THE LIBRARY BOOK OF THE WORLD was released by BLOODSHOT RECORDS of CHICAGO in Autumn 2007 in North America and UK/Europe ... Sounds like the shifting sand getting in your shoes and it becomes hard to stand still. The music is off kilter, off balance, sliding around on deck, sea legs giving way, storm movin’ in. We don’t know which way the ship is headed or how many times it’s been back and forth, or if we are cast adrift and forever lost in the mists of Atlanticana, somewhere fatally short of land.
NEW FILMS Dec 1st 2008 (below) ... Danbert Nobacon ends up mangled with Hank Williams in a car wreck in the year 2027.
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and Johnny Wobegone wakes up in the chicken coop ...
**** most recent album THE LIBRARY BOOK OF THE WORLD by Danbert Nobacon and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts available in US and North America on BLOODSHOT RECORDS. now available in Europe (out of GERMANY through Indigo) and UK on BLOODSHOT RECORDS.
... Scattered to the four corners, when the good ship Chumbawamba crashed against recently sunken islands in holy rock'n' roll wars of late 2004 I found myself suddenly adrift. At the mercy of the four winds, with only boy scout lashing skills and a half tin of dubbin to make my own sun scarred hide sea worthy, I washed up in the not-so-new-anymore world. And from the rapidly mutating dnaetrius, not least a new album THE LIBRARY BOOK OF THE WORLD by Danbert Nobacon and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, released AUGUST 2007 on the venerable Bloodshot Records of Chicago. A couple of tracks from the record are featured on the music player here. Also a couple of live in Leeds performances of songs which feature on the album with The Shifting Sand band. And a video for an acoustic (non-album) version of another track and more unorthadox spoken word videos (adjacent right) coming care of VERBAL BURLESQUE TV
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The LIBRARY BOOK OF THE WORLD features the navigational and storm-riding savvy of a crew of mekons/wacobrothers/executioners' songs outlaws: with Captain Jon Langford on telescope, guitars and compass; first mate John Rice on any and every instrument that has ever been held together by strings, and those fashioned from the ships' rigging in times of emergency; Al Doughty on 'take a walk on the starboard side' bass guitar; Dan Massey on "they thought he was a monster but he was a king" drums keeping us upright; and Pat Brennan with the piano keys to lost kingdoms; whilst I strum, holler and attempt to fashion the map from the sea-drenched pages of libraries long since thrown overboard.
Body:
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organiser of a music festival once dubbed the Glastonbury of the North
has been arrested on suspicion of allowing drug use at the event: the
fact that Andy is being charged with something ultimately beyond his
control is, for lack of a better word, CRAZY!
Hi Danbert! All Sewn Up - A Tribute To Patrik Fitzgerald - just put up MOTORPSYCHO feat. JELLO BIAFRA with their fantastic version of "Punch". If You haven't heard it.....You should.
JUST LISTENED TO "NIXON IS MY DENTIST" TEN TIMES IN A ROW AND NEED TO BRUSH MY TEETH NEED TO FLOSS MY TEETH NEED TO LOOK VERY VERY CAREFULLY AT MY TEETH WITH MIRRORS AND ... AND I'M JUST GOING TO GO DO IT!
Hi Danbert - just put up an interview snippet with the great Benjamin Zephaniah followed by His amazing version of Patrik's 77 classic - "Work. Rest. Play. Reggae." + two out takes from Nz radio where Patrik talks a little about the Bladed and Dog & Sky cover versions.....enjoy
hey! so i was listening to the Unfairy Tale compilation CD..i heard the majourity of the album 'coz i couldn't sleep and wanted to write in my notebook at 3am
i still got distracted about the penis cover of your older albums put out on and it got me to make a parody (a sad parody...LOL) to snap a few of MY pecker..and yours looks lovely while mine looks sad and crooked!!! LOL
so luckily i took pictures on my digital camera instead of the disposable camera, 'coz i can easily erase any pics i don't like in the digital gadget.
i used to buy disposable cameras and turn them to the CVS store. and i'm glad i didn't shoot my penis w/ the disposable one.
my friend, she got me to purchase a digital camera about a month ago.
i'm taking baby steps; maybe next year i'll get a cell phone.
HELLO MY FRIEND! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE NOTE & CD...MADE ME SMILE! I HAD A GREAT TIME SEEING YOU AGAIN...JUST KINDA TAKING OFF FROM WHERE WE LEFT OFF YA KNOW?! THE MUSICS GREAT...I'M VERY IMPRESSED! ;~) HOPE THINGS ARE WELL WITH YOU & YOURS. MY DEAL IS MOVIN, JUST AT A SNAILS PACE...AND BEING THE NATURAL BORN TWEEKER THAT I AM, AHHHH IT'S CHALLENGING TO SAY THE LEAST! I'M GRATEFUL TODAY THOUGH! LOVE YOU, TAM xoxo
so i just went to my first concert back in april fool's day..you ever heard of the band(s) LADYTRON, THE FAINT, and/or TELEPATHE?
i saw Ladytron..and i was amazed! next concert i wanted to go to was of chumbawamba's, in canada for june..but i don't even have a passport to go to canada.... but that's all right, i won't die! lol
how've you been? and when's an appropiate time to get that autograph from you? i'm not asking for a picture of your penis signed to your name! (i already have your CD's w/ that.....i got it!)
just a simple; "HEY!" or something you'd fancy to write down...lol
Please check out our new comedic “vampire bankers” music video. The guy who directed this also directed Madonna’s first music vid. We think it’s pretty funny. It’s available as a free mp3 download on http://www.ukejackson.com
Thanks for being our friend! Uke Jackson and the NY Ukulele Ensemble ps. Love your work with Chumbawamba!
