The Cult
May 29, 2007, 11:00 AM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Veteran British rock act the Cult has signed with Roadrunner, Billboard.com can reveal. The group's first new album since 2001's Atlantic set "Beyond Good and Evil" will be released Sept. 25 in conjunction with its own New Wilderness imprint. The as-yet-untitled set is being recorded in London with producer Youth.
Beginning June 5, the Cult, which now includes lone founding members vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, will be on the road in Europe supporting the Who. North American dates are being booked for the fall.
Following the release of "Beyond Good and Evil," which Astbury previously told Billboard.com was a "soul destroying" experience, the Cult was inactive for three-and-a-half years before reuniting to tour in the spring of 2006.
As previously reported, Astbury guests on "Burn My Shadow," the first single from the upcoming UNKLE album, "War Stories."
Burn My Shadow is a fantastic song
used to hate em
love em now
Me too, Mo.
spreads legs as far apart as possible, plays Wild Hearted Son
what spurred the change wham guy?
That album in 2001. I pricked my ears up at that and as a young 19 year old who had just arrived in London thinking "Oooh, gigs to go to!" I saw The Cult were playing for £15, grabbed myself a ticket, head on down a couple of weeks later and was hooked.
Fucking great live show.
Matt Sorum was on drums for that show too.
i got into these guys bigtime when i was in year 10...1989. (man, was it that long ago?).
she sells sanctuary's a col song.
electric was awesome. firewoman.
the lyrics, of course, are utter crap. as are the videos. but still..
this new wave of 'rock' bands don't come close to how good The Cult were on electric
C'mooooooooooon, little honeeyyyyy!
Silence in the court, McBain. Your testimony is not required in this matter.
From their Wiki: There has also been interest in getting the band to appear again at the "Big Day Out" festival in Australia.
Yes I am aware that is about as reliable as worksafe_hiponion saying it on a thread here.
resists temptation to start 'the cunt' parody thread
hey, Judge - i sentence you to suck a fart outta my arse.
the bit where the bass player swings around on his heel and starts playing at the beginning of the video for LOVE REMOVAL MACHINE
it's POSETASTIC
billy duffy is a screaming lord guitar player, too - so tasteful.
You're in contempt there, Reuben...
so sue me.
really didn't like the '94 album
I'm a Sun King, baby.
Let me take you by the hand.
haha best picture ever.
Used to love 'em
Now hate 'em.
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Really they should have been playing ''Electric'' and not ''Love''. Yeah the encore was a bit louder and a bit more driving, played like they wanted to be there.
it was the same in Brisbane - seemed like Astbury saved his voice for the ''Love Removal Machine'' finale.
Astbury should lose his Jim Morrison schtick...
well he has picked a pretty dud period of jim morrison to emulate - the fat bathtub years
he sang a bit from ''the end'' last night, it reminded me of the doors of the 21st century show where he pretended to be jim morrison and made me wanna die
sun king was fun
just back from the palace gig. i had fun but fuck there were some awkward moments. crowd was pretty disinterested... astbury and billy both cracked it at certain moments... ''dont you know who the fuck we are???''
Haha...thats pretty funny. The more I think back on the gig I witnessed the more amusement I get from it. It was enjoyable on some level but there was a lot of ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??? moments.
yeah... it all ended with everyone walking off after Love Removal... except billy who thanked the crowd and said ''good night...or was it?''
ouch
Hahaha....they crack me up. Hopefully they had a better sound than they did at Luna Park. I felt bad for Billy. HE was so frustrated there.
Apparently Duffy is quite the tosser in the flesh. Ian is supposed to be more human.
I reckon they are all tossers tbh.
hehe
I thought they were excellent on Saturday night at the Palais. Though Ian was bitching about his mic all night. From where I was sitting right at the back of the theatre it looked like the cable kept getting entwined with Billy's guitar lead. And Billy kept motioning angrily at the monitors guy about something.
Poor Duncan....
According to the guy who started this thread, Astbury is a total wanker, and Billy Duffy is okay. This tends to back up everything I've heard elsewhere.
a fun time. bring back whammy bars.
OK....
You probably meant this whammy bar though...
My source is going back a couple of decades. People change, like sands in the hour glass...
bump
awesome!