Spiritualized
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Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, June 1997
THE CULMINATION OF A SEVEN YEAR mission to empty his crowded mind onto tape, Ladies And Gentlemen...is Jason Pierce's clamorous meisterwerk. A record that's splendidly ...
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Spiritualized's Jason Pierce (2001)
Interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages audio, Fall 2001
Mr. Pierce talks about the making of Spiritualized's latest album, Let It Come Down: creating the orchestrations, the support of record company Arista; on making Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, and working with Jim Dickinson in Memphis; losing his old band and finding a new one; not being an autocratic bandleader; not being in competition with other bands, and the meaning of the sleeve of Ladies and Gentlemen...
File format: mp3; file size: 36.6mb, interview length: 38' 05" sound quality: ***
List of articles in the library
Spiritualized, Seefeel: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 27 February 1995
THE GHOST of St Jimi must have been smiling: this was a good night for guitars. First, the London quartet Seefeel set about deconstructing the ...
Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies
Review by Andy Gill, Q, May 1992
Spiritualized: Blissed out, numbly minimalist and distinctly unsweaty. ...
Let It Shine Down: Mr Spaceman's Stroboscopic Pomp Gospel
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 20 October 2001
Spiritualized: Hammersmith Apollo, 12th October ...
The Mile High Club: Spiritualized in the Sky
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, February 1998
SPIRITUALIZED: a concoction of the cosmological and the pharmaceutical enjoying high times in Britain. Now Jason Pierce is spending two months turning on America. Barney ...
Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2007
Messed-Up, blissed-out '90s Psychedelia. Still Haunting, Still Huge. ...
Spiritualized: Leadmill, Sheffield
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 September 2003
THERE ARE RULES that generally apply at rock concerts. Artists tend to speak to the audience, if only to say "Hello", lead singers tend to ...
Report and Interview by David Cavanagh, Select, October 1992
Technicolour sensurround with a benevolent poltergeist on its shoulder. This is Spiritualized, and they call it soul music. ...
Review and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2003
Jason Pierce and co. blast back with album recorded in three weeks. ...
Spiritualized: Urban Spaced Man
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2001
ON LET IT Come Down, the latest and greatest Spiritualized album, Jason Pierce utilises some 100 musicians, among them choristers, gospel singers and entire brass ...
Spiritualized, Levitation: Hackney Empire, London
Live Review by David Toop, The Times, 6 April 1993
Drifting together ...
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Spiritualized: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 8 May 2002
The Drunk and the Junkie: A Concert Review in Two Parts ...
Music for a Divine Moment: The Best Music of 2001
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 17 December 2001
IN THESE DAYS of crusades, jihads, and God-Bless-This-Lands, I've been wondering why so much music writing is riddled with religious imagery. ...
Spiritualized: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 3 October 2001
THE LIVE ALBUM is traditionally the wooden spoon of rock releases, dumped on the public either to fulfil a contract or bide time until the ...
Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 24 May 2008
Jason Pierce of Spiritualized gives Ian Gittins his perfect pop prescription ...
Spiritualized/Pere Ubu: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 4 August 2004
THIRTY YEARS INTO their career, Cleveland art-punks Pere Ubu remain engaging mavericks. ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Gittins, The National (UAE), 23 May 2008
JASON PIERCE is the great unsung hero of British rock music. As the singer, songwriter and philosophical pulse of his epic rock band, Spiritualized, he ...
Spiritualized: Let It Come Down (Spaceman)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, October 2001
"I WON’T GET TO Heaven the state I'm in," weeps Jason Pierce, but it sounds more like "I won't get as far as the Corn ...
Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Dedicated 12tks/7O mins)
Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 14 June 1997
It's been a long, strange trip for Jason Pierce, and with the new album from SPIRITUALIZED, it's getting stranger and lovelier by the minute... ...
Spiritualized: Young, Gifted and Tongue-Tied
Interview by Jim Arundel, Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, 17 August 1991
JASON PIERCE is the man who makes Marcel Marceau seem positively gobby. You'd get more anecdotes out of a house-brick, they told us as we ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, August 1997
THEY ARE NOT the next big band from Britain and they could not care less. If one of their albums sold millions of copies, well, ...
