Blue Aeroplanes: Classic or Dud?

Good heavens, other Aeroplanes fans!

That Cleaners From Venus song is circa 1990, perhaps a year or two earlier. That would've been the peak exposure for Gerard and the BA's so Martin Newell might've played with them or otherwise dug "Swagger" which got a lot of airplay.

Gerard's first band, Art Objects, titled their only album "Bagpipe Music".

Allegedly there's a new BA album in the works. Slow and steady releases at this point.

I'm listening to Swagger for the first time since...my thread revival? Besides the peak of a certain kind of Poppy Bush Interzone-era attention to the interaction of 12-string guitars against self-consciously imagistic lyrics, it reminds me to what degree R.E.M. were feeling their oats during this perios. From the cameo on "Jacket Hangs" and the instrumentalists playing on Zevon's Hindu Love Gods project to Stipe's appearance on Billy Bragg's "You Woke Up My Neighborhood," these guys thought they could do no wrong.

Lurve that album, was listening to one of the best-of's the other day. Some of my all-time favorite intricate weaving guitar lines.

New album, "Culture Gun" coming in April!

I somehow missed this and there's been no news since. Is everything OK?

We are sorry to announce that our upcoming April shows in Glasgow and London have been rescheduled to September on medical advice due to Gerard having been admitted to hospital for emergency surgery. pic.twitter.com/1U3xW1WNHA

— TheBlueAeroplanes (@Blue_Aeroplanes) April 12, 2023