Broken Talk features haunting lead vocals by John “Gaoler” , who has been working with Gang of Four for over a year now, both on stage and in the studio. It is enhanced and underpinned by the spare, hard-edged, driving beat of long-time Gang of Four members Mark Heaney, on drums, and Thomas McNeice, on bass.

Broken Talk and other new material gets its live debut during Gang of Four’s forthcoming tour to China and Japan; dates below. Further dates will be announced soon.  A Chinese language version of Broken Talk has also been recorded featuring on vocals Lu Di from AV Okubo and Hua Dong from Rebuilding the Rights of Statues.

Listen to Broken Talk here.

Gang of Four – China, Japan, March 2013

20 – Beijing, Yugong Yishan

21 – Shanghai, Mao Livehouse

23 – Tokyo, Shimokitazawa Garden

24 – Tokyo, Shimokitazawa Garden

 The special edition of  ‘Content’ has several books in it.  Each book has a word embossed on the cover: music, words, smells, emotions, blood and history.  ‘Music’ contains the record. ‘Words’, the lyrics. In the book of our emotions each member of the band acted out what are thought to be irreducible emotions; like happiness, anger and so on, and we were photographed. The photographs were then rotoscoped, adding distance between the emotion and the viewer. There is a book of smells.  Several smells have been printed onto the pages of a book, and you can turn pages and put different words with each smell. The word might say ‘sex’  or ‘labour ‘, or something else, and you can figure out which is which.  We have also included some of our blood, diluted. History is a book that opens out like a map. There are 20 images which shows our version of the history of the last 30 years or so. This picture is of Berlusconi. He may not be the Italian prime minister anymore, but he was quite entertaining while it lasted. This picture shows him with a hooker, ejaculating, possibly at a ‘bunga bunga’ party. He can only get away with his craziness because he’s been able to take over and control so much of the  information that  the Italian people get.

More videos can be found here.

Andy with The Kills at Metropolis Studios

Andy with Cage The Elephant at Sarm West Studios

More photos from the studio can be found here.

Gang of four performed two songs, ‘Not Great Men’ & ‘Do As I Say’, at the BBC studios in Maida Vale for The Old Grey Whistle test 40th Anniversary radio programs. They were interviewed by the legendary Bob Harris about one of their original performances on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

This will be broadcast in Show 11 in the first week of November on BBC radio 2 at 10pm.

Original performance of ‘To Hell With Poverty!’ on the Old Grey Whistle Test (1981)

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