9/3/05 -color photo's by Steven J. Messina
from CBGB's 313 Gallery show

Saturday, May 24, 2008 5/24/08- NEW "HEDGE OF THORNS" SINGLE "ARE YOU MY WITNESS?" RELEASED FOR MEMORIAL DAY! Current mood: thankful Category: Music The Other Perspective 777- 5/24/08   NEW HEDGE OF THORNS CD SINGLE "ARE YOU MY WITNESS?" RELEASED BY POET BILLY LAMONT AND SONGWRITER/ MUSICIAN BILL POULOS FOR MEMORIAL DAY!!!   ~Poet Billy Lamont said, "I'd like to dedicate the poem/song "are you my witness?" today to the soldiers and the families of the soldiers that have died for our freedon.  Freedom and the truth lives on.  Let freedom ring!"~ You can check out the newly released "Hedge Of Thorns" poem/songs on Poet Billy Lamont's MySapce page at the following link: Billy Lamont on My Space.com

Friday, May 23, 2008 5/23- NEW CD "HEDGE OF THORNS" AVAILABLE AS CD/EP AND DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AT ANTIPHONIC MUSIC Current mood: electric Category: Music POET BILLY LAMONT AND BILL POULOS RELEASE "HEDGE OF THORNS" CD/EP AND DIGITAL DOWNLOAD WITH ANTIPHONIC MUSIC COMPANY IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FOR $9 AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://www.antiphonic.com/store/home.php?cat=13 Press Release: May 20, 2008 ************************************************************** THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777: POET BILLY LAMONT AND BILL POULOS RELEASE "HEDGE OF THORNS" CD/EP AND DIGITAL DOWNLOAD WITH ANTIPHONIC MUSIC COMPANY Poet Billy Lamont and songwriter/musician Bill Poulos' new poetry with folk music CD/EP project entitled "Hedge Of Thorns" was released by KultureShift Music on Easter Sunday. The "Hedge Of Thorns" CD is being well received and is currently available as a CD/EP or as a digital download through Antiphonic Music Company at www.antiphonic.com. Billy Lamont said, "This CD had to be released on Easter Sunday as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus The Christ! The poetry and music on the 'Hedge Of Thorns' CD/EP is filled with new life blooming and reflects our deep faith in God as followers of Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact a lot of the poetry I recite is as Jesus speaking first person. So Lord have mercy on my soul as Bill Poulos and I walk reverantly on this sacred ground." Billy Lamont adds, "This CD is personal and minimal and contains a lot of grace. It feels like this CD is bigger than all of us and a gift from above. Bill Poulos and I are very excited about it. Not sure if my poetry/music/life will ever be this blessed again. This CD reminds me of a religious tract a Jesus freak might hand someone on the west coast, in the 70's, but much more personal, intimate, relevant and resonant for today." "Hedge Of Thorns" will be available as a CD or digital download at Antiphonic Music Company for $9. This is the second CD Poet Billy Lamont has released with KultureShift Music/Mannequin Oddio Media. The first was "painkiller" an electronic music collaboration with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin in 2006. Lamont's previous CD's have included "billy lamont with the peculiar people" in 2004 and "Into the 21st Century" in 1999. His book of poems include "strobe light generation" released in 2005 and "The Gallery Of Light" in 1994. Billy Lamont said, "Bill Poulos is a great songwriter and musician. Poulos was my musical collaborator for my first poetry readings as my band Walk On Water was splitting up. I was looking to continue the band as an industrial/alternative band in 1989 that soon included experimental basement jams and a recorded collaboration with Klayton from 'Circle Of Dust' and 'Celldweller' fame in those Pre-'Circle Of Dust' days." Lamont continued, "Poulos and I have appeared on national television twice together. The first was a performance and interview on the Joe Franklin Show in 1991. The second was reciting the two voice "night" poem on Much Music in Canada, after opening a show for the Father Of Christian Rock, the late Larry Norman in 1999." Lamont concluded, "The "Hedge Of Thorns" EP/CD is about half the tracks that Poulos and I wrote and began to record for a CD being personally produced by the late Larry Norman for his Solid Rock record label in 2000. The recordings were never completed due to Norman's health failing." Bill Poulos is also currently active in the popular The Ramones tribute band "The Ramoones" where he plays Dee Dee Ramone. The Ramoones is a similar concept to the Beatlemania show. Poulos also enjoyed a large underground following as a DJ /Host for the "Happy Nightmare" industrial/alternative music radio show on WUSB radio in New York in the late 80's/early 90's. Internationally acclaimed New York Poet Billy Lamont has performed on MTV and appeared on major radio stations across the United States. Lamont has also performed at many major rock festivals including touring with Lollapalooza '94, '95, 2003 and Cornerstone Festival 2004 and 2006. Further Billy Lamont biographical information is below.   ******* From the underground to holy ground poet Billy Lamont will baptize you with words. Words of creation and healing. Words of hope that encourage dignity, uphold life, exorcize demons, seek truth and that will inspire you to live by love. His is a voice crying out in the wilderness of post modern pop culture. A voice for everyday people that seeks to uplift, as well as entertain the masses on different spiritual, intellectual, emotional and artistic levels.   Billy Lamont Bio/About The Author (updated May 2008) Internationally acclaimed New York Poet Billy Lamont has performed on MTV and Much Music Television and appeared on major radio stations across the United States. Lamont has also performed at many major rock festivals including touring with Lollapalooza '94, '95, 2003 and Cornerstone Festival 2004 and 2006. Billy Lamont's new poetry with folk music CD/EP project entitled "Hedge Of Thorns," with songwriter Bill Poulos, was released by KultureShift Music on Easter Sunday. The "Hedge Of Thorns" EP is being well received and is currently available as a CD or as a digital download through Antiphonic Music Company at www.antiphonic.com. Billy Lamont's latest book of poems "strobe light generation" is available from Infinity Publishing at www.buybooksontheweb.com, borders.com and amazon.com.. Lamont's influential, signature post modern artisrty is at it's best within this book and "strobe light generation"'s message of hope shines brightly in this fast paced age of consumerism, quick fix spirituality, sensationalism in the press and reality television. In response to the success and impressive sales of his first above ground book of poetry, "The Gallery Of Light," Lamont has given many book signings in shopping malls at such major book stores as Barnes and Noble and Waldenbooks. "The Gallery Of Light" is distributed nationally in the U.S. by Ingram. and is available internationally by NetstoreUSA.com and Amazon.com. In 2006 Billy Lamont's poetry with electronic music CD entitled "painkiller" was released by Mannequin Oddio Media and is a collaboration with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin. The "painkiller" CD is available through Mannequin Oddio Media, CD Baby and Billy Lamont on My Space.com. Lamont's CD/chapbook entitled "billy lamont with the peculiar people" is a benefit for the Father of Christian Rock Larry Norman's Emergency Healthcare Trust Fund. The late Larry Norman produced some recordings for Lamont and was backing him by having him open some of his shows. Norman intended to release a new Poet Billy Lamont CD on his Solid Rock record label but the recordings were never completed when his health failed. "the peculiar people" was available through Flaming Fish Music at www.flamingfish.com and was on the label/distributors bestseller's list for new releases, dance and experimental electronic music. It is now available through Antiphonic Music Company at www.antiphonic.com and it's international digital release is by The Orchard at theorchard.com. Lamont's first CD/EP "Into The 21st Century" is a benefit for Teen Challenge and includes the late Allen Ginsberg reciting from his legendary poem "Howl" on the title track. In Mr. Ginsberg's last years he showed love, respect and encouragement to Lamont's artwork through this appearance. One of Lamont's biggest artistic influences Mike Peters of The Alarm also collaborated on the title track as a special guest. This critically acclaimed CD is distributed by The Orchard at theorchard.com and available digitally internationally at iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and MSN. Lamont performs spoken word alone or with musical accompaniment. He enjoys performing with various rock bands and also doing recitals of his forty minute performance poem "the gallery of light," which evolved out of his book of the same name, with Christopher "DJ Circuit" Kelly weaving ambient/electronic/world music soundscapes. Lamont has performed the complete/sections of "the gallery of light" in the art gallery area of the Purple Door festival in Pennsylvania in 1999, 2000 and 2004 and at CBGB's 313/Underground Lounge in New York in 1998 and 2004 and live on many radio stations. Lamont has performed for live audiences of up to 10,000 people. Lamont's first national television performance/interview was on the Joe Franklin Show in 1991. His first nationally syndicated radio interview/performance was on the "Religon And Rock" program recorded at WBAB in 1988, in his hometown of Babylon, New York. For the last years Lamont has been serving as a Board of Trustees member that oversees the New York area for the justice organization Jubilee USA/2000 /International Movement. Lamont is also a member of the Board Of Trustees for the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association,, a New York State Historic Site on Long Island, since November 2005. Official website:billylamont.com Billy Lamont on My Space.com. What people are saying about Billy Lamont's recently released book of poetry "strobe light generation" Peter Garrett Cover Blurb for Book "Billy Lamont's pithy, 'now' poetry is true, from his heart to ours- a straight line and a truth that's good to read. I wish there was more like it." Peter Garrett is the front man from the rock band Midnight Oil and the President of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Daniel Berrigan Cover blurb for Book "Thank you for the delightful book. You (Billy Lamont) are a rare bird indeed, and a dazzling one, bringing together as you do unassailable gifts and a phoenix (out of the culture's ashes) faith. I congratulate and thank you. Blessings on your fine work!" Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit Priest, legendary poet/activist and speaker on social justice issues. Seydina A. Senghor Cover Blurb for Book "I've been an eyewitness of Billy Lamont's warm-hearted dedication to durable peace in the world, international morality, global solidarity and global justice. I have seen Billy Lamont take serious risks to support many good causes including the Jubilee 2000 International Campaign, a global alliance for the end of the unjust, immoral and genocidal debt of the nations of the global South. At the Knitting Factory in 1999, in New York, Billy put together a show with Larry Norman and himself for the benefit of Jubilee USA's first National Mobilization on Washington. Billy Lamont is a true activist. Whether he is protesting, serving or encouraging, his poetry and deeds are songs of hope, a catalyst for change that reveal a grassroots heart of caring and love for people from the streets of New York to the poor and impoverished of the world." Seydina A. Senghor is a Co-Founder of the Jubilee 2000 USA/International Movement. Larry Norman Cover Blurb for Book "Young William the poet walks with grace among the literary traditions of romanticism, between yearning idealism and stark urban reality. He brings Heaven closer to Earth, and beckons men closer to self revelation. His poetry is both comforting and disturbing." Larry Norman is the Father of Christian Rock. He is a singer/songwriter that was on Capitol Records with The Beatles, Founder of The Vineyard Church and Jew For Jesus, Gospel Hall of Fame Inductee. He was dubbed the most important songwriter since Paul Simon in Billboard Magazine and the top solo artist in his field by Time Magazine. What people have said about Billy Lamont's previous book of poems "The Gallery Of Light" Mike Peters Foreward for Book "There's no truth like the truth you dare to let yourself see. Billy's poetry lets you see the truth of himself and the truth that surrounds him which is also the truth that surrounds you. Take a look and you will find love, hate, all life in it." Mike Peters is a singer/songwriter and frontman for the rock band The Alarm. Dave Kendall Cover Blurb for Book "Billy Lamont is in possession of a strange and compelling vision." Dave Kendall is the Host of MTV's "120 Minutes" show. Malibu Sue Cover Blurb for Book "Billy's poetry is... inspirational." Malibu Sue is DJ for the legendary New York alternative music radio station WLIR and WDRE. Joe Franklin Cover Blurb for Book "In the tradition of Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Jim Carroll comes Billy Lamont... and I love it!" Joe Franklin is the Host of New York WOR-TV's nationally syndicated Joe Franklin Show. Bob Buchmann Cover Blurb for Book "As Billy writes, 'Poetry is therapy!' I thank him for his gift." Bob Buchmann is the Vice President/DJ for the New York classic rock radio station WBAB. Klayton Cover Blurb for Book "Billy's poetry is intriguing. He is experimental, philosophical and spiritual. His message of hope cannot be ignored." Klayton is a recording artist with the innovative electronic band Circle Of Dust and Celldweller.

Friday, May 16, 2008 LISTEN TO POET BILLY LAMONT’S TESTIMONY OF FAITH AND HEALING AT DIVINEINTERVENTIONRADIO.COM Current mood: enlightened Category: Religion and Philosophy THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777- MAY 16, 2008- LISTEN TO POET BILLY LAMONT'S TESTIMONY OF FAITH AND HEALING AT DIVINEINTERVENTIONRADIO.COM ~This is the most personal and revealing interview I have ever given concerning my faith in Jesus The Christ!  It includes me sharing a miraculous physical healing I received from pancreatitus.  Daniel and Sahani Fazzina are wonderful and their "Divine Interventions" radio show and book is amazing.  I am very proud to be a part of it," Billy Lamont said."~ *** Hi Billy!  I edited and uploaded your episode of Divine Intervention!  It is now available to download/podcast.  Check it out on my web site, and tell your friends! www.divineinterventionradio.com Daniel Need some inspiration?  Check out "Divine Intervention" Online:  www.divineinterventionradio.com Daniel Fazzina Shares his testimony of healing on Telecare:http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=24331115

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5/13/08- NEW "HEDGE OF THORNS" CD SONG PLAYED ON WLIX RADIO IN NY WITH CD GIVEAWAY Category: Music News Brief: May 13, 2008 ************************************************************ THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777- 5/13/08- NEW "HEDGE OF THORNS" SONG PLAYED ON WLIX RADIO IN NY WITH CD GIVEAWAY A new Poet Billy Lamont and Songwriter/Musician Bill Poulos song "Are You My Witness?" from the Hedge Of Thorns CD released on Easter Sunday was played for the first time on the radio yesterday,  Monday, May 13,  2008.  The poem/song was played on Daniel Fazinna's radio show at 1 PM- 2:30 PM on WLIX FM on Long Island, NY with a copy of the "Hedge Of Thorns" CD given away to winners of a Bible trivia contest.  DJ Fazz has debuted two other new "Hedge Of Thorns" songs entitled "Testimony" and "Footprints In The Sand" on his radio show in previous weeks  also with CD giveaways during Bible trivia. This radio show can be heard internationally streaming live at www.wlixradio.com or on Long Island, NY on WLIX FM at:: 96.5 Manorville  94.7 Ridge  104.5 Selden  94.9 Hauppague  101.5 Plainview  Recommended highly is Daniel Fazzina's book "Divine Intervention" that features Poet Billy Lamont's story of faith in one of the chapters.  For more information here's the link: http://www.xulonpress.com/book_detail.php?id=4269   Poet Billy Lamont recommends highly watching the following link where- Daniel Fazzina Shares his testimony of healing on Telecare: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=24331115 Monday, May 12, 2008 THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777: 5/12/08- STEVEN DELOPOULOS & POET BILLY LAMONT Current mood: talkative Category: Music MAY 12, 2008 THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777:  STEVEN DELOPOULOS AND POET BILLY LAMONT IN MANHATTAN Poet Billy Lamont attended a Steven Delopoulos,  of Burlap To Cashmere fame,  show in Manhattan last night Billy Lamont said enthusiastically,  "I was excited to attend a Steven Delopoulos, of Burlap To Cashmere fame, show last night in Manhattan.  Delopoulos' new CD 'Straight Jacket' is a brilliantly written,  performed and produced CD.  I believe it is his best work to date.  Even the concept of his spirituallity as a follower of Jesus The Christ being sometimes wrapped in a straight jacket...not straitjacket but straight jacket that I interpret like 'being wrapped up and slowed down by the squeeky clean church that sometimes attacks (with religon rather than spirituality) and rarely supports an artists' holy passion.'"   "Anyway,  it was Mother's Day,  oh Happy Mother's Day you mothers...hahahaha :), and Steven Delopoulos' live performance,  along with his touring co-headliners,  was as brilliant as his new CD.  I never expected what came next which was Steven Delopoulos dedicating the first song of the evening 'Another Day' to me.  If that was not enough,  he also told the audience that I 'was the greatest New York Poet...and then later added a genius.'  This song and statement came as a big surprise to me,  was deeply appreciated and was very humbling to me because Delopoulos does not even call himself a Poet and is a much better Poet than me.  He is like Bob Dylan or a Bruce Springstein and I in no way use those two untouchable, artistic names lightly,"  Lamont continued."     Lamont concluded,  "So when Steven Delopoulos asked me to hang out with him after the gig I was glad to spend time with my friend but hesitated because it doesn't take one too long hanging out with me to realize that I am not a genius...hahahaha and I don't want to blow my myth, you know haha. Seriously it was great to hang out and laugh,  share and philosophize in his great company...to live life passionately as I am healing from some very difficult past few years.  The night became morning,  a dirt martini for me,  the sunrise,  breakfast,  shared dreams and revelations,  walking the downtown NY city backstreets in a cold rain storm and then he was gone.  I am alive by God's grace and Steven was off to his next tour date in Pittsburgh.  God bless Steven's wild gypsy artist Jesus soul!!!!!!!"       You can check out Steven Delopoulos' new songs here: http://www.myspace.com/stevendelopoulos Buy and download the new album "Straight Jacket" for $10 here: https://www.stevendelopoulos.com/store.aspx   10:15 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove Saturday, May 10, 2008 STEVEN DELOPOULOS OF BURLAP TO CASHMERE LIVE AT THE LIVING ROOM,NY CITY 5/10 AT 8 PM. Current mood: luminous Category: Music Poet Billy Lamont said, "Singer/songwriter Steven Delopoulos of Burlap To Cashmere fame is performing at The Living Room in Manhattan at 8 PM tomorrow,  which is Sunday,  May 10th.  This will be an intimate performance while he is in town and not to be missed!  Delopoulos is the real thing as an artist and a person,  very inspiring,  in a category that can't be touched."       Lamont concluded,  "You can check out Steven Delopoulos' new CD on his myspace page.  Just click his picture under the Poet Billy Lamont's myspace friends.  Shalom.  Peace.  Live The Other Perspective 777!"    Thursday, May 01, 2008 The Other Perspective 777: Rich Mullins documentary "Homeless Man" Current mood: quiet Category: Religion and Philosophy THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777: RICH MULLINS DOCUMENTARY "HOMELESS MAN"  Poet Billy Lamont said,  "To me being a follower of Jesus means considering and serving the poor.  You may not have heard of the late singer/sonwriter Rich Mullins but he is really inspiring to me.  You can check out a 6 part video on youtube. com that is a documentary on him called "Homeless Man."  If you can check it out.  It's real righteous bro and sis.  Here's a link for the first part to get you started if you have the time: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=n_P8n6eysZ0 " ~blessed be~ [billy lamont] Sunday, April 27, 2008 The Other Perspective 777: Daniel Fazinna Book Signing Friday w/Billy Lamont To Speak Current mood: rockin 4/27/08 DANIEL FAZINNA BOOK SIGNING FRIDAY W/BILLY LAMONT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT Current mood: rockin Category: Music WLIX RADIO PERSONALITY DANIEL FAZINNA BOOK SIGNING FRIDAY:  POET BILLY LAMONT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT  Daniel Fazinna, DJ/radio personality for the "Divine Intervention" show on WLIX radio will be signing copies of his new book "Divine Intervention."  Poet Billy Lamont will share his testimony of a divine intervention he experienced that is included in Fazinna's book.  Lamont said, "I am honored to be there to support Daniel Fazinna and his important book." Info: Friday, May 2, 2008 at 7:30pm Kathy's Place Christian Bookstore 430 Main Street Center Moriches, NY (Long Island) 631-878-6700 Map Quest map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latl..internal&addtohistory=&latitude=bo%2fmwIDJZNgAGwho8hvPAg%3d%3d&l..j3prmR%2bqakSF8Cg85vUrQA%3d%3d&name=Kathy%27s%20Place&country=US&address=430%20Main%20St&city=Center%20Moriches&state=NY&zipcode=11934&ph..631%2d878%2d6700&spurl=0&&q=Kathy%27s%20Place%20Christian%20Bookstore&qc=Bibles Poet Billy Lamont recommends highly watching the following link where- Daniel Fazzina Shares his testimony of healing on Telecare: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=24331115 4/27/08- THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777: Check Out This VIdeo Link "Bono and Christianity" Current mood: awake Category: Religion and Philosophy Poet Billy Lamont said today, "Due to Passover just being celebrated and it being the Easter celebration for Greek Orthodox believers,  I would like to invite you to check out this special video link on "Bono And Christianity."  Enjoy and happy Resurrection Day!!!!!!!:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dingVac1W1g Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4/1/08- NEW "HEDGE OF THORNS" SONG ON WLIX RADIO IN NY WITH CD GIVEAWAY Current mood: fabulous Category: Music News Brief: April 2, 2008 ************************************************************ 4/1/08- NEW "HEDGE OF THORNS" SONG PLAYED ON WLIX RADIO IN NY WITH CD GIVEAWAY A new Poet Billy Lamont and Songwriter/Musician Bill Poulos song "Footprints In The Sand" from the Hedge Of Thorns CD released on Easter Sunday was played for the first time on the radio yesterday,  Tuesday, April 1, 2008.  The poem/song was played on Daniel Fazinna’s radio show at 1 PM- 2:30 PM on WLIX FM on Long Island, NY with copies of the "Hedge Of Thorns" CD given away to winners of a Bible trivia contest.  DJ Faz debuted another new song from "Hedge Of Thorns" entitled "Testimony" on his radio show the prior Monday, March 24th also with CD giveaways during Bible trivia. This radio show can be heard internationally streaming live at www.wlixradio.com or on Long Island, NY on WLIX FM at:: 96.5 Manorville  94.7 Ridge  104.5 Selden  94.9 Hauppague  101.5 Plainview  Recommended highly is Daniel Fazzina’s book "Divine Intervention" that features Poet Billy Lamont’s story of faith in one of the chapters.  For more information here’s the link: http://www.xulonpress.com/book_detail.php?id=4269

