January to March 2011 was spent in preparation for the release of our epic and much anticipated concept album David Koresh Superstar, an album about the Waco siege of 1993 and our first major foray into Country style music. Also some luau, which was lots of fun for me to sing! Amongst the many beautiful things simon made for the promotion of the album, I came in one evening to discover that Simon had MADE A GAME, having had no experience whatsoever of game design before. Naturally, I was astonished. Then my competitive streak set in and I had to WIN. You can play it below… (go here for HELP: http://corporaterecords.co.uk/koresh/gamerelease.html )

Before releasing David Koresh Superstar we decided it would be ace to release The Book of Job: The Musical!. We had already recorded the performance with the complete original cast a year before, but never released it (the files were ENORMOUS). Since the musical was first performed in 2004 (long before EVERYONE started doing musicals, I might add) it was nice to finally have the much sought after script and recordings publicly available. If you missed them, they are here: http://corpor.at/R183 We performed the show again just before Christmas 2011 in a two night special in London. It was a blast!

In April Simon wrote an article called Less Wedding, More Beheading, about the disgusting royal wedding, our distaste for it and why you’re all a bunch of servile little dupes who couldn’t dignity your way out of a tea-towel. It is very interesting. Here if you missed it: http://www.indelicates.com/2011/04/27/less-wedding-more-beheading/

Me and Lily Rae did a probably-should-have-been-edited song called We Love The Queen (yeah, sarcasm) too: We Love The Queen

May to Early July… We released and toured David Koresh Superstar with a band specially rehearsed and put together for these shows. This featured Max Saidi on drums, Mikey from David Devant and His Spirit Wife as an ATF Agent, JimBob from Carter USM as Mc Veigh, Chanson singer Philip Jeays as an ATF agent, Lily Rae as a young girl, Laurence ‘The Leisure’ owen on bass, Keith totp on guitar, Ciara Burke on backups, Al Clayton on rhythm guitar, Ed Sanderson on violin, Ed Van Beinum on additional guitar, and me and Simon on everything else. We had recorded much of it in 2010 with Brian at Bark Studios, and four of the tracks in the US in Austin TX with Britton at Ramble Creek studios, produced by Joie Mikitson and with additional pedal steel, banjo and Dobro played by Todd Pertll. We even went to the Waco site to look at the memorial there. It was fascinating and moving and strange and wonderful and unsettling. Highlights were shows in Sheffield, Brighton, London, Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Glasgow and, in October, finally getting Todd to play pedal steel on stage with us on our first proper US tour. One of my favourite video’s from the recording is Britton Beisenherz playing an ATF agent in “Something’s Goin’ Down In Waco”.

One of my favourite reviews of the album was, to our non-religious, philosophically-satanic surprise, from the christian “World” magazine in an article about The Book of Mormon and David Koresh Superstar, which said

“…’A Single Thrown Grenade’ followed by … ‘I Don’t Care If It’s True’ arrestingly articulate megalomania and its discontents at their most sadly poignant. In short The Indelicates don’t so much seek to mock as to understand. The extent to which they succeed is chilling.”

The official video for I Am Koresh was a lot of fun to do, and we got deliciously close to ‘the line) when the young women playing the followers of Koresh put jumpers up their dresses to mimic pregnancy. (Mwahaha). You can buy the album and lyric book here:

http://corporaterecords.co.uk/koresh/preorder.html

And digitally here: corpor.at/A190

July saw us returning to germany for a mini tour, playing in Mainz, and featuring the First Super Special Edition Performance outside of the UK, in Stuttgart, which was brilliant and everyone was ace to us. Aside from some vehicle troubles, it was nice and warm compared to our knee-deep-in-snow tour of 2010. Here’s a video from Stuttgart…

In August our friend Keith Totp released his debut album on Corporate Records. We, and many MANY others played on it, and Simon designed the artwork for it. It is loud, experience it here: http://corpor.at/A219

I grew Chillis for the first time. They didn’t die, which is a miracle, as I really don’t have green fingers… They taste lovely, which is also a miracle.

