Sent: Friday, September 8, 2006 1:28 PM From: news@thirdeyefoundation.com To: news@thirdeyefoundation.com Subject: [Matt Elliott / 3EF newsletter] September 2006 Hi, Some news from www.thirdeyefoundation.com on behalf of Matt Elliott. FAILING SONGS October sees the release of 'Failing Songs', Matt's new album. 'Failing Songs' is another beautiful opus which picks up where last year's 'Drinking Songs' left off. This is what Matt has to say about the album: "Failing Songs is kind of part 2 of the Drinking Songs Trilogy & features the wonderful Patricia Arguelles Martinez on Violin & of course Chris Cole on Drum duties. It was all recorded at home except the violins which were recorded over night(s) in the village church. It's always hard to talk objectively about ones own music so I won't. Without wanting to put anyone off, the songs are mainly about our failures both personal & political & no objective person can really look at the world without accepting the fact that we as a species are basically a failure. I'm definitely one & glad to admit it. Incidentally i believe that the lyrics of at least one song will contravene some of the new laws passed by the British government to curb our basic freedoms in the name of counter terrorism but given that they are so out of touch with modern culture it shouldn't cause too much trouble." The track listing runs as follows: 1. Our Weight in Oil, 2. Chains, 3. The Seance, 4. The Failing Song, 5. Broken Bones, 6. Desamparado, 7. Lone Gunman Required, 8. Good Pawn, 9. Compassion Fatigue, 10. The Ghost of Maria Callas, 11. Gone, 12. Planting Seeds. Have a listen to 'Our Weight In Oil' by following this link http://www.icidailleurs.com/ra/ourweightinoil.ram. Go here http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com/covers.php?release=3EF|19 to have a look at the artwork. Failing Songs will be released in October by Ici D'Ailleurs for the world, except for Spain & Portugal, where it will be released by Acuarela. links: http://www.icidailleurs.com/ / http://www.acuareladiscos.com/ COLLECTED WORKS After having been unavailable for years, Domino re-releases three Third Eye Foundation albums as a box set. The box is called 'Collected Works' and is slated for early November. Inside the box are the 'Ghost', 'You Guys Kill Me' and 'Little Lost Soul' albums, with extra tracks from the Semtex 12" (not the album) and the 'Sound of Violence', 'Fear of a Wack Planet' and 'In Bristol with a Pistol' EP's. Besides those, there will be several previously unreleased tracks, among which new versions of 'Lost' and remixes from the 3EF live set. Full details and artwork will be published on www.thirdeyefoundation.com once we get them. THE KURSK VIDEO Sandrine Romet-Lemonne (who also did Encre's "Marbres" video) directed a tragic and beautiful video for The Kursk. Go here http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com/video/kursk.php to have a look, it's great. CONCERTS September 30th: Festival Magnitudes, Barathon Organisé Par La Cartonnerie, Reims, France October 7th: La Nuit Du Folk Et Du Songwriting, Festival R.A.D.A.R. - Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France October 8th: Le Café De La Danse, Paris, France (starts 19:30) October 10th: Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival, Nancy, France (starts 21:00) October 16th: La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France November 18th: Spazio211, Torino, Italy with Manyfingers November 21st: Sainsbury Lecture Theatre c/o The British School, Roma, Italy All French dates are part of the 1+1+1 tour with Thomas Belhom & In fused. An up to date schedule is available at http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com/concerts.php so be sure to check. MATT'S BLOG Matt maintains a blog on music, politics and whatever else takes his fancy. It's part of his page at the ubiquitous MySpace, which is here: http://www.myspace.com/mattelliotandthethirdeye. You can subscribe to it, but only if you're a MySpace member, or just check once in a while if there's any new posts. Until next time. Take care, Maarten www.thirdeyefoundation.com this email was sent to you because you are subscribed to the newsletter of http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please send an email with 'unsubscribe 3EF ' to news@thirdeyefoundation.com or go to http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com, choose 'newsletter' and unsubscribe.