News Brief: Monday, March 24, 2008

Monday, March 24, 2008 YOU CAN HEAR A NEW LAMONT/POULOS "HEDGE OF THORNS" SONG PLAYED ON THE RADIO TODAY AT 1-2:30 PM Current mood: sleepy Category: Music News Brief: March 24, 2008 A new Poet Billy Lamont and Songwriter/Musician Bill Poulos song from the Hedge Of Thorns CD released yesterday,  on Easter Sunday,  will be played for the first time on the radio today,  Monday, March 24th on Daniel Fazinna’s radio show at 1 PM- 2:30 PM on WLIX FM on Long Island, NY. This radio show can be heard internationally streaming live at www.wlixradio.com or on Long Island, NY on WLIX FM at:: 96.5 Manorville  94.7 Ridge  104.5 Selden  94.9 Hauppague  101.5 Plainview  Also recommended highly is Daniel Fazzina’s book "Divine Intervention" that features Poet Billy Lamont’s story of faith in one of the chapters.  For more information here’s the link: http://www.xulonpress.com/book_detail.php?id=4269 3:50 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Thursday, March 20, 2008 3/21/08- "testimony" new song posted and dedicated to JESUS for Good Friday to Easter Current mood: blessed Category: Music News Brief:  March 20, 2008 ************************************************************ NEW SONG "TESTIMONY" POSTED ON MYSPACE FOR GOOD FRIDAY "A new poem song "testimony" was posted to my myspace page today and is dedicated to Jesus the Christ with deepest love and gratitude on this Good Friday and will stay posted through Easter Sunday.  "testimony" is from a collaboration- Hedge Of Thorns with Bill Poulos that will be released by KultureShift Music on Easter Sunday.  Enjoy and happy Resurrection Day!!!"  Poet Billy Lamont said today, 10:14 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3/18/08- "HEDGE OF THORNS" CD RELEASE PARTY FOR EASTER ON SATURDAY, 3/22 IN CENTER MORICHES, NY Current mood: cheerful Category: Religion and Philosophy 3/18/08-POET BILLY LAMONT/BILL POULOS CD RELEASE "HEDGE OF THORNS" FOR EASTER ..   ~dear friends, you are invited to a cd release party on saturday, march, 22nd,   in celebration of EASTER at kathy’s place bookstore,  in center moriches, new york,  on the afternoon before Easter Sunday at 2- 4pm.  please invite a friend or acquaintance that may be sick,  homeless, an orphan,  a widow,  handicapped and in need of encouragement,  and especially those who might not have a relationship with Jesus Christ but will listen to the poetry and music.  i would these people to be our special guests and to give them free copies of the new "hedge of thorns" cd.  there will be special guests sharing some of their experiences in receiving miracle healings and divine interventions led by author, wlix radio "dj faz" daniel fazzina. more details and directions below with an event flyer attached.  love and life, [billy lamont]~ DOWNLOAD A FLYER ATTACHED FOR THIS EVENT IN CELEBRATION OF EASTER AND THE HEDGE OF THORNS CD RELEASE.  FEEL FREE TO GIVE A FLYER TO A FRIEND OR HANG IT IN A STORE. News Brief:  March 11, 2008 ************************************************************** THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777:  POET BILLY LAMONT AND BILL POULOS "HEDGE OF THORNS" CD/EP RELEASE FOR EASTER SUNDAY Poet Billy Lamont and songwriter/musician Bill Poulos are pleased to announce a new poetry with folk music collaboration entitled "Hedge Of Thorns."  There first CD/EP release together will be the self titled "Hedge Of Thorns" and will be released on Easter Sunday by KultureShift Music.  KultureSHift Music morphed out of the electronic/ambient/world music, independent label Mannequin Oddio Media.  Billy Lamont said, "This CD had to be released on Easter Sunday as we celebrate the ressurection of Jesus Christ!  The poetry and music on the "Hedge Of Thorns" CD is filled with new life blooming and reflects our deep faith in God as followers of Jesus Christ.  As a matter of fact a lot of the poetry I recite is as Jesus speaking first person.  So Lord have mercy on my soul as Bill Poulos and I walk reverantly on this sacred ground."   Billy Lamont adds,  "This CD is personal and minimal and contains a lot of grace.  It feels like this CD is bigger than all of us and a gift from above.  Bill Poulos and I are very excited about it.  Not sure if my poetry/music/life will ever be this blessed again.  This CD reminds me of a religious tract a Jesus freak might hand someone on the west coast,  in the 70’s,  but much more personal,  intimate,  relevant and resonant for today."  "Hedge Of Thorns" will be available at CD Baby for $10.  This is the second CD Poet Billy Lamont has released with KultureSHift Music/Mannequin Oddio Media.  The first was "painkiller" a collaboration with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin in 2006.  Lamont’ previous CD’s have included "billy lamont with the peculiar people" in 2004 and "Into the 21st Century" in 1999.  His book of poems include "strobe light generation" released in 2005 and "The Gallery Of Light" in 1994.     Info: Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 2-4 PM Kathy’s Place Christian Bookstore 430 Main Street Center Moriches, NY (Long Island) 631-878-6700 Map Quest map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latl..internal&addtohistory=&latitude=bo%2fmwIDJZNgAGwho8hvPAg%3d%3d&l..j3prmR%2bqakSF8Cg85vUrQA%3d%3d&name=Kathy%27s%20Place&country=US&address=430%20Main%20St&city=Center%20Moriches&state=NY&zipcode=11934&ph..631%2d878%2d6700&spurl=0&&q=Kathy%27s%20Place%20Christian%20Bookstore&qc=Bibles 6:33 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Sunday, March 16, 2008 PALM SUNDAY: 3/16/07- Poet Billy Lamont: Tonight On "Divine Intervention" radio show at 7PM Current mood: peaceful Category: Religion and Philosophy PALM SUNDAY:  3/16/07- THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-               Poet Billy Lamont: Tonight On "Divine Intervention" radio show at 7 PM. **********************************************************   Poet Billy Lamont shares his story of faith and a miraculous healing he received of a serious pancreas condition.   Billy Lamont said, "This is the most personal I have ever gotten in an interview talking about the origins of my faith and becoming a follower of Jesus Christ. I feel it is time to talk about this private part of my life in a public forum and wanted it to be with my friends Daniel and Sahani Fazzina on their wonderful new ’Divine Intervention’ show."    Divine Intervention Airs Sundays at 7PM and can be heard internationally streaming live at www.wlixradio.com or on WLIX FM on Long Island, NY at:: 96.5 Manorville  94.7 Ridge  104.5 Selden  94.9 Hauppague  101.5 Plainview  Also recommended highly is Daniel Fazzina’s book "Divine Intervention" that features Poet Billy Lamont’s story of faith in one of the chapters.  For more information here’s the link: http://www.xulonpress.com/book_detail.php?id=4269 9:00 AM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3/11/08-POET BILLY LAMONT/BILL POULOS CD RELEASE "HEDGE OF THORNS" FOR EASTER Current mood: cheerful Category: Music ~dear friends, you are invited to a cd release party on saturday, march, 22nd, in New York on the night before Easter Sunday.  please save the date if you can.  more details soon.  love and life, [billy lamont]~ News Brief:  March 11, 2008 ************************************************************** THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777:  POET BILLY LAMONT AND BILL POULOS "HEDGE OF THORNS" CD RELEASE FOR EASTER SUNDAY Poet Billy Lamont and songwriter/musician Bill Poulos are pleased to announce a new poetry with folk music collaboration entitled "Hedge Of Thorns."  There first CD release together will be the self titled "Hedge Of Thorns" and will be released on Easter Sunday by KultureShift Music.  KultureSHift Music is the new division of the electronic/ambient music independent label Mannequin Oddio Media.  Billy Lamont said, "This CD had to be released on Easter Sunday as we celebrate the ressurection of Jesus Christ!  The poetry and music on the "Hedge Of Thorns" CD is filled with new life blooming and reflects our deep faith in God as followers of Jesus Christ.  As a matter of fact a lot of the poetry I recite is as Jesus speaking first person.  So Lord have mercy on my soul as Bill Poulos and I walk reverantly on this sacred ground."   Billy Lamont adds,  "This CD is personal and minimal and contains a lot of grace.  It feels like this CD is bigger than all of us and a gift from above.  Bill Poulos and I are very excited about it.  Not sure if my poetry/music/life will ever be this blessed again.  This CD reminds me of a religious tract a Jesus freak might hand someone on the west coast in the 70's but much more personal,  intimate,  relevant and resonant for today."  "Hedge Of Thorns" will be available at CD Baby for $10.  This is the second CD Poet Billy Lamont has released through Mannequin Oddio Media.  The first was "painkiller" a collaboration with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin in 2006.  Lamont' previous CD's have included "billy lamont with the peculiar people" in 2004 and "Into the 21st Century" in 1999.  His book of poems include "strobe light generation" released in 2005 and "The Gallery Of Light" in 1994.    More information soon!    10:48 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3/6/08 DANIEL FAZINNA BOOK SIGNING TOMORROW/BILLY LAMONT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT Current mood: rockin Category: Music WLIX RADIO PERSONALITY DANIEL FAZINNA BOOK SIGNING TOMORROW:  POET BILLY LAMONT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT  Daniel Fazinna, DJ/radio personality for the "Divine Intervention" show on WLIX radio will be signing copies of his new book "Divine Intervention."  Poet Billy Lamont will share his testimony of a divine intervention he experienced that is included in Fazinna's book.  Lamont said, "I am honored to be there to support Daniel Fazinna and his important book." Info: Friday, March 7, 2008 at 7:30pm Kathy's Place Christian Bookstore 430 Main Street Center Moriches, NY (Long Island) 631-878-6700 Map Quest map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latl..internal&addtohistory=&latitude=bo%2fmwIDJZNgAGwho8hvPAg%3d%3d&l..j3prmR%2bqakSF8Cg85vUrQA%3d%3d&name=Kathy%27s%20Place&country=US&address=430%20Main%20St&city=Center%20Moriches&state=NY&zipcode=11934&ph..631%2d878%2d6700&spurl=0&&q=Kathy%27s%20Place%20Christian%20Bookstore&qc=Bibles Poet Billy Lamont recommends highly watching the following link where- Daniel Fazzina Shares his testimony of healing on Telecare: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=24331115

News Brief:  Monday, February 25, 2008
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  OUR BELOVED FRIEND LARRY NORMAN LARRY NORMAN PASSED ON SUNDAY

Current mood: sad Category: Music OUR BELOVED FRIEND 'THE FATHER OF CHRISTIAN ROCK' LARRY NORMAN PASSED ON SUNDAY MORNING   ~Poet Billy Lamont said,  "It is with the deepest sadness that I share the news of the passing of one of my most dear and truest friends Larry Norman.  I am sitting here really shattered but know brother Larry is rejoicing with Jesus in Heaven right now,  having a party and receiving a crown.  The private and public Larry Norman has been and will continue to be a great inspiration to me.  You can read Larry's last note below and also other information on his passing on.  Nothing more to say now except I send love and prayers to his family and that I will miss him terribly."~      CLICK HERE TO ENTER LARRY NORMAN.COM You can leave a message for Larry's family at the Larry Norman Message Board _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Larry Norman 4/8/1947 - 2/24/2008 Our friend and my wonderful brother Larry passed away at 2:45 Sunday morning. My wife Kristin and I were with him, holding his hands and sitting in bed with him when his heart finally slowed to a stop. We spent this past week laughing, singing, and praying with him, and all the while he had us taking notes on new song ideas and instructions on how to continue his ministry and art. Several of his friends got to come and visit with him in the last couple of weeks and were a great source of help and friendship to Larry. Ray Sievers, Derek Robertson, Mike Makinster, Jerry Albertini, Charles Thompson, Tim and Christine Gilman, Matt and Becki Simmons, Kerry Hopkins, and a few more. Thank you, guys. Larry appreciated your visits very much. And he greatly appreciated the thoughts, wishes, support and prayers that came from all of you Solid Rock friends on a daily basis. Thank you for being part of his small circle of friends over the years. Saturday afternoon he knew he was going to go home to God very soon and he dictated the following message to you while his friend Allen Fleming typed these words into Larry's computer: ________________________________ I feel like a prize in a box of cracker jacks with God's hand reaching down to pick me up. I have been under medical care for months. My wounds are getting bigger. I have trouble breathing. I am ready to fly home. My brother Charles is right, I won't be here much longer. I can't do anything about it. My heart is too weak. I want to say goodbye to everyone. In the past you have generously supported me with prayer and finance and we will probably still need financial help. My plan is to be buried in a simple pine box with some flowers inside. But still it will be costly because of funeral arrangement, transportation to the gravesite, entombment, coordination, legal papers etc. However money is not really what I need, I want to say I love you. I'd like to push back the darkness with my bravest effort. There will be a funeral posted here on the website, in case some of you want to attend. We are not sure of the date when I will die. Goodbye, farewell, we will meet again. Goodbye, farewell, we'll meet again Somewhere beyond the sky. I pray that you will stay with God Goodbye, my friends, goodbye. Larry ________________________________________ Thank you to all of you who were so nice to my brother over the years. There will be a public memorial ceremony for Larry at 10:00 AM on Saturday, March 1st at The Church on the Hill, 2707 Maranatha Ct., Turner, Oregon, just south of Salem. Here is a mapquest link. You can leave a message for Larry's family at the Larry Norman Message Board Here are some links to more info and observations on Larry: Google News Wkipedia For more information contact: Charles Norman charles@slackertone.com We miss him beyond words. Thank you for everything. Peace to you all in Christ, Charles Norman

News Brief:  Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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  THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777- POET BILLY LAMONT VIDEO RECITING "NIGHT" AT CBGB'S IN 1998

Current mood: awake Category: Writing and Poetry A short video clip of Poet Billy Lamont reciting "night" with DJ Circuit for his "Into The 21st Century" CD release party at CBGB's Underground Lounge on November 18,  1998 Check out "night" and some other Poet Billy Lamont videos here on youtube.com: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ImfZymFIleY *THIS IS DEDICATED TODAY TO U2, THE LATE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND TO ALL THE BRILLIANT ARTISTS AT THE RECORD LABEL I AM ASSOCIATED WITH MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA/KULTURE SHIFT RECORDS*

Friday, February 01, 2008 2/1/08- WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT- NEW STEVEN DELOPOULOS FROM BURLAP TO CASHMERE CD Current mood: working THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777- WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT- FEBRUARY 1, 2008- NEW STEVEN DELOPOULOS OF BURLAP TO CASHMERE CD "STRAIGHT JACKET" AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD Poet Billy Lamont said, "Steven Delopoulos's new CD is brilliant.  He breaks new and important spiritual and artistic ground here.  You must here the songs "The Conductor" and "Love Like A Sword."  Check out the new songs here: http://www.myspace.com/stevendelopoulos Buy and download the new album for $10 here: https://www.stevendelopoulos.com/store.aspx

