JULY
1 - LONDON - Upset The Rhythm
2 - brighton tbc
3 - LONDON - day off/corey show
4 - south/northampton/oxford/cambridge tbc
5 - south/exeter tbc
6 - BRISTOL - The Boneyard Bar
7 - leeds/south tbc
8 - MANCHESTER - Saki
9 - leeds/south tbc
10 - LONDON - The Dew Drop
11 - SHEFFIELD - The Red House
12 - day off london?
13 - day off london?
PARTY WIF ME PUNKA!!!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
THE YOUNGER LOVERS IN LA Oct9-11...fun stuff...
Tribal Cafe
the smell
Mikes Garage. video by the LEGENDARY Sean Delear of Glue!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LAND LINE TELEPHONE IN NEWEST ROMANTIC DISCOURSE....
Significance of the Landline Telephone in Newest Romantic Discourse:Part 1 (by Brontez)
(*this is part of my thesis paper on the subject of Newest Romanticism as a movement)
We have been often asked "how come all your songs are about telephones"? To clarify not ALL of our songs are about telephones (Maybe 80% but not ALL...please note)
Explanation: We will start by saying that for our purposes we are SPECIFICALLY and ONLY referring to the (out of date?) retro land line telephone. This is not merely romantic nostalgia but a deeper and larger concept. Cell phones are new age walkie talkies and do not adhere the the construct we are trying to illuminate. Let the telephone not merely represent "the telephone" but an entirely metaphysical and psychic concept that both represents itself and simultaneously is beyond itself. Before we as humans could track down each other through the (blessing?) of current technology, connecting by landline was a more (poetically) psychic phenomenon. One lover would call the other in hopes they would be home and also (aside from physically meeting in the street) had no other means of connecting "in an instant". If all the right energies in the universe connected and the other lover was indeed home and ready for conversation, then somewhere mini comic explosions would occur of the astral plane-bells would ring, ENERGY would connect to LIKE ENERGY. Take for instance the line in the Younger Lovers song "Ballad for All My Bandmates and Lovers" that goes "Communication is lost like when you hear the phone ringing but it's not...". Take note that in this paticular scenario that the energy/potential to communicate is very much there (i.e. you HEAR the phone ringing) but gets displaced through the universe for all eternity because there is no follow through (i.e. ITS NOT REALLY RINGING REALLY).
(A young and handsome poet/Newest Romantic states the construct as simply: :"The telephone is an unanswered call". We're not a 100% sure what that means but you should make up one for yourself... As for the origin of "phantom phone ringing" THAT is an entirely different discourse altogether.)
A PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS NEWEST ROMANTICISM (Part 1)
A Perspective Towards Newest Romanticism: Part 1:
"Back to Basics" (this way you can begin again). This is a motto of Newest Romantics. The challenge was to put raw shit back on the balances and with that we move boldly forward. We record on analog downstairs at home and sometimes digital but ONLY in a basement or back hall and ONLY if it has vintage tape echo (its THAT serious).
Perhaps you've seen the Newest Romantic walking down the street. Perhaps the rocker in question is wearing a corsage on their jacket or defiantly listening to a cassette walkman. (Theres a million romantic variables). If you dare the rocker may engage you in conversation and if its appropriate start to flirt.
DRUGS:
A newest romantic may or may not be a habitual marijuana smoker and/or engage in the use of psychedelics. Like his/her/whatever Mod ancestor may or may not engage in the use of light amphetamines for the purpose of all night dancing with friends. UNLIKE his jazz/beatnick/grunge ancestor he/she/whatever generally steers clear of heroin and mere mention of the "H-bomb" is considered a slight taboo but not SOOOO taboo because busting chops is NOT in the style of Newest Romantics.
Things in the Style of Newest Romantics:
Melody, sick beats in the time signature of 4/4, songs with a storyline, sex with poets, love poems, Fender Twin Reverb, "cool conciseness", fucking your bandmates, etc and the list goes on (there are a million romantic variables)
DANCING:
All fellow Romantics are STRONGLY encouraged to take part in your local soul/DIY/experimental (place your adjective here) line dancing class. If there isn't one practice for a couple months and start your own. Invite friends over and teach them and your local "step crew" will DOMINATE.
