MARTIN CREED - Thinking / Not Thinking

 

 MARTIN CREED

THINKING / NOT THINKING

(Telephone Records) 

Watch/Share/Embed the video HERE

Digital Single & Video - Jan 24^th  /  Special Edition Double Disc set – Feb 28^th 

Live:  March 2nd – CAFÉ OTO, London E8 (Tickets £10 adv  www.ticketweb.co.uk)

      ‘like something between Steve Reich and The Ramones’ - The Guardian

THINKING / NOT THINKING is a new single by the Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed.

Written by Creed and performed by Creed and his band, it is accompanied by a video written and directed by the artist.

Each of Creed’s artworks are numbered, his most famous being Work #227, The Lights Going On And Off. In line with his other artworks, the video for THINKING / NOT THINKING is Work #1090

Creed’s music featured recently in a ballet he both wrote and choreographed which ran at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe where it was awarded the Herald Angel Prize.

Creed’s other musical works include pieces for orchestra (Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 2008) and string quartet, for bells (commissioned to be part of the Olympics 2012), as well as the hugely popular singing lift that is now permanently installed at the Royal Festival Hall.

THINKING / NOT THINKING will be released both digitally (January 24^th) and as a special edition double disc set, which includes a CD, DVD and signed photographic artwork (available February 28^th from www.martincreed.com)

The release of the single coincides with Creed’s forthcoming show, Mothers, at the new Hauser & Wirth space in Savile Row, London (opens 21st January 2011)

Recent gigs include Latitude, the ICA, Palais de Tokyo, Belfast Festival and Art Basel Miami Beach.  Martin Creed will play CAFÉ OTO on March 2nd to mark the release of THINKING / NOT THINKING. There will be a special showing of Creed's ‘Sick Film’ beforehand.

www.martincreed.com

 

BUFFALO TOM - New Album + UK Shows

BUFFALO TOM

 ‘SKINS’

  [ScrawnyRecords CD/DOWNLOAD SCR - 00001]

  Album Released: March 7th 2011   /    UK Shows March/April 2011 

  Listen/Share/Embed FREE Download of 'Arise, Watch'  - Click HERE

 www.buffalotom.com

Album Tracklisting:

Arise, Watch  /  She's Not Your Thing  /  Down  /  Don't Forget Me  /  Guilty Girls  /  Miss Barren Brooks  /  Paper Knife  /  Here I Come  /  Lost Weekend  /  The Hawks and The Sparrows  /  The Big Light  /  The Kids Just Sleep  /  Out Of The Dark

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Buffalo Tom return with their eighth studio album, Skins, on March 7th 2011. Produced by the band in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts and mixed by long-time collaborators Paul Q.Kolderie (who produced the band's breakthrough third album, 1992's Let Me Come Over) and Tom Polce, Skins is the follow up to 2007's Three Easy Pieces which brought Buffalo Tom back ino the spotlight after a nine-year hiatus.

The new album features guest Tanya Donnelly of Belly, Breeders and Throwing Muses fame singing on the song Don't Forget Me. Besides the standard CD, a deluxe edition will be available with demos and b-sides, as well as a vinyl version with a download card featuring the additional songs.

Buffalo Tom have fans in high places - before Jon Stewart hosted the president and other famous people on the set of The Daily Show, he had a late night syndicated talk show called The Jon Stewart Show.  On his final show, he asked his favourite band to play.  That band was Buffalo Tom.  They’re still Jon Stewart’s favorite band, and he’s currently the most trusted man in America.  They’ve had song titles turned into feature films such as Taillights Fade and were featured guests on the Claire Danes series My So-Called Life.

Writer/actor Mike O'Malley, whose star has recently risen higher as a result of his work as Burt Hummel on Glee, loves the band so much that he wrote in praise of Buffalo Tom and their new album. Here he writes of the moment he discovered the band when they released 1994's Big Red Letter Day:

"Here were men like me making music about things that mattered - how we navigate our lives amidst the messes we get handed and the messes we've made - and they were doing it with an authentic sound that had heft, texture and drive.   They did what we want our rock and roll to do - distill potent observations about life and disguise any sentimentality - eliminate it - by backing up the observations with guitars and drums.

"And for those who fell for the Buffalo Tom of Taillights Fade, Soda Jerk, Tree House and Summer, this document exists, in part to proclaim that Buffalo Tom's new album Skins is worthy of your attention. It has all the things that Buffalo Tom does well.    Songs about situations and subjects that the average human can relate to - with all the gravity you'd expect from a band that still has something to say.  Throughout Skins, Buffalo Tom is unafraid to go deeper than the surface layer, and they spend much of this record bringing forth warnings, laments and admonishments."

"Buffalo Tom makes music I drive to, run to, think to, drink to.  I listen to them for inspiration, for the way they turn their phrases and for the songs I’m still trying to figure out…my favourite band, Buffalo Tom."