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As mentioned at the World Wide Live Fan Conference, Brandon's book, "White Fluffy Clouds," is finally here! It will be available just in time for Christmas, and you can pre-order it now at http://www.brandonboydbooks.com! Fans around the world can order the book as well because we'll ship internationally! Read more about it, and order yours http://www.brandonboydbooks.com You can also check out pages from the book and more at http://www.whitefluffyclouds.com
You can now order the 2004 INcubus calender with12 amazing color photos, I'm sure you wouldn't mind staring at all of next year (click the thumbnails for enlargements). So bring in the New Year with style! You can get them at Amazon.com or Calendars.com.
Taken from incubusonline.com: Fresh off of recording their new album, Incubus finished a successful 2 day performance at the Bridge School Benefit. Here is how the acoustic show went down:
Day 1: Drive, Wish You Were Here, A Crow Left of the Murder, Teardrop (Massive Attack cover), Are you In?, Warning
Day 2: Pardon Me, Wish You Were Here, Talkshows On Mute, Are you In?, Make Yourself, Drive
According to those who were at the show, Mike was busting out a Gibson Hummingbird for much of the performances.
Took place on October 2, if you missed it you can watch it here: WindowsMedia 56k | 100k,
Incubus answered lots of your questions such about the next tour, Brandon's art book, lollapalooza bootleg and lots more. Read next to find out more about what's going on with them lately:
Check out their just-released Live At Lollapalooza 2003 bootleg CD -- available now exclusively online at www.IncubusBootletgs.com!!! Live At Lollapalooza 2003 features 12 live recordings from S.C.I.E.N.C.E., Make Yourself and Morning View, as well as one new yet-to-be-released track that will be on Incubus' forthcoming studio album! The bootleg CD also features a couple never-before-recorded covers including Lionel Richie's "Hello" and Shudder To Think's "X-French Tee Shirt." Also featured are guest performances from DJ Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark from Jurassic 5!
On the touring front, the band is planning their most extensive world tour to date. They expect to play dates in South America, Australia/NZ, the Far East (Phillipines, Malaysia, Korean, and Japan), and Europe from January to May of next year. A US summer tour will follow in June. They'll be playing cities big and small.
For all of you folks who've been fans of Brandon's artwork and drawings you can now see it all in one place. He's fulfilled a dream of his which is to publish a book of his drawings, paintings, photos, and ramblings called White Fluffy Clouds and it will be available in Late November.
Tomorrow, at the 5th of july, is the first of the Lollalalooza tour, and it's starting in Noblesville, IN at the Verizon Wireless Music Center. I'm going to keep you updated on what's going on there, and i'd love it if you could help me with it by sending me reviews and photos to: yael555@yahoo.com so i can add it to the lollapalooza page.
If Now you can see the video-taped their responses to the questions you send them. Check out the first of their answers to some of your questions right here:
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Mike: We are currently working on our new record, this is all of us right here, in this really cool place in Malibu
Brandon: Ah, dude, Snorks!
Mike: Yeah, pretty cool, ok good (laughing). The best thing I can say about our new music, is that it's going to be like the old shit, but older, and ah, it's I don't know, I can't explain it, it's really different, it's very different, I mean it's going to surprise a lot of people, some people mite nor like it, but some people will, it's a lot more energetic and fast
Brandon: yeah, it's a lot faster then the other stuff, isn't it
Mike: Yeah, and a lot of it's more I guess like technical, I guess in the vain of some of our older songs, it doesn't sound like our old songs but they're exploratory, in that regard
Brandon: and whatever sort of imagery that word condors, also I think it's a lot more different because there's a new band member in the band
Mike: yeah, this guy right here
Brandon: he doesn't talk much, but he draws
Ben: (in a weird voice) hi… sorry…
Mike: he makes weird noises from time to time, but we leave him a lone pretty much.
Mike: next question
Brandon: (reading it) Hi guys! This one goes out to Jose. This is from, smiler from London
Mike: Smiler?
Brandon: Smiler, ok ah… My man, how did you get so good on the drums, you play a lot of different styles, and keep it tight. What is your practice routine / approach bad ass drumming. I've been playing for 18 months, and need to step it up. take care dudes! -Smiler
Jose: thank you Smiler! Good question Smiler, basically what I have done in the past is listen to many genres of music and umm,
Brandon: good word, genre, good word
Jose: Genres of music, umm, And basically practice buy playing with many of these different genres of music, buy the albums, umm. (all laughing) and basically what I would suggest is to listen to all types of music, and if you can then get a little horse like this (get's a kid's toy horse and 'rides' it) and go hea!
On Friday - the 13th, Dj 1987 (known also as the ex- incubus Dj Lyfe - Gavin Koppel) decided he wanted to open a lawsuit, where he claims that Incubus "failed to pay certain royalties or properly account." the band responded by filing a declaratory relief with the Los Angeles Superior Court. For more information, go to the article.
If Ben Kenney, (Incubus’ new bassist), was featured in this month's issue of Mean Street. Click here for it
TMike from an interview following the ASCAP Pop Music Awards: "He's been very inspiring for all of us," guitarist Mike Einziger said at the recent ASCAP Pop Music Awards of the onetime Roots member. "He's a very different musician than Dirk, so it adds a very different dynamic to what we're doing. It's just like a big fresh breath of air." Click here for the article on MTV.com
Brandon from an interview from Yahoo! Launch: "Mantastically. Magically. It's wonderful,” Boyd said. “It's one of the funnest things we've ever done. He's a very accomplished musician--in fact one of the more accomplished musicians I've ever met. He has that instinct about things that is kind of rare in true musicians. We don't really have to say much, he kind of just...goes." Click here for the article
IThere's a new look for the official incubus site! Full of new drawings by Jose. With new pictures of the band with Ben! Go to the official Incubus website.
The Time Lapse Consortium will release a bootleg of their January 24, 2003 Roxy Theatre performance from Hollywood, CA. The release will be available exclusively through the band's website and will be limited edition. The proceeds from the sale of the record will be donated to charity. Stay tuned to Enjoyincubus.com for all the details....
If you have a question about anything Incubus related, including the upcoming Lollapalooza Tour or even the Time Lapse Consortium, you can now e-mail your questions directly to the band directly at questions@enjoyincubus.com. The band will video tape their replies and post them to the official Incubus website.