With his 13 visits to AB, you can safely say that Mark Lanegan is a Resident Artist. Lanegan first stood on stage at AB in 1992, with his previous band Screaming Trees, and at least a handful of times under his own name. He was a conspicuous guest at the Magnus farewell shows in late 2018 and he also passed in review with his on-the-road companions Greg Dulli & Isobell Campbell. So it was a logical choice to let Mark Lanegan have carte blanche for a weekend and have him programme to his heart’s content for his first curatorship ever, worldwide. It would even seem that Lanegan has become a professional programmer on the side, as his wishlist looks pretty impressive.
So each evening he will play his entire (!) masterpiece ‘Bubblegum’ (from 2004). The Guardian on it: ‘In every sense, ‘Bubblegum’ is a staggering record.’
A brief reminder about Bubblegum for you, as it’s now been 16 years since the album came out.
- Bubblegum was released in 2004 by the Beggars Banquet label under the name ‘Mark Lanegan Band’
- Guest musicians on this album are: PJ Harvey, Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri of Queens of the Stone Age, Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs, Duff McKagan & Izzy Stradlin of Guns ‘n' Roses and Lanegan’s ex-wife Wendy Rae Fowler
- Bubblegum was Lanegan’s greatest commercial success and reached number 39 in Billboard's Independent Albums chart (#28 in Belgium)
- The album was recorded at various locations: Rancho De La Luna (Joshua Tree, California), Donner & Blitzen (Arcadia), 11 a.d. (Hollywood), Del Boca Vista (South Pasadena), Sound City (Los Angeles), Stagg Street (Los Angeles), Lethal (Los Angeles), Sound Arts (Houston, Texas), and Kudzu Ranch (Mebane, North Carolina)
Tickets for the show on Sunday 10.05.20 are available here.
