Ginger & Friends

I love music being independent. Always have.

The D.I.Y approach has appealed to me since I watched the original punks gatecrash the charts and infuriate the press. But the thing was, they couldn’t be stopped because the people were behind their militant stance and the mainstream could only stubbornly hope that they’d just go away. But we never went away. Revolution was born.

I remember thinking how cool it was to hear Jimmy Saville, on Radio One, refer to ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ as, simply, ‘Nevermind’. And when “God Save The Queen” stormed the charts at number one? Well, there just wasn’t a number one that week, the slot was left blank.

But we all knew. To the believers this was victory.

What I want to do is keep that spirit thriving. Music made for the people by the people.

This triple album will be exclusive to the people who pledge to get it made. The general public will have to make do with a single album of around 12 songs, which you Pledgers will choose for me – thanks! – while the 30 song extravaganza will only ever be property of the hardcore. The people who believe.

We will also bring you devoted pledgers studio video reports following every step of the recording process, allowing you into our inner sanctum, bringing you closer than ever before. Hey, you’re paying for this, it’s only appropriate that you get to see how your cash is being used.

And just to clarify, this is a completely different project to Ginger Wildheart Mutation ‘The Frankenstein Effect’.
Very different indeed.

Of the money you pledge we will donate 10% to Save The Children.

The catch? There is no catch. If this works we will continue to bring you great offers like this. Albums, holidays, exclusive performances and so much more. Believe me this is just the beginning.

I pray that your generosity and love of music makes this project possible.

Come on. I know we can do this.

Now, please just prove me right.

Gx

(Ed: See this post for full details on how to help with this fantastic project.)

This album represents ten years of recording outside of The Wildhearts family, but for me it represents even more than that. This album tells the story of the first steps I took alone in creating an independent personality for myself as a writer and as a father.

From Sonic Shake, a song that I wrote and demoed in Japan (I told the label people that I could play every instrument on the demo recording and the next day they booked me studio time. I’d never played drums before on a recording and I was really nervous. It was very exciting) and recorded in London just after meeting the mother of my first son. Soon after the recording was finished she was pregnant, and not long after that, my son, Jake, was performing onstage in Tokyo in front of a wild crowd singing his name. I’d sign autographs after the show, and Jake had signed the CD before me!

The band SilverGinger 5 were assembled to promote this album and our first ever shows were in Japan. I will never forget this period of my life. I was struggling with drug addiction and the Japanese fans showed me a more pure way of life through love and commitment, something that I am reminded of on a daily basis to this day.

After Jake’s mother and I broke up I went through a well documented depression that showed me the road to spirituality and enlightenment, and in this period the song The Man Who Cheated Death came to me via divine inspiration. The album that followed, Valor Del Corazón, was recorded in Willie Nelson’s studio in Austin, Texas, and allowed me to immortalise my feelings at the time. Since this recording I have been made aware of some amazing effects this album has had to its listeners, including someone who stopped themselves from committing suicide because of the song This Is Only A Problem. Surely the most significant compliment that a songwriter could ever be paid?

Life as a single man followed, and a period of promiscuity bore tracks such as When She Comes from the album Yoni, a record written about new beginnings and the scattered search for oneself amid the chaos of choice. The resulting album examines the theory that maybe too much choice is not necessarily a good thing. The confusion in songs like Jake and Black Windows shows a man coming to terms with limitations and, ultimately, morality.

Market Harbour followed Yoni as the journey continued towards the only conclusion that one is able to find in life, that of living in the moment and accepting tribulations as valuable, and wonderful lessons. Sorrow and loss are as much a part of this experience as happiness and discovery. In fact they are all part of the same process. It is impossible to have one experience without having them all.

The final two songs of this collection summarise this strange and educational decade for me. Freedom comes from finding happiness, happiness comes from understanding, understanding comes from experience and experience comes from things not going to plan. And just because things aren’t going to plan doesn’t mean they aren’t exactly how they should be.

Namaste

Ginger x

10 is released through Round Records on 10/10/10

Ginger is still introducing the world to some of the hidden musical gems out there over at Classic Rock as part of his ‘Secret History of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ series. The albums so far to make the grade are as follows:

• Jason and the Scorchers – ‘Lost And Found’
• The Long Ryders – ‘State Of Our Union’
• The Good Rats – ‘Ratcity In Blue’
• Maria McKee – ‘Maria McKee’
• Angel – ‘Sinful’
• And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – ‘So Divided’
• Cardiacs – ‘On Land And In The Sea’
• Imani Coppola – ‘The Black & White Album’

Ginger – Every Thursday In April @ Pianos, NY – Thursday April 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th

Advance tickets available at Ticketweb

Hey kids,
Hey cuties,

I’m playing New York.

Yeah, that’s right….AGAIN!!!

Only this time it’s again… and again, and again and…y’know

Again

Every Thursday, beginning April 3rd, I’ll be appearing at Piano’s with the best players in New York. Only the creme de la soul will be playing, with myself, YOUR favourite songs from my huge stash of choons.

Okay, okay, I get to decide exactly which songs are your favourite songs, but that’s besides the point.

I’ll be playing crazed up versions of my (er, your) absolute toppest tracks from my catalogue with various musicians, using various styles, with various instruments, from people with various hair-cuts. Most likely different people every week. Depending on who’s the best people for the job that week. Every week.

EVERY GOD DAMNED WEEK…..I tell’s ya.

On a Thursday.

Not only that but I’ll be presenting the absolute weirdest, unique, odd-ball, bizarre and generally artistically essential of NYC talents on the bill. A different line up of talents every week.

On a Thursday.

From April 3rd.

