!!
To kill a bit of time we offer you a one-week free download of a rare Boa-composition called ‘Charlamane’. Enjoy!
» Free Download
Posted on July 25th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Tour Support & Special Guests
Faking To Blend In Tour 2007
presented by Persona Non Grata
Support: The Baby Universal
14.09.2007 Cottbus, Gladhouse
26.09.2007 Berlin, Postbahnhof
11.10.2007 Karlsruhe, Substage
12.10.2007 Munich, Muffathalle
13.10.2007 Osnabrück, Rosenhof
Special Guest: Monta
20.09.2007 Frankfurt, Batschkapp
21.09.2007 Magdeburg, Factory
22.09.2007 Halle, Steintor Varieté
24.09.2007 Oldenburg, Kulturetage
25.09.2007 Hanover, Musikzentrum
Special Guest: Klez.e
27.09.2007 Erfurt, Gewerkschaftshaus
28.09.2007 Dresden, Alte Reithalle
29.09.2007 Glauchau, Alte Spinnerei
Special Guest: Delbo
02.10.2007 Hamburg, Markthalle
04.10.2007 Bochum, Zeche
05.10.2007 Cologne, Gloria
Tickets Online
Posted on July 24th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Recommended Music
Phillip currently is listening to the songs of Placebo (esp. Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush Cover), LCD Soundsystem, Interpol and TV On The Radio.
Posted on July 16th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Single Track Online
Listen to On tuesdays I’m not as young
ontuesdayssinglecover.jpg
To hear the song, please click the single cover.
Posted on July 16th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
New BOA Video ‘On Tuesdays I’m Not As Young’
Posted on July 12th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Recommended Literature
Boa is reading at the moment:
Anthony Burgess - You’ve Had Your Time
Taking up where Little Wilson and Big God left off, You’ve Had Your Time is the second volume of Anthony Burgess’s autobiography. It begins in 1959, with the author’s return from Brunei, and the start of a long and prolific writing career, and ends, somewhat arbitrarily, in 1982, with the centenary celebrations of the birth of James Joyce, which prompt Burgess to certain conclusions about the relationship between literature and life. Full of extraordinary vignettes (Borges and Burgess conducting a conversation in Anglo-Saxon, for example), as rich, varied and hectic as the nomadic literary life it describes, this is the astonishingly frank autobiography of an extraordinary literary genius. Rarely, if ever, has a writer exposed his inner life so completely and rarely has a writer’s life been described - by anyone - with such vigour, polymathic humour and linguistic verve.
Sybille Bedford - A Legacy
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural Baden. Portrayed with exquisite wit and acute observation, their personal upheavals and tragedies are set against the menacing backdrop of a newly unified Germany combined with Prussian militarism in the decades before the First World War.
Posted on July 12th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Live On Stage
24.08.2007 Rostock, Kastaninenplatz Open Air
Line-up:
Tocotronic
Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub
Klee
Madsen
and more…
Posted on July 2nd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Preview New Video
Screenshot from the new video On tuesdays I’m not as young. New music video from Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub will released soon. Video production & screenshot by Philipp Geist
Video Release approx. 15. July 2007
Record Release 03. August 2007
Posted on June 29th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Der Himmel [Console Mix]
Phillip Boa | Pia Lund | Console - Der Himmel
Music video from 2001, clip by Daniel Klein, produced by Jérémy Rochigneux, special effects director Patrick Beraud, wolf outfit Scoli Acosta from “When the wolves are silent and the moon howls”
Posted on June 26th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Recommended Music
120 Days from Norway
Homepage | MySpace
Vive la fete! from Belgium
Homepage | MySpace
Posted on June 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Cover Artwork Album & Single
‘Faking to blend in’ Limited Edition incl. Video
Release August, 3rd 2007
‘Faking to blend in’ Jewelcase
Release August, 3rd 2007
‘On tuesdays I’m not as young’ Single
Release August, 3rd 2007
Posted on June 18th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Free Song Download
To celebrate the release of “Faking to blend in” (released August, 3rd), the brandnew album of germany´s best english-language-songwriter, Phillip Boa, the band exclusively offers three songs for free download - for a limited period of 3 weeks! In case you want to recommend those songs to other friends, you are welcome.
Heeeeeere’s the link:
Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub
Cheerio!
Posted on June 17th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Videoshooting Berlin
The video of the forthcoming new Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub Single “On Tuesdays I’m Not As Young” was shot in Berlin. Director was Philipp Geist. He was also responsible for the Boa video “Eugene” of the album “The Red”. Philipp Geist works internationally as a multi-media artist in the mediums of video, performance, photography and painting. It was through photography and painting that Geist gradually made his way to video art.
