05/25/00
Lance Bangs, director of many Pavement videos and the guy who’s putting the Slow Century VHS/DVD together, posted this on the bulletinboard:

Lance Bangs
Re: I can see that the DVD is delayed
Mon May 22 06:49:33 2000

It’s being finalised, and will be released, but the date won’t be announced until it is ready for production and Matador have sufficient time to handle it’s manufacturing and release. Since it has been a while, I will run through what it entails:

Music Videos for:
Here
Perfume-V
Cut Your Hair
Gold Sounds
Range Life
rattled by the Rush
father to a Sister of a Thought
Painted Soldiers
Stereo
Shady Lane
Carrot Rope
Spit on a Stranger
Major Leagues

Alternate videos for:
Rattled by The Rush
Major Leagues
Cut Your Hair

The DVD has a 2nd audio track option of commentary by the band over the videos, and a 3rd audio track with commentary from directors where they were available.

Between the Music Videos there is interstitial footage of them making the videos, appearing on various television segments, etc.

Following that is an hour of live footage and documentary material spanning from 1990 up to the last three songs they performed at the Brixton Academy in late November of 1999 (stop bereathing/conduit for sale/here).

All of that material should be on the planned VHS as well as the DVD, with the exception of the audio commentary tracks.

Additionally, the DVD is likely to contain a substantial amount of concert footage shot with two cameras, which you can jump back and forth between at your own discretion. The setlist for this is as follows:

Showbox
Seattle, WA
July 14 1999

In the Mouth A Desert
Speak See Remember
Spit On A Stranger
Date with Ikea
The Hexx
Box Elder
Folk Jam
Billie
Major Leagues
Shady Lane
Cream Of Gold
Platform Blues
We Dance
Harness Your Hopes
Stereo
Gold Soundz
Killing Moon
Sinister Purpose
Debris Slide

I’m finishing up edits of versions of Grounded, Summer Babe, Unfair, Fin, Range Life, Frontwards, Give it a Day, Kennel D, Carrot Rope, and Whip It to make sure that they will fit without too much compression on the disc as well.

We’ve designed the menus, including some short animated clips, have a thorough discography, and basically took full advantage of the DVD format. I still need to finalize the documentary and get the bands approval, and go through clearances with Matador for the various clips that came from various television stations over the years, but it is very close now, and I think that fans will be pleased with how comprehensive and thorough the disc will be. They are a tremendous band, and I appreciate their patience, Matador’s patience, and the fans patience while this was all being pulled together.

03/28/00
As you all can tell by now the Pavement DVD is not coming out in February. Once they have it finished we will put it back on the schedule. The VHS/DVD will have every Pavement video, plus some live footage. Lance Bangs (director of "Spit On A Stranger" and "Major Leagues") has filmed all sorts of extras for the DVD: interviews with band members, more live footage, animation, etc. He made it sound really great.

11/19/99
Tune into HBO, those of you who have it: CORNELIUS will be on “Reverb” November 23rd (11:30 ET/PT) with Moby and Calexico. Reverb broadcasts live footage, backstage interviews, swooping cameras, all that good concert stuff. Also: PAVEMENT will be featured the next week (November 30) with Built to Spill. That performance comes from a show they did with Calexico in San Diego, so look for them in the background this week. Check the Reverb website for more detailed information, just don’t read the copy: “get any closer and the bouncers will kick your ass!” Uh-huh.

11/05/99
Any dimestore Zen Master can tell you patience is the key to a lot of things, and we like to apply that philosophy to releases. Especially the PAVEMENT video compilation, “Slow Century.” February 22, friends.

09/30/99
A live webcast of A Nice Weekend In New York City: Matador Records 10th Anniverary Concert on Sept. 23, 24 and 25. See live sets from 15 bands including Pavement, Cornelius, Cat Power and Mogwai, all hosted by David Cross (Mr. Show, HBO stand-up special).

09/03/99
Pavement: The We Love US Maple Tour will hit mainly the West and Southwest. The band will play four days in Texas but no shows in Corpus Christi. Sorry. September 24 - October 16.

08/06/99
The Pavement Poetry Contest is finished and the results have been tallied. I think it's safe to say the whole thing was a success. The CD-Roms will be mailed out next week -- and I can tell you we had just over 500 entries, so chances are you'll be getting a little gift in the mail if you entered. It turned out so well, in fact, that we opted to choose 25 winners and 20 honorable mentions and put them up for all to see. What better way to spend your day at work than reading poetry about a rock band?
Trust me, they're good.

