Ticket Pre-Sales
Marilyn Manson announce ticket pre-sales for the upcoming Against All Gods tour in North America. Here's the link: Marilyn Manson ticket pre-salesWednesday 29 September 2004
Lest We Forget - Album release in North America
Lest We Forget is out in America and Canada. Sales for this should be pretty good.Be an early bird at Hot Topic
The first 500 people to buy Marilyn Manson's Lest We Forget album will receive a wristband, guaranteeing an autograph tomorrow. Wristband distribution begins today at 8am. Here's one that bbser Nikkee got:
USA Radio -DC101 station interview
Radio station DC101 has a special 'Marilyn Manson day', including a phone interview recorded with Manson yesterday.Amongst other things - the (s)AINT dvd for instance - he talks of Ginger's broken arm, cheek and nose. He hints at who could be the stand-in drummer for the tour, saying 'He played on Antichrist Superstar'. So it's Chris Vrenna then?
AGAINST ALL GODS Tour Dates
MarilynManson.com.
Tuesday 28 September 2004
Lest We Forget - Album release in UK
Lest We Forget is out in Britain. Let's see if we can give the band as good a sales result as their GAOG album received.
Official site and Ginger news
The redesign of the official website is underway. So far so good.Ginger's injuries are confirmed: he has a broken nose and an arm fracture. How he's going to play drums on tour, I do not know. Just take it easy, Ginger, and get well soon.
New official site on its way
Against All Gods tour announced
The American autumn tour is confirmed, with dates to be announced on Monday 27 September (tomorrow). Called the 'Against All Gods' tour, it begins in late October.Interview - The Devil You Know
Winnipeg Sun interview: 'Antichrist superstar Marilyn Manson celebrates a decade of decadence with greatest-hits disc.'Marilyn Manson interview by Jane Stevenson
26 September 2004
Ginger recovering
Ginger reportedly leaves hospital but still no clarification of his condition or what went wrong.TV - CD:UK interview
The interview Manson recorded last Saturday for ITV's CD:UK is shown at mid-day. The female interviewer (Cat Deeley) sits so close to him on the couch, she can reach out and touch faith a few times. Obviously a fan. It's repeated at 3:40am tonight - tomorrow really. They're not showing the PJ performance until next Saturday, 2nd October.Saturday 25 September 2004
TV - Comet 2004 awards
MM perform Personal Jesus on Comet 2004 awards show, Cologne, Germany, at the Kolnarena. It's by Viva TV.TV - Ginger in trouble, Comet 2004
Ginger takes a nasty tumble as they finish their performance. He strikes his head, needs immediate medical attention and is taken to hospital, bleeding and concussed. The awards show is delayed for twenty minutes during this. The official site is in the middle of upgrading so no news from them.Pogo tells some fans about it when he returns to the band's hotel afterwards.
Before the above, an over-zealous female fan reportedly tugs at Manson's trousers as he walks into the venue on the red carpet. So it was just one of those nights really.
Friday 24 September 2004
Radio - XFM 104.9
Manson interview from 4 to 6 pm with Lauren Laverne. People were allowed to send in questions for him.Music press - NME
Manson makes the cover of NME and has a pretty good and mostly accurate feature and interview inside.
Manson on NME cover
Radio One's Jo Whiley
An interview with Manson is played on Jo Whiley's Radio One show. It's his third time on her show. Where's his pal Mary Anne Hobbs got to I wonder?Jo had a copy of Irreversible on DVD for him. Another wedding present?
TV - TV Total
Bi-lingual interview on German show, TV Total. Also they show a little of the PJ video I seem to remember. Manson runs out to get the 'idiot boards' from beside the camera.
Manson on German TV
Interview - Q&A: Marilyn Manson
Rolling Stone interview - 22 September 2004'The Antichrist Superstar wants Bowie for president and Beyonce for secretary of defense.'
Marilyn Manson interview by Austin Scaggs
Wednesday 22 September 2004
Second Trismegistus art show
A second 'By Invitation Only' mini art show, this time in Berlin at '40 seconds', Potsdamer Strasse.Tuesday 21 September 2004
TV - PopWorld interview
Morning: Manson appears on PopWorld for a brief interview. The interviewer gives him an early wedding present of a toaster. Then he hurries off to appear in The Mikado, just kidding.
Manson on PopWorld.
Screen capture by [psycho]logical
He must have hung around a little while because he was later seen on T4 (about 3:30?), talking to Presenter Vernon Kay in a mini-interview.
A bbser describes it: They discussed the music, what inspired them to cover Personal Jesus. He said the songs on Lest We Forget are the ones he thinks best sum up his career, such as songs that were popular, songs that were singles, songs that were amazing live, songs that inspired murders and so on. Murders?!
TV - CD:UK recorded
Lunchtime: With any luck, one hundred MM fans got into CD:UK's Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London today to watch the band record Personal Jesus, for airing next Saturday on ITV.TV - The strongest link
Teatime: Terror Anne Robinson asks this question on The Weakest Link quiz show: "The Golden Age of Grotesque was a 2003 album by artist Marilyn who?"And TV Sports Presenter contestant 'Bev' knew the answer!