2/1/08- THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777- U2 IN 3D AT IMAX THEATERS Current mood: sick Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities FEBRUARY 1, 2008- THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777- U2 IN 3D AT IMAX THEATERS Poet Billy Lamont said, "U2 In 3D" is a must see experience in IMAX format now if possible for you.  Some of you may know that I'm sort of like a single parent with my 7 year old son Zion.  Last Saturday Zion and I experienced the future of film in New York City in this sacred art sensorary experience of a film.  Acquaintance/friend filmaker Mark Pellinton,  who attended one of my early poetry readings at Kenny Castaways in about 1990 when he was doing MTV promos and the MTV show I was a big fan of  called "Buzz," has always been one of my favorite Directors and Pellington and U2 did an amazing job!  Not only was it one of the most amazing visual experience and cutting edge innovative films in my lifetime but the U2 concert filmed in South America was as brilliant as ever with U2 in top form.  The spirituality and passion U2 expressed through the music, words and performance, that my seven year old witnessed, allowed us to discuss the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, as a follow up to listening to his speeches together on Martin Luther King Day,  discuss peace and war due to his strong connection with "Love And Peace"  (it may have helped that his name was mentioned in the song as the Biblical 'daughters of Zion') and also overall human rights and living with love and passion.  We even discussed Jesus due to the line 'to claim the victory Jesus won' in 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'  Of course Zion asked me to buy him an electric guitar after seeing The Edge play.  I had walking pnemonia so the quality time with Zion and concert film gave me a much needed boost to my spirit.  Zion is now asking me on a daily basis to be able to go see the new Scorcese film about The Rolling Stones due to him seeing the coming attractions.  The Rolling Stones have always been one of my favorites but I told Zion he would have to wait a few years and that Dad would have to see those bad boys alone.  Hahaha.  Go see U2 in 3D!  You need to!!!  See you soon"   Information about U2 in 3D is at the following links: http://www.u23dmovie.com/ http://www.u2.com/home.php

Monday, January 21, 2008 1/21/08 For Martin Luther King Day: "Protest: A Declaration/billy lamont" Current mood: peaceful Monday,  January 21, 2008 ************************************************************* Poet Billy Lamont dedicates his poem/song with Alpha One Seven "protest: a declaration" to the late great Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Martin Luther King Day Holiday.  You can hear it here on myspace.com/poetbillylamont. Poet Billy Lamont highly recommends a CD of Martin Luther King's speeches,  especially if you have never heard them, called "In Search Of Freedom." Lamont owns this CD and is listening to it today.  ~peace to you~

News Brief:  Friday, December 7, 2007
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  NEW POET BILLY LAMONT SONG "THE POWER TO DREAM" POSTED ON MYSPACE.COM

 
Current mood: blessed
Category: Music

Poet Billy Lamont said, "'the power to dream' song being posted on my myspace page today is dedicated to those who have survived some type of abuse over many years due to mental,  emotional and/or physical abuse.  I pray for overcomers/victims of these types of sick torture to be blessed with a new vision in their heart and a powerful dream for 2008,  as well as all overcomers and myspace friends for a blessed Christmas/Holidays and New Year!!!  YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DREAM!!!!!!!"    

"the power to dream" is a Poet Billy Lamont collaboration with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin.  It appears on the Mannequin Oddio Media CD "painkiller."  Click the following link to hear this song:  THE POWER TO DREAM

News Brief:  Saturday, December 1, 2007
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  POET BILLY LAMONT'S LATEST BOOK OF POEMS AND CD AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FOR THE HOLIDAYS

12/1/07- POET BILLY LAMONT LATEST BOOK OF POEMS AND CD AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Current mood: productive News Brief: Saturday, December 1, 2007 ******************************************************************** POET BILLY LAMONT'S LATEST BOOK OF POEMS AND CD AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!! *ORDER NOW WITH THE LINKS BELOW AND RECEIVE THEM WITH PLENTY OF TIME FOR A HOLIDAY GIFT* Here's the cover and a link to Poet Billy Lamont's latest book of poems "strobe light generation" if you would like to purchase it: http://www.amazon.com/Strobe-Light-Generation-Billy-Lamont/dp/0741423383 HERE'S THE COVER AND A LINK TO POET BILLY LAMONT'S LATEST CD "PAINKILLER" AVAILABLE AT CDBABY.COM.  WHEN YOU BUY A COPY A SECOND COPY IS AVAILABLE FOR A 40% DISCOUNT: http://cdbaby.com/cd/billylamont Happy Christmas (holidays) and a blessed New Year to you! love, [billy]

News Brief:  Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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  THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-
11/21/07- A THANKSGIVING DAY  POETRY READING FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE DINNER BY  BILLY LAMONT!!!

***Thanksgiving Day- Thursday, November 22, 2007- Love and Mercy Church,
in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York- 12 Noon.

Poet Billy Lamont will give his annual poetry reading for Thanksgiving dinner with homeless friends as the guest's of honor in this amazing,  compassionate church that runs the Operation Homeless  ministry all year round for those who are in New York City and Long Islanders. 

Lamont said,  "I am very thankful for all the blessings God has bestowed upon me and the treasure that he has placed within me.  It is,  I believe 13 years now,  I have been contributing my poetry to this Thanksgiving Dinner.  It is a real pleasure for me and this year I will be bringing some free books along with me for the guests of honor. :)"

     Lamont will be contributing his poetry of hope,  dignity and love to this event led by the two remarkable woman Pastor Debbie Mitchell and Sister Donna.  The dinner and entertainment is a free gift and begins at Noon and goes to about 3 PM.  Love and Mercy church is located on 1420 Union Blvd. in Bay Shore.  For directions please click the following link:  Love and Mercy Church directions or telephone 631-969-7968.



News Brief:  Sunday, November 18, 2007
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  THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-
11/18/07- A FEW U2/BONO VIDEO LINKS FOR YOUR SUNDAY- THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777

Current mood: sick
Category: Music

Poet Billy Lamont picked out a few U2 video links to keep you company and to reflect on for this Sunday.  Happy Sunday everyone!!!-

U2 Live link- Be sure to watch this to the end with Bono speaking at a Washington D.C. prayer breakfast.  Very powerful!!!:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6OJk8SJ_FNQ

"Yahweh" U2 song video:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=ChOrtj0am4E

"Yahweh" live in concert:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GkEQS5SJZPU&feature=related

News Brief:  Friday, November 9, 2007
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  THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-
WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT:  R.S. PEARSON- WRITER,  THINKER,  COMPOSER

R.S. Pearson has been writing and publishing for over 20 years. He received his BA in English composition in 1987, and started ParaMind Brainstorming Software in 1992. A long time student of spirituality and psychology, Pearson's works seek to identify the pure spiritual drive that Christ said was "helping widows and orphans in their distress," while overcoming the common judgmental nature which often overcomes people's spiritual pursuits. His two recent books on hyperreligiosity and hallucinations in religious practice key in on two of the biggest problems facing religion today. As well as a prolific author, he also composes and publishes his own classical music. 

CHECK OUT R.S. PEARSON'S WEBSITE AND MYSPACE PAGE:
R.S. PEARSON WEBSITE
R.S. PEARSON MY SPACE PAGE




News Brief:  Monday, November 5, 2007
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   THE ALARM 777-
MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM ON CNN INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION AS HE MAKES HISTORY AND THE GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS WITH THE WORLD'S HIGHEST CONCERT ON TOP OF MT. EVEREST ON BEHALF OF CANCER SURVIVORS AND LOVE HOPE FAITH FOUNDATION!!!!!!!

Here's the link:
MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM ON CNN FROM MT. EVEREST ROCKS


News Brief:  Sunday,  November 4, 2007
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THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-

CHECK OUT DANIEL FAZZINA'S "DIVINE INTERVENTION" RADIO SHOW ON SUNDAY'S AT 7 PM NOW STREAMING LIVE AT WLIX.COM: http://www.wlixradio.com/

Current mood: peaceful

Also recommended highly is Daniel Fazzina's book "Divine Intervention" that also features Poet Billy Lamont's story of faith in one of the chapters.  For more information here is the link: http://www.xulonpress.com/book_detail.php?id=4269

News Brief:  Friday, November 2, 2007
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POET BILLY LAMONT "INTO THE 21ST CENTURY" TRACKS AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL SALE AT MYSPACE.COM

Current mood: flirty

Poet Billy Lamont said,  "I have become aware that the tracks for my first CD "Into The 21st Century" (1999) became available for sale digitally on my MYSPACE.COM/POETBILLYLAMONT  myspace.com/poetbilly lamont page today.  Not sure how this happened yet but it is very cool.  Probably through The Orchard who takes care of "Into The 21st Century" digital distribution.  So I would like to invite you to purchase the tracks for 99 cents a piece so you can download them to your iPod.  Hope you enjoy the poetry and music!  Do you think this will help me to meet some chicks?  hahaha!!!!!!!

News Brief:  Saturday, October 27, 2007
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   THE ALARM 777-
MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM MAKES HISTORY WITH THE WORLD'S HIGHEST CONCERT ON TOP OF MT. EVEREST ON BEHALF OF CANCER SURVIVORS AND LOVE HOPE FAITH FOUNDATION!!!!!!!

Mike Peters of The Alarm along with Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze,  Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats and  trekkers who have survived cancer have climbed Mt. Everest and given a concert on behalf of the Love Hope Foundation at the highest point on the earth Mount Everest and make history!!!!!!!

Click on the following link and then click on the television to see a video of Mike Peters and trekkers playing the "Love Hope Strength" song  on top of Mt. Everest.  Note the prayer banners flying  around them.  One of them is  from  Poet Billy Lamont's
7 year old son Zion William Lamont :)  Live The Other Perspective 777!!! 

"LOVE HOPE STRENGTH" SONG/VIDEO ON TOP OF MT. EVEREST

MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM ON CNN FROM MT. EVEREST ROCKS

News Brief: Friday, October 5, 2007 *******************************************************************************************************                                                                    THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777- MIKE PETERS AND THE ALARM CLAIM THE HIGHEST GROUND OF MT. EVEREST AND TRANSFORM IT                                         INTO HOLY GROUND FOR CANCER VICTIMS AND US ALL!!!!!!! "Mike Peters and The Alarm are claiming the physical high ground that they have always held in the SPIRIT.  [Please support them and see below] May the grace of God be with them on this journey that begun with the disease of cancer, taking them to the Highest Ground in the world that will become Holy Ground as they set foot upon it.  My prayers are with them In Jesus' name- Prayer will be blowing in the wind like a flag of praise to Yahweh as they make history with the highest concert and blog entries ever accomplished.  This is a victory of redemption not just for cancer victims and survivors but for the everyday man and women that can turn the page on their sufferings with new life and put on new clothes of salvation, love and light with dignity, " Poet Billy Lamont said.   ..> October 04,   2007 Everest Rocks - WRITE YOUR NAME IN HISTORY : Everest Rocks - VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE ALARM/MIKE PETERS SONG ..> Everest Rocks - WRITE YOUR NAME IN HISTORY In just under ten days, Mike Peters will venture to Everest in Nepal to help raise funds for the fight against cancer on behalf of the Love Hope Strength Foundation. In doing so, he will climb to 5,500 meters and hopefully claim the record for the World's Highest Gig.... Mike is calling on Alarm fans worldwide to do what they can to support him in this massive challenge..... In return for a small donation to the cause. Mike is offering to take your name (or the name of your loved one), which will be handwritten onto a Nepalese prayer flag to the World's highest gig............ Please visit http://www.lovehopestrengthfoundation.co.uk/news5.shtml for more details on how to take part in this exciting opportunity. Many thanks Love Hope Strength Foundation UK *************************************** Everest Rocks - VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE ALARM/MIKE PETERS SONG TO BE RECORDED DURING EVEREST ROCKS Mike is also asking for fans to vote for the top twenty Alarm songs that Mike should perform along the way to the Highest Gig....... Mike will attempt to record the most voted for songs in order to produce a commemorative CD documenting this historic event which will be released as soon as possible after his homecoming on 31 October 2007. Along with being able to vote for your favourite song your name will also feature on the credits of the Everest album. For further details on how to vote please visit: http://www.lovehopestrengthfoundation.co.uk/news6.shtm Thanks for supporting us. Love Hope Strength Foundation UK

News Brief:  Sunday, September 29, 2007
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THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-
 MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM AND POET BILLY LAMONT PERFORMING "INTO THE 21ST CENTURY" IN CALIFORNIA IN 1998
THE ALARM 777-
"THREE SEVENS CLASH" VIDEO RELEASE!!!

Billy Lamont said,  "Performing and touring with one of my greatest influences,  Mike Peters of The Alarm,  in 1998 is one of my best memories as a performance poet.  Last year I became aware of some video footage that was on youtube.com of a performance we did in California.  I didn't know this video footage existed so it was a real nice surprise for me to see this footage capturing that profound moment in my life so well.  I was taking a big step of faith at that time becoming a full time Poet.  As well as being encouraged by Mike Peters of The Alarm,  I was also being encouraged as a Poet by the late legendary Poet Allen Ginsberg and The Father Of Christian Rock Larry Norman.  Spending time with my friend Mike Peters and watching him perform inspired me to grow spiritually and artistically a great deal.  He is one of the greatest songwriters and live performers ever and an even more true human being.  I have a lot of love for Mike Peters and am very grateful to him.  Also a gigantic thank you to Doug from the Dublin, Ireland band "Indian" for sharing this video. :)"          
MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM AND POET BILLY LAMONT PERFORMING "INTO THE 21ST CENTURY" IN CALIFORNIA IN 1998

Billy Lamont said,  "You need to click on the following link for thealarm.com website and then click on the video for "Three Sevens Clash" on the lower left to check out The Alarm's latest video.  It is punk rock at it's finest!!!  While your there also watch The Alarm's new videos for  "Fight Back" and "The Alarm Calling. from there new "Counter Attack" CD.
THE ALARM WEBSITE- PLEASE CLICK VIDEO ON LOWER LEFT "THREE SEVENS CLASH" AND ENJOY!!!

  Lamont concluded, "Also you need to check out Doug's band "Indian.  They are really great.  They are at the following link and on myspace.com.  This is The Other Perspective 777- Love and life to you!" 
DOUG FROM THE BAND- INDIAN- FROM DUBLIN, IRELAND



News Brief:  Sunday, September 23, 2007
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THE ALARM  777-
 MIKE PETERS AND THE ALARM SOUND THE ALARM,  LIKE A SILVER TRUMPET BLOWING
FOR CANCER PATIENTS
WITH LOVE+HOPE+STRENGTH+ FOUNDATION

Billy Lamont said,  "Please support Mike Peters of  The Alarm and James Chippendale and their new Love+Hope+Strength Foundation to help cancer patients.  This Foundation has quickly become a giant and is shining a light on this much needed  area  of cancer relief and  lobbying for funds/helping those in charge of funds have accountability and transparency to assure  money gets to where it is supposed to.   Please check out this link for further information about this important organization and future events such as an upcoming Mount Everest climb:  LOVE+HOPE+STRENGTH FOUNDATION."

Lamont continues,  "The Alarm,  Live,  The English Beat,   Chuck Berry ,  The Smithereens and Fountains Of Wayne just gave a concert in New Jersy called Music Fest 2007 for this great cause.  I wholeheatedly desired to be there but issues in my personal life prevented me from attending.  I did remember the day and festival and especially the foundation in my prayers,  meditations and heart that day.  No Hollywood/Music business bullshit  but  genuine love and prayer.  Just thought I would mention that because I know as soon as this is communicated I will probably get accused of that again. :)  Check out this link for MUSIC FEST 2007."

Lamont concludes, "I've said it many times before but I  want to say it again -  Mike Peters and The Alarm,  in the 80's, 90's and today are the greatest rock band in the world!!!!!!!  They proudly stand beside U2,  The Beatles,  The Rolling Stones,  The Who and Pink Floyd  as the greatest rock bands ever!!!   You need to check out their new videos 'Three Seven's Clash,'  'Fight Back' and 'Alarm Calling' and Cd's 'Counter Attack at their website THE ALARM OFFICIAL WEBSITE.  Thank you for listening. 
The Other Perspective 777.  Love and life to you"


News Brief:  Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-
 POET BILLY LAMONT DISCUSSING  September 11TH ON RADIO SHOW "VISIONS AND CHOICES" ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2003

"On this somber, rainy day, as we remember September 11th, 2001 I would like to share a hopeful radio interview,  about new creation from destruction,  I did on Sept 11, 2003 with Professor Linda Longmire for her "Visions And Choices" show on WRHU 88.7 FM at Hofstra University on Long Island,  New York.  My love and prayers to those who lost loved ones on September 11th including my families' friends the Vigiano family.  Special thanks to Writer, Poet, Composer, Virtuist Robert Pearson for hosting these mp2 files and making them available to be listened to at his website.  Please check out his amazing writing and compositions at  rspearson.com as you are visiting the website.  Love and life to you."

POET BILLY LAMONT RADIO SHOW GUEST ON "VISION AND CHOICES" RADIO SHOW ON SEPT. 11, 2003 AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY NY DISCUSSING 9/11

NOTE: RADIO SHOW MP3 IS ACCIDENTALLY TRANSFERRED AT A SLIGHTLY SLOWER SPEED THAN ORIGINAL SHOW AND ARCHIVED TAPE AUDIO
MAKING VOICES SOUND DEEPER BUT IT IS STILL A GREAT LISTEN.  ENJOY!!!!!!!



News Brief:  Monday, September 10, 2007
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THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777-
MORE FREE POET BILLY LAMONT BOOKS OF POETRY FOR FAITHFUL FANS

Additional free "The Gallery Of Light" books of poetry are available to faithful fans if:
1. If you reply to this email address: thepoet4u@aol.com with additional email addresses of friends interested in becoming a part of our Poet Billy Lamont email list.
2. If you recently purchased Billy Lamont's latest book of poetry "strobe light generation."
3. If you would like "The Gallery Of Light" book but cannot afford to buy it at this time due to financial troubles.

*If you fit any of these criteria please reply to this email address: thepoet4u@aol.com with your mailing address and we will mail you a free copy of "The Gallery Of Light" as our way of saying THANK YOU AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!!

