― Kris England, Monday, 2 May 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
tell all.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I have heard rumours that it will be getting a release soon.
As far as I know it was a collaboration between Earl Brutus, some stll alive chap from Lush and an ex Mary chain guitarist...It's supposedly very good indeed.
― Kris England, Monday, 2 May 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kris England, Monday, 2 May 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Seems it was slated to be out on "Deceptive" well, you know what happened to them...
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link
That's pretty much what the original sounded like
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link
i suspect that this is the white label that was listed on the mojo listening panel a couple of years ago.
i have a FOF of someone in the band and pushed and pushed to get him to give me the lowdown .. as well as hassling loads of other folks to get acess to the fellas.
all of which - came to nothing.
there was also a small NME advert for t-shirts .. which had a typically Earl Brutus slogan on it ..
superb band. off to dig out the albums and revel in their majestic noise.
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
tell'em they bloody well should be.
i'd set up a crappy lo-tech cd-r internet label and release it to mass apathy - and, how on earth could they resist such an offer
...
shrunken head is now totally pissing off my neighbours and making my blood rush.
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
.. because I'm not reviving that one.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link
too fucking right. they soundtracked my life for about eight months in the mid-to-late nineties, and i love them for it. i saw them live at least three times ... first time was at the venue in edinburgh, which they completely emptied. there were two of us left standing (admittedly, my mate was so drunk he didn't know where he was), and even i slunk off before they'd finished, so absolutely headfucked was i by how gloriously different they were.
last time was at the cathouse in glasgow. they rocked so hard i thought the world had fallen off its axis.
(and "gypsy camp battle" is still one of the most chillingly brilliant songs i've ever heard.)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
this was one of the first pages i sorted out when i setup ireallylovemusic all those years ago, in fact the day i saw them was probably the day i decided that music was once again relevant in my life :
http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/rock/earlbrutus.html
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
i have no idea where my albums have gone. i know i MP3d "tonight you are ..." a couple of years back, but i need to go in search of "your majesty" again. this week. yes.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― hull hole (hull hole), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
sort'em out. i'll pay the beer money.
then again .. maybe not.
m.e
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link
http://pho-ku.com/exhibit/index.html
Earl Brutus and AOC on same bill .. (sort of)
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 26 May 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
the brutus meets the St E !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1502649,00.html
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:30 (eighteen years ago) link
or rediscover of Toys !
(wait till his kid starts getting into Bionicles .. whoa ..)
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
i finally got "your majesty ..." and it might just be one of the greatest albums ever made.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link
the more i listen to/think about/marvel at earl brutus, the more i think they might, all things considered, be my favourite band ever.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah these guys are pretty bloody brilliant
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"are" ... YES, LET'S KEEP THE FLAME BURNING and hope for that unlikely reformation.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
quite rightly, they got placed into the Guardian 1000 Albums list didn't they ..
flame on.
― mark e, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
which album? having heard both i'm veering slightly towards "Tonight..." but it's close. i think "your majesty..." the TRACK is possibly their best song.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Earl Brutus Your Majesty We Are Here (1996) Though it was released at the height of Britpop, this debut from Earl Brutus had more in common with conceptual Britart. The music provided glam-rock thunder, the personnel provided glamour - two guys at the front, just drinking - and the lyrics gave the enterprise a surprising lightness of touch. "
― mark e, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"second class war" is the one track i'd use to convince any unbeliever. which reminds me ... need to do a CD of "that stuff you listen to" for mrs F's 70-something aunt. SCW will categorically be on there.
didn't see the guardian list and don't want to bring myself to care about it :)
xpost: okay, nice try, but ... y'know, facts?
the personnel provided glamour
this is irony, right?
two guys at the front, just drinking
one guy -- and not until later, either. shin-yu wasn't in the band (IIRC) at that time.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, 'navyhead' and 'black speedway' take some beating. as do 'edelweiss' and '99p'. and 'male wife'. hmm.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
New recruits to the Earl Brutus cause, hooray!
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 December 2007 10:19 (sixteen years ago) link
favourite memory involved them playing the new bands stage at glastonbury in 98/99 (a muddy year) or so in a slot before julian lennon. times overrun, and yoko ono turns up in the photographers pit early, just in time for earl brutus to be finishing up their set. to this day i'll never forget the sight of her in her white designer mac outfit and wellies gamely yet confusedly jiggling about as the singer of earl brutus is unwittingly wobbling everywhere and showering her in lager.
― matt h, Thursday, 6 December 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
yoko went to see julian lennon?!
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 6 December 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
yoko WENT TO GLASTONBURY to see julian lennon?!?!
earl brutus drinking lager !?!?!?
― mark e, Friday, 7 December 2007 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
can't wait for this
― carles the jekyll (imago), Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Mark, we're almost certain to be in the same room at some Pre New thing or other, so we should endeavour to introduce ourselves to each other... not sure how...
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
i wish that were the case Tom D, but i rarely leave my house these days.
however, i will of course let you know via this thread should i ever venture out again for this bunch of f*ckers.
if you have checked the studio photos of the day i have mentioned (they all were posted on the bands facebook page, i am the bald f*cker in the spiderman t-shirt .. )
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
Album launch maybe? I'll be there anyway.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
cant make it to that :(
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
tell jim you know me, and demand a drink !
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
I'll tell Jim he knows me and demand two drinks.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/wp-content/prenew_the-joint-8.jpg
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
too right tom d !
(reviews for the album so far have been really good - hence i am seriously keen to hear it !)
