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web-site, where you can find everything but granola. And wet wipes.
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Archived band shots in excessive amounts can be
found on our flickr
page, the best photo storing/sharing site that I’ve
seen.
05/10/06
The album is done!
Full title - " Fache Brut; the further adventures of spondoolix and spizzerinctum"
17 tracks, all your favorites and more. We have our first tour ever coming up, here are the dates so far...
May 12 @ Pianos, NYC 7pm, free, upstairs – solo show
May 21 @ Brixton Telegraph, Brixton, UK
May 23 @ Dublin Castle, 8:30 Camden UK
May 26 @ Lewisham, Lewisham, UK
May 29 @ Le Baron, Paris, FRANCE! YEAH!!!!!
June 6 @ Brockley Max Music Festival, ...yes, in Brockley, UK
*all uk dates w/ David Rhee, dropping in from New Zealand to kill it....
More gigs should be rolling in...keep checking our myspace for immediate updates/times/etc...tell all your friends abroad, a broad sent you to see HEATH!
The show in Paris on the 29th of May, Le Baron...........used to be a whorehouse, now Bjork and Sofia Copola chill there w/ David Rhee
That is all for now, if you have friends near anywhere we're playing, let 'em know, and keep it real!
2/26/06
Full UK tour news
It looks like May is the month! I’ve mapped
out the basics, and Dave and I will be hitting England for 14
shows May ’06. Dates haven’t been finalized, but cities
are pretty set; London, Brighton, Oxford, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham,
Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds. We’ll likely
be doing one show in Paris, and adding in whatever else we can,
whenever we can. It is on and cracking.
Pod cast
I’m going to be doing a pod cast interview and what not
w/ Leslie Winer on her blog.
Interview or music I don’t know. Keep you post-izzled.
mastering
It looks like I’ve found my mastering guy, ducats must be
saved
2/25/06
Daylani Rollich passed away this past Monday morning
at 2am, after a long battle w/ cancer. She fought furiously,
and was beautiful and inspirational every step of the way. Visit
www.beautifuldayfoundation.org,
a foundation and web site she created w/ her husband and my good
friend Christiaan to raise money and educate for cancer research
on women under 35. I went to her funeral today, and it was wonderful
to see so many people there to remember her and celebrate
her life.
11/12/05
CD mixing
The full HEATH! CD has been mixed. Finished it out w/ Lynne Earls
at the Jungle
Room in Glendale. My goal was a simple recording that would
capture what we sound like live. I knew it would be too hard to
resist fixing mistakes and adding tons of guitars etc. if we went
digital, so we eliminated the option by recording live on an old
Teac reel to reel 4 track in the vacant shell of Hollywood hot
spot ( and our employer for 6 years) Les Deux Cafes. Maroon 5
shot their CD photos there, so we started on the right track,
right? Right!? RIGHT!!? Recording was pretty quick, 5 days, and
two to four takes of each song. It took forever to go through
all the takes and choose the possible tracks, but I finally narrowed
it down and transferred them to Pro Tools for mixing. I added
a few nice overdubs, an organ thingy, a second vocal and guitar
here and there, but over all mixing was pretty simple, and I’m
stoked on the outcome. Mastering soon. Check out a few of the
jams on our jams page, also on our myspace. Our myspace, my myspace,
your myspace. Ha.
10/4/05
UK shows recap
So my trip to London was an incredible adventure. I arrived at
Heathrow Airport to no trains, thickening crowds, few taxi’s,
bus lines hundreds of people long, and no phones. I was told there
had been a bombing or something, but couldn’t get any real
info until armored vehicles unloaded what looked like military
w/ full body armor and machine guns. Then I was told the there
had been a terrorist attack on the London tube system. It took
about three hours to get into London, which was deserted, and
another five or so to get to my accommodations. I played the Brixton
Telegraph in Brixton, The Six String Bar in New Cross, and
The
Rhythm Factory in East London. Everyone from the Clash to
Basement Jaxxx have rocked the Brixton. The Six String used to
be called the Paradise, and was home to the likes of Art Brut,
Bloc Party, and the whole art rock scene. The Libertines apparently
got signed at The Rhythm factory, and Babyshambles have rocked
that house as well. It was great to play great venues where everyone
was so nice, and great, from promoters to the other bands to the
crowds and the various staff members. Special extra thanks to
Ceri from the 6 String, Alex from the Telegraph, and Wayne
from the Rhythm Factory. The enthusiasm, support, and high five-ness
of everyone I met in London, even under the strain of terrorist
bombing, assures that I will be back. Oh yes, I will be back.
That, and I sold 100 CD’s in three shows, which rules.
HEATH!documentary/France
While on my UK trip, I was able to visit Thomas Levy and his wonderful
wife Leslie Winer (www.lavachequilit.typepad.com) for a few days
at their home outside Paris. Thomas is the French filmmaker who
saw us play about four years ago, and approached us about making
a documentary, which he’s been filming off and on since
then. Right now he’s working on a documentary of/with the
amazing Lee
Hazlewood. Google him if you don’t know. We shot some
more stuff, drank a lot of wine, hung with Leslie’s daughters,
lit fireworks for Bastille day, and chilled Merchant Ivory style.
