Valor Del Corazon – tracklist
By Kris | December 11, 2005
Valor Del Corazon is now on-sale from the HMV, Amazon and Play online shops; the full album tracklisting is as follows:
Track listing:
CD1:
1. Ugly
2. Mother City
3. GTT
4. Yeah Yeah Yeah
5. Only A Problem
6. 10 Flaws Down
7. Paramour
8. The Man Who Cheated Death
CD2:
9. The Drunken Lord Of Everything
10. L.O.V.E
11. The Way
12. Drinking In The Day Time
13. Keep It Cool
14. Only Lonely
15. Your Mouth
16. Change
17. My Friend The Enemy
18. Bulb
19. Something To Believe In
Ginger and the Sonic Circus – one-off show
By Kris | December 11, 2005
We have news from Ginger about a one-off show in London on January 27th at Highbury Garage:
“Tickets on-sale this Monday!
I will be playing a special, one-off London show at The Garage in Highbury on Friday January 27th.
There will be no acoustic tours for the foreseeable future. This show will be an all singing, all dancing full on electric affair under the name GINGER & the SONIC CIRCUS.
Details of band line-up etc will be made available in the near future. This message is only to alert the hardcore fans / followers / supporters to the fact that the tickets go on-sale this Monday at 9 am. To avoid disappointment please book
early.
Thank you!
Ginger.”
Doors are 7.00pm, Curfew is 10.30pm (due to club night – which everyone is welcome to stay for)
Address & ticket details are on the tour page of the website.
Valor Del Corazon – preorder details
By Kris | December 6, 2005
We have an update from Sammy Andrews who is working with Ginger for the latest on Valor Del Corazon – which is available to pre-order from HMV now!
“Sorry for all the confusion surrounding the release of the new album, a few things have cropped up along the way that have meant making a few changes but we can officially announce the following:
Valor Del Corazon is NOW available to pre-order from HMV online
It will also be available very soon from www.amazon.co.uk and www.play.com
The album is released on 19th December and is available in limited numbers online until January, when you will be able to purchase it from all good record stores.
These will include HMV, who we are in the process of setting up in-store appearances with. Details of these will be announced and posted on the website and mailing list as soon as we have them.
Sorry again for the change of plan, We’ve tried our hardest to ensure you guys get this for Christmas and against all the odds we’ve done it!
Enjoy the album – all 19 songs!!!
Sammy Andrews
x”
Additionally, Sammy is looking for UK based people to help with flyering and posters – please email at the usual address – website@thewildhearts.com with contact details / location etc. – we’re thinking of setting up our own list of people who are willing and able to help with this kind of thing which should reduce the number of these kind of requests in the future.
Valor Del Corazon – promotion help
By Kris | December 3, 2005
We’ve got a message from Ginger, looking for someone to help him promote Valor Del Corazon, read on for more details.
“I need to find an internet freak that would love to support Valor Del Corazon by working tirelessly, making every available internet network aware of its release. This will mean the the candidate cannot have a job, and must be fully versed in networking on the internet. They must work every day, as hard as their coffee is strong, from early December until Xmas. We will obviously pay them for their services. It will be a pleasure to pay a fan for helping me support an album that is going to give so many people pleasure.”
If you’d like to help out, please mail us at website@thewildhearts.com with your contact details and any supporting information about how you think you can best help to promote the release and we’ll pass them onto Ginger.
Message from Ginger – Valor Del Corazon
By Ginger | November 28, 2005
The album looks set to be a double. With almost 80 minutes of music crammed onto this new release the limits of the 74 minute CD are, sadly, too puny to contain this monolithic beast of a thing.
We have had a re-think and are going to give the album to HMV to handle in January, but the December 19th release will now also be available on Amazon (as well as other internet outlets, hopefully). Do not worry, the release date is still December 19th, but using this method we can sell to people outside of the UK also. We think that this is the fairest way of making this album available to fans and followers everywhere.
Ginger
Valor Del Corazon – new Ginger album news
By Kris | November 24, 2005
Hey there, been a while I know.
Been waiting for final confirmation of a whole bunch of legal stuff before letting everyone know about the release of Valor Del Corazon.
