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Baby Quickspace very nearly became an infant mortality
statistic when it caught a chill from the draught of
chequebooks waved by major label fat cats who pursued
them feverishly in their formative fortnight. [...]
News
4/14/00
From the While our hearts were sad to see
them go, our livers felt otherwise department:
After a weeks worth of dates on the Yo La Tengo
tour through the Midwest and another week playing their
way back to NYC, Quickspace ended their first US sojourn
with a raucous hour-long performance on WFMU on Monday
that sounded spectacular via my G3/T1 connection. Perhaps,
we can put this up on the website soonish.
Sorry, West Coast... perhaps, next time. Meanwhile,
you can take solace in the shape of the new Quickspace
single coming up in a couple months that will have two
brand new track on a 7" (The Flat Moon Society
and Semtex) and the same two tracks plus
two new versions of Death of... tracks (a
sped-up version with an extra verse The Lobbalong
Song & The Munchers with vocals)
on the CD5.
12/13/1999 In March,
well be releasing a new album by a band we've wanted
to work with for way too long. Quickspace are a London
based quintet who have released a gang of great singles
and two excellent albums on their own Kitty
Kitty Corp. label. The 2nd of these albums, Precious
Falling was reissued in the U.S. last year by Hidden
Agenda and some of us still haven't recovered from
it. Quickspace, founded by former Th' Faith Healers
guitarist Tom Cullinan, have long employed Neu-ish repetition
and a sound that's equal parts beauty and violence,
but the newer stuff is spinning into directions we're
having trouble keeping up with. Said one commentator,
"you'll feel yourself being propelled by a primal force
called pop ecstasy (hey, remember that?) down an autobahn
of hallucino-distorto-joy." Sheesh, I wish we hadn't
mentioned that, but what's a little hyperbole in the
name of heating? But even for those of you who long
ago swore off the happy smokes, Quickspace are amazing.
The new album The Death Of Quickspace is coming in March,
followed by the band's first North American tour.
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