Priest=Aura Championship, round 12, March 11-15

feeds@kickapps.com (chrome3D) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:43:43 PST

This will be a similar kind of game than The Church Album Championship that was held last autumn. 14 songs will have matches against each other during 13 rounds.

Rules are simple:
- Copy/paste the match list
- Delete the loser and leave the winner
- Updates in mondays and thursdays
- Game will last about 1,5 months

Match List, round 1:

Aura - Film
Ripple - Chaos
Old Flame - Paradox
Lustre - The Disillusionist
Witch Hunt - Swan Lake
Feel - Dome
Kings - Mistress

Rubbish polls #1 - Marty's Beard

feeds@kickapps.com (fandorin) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:32:55 PST

Vintage space rock visuals or teddybear-with-the-stuffing-coming-out? Marty's Beard is the 5th member of The Church, and rumour has it it will release an EP next year. Should it stay or should it go?

Traditional year end quiz 2009!

feeds@kickapps.com (chrome3D) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:31:14 PST

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=church-2009-quiz

This is the now traditional (second) year end quiz of hotelwomb.com about all the important issues of The Church. Unfortunately I couldn´t embed this advanced poll in to Yuku but you can still play it in proprofs.com.

15 super tough questions. If you answer 70 % of the questions right (11 out of 15) you get a Certificate of Achievement. This certificate you can embed in to your reply here just like you would embed a youtube-video.

Before or after completing the quiz you can also view the stats of the quiz from the buttons on the right called

The Church Parkpop Festival video excerpt (1988) on You Tube

feeds@kickapps.com (Oceanic Blues) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:09:39 PST

I stumble across this fantastic video excerpt on You Tube.It's from a festival back in Netherlands in 1988, Starfish period.This is short but good.Marty isn't in a good mood for the cameramen then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bov6_iquBc

Nicolas.

Box Set

feeds@kickapps.com (jmb066) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:15:36 PST

I was wondering with all of the record labels, could The Church do a box set? All of the albums remastered plus 4 disc of b-sides and rarities. So we would see about 20-25 cd's and get everything cleaned up and sounding fresh. I think the largest box set I have seen to date is the new Beatles remasters. Not a fan of them enough to purchase the box set, does anyone think The Church will ever release one? Just a dream or thought.

A Day On The Green with The Church + Rufus Wainwright + Paul Kelly

feeds@kickapps.com (Village Irregular) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:00:04 PST

Just caught a whiff of this last night and it looks very, very promising indeed:
http://www.adayonthegreen.com.au/concert_calendar/PAUL_KELLY_with_special_guests_RUFUS_WAINWRIGHT
Interesting line-up to say the least. I'd love to hear Rufus with The Church as his backing band doing Church songs now I think of it. Hope the gents will be bringing their electric set for these shows.

So, keep your diaries open for:

Saturday
20 February 2010

Scotchmans Hill at Spray Farm, Bellarine Peninsula, VIC

Sunday
21 February 2010

Steve Kilbey Youtube tournament, closed, winner:Othertime

feeds@kickapps.com (chrome3D) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:51:14 PST

Steve Kilbey Youtube tournament
winner: Othertime

The aim of this game is to find out the best video of solo and sideprojects of Steve Kilbey you can find from Youtube and along the way see the favourites of other users.
You can play this game even if you haven´t heard the stuff previously. Just choose the better video from 2 videos.

Some rules for the sake of clarity:

Qualifying:
- Qualify one video from YOUTUBE to the game. Link and embed if you know how. If you don´t know how to embed then I can do it for you. Link is good to have too.
- Qualifying lasts for 3-4 days and you can qualify one video a day. The next one 24 hours after the first one.
- The...

The Church - Studio 22

feeds@kickapps.com (Ima Womber) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:38:44 PST

Hi,

I was digging around my plastic bin of church cd's and bootlegs and found a VCD of The Church's live performance on Studio 22 (ABC Australia) in 2000. There are four segments, and this is the first one. you should be able to find the other three from there. let me know if you can't and i can post those links too...for those of you that haven't seen this before, hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9fVLvfOsDs

the Church Tribute Album of your dreams....

feeds@kickapps.com (fandorin) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:10:49 PST

Here's mine:

The Fall - Angelica
The Porcupine Tree - Reprieve
Wire - When You Were Mine
Ed Kuepper and his Exploding Universe - Antenna
Bat For Lashes - Paradox
Nick Cave n The Bad Seeds - Mistress
Fields of the Nephilim - Chaos
Killing Joke - Memories in Future Tense
Engineers - Undo
Aimee Mann - Sunken Sun
Scott Walker - So Love May Find Us

The Church Youtube tournament, winner: Reptile (closed)

feeds@kickapps.com (chrome3D) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:52:00 PST

REPTILE IS THE WINNER.

The Church Youtube tournament

The aim of this game is to find out the coolest video of The Church you can find from Youtube and along the way see the favourites of other users.
You can play this game even if you haven´t heard the stuff previously. Just choose the better video from 2 videos.