The release date is set to be January 8th, with a full launch available in HMV stores.
There will be a limited run of 1000 copies available, for die hard supporters of my music, to be released December 19th, again through HMV. This is to thank everyone for being so patient, and supportive throughout the whole year.
To say that I am proud of this album would be to cheapen its profound effect on me. This recording has enabled me to enlist the talents of an amazing array of people, who’s support has made this album possible. This is the most adventurous work of mine so far, as well as the most personal.
Challenges like this come from the least expected of circumstances, and the experience ultimately makes us stronger and our lives richer. To be able to finally make available this most musically challenging and lyrically honest set of songs to you all is the final reward.
And I really hope you enjoy the living fuck out of it!
The album ‘Valor Del Corazon’, will feature 19 brand new songs, and is released through Round Records. Get out there, December 19th, and treat yourself to an early Christmas.
Thank you for your kindness and faith.
Ginger
Ginger gig – Birmingham Barfly
By Kris | September 12, 2005
Following the Rock In The Castle festival, Birmingham Barfly will be hosting an ‘Evening with Ginger’ on Wed 21st September. Get those tickets while they’re hot!
Wildhearts – Scarborough Castle Gig
By Kris | July 21, 2005
The Wildhearts will play a special all-day gig at Scarborough Castle on 17th September, featuring the classic line-up of Ginger, CJ, Danny and Ritch. The show will be filmed for a DVD and will be a historical event for any fans of The Wildhearts, past or present. The line-up also includes Terrorvision, with many more names to be added between now and the day. “The bands we are approaching are all favourites of the fans,” promises Ginger, “so the day will be the last word in entertainment. Trust us, this will be worth attending.
Studio report / acoustic tour dates
By Kris | June 13, 2005
We’ve got another studio report from Ginger along with another new song for you to feast your ears on at the MySpace site.
Don’t forget the forthcoming acoustic tour:
Jun 17 Rugely Red Rose (support Jackdaw4, Plan A)
Jun 18 Glasgow Barfly
Jun 19 Newcastle Archer (support Jackdaw4)
Jun 20 Wrexham Talbot
Jun 21 Manchester Dry Bar
Jun 22 Leeds Josephs Well (support Jackdaw4)
Jun 23 Liverpool Barfly (support Jackdaw4)
Jun 24 London Barfly (support Jackdaw4, The Hitchers)
Jun 25 London Barfly (support Jackdaw4, The Hitchers)
Jun 27 Southampton Joiners (support Jackdaw4)
Jun 28 Plymouth Phoenix (support Jackdaw4)
Jun 29 St Albans Horn (support Jackdaw4)
Jun 30 Wolves Civic (support Jackdaw4)
Jul 01 Hull Adelphi
Jul 02 Nottingham Rock City
Jul 03 Newport TJs (support Jackdaw4)
And finally, we’ve got some news from Org Records about Jon Poole’s new band ‘The Goddamn Whores’:
The debut single from THE GOD DAMN WHORES is officially released on June 27th,as part 27 of the ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES by us here at ORG RECORDS. The four track CD single will be on the streets from JUNE 27th (no no, not one of those download things, this is a proper CD single). There’s a My Space page so if you’re on there My Space go link and tell others, if not then you can till go listen/see/taste – and a Tribe.Net group just went up for those who want to talk about anything vaguely Whores released. Further. Don’t tell anyone I said this but it sounds like CARDIHEARTS or maybe WILDIACS to me. Jon says it sounds like the New York Dolls meets XTC…..
The My Space page has the lead track from the single loaded on to it for you to hear – http://www.myspace.com/thegoddamnwhores
Word From The Wild West
By Ginger | June 2, 2005
Recording at Willie Nelson’s Studio, June 2005 ยท Words by Ginger
Texas. How can anyone not love this place? There’s a little sticker in Willie’s studio (among the tons of pictures of Willie and his favourite people/things adorning the walls) that says “there’s a little bit of everything in Texas”. Behind the bar at Elmo’s there’s a quote from some famous female poet that goes “I found myself in Texas and now I’ll never be lost again”. Both statements are about a place that you would have to wholeheartedly agree with if you were there. I have fallen in love geographically for the first time in my life. Ever wondered why people travel the world? It’s probably because they haven’t found a home, and until one finds them, they would rather go looking than procrastinate. It is the way of spiritual evolution for the ultra-curious soul. In a worst case scenario, people with high expectations and super human output run the risk of disappointment so huge that it threatens the very fabric of their mental safety. It is also a gamble where the dividends reward the punter with a panoramic understanding of the politics of mankind, and equally important, a truer picture of oneself.