TV - Last Call with Carson Daly, on NBC
Manson's appearance on Last Call with Carson Daly is shown tonight on American TV. The show was taped on the 9th of September. Manson was the first guest, Stuart Townshend was the second, and a rapper named Mase did 2 songs. Manson stayed until Mase performed so he was there for a good while.Saturday 18 September 2004
TV - Top Of The Pops
The band appear on Top Of The Pops, miming only but still livening things up. They were in a helluva hurry to get offstage at the end though, especially Pogo.
Manson (top) and Skold (Pogo in distance) on TOTP.
Screen captures by [psycho]logical
MTV Cure tribute
Friday evening, Manson hosts a tribute to The Cure at the Old Billingsgate Market in London.'MTV Icon - The Cure' will be shown in the UK on 31 October (Hallowe'en) at 9pm.
BBC Review of MTV's Icon - The Cure
Listening parties
The first of a series of Album promotion/Listening parties was held tonight at a place called The Egg, in London. The Lest We Forget mini-site lists other venues for 24, 25 September and 8 October. No band there but you do get promotional freebies.Friday 17 September 2004
Magazine - Sonic Seducer
Marilyn Manson is to be on the cover of German rock-gothic magazine 'Sonic Seducer'. It will contain an interview about MM's latest album and single, plus The Nobodies video is on the cover CD.Sonic Seducer Musikmagazin: Gothic, EBM / Electro, Alternative and Darkwave.
Thursday 16 September 2004
TV - Hit Machine
Lunchtime: MM play 'Personal Jesus' for French TV show Hit Machine (channel M6). Pogo seems a bit squiffy to some fans but just because he's wearing a pith helmet doesn't mean he's pithed.Pics taken by Manson fans outside
The Manson express
Early Evening: MM arrive at Waterloo Station on the Eurostar train from Paris. Manson, Dita and Pogo later attend the FHM Collections launch party at Too 2 Much (former Raymond Revue Bar). Manson is due to get some pics taken this week but not by the photographer who was with him tonight.Wednesday 15 September 2004
Art show
Manson's 'Invitation Only' Art show in Paris at the Lutetia Hotel. Manson, Dita and Ginger attend.
Marilyn Manson takes questions at Paris art show
Radio - NRJ
Manson's on French radio station NRJ Radio this evening from 9.00 to 9.45pm (GMT+1). Or was it tomorrow? I've got conflicting information here.Marilyn Manson on NRJ Radio
Monday 12 September 2004
Promo website
A Lest We Forget mini-site arrives on the scene. This flash-based promotional site is quite pleasant and you can sign up for the mailing list.
Art exhibit announced
On Tuesday, 14 September, an exhibit of artwork by Marilyn Manson, will take place at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris, France. A second display is scheduled for Tuesday, 21 September, at '40 seconds' on Potsdamer Strasse in Berlin, Germany. American dates are still to be announced.The exhibit - entitled 'Trismegistus' - will feature over twenty paintings, many of them new.
Trismegistus painting by Marilyn Manson
TV - Manson on Graham Norton
Also for 9 September, Marilyn is a guest on The Graham Norton Effect tonight, in the USA, on Comedy Central (episode 112). Chris Rock is also a guest.TV - recording of Carson Daly show
And he recorded 'Last Call with Carson Daly' today.9 September
Invite from Fuse TV
Fuse TV invite MM fans to their studios to see their hero on Friday, 10 September."You need to be available that day from 4:30pm-7:15pm. If you're between the ages of 15-25 and in the NYC area, please e-mail audience@fuse.tv.
View the show - if you're American - on the Daily Download, LIVE on Fuse from 6pm-7pm EST (repeated at 10-11pm EST) on Friday, 10 September.
Our studio is centrally located, across the street from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station (11 Penn Plaza - 7th Avenue between 31st and 32nd Streets). In your email, be sure to put MARILYN MANSON in the subject line, and include all your contact info. Space is limited - first come, first served. Don't wait!"
7 September
Daily Record interview
Scotland's very own wee moanin' faced rag (Rab C. Nesbitt's description), The Daily Record, publishes a Marilyn Manson interview.Manson met Bowie after attending one of his shows as a fanboy earlier this year and said of him: 'He's everything that you would want when you meet someone that you really respect.'
He also said 'He and I have agreed to work on a song together for my next record when my tour's over.'
Lovely!
When asked about any plans to settle down and have kids, he replies: 'I haven't been around a lot of babies, you know? I will have a nephew when I get married.'
Of the baby in the just previewed Personal Jesus video, Marilyn says: 'I held the baby and I started singing to him, and he stopped crying instantly.'
'This baby was just looking at me and he was so happy. We finished the song, and I realised, in part, that maybe I had soothed him, but he had p***d (puked?) all over me.'
Of the Personal Jesus cover song he says: 'I did not stray greatly from the original as much as I have in the past with Tainted Love and Sweet Dreams. It maintains a basic pumping rhythm to it.'
Marilyn hopes to tour for The Best Of album, including dates in Scotland and the UK, and plans to act in a new film 'Living In Neon Dreams' with Tim Roth and Nastassja Kinski. He 'plays the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland in a very different, twisted variation of it.'