Some boring rules for the sake of clarity:

Qualifying:
- Qualify one video from YOUTUBE to the game. Link and embed if you know how. If you don´t know how to embed then I can do it for you. Link is good to have too.
- Qualifying lasts for 3 days and you can qualify one video a day. The next one 24 hours after the first one.
- The video should be of a song of...

R.I.P. Greg Ladanyi (Starfish production / engineer)

feeds@kickapps.com (triage2000) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:40:58 PST

Producer and artist manager Greg Ladanyi, whose company oversaw the careers of groups like Type O Negative, passed away this morning after sustaining a severe head trauma while on tour with one of his acts in Greece.

Ladanyi, 57, was in the country touring with Anna Vissi, whose Greek album Apagorevmeno was his latest completed project. Before Vissi's Friday night show in Cyprus, the producer slipped and fell off of a ramp leading up to the stage,...

How big is your collection?

feeds@kickapps.com (chrome3D) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:08:51 PST

After I tagged every churchy item (including solo and sideprojects) in my collection I got this data:

112 albums, 1046 tracks, 3 days + 10:28:09, 8,78 GB

I bet someone can make it better.

steves blog, some of the comments.

feeds@kickapps.com (bloinking) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:15:27 PST

there were some interesting comments I've read on his blog. from an anon. telling him to get a real job. at first I thought it was just vindictive, but now, I agree. if he can do something for more money, he should do it. the church/solo work/ painting whatever can always be a hobby. it was an interesting point. maybe it's time to cut this dog loose.

Hotel Womb's 10th Anniversary

feeds@kickapps.com (CouldBeAnyone) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:02:33 PST

This month, Hotel Womb turns 10 years old. Dave Barnard, our Pharoah and founder, wrote this to the Faith Healers, and I would like to share his account of our board's history. (Dave's words are in italics, the rest are mine):

I started it really on a lark. It's been a lot of fun. Besides testing the software for another project I was working on, my one motive was to get a live version on Tantalized. That's why Happy Hunting Ground was the first forum name I ever came up with. The Womb also coincided with my interest in marketing (read: not sales) and met my interest in the internet. At the time, I was heavily into reading about the new business models, plans, etc. I tried many many things.I read many books. I talked to a ton of people. And, I used the Womb as my little playground to try things out. Ultimately, the most interesting part of the Womb had nothing to do with the music but the community that formed.

Some of you will remember, the...

Quick question on the GAF cover...

feeds@kickapps.com (DesertFlowerBride) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:00:52 PST
Forgive me if it's been answered somewhere and I missed it - my search-fu is off lately. Does anyone know where the photo of PK was taken? I seem to remember a friend telling me some while ago that it was the Wilson Observatory in CA, where they're fighting that awful wildfire now.

The Church Album Championship League, CLOSED

feeds@kickapps.com (chrome3D) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:34:08 PST

The Church Album Championship [FINAL Standings]

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musical points of reference for Untitled#23...?!

feeds@kickapps.com (fandorin) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:18:52 PST
What fascinates me most about Steve Kilbey and the Church is their tremendous ability to devour music history and forge something completely individual, forged with so much heat and energy, the result is something completely unique. Retro without being retro. Nothing sounds like something else, in the way Interpol clearly allude to Joy Division/Chameleons, Coldplay to U2, and that plethora of already forgotten next big things (all sounding suspiciously like the early XTC...Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs...).

But still...but still....between the cracks of the rough surface and under the brittle varnish as seen on the cover, there are always floating allusions, little hints...

What does U23 make you think of??

A key song for me is Space Saviour.

I always wondered what that little, totally unconnected riff in the beginning was coming from... but it's probably one of the greatest two riffs Keith Richards never played (the other one...

Funny Filipino band from Cebu covering Starfish

feeds@kickapps.com (fandorin) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:57:40 PST
I couldnt really believe it when i saw it.....before you are afraid to start the videos, let me say:

�The singer sucks, I agree. But he is the one with the muscles and the crop cut!! And what a lovely Tagalog accent, hehehe...

The guitarists do a pretty decent job

The drummer is pretty awesome

The general idea of five Filipinos playing The Church for fun really really cracks me up!! Because I can understand it so well...

So then here is UTMW (doesnt the drummer/singer sound like Koppes on this one?!):

Here is Blood Money (quite really well done!)...

Church: Song Force Crystal (not The Church)

feeds@kickapps.com (chrome3D) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:08:00 PST
http://www.myspace.com/songforcecrystal

From Portland comes Church (not THE Church) and their new album will be called Song Force Crystal. Their style is not that far from The Church. Avantgarde pop sort of. Is The Church really that unknown band these days that young kids can take confusingly similar name? It is a good name, so no wonder somebody used it. It´s also totally un-Googleable name but that doesn´t seem to bother them.

This might bring out some issues in internet sites as The Church is often labelled as Church.

Status Team Wins Losses Ties GF

The Feast

Kilbey, Tchaikovsky and the russian romantic poets...