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		<title>Henry Rollins to release photography book Occupants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Banks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/henry-rollins-to-release-photography-book-occupants-170811' addthis:title='Henry Rollins to release photography book Occupants ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>Henry Rollins: hardcore punk icon, spoken word performer, novelist, publisher, actor (his role as A.J. Weston the white-supremist in Sons of Anarchy being his biggest and best role yet), activist&#8230; and now, photographer. From October 2011 you can add &#8216;published photographer&#8217; to Henry Rollins credits, with the release of his book of photographs and writings titled Occupants. Rollins globe-trotting travels have long provided him with many memorable anecdotes that he has shared around the world with this spoken word gigs. Now fans can get a visual perspective to Henry Rollins travels, with Occupants. As to be expected, Henry Rollins photographs are not your usual travel-bug&#8217;s snaps of beaches and architecture, but instead feature shots of volatile places including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, North Korea, and Vietnam – with &#8220;penetrating observations and incisive essays&#8221; to accompany Henry&#8217;s photos. &#8220;As I traveled and took more photographs I came to the conclusion that the book had to be more than merely a collection of images. If you are a real photographer, you could perhaps get away with that but not me. I am not a photographer, just someone with a lot of visas in his passport and a camera on his shoulder. The last thing [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/henry-rollins-to-release-photography-book-occupants-170811' addthis:title='Henry Rollins to release photography book Occupants '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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<strong>Henry Rollins</strong>: hardcore punk icon, spoken word performer, novelist, publisher, actor (his role as A.J. Weston the white-supremist in Sons of Anarchy being his biggest and best role yet), activist&#8230; and now, photographer. From October 2011 you can add &#8216;published photographer&#8217; to Henry Rollins credits, with the release of his book of photographs and writings titled <em>Occupants</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rollins globe-trotting travels have long provided him with many memorable anecdotes that he has shared around the world with this spoken word gigs. Now fans can get a visual perspective to Henry Rollins travels, with <em>Occupants</em>. As to be expected, Henry Rollins photographs are not your usual travel-bug&#8217;s snaps of beaches and architecture, but instead feature shots of volatile places including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, North Korea, and Vietnam – with &#8220;penetrating observations and incisive essays&#8221; to accompany Henry&#8217;s photos.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;As I traveled and took more photographs I came to the conclusion that the book had to be more than merely a collection of images. If you  are a real photographer, you could perhaps get away with that but not  me. I am not a photographer, just someone with a lot of visas in his  passport and a camera on his shoulder. The last thing I wanted was for  someone to think I was being pretentious. I thought about what I could  do to make the book be more time intensive on my part, so there would be  more for the person who endeavored to get the book. I came to the  conclusion that I would write something for each photo. In fact, I  would write two things; an impression of the photograph and a caption  that provided more of the practical information about where the image  was captured.</p>
<p>I decided to call the book Occupants. I figure that&#8217;s what we are. We get some time on the planet and that&#8217;s it.&#8221; &#8211; Henry Rollins</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Occupants will be released this October via Chicago Review Press. Pre-orders are now available via <a href="http://henryrollins.shop.musictoday.com/Dept.aspx?cp=14511_50420" target="_blank">Henry Rollins online store</a>, and will ship on or around 30 September. The first 2000 copies will be signed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, fans in Scotland take note: Henry Rollins returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this week for a pair of talking shows on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 August.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">©  Brian Banks, Editor,  Music Vice</p>
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		<title>Public Enemy, Lykke Li, Danzig and Slayer&#8230; that&#8217;s Fun Fun Fun Fest, this November in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Banks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/public-enemy-lykke-li-danzing-and-slayer-at-fun-fun-fun-fest-2011-030811' addthis:title='Public Enemy, Lykke Li, Danzig and Slayer&#8230; that&#8217;s Fun Fun Fun Fest, this November in Texas ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>Texas has another major musical festival on the map. The initial line-up for Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 has been announced, with a top bill of eclectic artists including Public Enemy, Lykke Li, Danzig and Slayer. Other names heading to Austin for the 4-6 November weekend include comedian Reggie Watts and Henry Rollins, who will be doing his spoken word shtick. There will be four main stages at the sixth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, bringing together bands from alternative, metal, hip-hop and comedy/spoken word genres. The complete line-up of artists appearing at FFFF can be viewed on the festival website. Tickets are now on sale, so get out your 10 gallon hat and cowboy spurs and head down to the dirty south for the biggest party this November&#8230; &#8217;cause guess what, it&#8217;s gonna be fun fun fun. © Brian Banks, Editor, Music Vice<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/public-enemy-lykke-li-danzing-and-slayer-at-fun-fun-fun-fest-2011-030811' addthis:title='Public Enemy, Lykke Li, Danzig and Slayer&#8230; that&#8217;s Fun Fun Fun Fest, this November in Texas '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Texas has another major musical festival on the map. The initial line-up for Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 has been announced, with a top bill of eclectic artists including <strong>Public Enemy</strong>, <strong>Lykke Li</strong>, <strong>Danzig</strong> and <strong>Slayer</strong>. Other names heading to Austin for the 4-6 November weekend include comedian <strong>Reggie Watts</strong> and <strong>Henry Rollins</strong>, who will be doing his spoken word shtick.