OLO, London :: December 19, 1991

Twenty years ago today . . .

Founding bassist Steve Rippon plays his final show with LUSH. The band performs for the last time in 1991 at London's ULU along with Ride.


So this is the year of 1991. Lush has put on 55 shows on three tours, playing all across London, Europe, and overseas to the U.S. and Japan. They've been back to the recording studio and have given us the Black Spring (Nothing Natural in the US) EP plus an LP of new material (their first full studio album) is well on the way. And with Steve bidding a fond farewell departure, there's changes a-foot with a new bass guitarist soon to be surfacing in the band.

And thus for a moment we can dot the last period at the end of this busy, hectic, crazy year for the band called Lush. The following New Year of 1992 promises to carry-over some of that and quite a bit more...

Tokyo, Japan :: September 18, 1996

15 Years Ago Today...

September 18, 1996, Lush performs at the Shinjuku Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan. This was to be the final live performance... yet for fifteen years onward now the band still lives on in the hearts and minds of a strong following!

Up on YouTube, you can view the videotaped performance of Single Girl (Live) from this very gig (which so happened to be shared here in a earlier post).




Be sure to pour over ALL the Tokyo show's vivid imagery by photographer Takamori Fukuda/Brownhat over on Bill's paramount Lush site lightfromadeadstar.org.

And as if that's not enough (because it isn't really, now, is it?!) there's this gem just in from lushlive.com's Lush and Miki Berenyi Facebook page:

Now available - The LAST Lush show, performed 15 years ago today in Tokyo is available for free download! Don't forget to also get the artwork at the site www.lushlive.com in the audio section. Enjoy!! http://www.lushlive.com/audio/tokyo/09_18_96.zip

Lush's First North American Tour

Twenty years ago Lush embarks on their first overseas tour, three weeks of spanning half the globe. The tour begins with Canada on the 4th of November, hits both coasts of the US and then wrapps up in Japan on 15th of December.

While on tour overseas, the new compilation Gala LP, a collection of all Lush recordings that was initially released for the US and Japanese market, is made available for a limited edition run back home in the UK.

You may want to put on your shades for viewing this colorful commemorative tour poster , a new downloadable I created just for the occasion. ;P

1990 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
11.24 Toronto
11.26 Boston
11.28 Hoboken
11.29 New York
12.01 Washington D.C.
12.03 San Francisco
12.06 Los Angeles
12.08 Hollywood
12.11 Tokyo
12.12 Tokyo
12.14 Osaka
12.15 Nagoya

12 SHOWS

Single Girl (Live) in Tokyo '96

Lush - Single Girl (Live)

Shinjuku Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan
September 17, 1996