Here's a sample of the cover of this very successful book from 1994 and a link to check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/Gallery-Light-Billy-Lamont/dp/0963288105/ref=sr_1_1/002-9388168-9907242?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189489477&sr=8-1




Here's the cover and a link to Poet Billy Lamont's latest book of poems "strobe light generation" if you would like to purchase it:
http://www.amazon.com/Strobe-Light-Generation-Billy-Lamont/dp/0741423383




HERE'S THE COVER AND A LINK TO POET BILLY LAMONT'S LATEST CD "PAINKILLER" AVAILABLE AT CDBABY.COM.  WHEN YOU BUY A COPY A SECOND COPY IS AVAILABLE FOR A 40% DISCOUNT:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/billylamont




News Brief:  Thursday, August 30, 2007
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  "THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777"-
  FREE POET BILLY LAMONT BOOKS OF POETRY AVAILABLE FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE,  ORPHANS,  WIDOWS,  THOSE SICK IN HOSPITOLS OR IN JAIL

"The Other Perspective 777,  from my heart to yours,  I would like to give a number of my first book of poetry "The Gallery Of Light" books to homeless people,  orphans,  widows,  starving artists,  the sick in hospitols and those in jail nationally and internationally as a free gift.  All you need to do is send me a request with the person's or facility's name and address and the number of books requested to my address Billy Lamont,  P.O. Box 284, Northport, NY  11768 while the supply set aside lasts.  It's a simple gift to show the affection I feel for God for blessing me with the success He has blessed my poetry and life with and appeciation for the underdogs in society that have been within the essence of my inspiration from it's beginnings.  It is my prayer that my words can help bring hope and healing to whoever it touches, "  Billy Lamont said today.     

News Brief:  Thursday, August 9, 2007
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  "THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777"-
  POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM FREE SHOW IN A CAFE IN HIS HOMETOWN OF BABYLON, NY

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2007,  08:00 PM - Pisces Cafe 14 Railroad Ave. (directly across from Babylon train station), Babylon, New York 11702 - FREE

POET BILLY LAMONT will be performing a special 20 minute set accompanied by the artist WOLFIE as opening act for HIS MIGHTY ROBOT at the PISCES CAFE on FRIDAY, AUGUST 10th at 8:00 PM. PISCES CAFE is located in BILLY LAMONT'S childhood hometown of Babylon, NY and this show is FREE as a gift so all can attend!!!. Live The Other Perspective 777 ~

News Brief:  Saturday, July 29, 2007
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 "THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777"-
  WALK ON WATER VIDEO "A GAME OF CHESS WITH LOVE"- BILLY LAMONT 1988


"Billy Lamont at a train station at 4:20 AM in NY 4/07"
Photo By HARDCORE SHUTTERBUG


Poet Billy Lamont said, "As I mentioned on July 7th I will be releasing some video footage from my archives to youtube.com for you to check out and enjoy once a month.  The first video is from 1988 with a band I was in called Walk On Water and the video is entitled "A Game Of Chess With Love." 

Here's the link:
WALK ON WATER VIDEO- POET BILLY LAMONT 1988

Lamont continues,  "Walk On Water was an independent East Coast band I formed in New York when I was very young.  Walk On Water received national exposure when I appeared on the nationally syndicated "Religon And Rock" radio show in October 1988 and played Walk On Water music along with some of my inspirations.  "Religon And Rock" originated out of the classic rock radio station WBAB FM that I listened to growing up in my hometown of Babylon/North Babylon,  Long Island.  The video "A Game Of Chess With Love" followed on the heels of this success and aired on various NorthEast of the U.S. cable television shows in late 1988 and early 1989."

Lamont continues,  "When a friend from MTV liked the song and told me I could use  his professional video camera for one day and another friend who was an upcoming video Director/Editor from MTV said that he was interested in doing the video I dreamed up the idea.  I felt strongly to shoot the video on the same ground that there was a satanic ritual murder of a teenager in Northport, NY a few years before.  The ritual murder was a big national news story all over the media.  At the time of the murder I remember visiting this town several times and walking out on the pier and sharing my faith with people of the town.  When the opportunity came to me to do the 'A Game Of Chess With Love'  video I was living in East Northport and just thought 'I have to do this with Walk On Water on the same ground that this satanic ritual murder occurred and help show that the Spirit of God  and Jesus  and love is still alive and not just the spirit of death and satan and that Northport is such a beautiful town.'  I thought 'Why is bad news good news in the media?'  I think this video helped redeem that ground and helped restore some the dignity of that town.  Of course good news was not that big news and the video and my comments were only covered in local Long Island media." 

Lamont shares, "The 'A Game Of Chess With Love' song lyrics I wrote using chess as a metaphor for the games men and women play against each other in relationships carried over into the video script I wrote.  I thought then and still think now that it is such a shame that many times love relationships today are almost like business contracts where you better do this for me to do that for you instead of lovingly sacrificing for the other person in compromise to meet their needs.  Or worse yet destructive,  selfish power struggles can develop in love relationships."

Billy Lamont finishes, "Walk On Water was Mike Cruz on keyboards/background vocals,  Paul Dunkley on guitar/background vocals and Jeff Kozyra on drums.  I was the lead singer.  Mike Cruz and I are the most active band member of Walk On Water.  Mike Cruz now goes by the name M-Cruz and you can check out his latest project Upward Spiral at the following myspace.com link:  M-CRUZ MYSPACE.  The beautiful Debra,  my longtime significant other,  not sure if she is going by the last name of Amonick now or not,  was featured as the actress/model in the video.  Hope you enjoyed this chat.  See you soon.  Love and life to you"       

News Brief:  Saturday, July 28, 2007
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 "THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777"-
 
"PLEASE SUPPORT OUR FRIEND LARRY NORMAN WITH A DONATION FOR HIS EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE AND YOUR PRAYERS AT A CONCERT HE IS GIVING AT A CHURCH IN NEW YORK CITY
ON  THIS SATURDAY,   AUGUST 4TH.  I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING LARRY AND WILL BE THERE WITH MY DONATION OF $77 TO SOW A SEED OF HEALING.  HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. 
LIVE THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777." 

LARRY IS PLAYING A CONCET IN NEW YORK CITY

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Larry Norman Concert
August 4th @ 7 pm

Calvary Baptist Church
123 West 57th Street
New York City, NY 10019

Church Phone: (1) 212-975-0170

For information or questions contact:

Wayne Williams
email: wwilliams@star991fm.com
Phone: (1) 732 713 6874

MORE DETAILS:

LARRYNORMAN.COM

News Brief:  Saturday, July 7, 2007
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 "THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777"-
  THE NEXT PHASE IN POET BILLY LAMONT'S POETRY,  MUSIC AND LIFE

"Billy Lamont on top of Empire State Building, NY"
Photo By HARDCORE SHUTTERBUG


Poet Billy Lamont said today,  "In celebration of  July 7, 2007,  777,  God's holy numbers,  I would like to publicly rededicate my life and art to God and announce the next phase of my  poetry and music.  Welcome to  'The Other Perspective 777'!!!!!!!"

Lamont continued,  "As the first phase of 'The Other Perspective 777' I will be releasing a video to youtube.com from the first band I was in when I was a kid called Walk On Water and also choose a radio appearance from my archives to help share my roots with fans,  friends and those who don't understand me.  Then I will be releasing one video footage and one radio show from the archives once a month for the next year.  This may include some new podcasts.  I think this will be fun and will also help show the scope of my artwork career so far as well as mark this time for the great things coming in the near future."   

Lamont said,  "'The Other Perspective 777,' like my underground and above ground art has been in the past,  will feature and be for the well known as well as the unknown; to help give a voice to those without a voice.  For the poor,  the handicapped,  the widows,  the rejected,  the underdogs,   the peculiar people,  to help give hope to people,  to encourage dignity,  uphold the sacredness of life, exorcize demons, seek and share truth and beauty that will inspire visitors to live by love and help redeem ourselves and our world."

"As the second phase of The Other Perspective 777 I would like to give a number of my first book of poetry "The Gallery Of Light" books to homeless people,  orphans,  widows,  the sick in hospitols and those in jail as a free gift,"  Lamont said.   

According to Lamont,  "As phase 3 of The Other Persapective 777 I will be doing a soon to be announced live gig with the band His Mighty Robot in my hometown of Babylon/North Babylon for free.  That means everyone who wants to attend can."

Lamont concluded,  "See you soon.  It's two minutes to midnight.  Live The Other Perspective 777!"

News Brief:  July 6, 2007
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***CANCELED***
 "THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE 777"-
 POET BILLY LAMONT'S NEW RADIO SHOW WILL BEGIN BURNING UP THE NEW YORK AIRWAVES  ON  SATURDAY,   JULY 7,  2007
***CANCELED***  (Read Below- Press Release not released)

Poet Billy Lamont said,  "I would like to share with you that I have been privately praying and dreaming up a new radio show entitled "The Other Perspective 777"  for WLIX radio.   I heard the call to debut this show on July 7, 2007, a day that I consider to be holy and celebrates God's holy numbers 777. :)  However I have never received the telephone call to okay my pilot show and it is now early evening on July 6th. :(  Not sure what is happening but I am sure the radio station is very busy.  Unfortunately I was so excited about the show (I also desired to look after my personal life) that I left my entire summer open from tour dates nationally and so on starting at least a month ago,  so I could focus the little energy I have left,  after personal disasters,  into the radio show.  In short the vision for this show was to give a voice to the voiceless through spiritual,  postmodern music and also conversation to help inspire reformation in this area.  There is a spirit of religion,  rather than spirituality and relationship with Jesus,  in this region,  that I have been battling against for many years.  It manifests itself in bigotry towards artists,  intellectuals,  people that make music that aren't a part of certain church/Pastor conservative cliques or subculture.  People forget that for example Gospel music came from black slaves and that God is the creator and has empowered us to create all kinds of music.  Anyway God bless WLIX radio.  WLIX currently reaches 2.5  million homes on Long Island, New York.   Wish I had more exciting news.  This show was really cool.  I will be announcing some new News shortly.  Happy 4th of July 'Independence Day' everyone.  Thanks."   

 

News Brief:  June 14, 2007
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6/14/07 HEAR POET BILLY LAMONT'S LATEST CD "PAINKILLER" IN IT'S ENTIRETY LINK
Current mood: artistic
Category: Music

For a limited time you can hear Poet Billy Lamont's latest poetry with electronic music CD entitled "painkiller" in it's entirety at Mannequin Oddio Media.  Just click the following link http://www.mannequinoddio.com/main/ and click and play it on the record label's Oddio Player.  "painkiller" is a collaboration with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin. 

"painkiller can be purchased through the link below the CD cover graphic artwork on Billy Lamont's myspace.com main page.

Poet Billy Lamont with the amazing Hardcore Shutterbug on top of the Empire State Building for the Empire State Rocks event launching the Love Hope Strength Foundation for Cancer Research and victims.

News Brief:  June 11, 2007
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6/11/07 BILLY LAMONT APPEARS IN NEWLY RELEASED DANIEL FAZZINA BOOK "DIVINE INTERVENTION" Current mood: pleased Category: Religion and Philosophy *************************************************************** POET BILLY LAMONT GIVES TESTIMONY OF HIS FAITH IN JESUS IN NEWLY RELEASED "DIVINE INTERVENTION" BOOK Billy Lamont said,  "I am honored to give testimony of my faith in Jesus Christ and a miracle healing I received on Thanksgiving Day a bunch of years back in my good friend Daniel Fazzina's first book 'Divine Intervention.'  This book includes such a diversity of people from different cultures/subcultures and backgrounds sharing their stories including many people I am fortunate to call close friends like Mike "Wolfie" Van and Steven Delopoulos of Burlap To Cashmere and many others.  I recommend this book highly.  I can't put it down and have been reading it almost non-stop since I first received it a few days ago.  Fazzina is also the host of the "Divine Intervention" radio show on WLIX radio and will be giving a book signing for this book in Bethpage, NY on Friday.  To buy this amazing book see the Press Release below.  Thanks.  Love and Life to you." FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contact: Daniel Fazzina  dan10_12@hotmail.com    Everyday Miracles Pay Homage to Divine Providence  God's hand at work in the world, as evidenced by powerful personal testimonies    Middle Island, NY— Moses parted the Red Sea. Peter healed a man born lame. Jesus calmed a raging storm, healed paralytics, and drove demons out of people. The Bible contains some incredible stories of miracles and divine interventions, but are these types of events still happening today? The answer to this question, detailed in Daniel Fazzina's Divine Intervention: Amazing True Stories of God's Miracles Today—Volume I ($17.99, paperback, 978-1-60266-485-2), is an emphatic yes! Contained within the book is a collection of amazing true stories that attest to this fact. You will read astonishing firsthand accounts of people who have been healed of paralysis, brain tumors, and AIDS through prayer. You will read of a tsunami stopped in its tracks in the name of Jesus. You will witness the liberation of the demon-possessed and much more.    "The testimonies are true, amazing, and provide unmistakable evidence that God is still intervening in people's lives today, just as He did during the time the Bible was written," says Fazzina. "They are from people with diverse cultural and denominational backgrounds from all over the world who give glory to Jesus for their experiences."    The topic resonates with Fazzina on a personal level, too. More than four years ago, he was healed of a painful chronic back condition and a large cancerous tumor in his chest. The doctors said he could be dead within a matter of weeks, but God had other plans for him, and now he is "an ordinary man [who] can no longer deny there are miracles happening every day."    Daniel Fazzina's radio program, "The Divine Intervention Show," can be heard Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. EST on New York's WLIX or streaming over the Internet on www.wlixradio.com. He lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife, Sahani, and their pit bull terrier, Cynthia.    Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Divine Intervention through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors.    Click the link below to see the book photo and description and/or to order a copy:    http://www.xulonpress.com/book_detail.php?id=4269    or call 866.381-BOOK (2665)      "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."    Jim Elliot, American Missionary to South America, Martyred for his faith Jan, 8th, 1956.

News Brief:  June 6, 2007 *********************************************************************************************************** 6/6/07-POET BILLY LAMONT MY SPACE.COM PAGE HACKED/SPAM APOLOGIES Current mood: indescribable Hello everyone! Apologies from Poet Billy Lamont's My Space page!!!  We were hacked sometime last night with tacky ring tone spam being sent out.  The security issue is being addressed.  This page will never send out spam to our friends.  We value your friendship too much.  As a matter of fact it annoys me so much that I make sure those type of messages get deleted from the Comments section.  Apologies again. Be well. Love and life, Billy Lamont

News:  May 17, 2007
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POET BILLY LAMONT SHARES HIS FAITH ON WLIX'S "DIVINE INTERVENTIONS"
RADIO SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 7 PM. 

Billy Lamont said, "This is the most personal I have ever gotten in an interview talking about the origins of my faith and becoming a follower of Jesus Christ. I feel it is time to talk about this private part of my life in a public forum and wanted it to be with my friends Daniel and Sahani Fazzina on their wonderful new 'Divine Interventions' show." 
 
Lamont continues, "One of the many reasons I want to talk about this now is because of some lies/spiritual attacks upon me and my 6 year old son Zion and Jesus said in The Holy Bible that the way to overcome darkness and evil manipulations of this world is to take authority spiritually by the precious blood of Jesus and the word of your testimony." 
 
Lamont finishes, "In addition to this intimate interview with Daniel and Sahani Fazzina I have personally selected some of my poetry with music for this show. The songs I selected are not my best poetry, music or sound recordings but ones that fit the very personal content of the program and the conversation." 
 
WLIX is a new, relevant Christian radio station on Long Island that began on Ressurrection Day "Easter Sunday." WLIX is on the following FM stations in the Long Island areas: 101.5 in Nassau, 94.9 in Western Suffolk, 104.5 and 94.7 in Central Suffolk and 96.5 in Eastern Suffolk. It is one of the highest powered low power radio stations in the country. 
 
 
Divine Intervention Airs Sundays at 7PM on WLIX FM 
 
96.5 Manorville 
94.7 Ridge 
104.5 Selden 
94.9 Hauppague 
101.5 Plainview 

News:  May 16, 2007
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PREVIEW NEW MAYFAIRGRIN SONG FEATURING POET BILLY LAMONT

Poet Billy Lamont appears on a new song entitled "kirlian sunshine" that  will be on Mayfairgrin's upcoming CD release   entitled "This Delicate Confusion" on Mannequin Oddio Media.  You can preview "kirlian sunshine" as well as other Mayfairgrin songs at the following link:

"kirlian sunshine" Mayfairgrin [with Poet Billy Lamont]

Billy Lamont said,  "I really love this musical soundscape and what Andrew Latham has done with my recital of the poem 'circuit of silence" that was written for my longtime buddy DJ Circuit about our friendship and shared spiritual search.  I can't wait to hear the rest of the "This Delicate Confusion' CD when it is released."

News:  May 5, 2007
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POET BILLY LAMONT'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION
"EMPIRE STATE ROCKS" EVENT

Billy Lamont said,  "Mike Peters of The Alarm is one of the greatest, most important songwriters/performers in the history of rock and roll.  Mike is an even greater  person and real friend.  He is a beloved,  true brother.  Attending the 'Empire State Rocks' event at the Empire State building and after party at Terra Blues has moved and inspired me deeply like Mike's  music and friendship has for many years. 

Glory was in the air that day!  Like God himself was smiling through the storm clouds of the most intense rain storm and most severe NorEaster that has ever hit the New York area.  It felt like demonic principality's were being cast away and there thresholds were being broken in the New York area like never before.  With the first notes of Mike Peters singing The Alarm hit song "Strength" on top of New York's tallest building,  the Empire State Building,  it was apparent and sensed by me that a new day was dawning and has arrived filled with hope and healing.  It was only moments later that the mist and heavy clouds surrounding the observation deck would clear and you could see the amazing view from up there.

This Poet felt healing pulsating through his own boby and own being and spirit as I attended the event with the intention of  lending a hand to help serve Mike,  his family and his new foundation but I received much more than I gave.  As I was on the top of the Empire State Building looking out over New York City through clearing storm clouds I pondered my own misfortunes in the past months/years that have touched every area of my life.  Severe personal problems touching everthing I love and care/cared about- current health problems and ones that should have killed me in 2004,   financial destruction and every other kind of attack to me,  my family,  and my few possesions and humble living space.     