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There will be four main stages at the sixth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, bringing together bands from alternative, metal, hip-hop and comedy/spoken word genres. The complete line-up of artists appearing at FFFF can be viewed on the <a href="http://funfunfunfest.com/artists/" target="_blank">festival website</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Tickets are now on sale, so get out your 10 gallon hat and cowboy spurs and head down to the dirty south for the biggest party this November&#8230; &#8217;cause guess what, it&#8217;s gonna be fun fun fun.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">© Brian Banks, Editor, Music Vice</p>
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		<title>Podcast: Radio Wunderbar ep. #4 – Henry Rollins 50th birthday hardcore special</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Banks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/podcasts/radio-wunderbar-episode-4' addthis:title='Podcast: Radio Wunderbar ep. #4 – Henry Rollins 50th birthday hardcore special ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>Episode 4 of Radio Wunderbar &#8211; Happy birthday Hank! Download: Radio Wunderbar Episode 4 [AAC podcast. 2 hours, 110 MB. Right-click and 'save as' to download.] About Radio Wunderbar #004 Sunday 13 February 2011 was Henry Rollin&#8217;s 50th birthday.  In tribute to Hank, this seemed like the perfect excuse to go off-track and play some oldschool hardcore! The first hour of episode 4 of Radio Wunderbar features a clip from an interview I did with Henry Rollins in 2010. Henry talks a bit about his spoken word work. The playlist features lots of HC and thrash &#8211; both old and new. Black Flag, Bad Brains, Fugazi and Minor Threat all featured and were played alongside some new hardcore and thrash including Downers Of The World Unite, Trash Talk, Urgent Blood, Fucked Up and Hunter City Madness. For the second half of the show, some lighter and mushier new indie music featured, as it was day before Valentine&#8217;s Day so everyone was in that lovey dovey mood. The show ends with regular RW guest segment &#8216;Parlez Vous Francais?&#8217; with Natascha Malta spinning a few new tracks from Quebec and France. Song of the show: &#8220;Third Beach&#8221; &#8211; Biljanaires Hope you enjoy [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/podcasts/radio-wunderbar-episode-4' addthis:title='Podcast: Radio Wunderbar ep. #4 – Henry Rollins 50th birthday hardcore special '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Episode 4 of Radio Wunderbar &#8211; Happy birthday Hank!<br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Download: <a href="http://www.musicvice.com/radiowunderbar/Radio Wunderbar Episode 4.m4a">Radio Wunderbar Episode 4</a> </span></strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">[AAC podcast. 2 hours, 110 MB. Right-click and 'save as' to download.]</span><strong><br />
</strong> <strong><br />
About Radio Wunderbar #004</strong><br />
Sunday 13 February 2011 was Henry Rollin&#8217;s 50th birthday.  In tribute to Hank, this seemed like the perfect excuse to go off-track and play some oldschool hardcore! The first hour of episode 4 of Radio Wunderbar features a clip from an interview I did with Henry Rollins in 2010. Henry talks a bit about his spoken word work. The playlist features lots of HC and thrash &#8211; both old and new. Black Flag, Bad Brains, Fugazi and Minor Threat all featured and were played alongside some new hardcore and thrash including <strong>Downers Of The World Unite, Trash Talk</strong>, <strong>Urgent Blood</strong>, <strong>Fucked Up</strong> and <strong>Hunter City Madness</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For the second half of the show, some lighter and mushier new indie music featured, as it was day before Valentine&#8217;s Day so everyone was in that lovey dovey mood. The show ends with regular RW guest segment &#8216;Parlez Vous Francais?&#8217; with Natascha Malta spinning a few new tracks from Quebec and France.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Song of the show: &#8220;Third Beach&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://www.myspace.com/biljanaires" target="_blank">Biljanaires</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Hope you enjoy the show! &#8211; Brian</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">© Brian Banks, Music Vice</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><em><strong>Listen to Radio Wunderbar every Sunday at from 5PM to 7PM EST online at Indie Love radio and catch the weekly podcast here on Music Vice.</strong></em></span></p>
<p>Related internet links:<br />
Indie Love: <a href="http://www.indielove.ca/">www.indielove.ca</a><br />
Henry Rollins: <a href="http://henryrollins.com/" target="_blank">www.henryrollins.com</a></p>
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		<title>Album Review: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches doing Dark Side of the Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 23:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Banks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/reviews/albums/the-flaming-lips-and-stardeath-and-white-dwarfs-with-henry-rollins-and-peaches-doing-dark-side-of-the-moon-030510' addthis:title='Album Review: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches doing Dark Side of the Moon ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>Title: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches doing Dark Side of the Moon Artist: The Flaming Lips, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Henry Rollins, Peaches Label: Warner Released: 4 May 2010 In one word: Freaky What we have here my friends, aside from the ridiculously long name, is some of the craziest minds of contemporary