EEE EEE EEE!

Inflential punk band Flipper are reforming again and the new incarnation has ex-Nirvana Krist Novoselic on bass and they will be bringing their trademark gigs of noise to the UK next month.

Krist Novoselic is replacing Bruno DeMartis as Flipper’s new bassist, a dangerous role some would say.

Talking about the band's history, Bruce Loose once quipped that being in Flipper was just "like Spinal Tap, except the bass player keeps dying".

Flipper have lost many members to wreckless rock ‘n’ roll and numerous heroin overdoses throughout their patchy career, notably founder member Will Shatter who died in 1987 and bassist John Dougherty who died in 1992.

After Shatter’s death, Bruce Loose, himself an addict, allegedly stole the band's master tapes from Subterranean's warehouse, to broker a deal with legendary LA-based producer Rick Rubin.

Rubin still holds the rights to Flipper’s back catalogue and plans to re-release six albums plus an album’s worth of never-before-released tracks from the 1984 “Gone Fishin” sessions, on his own American Recordings label next year.

The seminal punk band kick of their tour in Seattle on December 1, coming to the UK on December 8 to play the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Minehead with Iggy and The Stooges and Sonic Youth.

Catch the rejuvenated Flipper at the following venues next month:

Minehead - ATP festival “Nightmare Before Christmas” (December 8)
London – Scala (11)
Manchester - Academy 3 (13)
Glasgow - The Garage (14)
Belfast – Venue tbc (15)
Dublin - The Village (16)
Galway – Venue tbc (17)

'the people demand a sacrifice'

wow.. cool news

CORRR!!!

Krist is a racist Croat

'Ha Ha Ha'

details HP...?

Urgh, has anyone seen that pic of them playing Sex Bomb with MOBY?

Ha, I just thought - maybe it's a "fish" thing.

The famous photo of Krist sporting a t-shirt during the balkan wars, that said...

'NO DRUGS, NO DOGS, NO SERBS'

hmm - didn't know that!

Can't find a pic of that, H_P Sause.
But looking it up gave me some harsh images of the war,
Like this one,

Pretty darn sad.
Anywho, Flipper!
Yay!

Yeah, every serb knows about that T.

Flipper are a godsend though, just never liked Krist the cunt.

Forget it,
You wouldn´t understand anyway

hahaha that's my line

saw flipper at cbgbs last year, real good

glad to see krist back at work

Yeah? They were good? I can't bring myself to even look into it.

hope they don't play serbia!

or montenegro for that matter

Talk's cheap...well I never....swear to god...I was there...happened just like that!

im still laughing...

me too, i can't believe the last two hours actually happened

Did Bruce Loose eat your souls too? Beautiful wasn't it.

Such a good gig.

Had to leave just after Steve left the stage in a hissy fit and then came back again.

I was spewin' I had to leave but what I saw was brilliant.

all on tonight in newy!

Huh?

Is there a secret gig I don't know about?

nah at the cambridge in newcastle>>>

Man...I wish I was seeing them again. That was some seriously great shit last night.

i was sad when the lights came back on.

I AM THE WHEEEEEL

Oh how I laughed and laughed. What a amazing night.

After playing the fuck out of Generic I'm giving Gone Fishing a good seeing too...
I fucken love Flipper.

I just got a big flipper tat. I fucken love flipper

Cool...post a picture if you can be fucked.

A cover version / video of Flipper's Ha Ha Ha as performed by Melbourne band Clones is HERE

a flipper tat sounds like a good idea - post it up spam!

http://www.fourthousand.com.au/issues/140/

er, thats pretty weird. I got 'way of the world' tattooed on the same leg, in the same place... about 4 years ago.

really truely?

no bones about it!

such a great band.