The Berlin rehearsal, on April 20th 2008, for the May 24th Vienna installation performance in which Momus will sing chemical formulae over Tomoko's water bowl music at the city's Technical University as part of the Into The City event:
http://www.festwo chen.at/index.php?id =eventdetailL=1detai l=185
The drone is provided by a shruti box.
Momus reads extracts from the first draft of the first chapter of his fiction, The Book of Jokes, to be published by Paris publishers La Volte in September 2008.
A cover by Kumisolo and Momus of Arnold Turboust Zabou's 1986 hit "Adelaïde". This is the Momus mix -- a different version by Kumisolo will feature on a Tsunami Addiction compilation later this year.
This is an unofficial video for the Gustav track "Total Quality Woman", made by Momus and containing his photographs of off-kilter images of women seen in Vienna shop windows.
More information on Gustav: http://www.myspace.c om/gustavofficial
Her new album Verlass die Stadt:
http://www.diskob .com/chicksonspeed-r ecords/verlassdiesta dt/stream.html
Rehearsing "An Evening with Momus" (a Newcastle event in which he'll sing one song from each of his eighteen studio albums). This is the track he picked from 1992's The Ultraconformist album (Richmond / Cherry Red Records).
Momus is writing a book about the world's most dysfunctional family, a family defined by some of the world's darkest jokes. It'll appear in late 2008, but in the meantime here are some readings of early drafts.
Momus and Germlin cover David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes for the limited edition box set of 7-inch singles called Recovery, released by Fractured Recordings on September 1st, 2008.
http://www.fractu redrecordings.com/re covery/about/
The video is by Jordan Fish and Momus, with a wink and a tip of the hat to David Bowie and David Mallet.
An art performance with Yurie Ido (performer), Atsuhiko Sudo (visuals) and Kasuga Nakamatsu (music) at Galerie Weissenseer Freitag, Berlin, March 29th 2008. Nakamatsu plays the hichiriki and gongs.
Throw Away Your Radio, Get A New One, a four hour long all wave sonic wanderung with contributions by Adam Thomas, James Edmonds, Kim Laugs, Rinus Van Alebeek at O Tannenbaum, Pflügerstrasse, Berlin on August 3rd 2008.
![Momus: The Cheque\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/fj_ncWIXOdk/2.jpg "Momus: The Cheque\")