music rubbing their collective heads together to create their interpretation of one of the craziest albums ever, with this cover version of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon. In it’s original guise, Dark Side is a classic album in the truest sense: Pink Floyd managed to take all their weird and wonderful elements like the taped speech fragments and Gimour’s effects-driven wailing guitar solos and turn it into something that became their grand opus, then to cap it all off they wrapped it in that iconic cover art. If NASA were to call me up and ask me which songs I think should be included in a time capsule to jettison into outer space then I think I’d have to pick one Pink Floyd song and I’d probably opt for “Time”, but in any case it’d be an [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/reviews/albums/the-flaming-lips-and-stardeath-and-white-dwarfs-with-henry-rollins-and-peaches-doing-dark-side-of-the-moon-030510' addthis:title='Album Review: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches doing Dark Side of the Moon '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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Artist: The Flaming Lips, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Henry Rollins, Peaches<br />
Label:<img src="file:///Users/Raider/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /> Warner<br />
Released: 4 May 2010<br />
In one word: <strong>Freaky</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What we have here my friends, aside from the ridiculously long name, is some of the craziest minds of contemporary music rubbing their collective heads together to create their interpretation of one of the craziest albums ever, with this cover version of <strong>Pink Floyd’s</strong><em> Dark Side Of The Moon</em>. In it’s original guise, <em>Dark Side</em> is a classic album in the truest sense: Pink Floyd managed to take all their weird and wonderful elements like the taped speech fragments and Gimour’s effects-driven wailing guitar solos and turn it into something that became their grand opus, then to cap it all off they wrapped it in that iconic cover art. If NASA were to call me up and ask me which songs I think should be included in a time capsule to jettison into outer space then I think I’d have to pick one Pink Floyd song and I’d probably opt for “Time”, but in any case it’d be an original and not one of these incarnations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This album sounds great on paper but not quite so great through my stereo. First impressions were extremely positive, it is a pretty fun tribute, but after a few repeat plays I became a bit apathetic about it. To be honest, I was less excited about the leading lights of<strong> The Flaming Lips</strong> and <strong>Dennis Coyne’s </strong>nephew’s band <strong>Stardeath and White Dwarfs</strong>, but very enthused to hear what might be served up by their co-star collaborators <strong>Peaches</strong> and <strong>Henry Rollins</strong>. Sadly, both the supporting acts have minor roles, and this is where some of my disappointment set in, with Peaches having a sole cameo moment as she lets loose some insane screams on “The Great Gig in the Sky”; and its all very animalistic, maybe even orgasmic, and yes, awesome. As for Rollins, it falls upon his broad shoulders to read the spoken dialogue, unembellished, and yeah, it’s pretty cool but its a pity Hank the Crank couldn’t have been used in a few more places &#8211; shouting at the Coyne’s with all his HULK SMASH rage for butchering “Money” might have been a good place to start. The Lips and S&amp;WD’s version of “Money” sounds like what you might hear in a guitar store by someone determined to cause mass evacuation of the premises by playing every <em>Electro-Harmonix</em> pedal available at once. But hey, this kind of electro-buggery shouldn’t come as a surprise to any fans of The Flaming Lips.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thankfully, “Money” is the one real low and everything else is at least tolerable (“Us And Them” is suitably indifferent and subtle), while “Speak To Me/Breathe” and “Time/Breathe (Reprise)” are both really cool versions where The Lips and S&amp;WD flex their musical fingers with finesse and aplomb, with some badass bass, some joyful cymbal hiss and plenty of guitar grooves rich with wanton abandon. Speaking of grooves, “On The Run” has plenty, a fine piece of disco-prog. At the peak moments The Flaming Lips sound as good as they get, and the standard of these covers are on a par with the calibre of material on their own latest and greatest album<em> Embyronic</em> &#8211; an album which shares themes of mental illness and general freakiness with <em>Dark Side</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A big selling point of this record is that it is quite likely that there are fans out there who share some affection for both The Lips and Floyd, and they will be the ones most enthused by this release as it does succeed in being something of a tribute rather than a piss-take. If you were lucky enough to pick up one of the limited edition green vinyl copies of this record that were released on Record Store Day then I envy you, but the rest of us mere mortals will have to make do with the CD and digital releases of the album which drop tomorrow (4 May 2010). <em>TFLaSaWDwHRaPdTDSotM</em> is a fun and suitably freaky take on a classic and shouldn’t be over-thought past that &#8211; just don’t be crestfallen if you were expecting more from Peaches and Rollins&#8230;I know I was.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, for anyone out there curious about whether or not this version of <em>Dark Side Of The Moon</em> works in sync with the <em>Wizard Of O</em>z film, I’m sorry to disappoint because at 41:00 in length this version is 1.59 minutes shorter than the original&#8230; so you’ll have to find another movie to sync this one to.</p>
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		<title>Third Henry Rollins Melbourne date announced!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">You know how we all just loooove Henry Rollins at MusicVice.com? No? Well we do and we&#8217;re pleased as punch to announce he&#8217;s doing a third and final show at the Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne. Tickets go on sale on April 12th so be quick as it&#8217;s likely this one will sell out too!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana,courier new,courier,tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">April 17th: Melbourne, Thornbury Theatre &#8211; on sale April 12th.</span></p>
