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1st of Septemeber 2010

***NEW CRUSHED BUTLER SINGLE ON VINYL

POW WOW SUMMER BATCH IS ALL OUT. FREE SHIPPING EVERYWHERE FOR 24 HOURS. 
NEW SINGLES OUT NOW! 
CRUSHED BUTLER - ITS MY LIFE B/W MY SONS ALIVE 7"
AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH THE WINDIAN INTERNATIONAL WEBSITE WWW.WINDIANRECORDS.BLOGSPOT.COM

7th of August 2010

End Sessions

Stephan Kroll (the Producer), Darryl, Robby Linke (assistant producer); last intense days in Britz KellaSound Studios on Darryl's new Rock album, in cool Berlin! August 5th 2010

Finished recording my new Rock album on Friday - watch this space for the release in mid
September on Vinyl!!

17th of June 2010

Out soon!

Keep Movin' The Beat --- from Darryl's new Album ALL WALKS OF LIFE produced by Stephan Kroll in Berlin --- watch this space for all new action!

   NEW RELEASE*   March 13th 2010

OUT TODAY! COLECTOMATIC volume 3

Photo of by Marion Schult - layout Robby Linke (c) 2009

Darryl's New compilation album COLECTOMATIC voloume 3 is released today for downloads here is the link: http://cdbaby.com/cd/DarrylRead12 The album will be also available in Itunes this compilation features some unreleased demo's and unreleased archival works --- a must for hard core Read fans! Download in Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/colectomatic-vol-3/id362372466

NEW RELEASE*    

New Crushed Butler release 1st of December
For all CB Droogs: Released on December 1st  on 12' Vinyl 

CRUSHED BUTLER "Uncrushed" LP RHB - 110 new release check this link and get it:http://radioheartbeat.net/ with new bonus track.


CRUSHED BUTLER "Uncrushed" LP
RHB - 110

Many bands are called legendary, few are. Among them are Crushed Butler whose assualt on the UK prog rock scene in 69-70 layed out the dynamics that were to follow in the best punk, glam and pub rock records of the seventies. From the anthemic R&B classic "High School Dropout", to the pure punk mayhem of "It's My Life" and "Factory Grime" and the heavy Sabbath-esque psych of "Love Is All Around Me" this has long been a record deserving of wider accessibility. Radio Heartbeat Records is pleased to make that happen. The RHB LP edition adds a 2nd version of "High School Dropout" and an previously unreleased instrumental recording, "Let It Ring" to the 6 tracks first pressed on the Dig The Fuzz 10" in the 90s to make this the definitive vinyl release that contains the band's complete surviving recordings. RHB

There is a special press kit version available (limited to 75 copies) which contains bonus Crushed Butler press photos, reprinted emphera, Crushed Butler comic and badge.

CRUSHED BUTLER "Uncrushed" LP + Press Pack = $20

Best from
Darryl

May 7th 2009

Teenage Dream Single re-issued

Darryl Read recorded this track in 1994, with Bill Legend of T.REX, Bill played on this song the first time around with Marc Bolan, and the song was a smash hit! On this recording, Bill works alonside with Darryl Read; Punk inovator and foundler member of the first Punk group Crushed Butler! This verison of Bolans Teenage Dream - Darryl makes his own, swaying to an unpredicatilble lilting edge, that makes it a hard verison to Beat! *get the download here:  http://cdbaby.com/cd/darrylread11 or on itunes

Heres the link to the promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkxfrvUU504 

24th December 2008 

Jamin' in Thailand December 18th 2008 with the Lam Morrison Band at the famous BLUES FACTORY      photo: Nong 2009 (C) Darryl Read Archives 2008 all rights reserved

HAVE A GREAT XMAS & NEW YEAR EVERYBODY ---- AND SEE YA ON THE STREETS IN 2009

Love & Beat Existential poetry

from
Darryl

10th of August 2008 

Just up on you tube a clip from the Far Further cut Remember A Day (2008) heres the link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSxs_2CgWao

W.H 

 June 18th 2008     

New additional scenes shot in April 2008 for the film Remember a Day (The Far Further Version) with Jill Lovegrove Jenny Lesmoir-Gordon and Barbara Ungerhofen. Watch this space.  

W.H.

January 1st 2008

MAIN CURRENTLY ON: ACE STEPPING ROADHOUSE & BLEEDING PARADISE 

sleeve photo © Marion Schult 2007 design and Artwork Darryl Read

Rockin' straight into 2008 with the pre-release download of STEPPING ACE ROADHOUSE (click here to get it!)

December 31^st 2007

December 29^th 2007 White Trash Club Berlin on stage with Wolfgang Sinhart & Lloyd Clark. All photos ©Marion Schult 2007 (and the last two were for Jacek Slaski who believes no one listens to our music!).

