We’re doing some press in Europe right now — having lots of funn, like we do. We’ll be back in the States for Lollapalooza on July 24th, but if you’re in Chicago on the 23rd, Pete and Fathead will be spinning some records with Anton from Jonestown and a load of other bands you probably know at the Party in the House of Paygosim, at the Double Door. Sadly, the party is invitation only, so if you live in Chicago, you better cozy up to someone at Virgin Mobil to get in. Other than that, we hear bribes of money, sex, or drugs work well with most door people.
Mr. Courtney was walking around one day, minding his own business, when up comes Mr. Perry Ferrell. Says Mr. Perry to Mr. Courtney, “Hey, Mr. Courtney, you should play at my show.” To which Courtney replied, “What?” Then Mr. Perry repeated his plea, “Hey, Mr. Courtney, you should play at my show.” To which Courtney replied, “What?” Courtney was about to go back to minding his own business when Mr. Perry scooped up a handful of pebbles and leapt to a nearby spinning wheel. Well, Mr. Perry spun and he spun! Whirrrr! Whirrr!! He spun for about ten minutes until he fashioned those pebbles into a solid gold hearing-aid. After handing the device to Courtney, Mr. Perry again repeated his plea. “Hey, Mr. Courtney, you should play at my show.” This time, with the golden hearing-aid augmenting the plea, Courtney replied “Ohhhh. Okay.”
Why the long face, mon petit? Is it that you feel left out of The Dandy Warhols news carnivale. Well, let me tell you, brothers and sisters, it hasn’t been all topless women in giant feather head dresses here. Oh, oh, yes, we’re busy, but with nothing really to report. Catch our “drift”? The word according to Capitol is that Odditorium or Warlords of Mars is slated for September, receiving their full attention. But we should hasten to warn you that sometimes these things have a habit of getting moved back. Not that Capitol would willfully (or unwillfully) do that with Warlords, as they nearly dropped dead from delight upon first hearing the completed record. It’s just, you know, sometimes the way business works. In the meantime, this gives us more than enough time to edit together a video for each and every song on the record. More on this later…
As for touring, there have been a lot of rumors flying about. Honestly, we don’t know where a lot of these rumors come from, but it seems to happen whenever a record is getting ready to come out. We should probably remind you that unless you read about it on dandywarhols.com, it really is just a rumor. That said, we are working on what we want to do for this summer, so yeah, at least you will have something to look forward to.
Who all is going to see Star Wars this week. Chop chop.
This is our new site. If you want to see it in 3D, make sure to get 3D glasses that have red and cyan, or red and blue (though red and cyan works best). Those work best. But we think it still looks pretty cool without the glasses.
There are may be some bugs to be worked out with the site, links not going to the right places, that sort of thing, so please be patient with us. Aside form that, everything should be here. Hope you have fun.
Tara at our favorite radio station 94.7fm here in Portland wanted everyone to know that the station is now streaming online and will be playing some new songs of ours from time to time. Maybe we can get her to play “Hard on for Jesus” for Easter. (You are ready for Easter, right?) Anyway, take a listen to the station. It’s cooler than pretty much any station, especially any station that featured Sean Gothman talking over songs and irritating listeners.
Nick, Simon, and Andy from Duran Duran came for dinner at The Odditorium friday night (03.11.05), bringing our old friends Gus Van Sant and Paige Powell with them. We had such a great time, we did not remember to take any photos or even think to film the little jam session, but if you really need an image to sum up the night, this would be it:
Norman Lindsay
Oh yeah, if you have a chance to see Duran Duran on their tour, do it. They really rock.
Our new record, ODDITORIUM OR WARLORDS OF MARS, is being mastered as we speak. We hope to get it to Capitol right after that and hopefully they will put it out before summer.
Yes, SMOKE IT is the first single. We shot the video a couple of weeks ago.
We don’t know what we’re doing yet about touring this summer. We’ll let you know when we decide.
Yes, we’re still working on a DVD, but what’s the rush, you have somewhere to go?
Yes, life is great.
And Gothy want the kids to know that the new website is about 93% done, and should go up in the next couple of weeks. Funn.