September was a sadder month than we anticipated. Twitter started feeling less like a place for content, and more for dullard’s outrage and boring opinion. We had less people to talk to than before. The music industry seemed to recuperate enough to frighten people into using only their business models. They will lose, probably – ultimately. But it was sad to see it working, and on people we thought it wouldn’t. Not everyone who works in the music industry is bad, or does a bad job, but that it’s last gasp was a willingness to frighten people into thinking it’s authority was absolute was sad. But we were preparing for our first US tour, which was exciting and for the most part unknown territory for us. Plus, if you don’t know by now how much we love it there, well… You haven’t been paying attention

October… FIRST EVER US TOUR!!! We had done SXSW in 2008 and some shows in New York before, but never a full length shows-every-night thing like we do in Germany and the UK. We crowd sourced Brad, who drummed for us the first two shows, and who very kindly put us up for the first few days of Boston/ RI shows. We then moved on to NYC, where we spent an afternoon with Nathan and ate perhaps the best meal I’ve ever yet tasted (Sichuan chilli dish, with sichuan peppercorns, and a side dish of beef tendon, which sounds terrifying, but is BREATHTAKING. For pudding we had Red Bean Ice Cream. New York really is the best city in the world for food that will pay us to come to it). The gig was ace, it was the tail end of Comic-Con so we had some friendly UK/US faces there, as well as patient fans who hadn’t seen us since 2008, and Pianos is a beautiful old place. We all went for Pho afterwards and talked and talked and it was a breath of fresh air and I miss them all terribly.

Philadelphia saw us playing in the Tritone, managed and run by great people, and playing first were a band whose blues guitar was just awesome. We met a man from West Philadelphia (like Will Smith hur hur), and we had time to go to Independence Hall and take a tour where the Declaration was signed. Simon got to have his roast pork sandwich with sharp provolone cheese and broccoli rabe, which he liked. Ohio, Indianapolis and Lafayette were followed by Port Byron Illinois (one of the quad cities) where we had booked a Super Special Edition for Grahm Eberhardt and Autumn at G’s Riverfront Cafe. We were fed, watered, treated to a visit to a canyon, to the worlds biggest truck stop in Ohio (it’s amazing), met Grahm’s wonderful family, Jeff’s wonderful family, talked politics and occupy and old style activism, played a packed out gig, got Annah, Grahm’s daughter, on stage with us, and generally had the best time. You are my American Family, and we love you.

On to St Louis Missouri, Madison Wisconsin (where we had cheese curds mmmm), and finally Chicago, Illinois, where we met up with Kat our US booker, who’d done such an ACE job, and Joie, Todd and their dog, who put us up there. We got to have Hot Doug’s hot dogs (I had a Foie Gras and Sauternes Duck Sausage with Truffle Aioli, Foie Gras Mousse and Fleur de Se. WHAT OF IT. It was $9.00. And blew my mind) and so we began to drive back to NYC for the final show of the tour – a Super Special Edition Performance for Jordan D. White in Manhattan. It was a wonderful end to the tour, we got to see Kevin and Jordan and Dave and Samuel and everyone else we’d seen in NYC at the beginning, again for this show. You can download the whole 20 track show here: http://corpor.at/A234

I’m sure I’ve forgotten things about the tour, but I have photos you can look at all on my Tumblr, just keep scrolling down. http://juliaindelicate.tumblr.com

In November and December… we began preparing for a Rarities show, which ended up being more of a Homecoming show in London. It was one of my favourite yet, group singalongs of Fun Is For The Feeble Minded and Point Me To The West, and it was nice to see everyone. Laurence and Ed joined us on bass and violin respectively, and Dennis on drums who, considering we threw him in blind, did an ace job. We rehearsed for The Book of Job: The Musical! Christmas shows, which were great fun, and the script and cd packages sold out in no time at all. It was a christmas miracle. We had money for presents! To sign off on the year we did a final Super Special Edition Performance in Folkestone for Peter Murrells, which was ace, and a show in Colwyn Bay in Wales for the Digs Project, which was cold but lovely.

