We were honoured to be invited. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us.
Thinking Plague's CD, entitled "Decline and Fall", the 6th studio album by the band, was released at the beginning of 2012. The CD was mixed by Bob Drake and Mike Johnson in the fall of 2011, and is available from Cuneiform.
A sample track can be found below:
You can click here to order a copy. You can also get it from
many of your favourite vendors.
Meanwhile, Thinking Plague (with sister band Hamster Theatre) completed a "mini-tour" in November 2011, which included successful shows at the Cuneifest in Baltimore and The Stone in New York
as well as a show and an interactive "living room" concert in Philadelphia.
Thinking Plague completed a successful mini-tour of Europe in March-April 2008, having performed at:
Le Triton - Les Lilas (Paris) France
Kulturhaus Cairo - Wurzburg, Germany
L'Usine, Geneva, Switzerland (with What's Wrong With Us)
Legend 54 Club , Milan, Italy (with Yugen)
Gouveia Art Rock Festival - Gouveia, Portugal
You Tube has a few brief videos from Le Triton, Wurzburg
and Gouveia, including this one and a number of others ...
And here are photos from Gouveia, featuring new co-vocalist Elaine DiFalco and regular vocalist Deborah Perry - as well as the "Bear
Dog"....
TP soundman and pal, Udi Koomran, recounts his experience of the
mini-tour on his excellent blog.
New Section- MUSINGS!
We've added a section called Musings (on the menu to the left). This section will feature interesting writings on
Plague history and other subjects.
The current musings are by Bob Drake, who talks about the recording of the very first Thinking Plague album.
"A stunning document of Rock-In-Opposition at its finest. Thinking Plague delivers a commanding set of highly technical and challenging, yet melodic compositions in a manner that must be heard to believe. The masterful musicianship displayed by this sextet is exquisite. They draw from obvious progressive rock sources, but refuse to merely relive the 70's as they push their unique brand of music forward."
"If you thought prog rock and concept albums were a thing of the past, Thinking Plague is here to prove you wrong. And if you thought prog rock had to be terminally self-indulgent and concept albums a pretentious waste of time, they're here to prove you even more wrong. Sounding something like a Henry Cow for the digital age, on A History of Madness Thinking Plague lays down some of the most rhythmically complex, texturally inventive, and melodically challenging popular music of the last 30 years, and somehow makes it all sound easy and natural."