2.3. FSA news and gossip
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This article is from the Flying Saucer Attack FAQ, by Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org with numerous contributions by others.
2.3. FSA news and gossip
24 May 2001
Rumor has it -- new LP in the works ...
06 Nov 2000
This is probably it for FSA. Dave Pearce has basically decided
to call it quits for the project. But I think this is positive,
good news -- the Bristol scene has long been history, and when
those early records came out in the mid-1990s it was a very
special, great thing; but FSA was a time and a place that is
history now. The end of the FSA project will, I think, give Dave
Pearce the space he needs right now as an artist. I think we can
expect much more from him over the coming years -- ``who knows
which way the wind blows.''
30 Mar 2000
The talk is all about the upcoming live album to be released on
Staalplaat <http://www.staalplaat.com/> ... meanwhile, waiting
for the good word on Lands End.
Subliminal messages to TV droners: several folks have reported
hearing ``Oceans'' in a Saturn commercial last autumn, which
Beau says was ``about a guy whose Saturn was crunched by a 18
wheeler.''
10 Dec 1999
Finally, a definite release date for Mirror: 25 Jan 2000. Not in
time for Christmas, but you'll be able to buy it online at
Amazon
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003XAJB/michaelstutz/>
as soon as its out.
09 Dec 1999
Mirror should be out any day now (waiting on the pressing
plant). Meanwhile, FSA has begun recording work on the next LP,
which might be an all-acoustic album called Land's End or (says
Dave) "maybe a `modern' job -- I'm starting on both ideas, so
we'll see."
18 Nov 1999
The new album is still called Mirror, although the song of that
name (first one on side 2) has been changed to ``Winter Song''
(no relation to the Insect Pests <http://dsl.org/insect_pests/>
song of the same name. ;)
There's a chance the release may be delayed until early
December, depending on whether the pressing plants are behind
schedule.
27 Oct 1999
Bill Kellum at VHF Records <http://www.vhfrecords.com> says that
the release date for Mirror is Nov 22. It will be on Drag City
in the USA, while in the UK it will be on ``FSA/Heartbeat,''
like the first two seven inches and the first LP, and
distributed via Cargo UK. ``Both formats for both countries, far
as I know.''
26 Oct 1999
Everybody wants to know when the new FSA is coming out. I want
to know too! Word is, the Bristol "scene" is in a sad state of
affairs---it seems fashionable there to dis FSA, accusing Dave
of "selling out" just because his music reached a wider
audience. Meanwhile, a reader has reported hearing "Oceans" on a
Saturn commercial ... as of earlier this month, Drag City has
stated that Mirror will be be coming out in '99.
24 Oct 1999
``Space (1999)'' is the first track to the latest, still-
unreleased album. No word as to when it will come out, but it
does sound much better than New Lands.
12 Mar 1999
It's rumored that one of the tracks off the new record, ``Space
(1999),'' is going to come out as an mp3 file first. Does anyone
have a URL for this?
14 Feb 1999
The big news is that the new album will be out some time in
1999. Called Mirror, it has 11 songs and is 55 minutes long.
Will it have Nick Drake-style finger picking stuff on it? Wait
and see...
There should be an FSA track on a new Skip Spence tribute LP.
A new collaboration with Jim O'Rourke can also be expected; in
speculation is a collaboration with Robert Hampson.
Dave: ``All the slagging on the reviews of New Lands didn't get
the joke in the title of the last song---of course it drones on
and on and on and on for ever...
More Dave: ``There is satire in some FSA stuff---most obviously
of course the cover of Suede's "The Downers." It's not all meant
to be doom & gloom (although the song "Hope" certainly is doom &
gloom---deliberately).
Even more Dave: ``[The song] "Respect" [means] respect for My
Bloody Valentine. [FSA was] always accused of ripping them off
in the past, thought I might as well really do so! Anyways,
Debbie from MBV told me she didn't think FSA was an MBV ripoff
(she kissed my cheek!).''
1998
Nike has just started an eight-week television advertising
campaign (March 1998) in the US and Canada which uses "mood
music from underground artists," including FSA.
1998
UK indie Earworm have started a Singles Club, and the first
release is a limited-to-500, colored vinyl single of an early
FSA recording (when the band was Jon and Dave): ``Land Beyond
The Sun'' [two track, Oct 1987]/``Instrumental For Silence''
[four track, Apr 1989].
1998
``Land Beyond the Sun'' was in the Gregg Araki film, Nowhere
<http://us.imdb.com/Title?Nowhere+(1997)>, and ``Popol Vuh III''
can be heard on the background of a Hollywood movie called The
Maker <http://us.imdb.com/Title?Maker+The+(1997)>; both films
were released in 1997.
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