A BIG thanks to everyone who purchased Bill Bailey In Metal and for all of the kind comments you posted about it online. Your frenzied clicking pushed it into Amazon’s Top 20 for a while last week too. Proper job!
Thanks are also due to everyone who has already made the Dandelion Mind Tour so memorable and it is still only early days! Your knowledge of wading birds, bouzouki banter, panto style heckling, cockle-based humour and general unpredictable weirdness makes it all worthwhile. Looking forward to more as the tour continues.
Today sees the launch of the eagerly awaited album Bill Bailey In Metal, a collection of nine solid rock tracks that were forged for Bill’s headline set in the fiery furnace of the Saturn Stage at Sonisphere 2011. Each of these pieces were then hammered into shape in the studio furnace using the voodoo brilliance of a superb band of musical sorcerers..
The track listing is as follows:
Lazer Gazer
Leg of Time (Metal Version)
Love Song (Metal Version)
Apocalyptic News (Metal Version)
Scarborough Fair (Rammstein Style)
Cars (Metal Version)
Das Hokey Kokey (Metal Version)
Oblivion (Metal Version)
Pot Plant Elegy (Metal Version)
Bill Bailey in Metal should delight both metal and non-metal fans alike as Bill blends his inimitable genre-fusing, with foreign language frolics and meaningful whimsy. These new full studio versions of Bill’s most popular songs are accompanied by two instrumentals in the shape of Lazer Gazer and Pot Plant Elegy (Metal Version), tracks that usually form the musical soundtrack to the short films that have been a regular feature of Bill’s stage show. During the rehearsals for these sessions Bill’s band expanded and twisted these pieces so brilliantly he just knew that they should be included on the album.
Bill is delighted with this album as he believes that he has finally captured these songs as he has always heard them in his head.
Please don’t be alarmed but Bill has realised that we are losing our grip on the moon! He feels that there are important questions that need to be asked about our orbiting neighbour and offers some ingenious ways to get the answers.
Find out more in Bill’s Latest Bunker Blog on The Guardian HERE
Another new date has been added to the Dandelion Mind (Gently Modified) UK Tour. On Monday November 28th Bill Bailey will unleash the hounds of whimsy at Leicester De Montfort Hall.
Bill may well have identified that Belgium seems to have become the international unit of despair, so why does he feel that we should follow their example? Find out at The Guardian today, where his latest Bunker Blog is now live.
Here’s a new TV ad for the forthcoming Dandelion Mind (Gently Modified) UK Tour. Look out for it on UK TV over the coming week and don’t forget that all the information about the tour is available on this site:
