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Heathen Apostles United Kingdom Tour in July 2023

The Heathen Apostles United Kingdom tour will begin in July of 2023, it will be their first one of the UK. The 18 date swing will be built around their appearance at the Rustic Stomp Festival in Dorset, Poole on 15 July and will also feature a video shoot for their next single from their current release Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4. There are some dates that are still open or unconfirmed, you can get booking information from Hawkeye Houlihan at hawkeyesbanjo (at) hotmail.com. 

Heathen Apostles United Kingdom

Heathen Apostles United Kingdom tour:

Thurs 13th July – Cobblestones, Bridgewater, UK

Fri 14th July – The Treehouse, Frome, UK

Sat 15th July – Rustic Stomp, Dorset, UK

Sun 16th July – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, UK

Mon 17th July – video shoot

Tues 18th July – The Cellar Bar, Bournemouth, UK

Wed 19th July – Lexington, London, UK

Thurs 20th July – The Reindeer, Norwich, UK

Fri 21st July – Facebar, Reading, UK

Sat 22nd July – Cerne Abbas Brewery, Dorchester, UK (afternoon)

Sat 22nd July – Tap & Grape, Broadstone, UK (evening)

Sun 23rd July – Christchurch Music Festival, Christchurch, UK

Mon 24th July – The Six Six Bar, Cambridge, UK

Tue 25th July – The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham, UK

Wed 26th July – The Anchor Inn Wingham, Canterbury, UK

Thurs 27th July – Prince Albert, Brighton, UK

Fri 28th July – The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington, UK

Sat 29th July – The Cavern, Exeter, UK

Sun 30th July – The Pig, Hastings, UK

“If there is such a thing in the current fringe roots genre as a supergroup, it would certainly be the Los Angeles-based dark roots and gothic country band Heathen Apostles, who includes ex-members of Radio Noir (Mather Louth), The Cramps (Chopper Franklin), Kings of Nuthin’ (Thomas Lorioux), and Christian Death (Stevyn Grey) in its ranks. That is one hell of a lineup.” – No Depression Magazine

January 30, 2023 | Categories: LIVE DATES | Leave A Comment »

New Charley Horse Website – OG Cowpunk Band

A new website for the “all-star cowpunk band” Charley Horse has gone up, the band hasn’t played since the Nick Curran Fuck Cancer benefit show in 2011, so it is a great legacy site for them, you can visit charleyhorse.monster HERE. You can get the Charley Horse album Professional Sinners (on vinyl and digital) from Ratchet Blade Records HERE.

Charley Horse cowpunk band

Charley Horse began in 1993 as an inventive and experimental rock n roll project featuring Sean Wheeler, Chopper Franklin and Mickey Petralia. The three locked themselves in their sonic laboratory and took old rockabilly & blues loops, added Hot Rod flick and Film Noir dialog clips & sound effects and topped it all off with gritty, dark lyrical ramblings that became 10 tales of life on the riled side, two of which (Back Down & We All Fall Down) ended up on a long out of print Hellnote Records 7” single. Unfortunately this Charley Horse band was called away from the project, Sean forming Throwrag, Chopper joining The Cramps and Mickey producing such hit makers as Beck, Rage Against the Machine and Peaches.

Charley Horse cowpunk bandFast forward 12 years to 2005 and these recordings are released as Unholy Roller on Acetate Records, featuring cover art by low brow artist Vince Ray. It was then that Sean & Chopper got together some friends to film the video for “Bad Ass Dad”, and Corey Parks (Nashville Pussy, Die Hunns), Rick Ballard and Dino Guerrero (The Hangmen) decided they had such a blast that they wanted to help unleash this fury upon an unsuspecting world. After a few American tours and a European jaunt the band entered into two recording studios (one with producer Cameron Webb of Motorhead and Social Distortion note) to slam away at their newly written material. In the end the band emerged with 10 more terrorizing titles ready for release, and booked another European tour. But this time the planets didn’t align for the gang, the tour was called off, and the Charley Horse members went off to wreak havoc in their own prospective ways.

In 2011 and Sean and Chopper decided that Charley Horse would bring forth a new record, and Professional Sinners came out as a Limited Edition, Screen Printed, Autographed & Numbered LP on Ratchet Blade Records. 

Charley Horse cowpunk band

January 13, 2023 | Categories: NEWS | Tags: , | Leave A Comment »

“The Goodbye Family” Top Ten 2022 Animated Series

Heathen Apostles best 2022 animated seriesThe Goodbye Family has made the Vulture Magazine list of the Top Ten 2022 animated series. The Gothic Western series was created by Lorin Morgan-Richards and features a theme song, as well as other music, from the Heathen Apostles. Heathen member Chopper Franklin also does the score and SFX, and he and vocalist Mather Louth are part of the show’s cast.

Willing to squash and stretch the television and streaming mediums to their limits, the best animated television of 2022 relishes in anticipation and payoff. Returning series such as Harley Quinn and The Owl House cater to their respective loyal fan bases by emphasizing strong character writing and earned emotional heft — even when it’s nestled in humor. A handful of new shows, including The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder and The Boys Presents: Diabolical, leverage the goodwill that came from titles that preceded them to craft stories and art that look radically different from what came before but still feel natural in context. A few debuts break new animated ground entirely, delivering to us the digital worlds of Pantheon and the fantasy realms of The Legend of Vox Machina for our eyeballs to feast on. Now that we’ve presented the year’s top animated films and (specifically, separately) its top anime series, here are the animated TV shows we couldn’t stop watching this year.

