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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Miki :: No Regrets

"Even now," says Miki, "it won't be at all easy knowing Chris won't be there. We know you can't recapture what you had before, but hopefully it will be brilliant in a different way. If I think of all best bits of the band, how great it is to play live, and to play your own songs, then there's an open door you can walk through. I know I'll regret it if I didn't."

Stream and Listen to Miki on Radcliffe and Maconie

And here she is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073j45c
The interview is 1:30 hours into the show. And of course Miki is brilliant as always! This broadcast will be available for your streaming pleasure for the next 29 days.

Miki from Lush

Radcliffe and Maconie Listen in pop-out player 

Berenyi from 90s shoegaze pioneers band, Lush.
Formed in London in 1988 by childhood friends Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi, Lush also included Chris Acland on drums and Phil King on bass (originally Steve Rippon, who left in 1990). Signed to 4AD in 1989, over the course of 3 full-length albums, an early mini-album and a number of EPs and singles, they went on to sharpen their pop sound, outliving and outgrowing the 'scene' with which they were initially associated. Miki's here to chat about their new EP, which was produced by Jim Abbiss (Adele, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys) & Daniel Hunt (Ladytron) at Abbiss' own Lime Green Monkeys studio.

Photo fresh from RadcliffeMaconieShow ‏@BBCRadMac

Miki on BBC's Radcliffe and Maconie - Listen!

The latest word from Lush: 

"Quick heads up - Miki is going to be on on the Radcliffe and Maconie show on BBC Radio 6Music show in about 15 minutes talking about the reunion, new EP, upcoming shows and much more besides. Turn on those digital radios.....(and you can listen on catch-up later on if you miss it)....http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music"

.@lushbandtweets Miki Berenyi live on air at @BBC6Music @BBCRadMac NOW! pic.twitter.com/dyrXFE0dzW https://t.co/qh7XKsBPh9

— Lush Fan Tweets (@lushfantweets) March 21, 2016

Happy Birthday Miki!

Its March 18th. Do you know what that means?
Time to send Very Happy Birthday Wishes to you Miki!!

Miki on Tour :: March 1996

How to be a Woman (in a Band) with Miki

Great new interview with Miki!

http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/how-to-be-a-woman-in-a-band-with-lushs-miki-berenyi

'Lovelife' :: March 4, 1996

Just twenty short years ago today ... March 4th, 1996, Lush's 'Lovelife' album was released.

Miki making musical bliss with her Epiphone on the 'Lovelife' tour in 1996.

'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 and Phil on Recording 'Blind Spot'

This from Lush's own site:

Lush have announced details of the release of the Blind Spot EP on Friday 15th April 2016 on their own Edamame Records.

Talking about the recording of the EP, Miki Berenyi commented:

 

"It certainly took sometime to come together, but once we were in the studio, everything came together incredibly quickly. It was great fun!
It's been a long time since I've written Lush lyrics, and I realised early on with this EP that what I wrote about then is not what I feel comfortable writing about now. My perspective, and what is close to my heart, has changed, and I think that's conveyed in the songs."

Bassist Phil King added:

"I know I’m biased, but I work for a music magazine and so much of the music I hear played in the office sounds non-descript or derivative. Emma has this way of writing unusual chord changes and manages to weave lovely melodies over the top, and it immediately sounds distinctive, like Lush."

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/

Miki from the 'Q' Photoshoot

From Q photoshoot.

A photo posted by @lushbandofficial on Jan 5, 2016 at 1:06pm PST

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."

Follow the link for more.

'Girl In A Band' Interview Featuring Miki

Video is up for Miki's recent interview from the BBC documentary 'Girl in a Band: Tales from the Rock 'n' Roll Front Line', presented by Kate Mossman.

Watch Miki :: 'Girl In A Band'

In case you missed Miki's interview last Friday night on BBC4's documentary 'Girl In A Band: Tales from the Rock 'n' Roll Front Line' 0r914&sns=fb&app=deskto https://
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LUSH Photo of the Day

Photo session for 'Split'

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’.