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		<title>Henry Rollins Interview &#8211; Henry discusses the Frequent Flyer tour, Africa, Music and discovers Man Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Banks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/interviews/henry-rollins-interview-180210' addthis:title='Henry Rollins Interview &#8211; Henry discusses the Frequent Flyer tour, Africa, Music and discovers Man Flu ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>Last night in Solana Beach, CA former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins kicked off the North American leg of his latest spoken word tour. On Monday I spoke to Henry on the phone from his office in Los Angeles. Henry discussed several topics including the Frequent Flyer tour, his love for Africa and African music, some of his favourite artists and record stores. Two days prior to the interview, on Saturday 13 Feb, Henry Rollins turned 49 &#8211; of all the random notes I had scrawled of possible things to quiz Henry about, I somehow forgot to wish him a Happy Birthday, so Happy Birthday Henry! I’m currently suffering from the male phenomenon (I can’t even say that word just now&#8230;) known as man flu, but nonetheless, I am joined today by Henry Rollins, how are you doing sir? Henry &#8211; Pretty good. That’s great to hear&#8230; What’s the man flu? You don’t know what man flu is? That’s why I’m asking you. Indeed. Well man flu is a deliberating disease. If you’re a female and you get a cold you can normally seem to handle it pretty well, but if you’re a guy, or at least if you’re me, [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/interviews/henry-rollins-interview-180210' addthis:title='Henry Rollins Interview &#8211; Henry discusses the Frequent Flyer tour, Africa, Music and discovers Man Flu '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/interviews/henry-rollins-interview-180210' addthis:title='Henry Rollins Interview &#8211; Henry discusses the Frequent Flyer tour, Africa, Music and discovers Man Flu ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Last night in Solana Beach, CA former <strong>Black Flag</strong> frontman <strong>Henry Rollins</strong> kicked off the North American leg of his latest spoken word tour. On Monday I spoke to Henry on the phone from his office in Los Angeles. Henry discussed several topics including the Frequent Flyer tour, his love for Africa and African music, some of his favourite artists and record stores. Two days prior to the interview, on Saturday 13 Feb, Henry Rollins turned 49 &#8211; of all the random notes I had scrawled of possible things to quiz Henry about, I somehow forgot to wish him a Happy Birthday, so Happy Birthday Henry!<a href="http://www.musicvice.com/files/2010/02/heny-rollins.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1269" title="heny-rollins" src="http://www.musicvice.com/files/2010/02/heny-rollins-199x300.jpg" alt="Henry Rollins - photo by Maura Lanahan" width="199" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>I’m currently suffering from the male phenomenon (I can’t even say that word just now&#8230;) known as man flu, but nonetheless, I am joined today by Henry Rollins, how are you doing sir?<br />
</strong><br />
Henry &#8211; Pretty good.<br />
<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>That’s great to hear&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What’s the man flu?<br />
<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>You don’t know what man flu is?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That’s why I’m asking you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Indeed. Well man flu is a deliberating disease. If you’re a female and you get a cold you can normally seem to handle it pretty well, but if you’re a guy, or at least if you’re me, it seems to kind of weaken your immune system and uh, basically&#8230;make your brain go a little bit dead. Common tasks like walking and breathing become a chore and you’re resigned to wanting to lay on the couch all day.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Wow. How long have you had this condition?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>I’ve had this condition since Wednesday actually&#8230; I don’t think its terminal, I’m trying my best to pull through. I think it’s more common for people from the UK in general to have this kind of affliction, I’m not sure if an American, Black Flag legend like yourself would ever have any problems with the man flu or the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE" target="_blank">man cold</a> as it&#8217;s known in less severe instances&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No&#8230; I’ve luckily never had a cold that put me on my back for more than about 24 hours&#8230; and it’s usually just from exhaustion. By the third press day in New York &#8211; if I’m usually up at 7 doing 12 hours of press a day &#8211; by the third day of that my body usually saying ‘OK hotshot, you’ve gotta slow down’.<br />
<strong><br />
So do you take any precautions to stay healthy?&#8230; I’ve read a lot from the dispatches that you post online on HenryRollins.com and (in general) it’s quite well known that you keep  fit, you go to the gym, but I do recall from one of your spoken words, I think it was on <em>Think Tank, </em>that you went to see a throat doctor in Beverly Hills?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah they actually found a cyst in one of my vocal chords and it had to be removed. That was&#8230; that was like damn, 15 years ago. They showed me a photo of it, it’s crazy. The thing is like a grain of sand in size but it’s big enough to mess you up. Joe Sugerman removed this thing from my vocal chords &#8211; brother of Danny Sugerman who used to hang around with Jim Morrison.<br />
