Avebury Records 2003 News ArchiveCDs For Sale!: December 2003December 26: Today is the official release date for Battery Life's Shotgun Loudmouth, The Mighty Stars' The Mighty Stars Are Go! and Action Now's All Your Dreams...and more CDs. If you don't like buying online, you can now ask your friendly local record store to order the CDs from Parasol and CTD! Also, don't forget the Kjehl Johansen 2-CD box set, Pie & Isolation, which is currently available direct from Avebury Records and at CDBaby. December 22: European fans of Action Now can buy All Your Dreams...and more from Soundflat Mailorder in Germany. Thanks to Soundflat for featuring the Action Now CD on its home page! Yes, we know Soundflat is trying to sell the CD, but we did appreciate their description: "Insane 27 (!!) track CD incl. all the incredible cool songs of Action Now (feat. Paula Pierce of Pandoras' fame..!) Some of the best Powerpop you can get." Also, we missed Action Now being mentioned in ICE Magazine. It was in #197's "From The Vaults" back in August. December 20: Daredevil
Magazine has published a review of The Mighty Stars' The Mighty Stars
Are Go! EP: "This is the best Garage Pop I´ve heard in a while. This is happy music...imagine the Housemartins would go Punk. Great stuff. Daredevil's Ralf Burkart also had something nice to say about Avebury Records: "First of all I have to say that Avebury Records seems to have a good hand for signing fantastic young bands in the Garage genre." Thanks, Ralf, we'll try to keep up the good work! December 16: England's Logo Magazine has review both Action Now's Action Now's All Your Dreams...and More and Battery Life's Shotgun Loudmouth. About Action Now, Logo's Gillian Nash said, "Though they tended toward a power-pop version of Rezillos, in places they also prefigured the likes of Orange Juice and the whole C86 movement. As the live segment shows, they were a far more powerful proposition live, illustrated by See If You Can, sounding like a chirpy, suntanned Jam." The review of Battery Life, also by Gillian Nash, pointed out that "Californiaís Battery Life sound like The Waterboys might had they studied Harry Smithís Anthology Of American Folk Music rather than the bottom of Van Morrisonís beermat, and speak of the direction that Josh Rouse might have travelled had he hooked up with Paul Westerberg." December 15: Daredevil
Magazine was very enthusiastic in their review of Battery Life's Shotgun
Loudmouth: "Wow...this is the disc which is spinnin´ in my CD-Player for a week now and it´s not gettin´ boring. Why?...cause the three guys of Battery Life are damn good musicians and the now how to make catchy songs with a lot of heart and emotion in it! Shotgun Loudmouth is so full of variety,
cause Battery Life mixes Pop with Punk and put some Country and
Garage to it. December 13: Daredevil
Magazine in Germany has reviewed Action Now's All Your Dreams...and
More. Here's a bit of what Daredevil Magazine "inventor"
Ralf Burkart had to say: "This album contains 12 studio songs which are so huge and groovin´...you have to dance to this...plus...a live concert from 1981...a really good one. All in all the best Garage stuff I heard in a long, long time. December 9: There's new stuff up on the Action Now history pages, including info on v.3 of The Direct Hits, the debut of the v.2 photo gallery, plus more pictures of The Rage, including Paula Pierce in the recording studio for the first time (1978, in Simi Valley, CA) and outside the Whisky A-Go-Go (1977) on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. December 2: The Mighty Stars promise that their next show "is gonna be a real tip-top night. It's basically our Christmas party and we're gonna be playing with Bucky and Hacksaw who are two of our favourite Bristol bands! This is gonna be a fantastic show and all those who attend will leave with big grins and warmed hearts. This gig is on Tuesday, 16th December and will take place at The Croft in Bristol. There'll be mince pies, mulled wine and maybe if we can persuade him, Kim Fowley dressed up like Father Christmas!" Then, just before The Mighty Stars invade Holland, they'll be playing Saturday, January 10th at The Dirty Rider Club at the Southern K in Kilburn, London. Just a reminder, you can catch the boys in Amsterdam (Tuesday, January 13 @ The Paradiso), Groningen (Thursday, January 15 @ The Vera) and at a location-to-be-determined in