Spacemen 3 - classic or unutterably shite?

this is one of the worst thread titles on ilx

"This is indeed a disturbing universe."

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/09/27/the-simpsons-spacemen-3-music/

indeed

Happy 50th birthday to both Sonic & Jason today!

Back when I was 16, Playing With Fire was so ace. Happy birthday degenerates!

wow, they both made it to 50. happy birthday boys.

incredible!

I consider myself privileged to have met both, and they were charming. They remain icons. I wish them both many more birthdays and good health.

Happy birthday to my favourite band I never listen to any more.

How are they getting on with each other these days? What are the chances of a S3 reunion?

At the benefit "reunion" a couple of years ago, onstage they had literally every person who has ever been in Spacemen 3 for more than a week, with the noted exception of Jason. (Photos are on a phone that has since died, tho.) So sources point to... no.

For All The Fucked-Up Semicentennarians Of This World We Give You A Cake

Quinquagenarians!

Happy birthday 😍

The semi-legitimate rumor is that Coachella and Primavera have been racing each other as to who can offer up the most $ for a S3 reunion, but the response has solidly been laughter and shrugs.

That only increases my respect for them TBH.

Yeah this will never happen imo

Wouldn't Europe give way more of a shit abt an S3 reunion than west-coast US would?

Yeah, I wouldn't mind betting ATP have offered them £££.

Didn't know Jason was on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jspaceman3/

http://spiritualized.band/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12878&sid=d591c3a1db501e5550c6d370577c4f13#p132432

read Sonic Boom's post

wtf?

Hasn't Space Age been reissuing stuff of theirs for years?

and wasn't Sonic involved in the double-CD Forged Prescriptions (which I have and is awesome...?) Could've sworn he wrote the liners.

Note the followup:

My 'involvement' was doing artwork & mastering on either my own , Spectrum or Spacemen 3....

Gerald palmer has always been 100% space age owner .

Will has a new book coming out this year:
http://www.lebowski.agency/will-carruthers/

Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands tells the story of one of the most influential, revered and ultimately demented British bands of the 1980s, Spacemen 3. In classic rock n roll style they split up on the brink of their major breakthrough.

As the decade turned sour and acid house hit the news, Rugby's finest imploded spectacularly, with Jason Pierce (aka Jason Spaceman) and Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom) going their separate ways. Here, Will Carruthers tells the whole sorry story and the segue into Spirtualized in one of the funniest and most memorable memoirs committed to the page.

i want that book, goddamn!!!

Interview with Will about the book: http://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/The_Tom_Dunne_Show/Highlights_from_Tom_Dunne/156575/Playing_the_Bass_with_Three_Left_Hands

woa

Need to order this.

Mine arrived Saturday

I nearly lost my shit the other day when I thought I heard an S3 clip being used in a commercial and then I realized it was just some dumb song w a drum loop sampled from "I Love You"

If anyone's in the US, there are a bunch of new copies on Amazon Marketplace that come to like $15 w/ shipping which is prob 8-10 cheaper than you'll pay getting it shipped from the UK.

i had no idea about this - gonna order a copy now!

Read Will's book in one sitting - yes it's that great.

Got my copy the other day but I'm going to save it for a trip here in a couple of weeks. Figure it'll be the perfect timekiller.

short extract here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/26/spacemen-3-will-carruthers-playing-the-bass-extract

Humblebrag ahead...

So I finally tracked down the Rosetta Stone for this sort of thing… pic.twitter.com/gYCrR0ptva

— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) July 2, 2018

nice!

that's awesome

jealous

i've read the writing on the wall

A couple days ago, all of Spacemen 3 (except for the Losing Touch With Your Mind comp) disappeared off of Apple Music. I wondered what was up and then I learned that Spacemen 3's old manager (and sole corporate officer of Adasam Ltd.) and Apple are being sued for pirating hundreds of recordings that he falsely claimed licenses to.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/apple-hit-with-lawsuit-by-songwriter-heirs-for-allegedly-running-a-massive-music-piracy-operation/?fbclid=IwAR3SLF3-vctvj0P0EbU-e1S3y8pxzXeZjnEQ7H8zLMM1DEZXwAKBxZo8v1w

Holy shit at that -- but also how perversely appropriate that S3's stuff gets caught in yet ANOTHER weird legal zone.

Is this the same guy that runs Spaceage records who Jason and Pete both hate?

unutterably shite

the arts centre live piece where the band were so munted that the bass player forgot to turn on his amp, and the PA keeps announcing the screening time for "Wings of Desire", is one of my all time favourite records.

Are they on any other streaming services?

They only have one song on Spotify and that's only because it's on MGMT's Late Night Tales comp

Is this the same guy that runs Spaceage records who Jason and Pete both hate?

Yeah. Will's book talks about the shit stuff he was doing back then. The guy who hired me into the music industry once told me "an idiotic and ignorant t-shirt salesman has no business managing an important band." I never forgot that...

Anyway, my hope is that Adasam will be so far in the fucking hole with insolvency that SP3 can finally get their own music back. Crazy year gets crazier...

the arts centre live piece where the band were so munted that the bass player forgot to turn on his amp, and the PA keeps announcing the screening time for "Wings of Desire", is one of my all time favourite records.

cosigned