The Three Johns have announced their first live dates since 2006 with a UK tour in May 2012
May 5th Bradford, 1in12 Club - w. Night On Mars & Tom Hyatt May 7th Preston, New Continental - w. Night On Mars & Tom Hyatt May 8th Manchester, Gullivers - w. Night On Mars & Tom Hyatt
(Marc Riley BBC session that night too!) May 10th Newport, Le Pub - w. Give Me Memphis, 2 Marks & a Frank & Tom Hyatt May 11th London, The Windmill in Brixton - Give Me Memphis, Chips For The Poor & Tom Hyatt - tickets
Jon Langford Dates
Sept 23rd: Jon Langford & The Burlington Welsh Male Chorus – acoustic show – Thomas Masters Gallery 245 W. North Avenue
Sept 24th: Jon Langford & The Burlington Welsh Male Chorus – Hideout Block Party
Oct 20th: Jon Langford & The Far Forlorn + Deano & The Purvs + Walter Salas-Humara – Continental Club, S. Congress, Austin TX
Oct 21st: Jon Langford & The Far Forlorn + Deano & The Purvs + Walter Salas-Humara – Continental Club, Houston TX
Oct 22nd: Jon langford artshow and acoustic performance – Yard Dog, Austin TX
Mekons Dates
30.09.2011 San Francisco CA, Swedish American Hall
24.10.2011 Evanston IL, Space
05.10.2011 Chicago IL, Lincoln Hall
07.10.2011 Brooklyn NY, The Bell House
08.10.2011 New York NY, City Winery
01.11.2011 Geislingen, Rätschenmühle
02.11.2011 Frankfurt, Sinkkasten
05.11.2011 Berlin, C-Club
07.11.2011 Hamburg, Fabrik
08.11.2011 München, Ampere
10.11.2011 A - Wien, Chelsea
11.11.2011 A - Ebensee, Kino
Mekons Announce New Album
Mekons are proud to announce their return with their latest record, Ancient & Modern. Announced via Pitchfork, the band's 26th record will be released on September 27th on the band's own, newly reformed Sin Record Label. In honor of the announcement, Mekons are happy to release their first single from the album, "Space In Your Face," for download
Ancient & Modern:
01 Warm Summer Sun 02 Space in Your Face
03 Geeshie
04 I Fall Asleep
05 Calling All Demons
06 Ugly Bethesda
07 Ancient & Modern
08 Afar & Forlorn
09 Honey Bear
10 The Devil at Rest
11 Arthur's Angel
John Hyatt Gig - Sat 28th May 2011
New Jon Langford CD & Book
Nashville Radio, Jon Langford's first collection of paintings, writing, and music, summed up two decades' work as an artist and musician. For its successor, Langford has created a highly personal portrait of the South Wales he grew up in and left. The starting point was his long unobtainable album Skull Orchard. For the CD available exclusively with this book, Langford returned to those lost recordings and radically revised them, adding three new tracks. His accomplices in the project were the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus, who contribute a unique warmth to the songs.
Langford illustrated his lyrics for Skull Orchard, at once autobiographical and fanciful, in a set of "song paintings" created especially for the book, which also includes many more paintings, an A to Z of South Walian culture and history (both personal and general) by brother (and acclaimed SF writer) David, photographs by their father, Denis Langford, and Jon's first published story, a witty, dystopian tale about a whale and a dolphin.
Mekons UK Tour 2011
These two Mekons shows are currently billed as the only two UK dates the band will play in 2011, so you'll need to get your tickets soon.
London The Lexington on Friday 20th May tickets/info
London Brixton Windmill on Saturday 21st May tickets/info
Jon Langford: Old Devils - CD & Ltd. Vinyl Released 24th August 2010
Old Devils starts with the premise that punk rock is folk music. From there, Jon and his Skull Orchard incarnation (fellow Waco Brothers Alan Doughty and Joe Camarillo on bass and drums respectively and the Zincs/Horse’s Ha dapper, finger-picking Englishman Jim Elkington on guitar) bend, borrow and blend genres with energy, humor (grim and otherwise) and the Welsh gift of the tale. Ultimately, though, Skull Orchard rocks hard, “‘cos,” as Jon says, “that’s wot we do.”
Old Devils takes us to ports of ill repute as far flung as the Old World and the West Indies (”Pieces of the Past” where “the filthy streets of Bristol were paved with blood and gold”), New Orleans and the American suburbs (”Luxury”) looking for the answers. Travel companions include soul godfather Andre Williams as the ominous rum drinking narrator, the Crescent City’s horn tribe Bonerama and the incomparable Jean Cook on violin.
John's new album. Full colour, jewel case, 13 Tracks with lyrics' book:
Do What You Wanna Do 3:57
Dream Creature 4
:40
Strumming 2:34
Falling in Love with Love 3:04
Switch Off and Boogie 2:48
It Is Good! 5:11
Sands of Time (Free Me) 4:34
I Turn These Words 4:20
Sweet Angel Cake 3:21
Little Boy Blue 4:24
Boomerang Love 3:33
Go with the Flow 4:26
Musical Spirits 7:31
Total Time 54.31
Stop Press John Hyatt News
Please come and join me as I’ve got two exhibitions opening in one night in Manchester on Friday! I’m going to play some songs there too.
The Free Creation of Beautiful Things
Friday 30th April 5.30 – 7.30 p.m
Holden Gallery, Grosvenor Building (School of Art), Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Square, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BR
The work for this exhibition finds beauty in the everyday, the habitual and the overlooked. Refresh your relationship with the universe from the stars above to the gnats in the garden through my digital photo works. Sound and video show what wonder can be still had with a child’s kaleidoscope.
Exhibition runs until 14 May
Me and the Avatars
Friday 30th April 7.00 – 9.00 p.m.
Rogue Studios, 66-72 Chapeltown Street, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2WH
Exhibition runs till 6 May
These are all new works too. Photographic works bring my Second Life avatars out to explore an Indian Sun Temple and a Step Well, accompanied by a multitude of sculpted Hindi gods and my human form joins in too.
To accompany these new artworks and celebrate the two exhibitions, I have produced a new album of music, ‘Do What You Wanna Do’, in a limited edition. The album will be available at the shows and in May as a CD from my website: http://www.hyattartandlife.com
Nashville
collects 215 of Jon
Langford’s unique paintings, plus his writings about music and
art, and a CD with 18 new recordings of Mekons and Waco Bros
classics/rarities, all for $29.95! There are still a few copies
of the special edition which includes a limited, signed colour print.
News of two new Jon Langford related
releases. Waco Brothers - "Waco Express - Live and
Kicking at Schubas Tavern" was released on 04/03/2008 by Bloodshot records.
There is also a Jon Langford tribute album
available (including a cover of Death Of The European)
"Levitation - A South Wales Tribute to Jon Langford" on Country Mile Records.
01 English White Boy Engineer
02 Pinkheaded Bug
03 Men Like Monkeys
04 A.W.O.L.
05 Do The Square Thing
06 Death Of The European [Full Version]
07 Brainbox (He's A Brainbox)
08 Sold Down The River
09 Torches Of Liberty
10 Never And Always