Rotterdam. November 2003November 25: Battery Life will be playing at 10pm on Friday, November 28 at The Thunderbird Saloon at 4657 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood (phone: 818.766.4644). Battery Life is playing with Calavera and Deadbolt. You'll be able to buy Battery Life's Shotgun Loudmouth at both of these shows. If you can't make the show, you'll still need their CD. Get it here. November 22: There are some new mp3 files in the Sounds department. Check them out, then Buy Something! Also, The Rage Gallery has been redesigned a bit, and another couple dozen photos have been added. Now you can check out Paula Pierce, Don Williams, Sue Greenberg and Robin Cullen in the studio recording Jagged Time Lapse and Signals with Bill Inglot (and Gary Stewart hanging out), plus some shots of The Rage outside The Whisky in 1977. November 12: Battery Life will be playing at 8pm on Friday, November 14, at 51 Buckingham at 310 W. 2nd Street in Pomona, CA (just a few blocks from the old Action Now practice room!). Also on the bill are The Willowz (incredible teenage garage band), The Deacons and Deep Fried Blues. After that, the next Battery Life show is on Friday, November 28, (the day after Thanksgiving) at The T-Bird in North Hollywood with Calavera and Deadbolt. More info on this show as it becomes available. You'll be able to buy Battery Life's Shotgun Loudmouth at both of these shows. If you can't make the shows, you'll still need their CD. Get it here. November 10: Battery Life's debut CD, Shotgun Loudmouth, is now available for sale in our Buy Something! department. The CD is $10, postpaid worldwide. November 7: The Mighty Stars are touring the Netherlands in January. You can catch the boys in Amsterdam (Tuesday, January 13 @ The Paradiso), Groningen (Thursday, January 15 @ The Vera) and at a location-to-be-determined in Rotterdam. November 1: We've added some more pictures to the Action Now history pages. You'll see them in The Direct Hits (v.1) gallery. The photos by Allison Lomath include shots taken live, during soundcheck and backstage in 1980. Also, the Battery Life CD, Shotgun Loudmouth, is at Discmakers and in the last steps of production! October 2003October 23: We're back from England, where we saw the International Pop Overthrow Festival at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. Great bands we saw on the last two nights included Avebury Records' own The Mighty Stars, plus The Loves, The Get-Outs, Captain Soul, Bronco Bullfrog and many others. Earlier on the trip, we met with Twinkie in Derby and got the artwork for their up-coming debut long-playing CD on Avebury Records. We also saw a fantastic show by The Nice at De Montfort Hall in Leicester. October 13: The Kjehl Johansen limited edition (100 total), signed and numbered two-CD box set, Pie & Isolation, is now available for sale direct from Avebury Records. Just click on Buy Something! to purchase Kjehl Johansen, The Mighty Stars or the Action Now CDs. October 8: The Mighty Stars EP CD, The Mighty Stars Are Go!, is now available for sale direct from Avebury Records. Just click on Buy Something! to purchase The Mighty Stars or the Action Now CDs. October 1: Battery Life will be playing live, this Friday, October 3, at 9pm at the Anarchy Library at 13250 Woodruff Avenue in Downey, California (562-803-9134). It's a great club and worth checking out if you're in the Los Angeles or Orange County areas. Battery Life is playing with the single-gender (fem) Go Betty Go and multi-lingual (Spanish and English) Calavera. September 2003September 25: Photos of The Direct Hits (v.1 1979-1980) have been uploaded! See Paula, Don, Jim and Scott live at Woodrow Wilson High School in East Los Angeles. September 24: Kjehl will be playing with his band this Friday, September 26, at the Knitting Factory's Alterknit Lounge as part of the CD release party for Davie Allan and the Arrows, LA Weekly's top instrumental band of the year for 1999 and a cult favorite since the 1960's. Also on the bill, the newly reconstituted Human Hands. Warning: Set times will be 30 minutes long and will start early and on time. It is still up in the air as to whether Kjehl will open up the evening at 8pm sharp or go on second at 8:40pm. Play it safe, show up 8pm and you won't miss a thing. The live music is over by 10pm. Honest. So don't be fashionably late! Doors open at 7:30pm and there's a $7 cover charge. September 