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From	Radiant Future Records <radiantfuturerecords@googlemail.com>
Subject	Radiant Future Records / Newsletter #10 - Martin Gordon / 'Time Gentlemen Please'
Date	Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:03:28 +0200

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    Time Gentlemen Please <http://www.martingordon.de/time.html>  	


      **Radiant Future Records / Martin Gordon/ 'Time Gentlemen Please'!**


    **Did you know that:**

	"In a 21st century littered with dour sourpuss and earnest 
confessional, Martin Gordon stands alone as a beacon of comic genius, 
melodic incisiveness and lyrical intelligence.  He is truly the last 
great British songwriter left standing".


      /Dave Thompson / Goldmine 2009/

The fifth (and final) part of the so-called Mammal Trilogy will be 
released on July 1st. The title of this fifth and final outpouring of 
bile and spite disguised as popular entertainment is *'Time Gentlemen 
Please'.* Ladies are naturally also invited to participate. Audio 
previews are on the website <http://www.martingordon.de/time.html>.

Amazon, quick off the mark as ever, have it set for release on July 
13th, and it is now available for pre-order here 
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Gentlemen-Please-Martin-Gordon/dp/B002AA1412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1243867119&sr=1-1>.
(In fact, copies have already arrived at Voiceprint, and can be found 
here <http://voiceprint.co.uk/web/Release/RFVP013CD/>. But don't tell 
Amazon).

Those who simply cannot wait can now download it, via all the usual 
outlets. But the 20-page interactive booklet and the Mammal competition, 
for which you need the booklet at hand, might make it worth waiting. 
More details on the website.
	


    *New album from the one-time Sparks & Radio Stars bassist - the
    fifth part of the Mammal Trilogy
    <#New_album>*


    *Sounds like this:*

	Thrashing guitars, thrumming ukelele, raucous brass, double bass and 
bar-room piano provide the sonic back-drop. The sterling vocals of Swede 
Pelle Almgren are once again to the fore, and his glorious trademark 
harmonies are a career-best, especially on the über-ballad '21st Century 
Blues'. Live performance is key, with not a fade-out to be heard.

 From faux big-band swing ('If Boys Could Talk and Girls Could Think') 
to breakneck amphetamine-pop ('Interesting Times'), from dramatic 
big-hair ballads sung in Latin about the perils of celebrity ('Incognito 
Ergo Sum') to pub-piano sing-alongs bemoaning cheap flights ('I'm Budgie 
(Don't Fly Me)'), from crunching pop decrying the actions of the 
Almighty ('Come Out Come Out Whoever You Are') to the quasi-Floydian 
epic 'You Can't See Me' which closes the set, Gordon spans the gamut.

The sonic melange includes flocks of bleating sheep ('I Have a Chav'), 
the gentle splashing of waves around the protagonist's canoe ('Panama') 
and the uncertain countdown of the flight controller at the Kennedy 
Space Centre ('Houston We Gotta Drinking Problem'). Take the blueprint 
of popular song, redesign to serve the purposes of rock, add a leavening 
of George Formby and the anarchic absurdities of Stanley Holloway and 
the Bonzos, and file under 'new music-hall'.
/More details in the press release 
<http://www.martingordon.de/images/pdf/RFVP013_Time_PR.pdf>(pdf)/
	For further details, contact Radiant Future 
<mailto:radiantfuturerecords@googlemail.com> or Jon Mills at No-other PR 
<mailto:no-other@hotmail.com?subject=Martin%20Gordon>.
*
*

*RADIANT FUTURE RECORDS*

Website <http://www.martingordon.de>

More music for grown-ups. And iDiots.

Do YOU k now a non-entity who would be willing to take part in a global 
campaign of humiliation, and then go directly  into rehab from the award 
ceremony? Are they barely educated and scarcely presentable in polite 
company? So much the better!  Entries scribbled upon the back of an 
infected Mexican piglet to 'Mee, mee mee, mee, mee all the way home!, 
14a, the Cuttings, Dorking, Surrey.

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