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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Bonerama's first video: Big Fine Woman

New Orleans Brass Funk Rockers Bonerama have released their first ever video. Big Fine Woman ties in with Fat Tuesday, part of PartyGras2009.com, a live music outlet for Porter Batiste Stoltz and Bonerama.

Buy Big Fine Woman from iTunes.

Live dates:

03/13 The Howlin' Wolf North Shore, New Orleans, LA
03/14 Mid City Lanes - Rock N' Bowl, New Orleans, LA
03/27 City Limits, Delray Beach, FL
03/28 Aces Lounge, Bradenton, FL
04/04 The Swamp Thing and Crawfish Festival, Austin, TX
04/10 The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA
04/18 Rummel High School, Metairie, LA
04/23 Tipitinas Uptown, New Orleans, LA
04/24 Festival International de Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
04/25 Mid City Lanes - Rock N' Bowl, New Orleans, LA
05/02 Mid City Lanes - Rock N' Bowl, New Orleans, LA

» bonerama.net
» partygras2009.com

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Obi Best: "Green and White Stripes" video

Watch the new Obi Best for Green and White Stripes.

Live dates:

02/25 Memphis, TN | Minglewood Hall
03/03 Fairfield, CT | Stage One*
03/04 Vienna, VA | The Barns @ Wolf Trap*
03/05 Philadelphia, PA | Tin Angel*
03/13 Los Angeles, CA | Live on KXLU

* Opening for The Bird and The Bee

» myspace.com/obibest

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The Mission: Live & Last

The Mission

The Mission played their final shows at the Shepherds Bush Empire, London, in February and March, 2008. Snubbed by the UK press the band had soldiered on, reaching slowly decreasing audiences after being really big in the late eighties. The Mission first called it quits in 1996 only to be resurrected in 1999, but now it's final. Frontman Wayne Hussey is touring the world as an acoustic solo act, a totally different field compared to the wall-to-wall guitars gothic rock, a genre he co-invented when he was member of the Sisters of Mercy.

Live & Last captures the final night in London, the bonus disc has four tracks form a show in Köln, Germany - a country where they remained popular throughout the years - and a longish interview that finds Wayne Hussey in a relaxed mode, conducting the interview from Brasil where he is a happily married man - although the Janice Long can not resist bringing up the story about a very drunk Hussey who passed out while she tried to tie a ribbon to his dick. Very rock 'n' roll, but only mildly entertaining.

The music on this album lacks a bit of urgency - the band knows it's all over and they don't seem to care that much. Hussey is doing his best, realising that this the final hurrah for being in the spotlights as the frontman he never really wanted to be. He just wants to play guitar and a bit of keyboards now. Mission completed.

The Mission:
Wayne Hussey: vocals, guitar
Mark Gemini-Thwaite: lead guitar
Ritchie Vernon: bass
Steve Spring: drums