The Saints – Long March Through The Jazz Age (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
This posthumous release by Chris Bailey’s The Saints, was seven years in the making, started in 2018, but not completed until three years after his death.
This posthumous release by Chris Bailey’s The Saints, was seven years in the making, started in 2018, but not completed until three years after his death.
Aussie punk pioneers The Saints, led by vocalist Chris Bailey, recorded one last album before his death in 2022, now titled, Long March Through The Jazz Age.
Out today, two new tracks from The Saints record Long March Through The Jazz Age (out 28th November via Fire Records).
Ed Kuepper co-founded The Saints in 1973 and made music history with debut single, I’m Stranded in 1976. Now Ed has formed The Saints ’73-’78 along with drummer Ivor Hay and ringers Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds) and Mark Arm (Mudhoney).
The Saints ’73 -’78 announce their New Zealand debut this spring, with concerts at The Powerstation in Auckland on 31 October and Meow Nui in Wellington on 1 November, before they head north to the UK and US.
The Dirty Three have just released Love Changes Everything…at least physically…the digital version is out this Friday. Here is Jim White to tell us how and why he, Warren Ellis and Mick Turner reunited to make this, their first new album in 12 years.
Chris Bailey, of Australian punk legends, The Saints has died at age 65.
Serge Ou made Stranded, a film about The Saints and their groundbreaking 1976 single of the same name, about 5 years ago. Now you can watch it on DocPlay from Thursday, October 7th.