10. The Goodbye Family

Heathen Apostles best 2022 animated series

The Goodbye Family is pretty different from every other show on this list. It’s a webtoon that looks as if it was made with MS Paint and centers a family of undertakers trying to eke out a living in a pen-scratched, gothic take on the Old West that’s fleshed out by rootsy Americana music and offbeat humor. Aside from the voices and music, it’s almost entirely made by creator Lorin Morgan-Richards, who based it off his “Weird West” comic of the same name. The Goodbye Family is extremely lo-fi but also unnervingly fun thanks to how it leans into the characters’ peculiarities and morbid humor. In one scene from the episode “The Seedy Snare,” matriarch Pyridine rattles off the Goodbyes’ list of payment options — “We take Gravepal, Renmo, and Coffin Bell wires, although crypt currency … I’m not sure about that one” — as another member of the family cheerily mops blood off the floor. The Goodbye Family is not for everyone, but it just might be for you, if you let it.

December 18, 2022 | Categories: NEWS | Tags: | Leave A Comment »

New Mau Maus Website Launched

The new website for the notorious Los Angeles punk rock band the Mau Maus has launched, it’s new address is maumaus.monster. There you will be able to see photos, interviews and reviews going back to 1978, as well as links to deals on their music and merch. Check it all out HERE.

Mau Maus 1982

Rick Wilder, Scott “Chopper” Franklin, Paul Mars, Mike Livingston. photo by Edward Colver

The Mau Maus official bio:

Everybody knows the Mau Maus. Whether it’s some story of a chaotic back-alley Hollywood show, or dark tales of crimes real or imagined, the Los Angeles punk rock scene wouldn’t have been the same without Rick Wilder and the nefarious group. Reveled and reviled, taking the raw energy of Iggy and the Stooges and infusing an unhealthy dose of James Brown jive, the original Mau Maus (Wilder, Greg Salva, Rod Donahue & Earl Washington) was forged at the original Los Angeles punk rock haven the Masque and sprang upon the emerging Hollywood scene in 1978. The 1981 line up was Wilder, Michael Livingston, Scott “Chopper” Franklin and Paul “Black” Mars, and the Mau Maus proceeded to record the incendiary Robby Krieger-produced Mad Dog Studio sessions and 2 songs for Hell Comes To Your House Vol. 2. A scene-stealing performance in the OJ Simpson detective movie “Cocaine and Blue Eyes” accented this “Joyride to the End of the World”…

The violence, the women, and yes, the drugs, might have seemed to get in the way of commercial success, but talent is talent and songs are songs, and upon listening to this record one realizes that with punk rock still in it’s infancy, here was a band that was already mixing a current fresh sound with elements of American roots music, something the Kinks, the Stones and the Animals managed to do in the 1960’s.

As the 20th century wound down, Wilder moved to New York City, Franklin joined The Cramps, Mars toured the world as a front man for LA Guns and Livingston formed… the Livingstons. Love ‘em or hate ‘em… they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Mau Maus

Rick Wilder, Greg Salva, Scott “Chopper” Franklin, Paul Mars

October 22, 2022 | Categories: NEWS | Tags: , | Leave A Comment »

Heathen Apostles Gothic Americana Halloween

Heathen Apostles Gothic Americana Halloween

It’s almost Halloween and it’s time to announce the Heathen Apostles’ annual Gothic Americana Halloween “Play a Goth Themed Show One Night, a Honky Tonk Themed Show the Next”. We’ll be at Bar Sinister in Hollywood on Saturday Oct. 29th (with God Module), and then the Echoplex in Echo Park on Devil’s Night Sunday Oct. 30th (w/ Blue Drivers and Sie Sie Bernhoff, doors at 6pm). We’ll have guest musicians Aubrey Richmond on violin and Patrick Muzingo on drums. So pick your poison, we got your Goth and we got your Western, we hope to see all of you in So Cal at one or both of the shows!

Get Bar Sinister tickets HERE.
Get Echoplex tickets HERE.

Heathen Apostles Gothic Americana Halloween

The Gothic Western Halloween shows are also the first Heathen Apostles US shows since the release of their latest album Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4, out now on Ratchet Blade Records. You can check out the album HERE.

Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4 tracklist
1. Bad Patch
2. Careful What You Pray For
3. Black Hawk
4. Demi Monde
5. Tall Rider
6. Roots Run Deep
7. Into The Wild
8. No Peace
9. Solitary
10. Shadow of the Crows  

From the Heathen Apostles’ Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4 press release:
2020 was a year of loss, reflection, and reevaluation. Trying as the times were to have a trio of tour cancellations both stateside and abroad as the live music industry seemingly evaporated overnight, the Heathen Apostles did not let the unexpected gift of time go to waste. To the contrary, the band channeled the turbulent year’s events and its complex emotions into their music, and the result- BLOODGRASS VOL. 3&4- is a dark country album of a collection of songs at once timely as they are timeless.

October 7, 2022 | Categories: LIVE DATES | Leave A Comment »

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