New Radiators from Space album: Sound City Beat

[philipchevron]

The fourth Radiators studio album Sound City Beat is now set for February 27 release, on Chiswick Records. Guest musicians on the album include Terry Woods, Henry McCullough, Conor Brady and Eamon Carr.

Full track listing follows.

1 Head For The Sun (Brendan 'Brush' Shiels)
2 It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again (Rory Gallagher)
3 I'm A King Bee (James Moore aka Slim Harpo)
4 6.10 Special (J. Cuddy/M.Bonner/D.Kay)
5 Yes, I Need Someone (Ernie Graham/Davy Lutton/Chris Stewart/Mick Cox)
6 Behind The Painted Screen (Dave Lewis)
7 I'm Gonna Turn My Life Around (Peter Adler)
8 You Got What I Need (Andy Dunne)
9 Gloria (Van Morrison)
10 Dublin (Philip Lynott)
11 The Lady Wrestler (Horslips)
12 Turn Out The Light (Derry Lindsay)
13 Morning Dew (Bonnie Dobson/Tim Rose)
14 That's All Right (Ron Ryan)
15 Never An Everyday Thing (Ben Findon/Peter Shelley)
16 Dr. Crippen's Waiting Room (Robin Crowley/Jimmy Greeley)
17 New Places, Old Faces (Brendan 'Brush' Shiels)
18 You Turn Me On (The Turn-On Song) (Ian Whitcomb)

[Tal]

[Mick Molloy]

Great news! Will this be available worldwide?

[philipchevron]

Great news! Will this be available worldwide?

Well, Europewide anyway, though it will be exported. We may do a vinyl release later in the US or Japan.

[Christine]

Looking forward to that - good start to the New Year!

[territa]

Great! How about a world tour? ... or a North American tour? ... or a south Texas tour?

[FAY]

Great news! Will this be available worldwide?

Well, Europewide anyway, though it will be exported. We may do a vinyl release later in the US or Japan.

Please log my vote for a USA vinyl release!

Congrats, can't wait!

[FAY]

The fourth Radiators studio album Sound City Beat is now set for February 27 release, on Chiswick Records. Guest musicians on the album include Terry Woods, Henry McCullough, Conor Brady and Eamon Carr

Henry McCullough = nice!

I have his 1975 lp, Mind Your Own Business on George Harrison's Dark Horse Records.

Excellent piece of work.

[rad man]

[Shaz]

[johnfoyle]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-City-Beat ... 15&sr=8-12



Sound City Beat

Radiators From Space

This title will be released on March 6, 2012.

[johnfoyle]

'Dublin' from the new album was played on The JK Ensemble on RTE Lyric FM today - it's at c.15 minutes into this 'playback' link

http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rte ... 01-2012%3A

[Charles]

Great! How about a world tour? ... or a North American tour? ... or a south Texas tour?

Yes for a U.S. tour. The (New Orleans) Radiators split up last year, so we need some live Radiators over here.

(I'm a fan of both bands)

[philipchevron]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-City-Beat ... 900&sr=1-1

Amazon UK pre-order for Sound City Beat

http://www.amazon.com/Sound-City-Beat-R ... 032&sr=1-4

Amazon USA pre-order

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The Radiators from Space release 4th Studio Album Sound City Beat
Chiswick (CWK 3022) releases much-anticipated new album on February 27th.
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In April 1977, 'Television Screen', a gloriously snotty two-minute rant by The Radiators from Space, had the distinction of being among both the first ten punk singles in the UK and the first ten released on indie label Chiswick Records. It was also the first punk single to reach the Top 20 of the national charts in any country when it hit # 17 in their native Ireland that Summer. Bono cites the 45 as a vital moment of inspiration to the young U2.

Though their initial trajectory was brief, managing just two albums and a dozen singles before they called it a day less then four years later, The Radiators' music has continued to hold a central place in Ireland, mainly because the status of their ambitious second album Ghostown, lauded on its 1979 release, has continued to grow ever since. Most recently, The Irish Times evaluated it as a piece of work that deserves to stand alongside the conutry's great literary works, and named it one of the three greatest Irish albums of all time. In November last year, current affairs magazine Village remarked "History proves they were on the side of the angels. They were Ireland's most important band."

Aside from two brief special reunions, The Radiators waited more than 25 years to reform for real and consolidated their return with a well received third album,Trouble Pilgrim, again released in the UK by Chiswick, in 2007. In the intervening years, the core original trio of the band had followed individual adventures. Founder Steve Rapid has been involved in a variety of musical projects but is especially renowned for his award-winning design work, notably for U2, Elvis Costello, Virgin Prunes and Dermot Morgan. Pete Holidai is an influential record producer and music educator in Dublin and Philip Chevron remains active in a range of areas of music and theatre but is probably best known as the guitarist with The Pogues, for whom he also wrote the emigration anthem 'Thousands Are Sailing'. The current line up of The Rads also featuresJohnny Bonnie, former Those Handsome Devils drummer and sticksman with The Radiators since 2004, and most recent recruit Enda Wyatt, formerly of An Emotional Fish, bassist since 2008.

The band's fourth studio album, recorded and mixed in Dublin in just over two weeks last Summer, is released by Chiswick on February 27th, 2012. Called Sound City Beat, it marks the first time The Radiators have delivered a complete project based upon anything other than their own writing. The 18-track / 54 minutes collection draws from the music of their Irish rock predecessors, artists like Van Morrison's Them, Eire Apparent, The Blue Aces, Phil Lynott's Thin Lizzy, Orange Machine, The Movement, Gary Moore's Skid Row, Horslips, Rory Gallagher's Taste, Andwella's Dream, The Creatures, Ian Whitcomb's Bluesville, The Kingbees, Peter Adler, Grannys Intentions and more, all selections culled from 1964 to 1971, a golden, if undervalued era in Irish beat music. The album is produced by the band's two guitarists, Pete Holidai and Philip Chevron, who describe it as both "an Irish version of Lenny Kaye's Nuggets " and "a punk equivalent of David Bowie's Pin Ups".

As with everywhere else, Dublin underwent profound changes in culture, history and demographics in the 1960s. Its thriving Club scene can now be seen as a crucible for later developments which saw Dublin become a pivotal world city in terms of contemporary music. Instinctual storytellers, The Radiators feel they have located an alternative social history in these below-the-radar beat classics, from a city in which the sharpest musicians were drawing not just on rhythm and blues, as in the UK, but on an eclectic variety of other forms too, including country, jazz, and Irish trad. They hope you will travel back with them to The Five Club, Sound City, The Flamingo, Club Caroline and The R&B Club.

The Radiators from Space - They plug in and they go!

[RoddyRuddy]

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