On the observation deck my thoughts went to a few hours earlier and experiencing a set of music from Burlap To Cashmere and Jars Of Clay at Irving Plaza which felt like church the night before.  After two hours of sleep I found myself showering off my new "Sage" sort of electronic music/gothic haircut/make-up look that I have created,  that I was wearing,  and realized was not being appreciated by the crowd at Irving Plaza,  other than more creative, model/fashion types and was better off being worn for my next CD photo shoot.  I then found myself getting on a 4:22 AM train to the Empire State Building with the brilliant photographer and friend Hardcore Shutterbug who ended up documenting the entire day with his wonderful photographs.

In my leather jacket pocket,  close to my heart,  I had brought a picture of the two Vigiano brothers John and Joe,  a Fireman and a Policeman both lost on Septenber 11th, 2001 that are friends of my family and grew up not too far from where I did.  I glanced at it privately remembering September 11th as I struggled to see beyond the thick,  rainy, storm clouds that were blocking a  more clear view of my beloved Manhattan and it's people.

As cancer survivors James Chippendale began to speak and Mike Peters ripped into a few tremendous songs with his amazing band that included Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats,  Billy Duffy of The Cult and Dave Wakeling of The English Beat and General Public,  hope and faith began to arise within me witnessing this glorious moment.  I have to note that meeting Dave Wakeling and chatting with him at the after party about an organization that he helped start called 'Smile' to help people with clefted pallets was a real memorable highlight for me as well.

A little while later when I took a quick walk out onto the observation deck,  as the clouds were clearing, and the wind and rain were becoming less,  I took in a view of my beloved New York City.  The perspective was vast for me.  My thoughts went to the opening lines of my latest poetry with electronic music CD  "painkiller" on Mannequin Odidio Media.  I recite about how 'it's like I was an eagle,  spreading these huge wings and living on a mountaintop.....but it's like my wings were chopped off and my bones were smashed with a hammer until I fit into your shadow box,  like a relic...but I still remember the view from up there.......and I know I will soar the Heavens again.'  And I relalized healing was in the air for me just like my friend Mike Peters.  Thank you God for your amazing grace.  And thank you Mike Peters for being a hope filled inspiration,  a living example of things I have yet to become.  For being a true friend.  And for helping me to realize that I have begun to soar the Heavens again!!!!!!!"      

  

See Press Release and website links below!

MIKE PETERS- LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION- WEBSITE
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING ROCKS EVENT!!!

   

 

We wish we could have posted some of HARDCORE SHUTTERBUG's amazing photo's from this inspiring, hope filled event but are having technical troubles with this website.  So we would like to invite you to visit the following link to view them:

EMPIRE STATE ROCKS EVENT AND AFTER PARTY PHOTO'S

News:  May 1, 2007
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BILLY LAMONT.COM WEBSITE OFFLINE UNTIL TODAY DUE TO MORE VIEWS THAN
HOSTING COMPANY CAN HANDLE

Thank you to the many visitors to this website that continue to make it a success!!!

The official Billy Lamont website:  billylamont.com was closed down for the last few days of the month again in April.  This has been happening in the last days of the month in the past months and is due to having more views/hits to the website than the hosting company can handle with our current plan.  We are excited to have so many visitors and appreciate you all and your patience.  We have desired to create a new website the last few years for billylamont.com and all of our attempts have failed and our budget cannot include upgrading with the hosting company at this time but are hopeful for the future!    

Billy Lamont sends his love and has promised to do another News update this past weekend but could not due to this reason and also being sick with a high fever then.  So he sends his apologies with a message that he will do this in the next coming days.

News:  April 28, 2007
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THE ALARM "EMPIRE STATE BUILDING ROCKS" EVENT WITH BILLY LAMONT PHOTO'S !!!!!!!

"Empire State Rocks" event for Love Hope Strength Hope Foundation and After Party  photographs by the brilliant HARDCORE SHUTTERBUG!!!  The Love Hope Strength Foundation was co-founded by Mike Peters of The Alarm for cancer victims and research.  The event held at the Empire State building included a performance by Mike Peters of The Alarm with Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats,  Billy Duffy of The Cult and Dave Wakeling of The English Beat and General Public fame on the observation deck.  HARDCORE SHUTTERBUG took quite a few amazing photographs of Billy Lamont who attended the event to lend his support.  Billy Lamont's comments about the event will be posted later this weekend.  

EMPIRE STATE ROCKS EVENT AND AFTER PARTY PHOTO'S

News:  April 27, 2007
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  NEW POET BILLY LAMONT VIDEO RECORDED BY THE COLONEL IN A CAFE ON PALM SUNDAY !!!!!!!

NEW POET BILLY LAMONT VIDEO "ARE YOU MY WITNESS" TAPED AT A CAFE ON PALM SUNDAY 2007 WITH BILL POULOS ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND HARMONICA ACCOMPANIMET POSTED ON YOUTUBE.COM.  THIS IS PART OF A DEMO AND THGE BEGINNINGS OF A "HEDGE OF THORNS" PROJECT.  IT CAN BE VIEWED BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW.  THIS IS COMPLIMENTS OF COL. SCOTT PERRY- DIRECTOR/FILM/VIDEOMAKER.

THANKS COLONEL!!! 

HERE'S THE YOUTUBE.COM LINK.  ENJOY! 

"ARE YOU MY WITNESS" POET BILLY LAMONT VIDEO

News:  April 25, 2007
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BONO TO DISCUSS "THE ONE CAMPAIGN"  ON AMERICAN IDOL TONIGHT!!!!!!!

American Idol Africa Special: 'Idol Gives Back' Bono is due to meet with the six remaining finalists to talk with them about the work of ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History and how they and the show's audience can help in the fight against extreme poverty. The 'Idol Gives Back' special will run over two nights in the US this week, Tuesday and Wednesday. Bono's chat with the finalists will feature briefly on the Wednesday evening show. The special will raise money for Charity Projects Entertainment Fund (CPEF) and other organisations that help children and young people in extreme poverty. Further information at one.org

~From the U2.com website~

News:  April 14, 2007
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO ATTEND MIKE PETERS' "EMPIRE ROCKS" EVENT ON MONDAY, APRIL 16TH IN SUPPORT OF HIS NEW LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH CANCER

See Press Release and website links below!

MIKE PETERS- LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION- WEBSITE
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING ROCKS EVENT!!!

Billy Lamont said,  "I will be attending this event 'Empire Rocks' at the Empire State Building for a foundation Mike Peters of The Alarm has formed called Love Hope Strength Foundation and also the party/concert that night.  I believe what Mike Peters is doing very deeply. I love this guy and rock and roll at it's finest!!!"

Lamont adds very seriously, "In brotherhood I will be carrying a picture of John and Joe Vigiano in my pocket remembering my families friend Mr. Vigiano,  from Deer Park,  Long Island's two son's lost on Septembet 11th.  John was a Firefighter and Joe was a Policeman.  There is hope and this is a new day with a new view.  A van gogh morning!   I will also be thinking of the workers at ground zero,  that have gotten cancer and died,  or are ill now from their labor of love at fround zero in 2001 and 2002.  And the families of the victims of September 11th,  that may have gotten some help from New York City Fire Department and New York City Police,  but where has other charitable money raised through organizations and concerts gone?  Down the rat hole of bueauracracy?  Certainly not with the families of the victims who desparately need it.  I'll tell you one thing with Mike Peters Organization the money will get to research and people who need it with the accountability and transparency that should be in place with other organizations and government groups."        

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PRESS RELEASE

Monday April 16th Empire State Building Rocks! - New York City

 

On April 16th, cancer survivor and co founder of the Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHSF), Mike Peters, of the Welsh rock band The Alarm, will lead a group of 20 made up of Everest trekkers, cancer survivors and invited friends up the 1576 steps to the observation deck. Mike and the band will then perform a short acoustic set to announce the LHSF taking the battle against cancer to new heights; first, the Empire State Building; next, Mount Everest.

 

The Band:

Mike Peters (The Alarm) Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats), Billy Duffy (The Cult), Dave Wakeling (English Beat)  Little Steven (pending) (Bruce Springsteen / E Street Band / Sopranos)

 

Invited Politicians: Congressman Brian Higgins, NJ Congressman Steve Rothman, Assemblyman Neil Cohen,  Elizabeth Genievich - Dep. Union County NJ Manager, formerly with Governor Cuomo and C.O.S. Tony Burgos, Trish Riccio - President of NJ Citizens Coalition for Cures

 

Included during the event:

• CONGRESSMAN Brian Higgins announcing his support for the foundation and his efforts in congress to restore cuts in cancer research and prevention. His initiative via The American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health Cancer Research Program has established a 2015 campaign aimed at eliminating human suffering and death from cancer by 2015. This should be America’s goal and as a nation, we should demand a massive federal investment to cure cancer in our lifetime
• THE NORTH FACE presenting Artists / Trekkers with their Everest trekking gear
• GIBSON GUITARS presenting the special Everest Rocks guitar to the musicians for the Mt. Everest base camp concert   
• ANNOUNCEMENT by Union County NJ Officials of LHSF as the official charity for Union County Music Fest '07
• ANNOUNCEMENT of Eric Orton has our official Everest trekkers training partner
• ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF THE SONG LOVE HOPE STRENGTH by Empire Rocks artists
• PRODUCER Tony Visconti (David Bowie, Moody Blues, T Rex ) will record/mix the Observation Deck Performance
• POST EVENT RECEPTION / PHOTO CALL / Q&A 75th Floor
• ESB Observation Deck Performance Uploaded onto iTunes for immediate download.
• EVENING CONCERT- Location to be announced

 

Promotions:

 

MTV’s Alex Coletti (Producer and creator of the “Unplugged” series): filming and co producing the days events 

BBC UK: filming for inclusion in a prime time documentary showing in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia

iTunes / Apple: broadcasting an immediate worldwide download of the song recorded during the observation deck performance

Public Relations: John Reilly, of the worlds leading entertainment PR firm Rogers and Cowen is coordinating all press and media

 

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING ROCKS TIMELINE (subject to change)

 

06.00    SET UP AT ESB OBSERVATION DECK 

            place sponsor banners / rope off performance area /set sound recording equipment

07.00   OFFICIAL RECEPTION AT BOTTOM OF ESB

            photo call for media / celebrities / dignitaries / sponsors

08.00   SPONORED WALK / LEAD OFF

            to be filmed by LHS Crew / General Media

08.15   MEDIA / DIGNITARIES / SPONSORS TO OBSERVATION DECK

08.30   FILM CREW TO CAPTURE WALK AT HALF WAY POINT

09.00   OBSERVATION DECK : LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION

            Everest Rocks announcements

09.05   THE NORTH FACE

            Present Artists / Trekkers with their Everest equipment

09.10   GIBSON GUITARS

            Present special guitar to musicians for trek to Everest

09.20   ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF THE SONG LOVE HOPE STRENGTH

             by Empire State Rocks   artists

09.30   VACATE OBSERVATION DECK

10.00   POST EVENT RECEPTION/PHOTO OP/Q&A AT 75th Floor of ESB

11.00   ESB Observation Deck Performance Uploaded onto iTunes.

08.00   Concert - Location tba

News:  April 13, 2007
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BILLY LAMONT TO ATTEND JARS OF CLAY/BURLAP TO CASHMERE SHOW AT  IRVING PLAZA ON SUNDAY

Poet Billy Lamont would like to invite you to a concert he is very excited about attending this Sunday, April, 15th.  It is two of his favorite bands- Burlap To Cashmere opening for Jars Of Clay at Irving Plaza by Union Square in New York City.

Lamont said,  "I will be attending this amazing show and hope to see you there!  Please be very safe- but don't let the Nor' Easter storm hitting the area earlier in the day cause you to miss this one!!!   

News:  April 12, 2007
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A NEW POET BILLY LAMONT SONG "THE POWER TO DREAM" IS NOW POSTED ON MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA'S MYSPACE.COM PAGE

New Poet Billy Lamont electronic music song collaboration entitled "the power to dream" with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin from the "PAINKILLER" CD is now posted on MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA MYSPACE.COM. 
Enjoy!!!  Let us know what you think.
Click link below.  You can check out the other amazing Mannequin Oddio Media artist's while you are visiting the site!

MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA ON MYSPACE.COM

Mannequin Oddio Media- website link-

For news you can also visit www.billylamont.com often.

News:  April 10, 2007
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 NEW MAJOR CHRISTIAN RADIO STATION WLIX IN NY ADDS POET BILLY LAMONT MUSIC TO PLAYIST

The new major Christian radio station on Long Island in New York has added Poet Billy Lamont's  music catalog to their  server and playlists to air in regular rotation according to station owner and radio personality Scotty Hart and "Divine Intervention" show host Daniel Fazzna.

Billy Lamont said, "I was talking to Scotty Hart and Daniel Fazzina the other night.  Scotty Hart is a major radio personality on big FM/AM stations for as long as I can remember with one of these great radio voices.  Scotty is also a long time friend.  He is punk rock in attitude and started a radio station transmitting out of a tree in the front yard of his house.  Now this station WLIX has grown and grown with larger and larger transmission.  When I was chatting with Scotty the other day he mentioned how much he loved my poetry and music CD's and that Daniel Fazzina and himself were ingesting my CD catalog into WLIX's server for regular rotation at the station.  This is great news to me because my music tends to get played sporadically around the country nationally and internationally on college radio shows and on various other stray broadcasts, occasionally major but most of the time I am played far and few between and very rarely regularly.  So I am very grateful for this.  Pastor Richard Andersen is running WLIX programming so this gives me the opportunity to be played at a moments notice at Pastor Andersen's discretion.  Great news!!!

Lamont concluded, "Daniel Fazzina's first "Divine Intervention" radio show on Sunday night's at 7 PM beginning on Easter had an amazing interview with the world famous wrestler known as the Million Dollar Man.  I recommend it highly." 

Poet Billy Lamont's new CD "painkiller,"  as well as "with the peculiar people" and "into the 21st century" are added to the WLIX playlist.  "Painkiller was released through the cool electro/ambient/industrial label Mannequin Oddio Media.  Lamont gave Mannequin Oddio Media recording artists Mayfairgrin CD to WLIX for ingesting featuring the track "American Tabula" and looks forward to including other Mannequin Oddio artists as well.

You can check out Mannequin Oddio Media recording artists and purchase Poet Billy Lamont's "Painkiller" CD here:

MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA ON MYSPACE.COM
MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA WEBSITE
POET BILLY LAMONT ON MYSPACE.COM

News:  March 25, 2007
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 THE LAUNCH OF MAJOR CHRISTIAN RADIO STATION WLIX ON EASTER AND BILLY LAMONT

At his Palm Sunday cafe gig Poet Billy Lamont announced a new Christian radio station on Long Island beginning on Resurection Day,  Easter Sunday at 12 Noon and shared how he helped bring together the main players in the launch of this station.  WLIX will be on the following FM stations in the following Long Island areas:   101.5 in Nassau,  94.9 in Werstern Suffolk,  104.5 and 94.7 in Central Suffolk and 96.5 in Eastern Suffolk.

Lamont said, "New York has alway been a wasteland for relevant,  modern,  artistic Christian music on the radio and also for Christian television.  So one day in late September/early October I invited two friends out to brunch as my guests feeling to bring them together so perhaps they could discuss televison and radio on Long Island and nationally.  One is a Pastor named Richard Andersen that has goals to bring a new Christian television Network nationally from it's base on Long Island and the other a former Vice President of Cablevision that owns a really cool alternative music station that is one of my favorites named WLIX on Long Island.  We call it Radio X.  This radio station actually started transmitting out of my friend Scotty Hart's tree in his front yard in Ridge.  All kinds of transformers and transmission licenses have been attained to make it one one of the highest powered, low power station's in the country."

Lamont continued,  "I almost canceled taking them out to brunch that day because I was being threatened the previous night by someone,  who was supposed to be close to me,  that said they were going to destroy all of my few possessions and drag the mattress i sleep on down the street that night as i was not at home and working through the night.  So the next morning even though this particular threat was not inflicted upon me I was feeling upset emotionally and tied up into a knot on the inside and was going to cancel the meeting that I set up.  I felt really strongly not to cancel that brunch meeting and couldn't shake the feeling that I should be there so I dragged myself to the meeting at the diner.  I'm really glad I went now because this meeting and also another one,  between major radio personality Scotty Hart and Richard Andersen,  became the basis of this new major Christian radio station on Long Island.  There hasn't been a major Christian radio station on Long Island since one called WLIX,  that closed down 12 years ago,  coincidentally having the same call letters of Radio X- WLIX.   Sure feels like God has passed through the room and got around my human frailties and the drama that has attacked my life. :)"

Lamont added, "I was in a really bad mood that day with major life events coming crashing down all around me and lots of abuse continuing to be directed towards me so I remember this making  me a bit edgy in a respectful way.  I remember saying to the Pastor who will now be in charge of programming that it would be cool to have a station for genuine followers of Jesus and it would be nice if it played non-bubble gum Christian music.  You know music  that doesn't speak anything real into anyone's life and has no artistic merit.  I said something like enough of the cheeze whiz.  Why can't bands like U2 be played along side Jars of Clay,  Burlap To Cashmere,  The Alarm,  Bob Dylan,  Larry Norman,  POD,  Switchfoot or the great bands I played with at the Cornerstone Festival these last few years be played in New York?  I also raised the question that in addition to some artistic integrity,  not to be judgemental,  but why can't preachers that are obviously frauds not be given air time to prey on people instead of praying for them just because they have money to go on the air.  I know this is a business but it's time for a new, greater, Holy Spirit to sweep this area of New York!  I am usually more polite than this so I think my circumstances may have helped me to speak my mind,  which I am glad I did,  and that WLIX is calling itself Long Islands's New Voice Of Hope."

Lamont concludes, "I am excited to see how this all turns out.  I am going to help sponsor a buddy of mine's first show on WLIX.  I don't have too much money these days but I want to sow a seed into the show my friend Daniel Fazzina is beginning entitled "The Divine Intervention Show.  This show is an original production that will be a one hour weekly interview show that will feature people who have experienced God's miracles and divine interventions in amazing ways and who will share their testimonies.  This show will air at 7PM on Sundays,  beginning Easter Sunday,  April 8th. 