The world is less bright and more lonely since the deaths of Christopher Hitchens and Russell Hoban. Hitchens used to say that he could tell people who didn’t know the first thing about Iraq from the way they’d begin their point ‘OK, So Saddam was a bad guy…’, Similarly, you can tell people who didn’t know the first thing about Hitchens when they appear on television referring to him as Chris (which, as a cursory glance at his memoir reveals, he wouldn’t have permitted while alive) and describing his ‘journey’ from the left to right wings of political opinion. It’s rubbish. There’s no betrayal or journey involved in a consistent disgust at totalitarian impulses wherever they’re found – among dictators, gods, the servile, the censorious and the boring. We didn’t know him at all – but this brave new world feels even less welcoming to us without him. You should read the chapter of Hitch-22 about his relationship with America, It will save us the bother of trying to write identical sentiments later. Russell Hoban was also a wonderful writer. If (like us before drifting into consciousness to him in a New England motel room) he’s just been a name from the periphery of your reading, you should try and find a copy of the HBO adaptation of The Marzipan Pig – which is just the whole book read out by Tim Curry with some lovely animation over the top. It’s our new favourite thing in the world.

We’ve been reading everything by Orson Scott Card and we ♥ it. If you’re thinking of telling us not to because of some things he’s said that you don’t agree with, you might want to ask yourself if you really want to sound that much like Joe McCarthy. We don’t go in for blacklisting, even when we agree with the blacklisters. The thing about people is that they always think they’re the good ones.

Simon began writing and drawing his children’s stories, which we are currently ‘testing’ on any children we know

I started a side business with Harley Rose called Shop Girl, making Jewellery and Pins and Rings out of Old Postcards and STUFF. Site is here: http://shopgirl.me and @shopgirlcrafts

NEXT YEAR… We will release an album. I won’t tell you anything about it yet.
We will play gigs. Some of them are up here http://gigs.indelicates.com

We will come to America again. If you want a super special edition in THE WEST in FEBRUARY/ MARCH, then CONTACT US NOW! We will be offering special rates to people who can help us out on accomodation/ food etc. @theindelicates on twitter, or on Facebook or by Email to info@indelicates.com

We will come to Germany again. We would like to do Special Edition Shows in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Koln, and anywhere else you fancy having us. As before, CONTACT @theindelicates

It’s been a very hard year for us, filled with work and content and new things and old things and new friends. People who have touched us, people who have ignored us, people who have listened, people who have cared.

It has been a hard year but we will not stop.

We wish you all the best for the New Year,

Julia Indelicate X

And, because our cups are brimming to o’erflow with the generous miasma of the season, here is 8 seconds worth of demo from the new Indelicates album which we’re are saying nothing at all about – except that it will be released in 2012. XXX. Julia and Simon I.

8 Seconds of Demo from the New Indelicates Album – coming 2012 by simonindelicate

We’re just about recovered from our jet-lag, and back in the UK following our tour in the US. We had a brilliant time, we ALWAYS have a brilliant time, and coming back has been tough.

We’ve gone straight back into working on new material for next year, and that’s all I’m currently saying about that

COMING IN…

We did two Super Special Edition Performances in the US, and the one we did in New York City is now available to download on Corporate Records here. Get it. It’s gorgeous. http://corpor.at/A234

A selection of my photographs from the US are here, although if you’re interested Simon Indelicate has a whole bunch up too. http://juliaindelicate.tumblr.com (there’s loads, just keep going down)

GOING OUT. COMING UP…

1)

The Indelicates HOMECOMING SHOW! Is on THIS FRIDAY, 18th November, at the Camden Head. Supporting are Keith Totp, who’s just released his Debut Album, and just announced… Kit Richardson who we saw earlier in the year, and is grand.

Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/camdened
THERE ARE RUMOURS THAT WE WILL HAVE INDELICATES THEMED CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS FOR SALE, and possibly fudge.

