dear everyone,

things roll along coming into christmas

ART GALLERY

You are all attractive people with excellent taste, that is why you are here. You are, I know you to be as all opinion is subjective, we can never be certain that what we perceive to be is absolute and accurate. This is Humes’ problem, not ours – lets cut to the chase.

I want to start an art gallery. Right here on this page. If you would like to display a piece then I want you to do it. Desire begets desire. Attentive receive attention. Lovers beget love. Is that shallow or survival? I think its human myself. 

(Superlative city)

It could be anything – regardless of if the muse is ourselves or a dead bird you found on the street that reminded you of the beautiful and cruel, swift and tragic flight of life.

I’m starting a new thing. You want to hear about it? I’ve decided that the phrase “Yves Klein Blue” is not just to create lasting music, it’s to create something lasting full stop.  Anything eternal, or as eternal as temporal can achieve. We can all do this right now I’ve decided.

We can all get tattoos. It’s like carpe diem or the jesus fish.

I’ll start.

Here is a painting that I did once -

Who’s next?

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

M,t

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Hi,

So charles has finally taken the photos off his camera.
Though it was not willing to give them up.

Whenever we return from tour, people always ask the question "what was the tour like?"

Everyone always has something different to say. Some enjoy certain parts of the tour, whilst others tend to disagree. However, there are some points that we always agree upon.

I decided to show you the tour (large boomy voice in 3, 2, 1...) THROUGH THE EYES OF CHARLES!

Here are a couple of photos:



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Outside the Scientology museum, doing some celebrity spotting




Charles checking me out.
note: read the posters on the box



Sean's crotch




Chris' crotch




Charles' checking himself out




Our day trip to 'The Smallest House In London'




I have NO IDEA how Charles managed to take this photo AND be in it...you can even see both his hands!


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We have an Australia tour coming up in JULY, playing gigs all across Australia (check myspace for locations)

So for the next edition we will be following YKB (large boomy voice in 3, 1...) THROUGH THE EYES OF MICHAEL


thank you for listening from chris

Hey,

So we are in england. I love this place. Its cold and grey outside, but i still love the place. If it were sunny i would leave immediately.
And its really, really windy outside! (opposed to it being really windy inside. which would just be weird.... newspapers flying all over the place, dogs are howling because of the noise, furniture is being knocked over, you rush to stop and expensive lamp from crashing to the ground, your hair is wildly thrashing in the wind, you run to the front door and burst outside...where it is perfectly calm. Strange...)
As i am writing this the wind is blowing against the windows and making that whistling noise. It sounds like a Jerry Springer audience, when the boyfriend is caught lying to his girlfriend. oooooooh! Especially when it is revealed that he has ANOTHER wife and 3 kids. But seriously, who didn’t see that coming?
Does anyone know how that noise is made? Maybe some houses are made with similar design features to that of a whistle. And the people are like the little ball that rattle around inside....dude....that’s deep.
Alas, I guess the answer is blowin in the wind. oh snap

We left New York at 8am yesterday. Which means that we had to leave the hotel at 6am. Which means we had to get up at 5am. Which means we had to go to bed at 3am.
Wait. that doesn’t work.
New York was fantastic. We played two gigs. The first one at Pianos Bar in the East Village. We ate at Katz deli and i ate a pastrami sandwich. See below for the recipe:

Katz Pastrami Recipe (note - take time and read carefully):

Need: Bread, Pastrami, plate

1. Place slice of bread on plate
2. Cut pastrami. Enough for 4 people.
3. Place ALL of that pastrami on the bread
4. Place another slice of bread on top
5. Eat

Katz deli is where the movie Harry Met Sally is filmed. You know the famous scene where Meg Ryan has the fake orgasm. True fact - she was not faking it in the scene. That is no lie.

The other gig was in Brooklyn at a place called ‘Death By Audio’. Brooklyn is a pretty cool place. Though i sensed some serious tension towards Manhattan. They started off as friendly neighbours, living happily in the big city. However things got sour when Brookyln suspected Manhattan of stealing the big apple off his tree. Manhattan said that the tree hangs over his fence and as such he is entitled to those apples. Anyway, a small cold war developed and they stopped talking. Several years later a third party tried to bridge the gap between the two feuding districts. But the tension still remains. Seriously you two, it’s all just water under the bridge. Get over it.

I would have loved to have spent more time in New York. And i regret not saying “Hey, I’m walkin here!” and slam my hand down on a taxi. Just like Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.

Oh and we visited LA.

Goodnight cowboys and cowgirls. We’ll ride again soon


from chris

in case you don't already have it... you can download our track POLKA for freee!

Pass it on/download it/shuffle it/love it/play it LOUD!

enjoy!

http://universalmusic.net.au/freedownloads/polka

much love...
YKB

Hello Blog, how are you? Did you know there is a word describing the blogging world called the "blogosphere"? Cool word. Anyway, this is Yves Klein Blue's very own personal recording blog. This is the first entry. It is currently sunday the 9th of november, but at home it's monday morning at around 9:45.Los Angeles.... is a cool place. It seems like a fairly obvious place to go and record an album, but that's fine with me. The recording studio is truly amazing and is full of the coolest instruments and amplifiers I've ever seen.

Our chosen producer Kevin (he has done the last two Cold War Kids records) is totally cool and he's also really tall. He's like my height, but he's around 500 times more built than me. I guess we're gonna be doing it Kevin’s way or the HIGH WAY MAN! No I'm sure everything will be just fine, I must iterate how great the Cold War Kids records sound. (Have you listened to them? Totally cool.) We're going to record only to tape which is kinda cool, though we can't screw up as much as we usually do. We're not exactly analogue purists or anything, but it shall be interesting to see how the restrictions of tape work. Anyway, enough wank.

We're staying in this place in North Hollywood, which sounds snazzy, but in reality is actually a long way from ....Hollywood.... proper. It's kinda like any old suburb with car yards and vacant lots, but the area shows promise in the form of live music venues and such. Cool. So we were going to buy skateboards or bikes to get to the studio each day, but we can't actually work out a way to get the bikes back because all the bike shops are so far away, and the risk of breaking our wrists skateboarding is probably too high. We're not punk rock enough it seems. I guess we'll instead spend that money on burritos and weak American beer. As you do.

So we haven't even gotten into the studio yet, that's tomorrow. For now, we've been to ....Hollywood.... and looked at guitar stores and bought hats. Except for Sean, Sean was too hungry to look at things. Eventually we made our way to an Israeli snack bar. Never been to one of those before. We had tasty felafel and then ran around and looked at more things. There's so many cool stores here, but sadly money is often needed when purchasing things, a commodity which does not smile on Charles. Anyway, we shall update you next week once something has actually been done. We're itching to get into that recording studio! We might go and see Dungen next week, cool band. Fingers crossed we can make it. Hope everyone is well out there in the blogosphere.

Till next week, love from Charles and the rest of YKB

ps - for all future blogs/new song snippets, photos etc join the mailing list to get into THE SEAN CLUB.... you can only get access to it via the mailing list or something techy... details to follow.... just join the bloody mailing list would ya??!!!