Some dances of mention that we like
1. Squash the Bug
2. the Street Fighter
3. Slap tha Ground
4. The Carwarsh
"Back to Basics" (this way you can begin again). This is a motto of Newest Romantics. The challenge was to put raw shit back on the balances and with that we move boldly forward. We record on analog downstairs at home and sometimes digital but ONLY in a basement or back hall and ONLY if it has vintage tape echo (its THAT serious).
Perhaps you've seen the Newest Romantic walking down the street. Perhaps the rocker in question is wearing a corsage on their jacket or defiantly listening to a cassette walkman. (Theres a million romantic variables). If you dare the rocker may engage you in conversation and if its appropriate start to flirt.
DRUGS:
A newest romantic may or may not be a habitual marijuana smoker and/or engage in the use of psychedelics. Like his/her/whatever Mod ancestor may or may not engage in the use of light amphetamines for the purpose of all night dancing with friends. UNLIKE his jazz/beatnick/grunge ancestor he/she/whatever generally steers clear of heroin and mere mention of the "H-bomb" is considered a slight taboo but not SOOOO taboo because busting chops is NOT in the style of Newest Romantics.
Things in the Style of Newest Romantics:
Melody, sick beats in the time signature of 4/4, songs with a storyline, sex with poets, love poems, Fender Twin Reverb, "cool conciseness", fucking your bandmates, etc and the list goes on (there are a million romantic variables)
DANCING:
All fellow Romantics are STRONGLY encouraged to take part in your local soul/DIY/experimental (place your adjective here) line dancing class. If there isn't one practice for a couple months and start your own. Invite friends over and teach them and your local "step crew" will DOMINATE.
Some dances of mention that we like
1. Squash the Bug
2. the Street Fighter
3. Slap tha Ground
4. The Carwarsh
YOUNGER LOVERS INTERVIEW IN LIQUID ZINE...
(*LIQUID is a now defunct riot grrrrl/hardcore punk zine from Alabama circa mid-to late 90's. They revamped just to interview the Younger Lovers and we're STOKED)
Liquid Zine: Is there any significance to the band name and what is its/yer primary goal?
Brontez: The name "Younger Lovers" is NOT sexual innuendo of any sort. Take it to mean a young rocker who is a "Hippy Johnny" (i.e. habitually smokes marijuana and/or is fond of psychedelics) is primarily a pedestrian, stops to smell the roses, WEARS a rose on their jacket (be it leather, pleater jean-WHATEVER) , engages strangers on the bus and if its appropriate flirt. They may or may not like The Modern Lovers. He/she/whatever is also a dancer/painter/poet/whatever (in trade or spirit). Our primary goals are: 1.) romantic intention 2.)touring England, 3. Put out record(s) 4. do it all over again.
LZ: As a black punker, do you find that people read too much into what you do? Meaning because you are a “minority in a minority” you must be on some sort of a mission or are about things you have never addressed publicly or lyrically, as perhaps similarly experienced by women in rock ‘n’ roll/punk rock?
B: Yeah. But its a hard call. I don't discourage people to have a take on my art though because sometimes they present a point of view that I've never thought of and it gives me a deeper meaning/sense of understanding of what im doing. Sometimes they're WAY off and I have to laugh. Now the thing about "being on a mission" to be honest i don't play music "just to have fun" i do it because im an EGOMANIAC. I have a particular point of view i want to see fulfilled and yes i do want to take over the fucking world, like, why not? As far as the black thing its pretty fucking awesome-besides all the pesky historical racism drama, i age well, look especially vibrant in the colors red, green and yellow, and i got "soul"-but aside from that i am NOT the "new crowned Black prince of rock n roll." Im THE crowned prince period...
LZ:Word on the webernetters is that you are putting the P back Punk. Was there a conscious effort to return to basics, so to speak, or was this project simply an organic process with no game plan?