2)

The Book of Job: The Musical! RETURNS!!! We’re doing two shows for Christmas, on the December 7th and December 8th. I WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND BUYING TICKETS IN ADVANCE, as last time I had to turn people away.

IF YOU DON’T LIKE MUSICALS, THEN THIS IS THE MUSICAL FOR YOU (people tell me this, I honestly think it just means you actually DO like musicals, just GOOD ones like ours ) The musical re-tells the biblical story of Job – that of a righteous and godly man royally screwed over by God for no particular reason – in an inspired blend of Andrew Lloyd Webber-style showtunes, dense liturgical theology and knockabout pythonesque comedy. We conjure a multi-million pound west end spectacle using little more than a guitar, some stage directions and the audience’s willing imagination.

We have had sell-out performances and standing ovations at Brighton Fringe Festival, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and have performed the musical all over the country, without any money. AT ALL.

Tickets:
December 7th: http://tinyurl.com/jobmusical7
December 8th: http://tinyurl.com/jobmusical8

3)

Saturday 10th December is a Super Special Edition performance in Folkestone, at Googies. You can find more information here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236064813108165

4)

Friday 16th December is a pass-the-hat-round show at the Ranelagh in Brighton, with WOB, who is wonderful. Go here for info: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144924615609610

5)

Saturday 17th December we head to Colwyn Bay in Wales, for the Digs Project, which sounds brilliant. Info here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=225192240869096

COME IN. COME OUT. COME UP.

I love you.

Julia Indelicate X

WE.

ARE.

COMING!

It has been quite something to organise logistically, and we’ve worked with some of the AWESOMEST people just to get this all up and running. HOWEVER. There are still some things we want to do, and we’ll appreciate ANY HELP, as this is our FIRST EVER PROPER US TOUR.

10/2 Austin, TX – Swan Dive
10/3 Dallas, TX – Poor David’s Pub
10/6 Little Rock, AR – Maxine’s
10/13 Cambridge/Boston, MA – the Can Tab
10/14 Providence, RI – Speakaasy @ Local 121
10/16 NYC, NY – Presented by Pianos
10/17 Philadelphia, PA – Tritone
10/19 Dayton, OH – Venue TBA
10/20 Indianapolis, IN – The Melody Inn
10/21 Lafayette, IN – The Black Sparrow
10/26 Madison, WI – The Frequency
10/27 Chicago, IL – Elbo Room
10/28 Chicago, IL – Elbo Room

First off, I (Julia) have no money, as the Tax Man took it all, seriously ALL OF IT, which means hiring Piano Keyboards is going to be tough. IF YOU HAVE A PIANO, and LIVE IN ANY OF THESE PLACES, can I borrow it for a night? I promise to treat it to the finest silks, shower it in autumn kisses, and play it gently and in a completely non-violent way I use a Yamaha P120, which is pretty old and battered, but I like the tone. But anything with a weighted hammer action will do. Of course I’m going to have to hire in some places, but I thought some of you MIGHT be ok with sharing. If you can HELP, PLEASE… MESSAGE/ COMMENT/ TWEET @theindelicates

Second off: IF YOU ARE SKILLED, and in one of the towns we are playing, we might like you for a song or two. In the past we’ve had trumpeters, accordionists, saw players, fiddle players, and generally kiss anyone who wants to play the drums for us. If this is you, and you like us, and you’re interested, we should HOOK UP @theindelicates

SUPER SPECIAL EDTIONS – Last year we had people buying £300 (Approx $479) Super Special Editions of our Songs For Swinging Lovers album. It was so successful we’ve decided to offer it again on this tour. We come to your house/ cafe/ library/ venue/ garden and we play a set for you, of anything you like really (NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), we RECORD the performance, and then HAND OVER THE RIGHTS in that recording TO YOU. With a GOddamn CONTRACT and everything. It’s pretty cool, and we love doing it. A few people who’ve bought it have a number of people pay a certain amount, like a gig, and make their money back that way. If you want this, as I know already a number of you do, please look at our TOUR DATES first and see where there are gaps. We should be able to accomodate most of you, and if all goes well we’ll be back next year to accomodate the WEST COAST (and Vegas )

