The Cult

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its obvious who that big band is...

Be cool if it were Guns N Roses

It's not Guns N Roses..

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metallica?

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Vids from Raleigh, NC 11/14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8yGFqnAtKs&feature=related - Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADdHgvOPDvs&feature=related-  Nirvana- 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLDV_MNKopo&feature=related -   Hollow Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpF6AOoO0qc&feature=related-  Sanctuary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiNtOdDledk&feature=related-  Love

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ANTHRAX, THE CULT Members Featured On LEIANA Song - Nov. 20, 2009

Philadelphia-based singer LEIANA has uploaded the song "Suffer", featuring guest appearances by Rob Caggiano (ANTHRAX) and John Tempesta (THE CULT, WHITE ZOMBIE). The track appears on Leiana's forthcoming third album, "Lucky #3", which lands in stores on February 23, 2010.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=130759

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Some Cult and related updates....

The band are in the studio this week with produer Chris Goss working on new material.. (Thanks to Chris Wyse)

Ian will be appearing here tomorrow:

"New York?s  acclaimed LAByrinth Theater Company will kick off their 7th annual Celebrity Charades on Monday December 7, 2009 with Ian Astbury, Bob Balaban, Bobby Cannavale, Erika Christensen, Tom Colicchio, Billy Crudup, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Padma Lakshmi, Jesse L. Martin, Christopher Meloni, John Ortiz, Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell, Cynthia Rowley, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Julia Stiles, Justin Theroux, Yul V?zquez, Kristen Wiig, David Zaya.

The all-star cast of charaders will bring some serious rounds of laughters in some sort of ?battle of the bands? to raise money for the LAB?s 18th season.

Click here to purchase tickets and tables online through LAByrinth Theater secure site!

https://secure.labtheater.org/charades.php

For more information and sponsorship opportunities please email charades@labtheater.org or call 212 513 1082

Monday, December 7, 2009
St Paul?s Hall, 60th Street at Columbus Avenue"

A short article in Motor Trend mag featuring Cult bassisit Chris Wyse can be found here:

http://www.motortrend.com/features/consumer/112_0911_musician_chris_wyse_celebrity_drive/index.html

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The band are in the studio this week with produer Chris Goss working on new material.. (Thanks to Chris Wyse)

Rumor has it new music will be distributed via USB by Aderra, the same company who did the LOVE/LIVE Dog Tag USB's..

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The Cult are confirmed for Sonisphere Knebworth - Aug 1, 2010

http://uk.sonispherefestivals.com/

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Ian with Yul Vasquez, Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell and Billy Crudup from the Labrynth Theatre 12/7..

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The Cult are now confirmed for Sonisphere Finland - August 7th and 8th 2010..

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Billy Duffy with Camp Freddy 12/10/09..

Trading Guitar solos with Dave Navarro with Billy Morrison on vox on the Clash's "Should I Stay Or Should I Go:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tom91381#p/u/0/JO24DiCg0G0

Breathing some life into The Cult's "Fire Woman" with (I think) Frankie Perez on vocals, absolutely blistering...

http://www.youtube.com/user/tom91381#p/u/10/dc4vHvJTFVE

Big thanks to Tom for posting.

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Breathing some life into The Cult's "Fire Woman" with (I think) Frankie Perez on vocals, absolutely blistering...

http://www.youtube.com/user/tom91381#p/u/10/dc4vHvJTFVE

That lad has a hell of a voice. Hoping to hear some new stuff from Ian & Bill soon.

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Hoping to hear some new stuff from Ian & Bill soon.

Looks like new material will see the light of day in 2010, not exactly sure when but I'm hearing spring/summer. 

From what I've been told by those who've heard the demos, it's extremely groove laden and riff driven.

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Hoping to hear some new stuff from Ian & Bill soon.

Looks like new material will see the light of day in 2010, not exactly sure when but I'm hearing spring/summer. 

From what I've been told by those who've heard the demos, it's extremely groove laden and riff driven.

I hope something became of the song they jammed at EXIT Festival back in 2006. Was just Mike on guitar as Bill (as usual ) was having bother with his rig. BIT was pretty alright but whatever that was never made it onto the record.
On here from 1:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYEmQvr-n8&fmt=18

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I hope something became of the song they jammed at EXIT Festival back in 2006. Was just Mike on guitar as Bill (as usual ) was having bother with his rig. BIT was pretty alright but whatever that was never made it onto the record.
On here from 1:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYEmQvr-n8&fmt=18

From what I've been told, that jam was just that - a jam.  I'm sure they've got it down somewhere in the archives but no idea if it'll ever be used on a proper recording

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Wonder what direction they'll take on the new record. BG&E was great but suffered slightly from over glossy production whereas Born Into This was a much rawer affair. Guessing it will retain the live sounding production but maybe be a bit meatier. Been listening to the Rare Cult box set again recently. Absolutely love the song "North". Got the alt rock riffs from Billy & the jingly jangle from Johnny Marr. 2 Manc guitar legends on one track

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Wonder what direction they'll take on the new record. BG&E was great but suffered slightly from over glossy production whereas Born Into This was a much rawer affair. Guessing it will retain the live sounding production but maybe be a bit meatier. Been listening to the Rare Cult box set again recently. Absolutely love the song "North". Got the alt rock riffs from Billy & the jingly jangle from Johnny Marr. 2 Manc guitar legends on one track

With Chris Goss producing the new material, I would expect it to be very Queens Of The Stone Age-ish in.  Less is more with a heavy backbeat.

BG&E had it's day, "RISE" still being the highlight for me.  That said, it took a over a year to get done and loses a bit of 'in the moment" feel.

BIT is a totally different animal, very much a "right here, right now" undertaking.  Recorded in less than 2 months and a great snapshot of a point in time. 

Haven't listened to Rare Cult in a while, Duffy and Marr together are amazing.

Check out their version of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", absolutely haunting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZ-dd84N2Q

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Duffy and Marr together are amazing.

Too true. Would like to hear more collaboration between the two. They're good mates so it would be cool if they did something. Maybe even just Billy guesting on some Marr solo material or Johnny guesting on new Cult stuff. Also liked the Coloursound record Billy did with Mike Peters a few years back. Cool to hear Mike's voice on top of much rockier material than he did previously in The Alarm.

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I'd love to see Billy and Johnny hook up and do something, Duffy guesting on a Marr solo project would be something special.  Marr's "Boomslang" remains  one of my favorite records.

Those two are literally the last of the British gun slingers, the (guitar) foundation and influence(s) of that partifcular era..

As for Coloursound, I always considered it "Cult Lite".  Mike's a helluva song writer, he and BD's collaboration was a cool change of pace for both.

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Johnny Tempesta in the studio today in LA recording with The Cult.

Thanks to the man himself the pic.

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More studio pics, check out the old school analog recording set up - very cool.

Take a look here:

http://thecult.us/blog/

Thanks to Ian and www.thecult.us for the above.