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China Shop Magazine Interviews Semi Precious Weapons

China Shop Magazines Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing interviewed the fabulous Semi Precious Weapons on Monday, Reporting:

Semi Precious Weapons is a band of many talents. Aside from front man Justin Pierre’s ability to practically put his leg behind his head in the middle of an interview, they are known for attracting an array of popular female supporters, such as Kate Moss. The band recently got off the road with Lady Gaga, who has been a fan of the band since before she was what Justin refers to as “The biggest star in the world.” Justin and co. make their own jewelry in a line called Fetty, which was started as a means to fund the band when broke and living in New York and has now hit the shelves of Barneys, Urban Outfitters, and Hot Topic. To top it all off, Semi Precious Weapons have an official goat, which they claim is a crabby creature that even has it’s own Twitter page.

Check out the rest of their interview including some FLY ass photos of the boys HERE

“If you think you knew the Roxy, wait until you see how we transform it..."

SSMF's Empire is tomorrow night y'all.  People are going nuts over it! (natch) LA Times Wrote:

This year, the festival will also feature several after-parties. Glam rockers Semi Precious Weapons, which has been supporting Lady Gaga on her Monster Ball tour, will transform the Roxy into a risque New York-style art-rock party featuring performers from Voyeur Burlesque and rap fav Rye Rye. “If you think you knew the Roxy, wait until you see how we transform it,” teases Justin Tranter, the gender-bending lead singer of Semi Precious Weapons. “It’s really great they let us create this insane four hours to finish the festival.”

Semi Precious Weapons Featured in Lady Gaga VMA Promo

Semi Precious Weapons appear in the new promo for Lady Gaga's 2011 VMA performance on 8.28.11 along with other members of the Precious Empire and the Rivington Rebels.  The promo also features some Justin face art, whiskey, blood, and lots of blonde weave.

MTV's Jocelyn Vena writes:

  

In the full promo, scenes of Gaga hanging out with her crew — drinking, dancing and being merry — are mixed with Gaga chilling out with a jazz band performing a slowed-down version of the latest Born This Way single.

Sitting at the piano during the shoot, Gaga tells the room, "I'm so happy my friends are here."
MTV News was on hand when the promo was shot, and Gaga said it's meant to give fans an inside look at what it's like to hang with the Mother Monster. "I really wanted it to be real, and I knew that MTV wanted it to be a true documentation of my life, and as someone that lives halfway between reality and fantasy, so do all my friends," she told us on set. "So I felt [it would be] an injustice to not sort of honor them in this short film that we did."

It seems that living "halfway between reality and fantasy" means just having a really, really great time listening to tunes and living it up. "I brought my friends here, and we did a jazz rendition of 'Yoü and I,' and we sort of just hung out together," she said. "And played around and did what we usually do, which is be creative with one another and talk about music and art and fashion and f--- around."

MTV HD Version:

Get More: 2011 VMA, Music

MTV Behind The Scenes:

Get More: 2011 VMA, Music

If you can't view MTV's video on your phone, here is a lower quality youtube version:

Peep This: Semi Precious Weapons Present Empire

Semi Precious Weapons DJ The Underground In Chicago

Justin, Cole, Stevy, Dan, and Knehans were full force at The Underground in Chicago this past weekend.  Semi Precious Weapons had the whole place pumpin with a hot ass DJ sesh.  Multiple fans tweeted and facebooked that they 'can't wait for SPW to come back to the underground' Check out some photos of Sunday night's mayhem!

Tonight: SPW DJ at The Underground In Chicago

 Justin Tranter and the boys will be doing a live D.J. set Tonight at 10pm stretching to 4am at The Underground in Chicago!

RSVP for this event on Facebook by 'liking' The Underground and viewing their events

Semi Precious Weapons Open for Ke$ha

Semi Precious Weapons took the stage in Columbus, OH opening for glitter-sleaze-queen Ke$ha.  Here is a short snippet of our boys performing 'Fuck the Dance Floor' a track off their upcoming album.  If you have any more pictures of videos of our boys doing their thing in Ohio, send them to semipreciousworld@gmail.com

Semi Precious Weapons to Host MAJOR Empire Party

SEMI PRECIOUS WEAPONS

are taking over the Sunset Strip August 20^th to bring you the

BIGGEST FUCKING EMPIRE SPECTACULAR TO DATE

 Performances by SEMI PRECIOUS WEAPONS , Voyeur Burlesque, Breedl<3ve, RyeRye and MORE!! Hosted by Darian Darling, Kid Shane, Bobby MF Webster and more...

Music, art, tits, booze, love, projections, filth.

It is ALL AGES and FREE. BUT all people who buy tickets tohttp://www.sunsetstripmusi​cfestival.com/ get priority entry! And its gonna be at capacity!


The Party is at:
The Roxy

9009 West Sunset Boulevard

West Hollywood, CA 

SPW: Colours Of Ostrava Gallery

Gallery of Semi Precious Weapons Headlining Run at the Colours of Ostrava Festival

Semi Precious Weapons Release 'Dirty Future'

Dirty Future. Mini video by Stevy Pyne - shot in an alley in Beverly Hills. Music by Semi Precious Weapons - “Fuck the Dance Floor” - produced by Tricky Stewart. footage shot by Stevy Pyne and Jimmy Knehans

Semi Precious Weapons Headline Colours of Ostrava

http://www.t-music.cz reports that Semi Precious Weapons took the stage at the 'Colours of Ostrava Festival'  as a TRUE headlining band and were easily compared to somewhat of a "rock and roll nuclear powerplant"! They had a seamless performance and were "glam, sexy, and funny." Congratulations to SPW for killing it as headliners at the festival!

