THE SAINTS - Spit The Blues Out

Australian East Coast Tour - March 2002

A new Saints album.... and the first tour for The Saints since the Howling Tour 1997.

THE ALBUM

Spit the Blues Out features eight new tracks of awesome power and divine intervention, coupled with four cover versions of classic blues songs that have not lost their resonance. The Saints revitalised renditions make them as vibrant as when they were first recorded. This record proves once again that selling out “to the fickle fashions of showbiz” is no guarantee for longevity or success… Years after the ‘corporate success’ of their first record the Saints continue to baffle their critics and delight everyone who falls under their spell.

Recorded in Amsterdam, the album highlights Chris Bailey’s songwriting at its best. Mixing originals and covers that reflect the grim and greedy theme park we live in today. Drinking songs, sad songs, rocking songs and fuck songs. Songs that speak to you of the world, not some homogenised world view, thrust on you like some de-sensitising body-glove... The ruggedly tight playing of Michael Bayliss and Peter Wilkinson provides the perfect background for Bailey’s incessant guitar and powerful voice. The Australian release of Spit the Blues Out also includes 5 bonus live tracks as recorded at the New Rose 20th Anniversary party at l’Elysees Montmartre, Paris in November 2000.

Spit the Blues Out captures the power that was injected into rock & roll - when rock & roll was still sexy & dangerous… This is a rock & roll as it should be played… As your world becomes increasingly more “organised / streamlined / digitised / re packaged and resold to you” do yourself a favour and embrace the thrusting sonic delight that is The Saints!!!

THE TOUR 

For this long-awaited performance visitation, Chris Bailey is joined by fellow Saints Arch Larizza on bass and Iain Shedden on drums and has enlisted the aide of Swedish long time music associate and fellow conspirator Eddie Nystrom on guitar. Assuredly, we can be guaranteed of a splendid night of blues-soaked, sweaty rock and roll delivered by Australia’s and Sweden’s finest.

The Saints will be performing at the following venues and enjoying their debut as part of the huge line-up for the annual East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival.

MARCH VENUE: STATE: BOOKINGS/TICKET INFO:

15th The Corner Hotel - Richmond VIC 03 9427 7653

with Luxedo & The Drones

16th The Cornish Arms - Brunswick VIC 03 9380 8399

22nd The Annandale Hotel - Annandale NSW 02 9550 1078

with Nanker Phelge

23rd Cambridge Hotel - Newcastle NSW Contact venue direct

28th The Zoo - Brisbane QLD 07 3854 1381

with Luxedo

29th The East Coast Blues & Roots Festival - Byron Bay (Easter Weekend)

NSW 02 6685 8310 

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For further information or interview opportunities regarding SPIT THE BLUES OUT and The Saints tour please contact: Sarah Morgan (03) 9699 9700 or email: [email protected]
 
 

The Saints Release New Album

29 October 2001

In 1976, an unknown band from Brisbane, Australia, The Saints, burst onto the international scene with their howling, milestone debut single '(I'm) Stranded'. Immediately named 'Single of this and Every Week' by the UK's influential Sounds magazine, '(I'm) Stranded' has since been cited as one of the most important punk singles of all time.

Led by the erudite Chris Bailey and guitarist extraordinaire Ed Kuepper, the Saints went on to record three classic albums (‘I'm Stranded’, ‘Eternally Yours’ and ‘Prehistoric Sounds’) and tour the UK to almost complete indifference during the height of the subsequent punk explosion, before splitting up in 1978. While Kuepper returned to Australia to establish a career as one of the country's most prominent singer / songwriters, Bailey remained in the UK and continued to form ever evolving, new line-ups of the Saints. The original line-up of the Saints reunited (albeit briefly) in September in order to be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. 

In the ensuing years, since the break-up of the original line-up in 1978, Chris Bailey and the Saints have issued 17 albums. The band's latest album Spit The Blues Out came out in Europe (where Bailey continues to be held in high esteem) on the New Rose label earlier in the year. Raven is now proud to present this exclusive, Australian-only Expanded Edition of Spit the Blues Out. 

Featuring 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks, these first new recordings since 1997 find Bailey and the Saints at their primal blues-wailin' best. In the past, Bailey has never made a secret of his folk and blues influences (having recorded songs by the likes of Jimmy Reed and Jacques Brel). Now he embraces his blues roots wholeheartedly with gritty interpretations of blues classics by Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf), Elmore James, Elias McDaniel (Bo Diddley) and James Moore (Slim Harpo), alongside authentic originals in the same style. 

Of the covers, Howlin' Wolf's 'Who's Been Talking', Elmore James' 'It Hurts Me Too' and Bo Diddley's 'Before You Accuse Me' will strike a chord with blues aficionados and Saints' fanatics alike. Bailey's inimitable original compositions like 'A Gentleman Came Walking', 'Waiting for God', 'Drunken Angel' and 'You've Got a Tale Baby' mine a similar rich blues vein and come up sounding fresh and vibrant in the process. Chris Bailey and the Saints' Spit the Blues Out album is one of the most intelligent, masterful and satisfying Australian releases of the year. 
 
 

Wild About You 1976 - 1978 (Complete Studio Recordings)

26 September 2000

It was Bob Geldof who said that the face of rock music in the 1970s was altered by three bands: punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and Australia’s THE SAINTS. 

Containing 3 classic albums in their entirety (plus rare non-album singles As & Bs and EP tracks), this splendid 47-track, 145-minute double CD collection presents the full story of the Ed Kuepper/Chris Bailey-led, original Saints (the complete EMI/Harvest years) for the first time. From the hyper-kinetic rush of ‘(I’m) Stranded’ to the brooding magnificence of ‘Swing for the Crime’, this is a fine slice of recording history. 

WILD ABOUT YOU 1976-1978 also contains 4 previously unreleased studio recordings.