Captain Of Industry - From the Frontline

Captain Of Industry - From the Frontline All the latest news and rumours from Captains Of Industry. http://www.captainsof.com Lets help get 'Cunts' to No. 1.... We've not heard it, but any song called 'Cunts Are Still Running The World' has got to be good. Besides, Jarvis was the likeable face of Britpop, right? Read more here: <a href="http://playlouder.com/news/+buy-jarvis-cocke/">http://playlouder.com/news/+buy-jarvis-cocke/</a> http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=69 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Free Arthur Lee <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/love/23819">http://www.nme.com/news/love/23819</a> http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=68 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Current online offers For anybody who is thinking of buying some of our swag, here are the current offers we have on at the moment: Buy 'Random Acts Of Intimacy' CD album by Sucioperro, and receive their 'Dialog On The 2' CD single FREE <a href="http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt032.php">http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt032.php</a> Buy 'The Grates' tshirt and receive their 'The Ouch. The Touch' CD EP FREE <a href="http://www.captainsof.com/merch063.php">http://www.captainsof.com/merch063.php</a> Buy Marmaduke Duke album 'The Magnificient Duke' and get a FREE CD promo, featuring 2 tracks from their next album plus one live track <a href="http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt015.php">http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt015.php</a> Buy 'Blood: The Natural Lubricant' by Gay For Johnny Depp and get 'Shh...Put The Shiv To My Throat' remix promo CD <a href="http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt024.php">http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt024.php</a> Also watch out for our tshirt promotion email very soon. That is all x PS A big thank you to Man Utd's latest squad addition, Michael Carrick, for wearing his The Sound Explosion tshirt during his signing photo-shoot!� http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=67 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500 A word from our friends The (International) Noise Conspiracy Imagine your nearest airport being bombed. Imagine bridges and roads around you being destroyed. Imagine power plants, electricity, hospitals, government buildings being destroyed and sewers stop functioning. Imagine no water coming from the tap. Imagine no food or medicine or outside humanitarian help being allowed into your country. Imagine a rain of bombs falling over houses, churches and stores so that ten, twenty, fifty civilians are killed every day. Imagine an army kidnapping half of your government and taking them out of the country. Imagine the same army every night firing sound bombs above your roof so your windows are blow open, nobody can sleep and your kids getting stomach pains from pure stress. Imagine having to pass through military checkpoints every day to get to your job. Imagine being refused to travel outside your country. Imagine a concrete wall, eight meters high, being built around and inside your city. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and being told that you got five minutes to leave your house because it's going to be demolished by the army's bulldozers. Imagine international sanctions because you voted for the "wrong" political party. This is what everyday life looks like in Lebanon and Palestine right now. This is just some of the ways that the Palestinian and Lebanese people are being collectively punished by the military supreme Israel. The latest weeks we have heard Israeli officials claming that what they are going to do is to "bomb Lebanon 20 years back" and to "make sure that no one in Gaza can sleep". And this goes on right now, right before our eyes. What would happen if let's say Iran or Sweden or Russia invaded or occupied your country? What would the UN, USA or EU say and do? What is it that makes Arab lives - Palestinian and Lebanese - less valuable in the eyes of the world than your life and our lives? Why aren't we doing anything? The Israeli occupation of Palestine and the attacks on civilians in Lebanon are serious and obvious crimes against international law and human rights. Our thoughts are with our brothers and sisters in Palestine and Lebanon. Peace in the Middle East! Justice for Palestine and Lebanon! The (International) Noise Conspiracy (Taken from band mail-out, 24/07/06) http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=66 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 The soundtrack of war 'Dude (Looks Like A Lady)' �versus 'White Lines' - who would you listen to while killing people? An interesting read. Taken From The Observer Music Monthly, Sunday July 16, 2006 Louder than bombs Every conflict has its own soundrack. The Observer's award-winning war correspondent Jason Burke tells why hip hop, Aerosmith and Wagner still echo around the world's hot spots <div id="GuardianArticleBody">It was dusk, of course. Through the open gun port of the helicopter, past the crewman, and the heavy machine gun and its muzzle, I could see the open water beneath us, the line of the mangrove swamps to the left and the red and green tracer fire that pulsed up in long, lazy bursts from the jungle and then fell back into the grey foliage. We had taken off from a British army base, a strip of bright red mud carved from among the trees, a few minutes earlier. Three helicopters in formation flying low across the light swell of the waves out of the sunset towards a headland. Through the headset I listened to the captain. He spoke to the other pilots for a few minutes then asked: 'Ready chaps? Ready?' And then the crews of all the aircraft starting humming into their intercoms. And what were they humming? 