Current lineup: Bruno Wizard, Ben Harris, Thomas Oakes, John Mathews
Founded in 1978, The Homosexuals rose out of the glorious ashes of the The Rejects founded in 1976 by Bruno Wizard. The merry progression of this wayward band of minstrels will be minutely listed in minute detail at http://www.astralglamour.com when the complete revamp of the site is completed. Details will be posted for the re-launch of the site which for the past 3 years has been incarcerated in creative Guantanamo Bay.
Influences
The Homosexuals Aristophanes, Idries Shah, Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Big Youth, Alton, Ellis, Lee Scratch Perry, Tchaikovsky, Ginger Baker, King Crimson, K-Tron The Devil, The Who, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention, ?songs from Pink Floyd, Pearls Before Swine, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Billie Halliday, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bob Dylan, Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, The Small Faces (BEFORE Rod Fuckin Stewart) The Kinks, The Righteous Brothers, This Heat, Dr. John the Night Tripper, The Khan Brothers The Jazz Warriors, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles BEFORE 1968, Abba, Chic, Aretha Franklin, Prince, and if anyone is still reading this, I am lying so I will not go any further.
THE HOMOSEXUALS
"Simply put, one of the most flawlessly great British punk/post-punk bands."
-WFMU
"The Homosexuals were, by all accounts, one of those late-1970s UK garage-punk bands that deserved to reach a wider audience alongside icons like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and all the rest."
-Marc Hogan, Pitchfork
"I just had the closest thing to a religious experience since my bar mitzvah...
The Homosexuals played the most dynamic, explosive set I've seen in a couple years."
-The Washington Post
Read Pitchfork's 8.4 review of The Homosexuals CD..."I'd say these guys would have given any of the big post-punk bands a run for their money in terms of both songwriting (the impact of these songs is almost impossible to deny) and sheer diversity. "
Read Pitchfork's 8.0 of the 3CD box-set Astral Glamour ... "As David Berman put it, "Punk rock died when the first kid said/ 'Punk's not dead.'" Maybe so, but as limb after limb is plucked from the wreckage, it's leaving behind one exquisite corpse. The three-plus hours of material ranging over Astral Glamour unites The Homosexuals' fragmentary oeuvre to reveal them as punk visionaries who were at least as questing, untamed, and ultimately listenable as any of their more renowned contemporaries. This is the sound of history revising itself toward perfection."
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD TO THE ENTIRE CATALOG OF THE HOMOSEXUALS! INCLUDING UNRELEASED EXTENDED EP 'IMPORTANT IF TRUE'
You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep.
Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet. Take up dancing to forget.
Forget what? Your sadness, your shadow, whatever it was that was done to you the day of the lawn party when you came inside flushed with the sun, your mouth sulky with sugar, in your new dress with the ribbon and the ice-cream smear, and said to yourself in the bathroom, I am not the favorite child.
My darling, when it comes right down to it and the light fails and the fog rolls in and you're trapped in your overturned body under a blanket or burning car,
and the red flame is seeping out of you and igniting the tarmac beside you head or else the floor, or else the pillow, none of us is; or else we all are.
I still remember Paris, my darling, in the park, the lake was dappled by the sunset, a seductive exteme, kiss and giddily I fall at your feet, worshipping your very essence. Later we will awake after a night of stormy passion and my boat will slowly sink in the sea of your beauty.
Many thanx for your add Bruno - Why The Homosexuals were never classed as one of the greatest pop bands ever, defies all reason and logic.
I'll try my damndest to get the Xmas gig, any chance you can play Birmingham in the new year? as there is a veritable cottaging of Homosexuals fans here.
MONGREL ZINE #7 IS OUT NOW
The new Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine is full of spooky delights!
Haunted George schools us on Halloween sound effects and his
Garagepunk podcast Haunted Shack Theatre, King Louie charms us with
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Domino, Vancouver’s newest garage band Indian Wars find the best
skateparks, Inservibles tell us about Mexico City’s best tacos from
what is a shitty mechanics workshop during the day and taco stand by
night, a rare interview with the late Billy Van from The Hilarious
House of Frightenstein, vintage Halloween collector Mark Ledenbach,
plus Box Elders, The TVees, Hard Feelings, HYPSTRZ, The Orpheans,
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This issue includes Mongrel Zine Vol. 4 CD Comp with 28 tracks
including Bloodshot Bill’s “In the Graveyard…!” written especially for
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thank u! i wish that was my bedroom over looking the ocean! i just call it the ocean bed. that would be rad if we could put a homosexuals/arisitdes show together some day
thanks for the add...do let me know when you're in SF next, I'll pop down for an interview for my videoshow.
Did you see the article about The Homosexuals in SuperSuper a few months back? I was writing for them at the time, I had an article about Coldwave in the same issue.
Hey thanks for the add! was planningto head to AnnArbor tonite to check you guys out. Fortunately I msgd Michelle before I drove for two hours for nothing. Hey maybe we'll catch you next time around.
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