ALSO BE ADVISED THAT WE HAVE TO DRIVE BACK FROM CHICAGO TO bOSTON at the END OF THE TOUR to FLY HOME. so if you want a Super Special Edition AFTER THE TOUR, and ESPECIALLY if you can offer us somewhere to rest our indelicate limbs for the night, and ESPECIALLY if you make awesome FOOD, WE WILL COME. Those who can offer food and bed are MUCH RECQUIRED, and will be REWARDED with exciting things.

YOU HAVE ONE WEEK TO DECIDE IF YOU WANT A SUPER SPECIAL EDITION, because of logistics. @theindelicates on Twitter

AMERICA. CONTACT US. WE ARE HERE. WE ARE READY.

AND, I’M SO GLAD TO SAY, WE’RE COMING

Julia Indelicate X @juliaindelicate @theindelicates

Aside from some annoying things, like my computer breaking AGAIN and our slightly rattly car, our mini tour/ holiday in Germany was ACE.

MAINZ – Baron Uni – we love you. You cheered us. You put gold in our boxes. You bought our STUFFS. THANK YOU.

STUTTGART – Cafe Galao – We love you – you were the site of the first public Super Special Edition OUTSIDE OF THE UK. And you were truly special. For those of you who were there, you will have your piece of paper with the download link on it, go listen! For those who weren’t, here are some highlights…

Photographs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/julial49/tags/indelicates/

Review: http://www.gig-blog.net/2011/07/26/the-indelicates-23-07-2011-galao-stuttgart/

And finally, I got back to discover this little chilli friend has turned RED! Yay

PHYSICAL plus LYRIC BOOKS:
http://corporaterecords.co.uk/koresh/preorder.html

On Corporate Records: http://corpor.at/A190

On iTunes: http://t.co/fPOcJdk

On Amazon: http://t.co/9QI0ftp

Cambridge, Brighton and Milton Keynes were all BRILLIANT. Thank you so much to Steve, POG, Phil Jeays, JimBob, Andy at the Watershed, Sara Saw, Max, Laurence, Ed, Al, Keith Totp, and everyone who played, sang, sang along, hooted and tooted.

FINAL FULL BAND UK SHOWS before Autumn/ Winter ’11:

SHEFFIELD – Saturday 25th June – at DQ – TICKETS:http://www.gretanova.com/indelicates/ We’ve never played in Sheffield before, so especially EXCITED about this one! Please tell people who are North based, as this is our only North based show this time around…

LONDON SHOW, END OF THE TOUR is @ The Monarch, CAMDEN on Wednesday 13th July. SUPPORTS are Corporate Records label mates Jonny Cola & The A-Grades AND Keith Totp & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band. COME: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218949548129459

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DAVID KORESH SUPERSTAR: VERSIONS PROJECT
Every album The Indelicates have done has some extras, some of these by way of The Versions Project. People record themselves, remixes, covers etc of songs on THE LATEST RELEASE and we put them up on Corporate Records. On our second album Songs For Swinging Lovers we had a gameboy version of ‘Ill’, a Barbershop version of Jerusalem, and a German version of Savages.

IT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY. PLEASE DO IT Audio/ Video Submissions to here, or to juliaindelicate at gmail dot com

Thank you also for all the lovely birthday wishes for me, you are NICE

First off, IF YOU HAVEN’T BOUGHT David Koresh Superstar yet, you can now do so all over the place…

On Corporate Records: http://corpor.at/A190

On iTunes: http://t.co/fPOcJdk

On Amazon: http://t.co/9QI0ftp

AND PHYSICAL plus LYRIC BOOKS:http://corporaterecords.co.uk/koresh/preorder.html

THE NEXT BATCH of LYRIC BOOKS ARE BEING PRINTED and will be POSTED OUT ASAP.

Sorry again for the delays, not our fault, but still very annoying.