More Photos Coming Soon!

F Stands for.......

Semi Precious Weapons posted this to their facebook wall today... any guesses?

SPW to Play Colours of Ostrava

Colours of Ostrava otherwise known as Colours, is a multi-genre festival, the biggest international music festival in the Czech Republic and one of the biggest music events in the Central Europe, held every summer in the centre of Ostrava, the third biggest city in the Czech Republic.

Semi Precious Weapons  will  be performing in celebration of colours 10th anniversary July 15th, 2011,

Colours features 16 stages including 4 big open-air stages (the main stage of which has capacity of 15,000 people), 6 indoor stages, a theatre stage, a workshop stage, a kids stage, a cinema and live discussions.

SPW will be taking over the Szech Savings Bank Stage

The audience attendance for Colours is approximately 30,000 people and it was the first festival in the Czech Republic to be sold out one month ahead of time.

Tickets

Four-day ticket price: 1890 CZK (valid on sale until 13 July, first, second and third wave of tickets already sold out).

Other price categories:
1.990 CZK - on-site

Day tickets - on sale from 16th June, every day is on sale for only 1,000 pieces):

Thursday, the 14th 7th 2011: 850 CZK 
Friday, the 15th 7th 2011: CZK 990 
Saturday, the 16th 7th 2011: CZK 990 
Sunday, the 17th 7th 2011: CZK 990

One-day and four day tickets are available in the network of Ticketpro , in an e-shop and Oriental stone shop in Ostrava .

Advance Slovakia : Eticketpro.sk

Discount ISIC IYTC, ITIC STAFF - only on four-day tickets:
From 1 March 2011 offer 10% discount to the current four-day ticket price for holders of these cards. Valid only on sale at Ticketpro. In place of discount will be provided.

ZTP and ZTP / P : price CZK 350, escort a person referred to in the license free of ZTP / P The sale of these inputs only in place (will be available, even if sold out).

SPW Releases 2nd Short Film: Semi Precious Flood

Receive Mail From Semi Precious Weapons

The boys posted THIS to their personal tumblr page, Check it out:

"Listen lovers…we bout to get wicked 1993 on you. 

Do you want to get mail from us? Like actual fucking mail? Mail box style. Handwritten.

Email your name and your address to

boom@semipreciousweapons.com

We feel like we need an old school connection with you bitches and girls. This isn’t gonna be an annoying SPW-SPAM sitch…its an art project via the postal service thats gonna unfold over the next few months, that you become a part of if you email us your mailing address. International is fine. 

boom@semipreciousweapons.com

xoxoxo and shit,

SPW"

So do it! Make sure you e-mail your contact information to boom@semipreciousweapons.com to be part of SPW History!

Happy Birthday Dan!

Happy slightly Belated Birthday to the uber-talented Mr. Crean of Semi Precious Weapons - Daniel's Birthday was on the 27th of June.

With all the love in the world,

Your Semi Precious World family!

"The Youngster" : The CHASE SHP story

Stevy Fucking Pyne at the age of 5.  Setting it OFF!

Happy Birthday Justin!

Happy Birthday Mr. Tranter! 

With all the love in the universe, 

Your Semi Precious World Family

Possibly The Greatest Semi Precious Weapons Tribute to Date!

Check out this AMAZING early birthday video for Justin Tranter made by some amazingly fierce weapons! This is the most well-shot fan video I've seen in some time.  It's full of glaMOUR, alcohol, fierce boots, semi-pornographic champagne scenes, and lots of cutouts of Mr. Tranter's face.  In other words it's perfect! Follow the stars here: @BryanMerica @jrgrimes. @KMB921 @SashaMadsen

Semi Precious Weapons Release New Short Film

A mini movie by The Fellaz in collaboration with Voyeur Burlesque and SPW!

Below are some stills from some other short films Semi Precious Weapons will release in the near future!  The soundtrack to the video is an actually STUDIO version of 'Super Hero Dream'! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? We're dying we're SO FUCKING HAPPY!

Justin Gets a New Tattoo!

Justin added a new tattoo to his collection yesterday.  He tweeted:

 We think it's freakin' AMAZING!

SPW Perform at Isle of Wight's 2011 Festival

Saturday, Semi Precious Weapons took over the big top stage at this year's Isle of Wight Festival.  This is their second year performing at the Isle of Wight festival.  They took some new music and some familiar music to the stage and even rocked out to 'cherries on ice' and got stickayy with the UK pop group 'parade'.  Check out some video below!

Semi Precious Weapons at Isle of Wight 2011

Semi Precious Weapons will be playing the Big Top Stage on Saturday June 11th at the Isle of Wight Festival. 

Ticket wise the website currently states:

"TICKETS TO THE 2011 ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL ARE NOW SOLD OUT

Now that the Festival has sold out, viagogo is the ONLY official place for fans to buy tickets.

• viagogo is the ONLY OFFICIAL ticket resale partner of the Isle of Wight Festival.
• viagogo GUARANTEES customers who buy will get their tickets, and customers who sell will get paid.
• Customers should not buy from unauthorised agents or other ticket exchanges as they risk being defrauded and not getting their tickets.

Buy Isle of Wight Festival tickets on viagogo

Ticket Prices:

Adult Camping	£175
Adult Non-Camping	£150
Child (7 to 12 years) Camping	£87.50
Child (7 to 12 years) Non-Camping	£75
Child (6 and under)	Free

All children 6 years old and under on 10th June 2011 can go free of charge but must still be included in your booking in order to receive a wristband."