May God bless anyone reading this on Ressurection/ Easter Sunday and always.  Also my prayer that WLIX will be blessed.  Jesus is alive! "      
     

News:  March 25, 2007
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM AT A CAFE ON PALM SUNDAY

Poet Billy Lamont will be performing an intimate poetry with acoustic guitar music set on Palm Sunday, April 1st at Cafe Portofino in Northport, Long Island, New York at 2:30-3:30 PM.

Lamont said, "I will be accompanied by collaborator/friend Bill Poulos on guitar and will be sharing some of my most religious poem songs of deep faith to remember and celebrate Passover and Palm Sunday.  Most of the performance pieces are from a new demo recording we made for a "Hedge Of Thorns" project.   The cafe is a very  small, living room type atmosphere and the performance is for free.  My performances don't get anymore intimate and personal than this one.  Hope to see you there.  Happy Easter/Passover everyone."

Cafe Portofino is located at 249 Main Street,  Northport, NY 11768.  Telephone 631-262-7656.
Directions:  Take the Long Island Expressway (495) to exit 51 North (RT. 231/Deer Park Ave. North.)  Proceed North for about 5 minutes and when you pass the Northern State Parkway you will see a blinking light and a fire house.  Folk right at that blinking light and follow that road until it ends (Dix Hills Diner will be on your left.)  Make a right (East) onto RT 25/Jericho Turnpike which is a major road and get to your left as soon as possible because you will need to make a left at the following light after a gas station and before a Blockbuster video store) onto Larkfield Road.  You will take Larkfield road for 10 minutes going North (toward the north shore over railroad tracks, then a major intersection which is Rt. 25 A; you are getting close but keep going North.,)  Soon after this the road you are on will end and folk right into another one.  Continue straight until you hit Main Street 2 minutes later with a church on your left and on the right.  Turn left on to Main Street.  You are now heading into Northport town heading toward the North shore bay in this beautiful,  quiet nautical town where the beats Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg used to hang out.  Kerouac spent many of his last days here because his Mom had a house here.  Cafe Portofino is on your right hand side #249 Main Street before you enter town,  across from a theater and the Post Office. 

News:  March 23, 2007
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A NEW POET BILLY LAMONT SONG "SHADOWBOX" IS NOW POSTED ON HIS MYSPACE.COM PAGE

New Poet Billy Lamont electronic music song collaboration entitled "shadow box" with Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin from the "PAINKILLER" CD posted on MYSPACE.COM.  Enjoy!!!  Let us know what you think.

POET BILLY LAMONT ON MYSPACE.COM

Poet Billy Lamont will also be journaling/blogging at least one a month on myspace.com in the near future.  For news you can also visit billylamont.com often.

News:  March 7, 2007
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THE NEW POET BILLY LAMONT CD "PAINKILLER" CAN BE PURCHASED THROUGH MYSPACE.COM

MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA ON MYSPACE.COM
MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA WEBSITE
POET BILLY LAMONT ON MYSPACE.COM

While you are visiting the Mannequin Oddio Media myspace.com and website Poet Billy Lamont would like to invite you to check out the other  wonderful artists' on the Mannequin Oddio  Media  record label.

News:  February 23, 2007
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NEW POET BILLY LAMONT VIDEO FOOTAGE FROM 1992 POSTED ON YOUTUBE.COM

A talented and accomplished mystery Director/Editor uploaded some of his vintage  "Uncle Paulie TV" footage of Poet Billy Lamont from his vaults a few days ago.  The piece entitled "The Poet- Billy Lamont" was shot and edited in 1992 from a live performance Lamont gave.  "Uncle Paulie TV" were video experiments from the 80's and 90's that the mystery Director shot with an inexpensive,  low budget VHS camera. 

Lamont says,  "You should check out some of the very funny and offbeat "Uncle Paulie TV" videos on youtube.com,  especially the Bag Head series that was featured on ABC-TV in 1994."   

Check out the video link below.  While you are there you are invited to check out some of Lamont's other videos on youtube.com:

UNCLE PAULIE TV- "THE POET: BILLY LAMONT" 1992

News:  January 2, 2007
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 BILLY LAMONT'S POETRY RECITAL A GREAT SUCCESS AT ST. MARKS POETRY PROJECT 
"33RD ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S DAY POETRY MARATHON READING"

We are excited to share that Poet Billy Lamont's poetry recital at the 33rd Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading
at St. Marks Poetry Project at St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery at 4:45 PM was a great success.   Many of the hundreds/thousand fans attending which also included reknowned poets,  composers,  musicians,  writers  and  St. Marks Poetry Project Board Member's shared how Lamont's performance was their favorite or amongst their favorites of the night.  Statements like the following were shared with us/Lamont,  "Billy Lamont was mesmerizing ,"  "Lamont grabbed the attention of every person in the room and had them  fascinated,  laughing  and  then  feeling his passion all within a short amount of time,"  "Billy Lamont was fantastic.  He was the highlight of the marathon for me this year,"  and  "Lamont's poetry and performance innovation was evident in a big way today."

Billy Lamont said,  "What a  New Years Day!   The attention is all so humbling and exciting at the same time.  Really unexpected actually  because I winged/improved most of my reading because my personal life didn't allow me time to prepare and also feeling sick with a cold.  Also unexpected because it has taken me a long time to be included in the event after attending the marathon for so many years.  Deep down I knew I had something to contribute but I am such a fan of the other artists like Patti Smith, Jim Carroll,  Lenny Kaye,  Bob Holman and so many others that it is larger than life for me to receive this love at this time.  So I was blown away that I was on the same bill as so many greats and I actually performed 5 minutes before the great composer Philip Glass played a beautiful,  peaceful piano piece for the New Year.  A big thank you to the St. Marks Poetry Project and a happy and blessed New Year to everyone!"    

News:  December 12, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO RECITE AT THE 33RD ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S DAY POETRY MARATHON READING
AT ST. MARKS CHURCH-IN-THE-BOWERY,  NY CITY

Poet Billy Lamont will be reciting at the 33rd Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading
at St. Marks Poetry Project at St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery at 2PM-2AM on Monday, January 1, 2007.

Lamont said, "I can't even begin to express how honored I am to be invited to recite at the New Year's Day Reading.  I have attended this marathon as a tradition with some of my friends every year,  except one or two,  since about 1988.  I have seen some of my greatest influences recite here including the late Allen Ginsberg,  the great Patti Smith and Jim Carroll as well as the great composer Philip Glass play piano for us." 

Lamont added,  "Patti Smith,  Jim Carroll,  Bob Holman,  Taylor Mead,  Regie Cabico, Hal Sirowitz, Eric Bogosian,  Edwin Torres and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth will be reciting this year among many others.  It's a cool way to chill out with some good poetry and reflect on the new year on New Years's Day.  I hope to see you there and that you have a very happy Christmas and holidays and a blessed New Year."

St. Marks Church is located on the corner of East 10th Street and 2nd Ave.
The full Poetry Marathon lineup is:    

Douglas Dunn, John Coletti, Erica Kaufman, Jenny Smith, Dael Orlandersmith, Edwin Torres, Christopher Martin, Anne Tardos, Rebecca Moore, Nina Karacosta, Bob Hershon, Filip Marinovic, Wanda Phipps, Shanxing Wang, John Giorno, Jen Benka, Tim Peterson, Michael Scharf, R. Erica Doyle, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Duriel Harris, Simone White, Joanna Fuhrman, Frank Sherlock, Todd Colby, Ed Friedman, Eliot Katz, Michael Cirelli, Steve Earle, Chris Rael, Joshua Clover, Lenny Kaye, Lytle Shaw, Donna Brook, Dale Sherrard, Murat Nemet-Nejat, John S. Hall, Eve Packer, Steven Hall, Brenda Bordofsky, CA Conrad, Patti Smith, Maggie Dubris, Evan Kennedy, Susan Briante, Simon Pettet, Merry Fortune, Nathaniel Siegel, Rodrigo Toscano, Stephanie Gray, Dan Machlin, Stacy Szymaszek, Anselm Berrigan, Stefania Iryne Marthakis, Elinor Nauen, David Cameron, David Vogen, Urayoan Noel, Patricia Spears Jones, Carol Mirakove, Farid Matuk, Tracie Morris, Barbara Blatner, Elliott Sharp, Tisa Bryant, Jim Carroll, Brenda Coultas, Mónica de la Torre, Kimiko Hahn, Tony Hoffman, Amy King, Rachel Levitsky, Eileen Myles, Lee Ranaldo, Gillian McCain, Erika Recordon, Evelyn Reilly, Keith Roach, Renato Rosaldo, Lauren Russell, Brian Kim Stefans, Anne Waldman, Brendan Lorber, John Sinclair, Christopher Stackhouse, Dustin Williamson, Marisol Limon Martinez, Lourdes Vazquez, Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov, Bruce Weber, Tony Towle, Janet Hamill, Billy Lamont, Jeffrey Jullich, Vicki Hudspith, Michael Lydon and Ellen Mandel, Guillermo Castro, Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan, Peter Bushyeager, Cliff Fyman, Samantha Barrow, Kimberly Lyons, Arlo Quint, Regie Cabico, Ted Greenwald, Bill Kushner, Susan Landers, Bob Rosenthal, Thomas Savage, Harris Schiff, Jacqueline Waters, Max Blagg, Taylor Mead, Jim Behrle, Nicole Blackman, Tao Lin, Eric Bogosian, Robert Dunn, Mitch Highfill, Kazim Ali, Adeena Karasick, Edmund Berrigan, Jess Fiorini, Greg Fuchs, MacGregor Card, Drew Gardner, Bob Holman, Martha Oatis, Tonya Foster, Marcella Durand, Steve Cannon, Adam DeGraff, Karen Weiser, Prageeta Sharma, Yoshiko Chuma, Stephen Paul Miller, David Henderson, Jim Neu, Jordan Davis, Emily XYZ, Bill Berkson, Rich O'Russa, Sharon Mesmer, Don Yorty, Citizan Reno, Hal Sirowitz, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle and more names to be announced as we receive them!

You can check out the following link for St. Mark Poetry Project:
St. Marks Church Poetry Project

News:  December 11, 2006
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  BILLY LAMONT ATTENDING NEWS 12 LONG ISLAND 20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY TONIGHT

Poet Billy Lamont will be attending News 12 Long Island's 20th Anniversary Party tonight at The Carlyle on the Green in Bethpage State Park.  Lamont has been interviewed and performed on News 12 LI through the years including on the 4th of July in 1994 just prior to his first Lollapalooza tour,  on Valentine's Day in 1998 and just before his Lollapalooza tour dates in 2003.  The 20th Anniversary event will be hosted by Pat Dolan and Chuck Dolan of Cablevision and will include many Television News greats.

"It will be great to see my many friends at News 12 Long Island once again and wish the network a very,  happy anniversary.   It's really good for Long Island to have a News 12 representing the community.  People forget that Long Island,  although only being a very small part of New York has a very large population and could be a very large State's population and News 12 is representing that community when many times the Manhattan nws units overlook this area.  The head of News 12 Pat Dolan and founder of Cablevision Chuck Dolan have always been very good to me and I am grateful.  Chuck Dolan even sent me a letter one time saying how much he enjoys my poetry!"  Billy Lamont said.       

You can check out a News 12 link here:
NEWS 12 LONG ISLAND

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News Brief:  December 5, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT LIVE RADIO APPEARANCE ON HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY RADIO WRHU FM
AND INTIMATE SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE AT VILLAGE BOOKSHOP WITH "HIS MIGHTY ROBOT"

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RADIO APPEARANCE!!!

***Thursday,  December 7, 2006-  "Calliopes Corner" AT 4:00-4:30 PM
WRHU 88.7 FM on Long Island in New York. 
wrhu.org streaming live on the world wide web:
WRHU RADIO HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY STREAMING LIVE LINK

Poet Billy Lamont will be previewing tracks from his newly released CD "painkiller" on
Mannequin Oddio Media as a guest of DJ/Poet Paula Cerci on "Calliope's Corner: The Place Where Poet's And Songwriters Meet."

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FOR THE HOLIDAYS YOU CAN BUY-
Poet Billy Lamont's latest poetry with electronic music CD "PAINKILLER"at the following link: 
BUY "PAINKILLER" CD
and/or Billy Lamont's latest book of poems entitled "strobe light generation" at the following link:
BUY "STROBE LIGHT GENERATION" BOOK OF POEMS

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LIVE AT AN INDEPENDENT BOOK SHOP!!!

***Friday,  December 8, 2006-  Village Bookshoppe, 7N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre, NY 11570. 8PM- Cost: FREE!!! Poet Billy Lamont will be performing a set of spoken word at this small independent bookstore as opening act for His Might Robot!!!
HIS MIGHTY ROBOT

His Mighty Robot says, "This is a very local and very FREE all ages show. Stripped down,  up close and personal set. We will be playing in a small second hand bookstore using no electricity...very grassroots, which is something we don't get to do too much but love. If you need more info. give them a buzz at 1-516-764-1395--Hope 2 c u!! Also playing will be Poet Billy Lamont and Indie band Vehicles Of Light.   8:15-Billy Lamont 8:45-Vehicles Of Light 9:15-HMR"

 News Brief:  November 10, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT LIVE RADIO APPEARANCE ON HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY RADIO
AND CD LISTENING PARTY AT THE NITE CLUB "SUBCULTURE" NEXT WEEK!!!

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RADIO APPEARANCE!!!

***Thursday,  November 16, 2006-  "Calliopes Corner" AT 4:00-4:30 PM
WRHU 88.7 FM on Long Island in New York. 
wrhu.org streaming live on the world wide web:
WRHU RADIO HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY STREAMING LIVE LINK

Poet Billy Lamont will be previewing tracks from his newly released CD "painkiller" on
Mannequin Oddio Media as a guest of DJ/Poet Paula Cerci on "Calliope's Corner: The Place Where Poet's And Songwriters Meet."

POET BILLY LAMONT'S LISTENING PARTY FOR NEW CD AT SUBCULTURE!!!

***Friday,  November 17, 2006-  Subculture-  8:30-10 PM.  Subculture is located in the Molly Blooms II club on Friday nights at 140 Merrick Road, Amityville,  NY on the corner of Route 110.
Cost: FREE!!!  "Painkiller" CD can be purchased here! BUY POET BILLY LAMONT CD HERE.

Listen to Poet Billy Lamont's newly released ambient/dance electronic music CD "Painkiller" on the powerful Subculture house system.  The CD duration is 72 minutes and will be played in it's entirety- So hang out,  have a drink and party with Poet Billy Lamont and dance,  dance ,  dance!!!  At 10 PM DJ Cody will be spinning the best in 80's New Wave and today's electronic music. 
 SUBCULTURE- Friday Night ALternative Dance Party, Amityville, Long Island
Subculture telephone- 516-322-2698.


News Brief:  October 27,  2006
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EXCITING NEWS: POET BILLY LAMONT'S NEW CD "PAINKILLER" IS BACK IN STOCK AND WITH NEW MUSIC!!!

  "I am proud to announce that the new Poet Billy Lamont CD "painkiller" on Mannequin Oddio Media is back in stock  and available at the following link for $12.50,"  Billy Lamont said.

*BUY HERE* BILLY LAMONT "PAINKILLER" CD

Billy Lamont added,  "There is also additonal music added too and the effect is a more seamless,  cinematic,  electronic music journey!  Part of the reason for the delay is that Andrew Latham from Mayfairgrin was remixing some of the CD "painkiller" and adding 10 minutes of new music.  It now runs 72 minutes and is through the roof.  No ceiling on this one!  I am very proud of it and to have worked with my collaborators Luke Haughwout from Heart Of Darkness and Andrew Latham from Mayfairgrin and Mannequin Oddio Media on this masterpiece."

Lamont said,  "My apologies to those who have written to me frustrated about not being able to get this CD sooner.  I am planning some cool things to give this release the bang it deserves and will be making some further announcements in the coming days.  I know this CD has sort of trickled out.  Here's what happened,  first there were a handful of promotional copies available for my Cornerstone Festival performance on July 4th and they were gone really quickly and then it was announced that it was released August 1st at Mannequin Oddio Media but because of delays in production copies weren't available for another month on September 1st at CD Baby through Mannequin Oddio Media's store.  I am very thankful that those copies sold out very quickly so when that happened in mid-September I talked with the Mannequin Oddio label and we decided that it would be a good time to make some changes to the CD that we desired to do with remixing it.  Originally this CD had been made very quickly in about three weeks by three guys in three different locations,  different states of the US actually so it is really an amazing accomplishment creatively and technically even with some slight delays.  So my apologies for all the delays but I think the changes have taken the CD to new heights and it is also selling for a cheaper price which is always a nice bonus.  I think when you hear it you will feel it has been worth the wait!  Thank you for your support all those in my family of friends."

Mannequin Oddio Media

 

Billy Lamont Official Website:  http://billylamont.com/ 

Billy Lamont Official Myspace.com:  http://www.myspace.com/poetbillylamont

News Brief:  October 16, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT ON SEVERAL MAJOR TELEVISION NETWORK'S NEWS  SHOWS LAST NIGHT FROM CBGB'S IN NEW YORK AND OTHER NEWS

Poet Billy Lamont appeared in several major television network news stories last night about the legendary CBGB's closing it's doors after the final Patti Smith concert.   Lamont could be seen hanging out with and having fun joking with early punk singer and pioneer Jism,  from the band Ism,  as Jism was being interviewed by CBS,  NBC,  ABC and Fox News.  At least one of these major television networks featured Jism with Lamont,  in addition to MY 9- WWOR-TV and Fox News,  but we are still trying to figure that out.  We are depending on emails from our family of friends so if you have any information or recordings of this please share it with us.  We would love to see it or hear more about it!  Billy Lamont said that he was interviewed by BBC radio for the United Kingdom and others.  Lamont told us the most exciting part of the night was sharing a beer and a few moments with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz,  the rhythm section of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club.  Check out more information on Ism here:  ISM

OTHER NEWS
Billy Lamont said that,  "I would like to pass along my apologies to my friends and fans that showed up for a Village Bookshoppe gig in Rockville Center on Friday the 13th (October.)  Especially the teenagers that I heard about,  that made all the cupcakes for the band His Mighty Robot and I.  This was not my gig but me opening for my friend's His Mighty Robot and the gig had been changed to Friday,  December 8th.  The 'Billy Lamont myspace' calendar had been changed but I forgot to have the billylamont.com website calendar changed with some of my personal life turmoil taking my attention.  Once again my apologies for any inconveniance to anybody and I will make it up to you at the December 8th's show by planning something extra cool for you." 

