The Church - C or D/S&D/CB&TT

Him and Steve butting heads is what's keeping him "busy," I'd guess?

Hm. That's unfortunate. I love Steve Kilbey's attitude.

Without getting too far into NDA territory, I'm not surprised by this development. I had a feeling the U23/P=A/SF shows were going to be it for the band - even before Steve went public about the financial rift with Second Motion.

I"m also encouraged. I can't think of many other people from Kilbey's generation who've found such creative engagement in middle age. The Kilbey-Kennedy albums are all worth checking out and generally if he's bragging about something on his blog it does live up. Plus if it gets Peter to do more, then I'm all for it. The RefoMation album is very very good,

The three times they came through New England after U23 were three of the best shows I've seen from them.
Nice that they at least ended that phase on a high.

Kilbey is a talented dude. I'm sure the new record will be more than worth a listen. It's still sad though!

i keep reading that piper is a douche.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Marty's got a new album on the way too. He's over at http://indeepmusicarchive.net now - writing about his favorite albums.

He's also offering Skype guitar lessons. I am very tempted by the idea, I must say.

You could learn from R Lloyd and MWP in the same day!

omg can i pay for a guitar lesson and just make him talk to me for ___ minutes?

Just £35 buys you an hour of his time. I'm sure he'd be happy to simply shoot the breeze...

(x-post)

Maybe I could set both lessons up for the same time and we could all jam on See No Evil. ＼(◎o◎)／

one laptop with lloyd, another with MWP, them facing each other...

i'm gonna set up my laptop in the basement and marty can accompany me for an hour
that seems worth the cash tbh!

play a song, talk for 10 min, play a song, talk for 10 min, repeat
with marty!

Maybe Lloyd and Marty can get together with Bruce Gilbert and form a band called the Estranged Band Members.

The Wiresque Church Of Television

FB page teasing some kind of 'big announcement' this week.

New song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujvVk_RDpZg

And new album next month. Works for me!

I can't even parse kilbey's blogs. so he's back in the church? are they putting this out themselves?

He's in, Marty's gone, and it does appear to be a self-release.

so they're done with second motion? whatever happened with that, did they sue them?

what's marty up to these days?!

Oh wow, why did Marty leave? Hate to be this kind of fan (or this kind of listener in general) but Marty not being there sucks a lot of the excitement out of this

I will defer to Elvis T on all these points.

well, it's relatively straightforward (for SK anyway):

we realise people disappointed cos MWP not there
he literally never got back to us when we wanted to do a new record
he never even left
he just became unavailable
well thats that
we had a coalition of the willing who did
and ian came onboard
exceeding all expectations one could possibly have
what we have now is all that could have ever been
forget the what ifs
i understand you may be disappointed if MWP was your favourite
it was not my idea for him to not be there
however seeing he wasnt and he isnt
shortly therefore
and in spades to boot
Further/Deeper will be with you soon if you want
after all its only rocknroll nothing to get hung about

I forgot how fun it is to read his blog!

Not saying anything until the album is out.

Yeah, I'll withhold judgement. And my expectations for any band that's been around this long are very low anyway. But this lowers them considerably. Just compare the last Church album, which was incredible, to all the Steve Kilbey solo records released around the same time, which were not. There were some OK cuts on those records, but the spark just wasn't there.

Not as broken up about MWP being gone as I thought I'd be.

Kinda feel like he was responsible for most of the lowlights songwise/soundwise/bv-wise for the last 20-odd years.
Starting with Sometime Anywhere, he started feeling a lil too comfortable showing off his progginess for me. YMMV though, of course.

Still would've liked him to be in the band (and boy will this be interesting seeing them live w/o him), but what can ya do...

i just want to know what he is so busy doing that he can't respond to sk's messages

maybe he's still trying to decipher them?

haha
i like to imagine him being super perplexed for months on end

i still think that long boring live documentary of their gold afternoon fix tour was the best thing ever

me too

I like this band but to be fair all of their albums from the past 15 years sound the same to me. So if this sounds different, that might be good. That new song isn't very good though.

kinda wish they'd have stayed with Second Motion long enough to re-release the Sing Songs/Remote Luxury/Persia comp on CD... ah well.

Priest=Aura'ing it up this am, so fkn good

Dunno. While they're all certainly The Church, there is a bit of variety in the years since Hologram of Baal.

After Everything is chilled out, opiated... Forget Yourself, quite a bit more rough around the edges... Uninvited drags a bit more pop action back in... Untitled cuts back on the prog (mostly)... maybe these are minor differences though? They probably are. haha

I like Uninvited a whole lot, my 3 fave churches are it, p=a and heyday. I haven't heard every album though.

Blurred Crusade has been in constant rotation since I got the LP for $1.99! I can't believe it was priced so low. It's so good!

I think it was $1.99 -- i remember it being insultingly cheap (and in great condition) is what i'm trying to say

I'll give you $4 for it.

Just found Remote Luxury for 5.99 on LP.

That's the one with the tragic digital drums right

As a fan of all things 80s and digital, i'm not sure I can answer that question. Sounds great to me.

You're thinking of Seance, probably.

Yes Seance. Sweet Jesus those poor songs.

oh look, Sing Songs/Remote Luxury/Persia is on Spotify! *listens*

i'm listening to that on Spotify right now too.

The era between Priest=Aura and Forget Yourself is my blind spot. I haven't heard any of those albums; are any of them worth checking out?

Haha, Ripple just came on and I was a bit O_o but then I realized I had it on shuffle. Gonna let it ride though, this is gorgeous.