Just had the BEST time with Danny Tenaglia at Output in Brooklyn. Vinyl 10th year re-union. Chris x
Pet Texts
Pet Texts archive: April 2014
We’ve stayed in this lovely hotel a couple of times but never again. Why? Check out the link below.
Having a couple days off after an epic drive and performance at Coachella yesterday. See you at Moogfest. Chris
We’ve just driven from Phoenix to near Coachella. Back for our second performance at the festival later. It doesn’t seem to be windy like last week which is good news! Neil
Hope some of you managed to get a copy of the “Fluorescent” 12″! Neil x (Review from NME)
Amazing what you can do with cardboard and silver foil…
They’ve spent months sewing on thousands of plastic straws and the pointy hat lights up. Brilliant.
Last year I sang on a track by the Berlin electronic duo, Diamond Version (Olaf Bender and Carsten Nicolai). It will appear on their debut album, “CI”, to be released by Mute on June 2nd (May 30th Germany/Australia/Benelux; June 3rd USA). The track is called “Were You There?” and is a collaborative version of an old gospel hymn which you can hear now at the Soundcloud link below. Neil x
Visited the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas to see his strangely fascinating paintings of world leaders. There’s a replica Oval Office there… Neil x
This amazing family have gone to a lot of effort with their outfits for tonight. And travelled to Dallas from Oklahoma. Bravo! Neil x
We had an exciting first night at Coachella. Drove through a sandstorm to get there and had to adapt the production because of high winds and sand and dust in the air on site. But the great audience made it worthwhile. Back next Saturday! Neil x
to Indio. Chris x
Not easy getting in.
We’re going to be starting work on a new issue of our magazine, Literally, in a couple of weeks and we’d like to answer some of your questions in it. If you have a question for us, send it in an email to info@beckerbrown.com with the subject “Letters” and you might find it answered in the next Literally. All emails must be received by midnight on Thursday, April 24th. Neil
We stopped at San Simeon on the drive down from San Francisco today. Great show in Oakland last night! Neil x
Now that’s a Californian lunch! Neil x
Elephant seals on the beach at San Simeon, California. Neil x
Driving from Oakland to San Francisco after rehearsals. Nice to be back on tour. Neil x
We just received these from Japan! Thanks xx Neil
We are very sad to hear that the legendary Frankie Knuckles has died. The word “legendary” is rather overused these days, but Frankie Knuckles was a true dance legend and a pioneer of house music. We were honoured to work with him in 1988 when he did his brilliant dark mix of “I want a dog”. It was so exciting to drive out to Jersey City to hear this mix for the first time in his studio and then drive back to New York with the mix on repeat. We were thrilled with it and included it on our album, Introspective. In 1990 Frankie came over to London to play at Chris’s birthday party at Brixton Academy and enthralled the crowd with his brilliant set. In the early days, House music was referred to as “Chicago House” after the city where it was invented — it was great to visit the city last year and see that a street had been named after the music’s inventor: Frankie Knuckles Way. Love and respect forever. xx