They may not be as popular as their earlier work, but they’re still doing their thing, which means they’re basically the Woody Allen of music.Īnd here’s the other thing: They’re playing in The Academy in Dublin on Saturday 29th of November! I’m not quite as nimble or as excitable as I was when I was eighteen… but this could still be a mega laugh. I didn’t know this, but aside from 2012, my first year in college was the only year that Electric Six didn’t release a new album. Maybe I was aware of the release of their second album in 2005, but they lead with a cover of Radio Ga Ga by Queen, and so maybe it didn’t catch people’s imaginations in quite the same way.
I didn’t hear much about Electric Six after that. It was huge and different and funny and exciting. There is no way not to dance to the singles from that album. That is to say that I made a load of new friends and went dancing about three times a week. I definitely know that half the people who are there, that's why they’re there and I don’t fight that.In 2003 Electric Six released an album called Fire. “So I bring everybody up on stage if you're in the room you get to come up and sing 'Gay Bar' and I do that midway during the set as a way to get everyone involved. “What I do for 'Gay Bar', it’s a celebration of the song that pays my mortgage,” Dick laughs. When it comes to playing acoustic versions of classic E6 songs, Dick says that while a song like 'High Voltage' doesn't translate well, 'Gay Bar' takes pride of place on the set list. Producer, Mixed By, Engineer Recording & Mix Stuart Bradbury. “I feel like coming to do the acoustic shows will be like doing a preview, teaser, recon, whatever you want to call it, and we’ll drum it up and we’ll get it going.” Engineer Additional Jim Diamond (2) Engineer Assistant Recording John Smerek. I’m going to meet everyone in the room after the show, pour a few drinks and I really enjoy doing that.”Įlectric Six fans may be pleased to know that Dick’s solo tour also pre-empts a potential return for the band to our shores, hopefully sooner rather than later. These acoustic shows, if I’m lucky and have 150 people that’s probably the most you could expect. darn mortgage and truck payments have to come first over my love of music sadly. I listen to this and the rest of the Electric Six stuff nonstop at work on youtube until I can just buy the rest in one go. This is definitely one of my favorite music albums of all time.
I travel at my own pace, do whatever set I want to do and be very interactive with the fans. Gay Bar - Silly rhymes about going to a Gay Bar. “It’s very different to the band, it’s kind of the yin to the yang of that. “I love doing the acoustic shows, I have a lot of fun with it,” he says. As long as I’m down there I might as well do some shows.”Īs the leader of a band that has gained cult status with salacious, crotch-pumping rock anthems such as ‘Gay Bar’ and ‘High Voltage’, Dick says the acoustic shows offer a very different experience for both him and the audience. “The impetus for doing this acoustic tour is one of our biggest fans is Australian and in the last seven or eight years she’s come to see us in North America and Europe a lot, and she’s having a birthday party and wanted me to come down and play it. “The band has taken me twice – once in 2004 and once in 2005 – and that’s been it,” he says. Last here with Electric Six, Dick has a very different reason for his upcoming solo jaunt. Real name Tyler Spencer, Dick returns to Australia for the first time in 15 years for his solo acoustic ‘Destructour’. After Bush and his poodle Blair launched the Iraq invasion, some made a very satirical video. “None of it makes sense and I can’t quite get my head around it, but I’m very lucky it’s going the way it’s going.” Remember Electric Sixs hit, Gay Bar This opened with the lines Girl, Im going to take you to a gay bar. “I would have thought by now they would have taken us out to a field and shot us,” Dick says. Electric Six have just had one of their best touring years ever, and outrageous frontman Dick Valentine says he just doesn’t understand.