this is the band lineup now: https://www.thethe.com/comeback-special-lineup-revealed/
no johnny marr unfortunately but a good sampling across the eras.
― akm, Saturday, 2 June 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
Earl Harvin rules.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 June 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
re todays statement.what a fucking hard thing to have to deal with.and what a beautifully worded statement.
― mark e, Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
???
― sleeve, Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
yeah, what?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
A Statement from Matt Johnson: pic.twitter.com/ZmGyo7eeYa— THE THE (@thethe) June 2, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
thank you ned.
― mark e, Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
wow. heartbreaking.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Official live album/DVD out October:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4W_pLvLUS4
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
Curious, I just checked in with his social media and ... still anti-vaxxy. Sad.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 March 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
World tour to be announced, surprised as I thought his health was very bad
https://www.thethe.com/ensouled-world-tour-2024/
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 9 October 2023 23:06 (eight months ago) link
Huh. Didn't Johnson have a voice destroying throat infection or something? Also, didn't he have a bad case of COVID conspiracy brain?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:20 (eight months ago) link
dunno, I missed all of that (the covid thing; saw your previous post). I did think his voice had been destroyed though.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:21 (eight months ago) link
Would it fucking kill him to put out some new music or just release some of the scores of unreleased albums he made during the 80’s/90’s?
― beamish13, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:22 (eight months ago) link
tbf he fucking released like seven new albums and dozens and dozens of other new compositions and an unreleased album from the 70’s between 2010 and 2020 without fucking dying, and given what happened last time he tried to put out unreleased music from the 80s and 90s he actually might not fucking be fucking able to
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:59 (eight months ago) link
"This is the Day" is one of the top five songs to open your veins to. Had he done nothing else, that song would cement his place in the pantheon.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:00 (eight months ago) link
he's collecting money from Guardians of the Galaxy so likely doesn't feel compelled to over-release things that musically might not measure up
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:25 (eight months ago) link
Dusk is still one of my fave albums of all time
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:30 (eight months ago) link
It’s a shame he’s devolved into a “do your own research” internet weirdo but maybe he was always that way. I have no desire to see him again saw the 93 Dusk tour and there’s no way he can match that 30 years later. Would buy a vinyl repress of Dusk though.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:01 (eight months ago) link
"Dusk" tour was incredible, I remember it better than I remember the two "NakedSelf" shows I saw (which were also good). Wasn't able to see the last tour, but the concert film is pretty good!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:10 (eight months ago) link
Some decades ago I interviewed Matt Johnson. Don't remember much about it, but as a gift the publicist sent me a cool autographed promo photo. I always meant to get it framed, but kept forgetting, and every time I remembered I meant to do it I for the life of me could not find it. On multiple occasions I more or less went through every single place in the house, every closet, every receptacle for accumulated clutter or stuff I'd collected (I found six old issues of Slash magazine!), every shelf, every storage bin, everything, everywhere, I just couldn't find it. I was so stumped I started to suspect I *did* bring it somewhere to be framed but then forgot to pick it up, but that's not like me.
I had resigned myself to never seeing it again for so long that I once again forgot it ever existed. But yesterday, putting away some plates ... I found it! After 20 years!! Like, hanging with some plates and a couple of candle holders in this dining room dresser thing we have. But why was it there? Matt Johnson, why were you hiding with some plates and a pizza serving platter and some seldom used candlesticks? What were you thinking, you jerk?
Anyway. Now I've found it, and it was like this latent psychic burden I'd just gotten used to carrying suddenly lifted. Have you ever wanted something so badly that it possessed your body and your soul, through the night and through the day?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 21:43 (four months ago) link
Lol
― julian cage (sawdust lagoon), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 23:50 (four months ago) link
haha amazing
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 23:51 (four months ago) link
Yes, my mom told me years ago that when she was a young 'un she and a friend went to Sun Valley ski resort and were lounging in the outdoor pool when who should saunter by but Farley Granger, matinee idol of the day, whose PR person saw a good photo op and took a picture of him and his adoring "fans." I scoured the internet for years, looking for images from those old movie magazines (it wound up getting printed in one of them) to no avail. And then! When I was clearing out my parents attic to move them into their retirement community I opened a box and lo and behold, a perfectly preserved 8x10 glossy of the pic which I of course had framed forthwith, and post to social media every Mother's Day.
― henry s, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 23:53 (four months ago) link
Whoa, from "Strangers on a Train"? That's cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:17 (four months ago) link
New album! An actual album of new songs, not a soundtrack or a reissue. And tour dates! All at thethe.com
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 17 May 2024 12:01 (three weeks ago) link
First single sounding pretty good. The The are still a band for whom the word "brooding" might have been coined:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biD-AmPI-Y4
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 17 May 2024 13:43 (three weeks ago) link
Tour months, not tour dates.
― bae (sic), Friday, 17 May 2024 16:39 (three weeks ago) link
"The album also marks the return of co-producer and engineer Warne Livesey, who previously worked on landmark THE THE albums Infected (1986) and Mind Bomb (1989)."
This is great news. In addition to being Johnson's two most brilliant collections of songs, those are two of my favourite *sounding* albums.
― Vast Halo, Friday, 17 May 2024 18:43 (three weeks ago) link
These look remarkably like tour dates to me xp:
https://www.thethe.com/tour-dates/
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 17 May 2024 18:47 (three weeks ago) link
Not sure about that new single but I think this, only from 2020, was just wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HQ33Jq3-KE
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 17 May 2024 23:15 (three weeks ago) link
The dates 404’d from the home page this morning (but I got them from his email, and they’re playing six blocks from me, whee)
― bae (sic), Saturday, 18 May 2024 00:13 (three weeks ago) link