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The Filthiest Show In Town--My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult & The Resurrection of Luna:

The Las Vegas Weekly

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

The Filthiest Show in Town

****(4 stars)

America is having a renewed love affair with B-movies: between the last year's worth

of hype surrounding Snakes on a Plane and the current publicity maelstrom of

Grindhouse, it seems this country is all about camp and circumstance.

So should it really come as a surprise that the genre's music is enjoying

regeneration as well? My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult-that veteran industrial band

with a stage show of lunatics and lasers-is back. But this time they've stepped out

of the peep-show theater and into the lizard lounge downtown.

TKK is still rocking the deep horn riffs and heavy wails; their synths remain

unapologetic, and the instruments play pre-sets. But TKK no longer provides musical

backdrop for a subculture; this time, they're starting their own.

The opener "Cadillac Square" finds an unexpected melding of pop-industrial and

hip-hop, as if Pop Will Eat Itself met the Beasties while trolling for hookers. Upon

bedding said hooker, TKK channels Tricky with the rasp-rap soliloquy "Jet Set Sex."

But it isn't until "High Class Taboo"-which recalls humor rockers Mr. Bungle-that

hilarity of hookerdom emerges.

Yes, this album has the elements of a great B-movie: It's fun and dizzying, electric

and engaging; the stock characters are sexy and deplorable; and closer "Covergirl

Blues" provides climactic chase from lounge to club to musical victory for MLWTTKK.

- Kristyn Pomranz

From HX Magazine:

MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT The Filthiest Show in Town

Sleazy-gorgeous stories about the nightlife's underbelly set to music, with a cast

of edgy, gender-bending characters you'd find in a movie studio on poverty row, My

Life with the Thrill Kill Kult has created a world of '70s glamour and grunge that

is uniquely their own. Peppered with sound bites, this is the kind of music that

makes you feel dangerous and sexy. (Ryko)- MP

From XLR8R:

The XLR8R Office Top Ten Album Picks, March 12

(#2 Pick) My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult The Filthiest Show in Town Ryko

If one band has changed its musical identity over the years, it's the Thrill Kill

Cult. From its transformation from industrial-goth mainstays to proto-pop weirdos,

the band finds itself reformed as a funky disco troupe on The Filthiest Show in

Town. Whilenot for everyone, the Thrill Kill Cult is all creative ambition, all the

time.

And you should have already received this great feature:

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"Release has been informed by the Home Office that its specialist advice and information services no longer warrant financial support. The government has decided to withdraw funding for the help lines after 20 years of continuous backing and when government spending on drugs is at a record high.

Release questions the wisdom of this decision and wonders why it may have come at this time. With much new legislation on the way that will directly and indirectly affect both drug users and drugs services, Release will endeavour to remain available to offer expert advice on what are likely to be complex issues.

Although finding funds to run our services remains a monthly battle – it is one we will continue to fight. Whatever amount you can afford to give will enable us to keep helping one of the UK's most marginalised groups and continue to speak up for the civil liberties of this community."

 The Duel

 Tara Rez

Drongos for Europe

Assert

Dogsflesh

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Lowlife UK

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Look for this cast of performers:

PEACE PARTY

There's a party going on,
Amongst ordinary folk.
Laughing and hoping for PEACE
Peace is no joke!

Without Peace, there is no ice-cream,
Without Peace, we all eat rice,
Without Peace, Lovers are torn apart,
Without Peace, children must be educated twice.

Life in war is high velocity,
Abbreviated time on earth,
In war an old man lives to be 30,
Middle-aged 10 year-olds ignore mirth.

Peace Party, Peace Party, Peace Party!
Party on my hands and party on my feet,
Party when I'm happy
Party when I'm sweet!

So we are here; ideas guys;
Where are the old men?
What has happened to the professional talkers?
Is Peace beyond their ken?

Arms dealers pickle politics,
Business corruption jettisons enthusiasm;
Working with no benefits is pay not satisfaction,
Every country and every age have felt the spasm of WAR.

War is over-rated; war is messy and outdated;
One battle leads to another skirmish,
One detention questions thirty others,
The war idea is contagious and demented.

Sometimes wars are started,
Real estate won and lives lost
Peace is the promise of the invader,
After so many wars, peace at what cost?

30 years we have hung around,
Waiting to hear of Cyprus' fate,
30 years we have prayed for rain,
Peace and rain are much the same.

Where rain falls, flowers grow,
Crops feed friends
Prosperity extends,
To embrace all people.

Peace is food in every town,
Peace supercharges our lives,
Peace is the ability to survive.
Peace brings leisure and high-flying dreams,
Peace is discussion, not mortal screams.

There is no country free of fear,
There is no place where the air is pure
War beats the drum, soundtrack of our lives,
Peace is banished like an ugly child.
There are no ugly children,
So Peace must be our mission

Mary-Angela Bowie Barnett October 15th 2003

http://evolutionpublishing.com.au/sxnews/features/doing-it-for-herselfarticleid101326.aspx

That daredevil Jude Rawlins and The Subterraneans are up to their wonderful tricks,

Hi folks,   Click here to see us wowing the multitudes with "No" at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Tuesday night :o)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXYnUk3dj4     Jude x

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