SHOWS NEXT WEEK:

Glasgow was ace, so were Anna Madeleine and Dave Hughes. And Tony and Jen for putting us up. WE LOVE YOU.
CAMBRIDGE - Tuesday 14th June, The Portland, TICKETS: http://t.co/p7fRzs0

BRIGHTON – Thursday 16th June – Latest Music Bar – TKTS on door, I think it’s £6/5 info HERE: http://on.fb.me/lFmwIG

MILTON KEYNES – Friday 17th June – info HERE: http://on.fb.me/lhVt1W

THEN: SHEFFIELD - Saturday 25th June – at DQ – TICKETS:http://www.gretanova.com/indelicates/ We’ve never played in Sheffield before, so especially EXCITED about this one!

LONDON SHOW, END OF THE TOUR is @ The Monarch, CAMDEN on Wednesday 13th July. COME: http://on.fb.me/mlYbWI

SUPER SPECIAL EDITIONS

http://corporaterecords.co.uk/koresh/preorder.html

Be among the first to get your hands on the CD release of David Koresh Superstar – the incredible new record from The Indelicates.

The 15 track, CD album is Available as is – or signed by Simon and Julia with a 92 page book containing all the lyrics, (very) extensive footnotes, a Q&A and suggestions for further reading. This is your chance to get in ahead of the curve and before the world ends on May 21st.

We will be making vinyl and very special editions later in the year. If you think you’re likely to want a special edition later, don’t worry – we’ll deduct the cost of any purchase you make now from the final price of the special edition package.

If you can’t see the point of CDs – we understand! The album will be digitally released at 00:01, May 16th.

For a limited time you’ll be able to download it on a Pay-What-You-Can basis from corporaterecords.co.uk.

We will be webcasting and previewing songs live from 11:30pm on May 15th to celebrate – follow @theindelicates on twitter or keep an eye on our facebook page or indelicates.com for further details.

The Book Of Job The Musical:
The Original Cast Recording
To Be Released As Two Download Albums
Act One
Monday 28th February 2011
Act Two
Monday 7th March 2011

While the world waits with baited breath for the release of The Indelicates’ ludicrously amazing concept masterwork, David Koresh Superstar – we thought it was the perfect time to unleash on the world this live studio recording of Simon and Julia’s last foray into the realm of ill-advised theatricality. Written and first performed in 2005, Simon’s musical was a fringe hit at the Brighton Festival and has been intermittently played all over the place since – including to sell out crowds at the Edinburgh and Cheltenham Literature festivals.

These albums, recorded as live by Keith Top Of The Pops at Dean Street Studios and performed on a broken acoustic guitar with some brilliant, obliging performers and no money, capture the rough and raucous attitude of the original show and may well constitute the first DIY punk-as-fuck original cast recording of an epic biblical musical of the Digital Economy era.

Alongside Simon and Julia, the musical features the vocal talents of former My Name Is Red and now dEAD cARS singer Chris Hodges as Job, acclaimed folk singer Mary Hampton, proper actress Sarah Pinkney, radical (and surprisingly tuneful) journalist Laurie Penny, rampant poet/messiah Michael Parker, axe wielding rock lothario Al Clayton and includes a slightly odd cameo from legendary David Devant and his Spirit Wife front-man, The Vessel.

Act One – in which God conspires with Satan to prove that wealthy man of the east, Job, is a righteous man by being really unpleasant to him – will be released on Monday (Feb 28th) as a pay-what-you-like download.

Act Two – in which God and Satan give Job Syphillis and his friends annoy him – will be released the following monday (Mar 7th) for a minimum price of £5.

We hope you don’t mind us mandatorily charging a little bit for the second half, but we are coming quite close to bankrupting ourselves with the money we’re spending to make David Koresh Superstar sound amazing. Also, the musical is, like, an hour and a half long and was really hard to write.

***David Koresh Superstar Release Date News Coming VERY SOON,***
XX
Simon and Julia Indelicate, 24th Feb, 2011

With loving,

Julia Indelicate X