Join Paul Draper for an ‘Attack Of The Grey Lantern’ LISTENING PARTY on TWITTER at 9pm tonight, hosted by Tim Burgess using the hashtag #timstwitterlisteningparty. Have ‘Attack Of The Grey Lantern’ ready to play, relax and tell us your stories and Paul will share his (well not all of them!), and ask questions galore! See you at 9pm tonight. DMx … Read More
Check out Paul’s interview for XSNOIZE conducted over Zoom. In it he talks about life under lockdown, Mansun and The Dead Flowers Reject, due to be released on Record Store Day, and his forthcoming second solo album and tour. You can find the interview HERE
Tim Burgess’s Listening Parties on Twitter have become a popular feature of the CORVID-19 pandemic. Next week parties will be held on two consecutive nights for Mansun’s iconic albums ‘Attack Of The Grey Lantern’ and ‘Six’ hosted by Mansun frontman Paul Draper. Dates and times are: Wednesday May 6th at 9pm (BST) … Attack Of The Grey Lantern Thursday May … Read More
SPRING SALE! Kscope are offering a full 25% off the Special Edition 4 disc box set of ‘Attack Of The Grey Lantern’ in a sale at their online store, Burning Shed. It now costs only £29.99 for a limited time only. The lavish 3CD + DVD special edition includes: The remastered original album; A CD crammed with never before heard … Read More
Paul has posted about his life living under the COVID-19 lockdown. He writes Just been out of the house for first time in a while. I live alone so very weird. As you can see I’ve upgraded my mask but it turns my ears into the cop terminator out of terminator 2. Seriously though I have posted a batch of … Read More
24 years ago, Mansun had their first chart hit with their very first EP, ‘One EP’, which sparked a run of 14 consecutive top 40 EPs. One of the fans’ favourite tracks from ‘One EP’ is ‘Ski Jump Nose’, which seems apt in these times, as the chorus lyric is ‘WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER’! Happy Anniversary One EP and … Read More
BBC News have reported on 2020’s Record Store Day, and included Mansun’s ‘The Dead Flowers Reject’ as one of the best 14 releases. Paul is quoted as saying that ‘The Dead Flowers Reject’ was recorded at the same time as Mansun’s second album Six, as a more commercial “insurance policy” in case the label rejected the main project. It is … Read More
Finally available after 22 years of waiting for an official release , this year’s Record Store Day sees the release of the legendary lost Mansun album ‘The Dead Flowers Reject’. ‘The Dead Flowers Reject’ was recorded at the same time as the cult classic and No.1 vinyl chart album ‘Six’, and can finally be heard for the first time, beautifully … Read More
Paul has announced he will be doing the honours at the opening ceremony for the new ‘Grey Lantern’ Live Music venue in Birmingham on Friday 13th March at 8.45pm. Posting on his Facebook page he writes “I’M OFFICIALLY OPENING THE GREY LIVE MUSIC LANTERN VENUE IN BRUM, YEEESSS!!!!!! I’m genuinely gobsmacked about this but it’s a real honour that I’ve … Read More