I kinda hit burnout after seeing SK solo at a backyard show right here in Sierra Madre last April but I'm tempted to go to that Pappy & Harriets show. The band sounds tremendous.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 January 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
Kilbey's Sydney Rococo is worth a listen, with some fine tracks like the below. Also, the Kilbey / Kennedy albums are worth pursuing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kI7C6zCnGQ
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 January 2019 03:51 (five years ago) link
Also, the Kilbey / Kennedy albums are worth pursuing.
Seconding/thirding these. SK's songwriting caught a third/fourth wind when he had this outlet to work on. Check 'em out: https://kilbeykennedy.bandcamp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 January 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link
Couple of days ago:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RuJK6XVHMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCQ_hi47x3g
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 January 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link
But that appears to be the final bow for Pete:https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10156557066421046&id=20594731045&ref=m_notif¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
Surprised and unsurprised that SK would continue on with none of the other originals. Altho of course Powles is a way more durable member than Ploog was.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 1 February 2020 06:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah, if Powles wasn't still there I'd be looking at all this really askance. Though I do know Jeffrey Cain, and he's a good sort.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 February 2020 06:45 (four years ago) link
What's at Ned's link?
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 1 February 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link
Richard wasn't a founding member! Nick Ward was the drummer on Of Skins and Heart.
A statement from SK to the effect that Peter is done with The Church. (Presumably for good this time.) This... does not bode well, I would think. They rebounded after MWP's estrangement to make a superb album that retained all the qualities that I most love in The Church, but losing PK too means that they're inevitably going to become a different musical proposition. This isn't a "me and yer granny on bongos" situation.
― Vast Halo, Saturday, 1 February 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
Really glad I saw em in Ithaca when they came through last year. I was amazed at how great a show it was. They played forever and the crowd was with them the whole way. Sorry to see Koppes go. He was the backbone of the band no doubt.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Saturday, 1 February 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
Well, of course there was that period in the 90s when it was just Steve and Marty. And a slap on the wrist for me forgetting Nick Ward. I guess my main reservation is that altho the Church were always a benign dictatorship, SK has increasingly leaned into the role of rock legend / elder statesman in the last decade. The self aggrandising statements feel a little less ironic these days.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 1 February 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
(Presumably for good this time.)
Ah, as long as the band exists, I wouldn't rule out anyone returning, given the fluctuations of the '90s.
I see Ash Naylor is being brought in to replace him though - seems Kilbey has a project to incorporate all the flattest-haired Australian guitarists of those '90s as positions become available.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 1 February 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
I just did a search for him on Google Image Search and indeed, he would fit in nicely on the ILM "swagger of Oasis" thread.
― Vast Halo, Saturday, 1 February 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
as long as the band exists
Even more likely: a farewell or retirement-fund tour with MWP and Koppes at some point while everyone's still healthy
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 1 February 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
Naylor is a great player and super low key in a similar vein to Koppes, I must admit
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 2 February 2020 02:13 (four years ago) link
Steve just posted something now re some of the comments of the past few days:
https://www.facebook.com/thechurchband/photos/a.10151876536906046/10156570000881046/
People questioning my integrity and my right to call my band the church should bear in mind that I wrote approx 90 per cent of all guitar parts on first 4 albums other than the actual solos. Seance is virtually a solo album as far as the writing of it. I have never been merely the bass player.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 February 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
It's a shame both that artists being so close to pissy audience comments these days make him feel he needs to make any response, and also that he went for such a petty, reaching defence. This is throwing the last 20+ albums & mini-albums under the bus, and also the contributions of the recent and future guitarists. Presumably not his intention!
He's never hesitated to use other names for other music. Bummer if there's actual acrimony, not just fed-up-ness, with Koppes, but it's not hard to trust that future music with Kilbey's main Church collaborator of the last 25 years and a lead guitarist who's been in the band for six years will be Church-ish.
