With their visa issues sorted, Lush made it into the U.S. to play the second weekend of Coachella, playing a mid-afternoon 11-song set on the Gobi stage that hit most of their best-known songs... such as "Sweetness and Light".
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1
Saturday, April 23
Thursday, April 14
From Oslo With Love :: Lush Performs 'Out of Control" Live
The videography isn't the best... but hey, this is Lush performing 'Out Of Control' live before an audience for the first time. Ever.
Plus, here's a whole YouTube playlist from the Oslo gig:
Plus, here's a whole YouTube playlist from the Oslo gig:
Monday, April 11
Tuesday, March 22
LUSH :: Providence, RI :: March 22, 1992
22 years ago today... Lush plays Providence, RI on March 22nd, 1992. Enjoy the full show :)
Thursday, March 10
In A 'Hypocrite' Funhouse Mirror
Not all was work and no play during the video shoot for their 'Hypocrite" video. After ll, what would you do if you had rented out an entire carnival? The band pauses for a reflective moment in a funhouse mirror.
Monday, February 29
Lush :: The Junction, Cambridge :: June 25, 1990
Happy Leap Day, friends! While we all look forward to the fast approaching new tour, let's enjoy some rare footage and "leap back" (oooph!) to a time when Lush were still in their beginning - live at The Junction, Cambridge, 25th June, 1990.
Ps. It's the full gig too :)
SETLIST
- Second Sight
- Thoughtforms
- Bitter
- Downer
- Breeze
- Leaves Me Cold
- Etheriel
- Baby Talk
- Scarlet
- Sweetness and Light
- Covert
- De-Luxe
Friday, February 19
LUSH's New 'Out Of Control' Makes Its Debut!!
So much news for today, but first things first. The new single 'Out of Control' has gone public and its accompanying video is live on YouTube on Lush's new channel. It's yet unlisted so follow the above link.
Recorded last summer, the song is a long time coming, being 20 years since the last release 'Shake Baby, Shake'. And it's a straight up love song, a new direction for their music, reflecting developments in the members own personal lives. This song has been on autoplay to feed my binge listening over the past few hours since I first listened. The song and 3 more from the upcoming 'Blind Spot' EP will see its official release on April 15th.
The chills, the hair standing on end, the feeling I haven't experienced in 20 years - listening to a brand new release by Lush. I love this brand new song! Emma, Phil and Miki haven't missed a beat with the passing of time. Not one bit.
Brand new music by LUSH debuted today, people. Let that sink in.
Thursday, November 5
'Girl In A Band' Interview Featuring Miki
Tuesday, November 3
Watch Miki :: 'Girl In A Band'
Friday, October 30
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?'
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’.
Thursday, October 29
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
Wednesday, October 28
'Nothing Natural' & Pyramids Centre 24th Anniversaries
October 29th, 1991 'Nothing Natural' was released as a maxi-single disc. It had peaked at number 43 on the UK Singles Chart. The EP was followed by a national British tour, during which time bassist Steve Rippon left the band and was replaced by Phil King.
Reflecting on the music video, Miki said it was "an effing nightmare" and that the video's director had "some ludicrous idea of what he wanted [Lush] to look/act like in the video and it was nothing to do with how [the band was]." Miki further explained that the band went along with the director's suggestion as Lush "had no ideas of [their] own at all, and back in the [19]90s the solution was to offer directors a shitload of money to come up with something fabulous that MTV would play." According to Berenyi, Nirvana vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain became a Lush fan after seeing the music video.
'Nothing Natural' - 'official' promo video
'Nothing Natural'- live at Toad's Place, New Haven, CT - March 23, 1992
Thursday, October 15
'Sweetness And Light', 25th Anniversary
It was twenty-five years ago today that saw the release of 'Sweetness And Light' which introduced many not only to Lush, but to the shoegaze genre itself. It was in my case, hearing this way back when. I already had some exposure to the Cocteau Twins, owned a couple of their EP's and a few others by lesser known bands. This song though wasn't comparable to anything else I'd heard and I quickly sought out an imported copy, unwrapped the plastic packaging, threw the CD on my player and cranked the volume, playing it repeatedly on that distant afternoon. I didn't know thing one about who or what this new band was, but it didn't matter. I loved them. A new fan was born.
Where were you 25 years ago?
Tuesday, October 13
De-luxe Guitar Cover by Isabella M
I ran across this on Tumblr today. This is really quite fantastic. Bella is a 23 year old shoegazer from Stockholm, Sweden. Lush fans ought to give this a listen and give her video a like!
Sunday, October 11
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!"
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