Wicked. Leslie is an awesome musician; last year she played All
Tomorrow’s Parties ( Vincent Gallo cur. ), and she invented
trip hop. Google it.
no more Thistle
I have also decided it is time for me to exit Thistle Llc, and
focus on HEATH! full time again. It is a difficult decision, but
the right one for me to make. It was an incredible experience
playing in New York, Rome and LA on a large scale, learning a
new instrument, making new friends, hanging with old, and being
in a full band environment, and I’ll miss everyone involved.
Go see JT’s movie when it comes out! I will be finishing
out our Red Devil residency in SF, and that’ll be that.
08/03/05
Hello. Quick up-date. I’m back from London, where I played
three solo shows, it was great. I’m getting photos etc.
in order for the site. The CD is very close to done, 19 tracks,
it sounds good, I’m stoked. Join us on myspace or friendster,
there are new mp3’s on our myspace page. Check out the new
phpBB
community board, sign on and discuss. Thistle will be playing
4 shows in S.F. in Sept at the Red Devil Lounge, so beware. More
soon...
03/02/05
Hey-o. I hope everyone’s well. I got back from Italy last
week, it was amazing! I was there with Thistle
playing a great show and meeting great people and making great
friends and having a great time. Check out the Thistle site in
the near future for some photos and whatnot. We ( Thistle ) have
a show next Wednesday the 9th of March at Café
du Nord in S.F.. We go on probably at 9:30, but CHECK the
du Nord web-site for exact times! I don’t know how much
it is yet, but come see us rock the house, it’ll be great!
I’m supposed to put up some photos later today w/ my girl,
so take a look and see if they’re updated. Hopefully you’ve
noticed the changes in the web-site! It should be loading much
faster, we’ve added a bunch of links on the…wait for
it…links page, check ‘em out, great bands and such…we’ll
be adding more as we go…still moving forward on the CD!!
Dave is in fact moving to New Zealand!! So, sorry to be the bearer
of...news..but he’s busy packing, so get in touch if you
want to say goodbye! Dave says he will say his goodbyes from New
Z. and keep me posted on goings on, and I’ll pass ‘em
along. End of an era for me and Dave. Sort of, most likely we’ll
play together again, but for stateside shows it’ll be me
solo, or with a new drummer. We played many shows together over
the last 3 or 4 years, and had many good times making music…he’s
an amazing musician, a wonderful human, and I’m sad to see
him go, but it’s a change in direction which will be good
for us both, no matter what happens.
Today we’re also trying to add a community board if we have
time…I think I covered everything…
My wonderful Dog Nigel died recently, he was the best ever, and
made my family very happy…I am compiling photos of him for
his own page on the site…soon I hope…I love dogs so
much.
02/04/05
Hello there. My second update in a year, I better slow down. After
recording last January, Dave and I weren’t sure if we were
going to keep playing music together, and I wasn’t happy
with the quality of the recordings so we took a formal break,
broken by the occasional show. After some aimless months of domestic
bliss for Dave and surfing for me, I wound up learning to play
drums for this band Thistle
LLC. They’re, I guess now I can say we’re, from
San Francisco, and we’re great! Hit the link and listen
to the music. We’re going to Europe Feb. 6th-23rd, and have
various shows throughout California for the rest of Feb and March.
ALSO! Look for us in episode #9 of HBO’s new series, Unscripted,
on Sunday Feb, 20th. Our singer is on the show, and we made an
appearance. See press for some photos.
In HEATH! news… Here
is the link for the Vines video we were in a ways back…you
can barely see us by the stage, me plaid shirt, Dave …uh
shaved head. Super director Michel Gondry’s brother directed
it. HA!…our song Don’t Go Away appears in an episode
of a cartoon called The
Boro Boys, I think it’s on in Germany…I want tfinish
our CD in two months, that’s the goal, so we’ll see…check
us/me out on Friendster
and MySpace
if you’re on there…sign up if you’re not…I
need to update both, surprise…if anyone is interested in
photography, there’s a book out now called Lost
Angeles by an awesome photographer named Paul Jasmin, and
you will find me in a few photos looking serious w/ a moustache,
also many barely clad young men, but I’m fully clothed,
I swear! Rhee may be moving to Australia, or New Zealand, I think
it’s new Zealand…A community board and photo galleries
are in the works. I am really flakey about this kind of stuff,
and my girl who does the actual putting it on the web-site is
really busy, so if there’s anyone out there who’s
into taking some initiative and working with me to keep it more
up to date, lemme know…
2/10/04
Welcome to the HEATH! website, new and
improved. Slowly, but... slowly we'll have a bunch 'o changes
happening, starting here. This is the update section where we'll
be posting various... updates, about shows and whatever else isn't
happening. Should be some new photos soon, as well as a new BIO!
Yay! We finished recording our first full CD a few weeks ago,
which is very exciting. Money must be saved for mixing, mastering
and releasing and then it will be available @ my house everywhere.
We just shot a video for the Vines new song, "Ride"
so check MTV for the back of my head. Dave and I are both unemployed
as the restaurant we worked at went under, so send us money. The
owner's already pissed 'cause we're sorta late, but our time and
our clothes gotta coordinate. Support Dennis Kucinich.
Love,
Stephen
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