December 23^st 2007

I'm saying a big thanks to: Wally, Wolfgang & Trinity and all the gang at White Trash Fast Food Club Berlin, Germany ----- for making 2007 a great year for me and my Beat Existentialists' at the club, the shows have been great to do there; ( as was the last one on the 29^th of December) and the group and I look forward to the new concerts there on every last Saturday of every month in 2008 ---- for full Poet Rock 'n' Roll!

Wishing all my friends here and on myspace a great and successful ----- full-lived 2008!

Love & Poetry

from

Darryl

December 21^st 2007

Hey you Big Beats! Have a great Xmas holiday ...

14^th of November 2007

*Live photo of DARRYL/TOM PETERSEN (Drums)/ROBBY LINKE (Bass)/ by ©Marion Schult 2007/Berlin

Darryl and his Beat Existentialists' ripping up the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD CLUB BERLIN on 8^th of November 2007. The four encore show was filmed by Alex Avantgarde: so you can see for yourself; when the new documentary of Darryl's works and collaborations are all put together in a fully documented DVD of Archives up to present day --- out in 2008. Watch this space for more concerts at Berlins CBGB'S: WTFF, and some new recordings are on their way to you --- make 2008 a Maxim Poet 'n' Roll year!

W.H.

July 6th 2007

*Updated all the time:  Currently on - Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read  BLEEDING PARADISE album release

                                                              Darryl/Ray/Robby  Paris July 3rd 2007 Photo: ©Marion Schult 2007

Darryl visited Ray & Robby at their Riders On The Storm concert at Le Grand Rex in Paris. Darryl said: "The concert was fucking great! And I think it was the best I ever saw Ray and Robby play - the keys sounded like thunder with new epic chops; and Robby's impromptu version of 'Spanish Caravan' was the best I'd ever seen him play -- ROTS blew the stage apart that night!" Ray and Darryl found time to toast their poetry album BLEEDING PARADISE (due for its USA release), with photographer Marion Schult backstage after the concert.

Darryl also checked in to see his poetry reading friends Alex and the Scorpywag gang at 'La Renaissance' amongst loads of other DOORS fans:  check news for more pics.

W.H.

   Cover photo: Marion Schult 2007

        Sam Cha Cha film promo (from the album Bleeding Paradise by Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read) - click on photos to view movie

                                                                                                  Raw* version/internet cut promo 

                                                                     Darsteller:  Ben Becker / Darryl Read / Svenja
                                                                                  released on 24th of April 2007

                                      a Darryl Read film/edited by Karo Goetsch /(c)Madstar Films Ltd 2007 all rights reserved

                                                             
In the year of the DOORS 40th anniversary Ray Manzarek and Darryl Read release their new CD poetry/music album BLEEDING PARADISE. The enhanced package includes a twenty page poetry booklet and photos with 15 minutes of video film of Ray and Darryl performing the works in the Banquet Studios San Francisco. Released in the latest Super Jewell Box from the 22nd of January world-wide. Advance orders can be obtained from info@darrylread.com and in the merchandise section of this site - Get it here now! And:  http://cdbaby.com/cd/readmanzarek   Amazon.com     www.RollingStone.com    Rhapsody  AOLMusicNow.com     www.yottamusic.com    Itunes    VH1

               More purchase links worldwide to follow....

LINER NOTES:

Calling all Beat Defenders: Ray Manzarek and Darryl Read need you for a revolution of the mind, safe from the "moneyed poison creed of greed": one voice, one piano, "far from the hearth of slumber," unadorned and unrelenting: food for thought, and food for your head.  Welcome to BLEEDING PARADISE.

Ralph Heibutzki January 2007  (Author of the best selling: The Life and Times of Danny Gatton).

Click here for Ralph Heibutzkis' in-depth press release of BLEEDING PARADISE

Easter 2007 --- The Trompete Club Review

Darryl Reads CD-Veröffentlichungen "Shaved", "Book of the dead", "Collectomatic", "Freshly Dug" unter besonderer Mitwirkung von the Doors Keyboarder Ray Manzarek und auch die wiederholte Zusammenarbeit von Manzarek und Read auf dem gerade erschienen Album "Bleeding Paradise" fanden große Beachtung unter Read Fans, aber auch the Doors-Fans haben daran ihre Freude. Die hervorragenden Musiker um Darryl haben es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, Musik und Lyrik ein neues Leben einzuhauchen und die Erinnerung, an den wahren Beat-Spirit mit einer beeindruckenden Performance wach zu halten. Darryl Read, selbst Absolvent der Schauspielschule, gewann bereits mit vierzehn Jahren einen Award in Kalifornien. Und so wundert man sich auch nicht, wenn er hin und wieder selbst als Regisseur und Schauspieler in Eigenproduktionen agiert, so zum Beispiel für den Film, "Remember a Day" oder das aktuelle Projekt in Spanien unter Mitwirkung von Ben Becker. Unter anderem veröffentlichte Darryl Read kürzlich seine Biografie sowie seinen Gedichtband Volume 1, beides in der Undergroundszene wahnsinnig gefragt und bereits fast ausverkauft …

SHOTGUN REVIEWS http://www.shotgunreviews.com/

Ray Manzarek: Life After Jim Morrison - Part I

P16th, 2007 by Michael Sutton
Categories: The Big Question (Interviews), Music, Mike Sutton

Written by Michael Sutton

For Ray Manzarek, the Beat goes on.

