01/02/10 - ISDN transmissions online, EBS6

2010 began slowly in the FSOL world but now we have a fair bit of activity in the form of seven ISDN shows to download. The shows are priced between £3 and £6, and can be found on FSOLDigital.com now.

Los Angeles - Transmission 8 - 22/01/1997 - 2 hr 1 mins - £5.80
Berlin - Transmission 11 - 06/12/1996 - 1 hr 21 mins - £5.50
Netherlands - Transmission 4 - 09/09/1994 - 2 hr 1 mins - £5.80
New York - Transmission 2 - 11/05/1994 - 1 hr 9 mins - £4.50
Manchester - Transmission 7 - 06/11/1996 - 1 hr 2 mins - £4.50
France - Transmission 6 - 17/05/1997 - 30 mins - £3.00
Edinburgh - Transmission 3 - 28/10/1996 - 1 hr 2 mins - £4.50

Meanwhile, Electric Brainstorms 6 looks set for a release on the website soon, with a 'not available yet' link. More news to follow soon.

07/01/10 - Mojo CD out now!

Oh, hello there. Returning from the sick world of Christmas influenza and other sickness in time for a belated Happy New Year, and a new 'release' for the start of 2010. Mojo proudly presents A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind compiled and mixed by The Amorphous Androgynous is the full long-winded title of the covermount CD for the February issue, of Mojo Magazine which is bafflingly out already. For your £4.50, you get this lovely 14 track mix CD:

1. Pop Levi - Blue Honey
2. The Yellow Moon Band - Entangled
3. July - Dandelion Seeds
4. The Amorphous Androgynous - Falling Down
5. Dungen - Satt Se
6. Donovan - Three Kingfishers
7. Can - Flow Motion
8. White Noise - Love Without Sound
9. Betty Davis - Game Is My Middle Name
10. Ed Askew - Love Is Everyone
11. JC Vannier - Les Mouches
12. Comus - Diana
13. Shogun Kinotchi - Mulberg
14. The Amorphous Androgynous - Opus Of The Black Sun

Yes, that is the final release of their Oasis cover version which is set to be quite interesting. There's also an interview and exclusive photos with Gaz and Brian inside the magazine.

18/12/09 - A Mojo Psychedelic Bubble - confirmation

Thanks to Dell1972, who had the common sense to look at the Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble MySpace page and read this snippet confirming the already rumoured mix CD...

"There will be a special dedicated covermount CD " A MONSTROUS PSYCHEDELIC BUBBLE EXPLODING IN YOUR MIND" on the Jan/ Feb issue of MOJO magazine alchemised by the Amorphous Androgynous. There will also be a feature on the band themselves tracing their story from FSOL to AA through to the Monstrous Bubble."

Lovely stuff.

07/12/09 - Unreleased tracks, Mojo and The New Consciousness

A bit of intrigue lately, and some song titles for potential up coming archive style releases for you: Switzerland, Dead Dolphine 2, East Pacifica, Eleven Hot Knives, Egypt (Original) and Under Pass. None of these are confirmed for release and may change names in the meantime, but it's something to have a think about. Maybe. If you're bored. See the forums for more information.

More interestingly, it's been rumoured The Amorphous Androgynous, in their continual attempt to take over the world, are doing a cover mix CD for Mojo magazine, in what will probably be February's issue (195), despite it coming out at the beginning of January. Do dates mean nothing to these people? Anyway, Alisha Sufit said 'Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans will put their wizard hats on and beaver away with their mixing bowls for quite some time to make a good pud for Mojo, so we hope so . . . .' on her blog somewhat recently, so that looks like it may be the same thing...

Old stuff - the New Consciousness YouTube was updated some time ago, apparently, with more videos of this early 80s art project featuring Brian, along with a track from 1978 band The Heads, which features the same Mr. Dougans on guitar. Thanks to Ceeg for pointing these incredibly interesting curios out!

What's that, you want real news? Nah, not yet. But interesting things are around the corner...

05/12/09 - Amorphous at Greek festival next year.

