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| Highlights from the Mercury Lounge 3-11-03 The taper who yelled out during a lull, "Can you hurry up? I'm trying to bootleg!" Highlights from The Filmore, SF 3-24-03 Some guy hollered out "JOEEEEEEEEEEY" - to which joe responded - "The name is JOE. Joey is what you name a fucking kangaroo" Comments from Colorado 3-27-03 Before playing Mayor Of Simpleton, Joe praised Andy Partridge, saying he is a great performer and one of Joe's favorite songwriter, but suffers from extreem stage fright and unfortunately hasn't performed in a long, long time as a result |
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| Joe Jackson Flashes Back New Album Reunites His Look Sharp! Band Written by Kurt Orzeck "Lots of artists at some point, or points in their career, need to go back and reconnect with something from the past because you can't keep going forward all the time. Even the most innovative artists in history have returned back to things. It's a natural part of the creative process. When I realized it was going to be the 25th anniversary of the band in 2003, it was staggering. At first I rejected the idea of a reunion, cause I thought it would be kind of cheesy. But the more I thought about it, I thought, well i know these guys can still play, i already had 6 songs ready for the next album...at the time I thought I was going to play everything myself, but then I realized that all the songs would probably work with the band." After denoting 'Little Bit Stupid' as one of the sillier cuts, he discusses the contemplative 'Awkward Age'. "I saw a 15-year old girl in a railway station and tried to imagine if I was talking to her what I would say. The song starts off saying you're having all kinds of problems because you are at an awkward age, but then it says well wait, i'm still having problems, maybe we're all under the pressure from the media and marketing to be cool and thin and flawless. Though I wouldn't want to be 15 again, we're all having the same struggles." Action, Jackson - Joe Jackson got the band back together, after saying it would never happen by Robert Wilonsky - The Observer, Dallas 3-13-03. 'So there's no feeling of completing a circle" asks Robert... 'No, i don't really," joe says,with proper annoyance at a stupid question. 'Because I'm not dead yet.' He's The Man - Joe Jackson gets the band back together by Michael Corcoran - Austin American-Statesman 3-15-03 Jackson is doing things he's not used to doing, including a full day of 20-minute interviews. This chap has a reputation for crankiness, especially if critics start making generalizations. "About two hours ago i decided to make a game of it. Each interview has invariably begun with why did you decide to put the band back together?'"he says in an affected drone. 'I try to give a different slant on the same answer each time. It's been a real challenge'. 'You know, when you're 23 years old and it's very easy to see the world as full of woe and so it's clever to put things down...Then you live your life and go through times of real woe and it's not so funny anymore.' Jackson Thrives - Pop - The Sunday Times/London by Dan Cairns 3-9-03 'The press doesn't like me' and Joe Jackson doesn't care. Looks like he's back with the band and feistier than ever. When Joe Jackson performed a series of gigs in Britain last summer he was described as looking 'reinvig-orated'. The clear implication was that the 47-year old had been in need of a boost. Yet this reaction both ingored the huge body of work Jackson has produce in teh 23 years since the band's swan song, Beat Crazy, and pointed up this country's historic inability to come to terms with one of its most intriguing musicians. read on ---> |
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| The band was short-lived, busting up after a show in teh Netherlands on December 15, 1980; years later, even Jackson would be surpirsed in erntrospect how quickly things had ended. All the boys are back, looking like middle-aged men and blowing like a second wind: the thin and gray Jackson, behind the keyboards and mike; Graham Maby on bass, Gary Sanford on guitar; and Dave Houghton behind the drums. Jackson Thrives - Pop - The Sunday Times/London by Dan Cairns 3-9-03 Jackson is still wading into contentious areas - contrasting the vacuous, pec-cflexing narcissism of modern gay mores with the militancy of old on Fairy Dust, or addressing the anomaly of white, middle-class teenagers being American rap's chief consumers on Thugz 'R' Us. And, for those who cleave to the side of Jakcson that produced more reflective, soul-searching songs such as Breaking Us In Two, there is Love at First Light - a track that promotes the charming and somehow very Jacksonian notion that a one-night stand could turn out to be the love of your life. |