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Category: Music
Lots of news!
1. Our new album is done! We finished recording it in July; we finished mixing it earlier this month. It will be mastered in November, after which we'll share some of it with you.
Titled That's So Gay, the album has 14 songs, is 38 minutes long, all originals. It will be released, like our last two albums, on Alternative Tentacles Records. It will probably be out in March. It will be preceded by a 7" vinyl single; "Average Men," a song on the new album, is the A-side, and the B-side is a cover of a Green Day song, "Coming Clean," that will not be on the new album. We're very excited to be at this point; it took a year and half from the beginning of the album to the end, the longest we've ever gestated one of our releases.
2. Film/DVD news: we're working on a DVD release for the Pansy Division documentary. It will be out on Alternative Tentacles as well. If it's done in time, it will be out in March, in which case the album will be pushed back to May. There will be a Spanish language option, and it will be an all-region DVD. The film will be accompanied by a bonus live DVD. The documentary has a lot of short live clips; the bonus DVD has the best of the live stuff we combed through in the making of the movie, complete performances. We've never had an official live album, so this will be the next best thing.
But it has not yet finished the rounds of gay film festivals! It is coming soon to a few more cities:
Washington, DC -- Thursday, October 23, 2008 - Reel Affirmations
7 PM @ AFI Silver
Seattle, WA - Friday, October 24 - Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
7:30 PM at the Northwest Film Forum. Even better, Jon and Chris will be there in Seattle in person to answer questions, and to perform an unplugged set
somewhere nearby afterwards (details still being worked out).
Chicago, IL - Saturday, November 8 - Reeling Festival
We just received news about this one yesterday! More details ASAP.
3. Jon's book, Deflowered: My Life In Pansy Division, now has a release date: March 1, 2009! You can actually pre-order it on Amazon, even though the final edit isn't even done yet! (If you wait you can order it directly from us, or your local book store.)
The book is a detailed history of how Jon conceived and formed the band, and the many adventures we've had ever since. It's a nice companion piece to the documentary; the doc covers a lot of ground, but the book fill in a lot of the details there weren't time for in the film. Which brings us to 4....
4. Here's where we need your help! Starting some time in March, Jon is planning to do a book tour, doing readings and signing books. At the same time, our idea is to also tour the film, visiting cities where we were not able to get screenings. We've done many tours with the band, but we've never done a book tour, nor a movie tour. What we're looking for is for you to help us find places in your town where Jon can read, and/or places where small one-off screenings of the film can be arranged. Jon will bring his guitar along too, do a few songs when possible. This will be happening off and on between March and May. We're looking for bookstores, small theaters, gay community centers, colleges with gay student groups who can arrange events, and anything else that would be appropriate.
We're trying to compile a resource list and figure out where we can go, and who would want to have us. We're looking for something pretty specific; small places, the right setting, which can be a bit difficult to coummnicate, but we welcome your suggestions. Reply to pansydivisionmail (at) gmail.com with your ideas, and if possible any contact info you might have with people at these places. A lot of our band's success is based on word of mouth. At this time we're looking for places in the US only.
However, if you want to show the film, and book a screening, we will being doing that soon! Contact the film's director, Michael, lastritesfilms (at) gmail.com
5. iTunes! We were off of iTunes for a long time, but we're back, and for the first time our complete back catalog is available. You can download each of our albums (including the Essential best of), or individual tracks, in the knowledge that the money is actually getting to the band (they've been great about paying us--a perennial record biz problem, hooray!). (A plug: The Essential Pansy Division makes a great cheap holiday gift! Sorry to mention it this far before Xmas.) For now, this is just for the USA; we will be working with another company soon that will be distributing our mp3s to other digital sources worldwide, including iTunes in other countries.
Don't know if we've mentioned this before, but there are two songs we do ("I Really Wanted You" and "Not Enough Of You To Go Around") that were originally recorded by Jon's band The Outnumbered back in the 80s. We now have the original versions posted on the PD Audio page (they're near the bottom): http://www.pansydivision.com/Audio/pd_audio.html
6. There are always new PD things popping up on You Tube; we add to our You Tube page when we find good ones. We've added a few ourselves: see Green Day singing a bit of "Groovy Underwear" from a TV special; see our tribute to Jim Carrey on the USA Network, circa 1996, hosted by Gilbert Gottfried; our video page is http://www.youtube.com/user/PansyDivisionvideo.
Also, someone else posted excellent footage of us on a Canadian TV morning program, from 1999, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPyxJBsFYk
You can preview clips of 3 new songs from That's So Gay on our page: "Twinkie Twinkie Little Star," "You'll See Them Again," and "20 Years of Cock."
7. Last chance for t-shirts: Though we recently removed t-shirts from our merchandise page, we discovered a small batch we'd overlooked. We've only got Small and XL sizes, but once these are gone, they're gone. Click here: http://www.pansydivision.com/Merchandise/pd_shirts.html
8. Last, not least, but definitely farthest off in the future: there will be a Pansy Division live tour next summer, sometime in July/August 2009.
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