Bucketlist Item Check - Seeing LUSH Live! :: The Vic Theatre, Chicago :: September 18, 2016

A few of the images I captured from the Lush gig at The Vic Theatre in Chicago, September 18, 2016.

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Happy Birthday Emma!

Look who has a birthday today? Were all wishing you a great one Emma!! 🎉🎂🎉

Emma Interviews Moose

And now for something completely different...

Aired 11th March 1991 for Snub TV. (You remember Snub TV right? I do!) Lush's very own esteemed Emma Anderson interviews Moose on their debut EP.

'Select' :: May 1996

Twenty years ago - Emma and Miki, in the pages of Select magazine, published on the eve of their 1996 North American tour. 

"I do have a real problem writing songs about stuff that I'm right in the middle of actually... John used to get pissed off that I never wrote any songs about him, but I used to say, "Well you know all the songs I write about people are really horrible!'" -Miki

Want to read the entire article? Pop over here for the full electronic version - www.lightfromadeadstar.org/

Miki, Emma & Phil - New Photos for a New Year

A big Thank You goes out to the Lush Appreciation Society for sharing these new photos. https://www.facebook.com/lushappreciationsociety/

New LUSH Press Shot

It's been a long time coming! The first new Lush press shot in 20 years - taken by photographer Gabriel Green.

Happy New Year's from Phil, Miki & Emma

From Emma, Miki and Phil, and of course us here at LUSHapalooza

Happy New Year -

See you all in 2016!

LUSH Interview :: The Guardian

LUSH in The Guardian:

Lush reunited: ‘We were seen as a band who’d turn up to the opening of a packet of crisps’

Ethereal, angelic shoegazers or boozy scenesters? Seventeen years after they split up, Lush talk about their legacy – and why they have reformed

"Drinking red wine on a couch in a London hotel library for their first joint interview in 19 years, Lush are still excellent company. Berenyi, instantly recognisable even though her distinctive shocking-pink 90s hair is now ink-black, gets told off for vaping indoors. Co-frontman Emma Anderson wages a war of nerves with a passive-aggressive desk clerk who keeps silently opening the library door. Silver-haired bassist Phil King regularly interjects with wry, elegant anecdotes, like an indie Peter Ustinov."

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Emma on Tour

Love this beautifully unposed photo of Emma back in the day! Shared by Emma on LUSH's Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/604331643026124/photos/pb.604331643026124.-2207520000.1453772687./779847405474546/?type=3&theater)... Thanks Emma!

LUSH Photo of the Day

Emma for a 'Split' photo session, 1994. Follow the band's official Instagram.

LUSH @ Heathrow Airport

The photo booth series appeared in the May 1992 issue of Select Magazine. Can you guess each letter?

Scroll down for the answers...

Answers: A, B, C - D, E, F - G, H, I - J, K, L

The Making of 'Hypocrite'

I love sharing all these fresh new posts that keep coming straight from the band! Today they're talking about the making of the 'Hypocrite' video (one of my personal faves).

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Miki: 'Chris LOVED making this video! So sweet to see him laughing and being his lovely happy self. I remember going on the Octopus ride with Phil and they ran it backwards and forwards and it went on and on and what started with riotous hilarity ended with both of us having one hand clamped over our mouths and the other frantically waving in the air desperately trying to get the bloke to STOP!!! '

Phil: 'I remember that before we decided on getting Matthew Amos to direct this we met up for lunch in Notting Hill with a now famous French film director who was making pop promos at the time. Chris nicknamed him 'consumptive child' as he looked very pale and sat throughout the meal in silence while his manager did all the talking. The concept was us floating around a haunted house. It would need to filmed in a pool on a Hollywood soundstage. “100,000” his manager told us. “Pounds or dollars” asked our manager. “Pounds” he replied. Meal over. Think PJ Harvey ended up doing it in the end. We instead decided to hire a funfair near Heathrow Airport for the day and shot the video there for half the price. A bargain...um.'

Emma: 'I don’t remember a massive amount about it except them trying to create that effect where the camera and the subject is moving unnervingly toward/away at the same time..they do it using the camera on a track and the subject (us individually) on the same track with both moving at the same time. It wasn’t a massive success.
Wasn’t there also an extra who was also in Eastenders?'

Phil: ' I do remember seeing one extra (old bloke looking miserable) all the time afterwards in Marylebone library’.

LUSH - Control Freaks

Well what's all this then?? It's a bit of a filler piece that was shown on Channel 4 around 1996-ish during the holidays. But what makes this unique is that the 4-minute show features the one, the only Phil, Miki, Emma and Chris - aka LUSH. Aren't they all a wonderful lot? So there's  no music from the band, no interviews either, however as the uploader keenly points out: "...but it's rather charming in a lo-fi kinda way." And that's something that every true Lushhead can appreciate. Cheers and Long Live Rock!

(follow the link, web-sharing disabled) https://youtu.be/fKMah99Z8ro

Photo of the Day - Rehearsal VII

Phil, Miki and Emma.... Together again!

Rehearsal Part II

Oh dear, we have parts of people now. Dare we say Miki and Emma? From https://twitter.com/lushbandtweets

LUSH's Photo of the Day

Another gem that the band shared on their streams today. 

LUSH's Photo of the Day

Photo shared by the band today on Facebook. I don't believe this one has been made public before.

Phil on Shooting 'For Love'

From Facebook - Phil shares his first experience shooting a video as the newest band mate:

"The first video I did with Lush. Don't think I even knew the bass line at this point. The bass - a white Squier Precision - belonged to Emma, guitar nerds - and the leather jacket I wore had previously belonged to Douglas Hart from The Jesus And Mary Chain. The big selling point for the video was that the director was Winona Ryder's cousin. It cost £30,000. My memory was of him constantly disappearing off with our manager. Can't think what they were doing. Our manager's thinking was that somehow this video would help us get MTV Buzz Binned - or something. It did get us on MTV 120 Minutes. The video was shot up on York Way in Kings Cross in the Christmas break of 1992 in a warehouse. I remember it being a long cold walk from Kings Cross station. I still cycle by the location occasionally. Much pouting ensued on the video shoot - mostly by me it seems by the look of it. After having done my close ups Miki said rather witheringly, "you're not as good looking as you think, you know". Oof!"

LUSH by Kevin Cummins

This off of Kevin Cummins' Twitter feed via Phil's Facebook status. The internet is a wonderful thing...

https://mobile.twitter.com/KCMANC/status/651739864724062208

Emma & Miki dressed as The Liver Birds, Just Because

Emma and Miki... looking adorable as always... dressed as The Liver Birds

for an NME Christmas photoshoot.