Mark Lanegan, former singer with The Screaming Trees and present member of Queens of the Stone Age, plays The Village on 23rd of November.
Mark Lanegan, former singer with the Screaming Trees and sprinkled his tenure with the band with some beautiful solo albums. The gig should comprise music from all facets of his career.
Mark Lanegan began his musical career with the cult band The Screaming Trees. The brothers Van and Lee Conner formed the Screaming Trees in the mid-'80s. Van asked Mark to join the band and he eventually became the band's singer. The band were purveyors of psychedelic indie rock and soon found a dedicated following. They were the first Seattle band to sign to a major but were never to find the same popularity as Nirvana or Soundgarden.
They released their next three albums Even If and Especially When, Buzz Factory and Invisible Lantern on the SST label. The Screaming Trees released their first album for Epic Uncle Anesthesia in 1991 and tried to capitilise on the success of Nirvana and Soundgarden with the release of their 1992 album, Sweet Oblivion. In 1995 Screaming Trees released their last album Dust and Lanegan's growing interest in his solo work saw the eventual break up of the band.
The Screaming Trees never really reached their potential as their development was littered with hard drinking, bust ups and shambolic tours. It was as a reprieve to the tensions in the band that Mark Lanegan started to make solo albums, kicking off with The Winding Sheet album which featured Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic from Nirvana. Lanegan's solo work showed a softer side to his hard living rock persona. The songs were written around more serious themes in a rootsy, country blues tinged melancholia. Lanegan would go on to record such recognised classics as Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, Scraps at Midnight and Field Songs.
Just when we thought that he was going to relax into a solo career of sweet gospel flavoured, country music, Mark goes and joins rock behemoths, Queens of the Stone Age. Lanegan guested on Queen of the Stone Age's album R and his involvement in their next album saw him co-write the songs "Songs for the Deaf" and "Songs for the Dead" and subsequently becoming a member of the band. So a rocker or a solo artist, you go along and decide on the 23rd.
Time : 8pm
Tickets : €20 (inc.booking fee) Tickets available from Road Records, Sound Cellar and Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.ie.
The Village
26 Wexford St
Dublin 2
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