2000 also saw the Furries contribute two tracks, Free Now and Peter Blake 2000, for the Liverpool Sound Collage project, which was nominated for a Grammy . They undertook this remixing of unreleased Beatles recordings at the invitation of Paul McCartney , whom they had met at the NME Awards…
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live album The Real Thing in 2000
January 2000 involved a series of changes for SFA. The last single from Guerrilla , ” Do or Die “, was released and made No. 20. It was also the last single SFA released on Creation Records, as founder Alan McGee set off to pursue other interests. It had always…
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Midnight Oil again brought the politics of Reconciliation to the fore during their performance at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics . Then Prime Minister John Howard had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic reconciliation and apologise to Indigenous Australians and members of…
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As punk declined in popularity, Philp went into business for himself in Los Angeles, but continued to write, record songs and play small clubs as the Automatics. He was surprised in 2000 when a punk rock record promoter in Tokyo contacted him about releasing his first album and going on…
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With Gotobed back in the line-up (now using his birth name, Robert Grey), the group initially reworked much of their back catalogue for a performance at Royal Festival Hall in 2000. Wire’s reception during a short tour in early May of the US, and a number of UK gigs, convinced…
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Those recording sessions resulted in 2000’s Minor Earth Major Sky
In 2000, Benning left the band to focus on filmmaking. As the band was already into a month-long tour, they asked Samson to fill in during live performances. The band had already been considering increasing the involvement of Samson as possibly a backup singer or dancer, so they asked them…
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The band gave two concerts in Auckland on 30 and 31 December 1999
The band’s first album, Le Tigre , was released in October 1999. The band’s original live performances consisted of Hanna, Fateman and Sadie performing music, along with JD Samson, a roadie they had met in September 1999, who manually operated a slideshow as a visual component to their music, as…
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