<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>So your throat’s better since then, with the cyst gone?<br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, well, I live a pretty fast paced lifestyle where I have to deliver on stage all the time and I have a lot of obligations. Failure is kinda low on the priority list so I’ve learned over the years how to optimize consistency, how to get the same results, where I can be on the stage in 30 nights in 35 days or whatever. Restorative sleep, good nutrition and a lot of the gym &#8211; I hit the gym four to six days a week on the road. I get off the bunk as early as I can, do whatever press I have to do, then I go right to the gym almost immediately for one and a half to two hours.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>So when you’re on your travels and you’re going to these gyms, do you sometimes get people who come up to you because they recognise you? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Oh sure, yeah.<br />
<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Is that awkward?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No, not at all. It’s friendly&#8230;“Hey man, what’re you doing in town?”&#8230; people are friendly to me, I’m friendly back. We’re all there to get work done so it’s not like anyone&#8217;s gonna spend too much time but most the time I’m on the treadmill, I’ve got the earplugs in and people see that you’re doing something, and they’re there to get it done too, you know?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Sure. So you’ve just come back from the European Leg of your latest spoken word tour ‘The Frequent Flyer’ tour, how’s it been going so far?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Great. Great, I did 26 shows in 28 days in a bunch of different countries, and every place was packed, the audiences were really into it. It was pretty exhausting and the weather was not the best for travelling&#8230; but I had a really good time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Yeah, I was back home in Scotland in January and you were there in the UK in around about the same time&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&#8230;did that (the weather) hamper your travel in anyway?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No, we were OK. We were lucky because there were a lot of reports that people weren’t having the best of luck.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>I guess you were mainly on the road so that’s probably why you were fine, right?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, when we got to Ireland and Scotland we were told that the UK was pretty snowed in&#8230; by the time we’d got there it had melted down. The places we saw snow were Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and Czech Republic, those were incredibly cold. But the UK, Ireland and Scotland were fine. We just kinda lucked out. We missed it by like a week.<br />
<strong><br />
So you have a few days break right now before you hit the road for the North American leg of your tour. You’re going to be coming here to Toronto on March 26, and of course lots of other dates across the US and Canada. What’s on your mind in 2010? The last time I saw you was in Toronto, a lot of the subject matter was George Bush but of course a lot has changed in the last eighteen months since then.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.musicvice.com/files/2010/02/heny-rollins-library.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1270" title="heny-rollins-library" src="http://www.musicvice.com/files/2010/02/heny-rollins-library-199x300.jpg" alt="Henry Rollins in his library - photo by Maura Lanahan." width="199" height="300" /></a>Yeah, well on this tour I’ll be talking a lot about where I’ve just been. Let’s see&#8230; mid-October to mid-January&#8230; so what’s that eight weeks&#8230; no, three months of travel. I went all over the world just by myself with some camera gear and a backpack. I started in Jordan and bounced through Saudia Arabia, the Brunei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Senegal, Mali and then Dublin. So part of the show will be informed by that travel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We have a new President. Things are very interesting in America, there is a lot to talk about. Some people in America when they open their mouths they make headlines from just the shear stupidity of what they say &#8211; thank you Ms. Palin!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So there is a lot of things to talk about.. like this trip I just went on was fascinating &#8211; to learn about Sharia law from Saudia Arabian people in Riyadh was pretty, pretty informative.<br />
<strong><br />
You seem to be particularly drawn to Africa? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah because it&#8217;s so completely impossible for me to get my head around. Well you know its such an incredibly huge country&#8230; and you can’t say you know anything about the place because you go to little sections of it, but I’ve been to Africa nine times and every time you think you know something but you go there and you realise you don’t know too much. I mean it’s such an incredible place.<br />
<strong><br />
In January you went to the Festival au Desert. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Uh-huh, I’ve been there twice now yeah&#8230;<strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Yeah you’re second time in Mali &#8211; what drew you to go there?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Music. Really good music. Really good music. The bands like Tinariwen, Terakaft, Koudede&#8230; really great stuff. I have the records, it’s great to see it live. The people who end up at this thing are really cool&#8230; it’s a pretty long way to go, so it’s hard to run into a jerk at a thing like this &#8211; if you’re a NASCAR fan then probably the festival doesn’t have any appeal to you. You can walk up to pretty much anyone there and start a conversation, because they came a long way to dig this crazy music. And Timbuktu is a pretty difficult destination, it takes days to get there.<br />
<strong><br />
