Happy 50th birthday to both Sonic & Jason today!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
Back when I was 16, Playing With Fire was so ace. Happy birthday degenerates!
― xelab, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:56 (eight years ago) link
wow, they both made it to 50. happy birthday boys.
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 November 2015 04:28 (eight years ago) link
incredible!
― the late great, Friday, 20 November 2015 06:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― stevo-rd, Friday, 20 November 2015 06:31 (eight years ago) link
Happy birthday to my favourite band I never listen to any more.
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Friday, 20 November 2015 09:06 (eight years ago) link
How are they getting on with each other these days? What are the chances of a S3 reunion?
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 20 November 2015 09:19 (eight years ago) link
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.
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Friday, 20 November 2015 09:35 (eight years ago) link
For All The Fucked-Up Semicentennarians Of This World We Give You A Cake
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Friday, 20 November 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
Quinquagenarians!
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 20 November 2015 10:44 (eight years ago) link
Happy birthday 😍
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
That only increases my respect for them TBH.
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 22 November 2015 08:14 (eight years ago) link
Yeah this will never happen imo
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 22 November 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
Wouldn't Europe give way more of a shit abt an S3 reunion than west-coast US would?
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 November 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I wouldn't mind betting ATP have offered them £££.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 23 November 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
Didn't know Jason was on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jspaceman3/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 08:57 (eight years ago) link
http://spiritualized.band/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12878&sid=d591c3a1db501e5550c6d370577c4f13#p132432
read Sonic Boom's post
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 February 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
wtf?
Hasn't Space Age been reissuing stuff of theirs for years?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 February 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
and wasn't Sonic involved in the double-CD Forged Prescriptions (which I have and is awesome...?) Could've sworn he wrote the liners.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
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 .
Gerald palmer has always been 100% space age owner .
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 February 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
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.
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 10 April 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
i want that book, goddamn!!!
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 11 April 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
woa
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
Need to order this.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Mine arrived Saturday
― TWO DAYS LEFT to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
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"
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 September 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
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.
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
i had no idea about this - gonna order a copy now!
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 September 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
Read Will's book in one sitting - yes it's that great.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 September 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 September 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
short extract here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/26/spacemen-3-will-carruthers-playing-the-bass-extract
― heaven parker (anagram), Monday, 26 September 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
nice!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
that's awesome
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
jealous
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
i've read the writing on the wall
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 May 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
Holy shit at that -- but also how perversely appropriate that S3's stuff gets caught in yet ANOTHER weird legal zone.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 May 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
Is this the same guy that runs Spaceage records who Jason and Pete both hate?
― Cow_Art, Monday, 11 May 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
unutterably shite
― i am a horse girl (map), Monday, 11 May 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
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.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 11 May 2020 05:35 (three years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Monday, 11 May 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
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...
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 May 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
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...
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 May 2020 09:31 (three years ago) link
cosigned
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 May 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
Maybe a perfect band for an ILX covers album.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
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― groovypanda, Monday, May 11, 2020 5:24 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― groovypanda, Monday, May 11, 2020 5:24 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Same on Amazon Music and Tidal.
― punning display, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
> the arts centre live piece
> an idiotic and ignorant t-shirt salesman
ironically, the person who first put out an extract from the contemporary sitar music thing went on to sell t-shirts on a my bloody valentine tour (one of the che / cheree people, can't remember which)
― koogs, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link