Title track from the upcoming BAD NEWS BOYS album, WE ARE THE CHAMPION. Out in 2015 on IN THE RED.nn"This was the first song we wrote for th...
Title track from the upcoming BAD NEWS BOYS album, WE ARE THE CHAMPION. Out in 2015 on IN THE RED.nn"This was the first song we wrote for the album. Not the best song on the record, and not a single, but where our heads were at during the recording."nnMark 'BBQ' Sultan - vox, guitar, drumsnKing 'Bama Lama' Khan - vox, guitarnn"Video-film created with vivid fascination in quality with the finest equipment. Another year arrived, Zondervan Bronté, film-man and musical video by Zonder, starring Zondervan Bronté, Stan Suntache, Sarah B, Sarah C, "Rashtah", betells the story of and how, through a drugged dose of tea from pioneer leader with revenge as vigilante priest. Tramp, through doors opened in third-eye of his mind-head, sees taste of fine-taste of leader of alter-ego wealth and prosperity. What will the outcome? Follow story, addict of outstanding music harmony, melody, assembled by finest THE BAD NEWS BOYS."nn"A love story... of hate." nnAfter a long, hard hiatus, it was love that finally resurrected this pioneering rock'n'roll legend. nn"It's deep love and commitment to right the wrongs and bring the kids what they really need, what they deserve: true, passionate, overtly-erotic, heart-melting ROCK and ROLL!!!" - King Khannn"We give up the ghosts. If we open that portal on stage or on vinyl and you choose to step through it, we can give you release. We're like a budget Thai massage done with Ex-Lax fingers." - Mark Sultan (BBQ)nn2014 saw Sultan write a 'love note' to Khan in his own bile and blood. Khan crafted a portrait of Sultan during that same time, using pints of unused semen and various fingernail clippings. Sadly both art pieces were destroyed by the recent flooding in Serbia, where they were being exhibited and housed along with other works from the past 10 or so years, like the rare 16mm master print of their fabled 2009 art-house masterpiece, 'Shaved Anus'.nnFans who couldn't make the trip to the Balkans to see their oft-lauded heroes lick tears from the faces of dwarves dressed-up like hot dogs (their performance piece 'Raus! Raus! Reetz!'), were finally rewarded for their patience when the band stepped out of its musical hiatus to play a few shows earlier in the year.nn"Returning to the stage wasn't the hard part, it was going to court to fight to keep our name" said King Khan, referring to the recent court case in Germany in which a 'historic' local eatery by the name of 'KING KHAN UND BBQ' decided to sue the band. "It seems like these restaurant folk have a lot of pull in the community and even in the government, and this might be the last tour we do as The King Khan & BBQ Show. Canadians don't really have rights here in Berlin; we are basically just refugees. Polite refugees. Sorry."nn"What became sickeningly apparent right away when this whole lawsuit was thrown at us, is that no matter how many kids' charities we pay into, no matter how many fisting competitions we win, we will always be 'Auslanders' - and that hurts. More than fisting." said an obviously distraught Mark Sultan. "I hope those döner dudes are happy."nnThe new name 'Bad News Boys' was actually the band's original monicker in 2003. "We have made a lot of strange decisions in our band's history. The time Mark ate a bunch of expired yogurt backstage in Iowa was one, for example. His (farts) made some of the audience puke," Khan laughed. "Slightly less acrid a decision was opting for the KKBBQ name years ago, but who woulda ever known... We're completely different people from where we were even last year, and we're excited to be playing again."nn"(The 'King Khan & BBQ' name) seemed like a good idea at the time, and though we're big fans of Number 2, we maybe could have stuck to our first choice that one time" Sultan added, thoughtfully. "Situations like my alias ('BBQ'), history and contributions getting swallowed up by Khan's infamy led to resentment over the name, too, unfortunately. Bad spelling and wording on posters and ads, or how some folks can't understand the difference between ourselves and Khan's other band ('King Khan & The Shrines') is a bummer... On some level, we're thankful to have been sued. It's like we went full circle and got a second chance to fuck up."nnAll of this comes just after a short, focus-group tested run in major cities across North America and Europe using the monicker 'Jumbo Lions' came to a screeching, disasterous halt. As In The Red Records head honcho Larry Hardy remarked, "(Their) attempt at using that particular bandname made the subjects VERY uncomfortable. To the point where fights and wind were breaking out from just the mere mention (of it). Granted, (Khan and Sultan) made the folks believe they'd be testing a line of tribal-tattoo themed energy drinks," Hardy paused, angrily. "And don't get me started on the whole 'Zen Machines' debacle."nnhttp://www.facebook.com/thekingkhanbbqshownhttp://www.facebook.com/badnewsboysnhttp://badnewsboys.tumblr.com Less