B: I guess. I mostly "returned to basics" cause thats what was at my fingertips. My room mate has a studio downstairs and he had a 4 track analog set up and said he'd do it for cheap and i said YEAH. my boy vice had a similar set up but Digital and in a basement. Some people call it "lo-fi". I call it "FLAWLESS". Like right off to bat i got this FUCKED up review by this kid who was basically calling punk passe and me sad. The cold part is that we had hooked up the night before!(we've made up since then) This was back in 2008 (three years after the first younger lovers demos) before the whole "ga(y)rage" genre had "taken off" and naturally as THE FIRST i had to be the sacrificial lamb and accept my unwilling figureheadness nobly. I did this band as a reaction to being in Gravy Train!!! and touring in electro clash circles and hearing some of the worst drum machine shit and thinking i make better beats with my hands. i say that wearing bad 80's cloths and trying to be the next Debbie D/Soft Cell/Beyonce/ WHOEVER is equally as ridiculous as trying to be the lost gay Beach Boy, and with that philosophy i move boldly forward. (not that i hate drum machines, let it be known that Newest Romantics are equally as enthused about getting fucked up and dancing to 80's/Top 40 Hip Hop + RB/ 60's ska as we are about any song with a good beat)
LZ: Although one could say the independent music “scene” or what have you seems to be fragmented at the moment (even with the internets), lacking a sort of wider connectivity beyond local happenings, you have toured a bit, so who would you say are yer contemporaries?
B: I got family all over the place. My contemporaries are any one who ive got fucked up or talked shit with from 2001 on. I cry to the Shannon and the Clams record, I take the Frumpies "Eunuch Nights" 7 inch as my personal manifesto and i sexually assaulted NOBUNNY on tour one time. Mike Pack from the Hidden Spots introduced me to pot/powerpop/New Romanticism in general and Jonathan Richman is the rock n' roll poet i (on occasion) admire the most, and im in love with my older brother Hunx along with his Punx. We get a million and one comparisons to them for obvious reasons though in my reasoning i think they're more strict power pop whereas the Younger Lovers is a bit more rudimentary/experimental. Like you COULD say were a "power pop band" or you COULD say we're Diet Grunge.....
LZ: In a home video interview from 2000, you described punk rock as being a community of sorts filled with people similar to you. Do you still feel strongly about punk rock in this way?
B: I dunno. "Punk" is a LOADED fucking term and some people i just don't clique/agree with. I STAY pissed off at some manner of "punker" but try not to judge because i pull alot of bullshit myself. I still feel "punk" (WHATEVER that means to the viewer) should be full of similarly minded people. If your similarly minded group wants to show up to a show to dance and get laid then those are my kind of "punks" if your similarly minded people want to be racist skinheads/sexist jerks/squares in general/WHATEVER then im making it a point not to go to your parties.
LZ: How does one stay enthusiastic about a scene/community that seems to be stuck in tired ideas and clichés?
B: I say whatever. Everything is tired. The question you have to ask yourself is "am I tired?" If the answer is yes you need to take a nap if no crack your whip and proceed to fuck shit up.
LZ: The following is a three part question: What was the last record that made you (or at least want to):
B: Dance with wild abandon The Go-Go's How Much More/We Got the Beat Stiff Records 7inch single.
Fuck shit up. The Icky Girlfriends "Ziggy Buttsweat" -there 12 years old and the record was recorded at my old house.
Cry until you couldn’t see straight. The Gits Seafish Louisville.
(other records i like)
Record i lost my virginity too- The Creamers "Love Honer and Obey"
Record i consistently have sex too ESG
Record that makes me feel like an empowered slut Liz Phair "Exile in Guyville"
Record that i've owed 20 times XRay Spex
Record i should have NEVER given away Belle Epoch
LZ: What inspires you creatively?
B: Daydreaming.
LZ: Has living in a large city populated by many artist/musician types made you feel more competitive, if at all?
B: FUCK YEAH. I fight these bitches TOOTH AND NAIL for every inch of space i can get at. But i also love these bitches cause they keep me on my toes. Its essentially like have siblings.
Liquid Zine: Is there any significance to the band name and what is its/yer primary goal?
