"Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone"
Goodbye Jeffrey Lee
Older News
March 2003
On the night of Friday November 22nd, 2002, Dutch radio station VPRO transmitted an almost 60 minutes
special on The Gun Club and Jeffrey Lee Pierce, with some great recordings taken from the VPRO vaults ...
At the end of the show this website is mentioned as an excellent source on The Gun Club!
Well, it was the webmaster of this website who suggested doing this special ...
-check bootlegs section for details-
October 22, 2002
"HORSE POWER"
Last summer a new Gun Club bootleg LP has been released!
live at the Town & Country Club, Kentish Town, London, England, October 1987
-check bootlegs section for details-
June 15, 2002
The band LONELY LEMURS will be doing a Gun Club set for a couple of gigs this month in Brighton, UK!
dates: Thursday June 20th at the Hobgoblin (9 till late)
Friday June 28th at The Freebutt - early start at 8 to 8.45 (support to Blondie and Ramones tribute band)
March 15, 2002
ARGENTINIAN TRIBUTE CD RELEASED TODAY!!!
"EL FUEGO DEL AMOR"
8 canciones de Jeffrey Lee Pierce y the gun club
por sergio rotman y amigos
-check compilation section of the discography for more details-
April 28, 2001:
OUT NOW:
"Bad Indians", a private non-profit 7" single TRIBUTE to the Gun Club
(ltd. edition of 300)
-check compilation section of the discography for more details-
March 24, 2001: from NME's news section:"Former SCREAMING TREES singer MARK LANEGAN will release his fifth solo LP through SUB POP on May 8. "Field Songs" also includes a track penned by Lanegan with former Gun Club lead singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce. "Kimiko's Dream House" is one of the last songs written by the singer before his death in 1996. Lanegan paid tribute to his friend by covering The Gun Club's "Carry Home" (from their "Miami" LP) on "I'll Take Care Of You"."
-read the 'full' story on NME's website, follow the link above (thanks Matt)-
Note: The new Mark Lanegan was finally released in June ...
March 2001
-more cover news-
-check compilation section of the discography for more details-
Released on Bloodshot Records, The Sadies' new album "Tremendous Efforts",
including a version of "Mother Of Earth"
Early this year the U.S. glam punk band The Beatings released a cover version of
"Sex Beat" as b-side on their 7" single "The Ballad Of Jimmy & Jenny"
January 16, 2001:
Rhino Records reissued "The Fire Of Love" album,
unfortunately without bonus tracks (as rumoured before)
December 2000:
Buddha Records reissued the
2.13.61 Records/Thirsty Ear CD-releases of
"Mother Juno" from 1996, and "Pastoral Hide & Seek"/"Divinity" from 1997
(including the bonus tracks from those releases)
October 2000:
According to the Rhino Upcoming Releases
page there will be another
reissue of "The Fire Of Love" album on January 16, 2001
Also said is that it will have bonus tracks (to be confirmed)
August/September 2000:
A 'new' bootleg called "The Enigma Of Desire" has been released
live in Rotterdam and Amsterdam 1983
this turns out to be just a re-package of the "Moonlight Motel" bootleg
(thanks Rick & Andrea!)
-check bootlegs and tapes section of the discography for more details-
June 2000:
addition August 2000:
Norwegian band Madrugada covers
Gun Club's "Mother Of Earth" (cool version!)
-check compilation section of the discography for more details-
Just found out that Madrugada is the same as The Silver Band (see below)
April 2000:
The Gun Club debut album "The Fire Of Love" reissued by
Last Call Records
from France to celebrate the album's 20th anniversary
The Music Magazine MOJO lists THE GUN CLUB among the
100 ESSENTIAL CULT HEROES in their February 2000 issue (#75),
and THIS SITE is given to get MORE INFO!
(Click the cover to see what it's all about - thanks Mark!)
COVER NEWS
RELEASED AUTUMN 1999:
"Frozen: A Selection Of Polarized Country"
various artists 2CD-set, including 26 scandinavian bands,
on which The Silver Band covers a Gun Club song!
(more details unknown - thanks Leo!)
MARK LANEGAN (Screaming Trees vocalist)
COVER ALBUM out on September 22, 1999,
INCLUDING GUN CLUB's "CARRY HOME"
(great version!)
-check compilation section of the discography for more details-
"NEW" JEFFREY LEE PIERCE TRACK RELEASED (APRIL 1999)
-check compilation section of the discography for all details-JEFFREY LEE PIERCE BOOK OUT SINCE OCTOBER 1998!
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce book "Go Tell The Mountain", scheduled to be issued by 2.13.61 Publications in August 1998, and said to have been postponed until early 1999, has actually been issued October 26, 1998 (thanks to Andy Sztehlo)!