'The Ride of the Valkyries', of course. Ironically, naturally. Referentially, without doubt. Laughing as they did it. But the Wagner melody made famous by the classic scene in Apocalypse Now nonetheless. Ridiculous, I thought. It was the summer of 2000 and I was in Sierra Leone to cover the short, vicious war there between rebels and government troops assisted, far more bloodily than was admitted at the time, by British soldiers. The crumbling walls of the capital city of Freetown were covered in tags and graffiti - almost all of which drew heavily on the language, culture and imagery of West Coast American rappers. Many of the militia wore Tupac T-shirts or tattoos. I saw one child fighter with a very old Grandmaster Flash T-shirt hanging from his skinny frame. In the evenings, soldiers and local hoods alike repaired to a barn-like hostelry by the water front where, amid weapons piled on tables, prostitutes danced frenetically with large men in white shoes and bright red suits buttoned over bare, sweating chests to a local fusion of hip hop, imported samba records and traditional tribal music. A month or so later I was in neighbouring Liberia to cover a conflict equally imbued with sound. The signal for an attempted coup d'etat was the broadcasting of a particular well-known tune by a local reggae-cum-rap artist on the radio. A Dub Revolution if ever there was one. Music, I thought briefly at the time before the idea got overtaken by the general chaos of life in sub-Saharan Africa, does not disappear in times of crisis. In fact, music, if anyone actually stopped for a moment to listen, is everywhere in a war, amplified as if to contest with, accentuate or drown out the cacophony of sound that is a conflict. So when, a year after my trip to Sierra Leone, I saw the Afghan fighters coming down from the Tora Bora mountains after a long day battling the remnants of al-Qaeda, I was not surprised to see them tune in the few scratchy short-wave radios they shared to listen, with disappointment if all they could find were the drums and flutes of local traditional music; with joy if they found Bollywood film soundtracks. The American soldiers in the country at the time favoured, officially, maudlin country and western - with lyrics such as 'I may not be a political man, I'm not sure if I can tell Iraq from Iran' - but, unofficially, they preferred Rock with a capital R if white, R&B if they were black. The impression that music was everywhere was reinforced during the war in Iraq. On the last day of the conflict, I found myself in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town. The city was full of American soldiers and armoured vehicles. They had expected a major fight for the city but resistance had evaporated overnight. Patrols combed the city, helicopters rotored through the oily smoke that coiled up into an overcast sky, there was the occasional burst of shooting. It was clear that the war was over. I sat in the front of the car I had been using for three months and fed a cheap CD that I had bought at Heathrow on leaving the UK into the stereo. A couple of photographers joined me, one with a cigarette heavily laced with cannabis. The CD was a compilation called Sounds of Vietnam and, like the pilots humming their Apocalypse Now, I had bought it semi-ironically, conscious of all the references that 'Paint it Black', 'She's Not There' and 'Purple Haze' dragged with them. But I had listened to it a lot. And as the Doors's 'The End' played through the battered landcruiser's speakers and soldiers sitting on a passing armoured personnel carrier gave us a thumbs-up, we all laughed, partly because we knew it was ridiculous and partly because it was simply all so appropriate. 'Dude, that is so ... so ... right,' one soldier said to me. Out in Falluja, a few weeks after the end of the main war in Iraq in 2003, the Puerto Rican soldiers I accompanied on a raid psyched themselves up with very loud Hispanic rap before leaving their base - though the practice had been banned by the high command. Outside the Palestine hotel in central Baghdad, their white counterparts, most of whom came from steel towns in the Midwest, listened to thrash metal in their tanks. In the huge 'soldiers' store' at one base, I browsed shelves of recent CDs and bought a new Roy Ayers compilation, the consequence of which was several patrols accompanied by 'Love Will Bring Us Back Together'. A few weeks later, a leader of the Iraqi Sunni resistance would tell me that he had originally been enthusiastic about the US invasion of his country because America was the country that had produced Aerosmith and therefore couldn't be all bad. That alone was a reason, I bleakly joked with my translator, for him to be sent to Abu Ghraib immediately. Iraq in August 2004 was not a particularly pleasant place to be. Apart from the fact that it was extremely hot, it was the time when, for the first time, foreigners had started