Well that’s where the joke comes from?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Exactly. Travellers in centuries past used to go there and get hacked to pieces. Things are better now; now you just get a hotel room with no soap.<strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>You mention getting hacked to pieces&#8230; Quite often a topic in your spoken work, given this type of travel, is that security becomes an issue&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah security has been an issue in some places. I was advised not to go to Mali to this festival because of the kidnappings and killings of the Saudi Arabian tourists, and the kidnappings of the Italian tourists recently. In fact they moved the festival closer to Timbuktu because they were afraid of problems, and I was advised not to go &#8211; so I went. And I’m not brave or a tough guy or anything, I’m just curious, so I went.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I’ve been to places where I’ve been advised I shouldn’t go, like Pakistan, I was there when Bhutto was assassinated, and that was pretty intense. But I’ve been told not to go to a lot of places, don’t be afraid&#8230;I was told not to go to Java, Jakarta, because I was told they don’t like white people, “Oh, OK, sure,” and so I went and nobody looked at me twice there, nobody cared.<br />
<strong><br />
I remember your story about Bhutto when you were there during her assassination, there were people marching to mourn her death&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, and I just jumped in with them, figuring “this will be interesting, let’s see where this goes!” (laughs)<br />
<strong><br />
That’s the kind of story that as an audience member you try and imagine what the scene must have been like through Henry Rollins eyes, but really&#8230; that’s definitely something for your biography isn’t it? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, and these are the stories that inform what I say on stage, inform what I write about. It’s these kind of travel experiences which I get my information. Like if I want to talk about Iran I go to Iran and what I tell you about is what happened when I was there not something I read out of a book, that’s someone else’s story. So I try and actualize all  these ideas as much as possible by going &#8211; it doesn’t make me an expert, it allows me to deal with my curiosity, you know?<br />
<strong><br />
Yeah. If we can return to Africa briefly. It’s going to be a huge year for the continent as a whole with South Africa hosting the World Cup, such a major sporting event. Recently in January they had the African  Cup of Nations football tournament in Angola and the bus carrying the Togo national team was attacked, the driver died and some of the players were injured. Since that happened there have been reports, from Europe especially, of people saying ‘well if Angola can&#8217;t hold a tournament then South Africa is not ready to host the World Cup’&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It’ll be interesting to see what happens in South Africa. I was in Mali the night, whatever team won in Angola, and I could barely get to the airport. Me and the taxi driver&#8230;there’s so many people in the street, and this is at night with hardly any street lights, and they&#8217;re stopping buses and people are punching windows out. But I’m like the white guy in this car and people are looking and they start hitting the car. We had to cross over the median and hop into oncoming traffic because traffic was being stopped by people on the way to the airport. So getting to the airport was a little hairy, and just because some football team had won. So what South Africa is going to do with that influx of people at the World Cup that could be really something. What I fear is how the authority will meet out it’s control.<br />
<strong><br />
Well it’s a fantastic opportunity for the continent as a whole, I think it’s brilliant that they’ve given the World Cup to South Africa, it’s going to bring a huge amount of tourism. Security&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Do you know when that is?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>It’s in June, a month after you’re playing some dates in May I believe&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah I’ll be there in May. I’ll be Pretororia, Cape Town, Johannesburg.<br />
<strong><br />
Well the World Cup starts June 11&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Oh good&#8230; I think I don’t wanna be close to it.<br />
<strong><br />
Yeah I think you’ll be alright. You wouldn’t be able to find a hotel there in June anyway.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">True.<br />
<strong><br />
So there’s gonna be a few billion people watching on TV and half the world seemingly turning up on South Africa’s doorstep. So let’s hope it all goes well. I’ve never had the privilege to go to Africa yet but you’re obviously one of the tourists there who has an open mind and is able to tell the difference between all the different countries there and not just tar them all with the same brush, because there’s more to Africa. All the individual countries have their own different problems&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yup<strong>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&#8230;and the world still needs to open up its eyes and realise that it’s not the Third World but it is part of the the one World where we all live.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There you go, that’s it, that’s the big idea.<br />
<strong><br />
Another topic I wanted to go onto&#8230; You’ve done a lot of activism work, and one of the causes you’ve been behind the most is the West Memphis Three. The latest news back in January was that Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley have been denied new trials. I was just wondering if you had any further contact with the group?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, well hopefully the thing we want to have happen is for the thing to go to the Supreme Court, because it got knocked down by Judge Burnett who tried the case the last time, and so he was of no help whatsoever,  he you know, just doesn’t wanna know. And even though there’s so much new stuff to talk about, you know, DNA evidence, testing, that brings no physical evidence of any of the incarcerated boys tying them to the crime scene, but a hair from one of the father’s is inside one of the bindings on the dead kids&#8230; so that should be, in a lot of people’s minds, grounds for a whole new day in court. Can’t find physical evidence of the three accused but you’re finding physical evidence of someone else? And you can’t give a new trial? It’s something&#8230; it’s out of a nightmare this thing.<br />
