its almost ready its almost done the video i filmed of the church on tour in 1990 here we all are fresh faced and youthful and…smiling…. theres concert footage theres backstage footage on the bus footage at the airport footage in the restaurants and cafes footage meeting the fans jamming and being interviewed footage its all here some amazing stuff (for instance when i film the little old lady who would be on the cover of jack frost ) there we are travelling around covering all corners of the globe long distance century buzzes and fades youll be able to purchase it soon for the first time the real behind the scenes stuff never before seen by anybody anywhere ladies and gentlemen here is a sneak preview
humming the sacred song of the city my blessing all strewn i come to a gate forever beyond it lies merciful fields goldenest pastures of brilliant birds within velvet shallows and folds in the curtain within glades of witch and in hazel veneer up sidewalks of hollywood in creepy old houses on afternoons 23 years ago days come and go like ants in the eyes of a camera the vision is naked in the woods and the cliffs and the track and the fawn in the broken down river drowning in memory in the tumbledown hill in a million lives in a jar with the wind whistling in it rattle snake skin newly shed on the way troughs of time when you slump its quite pleasant slipping away down the tunnel ahead where you never said
the fragmenting collisions of our worlds we are flung far out then out past the mirror we look inside then inside where the damage is what tender humility scabbed over with pride i am adrift then adrift in the quietude before life in the endless morning of potential where i learn to sing i learn to sing that song about every other song in the breathless time of dawn i begin my song the words are shadows the drums are the knocks in the plumbing in some distant apartment the bass is the traffic groaning in avenues of cars the guitars are the one hundred planes in the sky above the piano is the ringing in my own ears the strings are the curtains flailing in the wind the choir is the hum of great buses spitting out passengers the sea fog slightly mutes all the notes i am playing at a bar on the new jersey coast underground in a blue room i strum my 12 string guitar i open my mouths and out comes my voices i open my voices out comes the stories how the swallowed land recedes from us still out of our memories out of our earshots black madonna in a painting by jean paul mozart study the methods and layers of appearances understand the subtle lapses in seconds when your god could rush in or your devil rush in or your crooked lines straightened with no delicious painkiller or your miracle escape from the prisons of heaven or the time you walked home by the light of a star or your allegations that live in a swamp called desire or your shabby excellence in putting it off or your song about alaska making it hot deep in these caves the songs [...]
it looks like the wind but its not the wind it sounds like snow but its not snow it tastes like the clouds but its not the clouds it smells like steel but its not steel it moves like stone but its not stone it meanders like a life but its not a life it cries like a city but its not a city it drowns like your love but its not your love it talks like a day but its not a day it waits like a flood but its not a flood its beautiful like condensation but its not condensation it flashes like darkness but its not darkness its mouth is like a riverbank but its not a riverbank it seems like forever but its not forever it seems like only yesterday but it is not only yesterday it hurts like hell but it is not hell this thing
An absolute must-listen if you want to know the kind of music that makes Marty tick. As you probably know, he's an avid record collector and you'll hear that come through loud and clear in this interview with Ed and Gaz from East Village Radio. The show is called Off The Record.
Online magazine Qro talks to Steve about the 2010 and how they've used technology over the years. There's a really nice picture with the interview too, so take a look at the original.
Autumn Andel wrote a great review of this big show on a tiny stage. It's originally published at http://www.qromag.com/reviews/concert_reviews/the_church/ and has a lot of nice pictures too.
Very nice interview with Marty by InFrame.tv, talking about the band's chemistry. There's some great concert video (too short!) and don't forget to click the "outtake" button for a description of how the band writes together. More guesswork is involved than you might think!
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