Check out this link:
BILLY LAMONT MY SPACE
         

News Brief:  October 15, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT SAID HIS FINAL GOODBYE TO CBGB'S IN MANHATTAN TONIGHT.  ALSO PATTI SMITH, TALKING HEADS, BBC RADIO INTERVIEW AND OTHER NEWS

Poet Billy Lamont stopped by CBGB's tonight where Patti Smith did the final show at this legendary punk rock club.  Billy Lamont said that he was interviewed by BBC Radio along with his friend Rochelle Goldman,  who is a DJ for a long running punk rock radio show on WUSB, University of Stonybrook.          

Billy Lamont said,  "CBGB's holds a lot of memories for me.   I am grateful to CBGB's, to Hilly,  Louise and Michelene for giving me the chance to develop my poetry,  performance art and music through the years in this great venue."
 
Lamont continues,  "I am physically exhausted so the night has been a bit of a blur for me.  I ended up doing many interviews for radio and television cameras.  I'm not even sure who they all were but I do know that all the major television networks were there taping for the news and a friend telephoned my cell phone to let me know that I was in the background on Fox News tonight.  Maybe if someone has heard something on the radio or seen something on the television they can write to me and let me know.  I am just an artist and CBGB's means a lot to me so that was all I felt comfortable speaking about because I am not a spokesman for the club or punk rock although I do love them both."

 "I intended to stop by and say goodbye to CBGB's one last time and to see Patti Smith perform.  Seeing Patti Smith perform at CBGB's was the greatest show I have ever attended at CBGB's in the past.  Also Dead Men Walking were amazing last year.  The highlight of the night for me was having a beer with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz,  the rhythm section of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club.   They have been amongst my favorite artists for many years so it was cool to chat with them for a little while,  Lamont said.
 
Lamont concludes,  "In all the excitement I had a bit of a party and I didn't get to see Patti Smith perfom but will on Friday at the Metrpolitan Museum of Art,  where she will be reciting some of her poetry along with the works of my favorite French Poets Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire.  So I am really looking forward to that.  I also wanted to see Linton Kwesi Johnson,  the original reggae dub poetry innovator,  perform at the Bowery Poetry Club tonight across the street and missed that as well."

Billy Lamont wa going to make a special announcement about his new full length CD entitled "painkiller" featuring the music of Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin today but decided to wait another day or two to be present at CBGB's tonight.

News Brief:  October 11, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT'S NEW CD "PAINKILLER"  TO BE RE-RELEASED WITH SECOND PRESSING

Poet Billy Lamont's new full length CD entitled "painkiller" featuring the music of Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin, is being re-released with it's second pressing in the next few days through the excellent record company Mannequin Oddio Media.  Billy Lamont will be making an exciting announcement in the next few days concerning this re-release of the CD due to it being sold out.  So stay tuned!
You can purchase "painkiller" or order it at the following link here:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/billylamont


NEW POET BILLY LAMONT CD "PAINKILLER"

Spoken word poetry against a backdrop of noir cinematic ambience, pounding tribal electronics, and trance-inducing electro.

Internationally acclaimed New York Poet BILLY LAMONT teams up with HEART OF DARKNESS and MAYFAIRGRIN to release this poetic and electronic masterpiece, 'painkiller.'  Through his thought-provoking and intimate spoken words, Billy Lamont exposes his heart and leads the listener on tour through the darkest of emotional locations to lands of hope, light, and faith.

The opening "universeheartgracelifewonder" is an epic, 35 minute ambient piece that blends Mayfairgrin's tribal rhythms, cinematic soundscapes, and ethereal melodies with Lamont's enrapturing voice taking center stage.

"hungry ghost" and "shadowbox" follow with backing music provided by both Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin.

"hungry ghost" turns the sonic pages with beautiful piano, analog synth, interwined with trance-inducing dancefloor electro from both, and heavily processed vocals.

"shadowbox" is an excursion into darker waters with rhythmically aggressive gothic electronica; complete with ghostly piano, furious violin, and distorted spoken word ala Skinny Puppy.

The journey may have begun with the salt and soil of earthly rhythms, however "the power to dream" drifts into the heavens of distant space and stars, closing this stunning album with music provided by Heart Of Darkness.


News Brief:  September 28, 2006
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BILLY LAMONT NEWS 

 

-Poet Billy Lamont is featured on the really cool electronic music website Flaming Fish Music.  Feel free to visit the site and leave a comment in their board/forum:

http://www.flamingfish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=3

 

-The Billy Lamont official website had too many hits in the last month so the web service couldn't support it and had to take it down for the last week or so until the end of the month.  It is good news that we are receiving so many visitors but frustrating that it has been down.  The entire website needs to be redesigned and relaunched.  We have attempted to do this over the past 2 years but will need to make this a high priority in the coming months.  The website has fallen  really short of representing the professional level that Billy Lamont has been on as an artist and performer for quite some time.  Thank you for your patience and for visiting the website often! 

Billy Lamont official website: http://www.billylamont.

 

-The first pressing of the Billy Lamont "painkiller" CD on Mannequin Oddio Media was in high demand and became sold out a few weeks ago.  Thank you for your support!  The CD can still be ordered while more copies are being produced at the following link:  http://cdbaby.com/cd/billylamont  These type of orders reserving the CD have been in moderate demand.  So stay tuned for more information.  Billy Lamont and Mannequin Oddio Media have been discussing the possibility of remixing/remastering some of the CD for the next pressing due to it being produced so quickly.  It was produced in about 3 weeks,  prior to Lamont's Cornerstone performance.

 

-We also have some troubling News concerning Billy Lamont's personal computer being violated with personal computer files being copied and some deleted including personal journal files including hard copies disappearing.  Lamont says,  "No worries.  Copies have always been backed up and even more detailed journals exist which these computer files were drawn from."  :)  In addition personal email accounts have been hacked with emails deleted and also other personal accounts like checking accounts.  So please be patient with responses from Poet Billy Lamont in this period of personal misfortunes and passwords being hacked.  We are increasing security big time!  If Lamont has not responded to you it could be your email has been deleted so please email us again at:  thepoet4u@aol.com 

 

-The same goes for myspace.com.  If you know someone who has a friend request in for our space at: http://www.myspace.com/poetbillylamont please ask them to be patient.  Billy Lamont likes to check out each band/friend request personally and okay them and sometimes responds to them but he is overwhelmed with hundreds of requests that he hasn't gotten to.  So if you know someone seriously waiting on a response please offer our apologies and let them know Lamont will get to this shortly.  We really appreciate everyone's well wishes and value your friendship!

 

-Let's end with some good News.  The "a sonnet for the sea" video that was directed and produced by Scott W. Perry of Slick Devil Entertainment and released on youtube.com about a week ago in a low resolution compressed version is now available to be viewed in a higher definition version at Scott W. Perry's website:  http://slickdevilentertainment.com/  Check it out.  Perry did an awesome job and it needs to be seen in the high resolution version to be appreciated.

 

Thank you!!!

 

~Love And Life To You~

 

News Brief:  September 21, 2006
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 NEW POET BILLY LAMONT VIDEO "A SONNET FOR THE SEA" BY FILM/VIDEOMAKER SCOTT PERRY

Billy Lamont said,  "Scott Perry is a very talented filmaker and a longtime friend.  He has created a really awesome video.  He has captured the metaphysical, mystical experience and peace I feel when reflecting and looking out over the ocean or a lake-  that was part of the inspiration of this poem/song."

You can check out this brand new video by film/videomaker Scott Perry at the link below:

Billy Lamont "A Sonnet For The Sea" Video by Scott Perry

Other Billy Lamont Videos on Youtube.com
Film/Videomaker Scott Perry at Slick Devil Entertainmen website

"a sonnet for the sea" song is from Poet Billy Lamont's 1998 CD "Into The 21st Century" and is a collaboration with
songwriters/musicians John Bembenek of Jerky Medicine and John Kranz.
"Into The 21st Century" CD available at Amazon.com 

News Brief:  September 20, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT AND "PAINKILLER" CD FEATURED ON FLAMING FISH MUSIC SITE

Check out Flaming Fish Music here and feel free to leave a comment for Billy Lamont:
"painkiller" featured on Flaming Fish Music website

Billy Lamont's previous CD is available here at Antiphonic  Music:
"billy lamont with the peculiar people"  CD on Antiphonic Music

News Brief:  September 19, 2006
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BUY NEW POET BILLY LAMONT CD "PAINKILLER"  HERE!!!

You can buy the new Billy Lamont CD through Mannequin Oddio Media links below:
Mannequin Oddio Media Store-Buy New Billy Lamont CD
Buy new BILLY LAMONT "painkiller" CD

The first pressing of "painkiller" is sold out but you can still place an order at the above links!!!
Check out the other great Mannequin Oddio Media artists and the Oddio Player while visiting the site.


News Brief:  September 18, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT RING TONES NOW AVAILABLE!!!

Yes,  you heard right- Be the first in your neighborhood to have Poet Billy Lamont poetry with music as your cellular telephone ring tone!!! A must for any Billy Lamont fan!  :)
Billy Lamont Ring Tones for your Cellular Telephone


News Brief:  September 17, 2006
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                                YOU CAN STILL LISTEN TO POET BILLY LAMONT RADIO APPEARANCE!!!

If you missed Poet Billy Lamont's radio interview/poetry improv performances on Thursday morning you still have an opportunity to hear it via the Worldwide Web archived at WUSB.org for one week until the next program is recorded.  

 

                                                                                    You can listen here:

                                                Just click the following link:  http://wusb.fm/website/programs.html

                                                and then go to Thurday at 10AM-12Noon Non-Objective Reality Show on program schedule.                                                  Click speaker icon to the left of 10AM for the first hour of show and 11AM for the second                                                         hour. It's as easy as that. 

 

                                                                                    Enjoy!!!  

                                                                       
                                                          
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                        POET BILLY LAMONT TO APPEAR LIVE ON WUSB RADIO SHOW ON THURSDAY

***Thursday,  September 14, 2006-  "Non-Objective Reality Show" at 10 AM-12PM Noon, WUSB Radio-  90.1 FM on Long Island in New York
wusb.org streaming live on the world wide web:  WUSB Radio Live Stream ***

Poet Billy Lamont will be interviewed live and previewing tracks from his just released CD "painkiller"
 on Mannequin Oddio Media as a guest of DJ,  Recording Artist,  Producer John Tacacco.

Non-Objective Reality Show on WUSB info here
NON-OBJECTIVE REALITY SHOW co-hosted by John Tabacco and Nigey Lennon, is a provocative, non-linear broadcast adventure, never the same way twice. Elements include opinion/discussion, wide-ranging interviews, special guests, rare music, live performances, and just about anything else. Co-hosts Tabacco and Lennon are North Shore musicians, writers, and digital studio owners with lengthy resumes and a healthy sense of the absurd.




News Brief:  September 7, 2006
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THE NEW POET BILLY LAMONT CD "PAINKILLER" WAS RELEASED LAST FRIDAY AND IS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA!!!!!!!

TO PURCHASE THE CD CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK:  http://www.mannequinoddio.com/main/.  

PLEASE SUPPORT BILLY LAMONT BY PURCHASING THIS CD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!! THIS WAY WE CAN HAVE A BIGGER PUNCH KEEPING THE MOMENTUM FROM LAMONT'S CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE SUCCESS.  PEACE TO YOU AND THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

                                    
                                            ~poet billy lamont~ "at peace like a modern buddha transmitting to the world"   

 

 

HEAR THE NEW POET BILLY LAMONT SINGLE "HUNGRY GHOST" NOW
FROM HIS UPCOMING "PAINKILLER" CD RELEASE ON
MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA!!!!!!!

You can listen to BILLY LAMONT's new songs "hungry ghost" and "shadow box" by clicking on Oddio Player here:
"hungry ghost" and "shadow box"

This CD is a collaboration with Luke Haughwout of Heart Of Darkness and Andrew Latham of Mayfairgrin. 


                                    

The new record from Poet Billy Lamont is a spiritual and philosophical voyage into the realms of tribal ambient,  trance and electronica.  The record features original music by Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin. 

 

CHECK OUT THIS LINK!!!

Mannequin Oddio Media

 

Billy Lamont Official Website:  http://billylamont.com/ 

Billy Lamont Official Myspace.com:  http://www.myspace.com/poetbillylamont

PLEASE PURCHASE POET BILLY LAMONT'S LATEST BOOK OF POEMS AT AMAZON.COM LINK HERE:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0741423383/sr=8-5/qid=1155842434/ref=sr_1_5/102-5437026-9814525?ie=UTF8

 

 

BONUS: 

VIDEO FOOTAGE OF MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM AND POET BILLY LAMONT PERFORMING IN 1998

We were informed of video footage of Poet Billy Lamont performing "Into The 21st Century" with Mike Peters of The Alarm in California in 1998 on  youtube.com.  So we thought we would share the link so you can check it out. 
Mike Peters of The Alarm & Poet Billy Lamont Perform in 1998

               

News Brief: August 28, 2006
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WATCH:  POET BILLY LAMONT PROMO VIDEO AND DOCUMENTARY TRAILER ON YOUTUBE.COM

Here is a link to two new Poet Billy Lamont videos.  Poet Billy Lamont Videos

The first is a 40 second promo by Director/Editor Jeff Elefterion and  Director/Camerman Rich Martinez presenting Lamont's postmodern poetry with electronic music from his "strobe light generation" book of poems and "billy lamont with the peculiar people" CD.   The second is a 2 minute 40 second trailer by Filmmaker Andy Jimenez for a documentary on Poet Billy Lamont entitled "strobe light sessions."

Lamont's spoken word and activism on youtube.com!!!!!!!
[Note:  Of course the video resolution and audio sound has been compressed a lot for youtube.com so a lot of quality is lost from the master.  Some of the promo came out too dark in the translation and some digitizing in quick edits of trailer.]


News Brief: August 24, 2006
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LISTEN TO:  CONVERSATION BETWEEN WRITER/COMPOSER R.S. PEARSON
AND POET/ACTIVIST BILLY LAMONT

Below is a link to the audio portion of a coversation Poet Billy Lamont had with Writer/Composer Robert S. Pearson.  This conversation was taped for a documentary on Billy Lamont by Andy Jimenez at the Book Revue bookstore in Huntington, Long Island in February of 2006.   
 
These two veteran poets discuss new ways to look at the destructiveness of drugs and alcohol in the artistic community,  homelessness, activism,  poetry,  spirituality in the arts,  the "anti-coagulating force in society," the co-opting of pop music 
by marketers, and more.  

***HERE"S THE LINK***
Pearson/Lamont Conversation- hour long conversation on mp3. 
This conversation is also broken up into smaller segments to make it easier to stream.

Robert S. Pearson is the founder of the Virtuism philosophy.  Virtuism is about the aesthetics of human virtue, how virtuous deeds produce in us the same experience as great works of art. Witnessing or creating a virtuous act produces the aesthetic experience.  This book also explores that the unverse acts in a way that is essentially "virtuous" towards us, in the long run, if we make an effort to act virtuous in it.

 
"Vituism: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue"- Robert Pearson's latest book
"strobe light generation"- Poet Billy Lamont's latest book of poems


News Brief: August 1, 2006
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 HEAR THE NEW POET BILLY LAMONT SINGLE "HUNGRY GHOST" NOW
FROM HIS UPCOMING "PAINKILLER" CD RELEASE ON
MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA!!!!!!!

The new record from Poet Billy Lamont is a spiritual and philosophical voyage into the realms of tribal ambient,  trance and electronica.  The record features original music by Heart Of Darkness and Mayfairgrin.  Promotional copies were available at Lamont's Cornerstone Festival appearance with it's official release upcoming at Mannequin Oddio Media. 
***Exact release date at Mannequin Oddio Media with cdbaby.com and further details available soon***

CHECK OUT THESE LINKS!!!

Mannequin Oddio Media



You can listen to BILLY LAMONT's new songs "hungry ghost" and "shadow box" by clicking on Oddio Player here:
"hungry ghost" and "shadow box"
This CD is a collaboration with Luke Haughwout of Heart Of Darkness and Andrew Latham of Mayfairgrin. 













Billy Lamont's various comments on this project and his collaborators:

-"The CD starts off mystical like on a mountaintop and ends up with me sort of overwhelmed and holding my head on a dance floor in New York City with a carnival going on around me.  The Cd ends in an industrial factory-like setting with hope arriving in the last line 'awaiting imagination to give birth to holy idea.'"

-"I am into the interpretive nature of poetry and my poetry is being interpreted by Luke and Andrew.  The way I see it half of art is the interpretation of it and the audience is involved in that as well.  This CD finds me becoming the demon plaguing me- 'the hungry ghost,' -'the shadow box' and then it's like I slay the demon with it's own weapon,  shedding light on the situation in the process.   Really cool irony.  Luke and Andrew really make the sound of the hungry ghost and shadow box come alive through their keyboards,  other instruments and production."

-"Mannequin Oddio Media is a great artist collective that I am honored to join.  You should check out some of the artists on this label if you haven't already.  I am looking forward to promoting this CD and working with the label in the future." 

-"Andrew Latham from Mayfairgrin effortlessly creates and produces these vast,  fantastic soundscapes that always take you on a journey to someplace new and unvisited.  He intelligently and soulfully combines ambient electronic music with core indigenous people instruments and world music rhythms.  I feel like I have just collaborated with Brian Eno's successor.  No small feat." 

-"I'd like to tell you about Luke Haughwout of Heart Of Darkness.  His first CD 'Survival' is an amazing work and I feel he has done his best work yet with this project.  God willing,  with the right breaks,  I believe we can write hit pop songs as well as break new electronic music ground together because I see what has come together in a short amount of time for us with very little focus.  I'd like to see what we could do together if we worked at it a bit.  I am proud to be working with him at the beginning of his great career.  This guy is one to watch.  This project started out with the two of us collaborating on some dark electronic music together some electro/industrial/experimental/poetry/pop ideas."