07/30/99
The current issue of SPIN magazine, looking back through the past decade, offers Billy Corrigan's 1994 response to Pavement's Range Life: "Pavement does not write emotional, personal music," Corrigan said later that year. "When you see me, when you hear me, you're getting the warts and the beautiful. I'm not hiding anything."

07/16/99
Announcing The Pavement Poetry Contest! We've got 500 Pavement CD-ROMs to give away and we want them to go to our closest, most talented friends. So. Here's how to enter. Write us a Pavement poem. It can be about Pavement's rock ability; it can be about Steve West's drumming. It can be a miniature Pavement song; it can be a testament to your rare Pavement trivia knowledge. Anything Pavement. Any form. Haiku, ballad, free verse, dirty limerick. Make it good.

The best fifteen poems will in addition to winning a Pavement CD-ROM, win a poster autographed by the band, some stickers, and publication on the Matador Web Site (including, but not limited to praise and/or ridicule from various staff members). The remaining 485 poems will win a CD-ROM (read: it will not be difficult to win, so enter!)

06/25/99
Late breaking Pavement news, kids. The video for "Spit on a Stranger" will air this Sunday night, June 27, on MTV's 120 Minutes. It will be the second video in the show, so be sure to tune in on time.

The June 17 Pavement show at Irving Plaza will be netcast on SonicNet this Thursday, July 1 from 9:00 PM to 12:00 PM, EDT. It will run multiple times so you die-hard fans can scrutinize the band's every move.

06/04/99
Looking for a little something extra in your new Pavement release? Thanks to our friends at Domino UK, the first to purchase Terror Twilight will receive an interactive CD-ROM which includes videos for "Carrot Rope" directed by Lance Bangs, "Stereo" directed by John Kelsey, and "Shady Lane" directed by Spike Jonze. Plus, special video footage of the band in Kentucky, goofy animations, and other very impressive stuff.

This CD-ROM comes free with the purchase of the Terror Twilight CD (OLE-260) through Matador Direct Stores, CDNow, or Matador mailorder. This offer is limited to while supplies last, so make sure you purchase early to get your copy. We estimate they will only be available for a week.




05/28/99
Pavement on-line: SonicNet has put together a Real Audio listening party with six complete tracks off "Terror Twilight" and two from the recently released CD5 "Spit on a Stranger." The party will run Tuesday, June 1 through the following Tuesday, June 8. SonicNet is also broadcasting a "Rock N' Roll Insider Chat" with the band on Monday, June 7 at 8:00 pm EDT (5:00 pm PDT). The show will be hosted by Michael Goldberg (editor of Addicted to Noise) & Gil Kaufman.

05/21/99
Attention, British! Cornelius, Mogwai, and Pavement recorded live at the recent Bowlie weekender and will be aired on Steve Lamacq's show on BBC Radio 1 this Monday, May 24th from 8pm - 12am GMT. You can expect to hear Cornelius' set around 9pm. Or if you live in the States, you can expect to hear none of this.

"You Shine" is the first 7" off Holly Golightly's new record "Serial Girlfriend." We're all very excited to hear the B-side, a cover of Pavement's "Box Elder." Of course, all the turntables here are busy spinning the new Ricky Marin, so we'll just have to wait until the grooves wear out. "You Shine" is available from Damaged Good Records for some amount of British money. Or email Surefire for domestic prices.

05/14/99
Those itching for new Pavement have only eleven more days to wait. The "Spit on a Stranger" CD5 and 7" will be available to stores directly from Matador for a 5/25 street date. For ordering information please call (212) 995-5882. The tracks on the CD are:

spit on a stranger - (ole 384-2)

1. spit on a stranger
2. harness your hopes
3. roll with the wind
4. the porpoise and the hand grenade
5. rooftop gambler

The 7" is "spit on a stranger" b/w "and then" (ole 384-7)

Mail order customers send $6 for the CD ($3.25 for the 7") check or money order directly to Matador. Allow 2 to 3 weeks for delivery. A note for Pavement collectors: the Carrot Rope singles being released in the UK will have the same B-sides as the US Spit on a Stranger singles.

04/30/99
Pavement launched their new pleasingly designed website this week, pavementtherockband.com...just in time to prepare for an early May European press junket. While in England, the band is said to have plans to record a Lamacq Live session (I dunno what it is, either) for BBC Radio One. This, I'm told, will be broadcast May 24. After a small promo tour in four Europeon cities -London, Paris, Cologne and Stockholm--the rockers will be return for a full U.S. tour. Terror Twilight, as you may be aware, will be out June 8.

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