BOA Videoshooting Berlin by Philipp Geist
Photos by Viola Fissek and Patrick Heeren
VIDEOGEIST video installation - live visuals - vjing
STUDIO PHILIPP GEIST video - painting - photo
In his video-room-installation RIVERINE ZONES CONNECTED Geist shows video recordings of rivers from different international locations. With underwater-video-cameras, he records the world under water. It is an attempt to get in touch with our immediate, but distant reality, an artistic discussion with the element water. Geist points out a part of our reality that is usually hidden from us.
Posted on June 17th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Recommended Music, Literature & Film
Literature
Graham Greene - The end of the affair
Film
The future is unwriten - Joe Strummer
Regie Julien Temple
Music
Arcade Fire - Neon bible
Manic Street Preachers- Send away the tigers
Leonard Cohen (Remastered from original tapes)
1. Songs of Leonard Cohen
2. Songs from a room
3. Songs of love and hate
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Nico - The frozen borderline (’68-’70)
Editors - An end has a start
Jamie T. - Sheila
Posted on June 1st, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Single ‘On tuesdays I’m not as young’
First single release from the forthcoming album ‘Faking to blend in’
On Tuesdays I’m Not As Young
in stores August, 3rd 2007
Tracklisting:
01. On tuesdays I’m not as young
02. And when heaven will fall (Non–Album Track)
03. The nun’s eccentrics (Non–Album Track)
04. Play cold (Non–Album Track)
05. Lilly and the century after (Non–Album Track)
Club and radio promotion approx. June, 10th 2007
Posted on May 16th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Album ‘Faking to blend in’
Release Date: August, 3rd 2007
Tracklisting:
01. On tuesdays I’m not as young
02. Girl is a runner
03. Faking to blend in
04. Drinking and belonging to the sea
05. Emma
06. You are a parasite but I love you
07. Queen day
08. You hurt me
09. Sleep a lifetime
10. Collective dandyism
11. In todays parties
12. How much can you swallow
13. The night before the last was saturday night
Posted in News
4 Comments » Wow…no.3 - God at night - super…ist das Malta oder Ostsee nach Tankerkatasrophe?
Comment by Gelber Sack — 16. May 2007 @ 20:38
tee - ach nee - mehr riffa… ;-)
Comment by Michael — 16. May 2007 @ 21:18
Jo! http://www.lanzarote-web.de/informationen/straende/el_golfo_strand1_480.jpg
Das sieht mir doch stark danach aus. Obwohl is ja wieder Lanzarote. Aber super - endlich mal wieder das Meer mit drauf. Für die nächste Platte dann bitte Polarmeer.
Comment by Gelber Sack — 17. May 2007 @ 12:21
Phillip Boa goes bathing.
Comment by Penner — 8. June 2007 @ 12:38
Posted on May 15th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Diana
Live Video Snippet, 26.10.1991, Berlin Deutschlandhalle
Posted on May 10th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Recommended Music
Marc Almond - Stardom Road [Album Release July 2007]
particularly “I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten” a Dusty Springfield cover version featuring Sarah Cracknell from St. Etienne.
Marc Almond - Stardom Road Marc Almond - I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten
Posted on May 10th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Phillip Boa @ YouTube
Visit Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub @ youtube.com
Search youtube.com for Phillip Boa music clips and live videos of the “X-Mas Concerts” and “Re-Mastered Tour” 2006 as well as the “Official First & Last German Bastards Europeantour” 1986 (Ostrich & All I hate is you). Furthermore you find an exclusiv studio snippet (cool new bassline) of the forthcoming album “Faking to blend in”.
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Posted on May 6th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Live on Stage
Faking To Blend In Tour 2007
presented by Persona Non Grata
Ticket Hotline: 01805-4470
14.09.07 Cottbus, Gladhouse
20.09.07 Frankfurt, Batschkapp
21.09.07 Magdeburg, Factory
22.09.07 Halle, Steintor Varieté
24.09.07 Oldenburg, Kulturetage
25.09.07 Hanover, Musikzentrum
26.09.07 Berlin, Postbahnhof
27.09.07 Erfurt, Gewerkschaftshaus
28.09.07 Dresden, Alte Reithalle
29.09.07 Glauchau, Alte Spinnerei
02.10.07 Hamburg, Markthalle
04.10.07 Bochum, Zeche
05.10.07 Cologne, Gloria
11.10.07 Karlsruhe, Substage
12.10.07 Munich, Muffathalle
13.10.07 Osnabrück, Rosenhof
Tickets Online
Posted on May 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 am
Recommended Music
Various - Babylon’s Burning [History of Punk Rawk, Box-Set]
Wedding Present - Complete Peel Sessions [Box-Set]
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Client - Heartland
All time classics:
The Clash - Clash on Broadway [Box-Set]
Julian Cope - Saint Julian
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
Can - Landed
Nirvana - Incesticide
Posted on May 2nd, 2007 at 12:18 am
Recommended Literature
Anthony Burgess - Little Wilson and Big God
Penguin Books Ltd.
