Mouldy old dough by Earl Brutus.

http://pho-ku.com/exhibit/index.html

Earl Brutus and AOC on same bill .. (sort of)

the brutus meets the St E !

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1502649,00.html

or rediscover of Toys !

(wait till his kid starts getting into Bionicles .. whoa ..)

i finally got "your majesty ..." and it might just be one of the greatest albums ever made.

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.

yeah these guys are pretty bloody brilliant

"are" ... YES, LET'S KEEP THE FLAME BURNING and hope for that unlikely reformation.

quite rightly, they got placed into the Guardian 1000 Albums list didn't they ..

flame on.

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.

"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.
"

"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.

actually, 'navyhead' and 'black speedway' take some beating. as do 'edelweiss' and '99p'. and 'male wife'. hmm.

New recruits to the Earl Brutus cause, hooray!

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.

yoko went to see julian lennon?!

yoko WENT TO GLASTONBURY to see julian lennon?!?!

earl brutus drinking lager !?!?!?

http://www.plantingseedsrecords.com/news.html

i don't know what to say

Fuck.

Here was me thinking it was a re union post.

Fuck/Shit
Piss/Off

That is brutal news

god!

damn.
like louis, i'm speechless

OK, right, I wasn't going to talk about this until it was officially announced but it seems to have leaked out. Nick died on Sunday night. He was drummer with Clock DVA, Gun Club, World of Twist, Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat (not a bad CV) and, of course, singer and frontman with Earl Brutus. More importantly, he was a wonderful man, a total one-off and a real mensch. So long Nick, hope to see you next time around.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2572785667_30ffd59be8.jpg?v=0

Oh man I used to know him when he was in Freeheat, seemed like a lovely guy, very friendly and open. RIP

Universal Plan - Earl Brutus

"I get up.
Go to work.
Eat my lunch.
Come home.
Cure cancer.
That's it.
It's a beautiful world"

fucking brilliant band, if only he had kept to his own plan.

Good appreciation on Quietus:
http://www.thequietus.com/2008/06/nick-sanderson-an-obituary-an-appreciation/

I had no idea really who this guy was until I read his obit here in the Independent. Didn't realise there was a connection between EB and Clock DVA - what a great band they were. Tom, I'm sorry to hear you lost a pal.

This is a delightful story that LJ will like:

Sanderson's interests were broad, including ornithology, Manchester United and British history. I remember him describing a birdwatching trip to see some hawfinches in Norfolk. He didn't find the birds, instead ending up drunk in the dark and falling down some coastal bluffs. His clothes torn, his face scratched, he knocked on the door of some remote cottage. Surprisingly perhaps, the stranger who answered let Sanderson in. The pair then spent the rest of the night in high-spirited revelry.

Hope he got to see the hawfinches in the end, God knows I've tried and those are some bad bitches to nail down.

(dude gets bonus points from me for being a red BTW)

:(

i mean a birdwatching football fan who wrote awesome fucking music

Cheers for posting that Quietus thing, Nick, that was a good piece

Eh, no worries, but that was actually Neil that posted that.

Oh man, so it was, sorry Neil!

Nae bother, glad it was enjoyed.

Blimey, World of Twist are a cursed band - first Tony Ogden, now Nick Sanderson.

Bloody cancer :-((((

good write up by bob stanley in this months mojo re Tonight .. as a lost classic, along with a nice obit by ian harrison (who also sorted out the excellent piece over on quietus).
interesting point about an artist using Earl Brutus as the foundation of a new exhibition.

Yeah, it seems to have been written before, which is a shame.

Never really got used to that second Earl Brutus album; it was too much of a Lexicon to the first's Beauty Stab.

fucking, fucking hell. and there was i hoping the thread revive might have been a reunion or something :(

RIP, nick. you rocked my fucking world in all manner of ways.

there are many days i think earl brutus might just have been the greatest band of all time. unsurprisingly, this is going to be one of them.

and tom, yes, my sympathies: it's obviously something else entirely to lose a guy you knew.

i just spent an hour or so wandering about glasgow in the rain listening to "your majesty". what a blindingly fucking good band. i'm incredibly saddened by this news (i didn't realise the initial thread revive was so long ago; the first i'd heard of any of this was this morning).

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.

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.

i know what the treat is .. well kind of : an extra 7"
don't know whats on it though.

Where are you ordering these?

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

yup .. thats where i got it from ..

fuck.

not a member of the 47.

time to listen to LODGER loud.

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/

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/

someone shat in the promoter’s pocket

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 ?

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2016/02/earl-brutus-greatest-british-band-1990s

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.

Are you biased?

yes.

look at the studio pic earlier in this thread (unless i have missed some subtle point !)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-s3o-sbxYs

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!

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.

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.

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?

i hope so, as the extra stuff is fantastic.
get it fixed up KP !

the 1998 hagiographies are pukescent but even worse is the absence of Tonight You Are The Special One from literally all of them

Mouldy old radio play from Jim Fry and Luke Haines.

https://soundcloud.com/user-988845513/test-driving-the-new-prius-full-radio-play

Collection of covers inc Saint Etienne:

https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com/product/v-a-traindriver-in-eyeliner

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

‘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.

yeah, this was a cracking read.
as tom says, to be expected from jim.