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Hard at work on the Control record. Who's ready for a new adventure into the past?

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Pre Orders for Live in London are available now!

Darlings,

I wanted to send a quick update to make all aware that because of cost reasons, I am limiting the number of Physical DVDs to 500 copies. With that information in your skull, the Live in London Town DVD pre orders are up on my merch page. Head over to: www.williamcontrol.bigcartel.com  Get yours before they are all gone! I am aiming to have this done towards the middle of December, so depending on your local post office and where you live on this planet some of you may get this before or after x-mas.

Also, tour is about to begin tomorrow in Cleveland, Ohio with the Birthday Massacre and Aesthetic Perfection! Check out the dates over at: www.williamcontrol.com and come dance with me!

All my love 

William

Cover art for the Live in London Town DVD. Shot by Katie Imogen.

Who's ready for this??? Tour dates are up and in the TOUR section, See you soon America AND Canada.

LIVE IN LONDON Hello Darlings, Traveling back and forth from the new world into the old is quite strange. Although our two countries share a lot of similarities, life couldn't be much different. Leaving the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles California and stepping out of the jet way at London Heathrow, you can feel the world beneath your feet shift and change. The sky is distressed and withered, the accents, the food and the air. They are all foreign. They are all unique to my American senses. It must be the history that draws me to England. The works of Shakespeare? Or the poet Byron? The discoveries of our very own species made by Charles Darwin. Newton, Lennon, Churchill, Henry the 8th and his many beloved-headless wives. So much history, so many accomplishments. It's hard not to feel humbled by the city that gave us Jack the Ripper, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde (Even though Wilde and stoker were from Ireland, it was indeed London that made them Famous). Enough of my ramblings. Out with it! I wanted to let you all know that William Control is traveling back across the Atlantic ocean at the END OF THIS MONTH to play a few shows and to capture some footage for a DVD I will be releasing called "Live in London Town". Since there isn't a record label involved giving us cash to fuck around with, we are doing it very low key. I have found some killer people to help me out on this adventure and I am confident that it will turn out fantastic! Besides, what better place to film something of this nature, than in London Town. Also: Obscure Pleasures and Ashes to Angels will be supporting!!!! There will be only 5 VIP tickets available for these shows. I will be putting those up tomorrow at some point. Be ready. If you live in London and/or England and would like to help hang up some posters I would be most grateful. We need to get the word out!! They can be printed out 11 X 17. There is a full color and black and white version. Poster link, to download copy and paste in your browser. http://wtrns.fr/7tYcmjtaawNJgQ And Lastly! I am playing a couple of shows here in Seattle this month. The first one is August 10th at El Corazon with Peter Murphy and Ours. Then again at El Corazon on the 24th of August. Both are Friday nights. Get tickets here: http://www.elcorazonseattle.com/ and Let's fucking dance. Tickest for these shows go on sale this Friday!!! Wednesday August 29th (All Ages) Islington Academy http://www.o2academyislington.co.uk/ Friday August 31st (18+) Camden Barfly http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=523461&interface= Saturday September 1st (All Ages) Islington Metalworks http://islingtonmetal.com/ All My Love William

RIP My Brother.

Death

An Essay By William Control 

            Sometimes we forget how much of an impact a single meeting, or the embrace of a stranger can have on our heart. Once that final bell tolls and the option of saying hello disappears, we are left with a empty void that can never be replaced. In the heat of the night, onstage with the roar of an audience behind me, I can reach out and pretend to touch that void with a hand that is long forgotten. Or maybe I am just lying to make myself feel better. Either way, I know that life connects with death and death connects us all. Here lies a simple concept that terrifies a majority of our species. So much in fact, that throughout the ages, human beings have come up with elaborate stories about what happens to a person when they “pass on”. As much as I’d like to harp on the silly ideas of believers everywhere I will stay on point. This is not about religion but instead about celebrating a life.

             We lost a friend a couple of weeks ago. He was a brother, a son, a nephew. He was also an Aiden/William Control fan. A stand up gentleman indeed. I had the pleasure of meeting him back in 2010 right after Noir came out. His name was Corey Hall. I first heard of his death on the 16th of April from a message I received on Facebook. Over the last two weeks, while out here on the Fight to Unite tour, I have read and re-read every comment on his page, as heart-breaking as it is. It’s now the 2nd of May. I feel a creeping sense of irony about how music and death share a lot of the same common threads. The most important is how they seem to unite us in times of need. 

            Christopher Hitchens has been known to make an analogy in a debate or two: You’re at a party. Everyone is having a good time celebrating, drinking and chatting about the future and what treasure it may bring. Then at some point in the illustrious evening you are tapped on the shoulder and told, “It’s time to go”. It doesn’t matter who you are, no one is excited when asked to leave. I feel the same way, but the truth is, at some point, when we least expect it: We all have to leave the party.

            With the mountain of evidence for evolution, most of us can agree that the world is a lot older than ten thousand years. So where was I for the first 4 billion years while the earth was evolving? I don’t know I can’t remember. I’m fairly certain that I wont remember this place when I am gone either.

Bertrand Russell says

 “I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.”

             Could life really be cherished if we were immortal? The fraction of a sliver of time we so deliciously get to experience here on earth would be as worthless as the stock market was on October 30th 1929. Yet still the battle rages on. Corey has not died, for him the world just ceases to exist. His memory will live on the hearts and minds of those he touched and influenced. For those he helped and those he loved. The real tragedy of our existence isn’t leaving the party. But rather the memories left in those we leave behind.

  R.I.P

Corey Hall

  Sincerely,

William Control

R.I.P. Corey Hall. 

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