Here is the press release from Tulsa's Dfest, where this year Martin will be the keynote speaker, and the great line-up of bands includes Helmet, Ghostland Observatory, Paramore, Edison Glass, and many more. Continue reading for information on discounted admission to the 2-day event!
Dfest, Oklahoma's largest music conference and festival, on Wednesday unveiled its first round of confirmed headlining acts for the seventh annual music festival, which will be July 25-26 in downtown Tulsa's historic Blue Dome District.
Nearly 150 bands will perform this year in conjunction with the 2-day conference, organizers announced. The conference keynote speaker will be Martin Atkins, best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Pigface and Killing Joke. He also wrote the indie band Bible, "Tour Smart and Break the Band."
Tickets go on sale tomorrow, with a special 48-hour-only discount on advance tickets. Dfest and OKC Tickets will offer a $5.00 discount for all Dfest tickets purchased online. Please use the coupon code "okctix" (without the quotes) when making purchases at www.tulsaworld.com/okctickets.
Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the event, and include admission for both days.
Here is Martin's DJ set list from The Voodoo Room in Edinburgh... click the 'play' button to stream his 'Mind Your Own Business' + 'Funkytown' mash-up!
April.01-2008
The Invisible Records CD Grab Bag!! Our best CD special ever!!!
Over 50 CDs to choose from and add to your order for only $3 each!
Click on the image of the grab bag to check out the whole list. Many of the CDs offered are out of print and available in very limited quantities.
March.31-2008
The free CD for the beginning of April: The Damage Manual EP!!!
INV143: The Damage Manual ">1" EP Free until April 11th
Review from Fodderstompf web site: "...I love the whole EP but ‘Damage Addict’ & ‘Blame and Demand’ are the stand out tracks for me. Massive plodding bass with Geordie’s guitar wailing over the top, and Martin’s thunderous drum sound throughout – excellent stuff!..."
Lots of other specials and new items in the web store as well, from the Tour:Smart eBook to the Drug Test pack.
There's new programming on Invisible Radio, including a new hour of programming from Mark Spybey of Dead Voice on Air, and this week we'll be adding another new special program from Patrik Mata of Kommunity FK!
March.05-2008
Hello again, I’m back from my second trip out to Norway – they seem to like me over there and I’m starting to get in tune with some of the amazing programs they have going on there to promote new music, new artists and more culture – a lot to be learned and its pretty humbling and cool that they keep asking me back! I stopped off in Cologne, Brighton, London and Coventry to lecture too – all great experiences. At Drum Tech in London I got behind the kit and managed to trash a few drums after advising the 22 drummers to pour milk all over their first new kit. Oh yes. Theres a new shirt – “looks great – smells baaaad!” at BIM in Brighton a great lecture was followed by some disbelief in the fasct that everyone is totally fucked – even the hillarious translation into German mystified some of them, but, the first lecture and meeting a trainee cage fighter Harry kept my energy up throughout the day and into the nights dj set at the Catherine of Brunswick pub – great stuff and thanks to all who came out.
Up on the site today is a chance to get my new documentary ’16 days in China’ maaaaan, hats off to Cliff Seiloff and his work on the FFA doc – I now realize just how much work this medium is. These days the camera isn’t out of my hand (there are hours of Tour:Smart stuff on the way) but there were so many issues and story lines from my China trip that threading them all together was a huge task. I hope it communicates the experience to you – I haven’t watched it all of the way through yet – its been too intense with bursts of focused activity – I’m going to schedule a screening here at the label at some point – I’ll keep you posted. ABSOLUTELY no inspired by radiohead – the dvd actually has some Chinese money inside…..don’t worry – this isn’t the start of a massive new campaign…….the money is quite worthless – except as a beautiful reminder of the trip.
See you at SXSW if your going to be there – I’m speaking at 12 noon on weds the 12th room 18 ABC at the Austin Convention Center. Lookout for a DJ set in Edinburgh and much much more coming soon
Bestestest
MarteeeeeeeeeeeN
February.01-2008
A letter from Martin:
Hello!
I’m excited to start delivering some great new content and ideas - again!
I love it all and am thrilled to welcome you to our new site.
As other labels have come and gone (and total respect to anyone that can do this for more than two years) I’m proud of the fact that we haven’t changed our core ideas much. I was going to say direction but I’m not sure about that. I look around at the gallery, the book, the free seminars we do, the music, and the broad scope of it all seems perfectly natural to me because, I guess, I’m in the middle, plate spinning and gluing it together. It’s all stuff I’m proud to have made or been involved in. It feels good to still be here and send you this at the start of our 20th year.