I love Texas.
From the worst of beginnings this year is finally flowering, rapidly growing and expanding right in front of my eyes, and as it transforms daily I can only stand back and admire almost as a spectator. I sure as hell can’t stem the flow of creativity that ceaselessly bursts free in the studio where Ralph and I keep a manic and insomniac vigil. The main recording work was completed a week ago, and in the process of mixing and mastering the tracks some truly strange developments have begun. New songs have been written, quickly recorded and gratefully included in the tracklisting and new people have surfaced and will hopefully become involved in this blossoming album. We had an idea of what we wanted to achieve when we began, we have reached and effortlessly surpassed it and now the album is making the rules itself and regularly handing them to us. If this sounds overly dramatic then you have presumably never had a life changing experience that has pointed you in the direction that has eluded you for many dark years. I suspect you don’t believe in magic either.
I am so fucking happy at the moment that I often have to distract myself with something mundane to stop myself from spontaneously combusting.
SHIT HAPPENS AND ALL THINGS MUST PASS.
Remember this for the rest of your life, it is among the best advice you will ever receive. It was to me.
I not only love Texas but I also love these songs. I love the honesty of the lyrics and the timeless feel of the music. Oh man, the music! We have two instrumentals on this album. I always feared instrumentals, considering them to be somehow uncool. What an idiot!
I love the way Ralph is making this album sound too. His production is huge, clear and satisfying. From gospel tinged ballads to Vegas style musical workouts to riff-laden monsters, his is a technique that joins everything together with linear sonic logic. When you hear the album in full you’ll know what I’m trying to say. This is music that should be filed in the ‘other’ section of the store, if super-eclectic was a genuine genre of music. Written while wading through shit so deep it felt like a bad dream on Groundhog day, these songs are testament to the healing power of faith. And without faith we have nothing but the charity of other people; a nice theory but insubstantial evidence to suggest any real substance.
Faith teaches us that we do not know what we think we know; in other words, time would be a better healer than medicine, if we had the patience and experience with which to use it. What the mind insists to be true isn’t necessarily so, and should be taken away and brewed. If what we originally thought was true ultimately remains true, then it won’t have gone anywhere, we can still react accordingly. If something we thought was true actually wasn’t after all, then time just saved us from making a potentially critical error of judgement. And if all people acted with this in mind then ironically the world wouldn’t act as such a rich source of material in which to help a person evolve spiritually. It’s only because of a human beings impulsive need to react that we make mistakes, and it is only through mistakes that we learn this, and many other things that we casually label ‘experience’.
I could say that experience has lent a hand in writing every song on this album, but in the end the subject matter is less important than the outcome. And the outcome is that the album I wanted to make has turned into the album that has made me. This experience has changed my life and my attitude towards life, from negative to positive. I can’t even remember exactly why I used to think so negatively, but I remember only too well what it took to get me to this point, and none of it was what you’d call fun. Who would have thought that every negative action in my life was the direct conductor for everything positive that is happening now? There was a time where I would have argued the exact opposite.
Emotion is energy and energy can be transformed and used. How one uses this energy is subjective, and how one came into possession of it is immaterial.
Everything around you is constantly changing. It is up to you if want to have any involvement in those changes or be happily thrown around by them. Me? I’m gonna ride the times like it’s a fucking stallion.
Here, have a listen to another song from the session. It joins the lines between the instrumental tracks, the honest lyrics and the timeless music that I referred to previously. It’s called “10 Flaws Down” (‘Ten Flaws Down’ – at MySpace), and I hope it will make the final tracklisting. Right now the music is flowing and this story is far from over. Hope you like the song.
Pass me the saddle.
Ginger, June 2005