In fact, the Beat has never stopped. Even after Jim Morrison’s shocking death in 1971 and the Doors’ subsequent break-up two years later, the group’s legendary keyboardist has never faded from the rock & roll scene. Whether it’s producing post-punk pioneers such as X and Echo & the Bunnymen or resurrecting the Doors with a new frontman, Manzarek continues to mesmerize and move new generations of listeners with his atmospheric, jazz-inflected playing.

One of the most intriguing projects that Manzarek has involved himself with lately is a collaboration with late ’60s garage rock survivor Darryl Read, frontman for Britain’s first punk band Crushed Butler. Combining Read’s existentialist Beat poetry with Manzarek’s cinematic keyboards, the two create fevered art on Bleeding Paradise, their third team-up.

In an interview conducted on March 14, Manzarek explained his long fascination with the Beat Generation and how it led to the formation of the Doors and his creative partnership with Read.

Manzarek has known Read for 20 years. According to Manzarek, what attracted him to Read’s poetry was that “it’s got a street credibility, an instant punch in the nose,” he said. “It’s now, it’s today, and yet it’s got its roots firmly set in the Beat Generation.”

It was the work of the Beat Generation, the groundbreaking, spontaneous, and in-your-face words of underground icons such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, that opened the Doors for Manzarek. Manzarek revealed that the writing of the Beats was “the reason the Doors came together in the first place, an attempt to wed poetry and rock & roll, the same way that the Beats had wed poetry and jazz.”

In some ways, Manzarek’s work with Read unites both approaches as Read’s delivery booms with punk intensity while Manzarek’s lushly crafted keyboards have the playful energy of jazz.

To Be Continued

(For more information on Ray Manzarek and Darryl Read, go to: http://www.raymanzarek.us and http://www.darrylread.com).

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RADIO EINS rbb    Inhalt    mi, 21.00 - 23.00 Uhr

Prime Cuts       

 Die Rock'n'Pop-Show

 23. Februar 2007, 03.00 Uhr

Darryl Read in den Prime Cuts (Wiederholung)
Heute zu Gast in den Prime Cuts: DARRYL READ , englischer Musiker, Dichter, Schauspieler, Weltenbummler zwischen London, Los Angeles und Berlin, verlorener Prinz des Trash, Überlebender sämtlicher Trends und nimmermüder Suchender nach Worten der Wahrheit, hat eine neue CD veröffentlicht. Mit RAY MANZAREK, ja, genau DER Ray Mazarek, dem legendären Doors-Keyboarder, hat er eine puristische "spoken word" - Scheibe eingespielt, nur Manzarek's Grand Piano und Read's Vortrag. Bemerkenswert. DAzu, wie immer, neues und neu entdecktes aus der Welt der Rockmusik. Have Fun!
 

[Whg. in der Nacht vom Donnerstag zum Freitag, 3.00 bis 5.00 Uhr]

..mit Peter Radszuhn »                                        Click here for the playlist

W.H.

TIP MAGAZINE BERLIN January 24th 2007

With BLEEDING PARADISE only just out: comes TIP magazine - Berlin - top rating review!   2nd top rating review:  Berlin TAZ daily 14th February 2007.

Watch out for more!

W.H.
 

23rd of December 2006

                                                                            photo: ©Marion Schult 2007 al rights reserved

                          HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR IN 2007 EVERYONE

23rd of November 2006 photo

CONCERT DATES IN DECEMBER 2006

Darryl will be in concert at:

14.Dezember 2006 - Regenbogenfabrik Berlin Kreuzberg

Lausitzer Strasse 22

10999 Berlin - Kreuzberg

030 - 69 57 95 21

Kultur@regenbogenfabrik.de

16. Dezember 2006  -  White Trash Club Berlin

Schönhauser Allee

www.whitetrashfastfood.com

Berlin

June 18th 2006

Ben Becker & Darryl filming an unknown (as yet) production in Spain. More details will follow.

                                                                                                           pics by Astrid © Darryl Read archives 2006

                                                                                        Ben Becker and Darryl shooting scenes in Spain

     Penny Norris and Darryl's film company www.madstarfilms.com now up online. June 13th 2006.

                                                                            OUT WORLD WIDE NOW!