23: The Mighty Stars will be appearing live in-session on the Bristol Uncovered show on Star FM (107.3 FM in the Bristol, UK area on Monday, September 29 from 9pm to 10pm. The Stars will be playing tracks off The Mighty Stars Are Go! EP on Avebury Records, as well as chatting about their recent rock 'n' roll adventuresógatecrashing In The City, hanging out with the legendary Kim Fowley, playing The Dirty Water Club and getting into trouble in darkest deepest Devon. September 22: Go see The Mighty Stars! The boys are playing Wednesday, September 24 at The Dirty Water Club in Harpers Bar in The Boston in London (with the legendary Kim Fowley, plus The Dirty, Steven T and some wild special guests); Sunday, October 19 at the International Pop Overthrow Festival, The Cavern Club in Liverpool; and back in Bristol at The Croft again with The Flakes, The Bobbyteens and The Durty Burds on Saturday, November 22. Check The Mighty Stars website for more info on these shows. Plus, another chapter in The Action Now Story has been addedóVersion 1 of The Direct Hits, 1979-1880. September 20: The Action Now CD, All Your Dreams...and more, is now available for sale direct from Avebury Records. Just click on Buy Something! September 9: If you haven't checked out our links page, take a look. If you have, we added a few links today! September 3: The Action Now CD, All Your
Dreams...and more, is in the process of being manufactured. You
should be able to order special pre-release copies on this site on
September 15! We are also working to have the Kjehl Johansen Pie
& Isolation two-CD box set ready for sale on this site by
that same date. Each box will be signed and numbered by Kjehl, with
the lowest numbers available to purchasers ordering directly from
Avebury Records. August 2003August 27: Kjehl Johansen will be playing at a record release party for Davie Allan & The Arrows, along with Human Hands at The Knitting Factory's Alterknit Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, September 26. Tickets are only $7, and you might just have a chance to get your signed and numbered pre-official release copy of Kjehl's Pie & Isolation two-CD box set on Avebury Records. If you can't wait for that show, Kjehl will be playing at The Buccaneer in Sierra Madre on Sunday, August 31. Joining Kjehl will be the Human Hands and Kjehl's first band, The Urinals. Admission is free, though you have to be at least 21 to get in. Be sure to show up by 9:30 pm so you can check out the Human Hands. Don't forget, this is Labor Day Weekend so you probably don't have to get up early on Monday. August 22: The Mighty Stars have some shows coming up throughout England. If you haven't seen them, you are truly missing out! Wednesday, August 27 at The Croft in Bristol; Saturday, September 14 at In The City, Picadilly Gardens in Manchester (with the legendary Kim Fowley); Sunday, October 19 at the International Pop Overthrow Festival, The Cavern Club in Liverpool; and back in Bristol at The Croft again with The Flakes, The Bobbyteens and The Durty Burds on Saturday, November 22. Check The Mighty Stars website for more info on these shows. August 17: Over 30 live pictures of The Digits from 1979 are up. Check them out in the Action Now story. August 11: The first four installments of the Action Now story are up! Lots of pictures and lots to read! The story starts with Paula Pierce at age 14! July 2003July 30: Action Now played its first show in 20 years as part of the International Pop Overthrow festival. Replacing the late Paula Pierce was Kristi Callan (of Wednesday Week and solo fame) on vocals and 12-string Rickenbacker guitar, and Chris Bagarozzi (of Clawhammer, Midget Handjob fame, and Paula's replacement in Action Now in 1983!) on lead guitar. Drummer Scott Hillman was unavailable for the show, so Kelly Callan (also of Wednesday Week) filled in on drums. The show was at The Echo, in Los Angeles on July 29. The set consisted of I Can't Get Over You, Stop Pretending, This One Chance, I Want You, Try, Anyone But You and I'm Not Trying To Hurt You. Check out photos from the show here. If you missed the show, all is not lost. There will be a record release party this fall when All Your Dreams...and more is released. As a bonus, it will be the first reunion show will all three surviving original members! Artists | Buy Something! | Discography | Gigs | Sounds | Links | Mailing List | FAQ | Contact |
