Club Bianca in Turkbuku, Turkey.
Since starting our Gang of Four reunion tour in London in January 2005, we’ve been lucky enough to visit many countries, cities or festivals that we had never played before. First one up in ‘05 was the Coachella Festival then on to Japan where we played the Mt Fuji Rock Festival. [...]
The internet drives another hit. Samuel Jackson’s latest movie, Snakes on a Plane appears to be less of a movie and more of an event. The internet has been teeming with spoof trailers of the movie for weeks and New Line Cinema canceled all preview screenings so movie critics had to wait until opening day, [...]
These guys live at Pickathon were amazing and their album, Four Thieves Gone should be heard.
Up in the mountains of northern Portugal, Gang of Four, shared a festival stage with the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party and We are Scientists while 20,000 music fans shook off the rain and had a blast. Here’s a video of Karen O and the band. Audio’s a bit quiet but you’ll [...]
Boy, the music industry sure knows how to win good press. In this post from the Recording Industry vs The People blog, they report that “In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to [...]
Gang of Four are playing a few festival dates in Europe in August and then head to Brazil in September. Dates below.
August 16th 2006 Porto, Portugal Festival de Parades de Coura
September 1st 2006 Vitoria, Spain Azkena Rock Festival
September 2nd 2006 Dublin, Ireland Electric Picnic
September 3rd 2006 Glasgow, Scotland Indian Summer Festival
September 5th - 10th 2006 [...]
Australian all-female outfit Remake Remodel have a great version of Damaged Goods on their MySpace site. And there’s a video of them performing the song live here. Pity they’ve called it a day really.
I spent Saturday night, Sunday morning trying to comply with the rules re carry-on bags on my flight to London. United check in person; “sir you’ll have to check all of your luggage all the way through to London, absolutely no carry-ons are allowed except tickets and passports. I don’t make up the rules.” Me; [...]