AMEN TO TOUR THE UK IN MAY & JUNE. DATES INCLUDE CARLISLE BRICKYARD ON 27TH OF MAY. WWW.BRICK-YARD.COM -GET YER TIX NOW!
Chay Woodman
Date published: 14th Mar 2005
It's this simple - Amen are on tour. Do yourself a favour and buy a ticket. And we mean NOW.
Here's the dates:
May
07 - Tunbridge Wells Forum
08 - Braintree The Venue
09 - Exeter Cavern
10 - Bristol Bierkeller
12 - Merthyr RMs Rock Club
13 - Rugeley Rose
14 - Northampton Roadmender
15 - Nottingham Rock City
17 - Wolverhampton Varsity
18 - Manchester Academy
19 - Sheffield Corporation
20 - Newcastle Legends
23 - Glasgow Ivory Blacks
24 - Aberdeen Kef
25 - Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
27 - Carlisle Brickyard (www.brick-yard.com)
29 - Hull University
30 - Leeds Cockpit
June
01 - Liverpool Academy
03 - venue tbc
04 - Leicester Charlotte
05 - venue tbc
06 - Southampton Nexus
07 - London Garage
08 - Milton Keynes Woughton Centre
AMEN / CASEY CHAOS......
Having toured with the likes of Killing Joke, and being voted best live band in the world last year by rock's largest selling magazine, it's no wonder why every band, from the Sex Pistols to Nikki Sixx to Jaz from Killing Joke taking Casey under his wing as if some long lost father protecting his child from the realities of onstage suicide.
Yes, they all tip their hat to Mr. Chaos. For his music isn't for the masses, it is for the elite.
Needless to say, you won't find this at McDonald's. Enter Amen. For the best part of a decade, America's most uncomprimising band have refused to bow to convention. Marrying the sound of Iggy Pop's Stooges at their most abrasive, to lyrics that would make Marilyn Manson blush.
Amen has been the creative vehicle for Californian Casey Chaos, the man who the punk ethic remains an all encompassing way of life. Easily living up to his moniker, he's fought his way through physical and mental health problems. His onstage mutilation has been confined to the history books. Swindling labels and being swindled by labels. Departing bandmates and near bankruptcy. To remain true to his political and artistic vision.
Having released 3 albums in the last few years on 3 seperate major labels, as well as two limited edition, self-released, self-funded, fan club only CD's, there is now a 4 disc DIY boxset comprising 90 tracks and over 4 hours of unreleased material Casey has accumulated from the age 12 to the present.
All of which are from studio sessions, home recordings, demos, outtakes, and demos from his prior hardcore days from his first band Disorderly Conduct. Which also includes studio and demo recordings. This is Casey's life story put to tape for all to see. This is a total DIY release and will be limited to 2000 copies (which will be hand numbered) and in the tradition of Slave and Join or Die (which sell on Ebay for a lot of money) it will not be re-pressed or ever released again. This is the ultimate story of Casey Chaos. Rise and fall. And who gives a fuck...it's just music right?
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