<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Yeah. When you look at the facts it seems behond baffling how they even got convicted in the first place&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yep, it’s tough&#8230;<br />
<strong><br />
Definitely a head scratcher. Let’s talk about music. I listen to your show a lot on KCRW, you obviously play a real eclectic mix, it’s sometimes almost John Peel-esque in the eclecticness of what you play&#8230; like in January you did a jazz special with just jazz for 2 hours, some of the songs 10, 12 minutes long&#8230;<br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, my audience can handle it.<strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Talking more of contemporary music, you don’t play so much of the newer stuff&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We play some&#8230; I try and play so much, it can’t all be new.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>From contemporary artists though, is there any in particular you&#8217;re into at the moment?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well there’s a couple of different labels that I pay attention to, one is called American Tapes, it’s a noise label, they put out some pretty hair-raising noise music, on CD, sometimes cassette and sometimes one-side lathe-cut LP’s. There is another label called Gods Of Tundra, which is another noise label I find interesting. I pay attention to anything on Dischord, anything on Ipecac. There’s a lot of small labels doing a lot of really cool stuff&#8230; Retard Disco, uh, Matador. A lot of cool labels and a lot of cool stuff.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://www.musicvice.com/files/2010/02/heny-rollins-library-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1271" title="heny-rollins-library-2" src="http://www.musicvice.com/files/2010/02/heny-rollins-library-2-199x300.jpg" alt="Henry Rollins in his library - photo by Maura Lanahan." width="199" height="300" /></a></strong>The band Mi Ami, I believe their album is called <em>Watersports</em>? Dax Riggs is an interesting guy, he was in a band called Deadboy and the Elephantmen, now he’s solo &#8211; check out anything he does, he’s amazing. Dinosaur Jr. just made a great new album called Farm, really, really good record&#8230;<br />
<strong><br />
Yeah it’s great&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The new Slayer album is great. So you know, there’s bands that are touring and happening right now that are fantastic. Vice Cooler, the guy from Northern Cal, well he’s not from there but he lives there, he’s got a number of different bands, one’s called XBXRX, he’s also playing drums in the The Raincoats right now, but he’s amazing, he does an album like every few months. A guy named Weasel Walter, crazy sax player, makes these crazy avant jazz records, just ear-splitting noise, just crazy. And so this is the stuff I pay attention to, there’s a lot of kind of underground music that to me is really shaking things up and not compromising anything, and that’s the stuff that gets my attention.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A lot of interesting stuff coming out of Africa now, a lot of great re-issues and a lot of great bands happening right now, out of Congo, out of Mali. So there’s a lot you know if you listen globally, kind of you’re spoiled for choice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The African thing seems to be getting borrowed a lot more by contemporary artists, and looking East towards the likes of India too, I guess the Beatles did it famously but now some other artists are catching on and realising there’s a lot of influence there.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Soul Train got a lot of inspiration from Indian music as well. Artists every few decades, they kind of look over and go “Oh! Brazil, Africa, India!” and they kind of just do something over there.<br />
<strong><br />
During your travels you’re frequently visiting record stores across the world, are there any favourite places, hidden gems, maybe in North America, that you recommend people go?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, I’m gonna be in Texas soon &#8211; I think it’s Dallas, Bill’s Records, that’s a great vinyl store. It’s kinda pricey but you always find something. Amoeba is a great record store in California, it’s all, you know, new stuff, and they have a great used section. It’s two floors, it’s huge, and it’s kind of impossible to walk in there and not walk out with at least two things that you have to listen to immediately. And it’s about half a mile from where I live so I go when I can, when I’m not on the road.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There’s also a lot of cool stores on the east and west village of New York, I don’t know their names.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One last question, I’m getting beeped through by this other interview, I’ve kinda really gotta jam&#8230;<br />
<strong><br />
OK, so the token Music Vice question: This interview is for MusicVice.com, Henry Rollins, what other vices do you have apart from music?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Any vices?<br />
<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Yeah&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ah, probably too much love for cheese popcorn. I probably like sleep too much, and uh, I could probably spend more time reading and less time goofing around on the internet.<br />
<strong><br />
You’re probably the first person ever to not mention cigarettes or alcohol, but of course I’m not surprised.<br />
</strong><br />
Oh yeah, that’s not my problem, I’ve got a whole bunch of other problems!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All right man, well I hope you get over your flu and I’ll see you down the road.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">© Brian Banks, Music Vice</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">[n.b. I know many would like to listen to this interview as a podcast - the recording is pretty good but the volume/levels needs to be fixed before it can be podcast. We'll get this online soon if it can be sorted, but the words are the most important thing.]</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For tour dates and venue information for Henry Rollins&#8217; Frequent Flyer tour visit <a href="http://henryrollins.com/" target="_blank">HenryRollins.com</a><br />
