The Time Being | Steve Kilbey

STEVE KILBEY & GREG DULLI

TEAM UP FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY IN LOS ANGELES

An Evening With Steve Kilbey & Greg Dulli

 To Perform At The Echo On Wednesday October 9^th

August 27, 2013 – Steve Kilbey and Greg Dulli will team up for one special show at The Echo On October 9^th.  Tickets will go on sale this Thursday August 29, 2013 at Noon PST.  Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/361577?utm_medium=bks

A special fan pre-sale will begin this Wednesday at Noon PST.  The passcode for the pre-sale is: KILBEYDULLI

“An Evening With Steve Kilbey & Greg Dulli “ will feature the duo performing a stripped down set.  Kilbey & Dulli will perform a wide selection of songs encompassing both of their careers along with debuting several new ones.

As long time fans of each other’s work, Dulli met Steve Kilbey at a Church show several years back in Los Angeles and struck up a fast friendship with him.  The two have stayed in touch over the past few years and have begun working on material together.  During last year’s Afghan Whigs Australian tour, Kilbey joined the band on stage to perform the Church classic “One Day” in Sydney. You can watch that performance here: http://www.messandnoise.com/news/4498993

As the lead singer and bassist for The Church, Steve Kilbey has been making music since forming the group in the late 1970’s. The Church have released over 30 albums and have garnered massive international success.  In 2010, The Church were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame. Kilbey has also released thirteen solo albums and has collaboratively written, engineered and produced recordings with the late Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens, Stephen Cummings, and Kev Carmody among numerous others. Kilbey was inducted into the Australian Songwriters Association Hall Of Fame in 2011.

Greg Dulli began his musical career as the front man and guitarist for the pioneering band The Afghan Whigs in 1987. Praised by critics and fans alike, the band released six studio albums, before originally disbanding in the late 90’s. Dulli went on to form The Twilight Singers, who have released five albums including the critically lauded Blackberry Belle, Powder Burns and Dynamite Steps in 2003, 2006 & 2011 respectively.  In 2008, Dulli collaborated with close friend Mark Lanegan to form The Gutter Twins. In 2012, Dulli reformed The Afghan Whigs who embarked on their first world tour in thirteen years.  In 2013 The Afghan Whigs made a surprise appearance at this year’s SXSW performing with Usher.  Dulli also performed a solo set at this year’s Sub Pop 25^th Anniversary Festival in Seattle in July.

For the most up to date information on both artists please visit:

www.thetimebeing.com (Steve Kilbey)

www.theafghanwhigs.com (Greg Dulli)

collect call

in july 2013 i did a tour

with these guys remember?

well now heres a 5 song vid download for your delectation

acoustic and intimate as all get out

you will love the violin n cello

good on ya

sk

https://sellfy.com/p/uDmv/

i said caption i said what

lot going on

trying not to fall behind

much stuff coming up

started writing memoirs

so far have covered a teenage holiday and making of starfish

have a book deal n everything i think

playing at a benefit for cora james who is in van park

she plays my love interest the delectable gypsy fire

coras been a bit unwell and we are having a night for her 29th august

a benefit gig

ok please come its a very good cause

meanwhile

sk plus hoffmenn plus strings attached are coming to hobart melb adelaide and sydney

we are also looking at a show in brissie if we can find the right gig

that will definitely bee a mazing

i have an exhibition in LA on the 5th october

and many other things in the works

including ongoing work with frank kearns

and with hu dost

and a load of other stuff!

anyway

thats it

behave yourselves

sk

throwing the book atcha!

just when you thought it was safe to get your credit card out again

comes uncollected

which is

earthed my 1986 book

plus nineveh and the ephemeron

which were originally released as a booklet in 1998

(much thanks for that to trevor boyd!)

plus fruit machine

from about 2006 or 7

a booklet about rocknroll

then a whole bunch of poems from all over the place

plus the best poems from my blogge

its 420 pages of poetry and bullshit

it all depends ‘pon how you look at it.

anyway its pretty much the definitive read

if you wanna read some stuff by me

earthed is a funny old book

trying too hard and not going with the flow

still theres some ok things there you may well enjoy

my main memory of earthed

is sitting in the kitchen banging it out on a typewriter

a hash joint burning in the ashtray

the rain hitting the skylight overhead

the rain tapped my fingers tapped

i listened to jon hassel and harold budd

the gas fire burned on through the night

i was too greedy

i am having a stab at sci fi and prose poetry and experimental

all at once

sometimes an interesting melange

sometimes a bit of a hodgepodge

nineveh is a good little cycle of poems

i became obsessed with nineveh

which is a biblical city

i half imagine half remembered these words

it was a mystical experience

it was written in sweden in 1997-8

i was on the gear

i was sad and lonely

perfect for transmitting this poetry

man the snow swirling around me in my apartment on bastugaten

making this stuff up….

the ephemeron came with nineveh

tho it had nothing to do with it at all

it was …oh i dont know what it was

poems and stories from different perspectives

about the life and times of erskine the magician

some shabby charlatan type and his wife

once again its like earthed

it could have been more thought out and less made up

but there you go

i am erskine i would say

erskine seems to do the things i would do

there are some brilliant little bits in there i think

some mediocre stuff too

you decide

and there is all the misc. stuff

stuff i wrote here n there on this and that

about such and such

good stuff mostly-ish

some other things about erskine

and all sorts of things

this book is now ready for order

the first hundred will get a copy of my pamphlet eden thrown in

all books will be signed and if needed dedicated…

and i’ll come round yer house and cook yer dinner and mind yer kids too

anyway you can order uncollected  right now if you want

should get it within 2 weeks one would think

good on you!

sk

‘Uncollected’ poetry book

pen sieve

i am so gone i am back

knocked straight out unloaded

my clock face with its tic

so afraid of how you will miss me

let me sleep for awhile let this night pass

let me find you in warping dream

no dancing on clouds

no descending black velvet curtains

no violins describe my fall

a thing has whispered to me

i have felt its weight upon an empty bed

the membrane is shot it cant keep these things out

the stairs are busy theres no body home

my cat my familiar black like midnight

you are opium in the red heart of my room

you are treacle congealing in cold milk

and now you are the taste of some powerful liquor

made from black herbs and moss

the prints of darkness

gray havens

sunday in august

incredulously i check myself

i am still alive

i wake up i’m almost sixty ive made all these records

two ears one eye does not work

my teeth are all falling apart

look in mirror

cant see properly but doesnt look good

as far as i can see the wreckage of a life

outside its warm in the sun cold in the shade

i live at bondi beach and sunny sundays is packed to the nines

freaks and hipsters

big old families  in from the outlying suburbs

surfer girls all bleached and slim

shopkeepers counting the dough

petrolheads in nissan skylines

yeah you heard it all before

back at my place i take stock of situations

dont ask me about such and such

i dont know

i excavated my brain for poetry and music until it collapsed

now i am some old empty fakir

a dummy half

bill impostor

fingers go tap tap tap

clock goes tock tock tock

ears go ring ring ring

eyes go cloud cloud cloud

mind goes blank blank blank

heart goes beat beat beat

and time is silent

it makes no sound as it rapidly elapses