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
MRI scanners and estate agents with shit aftershave
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Friday, 1 May 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
Blue shirt guy looks like a cross between Steve Pemberton and Matthew Kelly.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 2 May 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
Funny thing, my ebay notification showed up Iljan Darc, couldn't recall why.
So, I looked into it and found he did a German cover version of MOD.
its on its way to me now.
― Mark G, Saturday, 2 May 2015 12:56 (eight years ago) link
That is Jim Fry btw (xp)
― Cram Session in Goniometry (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 May 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/07/the-pre-new-the-male-eunuch-review
now that's a fucking review.
cannot wait to hear this album.
― mark e, Friday, 8 May 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
'janet vs john: the outcome' is amaaaazing
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Monday, 13 July 2015 11:11 (eight years ago) link
Tonight You Are The Special One: Expanded Edition
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 7 September 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
brilliant news ! will be nice to have clean versions of the b-sides.larky for example is bloody fantastic.
― mark e, Monday, 7 September 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
ahh .. I see the debut is getting the deluxe 2cd treatment as well !
― mark e, Monday, 7 September 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
I was hoping they'd bring these out on vinyl too. I don't think Tonight You Are The Special One ever got a vinyl release and I'd love to get it.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 7 September 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Check the Cherry Red site, I think it is coming out on vinyl... or has already.
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 7 September 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
YES! It's coming out on November 13th. I am absolutely chuffed. I managed to pick up the Your Majesty vinyl cheap a few years ago. This has made my day.
What a band!
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 7 September 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/3012_847984681966691_3975136086965269780_n.jpg?oh=44357f36834e857027f74edf3a5d030f&oe=57203BCC
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Friday, 18 December 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Just listening to these albums as I'm reviewing them this week. Trying to get my head around what I can say about this perfect band.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link
as soon as these were announced i ordered both expanded editions, and the special ltd edition box, i.e. CLOSED, to put them in.
according to a FB post, the first 47 orders of said package gets an extra treat.
given that i ordered the whole lot within minutes of the announcement i am hoping to be part of the 47.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 January 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
I'm going with the vinyl. I couldn't justify getting the CDs as well right now. I'm sure I will regret that when I see what the extra treat is.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 January 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
i know what the treat is .. well kind of : an extra 7"don't know whats on it though.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Where are you ordering these?
― djh, Thursday, 14 January 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Haven't ordered my vinyl yet. Will probably order from here. Seems to be the only place you can get the Closed box set.
http://3loopmusic.tmstor.es/index.php?page=products§ion=Earl+Brutus
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 15 January 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link
yup .. thats where i got it from ..
― mark e, Friday, 15 January 2016 10:33 (eight years ago) link
fuck.
not a member of the 47.
time to listen to LODGER loud.
― mark e, Friday, 15 January 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
a good write up re the boxset :
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2016/january/earl-brutus-a-new-box-set-designed-by-scott-king/
― mark e, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
My reviews finally went up today. You can definitely tell they written by an Earl Brutus fanboy but I just couldn't hold back.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2016/01/22/earl-brutus-your-majesty-we-are-heretonight-you-are-the-special-one-deluxe-editions-cherry-red/
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 22 January 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
someone shat in the promoter’s pocket
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 January 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link
bravo to all re the excellent articles.
spent all saturday reading the sleevenotes and listening to the extra songs.
the david arnold remix is just glorious.
time to reprint some of the t-shirts ?
― mark e, Thursday, 28 January 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2016/02/earl-brutus-greatest-british-band-1990s
― djh, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
despite the fact it was written by someone who has history with the band, i loved reading that article.
i realise i am biased, but, the tracks on the extra cds are absolutely fantastic.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 February 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
Are you biased?
― djh, Thursday, 4 February 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
yes.
look at the studio pic earlier in this thread (unless i have missed some subtle point !)
― mark e, Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-s3o-sbxYs
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
Anybody else having issues playing the first CD of the Your Majesty reissue? Wondering if it's down to that faux spray-paint finish. I feel like I should complain, but then again, seems to be in the spirit of Earl Brutus (i.e. a prank, like the Durutti Column sandpaper sleeve.) Caveat emptor!
― henry s, Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
sorry henry, but mine played ok.i'd contact 3loop directly http://www.3loopmusic.com/contact-us/would like to think they will help you out.
― mark e, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 10:03 (eight years ago) link
playing the extra discs now as the digital lookup process worked for each extra disc.
bloody hell, this was a band for which even the throwaway b-sides were worthy.
― mark e, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
I was just playing my vinyl of Tonight You Are The Special One earlier today. Pretty good band aren't they? It comes with a download code that I'm yet to use, wonder if it has all the bonus material as well?
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
i hope so, as the extra stuff is fantastic. get it fixed up KP !
― mark e, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
the 1998 hagiographies are pukescent but even worse is the absence of Tonight You Are The Special One from literally all of them
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
Mouldy old radio play from Jim Fry and Luke Haines.
https://soundcloud.com/user-988845513/test-driving-the-new-prius-full-radio-play
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
Collection of covers inc Saint Etienne:
https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com/product/v-a-traindriver-in-eyeliner
― djh, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
I think this is one of the best one of these I've ever read. I'd expect nothing less from Jim though.
https://thequietus.com/articles/32053-james-fry-earl-brutus-bakers-dozen
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
‘Put Your Love In Me’, which is one of their best songs, is more like an album track than something you’d expect to hear on a greatest hits. You don’t hear that one on the radio but it’s one of their best singles.
It's one of the best singles by anyone ever, glad to see it mentioned. Great list throughout.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
yeah, this was a cracking read.as tom says, to be expected from jim.
― mark e, Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link