The photos used in this story are by Maura Lanahan.<br />
Check out a video clip, courtesy of Henry Rollins: <a href="../files/2010/02/HenryRollins_LegendoftheMullet.mov">HenryRollins live in Melbourne</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Related links:<br />
Henry Rollins on <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/hr" target="_blank">KCRW</a> (weekly shows available for listening online)<br />
World Cup 2010 South Africa &#8211; <a href="http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/" target="_blank">Official FIFA website<br />
</a>Free The West Memphis Three &#8211; <a href="http://www.wm3.org/" target="_blank">WM3.org</a><br />
Festival au Desert &#8211; <a href="http://www.festival-au-desert.org/" target="_blank">festival-au-desert.org</a></p>
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		<title>Rollins heads for Australia in April</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Crombie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/rollins-heads-for-australia-in-april' addthis:title='Rollins heads for Australia in April ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>If you didn&#8217;t already know it (and I don&#8217;t know how I do) Henry Rollins has toured Australia more times than any other international act bar The Village People. In April he&#8217;ll be hitting Aussie (and Kiwi) shores for the Sydney and Melbourne comedy festivals and more. As a massive Rollins fan and one who&#8217;s taken the Black flag tattoo oath I&#8217;ll definately be heading out to see him. April 15 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Town Hall April 16 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Town Hall April 18 Sydney Comedy Festival, Enmore Theatre April 19 Sydney Comedy Festival, Enmore Theatre April 21 Cairns, Tanks Arts Centre April 22 Brisbane, Powerhouse April 25 Wellington, The Paramount April 26 Auckland, Bruce Mason Centre April 28 Newcastle Panthers April 29 Wollongong, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre April 30 Adelaide, Norwood Concert Hall<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/rollins-heads-for-australia-in-april' addthis:title='Rollins heads for Australia in April '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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<p>If you didn&#8217;t already know it (and I don&#8217;t know how I do) Henry Rollins has toured Australia more times than any other international act bar The Village People.</p>
<p>In April he&#8217;ll be hitting Aussie (and Kiwi) shores for the Sydney and Melbourne comedy festivals and more.<br />
As a massive Rollins fan and one who&#8217;s taken the Black flag tattoo oath I&#8217;ll definately be heading out to see him.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000">April 15		Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Town Hall<br />
April 16		Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Town Hall<br />
April 18		Sydney Comedy Festival, Enmore Theatre<br />
April 19		Sydney Comedy Festival, Enmore Theatre<br />
April 21		Cairns, Tanks Arts Centre<br />
April 22		Brisbane, Powerhouse<br />
April 25		Wellington, The Paramount<br />
April 26		Auckland, Bruce Mason Centre<br />
April 28		Newcastle Panthers<br />
April 29		Wollongong, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre<br />
April 30		Adelaide, Norwood Concert Hall</span></p>
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		<title>Henry Rollins &#8216;Frequent Flyer&#8217; Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Banks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/henry-rollins-frequent-flyer-tour' addthis:title='Henry Rollins &#8216;Frequent Flyer&#8217; Tour ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>Good news folks, Henry Rollins is taking his spoken-word gig back on the road in 2010! Henry&#8217;s Frequent Flyer Tour tour kicks off January 12 in Dublin, with the 45-date first North American leg departing from San Diego on February 17. Following stops in Australia and South Africa, Henry returns for a second North American leg in mid-May. &#8220;Since I was last on tour, I have been working in television and radio, traveling all over the world And like everyone else, dealing with the changes America – and the world – is going through. I thought America would become a more peaceful place in 2009. I had no idea the country had so many lunatics. There&#8217;s a lot to remark upon, of course. There always is.&#8221; &#8211; Henry Rollins Tickets for the FREQUENT FLYER TOUR go on sale December 4, with pre-sales available December 1 through Music Today. For pre-sale information, go to: http://henryrollins.musictoday.com/HenryRollins/calendar.aspx. Act fast and get on to that pre-sale, these dates will sell-out quick!<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/henry-rollins-frequent-flyer-tour' addthis:title='Henry Rollins &#8216;Frequent Flyer&#8217; Tour '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.musicvice.com/news/henry-rollins-frequent-flyer-tour' addthis:title='Henry Rollins &#8216;Frequent Flyer&#8217; Tour ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p>Good news folks, Henry Rollins is taking his spoken-word gig back on the road in 2010!</p>
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<p>Henry&#8217;s <strong>Frequent Flyer Tour</strong> tour kicks off January 12 in Dublin, with the 45-date first North American leg departing from San Diego on February 17. Following stops in Australia and South Africa, Henry returns for a second North American leg in mid-May.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Since I was last on tour, I have been working in television and radio, traveling all over the world And like everyone else, dealing with the changes America – and the world – is going through. I thought America would become a more peaceful place in 2009. I had no idea the country had so many lunatics. There&#8217;s a lot to remark upon, of course. There always is.&#8221;</em> &#8211; Henry Rollins</p></blockquote>
<p>Tickets for the FREQUENT FLYER TOUR go on sale December 4, with pre-sales available December 1 through Music Today.</p>
<p>For pre-sale information, go to: http://henryrollins.musictoday.com/HenryRollins/calendar.aspx.</p>
<p>Act fast and get on to that pre-sale, these dates will sell-out quick!</p>
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