to become genuine targets of kidnapping. I spent several days in Najaf during some heavy fighting there and then had to return to Baghdad along a road on which many people had been kidnapped. I hid under a blanket on the back seats and tried to distract myself. Soothing music - random bits of chill out, lounge, Bach, remixed lounge-Bach - did not work, nor did those odd bits of house pirated from friends' computers at a party. I moved steadily up the register and back in time - through the Dead 60s, White Stripes, Kings of Leon - finally ending up among early recordings of the Damned in 1978. Eventually, perhaps inevitably, my shuffle spat out Guns'N'Roses. Which did not last long. Mainly because the thought of having to explain that I had been kidnapped while listening to 'Sweet Child o' Mine' was too ignominious to contemplate. I put the music away and sweated in silence instead. It was not always quite so grim. In the bizarre, febrile months in Baghdad after the fall of the city someone somehow got Baghdad FM back on its feet. The only problem was that the last time anybody had been able to buy records had been 1985. Which meant that for a few weeks I bounced around the city to the sound of Sister Sledge's 'Frankie', 'Like a Virgin', 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' and, hilariously, 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' by Tears For Fears. Lengthy, if unscientifically conducted studies during very long journeys on very bumpy roads revealed that Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis went down very well in the north of Afghanistan while in the south 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag', almost anything by Bootsy Collins before he disappeared up his own funky fundament and our very own Robbie Williams were sure-fire successes. The all-time favourite for the Pashtuns of eastern Pakistan was Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for The Battle of Algiers. In Uzbekistan, arms dealers listened to Russian industrial techno in their Mercedes. In the days of the British Empire it was said that trade follows the flag; now it seems that globalisation flows into the breach made in the dam wall of local culture by increasingly internationalised music. When I was in Kurdistan, in 1991, I took a home-made compilation tape of James, the Charlatans, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, the KLF and so on. Local teenagers were instant converts to the music filling jukeboxes in college bars throughout half of Britain. Eleven years later I returned and found that the Kurds had plugged themselves into the mainstream of planetary pop. Forget the threat of terrorism, forget global warming; the gravest problem facing the world is the fact that for half its population 'western music' means a Venga Boys compilation from 1999. The Taliban might agree. When in power, they did not technically ban music but banned all music that was not religious in content or which involved instrumentation. This was partly a measure against 'modern music' - for the Taliban 'modernity' meant violence, chaos and destruction - and a measure against the wonderful traditional Qawali music that is so popular in much of south-west Asia and so much a part of the tolerant, spiritual Sufi strand of Islam. The Taliban's encounters with modern music were as unhappy as their other encounters with the contemporary world. A friend of mine, a Briton working in Kabul for an aid agency, had several score CDs seized by the Taliban authorities. They thought the silver discs were videos and thus highly illegal. In order to prove they were not, and to reclaim his treasured collection, he went before a jirga, a traditional Afghan gathering of notables. These included several of the most senior religious scholars in the country and two ministers. My friend offered the most venerable greybeard there his portable CD player and watched as, having arranged the headphones around his turban, the old man reached into the stack of discs and pulled out The Greatest Punk Album in the World Ever Vol 1. My friend watched in horror as the first bars of 'God Save the Queen' blasted the eardrums of the Afghan equivalent of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The cleric rapidly detached the headphones. 'It is not a video,' he pronounced. 'But it is not music either.' Back in Afghanistan last month, it seemed that the greatest bulwark against the resurgent Taliban was not the US-led 'Operation Mountain Thrust' but the extraordinary popularity of Bollywood soundtracks. Those planning the current British deployment into Helmand province, genuine Afghan bandit country, would do well to have taken note. One corporal at a British army encampment in the dusty little town of Lashkar Gah dryly referred to the 4am call to prayer from the local mosques as 'PsyOps' - Psychological Operations designed to wear down the morale of the enemy. A quick inquiry as to the availability of music at the Naafi canteen in the base elicited a 'nuffink, mate'. Despite the efforts of the small Estonian detachment to fill the gap with what they described sweetly as rock'n'roll, this was a missed opportunity, surely. When I started covering conflicts and natural disasters I felt it was bad taste to listen to music in the middle of so much destruction and tragedy. It seemed an unwelcome, insensitive and unfair intrusion, like singing at a funeral. Then