Brontez: The name "Younger Lovers" is NOT sexual innuendo of any sort. Take it to mean a young rocker who is a "Hippy Johnny" (i.e. habitually smokes marijuana and/or is fond of psychedelics) is primarily a pedestrian, stops to smell the roses, WEARS a rose on their jacket (be it leather, pleater jean-WHATEVER) , engages strangers on the bus and if its appropriate flirt. They may or may not like The Modern Lovers. He/she/whatever is also a dancer/painter/poet/whatever (in trade or spirit). Our primary goals are: 1.) romantic intention 2.)touring England, 3. Put out record(s) 4. do it all over again.
LZ: As a black punker, do you find that people read too much into what you do? Meaning because you are a “minority in a minority” you must be on some sort of a mission or are about things you have never addressed publicly or lyrically, as perhaps similarly experienced by women in rock ‘n’ roll/punk rock?
B: Yeah. But its a hard call. I don't discourage people to have a take on my art though because sometimes they present a point of view that I've never thought of and it gives me a deeper meaning/sense of understanding of what im doing. Sometimes they're WAY off and I have to laugh. Now the thing about "being on a mission" to be honest i don't play music "just to have fun" i do it because im an EGOMANIAC. I have a particular point of view i want to see fulfilled and yes i do want to take over the fucking world, like, why not? As far as the black thing its pretty fucking awesome-besides all the pesky historical racism drama, i age well, look especially vibrant in the colors red, green and yellow, and i got "soul"-but aside from that i am NOT the "new crowned Black prince of rock n roll." Im THE crowned prince period...
LZ:Word on the webernetters is that you are putting the P back Punk. Was there a conscious effort to return to basics, so to speak, or was this project simply an organic process with no game plan?
B: I guess. I mostly "returned to basics" cause thats what was at my fingertips. My room mate has a studio downstairs and he had a 4 track analog set up and said he'd do it for cheap and i said YEAH. my boy vice had a similar set up but Digital and in a basement. Some people call it "lo-fi". I call it "FLAWLESS". Like right off to bat i got this FUCKED up review by this kid who was basically calling punk passe and me sad. The cold part is that we had hooked up the night before!(we've made up since then) This was back in 2008 (three years after the first younger lovers demos) before the whole "ga(y)rage" genre had "taken off" and naturally as THE FIRST i had to be the sacrificial lamb and accept my unwilling figureheadness nobly. I did this band as a reaction to being in Gravy Train!!! and touring in electro clash circles and hearing some of the worst drum machine shit and thinking i make better beats with my hands. i say that wearing bad 80's cloths and trying to be the next Debbie D/Soft Cell/Beyonce/ WHOEVER is equally as ridiculous as trying to be the lost gay Beach Boy, and with that philosophy i move boldly forward. (not that i hate drum machines, let it be known that Newest Romantics are equally as enthused about getting fucked up and dancing to 80's/Top 40 Hip Hop + RB/ 60's ska as we are about any song with a good beat)
LZ: Although one could say the independent music “scene” or what have you seems to be fragmented at the moment (even with the internets), lacking a sort of wider connectivity beyond local happenings, you have toured a bit, so who would you say are yer contemporaries?
B: I got family all over the place. My contemporaries are any one who ive got fucked up or talked shit with from 2001 on. I cry to the Shannon and the Clams record, I take the Frumpies "Eunuch Nights" 7 inch as my personal manifesto and i sexually assaulted NOBUNNY on tour one time. Mike Pack from the Hidden Spots introduced me to pot/powerpop/New Romanticism in general and Jonathan Richman is the rock n' roll poet i (on occasion) admire the most, and im in love with my older brother Hunx along with his Punx. We get a million and one comparisons to them for obvious reasons though in my reasoning i think they're more strict power pop whereas the Younger Lovers is a bit more rudimentary/experimental. Like you COULD say were a "power pop band" or you COULD say we're Diet Grunge.....
LZ: In a home video interview from 2000, you described punk rock as being a community of sorts filled with people similar to you. Do you still feel strongly about punk rock in this way?
