"We are taking baby steps now toward an improvement in attitudes," Yulia Kolesnichenko, from the Moscow-based NGO Downside Up, told Newsweek earlier this year.
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The deluxe version, which was discontinued after 2000, includes a comic book telling the OVO story and a bonus disc with the track, "The Story of OVO". Gabriel performed "Father, Son", "The Tower That Ate People", "White Ashes", and "Downside Up" over the course of the Growing Up and Still Growing Up tours. Melanie Gabriel provided backing vocals for "Downside Up". These performances are available on the Growing Up Live and Still Growing Up: Live & Unwrapped DVDs.
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This track was exclusive to this single, and remained unreleased on LP or CD for many years until the appearance of the Siouxsie and the Banshees box set Downside Up in 2004.
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The Thorn was released on 19 October 1984 by record label Polydor. The songs from the EP were later included on the fourth disc of Downside Up, a collection of the band's B-sides.
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The Thorn is an EP recorded by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released in late 1984 by Polydor and remastered in 2004 to be included on the Downside Up box set.
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Bjork was a major creative force in Kyuss, contributing a substantial portion of the band's songwriting, including standout tracks like "Green Machine" and "50 Million Years (Downside Up)". In 1994, Bjork left the band following the release of Welcome to Sky Valley, frustrated at guitarist Homme's growing reluctance to play the songs he was contributing to the band.
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Alexander Khaminsky does charity work and promotes volunteering. He donates his funds to organize charitable and cultural events. On a regular basis, he cooperates with charitable foundations including “Downside Up”, Gosha Kutsenko’s “Step together”, with volunteer organizations such as “Asia Co” and “Alabai 911”, participates in charitable auctions and concerts, and organizes such events in cooperation with famous sportsmen Konstantin Tszyu, Dmitry Sennikov, Daniil Kvyat and others.
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Another one of mentioned street art installation was a series called Downside Up. Pejac was playing with an imagination of those who walk pass chosen streets and he placed often seen shoes tossed over a lamp upside down. During the show Pejac exhibited 35 pieces including oils on canvas, sculptures in different mediums, installations, photos and drawings. The show tackled social and environmental issues through his particular poetic language.
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This version taken from The Thorn EP was co- produced with Mike Hedges. "Just how far they've come is shown by the '84 reworking of 'Overground'", observed Dave Morrison in a review of Twice Upon a Time: The Singles, "where the teeth-grating abrasion of old gives way to a panoramic sound of martial drumming, strings and flamenco guitars". The Thorn version of "Overground" was later included on the 2004 box set Downside Up.
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Downside Up is a four-disc box set collecting B-sides and bonus material from the catalogue of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Also included (on disc four) is The Thorn ep, originally released in 1984. Most of these songs (only present on these CDs) were classics of the band's live repertoire like "Pulled To Bits", "Eve White/Eve Black", "Red Over White", "I Promise", "Something Blue" and "B-side Ourselves". The boxset was also released on iTunes.
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Released on 24 June 1979, the single became Siouxsie and the Banshees' third top 40 hit, entering into the UK Singles Chart at No.47 on 1 July 1979, and peaking at No. 28 on 15 July in the UK Singles Chart. The band performed the song live on Top of the Pops. The B-side, "Pulled to Bits", was released as part of the Downside Up compilation. A live version was included on the 1983 Nocturne live album and DVD.
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"Downside-Up" and "The Nest That Sailed The Sky" were also performed as part of The New Blood Tour in 2010 and 2011, the former as a duet between Peter and Melanie Gabriel and the latter as the closing, orchestra-only track of the show. "Father, Son" was also performed. These performances are available on the New Blood Live In London DVD. "The Tower That Ate People" also appears on the Back To Front Live In London DVD released in 2014.
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Both Nico and Lou Reed have recorded solo versions of the song. Other artists who have covered it include Jun Togawa, Apoptygma Berzerk, the Ass Ponys, Buffalo Tom, Japan, Bauhaus, Jeff Buckley, Icehouse, Los Tres, The Method Actors, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Oysterband, Tom Robinson, Kikka Sirén, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Also included on the boxset of Downside Up, 2004, Universal. Rasputina, Kendra Smith, Bryan Ferry, June Tabor, Johnette Napolitano, Iron and Wine, Deerhoof, Hole, The Music Tapes, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio , Les Rita Mitsouko, Tractor's Revenge, and Black Tape for a Blue Girl.
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"Mittageisen" was released in September 1979 as a single in the United Kingdom by Polydor Records. The record was promoted as a double A-side release at the time, but only "Mittageisen" charted on the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at number 47. Nevertheless, "Love in a Void"—but not "Mittageisen"—was included on the band's 1981 singles compilation Once Upon a Time: The Singles, which compiled all their A-sides up to that time, and later on the 2006 remastered edition of Join Hands. Putative A-side "Mittageisen" later appeared on the band's B-side compilation Downside Up.
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A remastered compact disc was issued in 2009 with bonus tracks including an unreleased version of "Song from the Edge of the World" non-album single with Carruthers on guitars, and an unreleased song with lyrics by Steven Severin called "Starcrossed" recorded in May 1985. The B-sides of "Cities in Dust" and "Candyman", initially added as bonus tracks on the 1986 CD version of the album, were then included in the Downside Up B-sides box set. A 180g vinyl reissue of the album, remastered from the original ¼” tapes and cut half-speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, was released in August 2018.
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Ter Woerds has, as a producer, researcher and documentary maker, many television productions for national and international to her name, for programmes such as Netwerk, IKON, VRT, VTM, ZDF, NDR, Schweizer Fernsehen, Channel 4, BBC, TV2-Norway, Al Jazeera International, National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel. She also set up a production bureau in Russia. Apart from that she made multiple information and recruitment films for the NGO's Aids Foundation East West (AFEW) and downside up, which is committed to the improvement of children with down syndrome in the Russian Federation. Nowadays Ter Woerds is active as an independent documentary maker and producer in the Netherlands.
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In 2009 Titus Andronicus covered "Roadrunner" on its EP The Innocents Abroad – Live in London 23/02/09; this recording was subsequently included on the fan compilation Feats of Strength. Additional covers of "Roadrunner" include those by Wire and Richman's labelmates The Greg Kihn Band. English rock band Echo & the Bunnymen covered "She Cracked" live on Crystal Days in 1985, although with some altered lyrics. Post-punk act Siouxsie and the Banshees released "She Cracked" as the extra b-side of "This Wheel's on Fire" 1987 double-pack 7-inch, collected on Downside Up. Additionally, American grunge band Seaweed covered "She Cracked" on the John Peel Sub-Pop Sessions album, in 1994.
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Echo and the Bunnymen covered "She Cracked" in concert in 1984 and 1985 and Siouxsie and the Banshees have a version of the song on Downside Up. Richman's music has set the tone for many alternative rock bands, such as Violent Femmes, Galaxie 500, They Might Be Giants ("Roadrunner" reportedly inspired John Flansburgh to become a musician), Weezer, Tullycraft, Jens Lekman, singer Frank Black (who composed the tribute song "The Man Who Was Too Loud"), Brandon Flowers, Art Brut, Craig Finn of the Hold Steady & Lifter Puller, Mac DeMarco and Nerf Herder who composed a song about him, titled "Jonathan", which appeared on the band's second album How To Meet Girls. British country rock band the Rockingbirds released the single "Jonathan, Jonathan" in tribute to Richman in 1992. The Silos also covered the Modern Lovers' "I'm Straight". As a producer himself, Richman and drummer Tommy Larkins produced Vic Chesnutt's final album Skitter on Take-Off in 2009 which appeared on Vapor Records.
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