I realised that logic was based on the idea that I should somehow attempt to share that which the people I was reporting were living. And that, of course, was not only impossible but deeply patronising, too. I, after all, have a British passport and a nice flat and a decent job and am effectively day-tripping to someone else's misery. I might as well admit it. After all, everybody employs music in different ways and there had been an honesty in the ridiculous humming of the 'Ride of the Valkyries' by the navy pilots that perhaps I could have learnt from. There was not much of a gap between that and listening to the Doors in Tikrit or the glacial trip hop of Red Snapper in Kandahar last month (very, very depressing, I can tell you), or the American or Estonians listening to their tunes in their camps. Everyone uses music to construct a soundtrack to their lives, to make sense of events, to help situate themselves and their emotions. And there was another lesson that I felt I would do well to take on board. When I came back from one hellish trip to the Gaza Strip during which I had seen six teenagers shot a few yards from me, I went pretty much straight to the Brixton Academy to hear one of the last gigs of the late, great Joe Strummer. When I heard the opening chords of one song, I knew it summed up much of what I had been feeling. 'I've just got back and I wish I never leave now,' ran the passionate 'Safe European Home'. At least I've got one. There are many who don't. � Jason Burke's latest book, 'On the Road to Kandahar' (Penguin), is out now </div> http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=65 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Top 10 Favourite Rollercoasters 1. Pepsi Max Big One (Blackpool, UK) 2. Oblivion (Alton Towers, UK) 3. Colossus (Thorpe Park, UK) 4. Stealth (Thorpe Park, UK) 5. The Hulk (Islands of Adventure, US) 6. The Dragon (Ocean Park, Hong Kong) 7. The Kraken (Seaworld, US) 8. The Boomerang (Knotts Berry Farm, US) 9.� Dragon Khan (Port Adventura, Spain) 10. The Unicorn (Islands of Adventure, US) With thanks to Karen Luan. http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=64 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Goodbye to the orginal space cowboy... RIP Syd Barrett. (1946 - 2006) http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=63 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 thanks for the pressie Many thanks to whoever kindly sent us the Captain Lionheart furry toy. However, we were slightly disapointed to find that, when we opened up his back, it didnt actually contain any drugs like in the movies. Better luck next time... If anybody else feels so incined to send us any more gifts, please feel to do so. We make so little money (read: none) from this punk rock thing that any�form of tax-free gratuity or benefit-in-kind is always appreciated! Send to 'Punk Rock Gift Aid' at the usual address.... http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=62 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Limited Edition Grates tee now on sale. For those of you keeping abreast of antipedean wonder kids The Grates, a little treat! The band have given us some limited edition T-shirts which are now available from our site. This is a short run product so get one while you still can! With every T-shirt you order you will receive a FREE copy of their very first UK release, 'The Ouch. The Touch.' CD EP. Cos we are nice like that. Look out for their debut album 'Gravity Won't Get You High' on Fiction, released�17th July. http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=61 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 News just in: Marmaduke Duke hit Glasgow. Date: THU 06 JULY 2006 Venue: CLUB �L�M @ BLOC, 117 BATH STREET, G2 2SZ Cost: FREE ENTRY!!! Time: 9PM - 3AM Venue Phone: 0141 574 6066 Resident DJ: DIRTY MARC� Marmaduke Duke will be playing a "late night live performance". Please arrive early to avoid disappointment as this�is only a 150 capacity venue. � Apologies, but because it's a club night, its over 18s only. � More info at: <a title="www.myspace.com/olum" href="http://www.myspace.com/olum">www.myspace.com/olum</a> http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=60 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Marmaduke Duke FREE rare promos Greetings friends and lovers, Yes. It�s that time of the week again. To mark the clutch of live dates this week (below), Captains Of Industry have 25 extremely rare 3-track promo CD samplers of Marmaduke Duke�s forthcoming album �Duke Pandemonium� to give away. It�s inherently funky. To be in with a chance simply send your name and postal address to: <a title="mailto:info@captainsof.com" href="mailto:info@captainsof.com">info@captainsof.com</a> The offers ends at MIDDAY FRIDAY JUNE 30th. Winners will be chosen on a first come basis and notified by e-mail. Thanks, Marmaduke Duke <a title="http://www.marmadukeduke.com/" href="http://www.marmadukeduke.com/">www.marmadukeduke.com</a> / <a href="http://www.captainsof.com">www.captainsof.com</a> Marmaduke Duke live shows Fri 30th June � Barfly, London (onstage late � check venue for stage time) Sat 1st July - Barfly, Cardiff�� Sun 2nd July - Birmingham Academy Mon 3rd July - Newcastle Carling Academy (w/ Pretty Girls Make Graves) http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=59 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Newcastle