Special Spanish pre-release - limited 12 inch vinyl - for Spain only: out from the 10th of December on Deep Bass Records, and worldwide - thereafter in January 2006. (Available from the merchandise section and from: www.deepbassrecords.com ).

Darryl's collaboration with Spanish underground house group - The Doctors: gets a vinyl release under a new genre of Poet House, featuring 3 mixes of Darryl's poem 'Maybe It's Good If You Look At It Twice' (Lyrics) performed vocally by Darryl with music written and performed by The Doctors.

Darryl said: "I am experimenting in all avenues and new outlets for poetry, to get it heard! The Doctors have done a cool job on this one, and the middle music-break of the track is a groove - sounding like: Pete Townshend was let loose in the House Studio on amphetamines, and is about to break up a Rickenbacker whilst feeding-back distorted guitar riffs!"

W.H.

2nd of September 2005

           RPM Records RPM617                                                        Lemon Records  CDLEM79

                To be released on the 26th of September 2005                     To be released on the 26th of September 2005

A first* in Darryl's career - two records released on the same day by two separate labels: 'Uncrushed' Crushed Butler (record of the month - review) - the long awaited - first punks 1969 record (sold out on vinyl) gets a UK CD release from RPM Records/Cherry Red. Freshly Dug gets a UK release with again brand new packaging, on Lemon Records/Cherry Red: who also have two other works of Ray's.

September is also Darryl's birth month. Darryl said: "I am glad these two items are getting around, and I hope someone sends one to the Record Collector; because if we get another severe slagging critically from them; like we did when Freshly Dug and Remember A Day (the film) first came out - then these two new re-issues are bound to be a success all over again!" Crushed Butler reviews.  Freshly Dug reviews.

W.H.

29th of July 2005   

'Freshly Re-Dug' - German release, out on the 1st of August 2005! with new Artwork and packaging. You can also obtain copies in the merchandise section, from this site. New UK release out soon!

Darryl said: "I am glad about the new and re-packaged releases; as now the Artwork and design is how we wanted it, which was not the case with the prior label."

W.H.

May 25th 2005

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Darryl, recently collaborated and recorded with Spanish House group - The Doctors, on a new track 'Maybe It's Good If You Look At It Twice' which features  Darryl's poetry of the same title. The 12inch vinyl platter will be released later this year on Deep Bass Records, in a new genre called 'Poet House'.

Darryl said: "The whole thing happened after jamming for kicks one night in Spain with The Doctors; an improvised poem live at their gig  - the next day, I saw Jorge Pruess who runs Deep Bass Records, and he asked me if I would be interested in recording a track as Darryl Read with The Doctors. I told Jorge that I would - as any outlet for poetry is a good one!"

More details to follow, also check www.deepbassrecords.com  for updates of this release.

W.H.

Darryl with The Doctors in Valencia, Spain, at their concert - May13th 2005

January 6th 2005                                                                                                                            

My friend and cohort in the Art's of book printing: Jochen Maassen has a new book out; featuring a DOORS diary (his own), from a fans point of view. He asked me, along with others to make a contribution; which I did. So you get from me and 8 page excerpt from The Angel of Dust, which is still in the making, and should be out later 2005.

Jochens book is a cool look at DOORS fan's and their way of life, I strongly recommend that you check it out. More details/and where to get it: http://wildchildinthecityoflight.fly.to

Stardom Road out now!

                                                                    A 'BEHIND THE BEAT/7GmbH Digitale Druckvorstufe PUBLICATION'      ISBN: 0-9537060-1-X

                                                                                                                                                1st  unexpurgated edition

Darryl's long awaited autobiography 'Stardom Road' is out as from this day (10th of February), on the underground scene in Germany & England. This is a special hardcover, laminated 1st edition of 500, hand bound printed in Germany by 7GmbH Digitale Druckvorstufe. The first orders through Darryl's site will be signed to the purchasers by the author. Darryl will be promoting the book internationally, and his first warm-up  launch releasing the works will be a the Zentral club Berlin on the 26th of February 2004, where he will be in concert with the Berlin band The Hollow Men, and of course Alvis and Tom (La Vega). More details of this event can be obtained from Stefan at www.dude-entertainment.de . 

Also see News section and Beat Diary.

Check in the merchandise section for orders and shipping.  
 

Darryl made a special appearance at FNAC Portugal, to help promote Rui Silva's book 'You Make Me Real' which he wrote 3 pages for on the Doors and their influence. He was requested to sing a Doors song and played Roadhouse Blues then rocked the bookstore. On the 6th and 7th of December Darryl was invited by his friend and cohort in poetry Ray Manzarek, to watch two shows of  Doors 21st Century at the  Pav. Atlantico.

More pics and story in News section.

rRui's Book                   Darryl in performance at FNAC  Portugal 5th of December 2003

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