Photo credit: Rockscope. Sadly, no cameras were allowed at the gig. The Academy, Dublin, Friday 16/1/09 For the uninitiated, The Gutter Twins are none other than Mr Mark Lanegan (former Screaming Trees frontman and mainstay of Queens of the Stone Age) and Greg Dulli, from the slightly lesser known but equally brilliant 1990s outfit The Afghan Whigs. Under the guise of the Gutter Twins, Lanegan and Dulli have collaborated to produce a sound unlike their…
Download: The Gutter Twins – ‘Idle Hands’
My favorite release for this week, is “Saturnalia”, the debut album from behalf of two of the finest musicians of the ’90s: Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs), that together form The Gutter Twins. The two met for the first time in 1989, but it took them almost 15 years to make music together, as recordings for Saturnalia began at the beginning of 2003. Now, five years later, the album brings…