[Mael-list] Fw: NEW SPARKS UK SINGLE: 'DICK AROUND' / 'WATERPROOF'

Mon Sep 25 12:43:26 PDT 2006

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Date: 9/25/2006 14:42:40 -0400
From: SPARKS USA <sparksusa at aol.com>
To: sparksusa at aol.com
Subject: NEW SPARKS UK SINGLE: 'DICK AROUND' / 'WATERPROOF'

UK Single Release - Buy Here!

http://www.allsparks.com/uksinglerelease.html

Gut Records has released the double A-side single, ‘Dick Around’ /  
‘Waterproof’ on enhanced CD in the UK. Included on the CD are the  
videos for ‘Dick Around’ and ‘Perfume’ and a live  audio version of  
‘Change’. Plus a specially recorded interview with the Maels and  
Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) which is far more ‘adult oriented’ than the  
single’s title!

The controversy begins: 'Dick Around' single banned by the BBC!
Despite the fact that Ron and Russell were invited into the studio as  
guests of the Breakfast Show on BBC London 94.9FM, the host Jono  
Coleman was banned from playing the single 'Dick Around'. Jono and  
his co-host Jo good were obviously embarrassed - particularly as they  
quite clearly knew that the term means wasting time. The Maels were  
upset that they had been asked to be interviewed live in the studio,  
and then not have their single played.

Ron Mael this morning raged: "the BBC has officially killed off our  
new single 'Dick Around', ostensibly through rather childish  
objections to the title, an innocent reference to the idle life. That  
a piece of music can be condemned purely by its title without the  
'decision makers' even having the decency to open the CD case is a  
travesty and an insult to both us as the creators of the music and to  
the listeners of the BBC."

Russell Mael responded: "The reaction from the public to this record  
has been nothing but positive, so the bcc should stop trying to be  
the morality police when it is so clearly misplaced."

Voice your concerns to the BBC!
yourlondon at bbc.co.uk

REVIEWS:
“Impressively sharp. Infectious yet audacious, avant-garde yet  
commercial. On ‘Dick Around’ Sparks close down the competition. A  
towering hybrid of choral splendour and metal thunder.” - Uncut

“Definitely pop, but not as we know it. A sweetly brain-scrambling  
experience.” Q

“Put this [the live show] on in the West End and it’ll never close.”  
- Classic Rock

SEE SPARKS LIVE:
Sparks’ long awaited return to France is now a reality! Bonjour Young  
Lovers!! Sparks will be performing at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris  
on 27th September.
www.elyseemontmartre.com
Then it’s back to the UK...
  28th September : Bristol Colston Hall
No.: 0117 922 3686
Web: http://www.colstonhall.org
Tickets: £25.00
Doors: 7.30pm

30th September : London Forum
No : 08700 600 100
Tickets : £25.00
Web : www.meanfiddler.com / www.seetickets.com
Doors : 7.00pm

1st October :  Brighton Dome
No.: 01273 709 709
Web: http://www.brightondome.org
Tickets: £25.00, £22.50
Doors: 7.15pm

3rd October :  Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
No.: 01902 552 121
Web: http://www.wolvescivic.co.uk
Tickets: £25.00
Doors: 7.30pm

4th October : Cambridge, Corn Exchange
No.: 01223 357 851
Web: http://www.cornex.co.uk
Tickets: £25.00
Doors: 6.45pm

5th October : Glasgow, ABC
No : 0870 169 0100
Web : http://gigsinscotland.com
Doors : 7.00 pm

20 October : Tokyo - Shibuya-O-East
22 October : Kyoto - P-Hour Festival (Kyoto University Seibu Hall)

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