Today our digital only KEXP Live Sessions EP is out on iTunes, two weeks ahead of time. It an iTunes exclusive, but will be available on other sites from November.
Also, Beatservice Records are releasing a digital version of our debut single/EP Miss World. It’s been out on vinyl 12″ only, originally released in April 2002. Out very soon with brand new ‘Sleepyheads series’ cover art (as seen above).
Above is a some photos from our trip to Istanbul a couple of weeks ago. The interior photo is from our hotel, Pera Palas, a hotel often used by passangers on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie stayed there several times, including – many believe – during a spell in 1926, when she disappeared from her home in England for 11 days. Read the full Agatha Christie/Pera Palas story here.
Pera Palas is a famous hotel, with tourists pouring into the lobby on Sunday mornings. And the hotel bar had an atmosphere that made you feel you were back in the hotel’s early days, built in 1891.
The photos from the show are taken by I˙lker Kopan. He is a photographer and a Flunk fan. Thanks a lot for sending them to us! (high solution versions available if you click the photos!)
I guess all artists work on inspiration from others, some do it all the time, some do it every now and then. Some know it, some people haven’t got a clue that they do it. Dylan knows it, his career is more or less built on the inspiration of traditional, American (and Irish) folk tunes. I guess most do it.
Morrissey of The Smiths does it. Smiths tracks have loads of phrases nicked or re-written from movies and litterature. You can check out a lot of the references on this page. Great reading! Morrissey has made an art of it, slightly more subtle than Andy Warhols pop art (Warhol quotes here).
One of Morrissey’s favourite places to go for great lines, was Shelagh Delaney‘s play which turned into the 1961 UK movie classic A Taste Of Honey. In fact, Morrissey’s nicked almost criminally many quotes from this movie. But as always, he nicks in beautiful ways.
The play/movie is the origin of one of the most beautiful lines in popular music – from The Smiths‘ Reel Around The Fountain. It goes: I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice.
Flunk do some acts of thievery, too. It’s a really fun game to put in references to music, things or people we like. On For Sleepyheads Only there are loads, not so much in the lyrics, as in musical referances.
We Flunk people are, by the way, on our way to Istanbul to play a festival there tomorrow, hopefully we’ll post some pictures later.