Each bill will be rounded off with a colourful barrage of low-brow hi-jinx from New Yorks top comperes, MC’s and orators, keeping the proceedings lively, sparky and warm.

An evening like this could only happen in New York. And only on a Thursday.

And only at Piano’s.

Come with me on a journey of sonic and visual experimentation, where all tension will be jettisoned out on the sidewalk, and the remaining effervescence will permeate every pore and fibre of your fine persons, leaving you bathed in wonder, showered in amusement and douched with amazement.

Entertained? You will be.

Or your money back.

And we’re not planning on parting with a penny.

Oh yes.

Oh, good God yes.

Be there, or be elsewhere.

And why would you be elsewhere?

That’s right, you wouldn’t.

Oh, no.

Oh, yes.

Amen

Ginger

Ginger has a brand new column at Classic Rock Magazine

Let’s show our support and send a ton of comments to the site.

Who knows, maybe they’ll get him to do this a regular slot if we get enough comments up there?

Hey beautiful gals and unusually cool guys… There is a new Ginger solo single. Released at Christmas. December 24th. That’s a Christmas solo single by Ginger. December 24th.

Still there?

Yeah, that’s a Christmas solo single by Ginger. December 24th. It’s a double A-side single featuring the tracks ‘Casino Bay’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘How Legends Love’.

• Casino Bay comes from the newest solo album ‘Market Harbour’ due for release in February.
• Holiday comes from the last solo album ‘Yoni’, which is already available at all emporiums supporting good taste and valiant effort.
• How Legends Love is exclusive to this release, that means it’s not available anywhere else, nor will it be….oh no….get it here…..or get it no-where….unless you have a friend you can tape it from….which I really don’t mind…..to be honest.

DON’T FORGET THAT FOR THE WEEK THAT IS THE PERINEUM OF YULETIDE (or the Taint of the New Year) THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE SINGLE WORTH BUYING…

And it will be this one!

Please pass this message on to another message board, gossip forum, website or internet outlet of your choice, and when you do will you please ask them to pass it on to another message board, gossip forum, website or internet outlet of their choice, and when they do….well, you get the picture.

Let’s make this both a Merry, a Happy and a Wonderful xmas.

Both?

yes.

love

Ginger x

CHECK IT OUT!!! THE CARDIACS ARE TOURING….THE F-U-C-K-I-N-G CARDIACS MAN, I shit yee not.

And our beloved God Damn Whores are supporting. I don’t know about you, but this gives me the horn. The motherfucking horn I tell yer. Sorry for all the swearing. I always swear when I’m excited. And I’m excited. So I’m swearing. Dammit.

Anyway, go see this amazing line up.

Fuck.

Ginger
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Cardiacs On Tour November 2007 – With Special Guests The God Damn Whores

Mon 12 Brighton The Old Market 01273 736222
11a Upper Market Street, Hove BN3 1AS

Tue 13 Oxford Zodiac 0870 771 2000
190 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 4AD

Wed 14 Bristol Thekla Social 0871 310 0000
East Mud Dock, the Grove, Bristol BS1 4RB

Thu 15 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 0871 3100 000
Masonic Place, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GG

Fri 16 London Astoria 0870 060 3777
157 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0EN
MeanFiddler

Mon 19 Sheffield Boardwalk 0871 230 1095
Snig Hill, Sheffield, S3 8NA
The Boardwalk

Tue 20 Stoke On Trent The Sugarmill 01782 206000
Brunswick Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 1DR
SugarMill

Wed 21 Manchester Academy 3 0161 832 1111
Manchester University Union, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PR
TicketsLine
Manchester Academy

Thu 22 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 023 9286 3911
147B, Albert Road, Southsea, PO4 0JW
Wedgewood Rooms

Fri 23 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach 02920 232199
11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CF10 1BR
TicketWeb
Tickets for this show will also be available in Spillers Records Cardiff – 02920 224905
Diverse Music Newport – 01633 259661

Sat 24 Leeds The Woodhouse Liberal Club
Woodhouse Street
Hyde Park
Leeds
LS6 2PY
SeeTickets

Last year’s Ginger & The Sonic Circus support act, The Psycho Cyborgs, have released a new DVD, Scabs, featuring a voiceover from Ginger. Read on for full details from Samppa or check out their myspace: www.myspace.com/psychocyborgs

“Samppa Von Cyborgs Scabs is a dark and twisted vision into the mind of a mental patient. Featuring murder, autopsies and a post appocalyptic location, that has to be seen to be believied. Is it horror? Is it comedy? Is it art? Scabs is hard to define. It’s like nothing you have ever seen before and we’re not kidding you, it really is different!

As well as the main film, which runs for 18 minutes, the Scabs DVD also features over an hour of extra material, including Location Scout and Behind The Scenes documentaries, as well as interviews with the director, Samppa Von Cyborg and the star, Baawo The Bee. There’s image galleries by photographer Regis Hertrich, which has been textured by Samppa himself and laid alongside an ambient doom soundtrack by the legendary Deutsch Nepal (Cold Meat Industries). And of course, the main voice over is by Ginger of The Wildhearts. Rest assured, this is a unique collaborative vision never before seen on DVD.

Do not under-estimate the production. Bizarre magazine are featuring it as their movie of the month. Other underground publications are raving about it. The select few people who have seen it have claimed it to be a futuristic work of art. It’s not a nice film, you’ll feel dirty by the end of it and that is exactly what you are meant to feel. Forget nice Hollywood feel-good movies, this is the Underground and it’s a dirty nasty place to be, with a touch of black humour here and there.

Price is £10 + £5 postal and package
payment by paypal example
orders: scabsthepatient@hotmail.com”