Overview
Much like the Sex Pistols' January '78 tour of the Deep South USA, The Black Lips recent expedition to India was marked by a series of fairly seismic culture shocks. Everything from bottle-throwing fans at a gig in Pune, to livid show promoters in Chennai, all in response to the bunch of full-frontal punk rock provocateurs from Atlanta.
The band was booked to play on India's equivalent of American Idol, The "Campus Rock Idol" Tour, a televised series with large corporate sponsors. Last Saturday, in Chennai, the band entertained the crowd with what stateside fans would consider a typically raucous Black Lips show, replete with intra-band lip locking, and Cole de-pantsing, mooning the crowd, and attempting to play his six-string with his privates.
Barely okay in America, definitely NOT okay in India, the band was subsequently chased out of the country and the sponsors pulled the plug, effectively canceling the rest of the tour and the television season.
VBS.tv cameras were there to document what transpired.
Over the coming weeks, VBS will be running a series entitled "The Black Lips in India" which faithfully documents the band's turbulent experience before and after the Chennai gig, their escape to King Khan's pad in Berlin, and beyond. The trailer for the series - which captures every bit of Cole - is now available on VBS.tv.
Watch The Trailer For Black Lips In India:
http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=9786691001
Read The Letter Cole Alexander Sent After The Escape:
http://www.viceland.com/vicerecords/wordpress/?p=305
Read The Vice Interview With Drummer Joe Bradley:
http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/01/black-lips-indi.html
Black Lips are currently gearing up for a multi-month North American tour in support of their forthcoming third Vice release, "200 Million Thousand" as well as UK dates this month.
UK tour dates:
15th London Islington Academy (NME show)
16th Bristol Fleece & Firkin
17th Glasgow ABC 2
18th Manchester Institute
19th Brighton Audio
Single "Short Fuse" released on March 9th
New album "200 Million Thousand" released on March 16th via Vice Records
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