Spiritualized: Manchester University, Manchester
Live Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 26 September 1992
HEY! SCREECHER! LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE! ...
Interview by John Robb, Siren, February 1992
IN A BATTERED armchair collapses a laid back, skin and bone R'n'R trouper with an exquisite record collection and perfect cheekbones. Jason Pierce, ex Spaceman ...
Spacemen 3: Rock'n'Roll Suicide
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 9 February 1991
The story of SPACEMEN 3 is a cool, rock'n'roll tale of drugs, revolution and eventual destruction. JOHN ROBB meets up with Sonic and Jason on ...
Interview by Julian Marszalek, Bass Guitar, January 2017
After playing bass with Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dead Skeletons, what's a man to do? Write a memoir of course. Julian ...
Spiritualized: Run Silent Run Deep
Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2001
Others lost their heads, but Spiritualized's Jason Pierce stuck to his vision. Keith Cameron unravels 10 years of hedonism, hard graft and betrayal. ...
Spiritualized: Stars In His Eyes
Interview by Kodwo Eshun, i-D, August 1998
Spiritualized are aiming higher than the sun. Ladies and gentlemen, they'll soon be floating in space as one of Britain's biggest bands ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 16 May 2008
SPIRITUALIZED reached their commercial zenith a decade ago, when a nation wearying of Britpop and knocked sideways by the insane reaction to the death of ...
Spiritualized: Glossed in space
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1998
Spiritualized don't want hit singles. So have they broken into the big league by mistake? MAX BELL reports on a band to rival the Verve. ...
Invisible Jukebox: Spiritualized
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, July 1998
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Spiritualized: Reading University, Reading
Live Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 16 May 1992
VERBALIZED! ...
Spiritualized, Levitation: Hackney Empire, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 April 1993
A BALD man in a silver suit is pumping plumes of silver smoke from the balcony in between playing mood-altering ambient tape-loops. Below him, the ...
Astral Peaks: Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Dedicated)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 24 May 1997
THAT SNORING SOUND you can hear throughout the 69 minutes and 16 seconds of Ladies And Gentlemen…? Why, that's the sound of a young Brian ...
Spiritualized: The Astoria, London
Live Review by Paul Trynka, MOJO, August 1997
SPIRITUALIZED'S SIMPLE, sublime Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space has gained untold credibility by being nominated 'this year's drugs album' – a shorthand ...
Jason Pierce: The Urban Spaceman Falls To Earth
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 2001
COSMIC OR WHAT? Jason Pierce has conducted Q to a yellowed Hoxton hostelry called the Macbeth. By the door it sports a tiled mural illustrating ...
Spiritualized: Amazing Grace (Spaceman/Sanctuary)
Review by RJ Smith, Spin, October 2003
Garage rock from Mars ...
Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Review by Simon Price, The Word, March 2012
His last creative fix was religion, now its sugar-coated psych-pop. Has "J Spaceman' finally found redemption? ...
Spaceman 3: Two Into Three Won't Go
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, April 1991
...OR, WE TWO WERE THREE. THE SPACEMEN THREE, THAT IS. PETER AND JASON, TO BE PRECISE. BUT WHILE THIS PAIR OF SPACE CADETS WERE ONCE ...
Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 1997
SPIRITUALIZED albums, like the Hale-Bopp comet, swoop in from the heavens at highly irregular intervals. Their opiated drones and over-reaching pretensions are usually greeted with ...
Spiritualized: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 23 September 2018
By turns poignant and defiant, the soulful rock'n'roll wastrel Jason Pierce turns up the feedback and faces down his mortality – flanked by a horn ...
Spiritualized: Red Box, Dublin
Live Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, November 1997
Groovy — Spiritualized transcend time and space. ...
Spiritualized: Shirk, Rattle & Roll-up
Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 23 October 1993
Jason Pierce — supposedly SPIRITUALIZED's miserable junky control-freak layabout — has been completely misunderstood… and so have his band. TED KESSLER finds that Mr Glum ...
see also Spacemen 3
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