show, date changed The Marmaduke Duke Newcastle show has changed from 29th June to 3rd July. They are now very special guests to Pretty Girls Make Graves. We assume tickets are transferable but check with the venue to be certain. The Duke sends his apologies if this causes you any inconvenience. Check it <a href="http://www.captainsof.com/tour.php">http://www.captainsof.com/tour.php</a> http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=58 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Free Marmaduke Duke album sampler - TODAY ONLY! <div>Greetings friends and country (wo)men,</div> <div></div> <div>Tomorrow is the longest day of the year and The Duke is soon going on tour. This in itself is a good enough reason to give away 25 highly limited sampler CDs of my forthcoming long-player, �Duke Pandemonium�.</div> <div></div> <div>To be sent one for free here�s what you need to do:</div> <div></div> <div>Simply e-mail your name and postal address to <a title="mailto:info@captainsof.com" href="mailto:info@captainsof.com">info@captainsof.com</a> by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, TUESDAY JUNE 20th, his Lord�s year 2006AD.</div> <div></div> <div>Anytime afterwards and my minions might be forced to ignore you, however nicely you ask, and however sexually-charged your pouting MySpace photo is.</div> <div></div> <div>That�s all.</div> <div></div> <div>Thanks a lot,</div> <div>Marmaduke Duke The Benevolent Duke. x</div> http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=57 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Sucioperro album sells out on day of release Sucioperro's debut album 'Random Acts Of Intimacy' - released yesterday - has pretty much sold out. Spiffing. �A second pressing is underway. Please order online if you can't find it in the shops in the coming week or two. Thanks. Captains. x http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=56 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Random Acts Of Intimacy in the shops NOW Sucioperro's debut album 'Random Acts of Intimacy' is released TODAY! It's available from all good retailers, or online right here. Meanwhile, the band are halfway through their current tour, and are having a lovely time and have the following shows left: 12th BRISTOL Louisiana 13th DURHAM Fishtank 15th GLASGOW Barfly <a href="http://www.sucioperro.com">www.sucioperro.com</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sucioperro">www.myspace.com/sucioperro</a> http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=55 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Gay For Johnny Depp are cumming... The unique entity known as GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP are in the UK this week for three rare shows. Come one, come all: Thursday June 8 Buffalo Bar, London w/ The Scare Friday June 9 Snickers Bowl stage, Download festival (onstage 5.30pm) Saturday June 10 Somewhere in Shoreditch, London <a href="http://www.gayforjohnnydepp.com">www.gayforjohnnydepp.com</a> .�<a href="http://www.myspace.com/gayforjohnnydepp">www.myspace.com/gayforjohnnydepp</a> Thanks, Captains Of Industry. This day 6/6/6, naturally. http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=54 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Marmaduke Duke announce UK shows Spells will be cast and dancefloors destroyed when Marmaduke Duke play the following shows. Thursday June 29 Newcastle Carling Academy 2 Friday June 30 London Barfly (late slot) Saturday July 1 Cardiff Barfly Sunday July 2 Birmingham Bar Academy. All tickets �7 or �7.50. Be there with bells on. Us. x http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=53 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Freaks on a leash... Word to your Momma! SUCIOPERRO are in this week's Kerrang!, photographed on leashes and revealing all about who they are, where they come from and why they operate with ludicrous pseudonyms. It looks nice. Check it out! And you can view some live footage of the band�on <a href="http://www.youtube.com">www.youtube.com</a>. Love, Captains�Of Interesting. x http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=52 Wed, 24 May 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Gay For Johnny Depp, Marmaduke Duke and The Sound Explosion announce shows Got wood? You should. Gay For Johnny Depp, Marmaduke Duke and The Sound Explosion have each just announced rare one-off London shows.�Please check our Forums for more details. And don't forget to live. Captains of Everything. x http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=51 Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Marmaduke Duke made flesh. Nine�days after the summer day has been stretched the longest, the spirit of Marmaduke Duke shall be manifested�in physical form�in a borough of Northern Londinium. Magnificence and Pandemonium will be expressed and�future generations of minions will speak in hushed tones of the myth, the magic, the majesty�of those crazy, hazy Duke�days at the dawn of the 21st century. Further manifestations are on the Tarot cards. Ticketweb will be collecting your hard-earned�groats and winter-hewn turnips in exchange for this musical blessing. Use the wires of modernity to track down details of�this apparition. Life is a puzzle; we are all vital components.�Love, Captain Of Industry. x http://www.captainsof.com/frontlineZoom.php?storyUID=49 Mon, 15 May 2006 04:01:37 -0500