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Some of those He also raved about the band on The Tube TV show in '88. |
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Words & Music Magazine. January 1988 W&M: Do you have a current favorite band? BOWIE: There’s an English band I like very much. Nobody seems to have heard of them. They’re called The Screaming Blue Messiahs and I’m pushing them like mad. I think they’re really good. There’s an element of The Clash in them that I really like. But there’s something else there. I’m not really sure what it is. There’s an exciting guitar player. He’s a sort of new wave guitar player, but they’re an angry mob from London.
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| Musician, August 1987. David Bowie Opens Up A Little Interview by Scott Isler MUSICIAN: What have you been listening to recently? BOWIE: Well! The band this week – I've only just discovered them, so they're my pet project – is the Screaming Blue Messiahs. They're the best band I've heard out of England in a long time. |
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Item promoting the Bowie Glass Spider Tour dates, June 1987, where the Messiahs were guests at two shows. |
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Amnesty International Festival, Milton Keynes Bowl, 19th June 1988. |
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Record Mirror, January 16th 1988. |
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The Guardian Last week, Film & Music printed 49 musical secret weapons - the unknown album you can pull out to amaze and astound your friends - and appealed for you to pick the 50th. The incentive we offered was a £500 HMV gift card for the most persuasive argument made in 150 words or fewer. Good and Gone by The Screaming Blue Messiahs. Ok, technically it's an EP but this is primal scream indie blues rock that the White Stripes and all their pale imitators would sell their vintage guitars for. The band did go on to achieve a tiny sliver of success on a major label (before being quickly dropped) but would spend the rest of their career searching vainly for the power of these six short tracks. I remember them playing a couple of them on the 80s version of Whistle Test - with Mark Ellen saying they were the loudest band they had ever had on. Attracted and repelled in equal measure by that part of American society in love with war, gangs, cars and girls, Bill Carter's songs are really about love and humanity and the need for spiritual uplift. Sneering, pleading and bloody mesmerising. |
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| POP VIEW; Using Technology Doesn't Mean Getting Seduced by It By JON PARELES |
... Right now, I'd guess, someone is sampling Jimi Hendrix's feedback in the ''Star-Spangled Banner'' from a compact disk, planning to loop and reverb and equalize it, then trigger it with a MIDI computer interface. The far better course, I'd say, would be something like what Bill Carter of the Screaming Blue Messiahs did at the Ritz the other night. He draped his microphone cord around his neck, wandered out toward the monitors until the feedback started, then unhooked his guitar and hung it on the microphone stand; bumping together, guitar pickups and microphone created huge blotches of noise. Then, with the guitar still dangling, he tipped the mike stand to slide it along the strings and, on the song's last note, upended it to crash the guitar on the floor. Low-tech, and proud of it.
Popular music has tangoed with technology from the start, of course. Mr. Carter's gambit wouldn't have the same impact with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica holder (though he could probably wrest noise from them, too.) But using technology doesn't mean getting seduced by it. Sound recording is wonderfully democratic; a rolling tape doesn't care if the sound of an earthquake comes from a natural disaster or sandpaper on the microphone grille. Often it seems that as producing a sound becomes a more elaborate process, the sound itself gets tamer. |
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| Screaming Blue Messiah Cocktail recipe Nothing at all to do with the band. Did anyone say "clutching at straws"? |
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Screaming Blue Messiah Goldschläger is a strong, clear cinnamon schnapps liqueur with 24k gold leaf flakes. |
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Curaçao is a general term for orange-flavored liqueur made from the dried peel of bitter oranges found on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Curaçao can be colored orange (known as Orange Curaçao or only Curaçao), blue (Blue Curaçao), green (Green Curaçao) or left clear (White Curaçao). All variants have the same flavor, with small variations in bitterness. Blue and green Curaçao are often used to provide color to mixed drinks. |
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| Newspaper plug for show in Ottowa, Canada, 11th April '88 |  |
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