B: I dunno. "Punk" is a LOADED fucking term and some people i just don't clique/agree with. I STAY pissed off at some manner of "punker" but try not to judge because i pull alot of bullshit myself. I still feel "punk" (WHATEVER that means to the viewer) should be full of similarly minded people. If your similarly minded group wants to show up to a show to dance and get laid then those are my kind of "punks" if your similarly minded people want to be racist skinheads/sexist jerks/squares in general/WHATEVER then im making it a point not to go to your parties.
LZ: How does one stay enthusiastic about a scene/community that seems to be stuck in tired ideas and clichés?
B: I say whatever. Everything is tired. The question you have to ask yourself is "am I tired?" If the answer is yes you need to take a nap if no crack your whip and proceed to fuck shit up.
LZ: The following is a three part question: What was the last record that made you (or at least want to):
B: Dance with wild abandon The Go-Go's How Much More/We Got the Beat Stiff Records 7inch single.
Fuck shit up. The Icky Girlfriends "Ziggy Buttsweat" -there 12 years old and the record was recorded at my old house.
Cry until you couldn’t see straight. The Gits Seafish Louisville.
(other records i like)
Record i lost my virginity too- The Creamers "Love Honer and Obey"
Record i consistently have sex too ESG
Record that makes me feel like an empowered slut Liz Phair "Exile in Guyville"
Record that i've owed 20 times XRay Spex
Record i should have NEVER given away Belle Epoch
LZ: What inspires you creatively?
B: Daydreaming.
LZ: Has living in a large city populated by many artist/musician types made you feel more competitive, if at all?
B: FUCK YEAH. I fight these bitches TOOTH AND NAIL for every inch of space i can get at. But i also love these bitches cause they keep me on my toes. Its essentially like have siblings.
Currently Obbessed With....
Outkast-Hey Ya
this song was supposedly written after some of the Dudes in Outkast got obbessed with the Buzzcocks and this song single-handedly brought power pop to the future and as far as we're concerned it was about fucking time.
People sleep on this record and its shameful. It's all lo-fi and gut instinct and we're DOWN with that. Fave Tracks: Don't you ever?, Love Shock, Posion Arrows Shot at Heros, Soda Pop Rip Off, Double Edged Knife.....
I thought i hated ska as a teen cause of all that whack 9-th wave ska shit that happened in the 90's. Much like cocaine ska is better pure-er. How come WE don't have signature dances? This shit looks like fun and if anyone whos more knowledgeable on the subject knows any good ska/rockstedy/ rude boy shit i should be getting my hands on don't hesitate to let me know....
This is (in our opinion) the BEST Frumpies 7inch for out money. In high school it was "Babies and Bunnies" and as i got older and more "Nu-Mod" it was this one. Its less punk and more "Girls in the Garage"-a truly formidable garage-pop seven inch. Favorite Track:You'll See
(though i have to say that one song off the B+B 7inch-"BE GOOD"-describes PERFECTLY the way i feel about 98% of the guys i've let stick there dick in me from 2001-present)
I LOVE this track. Its like new wave New Eddition....YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
this song was supposedly written after some of the Dudes in Outkast got obbessed with the Buzzcocks and this song single-handedly brought power pop to the future and as far as we're concerned it was about fucking time.
People sleep on this record and its shameful. It's all lo-fi and gut instinct and we're DOWN with that. Fave Tracks: Don't you ever?, Love Shock, Posion Arrows Shot at Heros, Soda Pop Rip Off, Double Edged Knife.....
I thought i hated ska as a teen cause of all that whack 9-th wave ska shit that happened in the 90's. Much like cocaine ska is better pure-er. How come WE don't have signature dances? This shit looks like fun and if anyone whos more knowledgeable on the subject knows any good ska/rockstedy/ rude boy shit i should be getting my hands on don't hesitate to let me know....
This is (in our opinion) the BEST Frumpies 7inch for out money. In high school it was "Babies and Bunnies" and as i got older and more "Nu-Mod" it was this one. Its less punk and more "Girls in the Garage"-a truly formidable garage-pop seven inch. Favorite Track:You'll See
(though i have to say that one song off the B+B 7inch-"BE GOOD"-describes PERFECTLY the way i feel about 98% of the guys i've let stick there dick in me from 2001-present)
I LOVE this track. Its like new wave New Eddition....YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
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