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A Perfect Circle live tracks and new songs

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Regular Fourtheye reader Magnus was lucky enough to have a chat with Billy Howerdel after a recent A Perfect Circle show in Texas, and was kind enough to ask him a little bit about the future for APC.  Billy’s responses were:

  • By & Down is the only new APC track for now, and they’re looking at a release in Fall/Winter.  Digital download was suggested as the format of the release.
  • The recordings for the 2010 show came out well.  Billy was quiet as far as a DVD goes, but suggested that some of the live tracks would be available with By & Down.

Setlist criticisms aside, everyone who’s caught a show on this tour so far seems to have enjoyed it.  If you get the change to catch one of the last few shows this tour, then I suggest you do!

Howerdel discusses new A Perfect Circle material

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In a recent interview with Gotham Radio, Billy Howerdel talks about A Perfect Circle, new songs, the upcoming tour and Ashes Divide.  Here’s a snippet:

So will we hear new APC music on the tour? “We are gonna hear at least a song, I would say,” Billy tells me. “One of them is very, very close to being done. And from there, things could come together once we get on the road and start hashing through some of the other ideas and they could quickly become a song and find their way onto the live stage.”

Does that mean a new album is in the works? “In the works, but not for this summer. I think the idea was to try and get the juices flowing a bit and get back into A-B-C mode a bit and go from there,” he says. “See what happens in the new year. We have intentions of recording new material.”

I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet, so if any of you enterprising Fourtheye readers do, and hear anything else of note, feel free to comment below!  Thanks to av333 for the tip!

New A Perfect Circle tracks, but no new album

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I just read on Blabbermouth that while A Perfect Circle do have some new songs (which they hope to play on the coming tour) there are no plans to record them or a full album just yet:

Howerdel said A PERFECT CIRCLE will be “playing some of the new songs,” on this tour, “so that’s always an exciting prospect.”

“We’re still kind of in the creative process of them, but we have every intention of playing them live,” he added. “I’m really looking forward to it. I’m also looking forward to getting back on a tour and playing big enough places to actually have a production of sorts.”

Howerdel also said the while he’s excited for the new songs, don’t expect a new CD…yet. “No album right now,” he said. “Songs will trickle in as they’re written and as needed, so maybe next year that will come together as a bigger collection of songs. But right now, there won’t be an album.”

A link to the full interview (a podcast I haven’t listened to) can be found in the original link.

In other APC news, it would appear that a lack of a show in Chicago, as well as a gap in the touring schedule could suggest that an appearance at Lollapalooza is on the cards…

A Perfect Circle track recorded? Newsletter + Tool goodies on Ebay

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According to a recent tweet by Antiquiet (and also on Billy Howerdel’s Facebook so I hear):

Maynard and I just got done tracking some vocal for a new APC song

Hopefully this means we’ll see a new A Perfect Circle track sometime in the not too distant future.

As I posted a few days ago the December Newsletter was just released.  Now I’ve had a chance to read it, here’s a few things I’ve picked up:

  • Tool are still writing for the next album and we probably shouldn’t expect a release until late 2011
  • Adam has been in the UK doing stuff, and depending on how you read it, could have recorded with Robert Fripp, had something repaired (a guitar amp perhaps) or just had some beers.
  • Things are maybe happening as far as the various Tool websites are concerned.
  • Maynard is enjoying some more winemaking
  • Tool nearly supported Rush in Brazil (or may do so in the future).
  • Aaron Harris might post some notes from the road for us.

Feel free to add anything I missed below!

Finally hold your light from Toolarmy has had to reluctantly sell some of his Tool related goodies on Ebay.  Here are the links:

Happy Bidding!

Tool ticket updates, A Perfect Circle winding up

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I was at work on Friday so wasn’t able to update you guys about an extra release of tickets for the Brisbane Tool side show.  Luckily for us all though, Gold Standing tickets are still available as I write this!  If you missed out the first time then make sure you get on top of this pretty quick, since I imagine there aren’t many left!

Hawaii ticket sales seem to have gone well for most of you. My understanding is there’s still tickets available for that too.

As far as other Tool shows go, the Melbourne sideshow is sold out, and there’s a thread you can use to get tickets here.  Big Day Outs in Melbourne and the Gold Coast are sold out, as is the first Sydney Big Day Out, however you can still get tickets to the New Zealand, 2nd Sydney, Adelaide and Perth Big Day Outs.  I expect that the NZ, Perth and Adelaide Big Day Outs will all sell out sometime prior to the show, so don’t leave your tickets too late.