The office and the archives here are huge - if you could wander around this place and stumble across the things that I do on a daily basis you would absolutely SHIT your pants with delight. The depth of Pigface, PiL, Killing Joke, Brian Brain, Damage Manual, Murder Inc., and label memorabilia is simply staggering. We are uploading, tagging, and looking forward to a long year of much more all underlining what this has always been about: new discoveries, excitement...
I’ve found a bunch of alternative artwork for some of the releases, videos, some supercool shirts we forgot about (or grew out of?), and posters that were designed but never made. There are essays, diaries, all kinds of junk to some, gold dust to others. Think of it as a kind of CSI Industrial except, this ain’t no fucking autopsy! The patient is alive and well, just A.D.D.’ing on three cups of coffee and an over abundance of really stimulating stuff flashing in front of my eyes and ears.
In the 20-year tradition of not doing anything by halves, we’ll be starting off by just giving away a bunch of CDs. I know some of you out there are grimacing right now waiting for the list of albums you had forgotten we ever released or wish you had never heard. I’m proud to say actually, that looking back through 300+ releases they’ve been pretty fucking stellar and always personal in some way for me... But have no fear fuckheads... The first free album will be: Pigface "Easy Listening."
We have Invisible Radio that’s growing each week, invisible TV is kicking ass and my SG Tour:Smart band advice column is now a bi-weekly thing here for FREE! (There aren’t any naked girls... just the naked truth... so I apologise for that'll see what I can do...)
There’s great new music. There are more dubs and more access (like a live camera in the studio coming soon). For you Pigface fans check out China Dub Soundsystem. It’s me in the studio with 30 other musicians making up some supercool music which is actually the very essence of Pigface... and yes – I am working on a new album! It has just been severely sidetracked by my trip to China and my book... but its in the can maaaaan, its coming soon. It’d be nice to have it out by the anniversary wouldn’t it? For those of you who are wondering - its prettyfuckingcoolpigface - Chris Connelly's track is still bouncing around in my head... it’s called“Electric Knives Club" and check out Snapline - one of my favourite bands in a long long time.........they ROCK!
The "16 days in China" documentary is almost done. Wow, what a 14 month lesson – documentaries are way more work than an album! Duh! There are trailers already up and more bits and pieces will crop up soon.
The gallery is up too. You can start to see how broad and culturally diversified we really are.
I find myself wondering why on earth didn?t we put up the radio station five years ago??? It’s cool as fuck! Here’s what Greg Z had to say:
"I'm really getting into the Inv. Radio. I kinda thought that I would hear stuff that I all ready have. What I'm hearing is stuff I haven't heard but need to, tracks I forgot I have, and hell, just a bunch of stuff." - gregZ
There has been a debate here about the mail order. Thanks to Merch Squad for handling this for us while we re-tooled. Our new store has weight-based shipping and some choices of services for you. This will be a switch from our previous shipping method which I describe as more of as “faith based.”
There are new shirts, new versions of old shirts and soon some stuff for your kids.
There’s a Beat Fetish section with some free beat loops and samples, over 100 free, full length downloads, and all kinds of shit to keep you busy without having to send us any money at all! (Brilliant! I've gone and completely fucked myself!)
There’s photos, art, books, music, did I mention free music, advice maaaaaan, what’s next? Recipes??
Take 12 lunatics
Throw them in a bus and marinate in their own succulent creative juices
Throw on the fires of hell, desperation and a need to explode nightly
Remove when crisp
Shake, don?t stir
Drop at the same time and
Voila
Peace, Pot, Microdot!
Pigface.
We're going to need some help, but this time around, the web store will be available to all of you as compensation - you can use your invisible cash to buy some shit - not just CDs, DVDs and shirts - but there are great deals in the studio section too - a basic mastering session (we'll just make it fucking SLAM!) and a longer deeper experience where we'll turn on all the brainpower for a short while and get you some solutions that can really help (mastering, editing, advice and t-shirts to start with). That feels good to me – a bit of help where some of you could really use it, right?
So, welcome to the next part of the journey. It’s one that combines thoughtful, gleeful examination of the evidence and making our archives available to you. It’ll be like we are sitting together while we pore through a pile of photographs. ....waiting for the pizza to arrive.
Having been through part one, you gotta stick around for part two. What’s next, is this lunatic going to start a school or something????
With the same entrepreneurial REAL WORLD approach to all of it? .....that would be fucking crazy right?