That's about all we know. Existenz have posted this on MySpace:

The Amorphous Androgynous will be coming to Greece in May

To performing at a large festival stay tuned for more info.

Thanks for support and patience.

29/10/09 - what The Amorphous Androgynous did next!

Apologies for the lack of updates re: all this, there've been hiccups and other tedious problems all around this end.

So, here's what's going on:
1. The Amorphous Androgynous Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol 2 launch party at the O2 is cancelled. Mr. Cobain has this to say on the 'matter' (ahem):
Sorry to announce that Matter and ourselves have taken the decision to cancel A MONSTROUS PSYCHEDELIC BUBBLE ( scheduled for this FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER ).
Matter largely having operated within the dance music/ DJ events sphere to date were simply unprepared for the amount of production and promotion work for a LIVE event of this scale.( 7 bands and numerous theatrical interludes ) This has resulted in everything being compromised to an unacceptable extent and therefore we have mutually decided to cancel at this stage. Monstrous however will definitely resurface as the full-on extravaganza it was always intended to be . . . .and maybe still at Matter . .

MANY MANY APOLOGIES for any inconvenience and disappointment !! We worked very hard on this and share both sentiments !!

Full refunds by the ticket issuers and any queries should contact Matthew Ward - mward@musicresponsegroup.com

2. Amorphous supporting Kasabian
Alisha Sufit writes this about AA's support slot with Kasabian on October 21st...
Cor! Last night The Amorphous Androgynous played at the HMV Forum AND IT WAS GREAT despite the fact that we were in a . . . shall we say . . . cosy? dressing room considering the amount of bodies we were.

Built in 1934 as a cinema when film was truly glam, the HMV Forum is a wonderful piece of architecture, a lavish and inspiring environment for any gig. I had had my doubts about how the sound balance would turn out, as it can be a bit shaky at festivals and we had a strictly limited time frame, plus we were working with new sound men, but I reckon it was the best we've had so far. The gig was a headliner for Kasabian and had sold out in 15 minutes, I was told, so the place was nicely packed with 2000 happy bods or more.

I'm truly honoured to be invited to sing with The A A guys – the musicians are so good, the music is so inspiring and inventive! The band is really coming together now so I hope we get more gigs of the same ilk on our own patch – i.e. in the UK. (It's a great excuse to wear outrageous twinkly frocks, as well, let alone the psychedelic plimsoles!)

3. Gaz in The Times
Thanks to The Times Online's terrible security scripting, it's probably easier if you read this interview here, and ignore the words 'lead poisoning' and continual references to Gaz being the only member of Amorphous (sigh).

4. MPB2 is out now!

28/09/09 - Amorphous cover Falling Down

Yep - as if the remix wasn't enough, now Amorphous have covered Oasis' Falling Down. What the song is for, whether it'll be released or not, and so on, is yet to be revealed, but Alisha Sufit writes this on her blog...

VOV! Well . . . not VOV really . . . that was just what it sounded like when my French friend used to say WOW!! But, yes, WOW! All yesterday Amorphous Androgynous were recording their very own new cover version of Oasis's Falling Down (love that song!) down at The Way studio run by nice Steve. Gorgeous chaps Virgil and Kes came in early to lay down the drums and bass and then we layered the rest – WonderAnt on guitar, Dave BAD! bongos, fab fiddle from Steve, cello from genius Hannah Miller, vocals from me in the early hours, vocals from SuperDave in the even later early hours . . . in between times, Dave (Sanderson), Edd Keene (flute), me and Hannah gently sessioned upstairs in the loungey place. Mare Street is good for great takeaways, too. I don't know what the poor little rescued canary made of it all in his big cage in the office, but he sang a bit as well! Then a nice Turk cabbed me home to my bed with a smile on my chops at 2 a.m. – no hour for an old hippie still to be up!! I went out like a light as soon as my head hit the feathers. Yes, we didn't finish till late . . . LATE!! Who was it on the studio sofa said, "And you're mixing it tonight, too, are you?" I THINK NOT! Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans will put their wizard hats on and beaver away with their mixing bowls for quite some time to make a good pud for Mojo, so we hope so . . . .