PRESS RELEASE · Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub

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LIVE 2011 | Part 2
Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub play excerpts from their albums
HELIOS & BOAPHENIA plus selected Songs and Singles:
09.09.11 Rostock M.A.U. Club *
10.09.11 Halle (Saale) Steintor-Varieté **
30.09.11 Bischofswerda East-Club
01.10.11 Annaberg Alte Brauerei
14.10.11 Coesfeld Fabrik *
15.10.11 Hannover Faust
10.11.11 Mainz Kulturzentrum *
11.11.11 Aachen Musikbunker
12.11.11 Marburg KFZ
17.11.11 Kiel Pumpe *
18.11.11 Bremen Lagerhaus
19.11.11 Wuppertal Live Club Barmen *
24.11.11 Nürnberg Hirsch *
25.11.11 Stuttgart Röhre *
26.11.11 Gera Comma *
Special Guests: * KiEw
** The Invincible Spirit

International Press Kit / Promotion Info

Reissue of the albums
HELIOS and BOAPHENIA (Re-Mastered)
"carefully re-mastered from original tapes"
incl. unreleased songs, bonus tracks & b-sides
Release: 04.03.2011 Vertigo/Universal Music
Catalogue No. 276 404 6 (Helios Re-Mastered)
Catalogue No. 276 404 7 (Boaphenia Re-Mastered)

Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub, founded in 1985, released their first album on their own label 'Constrictor' and on the English label 'Red Flame'. Up to today the bands albums are internationally released and praised. No other German band has received 6 'Single of the Week' and 3 'Album of the Week' awards from the English press. NME and Melody Maker, over to Spin (USA) and as far as the Japanese media have written about the band that is a mix of indie/pop/rock with a twist of avant-garde. Still today you can not only hear Boa's music in movies and series but also in the background of numerous TV documentaries.

The album HELIOS came out in 1991 and reflected an explosive and strange mixture of great pop melodies and an absolute musical original. HELIOS sounds like a beautiful and bizarre soundtrack. It was lead by the single 'And Then She Kissed Her', a song of longing and homesickness, which overtook the popularity of Boa's best known song, 'Container Love', by far. The unreleased song 'Moonlight With Me' was as a demo found, improved and mixed in the same character of HELIOS. On songs like 'Tristane' or the impressively individual Anti-Nazi-Song 'Pfirsicheisen' the Voodooclub sounds very Teutonic; while the finer quieter 'Laughing Moon' is a homage to Kurt Weill.

The album BOAPHENIA (1993) was the first album after Boa's departure to Malta (where still lives partially today). The Mediterranean influence is very apparent on this album. It's lighter than the albums preceding it and stands under the influence of the David Bowie producer Tony Visconti – who, for example, played almost all (not the drums) instruments on Boa's most successful single 'Love On Sale'. Visconti's background vocals have an impact on this album as well. The song 'Johnny The Liar' about a genius Maltese liar (who really does exist) or the song 'Hyperactive Cracker', the crazy weird dance-influenced 'Beat Me Up', the description of crazy 90's Malta-Life of 'Where My Rats Play Snooker' etc. They all express, even when it's here extra self ironic (like Boa always is), his feeling of freedom and his "high" at that period.

The timelessness of HELIOS and BOAPHENIA is immense: Since1 or 2 years groundbreaking artist are again working with sounds and effects that the Voodooclub used back then. The ideas and the individual sound indicate how much further the Voodooclub was than other bands (especially German bands); that's recognized in the releases in almost 20 countries as well as the exceptionally positive reviews.

Boa's habit, since around the end of the 90's, of ignoring the mass media such as TV or the new commercial band marketing-strategies do not really help his career, but his not sell out approach to entirely let the music speak only ideology is outstanding in his home country of Germany. This and the loyalty of his "die hard fans" seem to be enough to inspire him to write his weird and beautiful avant-garde driven pop music.

The producers of HELIOS and BOAPHENIA

- Tony Visconti (u. a. David Bowie, Morrissey)
- Craig Leon (u. a. Blondie, Talking Heads, The Fall)
- Nigel Walker (u. a. Japan, David Sylvians great Album "Brilliant Trees")

International Press

"... whilst producing the most powerfullly subversive pop I've heard for ages …!" (NME)
"... one of the best bands in Europe!" (Melody Maker)
"... a six gaunt figure with basking in noise, a gnarled cracking batterer, a keyboard, a set of tom-toms swaying dangerously in the wind:
For these three nights, Boa and his Voodooclub were the best band trading these shores for a long, long time!" (NME)
"... like the best music, it takes what we know and twists it to create a new sound!" (Spin/USA)

Shows in London and New York in 2011 are still being planned. Live Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub played for or with David Bowie, P.I.L., Ramones, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, The Residents, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Manic Street Preachers, Gun Club, Björk etc.

HELIOS & BOAPHENIA Live

March/April Tour 2011: Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub playing HELIOS and BOAPHENIA!
There will be unique live concerts at which the Voodooclub will respectively play the first 11 songs of the 2 albums:

10.03.11 KOBLENZ Cafe Hahn (sold out)
11.03.11 SIEGEN Vortex Music Club (sold out)
12.03.11 DESSAU Kurt Weill Fest (sold out)
31.03.11 BRAUNSCHWEIG Meier Music Hall
01.04.11 BOCHUM Zeche (sold out)
02.04.11 BIELEFELD Forum
07.04.11 LÜBECK Werkhof
08.04.11 BERLIN Postbahnhof (sold out)
09.04.11 DRESDEN Alter Schlachthof
10.04.11 BERLIN Columbia Club (additional show)
14.04.11 FRANKFURT Batschkapp
15.04.11 KARLSRUHE Substage
16.04.11 COLOGNE Gebäude 9 (sold out)

Contact / more infos

Universal Music Group
Nicole Strauss
nicole.strauss@umusic.com

Constrictor Management
presse@phillipboa.com

PDF Presskit:
» http://www.phillipboa.de/presse/BOA Presskit ENG Universal.pdf

Biografie: "One of the most influential continental bands" (NME)
» http://www.phillipboa.com/press/biography/index.php