A Perfect Circle play their last tour date today in Las Vegas, ending their short West Coast mini tour.  Reports from Fourtheye readers indicate the shows have been great.  Billy has been dropping hints that they’ll be back in February.  If this is true it’d be late February as Tool will be in Australia until the 6th and I’m sure Maynard would like a little time to visit his vineyards before he heads out on the road again.

Billy Howerdel discusses A Perfect Circle reunion

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There is a lengthy interview with Billy Howerdel on Ultimate Guitar where he talks about a range of A Perfect Circle related topics, including a few guitar tech type questions, as well as a little insight into Tool:

By the time you’ve recorded the Thirteenth Step album, has the writing process with Maynard become more efficient? Do you better understand the types of guitar ideas that he’ll respond to?

Kind of. On the first record, on Mer de Noms, for the most part I had a lot of those songs written and pretty well realized. They weren’t recorded really well but they were getting there by the time he started working on them. It was easy in the fact that he would just kind of sing to the arrangement that was there; we changed very little to accommodate Maynard. Working with Tool, he’s used to cracking the ultimate riddle of music; their music is extremely complex and I hear their demos sometimes and I hear what he puts to it and I think it’s amazing. I don’t know how he fits what he does over what I heard. Now that I’ve got some singing experience under my belt with Ashes Divide and writing and being the sole lyricist and writing melodies, I can’t imagine how he does that. I guess he just rises to the challenge but it’s not to be underestimated of how difficult that task is.

Thanks to Sam for the tip!

Antiquiet speaks with Billy

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An new interview on Antiquiet is now available.  It’s a long one and probably the best one with Billy Howerdel so far.  He talks about a range of topics related to A Perfect Circle and their upcoming tour:

What are the chances that we’ll hear a new song?

If you asked me last week, I would have said 70%… If you ask me this week, I’m going to say 60%.

I don’t know. I’ve given stuff to Maynard, he’s writing to it. When he gives me something back, I’ll write to it more. And here we are, we’re getting close to a month away from the first show.

So I mean, if it’s going to be irresponsibly terrible, then we won’t. But if it’s somewhat doable, then we’ll premiere it… I doubt it’s going to be recorded or released, but maybe it is, I don’t know.

We have every intention of playing a [new] song or two on this tour, but the reason for doing this tour is to revisit these old records, kind of exercise them, and remind everybody, like ‘remember us?’ And we don’t even know what to expect from the fan reaction. Will people even remember on a large scale, who we were? But the appetite seems… awesome.

Definitely check it out!  Thanks to Tooldude for the tip!

Billy chats about A Perfect Circle reunion

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Via the A Perfect Circle Facebook page I came across this interview with Billy in regards to A Perfect Circle on Gun Shy Assassin.  Amongst other things we already know, it also mentions that they’re planning on making a DVD from these reunion shows:

But that’s not all. In addition, Howerdel says he’d like to document the upcoming reunion shows for a possible DVD release in the fall of 2011. He also spoke about what brought A Perfect Circle back together, and the possibility of more shows this coming spring and summer…depending on how far along in the writing process Tool are at that point for their next LP.

Not a long interview but worth a quick read…

They also had the following words of wisdom:

Reminder, tickets for Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle and Las Vegas shows go on sale tomorrow, Friday Sept. 24. Shows are on-sale at 10 am pacific except Las Vegas which is on sale at 12 noon. Tickets can be purchased at the venue box office or online. LA, Seattle and Las Vegas can be purchased through Ticketmaster.com; Phoenix (Tempe) can be purchased through Luckymanonline.com. San Francisco is on-sale Sunday.

Monday will be a good day….

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…to be an A Perfect Circle fan according to Billy’s Myspace page.  Combined with a Facebook update of “Stay Tuned” we can only guess that tour dates will be announced then.  Or perhaps just some more information regarding their plans.

In other social media related news, Junior posted on Facebook just a little while ago that he’ll be working with Devo the next couple of months.  Possibly importantly for us Aussie fans he mentioned that he’ll be “Done before January. :) ”.  I’m pretty much 100% convinced now that Tool will be Big Day Outing.