― MOAR PETE (sic), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
I'd guess that calling an album a Church album instantly means more sales and the ability to plan a tour with larger venues, and have a shot at actually making some money, regardless of who plays on it or what it sounds like.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
i looked up MWP after the last revive and wondered if anyone has seen his new act w his new wife? i thought she was his daughter until i read a little more about the project :-/
i wish steve kilbey would do another album in the earthed/unearthed style, maybe re-earthed? de-earthed?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
should we pitch in and buy LL a one-hour Skype guitar lesson with MWP for £35
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
lololol irl lols heremaybe i will do it over the summer. i'm sure someone would let me borrow their guitar. he can teach me the basics as i know nothing about playing guitar :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
i didn't realize he was still at it!
maybe you could give him a one-hour drumming lesson?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
No I would prefer to learn guitar. I teach for a living, I’m not paying him to get a drum lesson! :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
A few of the Kilbey-Kennedy albums might fit here? They're all pretty good.
Reading between all the lines, I had a feeling Peter was going to split after the last tour.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
I would happily pay £35 to hear about LL's impressions of Skype-MWP!
― Vast Halo, Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
MWP has a new band too - Atlantæum Flood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b06eo3BGIU
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 February 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
Sounds kinda like a Greg Dulli b-side on mogadon.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Monday, 10 February 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
Livestream moment of the week - Kilbey and George Ellis play "Aura"
https://youtu.be/87E7Zxs6pww?t=3180
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
Someone told me that Steve Kilbey's at home concerts these past few weeks have been a joy.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUE6KbEBTs
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link
Good interview with Peter here - gets into his final days with the band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juVh2xtX67A
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 22 January 2021 06:37 (three years ago) link
Great find, ET, thank you
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Friday, 22 January 2021 09:18 (three years ago) link
best kilbey work in many a year imo https://kilbeykennedy.bandcamp.com/album/jupiter-13
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
Sounds good!
God, his solo catalog is massive. Could go for a guide or best-of or playlist.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 12 June 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
I still rep for Unearthed and The Slow Crack. Narcosis is pretty excellent too, but I lost track sometime in the early 00s.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
I gotta break out Unearthed some time soon. Loved it.
― Donald Duck Loved Walt Whitman (I M Losted), Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
Yes I loved that album! Earthed isn't bad but it's no Unearthed! "Judgement Day" is my favorite song featuring a drum machine. It was a mixtape staple back in the day because I didn't know anyone diehard enough to have solo Kilbey albums and it's such a good song :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 June 2021 23:43 (two years ago) link
Hard to believe it's contemporaneous with Starfish, the yin to that album's yang. "Nothing Inside" could have been a Church single I think, but "Othertime" might be the loveliest song he's written.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 13 June 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
I'll take this opportunity to strongly recommend Peter Koppes' latest project, Syncretism. The vocals and lead guitar are by Dave Scotland, who he first worked with in Baby Grande, SK's band prior to the formation of The Church!
― I Advance Masked (Vast Halo), Monday, 14 June 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Ha, wow, there's some continuity!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 June 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
More kilbey songs need drum machines, IMO.
― Donald Duck Loved Walt Whitman (I M Losted), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 00:25 (two years ago) link
you're gonna *love* Remindlessness then
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
electricsound!!!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 17 June 2021 05:52 (two years ago) link
That album cover is very stoner rock, reminds me of 'The Black Code' by Wo Fat.
― earlnash, Thursday, 17 June 2021 05:56 (two years ago) link
Some good news on the reissue front. Intervention’s 2021 deluxe reissue of Starfish sounds beyond spectacular. If you're on the fence about it, just pull the trigger - it's that much of an improvement over what's been out there.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
Really. Very intrigued!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 01:56 (two years ago) link
ordered
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 05:18 (two years ago) link
I purchased the Intervention remaster on the basis of ET's recommendation above, and he's not wrong. Listening to it on my little-used SACD player, there's somehow much more of everything - which shouldn't be possible, but it underlines how superlative the engineering and mixing on Starfish was.
― Vast Halo, Thursday, 21 October 2021 13:02 (two years ago) link
The EMI reissues were a great series, but the remastering on them was a little hot so... I'm in!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link