Little Wilson and Big God, the first part of Anthony Burgess’s two-volume autobiography, tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement, in 1959, of his career as a professional writer. Born Jack Wilson, the son of Catholic Irish and Lancashire parents, Burgess grew up in one of the toughest areas of Manchester, with a burgeoning awareness of an artistic talent which for a long time could not find its proper outlet. It deals also with an unending struggle to reconcile a Catholic conscience with the prematurely discovered pleasures of sex. It details his tempestuous first marriage, an army career more comic than heroic, and his years as an education officer in Malaya and Borneo. It was in the Far East, at the age of thirty-seven, his marriage in trouble, drinking heavily, that Burgess began to write the first of the novels that were to make his name.
Posted on April 24th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Next Tourdates Confirmed & News Snippets, Folks!
alrighty, here they are:
9/25 Hannover - Faust
9/28 Dresden - Reithalle
10/4 Bochum - Zeche
10/12 Munich - Muffathalle
jim rakete, legendary director and photographer, shot a 15min clip about the story of “Container Love”, including phil, pia and voodoo. the clip will be broadcasted by RBB in september. this clip is part of a tv series that also features ideal (”Berlin”), fanta 4 (”MFG”) and fehlfarben (”es geht voran”).. the series will also be broadcasted by wdr, ndr and swr later this year.
okay, and if i’ll find the “lord garbage”-cd today, i will upload “like gods & heroes in spring”… damn, my room is a pigsty. hold on…
cheerio, maiki
Posted on April 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Tour 2007
hi, members of the voodooclub!
i’m happy to confirm three dates of the voodooclub-tour in autumn.
the tour starts on september 14th in cottbus at gladhouse.
on october 5th we’ll be playing the gloria in cologne. and the last gig will take place at rosenhof in osnabrück on october 13.
remaining dates will be announced asap.
the new album, which is still untitled, will be released by late summer.
cheerio, maiki
Posted on April 3rd, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Recommended Music
Monta - The Brilliant Masses [Album]
Arcade Fire - Black Mirror [Single]
Posted on March 20th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Curse of the Voodoos
New Musical Express 27th September, 1986
[please, click picture for full screen]
Posted on March 2nd, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Recommended Music
Klez.e - Tag im Fall
The Jam - Snap! [Re-Issue Collection]
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Posted on February 18th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Recommended Artist
Anthony Burgess
Victor Pasmore
Posted on February 16th, 2007 at 12:55 am
New Album
Official: New Boa-album this year!
Also 2007 promises to become an eventful Boa year. The work on a new Boa album is running on full speed.
Approx. 14 - 16 songs are written, the recordings done. Considerably involved in it among others was Guido Eickelmann, better known as “Der Rabe” - an old acquaintance from earlier Voodooclub times.
The songs are to be mixed in May/June in Berlin by Tobias Siebert (Klez.E). After that the final song listing for the album takes place. However a publication date is not known. Already distributed demos of the songs are encountered large enthusiasm among Boa friends. Like each Boa album this album does not have anything in common with the predecessor. According to rumors the new album will further pursue the way of “Decadence & isolation” roughly, however with more corners and edges.
Further a tour is planned to the album, however dates are still not known.
More infos
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Phillip Boa, January 2007
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Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 2:12 am
New Album
The pre-production of a new album is in progress…
Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 2:12 am
Pia Lund Special
Check out the following links…
Posted on February 13th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Pia Lund Special
Check out the following links to get access to the wonderful world of Pia Lund, the incomparable voice of the Voodooclub:
» Pia Lund on Myspace
» Pia Lund Gift Special
Even 6 years after the planned release that never happened we still receive request of fans regarding Pia Lunds album “GIFT”. Due to these enduring requests we decided to ask Pia for permission to start a download special with all album songs.
exhalfpopstar.de and boastuff.de present this unique “GIFT” download special starting February 10th.
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Recommended Music
Klaxons - Myths of the near future
The Fratellis - Chelsea dagger
B.N.I. - Before the flame dies
oldschool punk from Malta produced by David Vella
Client - Family
Bodi Bill - Traffic jam
from Berlin, like romantic Aphex Twin
Posted on January 31st, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Recommended Literature
Sybille Bedford - A Legacy
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural Baden. Portrayed with exquisite wit and acute observation, their personal upheavals and tragedies are set against the menacing backdrop of a newly unified Germany combined with Prussian militarism in the decades before the First World War.
Phillip Roth - Everyman
Philip Roth’s twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, “Everyman”, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth’s “Everyman” is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes. A successful commercial advertising artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him, the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he’s made a mess of marriage. “Everyman” is a painful human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.