Lamont concluded,  "This Cd and another one,  an acoustic project,  was made very quickly in 3-4 weeks.  At the time I was going from emergency situation to emergency situation in my personal life as the spiritual,  artistic and business side of my poetry was exploding in a new way.  My head is still spinning and only now have i begun to process some of this.  I have had a virus since the 4th of July and I still need a place to live,  among other serious concerns.  I'd like just a simple place where i can put my book's,  CD's that inspire me and be able to create free from assault and harassment.  It has been years since I have had this space and really have just created what I could not without much effort.  I really would like to turn my focus to actualizing ideas that I have had for a long time and for whatever reason has been sacrificed by me or stolen from me depending on how you look at it.  I am really looking forward to working on my craftmanship without interference.  I feel a serious growth spurt is coming for me on so many levels.  I have so much passion for what I am doing and also material ready to go that probably would be too overwhelming for my audience and be overkill.  It may have them confused about who I am.  I'm not sure.  I like to think that I am diversified and know my audience is very intelligent.  I think I may release a lot of stuff anyway and also write more for other artists.  I hope my audience will enjoy having lots of different kinds of stuff and new releases from me.  I've always placed spirituality and art above marketing anyway.  Love and life to you."   


News Brief:  July 31, 2006
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 POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM A SET OF SPOKEN WORD
AT M-CRUZ'S CD RELEASE PARTY

BEING TAPED LIVE FOR A PUBLIC ACCESS CABLE TELEVISION SHOW

 

***Saturday, August 5, 2006- Lamp Post Cafe
in Port Jeferson,  Long Island, NY- 8:30 PM

Poet Billy Lamont will perform a set as opening act for M-Cruz's CD Release Party for his new "40 Days Prodigal" CD at 8:30 PM sharp.  Lamont is proud to support M-Cruz,  a great artist that is his long time friend,  former Walk On Water bandmate and the person largely responsible for Mastering his "Into The 21st Century" CD. 

M-Cruz will be performing with full band.  Come join the fun and listen to all new M-Cruz music.

There will be a live taping of the show for a Public Access Cable Television show, so be a part of the audience. There is NO Cover!! And M-Cruz will be raffeling off CD's.

 

Located on the north-west corner of Rt 112 and Nesconset Highway Rt 347

Port Jefferson .

For more information call 631-678-7782.

 Further details check out M-Cruz's link:  M-Cruz Dates

 

News Brief: July 25, 2006
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VIDEO FOOTAGE OF MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM AND POET BILLY LAMONT PERFORMING IN 1998

We were just informed of video footage of Poet Billy Lamont performing "Into The 21st Century" with Mike Peters of The Alarm in California in 1998 on  youtube.com so we thought we would share the link so you can check it out. 
Mike Peters of The Alarm & Poet Billy Lamont Perform in 1998

Lamont says,  "Very cool find man.  I can't tell you what those west coast dates meant to me artistically and spiritually as I watched Mike Peters perform absorbing inspiration as I was stepping forth as a full time poet.  I'll try though......it's like....as if.......I was fired up!!!!!!!!  Mike's friendship through the years and then joining him on stage for many dates was like standing on holy ground for me.  I'm very grateful for all that.  By the way ***make sure you check out my rant (below) in this website News section from July 23rd concerning The Alarm's new CD "Under Attack" and EMI/I Tunes.***  I believe the new The Alarm CD is one of the most important,  powerful punk/rock records to be released since The Clash and The Sex Pistols turned the world upside down in the late 70's.  Talk to you soon.  Love and life to you."    

News Brief: July 24, 2006
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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WALT WHITMAN EVENT

Here's some photographs from Billy Lamont's Walt Whitman Historic Site poetry event with links to more courtesy of the professional photographer HARDCORE SHUTTERBUG!!!


 









News Brief: July 23, 2006
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LET'S SUPPORT THE ALARM AS THEY GIVE EMI/ITUNES THE MIDDLE FINGER

As some of you know EMI have f***d up majorly with the new Alarm-mmvi single that was released yesterday.  Apparently,  for the first time in Itunes history, when you buy the new single for "Raindown" what actually gets downloaded is "Someone Call an Ambulance" by the band Placebo.  In retaliation to this and having to have pulled the single, Mike and the band very quickly recorded an impromptu song & video entitled EMItunes. See it here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvaeLxTuqw

Billy Lamont has this to say,  "Such @#%$&*# bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  EMI reeally sucks big time and should have/could have fixed this problem within minutes.  I'm not sure what their problem is but this blatant undermining of a potentially major hit single entitled "Rain Down" by Tha Alarm is very unprofessional and is inexcusable.  I whole heartedly believe with all the passion within me that this is the moment that The Alarm are going to crack the sky wide open with the biggest success they have ever had on all levels with this incredible CD 'Under Attack.'  They don't need EMI anyway.  This CD can be bigger than Green Day's "American Idiot.'  The Alarm have the goods!!!  It's time big business backed off the music business or it will destroy the art and spirituality in music and suffer lack of sales even further because of their mismanaged and pompous greed.  I think it's time the undergound rally's behind The Alarm as they lead the way with a music of the people,  by the people and for the people and pardon the language but $@#% EMI!!!!!!!  Furthermore what an insult to a legendary songwriter and performer like Mike Peters to mistake his song for one entitled 'Someone Better Call An Ambulance' by another artist when he has just fought and won a battle with cancer.  EMI/Itunes should do something for The Alarm and quick or they can kiss a major part of their consumers asses goodbye!!!!!!!"



News Brief: July 22, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT AND COOL CAT SLIM JIM PHANTOM

Billy Lamont said concerning his spoken word appearance at The Cat Club in LA on Wednesday,  July 19th,  "Slim Jim Phantom is a really cool cat as well as the legendary drummer from The Stray Cats.  He is the gracious owner of  The Cat Club in  Los Angeles and seeing this great artist looking on attentively as I performed meant a great deal to me on my birthday.  I made changes to my set to reflect some of his spirit and also to express my passion for The One Campaign.  When I spent some time with Slim Jim I discovered the soul of a poet.  I found some Charles Bukowski in him and I am looking forward to holding a published book of his poetry in my hands in the future."

"I need to get to LA and travel/perform in general more often in the near future.  I would like to build and organize my underground following there," Lamont added.


News Brief: July 10, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT ROCKS THE HM MAGAZINE STAGE AT CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL

Billy Lamont performed spoken word in the way only he can at the HM Magazine stage (heavy music magazine) at 9-9:20 PM on Friday  July 7th,  during a heavy metal  night at Cornerstone Ferstival.  Lamont single handedly rocked the house with spoken word.  His bullhorn in hand,  acting like a gun shooting words of love into the air like bullets,  with the crowd chanting along to "there is hope," "live by love" and "feed the poor" at Lamont's prompting.   Lamont delivered a strong set which was a nice blend of raw activism,  spiritual hope and humor.

Lamont said, "What a great few days at Cornerstone.  "I didn't have a voice due to being sick and also only had two hours of sleep at a truck stop as I drove from New York to Illinois and Cornerstone.  But as soon as I stepped unto that stage my voice came back and energy came to me.  I hope to perform there again soon.  The audience was awesome.  I met many new and old friends.  I enjoiyed spending time with Poet Ben Devreis, [you should check out his blogs Ben Devries Blog and read his book "A Delicate Fade,"] attending a psychology/philosophy class on Soren Kierkegaard's book "Sickness Unto Death" and a class by the top notch blues musician Glen Kaiser also of the legendary Ressurection Band fame   The art gallery area Burning Brush was wonderful and I checked out the gothic Birthday Party band late Friday night and they really blew me away and had the hair standing up on my arms!  All of this great art and genuine spirituality effected me very distinctly"

 

News Brief: July 6, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM AT THE CAT CLUB IN LOS ANGELES

***Wednesday,  July 19, 2006-  the Cat Club
in Los Angeles/West Hollywood, CA,  on Sunset Blvd.-Doors 7:30 PM/music starts at 8 PM
[exact time to be announced]

Poet Billy Lamont will perform a set of spoken word at the Cat Club located right in the middle of the legendary Sunset Strip.  The Cat Club is owned by the famed Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats.  The club is a popular rock/pop venue that is frequented by locals and the famous alike.  Billy Lamont is performing at Slim Jim Phantom's invitation and celebrating his birthday that night and would love for you to join him!!!!!!!
 
The Cat Club is located at 8911 West Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069.
For further information see this link:
The Cat Club on My Space
The Cat Club Website
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News Brief: July 2, 2006
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NEW BILLY LAMONT CD TO BE RELEASED AT CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL

Poet Billy Lamont is part of a new band called PAINKILLER with a new CD being released on July 7th on Mannequin Oddio Media for Lamont's appearance at the Cornerstone Festival.  According to Lamont this is a theatrical project that is a collaboration with Luke Haughwout of Heart Of Darkness  and Andrew Latham of Mayfairgrin. 

Lamont said,  'the poetry was ripped out of my soul still bloody and Luke and Andrew  turned it into amazing dark,  electronic dance floor songs and brilliant,  filled with light,  epic ambient soundscapes and performance pieces."

You can listen to PAINKILLER's new song "hungry ghost" here:
hungry ghost
  
You can listen to Billy Lamont's appearance on Mayfairgrin's 20 minute masterpiece "kirlian sunshine" here:
kirlian sunshine 
The recently released Mayfairgrin CD is called "[excursions on a hovercraft]" and available through Mannequin Oddio Media.
Also available through Mannequin Oddio Media is Heart Of Darkness latest release "Survival."
Mannequin Oddio Media





Billy Lamont- official website: billylamont.com     


Press Release: July 1, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO CELEBRATE FREEDOM WITH PERFORMANCE AT CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL
ON JULY 7TH

Billy Lamont will perform spoken word poems at Cornerstone Festival 2006 on Friday night, July 7th.   Lamont will be reciting performance poems of activism,  from his latest book of poetry entitled "strobe light generation"  in between punk/heavy music bands on the HM Magazine stage. 

Cornerstone Festival will take place in Bushnell, Illinois (near Chicago,) on July 4th through the 8th and will feature POD,  Relient K,  Project 86,  MXPX as well as many other amazing bands.
 
Poet Billy Lamont is returning to the Cornerstone festival after a much acclaimed appearance before/with rock band The Alarm on the 4th of July at the 2004 festival.  Lamont's 2004 performance also resulted in an exclusive internet interview with HM Magazine.

Lamont's influential,  signature post modern artistry is at it's best within his new book and "strobe light generation"'s message of hope shines brightly in this fast paced age of consumerism, quick fix spirituality, sensationalism in the press and reality television.

Lamont said, "I am on fire to share some of my latest poems at the festival.  I can't wait.  It feels like I have kicked open a new door where I have found new reformation and redemption which I am expressing in my art.  This is all in the context of a lot of personal misfortune."

According to Lamont he has been working on two new recording projests.  "I am so excited about these projects!  The first is PAINKILLER,  which will be released by the amazing record label/artist collective Mannequin Oddio Media on July 7th for my Cornerstone Festival appearance.   I will have a few promotional copies of this CD at the festival.  The PAINKILLER band members are Luke Haughwout of Heart Of Darkness  and Andrew Latham of Mayfairgrin and yours truly Billy Lamont.  PAINKILLER combines my poetry with the brilliant,  songwriting and cinematic soundscapes of my collaborators.  This project has come together very quickly and is dark electronic music combined with the light in ambient music.  Very original sounding in my opinon and has me sort of feeling in awe of what my collaborators have done artistically and technically with the poetry and music," Lamont said. 

"The other project is a deeply spiritual,  personal,  intimate acoustic project called Hedge Of Thorns.  It is songwriter/musician Billy Poulos' folk music with my poetry.  I feel The Holy Spirit very present in this project which is very humbling.  It is
me expressing my love for and faith in Jesus Christ in the most naked way I have ever expressed it on CD.  This 4 song EP/demo came together very quickly also.  Poulos,  my longtime friend,  and I recorded them all in a few quick takes in a studio recently.   I will be looking for a record label to release this on shortly and will have a few copies in my pocket at Cornerstone for a few people to check out if they like.  I have a feeling an above ground contemporary Christian label might connect with the direct approach and content of this one, "  Lamont said.

A few copies are left of Lamont's second CD "billy lamont with the peculiar people" which is available at Antiphonic Records.
"billy lamont with the peculiar people" was on the bestsellers lists for New Releases,  Experimental and Dance Music at the excellent electronic music label Flaming Fish Music for over a year.  Although hard copies of the CD are nearly sold out Lamont is celebrating it's international digital release with the largest international digital music distributor/label The Orchard.  The Orchard also distributes Lamont's first CD "Into The 21st Century" that included special guest appearances by Mike Peters of The Alarm and the late legendary poet Allen Ginsberg.

Billy Lamont has performed and been interviewed on national television including MTV and Much Music Television and the Joe Franklin Show.  Lamont has also performed and toured with the major rock festival Lollapalooza   in 1994, 1995 and 2003.  Due to the success of Lamont's previous book of poems,  "The Gallery Of Light," he has given book signings at major book stores like Barnes and Noble and Waldenbooks in shopping malls and has appeared on major radio stations across the country. 

Lamont said,  "I can't tell you how excited I am about this Cornerstone Festival appearance and my new recording projects PAINKILLER and Hedge Of Thorns.  I am in a season of suffering right now with my personal life being turned upside down once again.  I am very grateful for these artistic outlets for my soul and hope I can be a blessing to others.  I cannot help but to relate to and meditate on the truth of The Holy Bible scripture that refers to Jesus,  'the stone that the builder's rejected has become the chief cornerstone.'  I believe the genuine Spirit of Jesus does not overlook but cares very deeply for the starving and poor,  the homeless,  the widows,  the orphans,  the outsiders,  freaks and artists-  the peculiar people."    

Lamont concluded,  "I am honored to be asked back to the Cornerstone Festival.  It is a wonderful community and a favorite festival of mine.  I'm thankful to John Herrin and Doug Van Pelt.  Van Pelt's former band Lust Control has become one of my favorite punk bands along with The Alarm,  The Clash,  Patti Smith,  Jim Carroll,  The Dead Kennedys and The Altar Boys."


 
 News Brief: June 23, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TAKES A PAINKILLER

Poet Billy Lamont will release a poetry with electronic music CD with a new band that calls itself PAINKILLEER.  PAINKILLER will be on the record label Mannequin Oddio Media.  Advanced promotional copies should be available at Lamont's Cornerstone Festival performance on Friday,  July 7th.. 

PAINKILLER is a new side project teaming up Billy Lamont with Luke Haughwout of Heart Of Darkness and Andrew Latham of Mayfairgrin. 

Lamont said,  "PAINKILLER is 1/3 Luke's electronic darkness, 1/3 the light in Andrew's ambience,  1/3 my beautiful imbalance. hahahaha.  I'm excited about this project and working with such brilliant collaborators.  This project is coming together in a top notch,  professional way and it feels like it will be a good outlet for me right now and be a catharsis of sorts.  I hope it can do the same for other people who may be in pain too." 

More news soon.


News Brief:  June 22, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO JOIN  MANNEQUIN ODDIO MEDIA  RECORD LABEL

Poet Billy Lamont will release his next CD on the Mannequin Oddio Media record label.  

Lamont said,  "It is great to become a part of the Mannequin Oddio Media family.  Mannequin Oddio is a outstanding artist collective that I am very honored to be joining." 

Lamont added,  "As an extension of a recording I was on as a guest of Mayfaigrin on Mannequin Oddio entitled
'kirlian sunshine' I was asked to join the label/artist collectuive." 

You can check out "kirlian sunshine" here:
kirlian sunshine


Mannequin Oddio Media





News Brief:  June 20, 2006
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BILLY LAMONT OUT ON THE TOWN: OTHER NEWS

Poet Billy Lamont shared that he has been stepping out on the town a bit.  Lamont mentioned that he saw The Alarm play in Hoboken,  New Jersey and that the gig was the most amazing punk rock show he has ever seen with "The Alarm being all muscle.  The spirit of healing and hope in the air was incredible." 

Lamont also said that everyone needs to run out and buy The Alarm's new CD "Under Attack," which includes a DVD of videos of every song on the album.  According to Lamont it is "one of the greatest CD's The Alarm has ever made." 

Lamont also saw Nine Inch Nails in concert "kick ass musically and visually," with Bau Haus opening the night,  "I was so excited.  I can't believe I have seen them perform including 'Silent Hedges'. 

Lamont said that Lollapalooza "is not looking good this year for the poets," (sad face) :( and that he had the pleasure of having dinner with the great Poet Molly Peacock along with the Walt Whitman Birthplace Board of Trustees.


News Brief: June 18, 2006
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LAMONT PERFORMANCE AT WALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE EVENT A SUCCESS!!!

Poet Billy Lamont's Walt Whitman Birthplace performance on Friday, June 16th was a huge success!!!   Lamont toasted Walt Whitman,  did improv to some of Whitman's poetry mixing in his own over electronic music with Decendant and acoustic music with His Mighty Robot,  announced a new CD release with a new electronic music project called PAINKILLER and played a new track for the first time entitled  "original_negative."  Lamont also debuted a professional 30 second video promo of his poetry by Director's Jeff Elefterion and Rich Martinez  and also a 2 minute trailer for a documentary "Strobe Light Sessions" that Video/Filmmaker Andy Jimenez is making.  Special guest Steven J, Messina of The Serial Poets performed spoken word and according to Lamont "kicked the crap out of oxymorons!!!" 

Lamont was given a beautiful introduction by NYU Poetry Professor/Walt Whitman Birthplace Borad Member Cynthia Shor. Bethanne Magazzo's innovative and ground breaking artwork was featured at this event,  as at many of Billy Lamont's performances through the years.  At the last minute additional artists/poets were added to the lineup.  Doreen Strathuis recited a powerful poem and she and her sister,  Joni Strathis, displayed some of their wonderful artwork.  The brilliant artist/poet/musician Mike "Wolfie" Van blessed us all with his awesome artwork and poetry and Poet Rob Carucci,  author of "Tatooed Soul," and creator of the "Twisted Television" public access TV show also gave the audience the pleasure of reciting a poem. 

"The creative and literary energy present was impressive.  I am so honored that my work has been interpreted by such talented artists.  I would like to do this again next year.  Maybe every year....,"  Lamont said.


News Brief:  June 5, 2006
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BILLY LAMONT TO APPEAR ON NEW MAYFAIRGRIN CD

Poet Billy Lamont will make a special appearance on the new Mayfairgrin "[excursions on a hovercraft]" CD on
Mannequin Oddio Media. 

Lamont said,  "I was asked to be on the CD by Andrew Latham of Mayfairgrin.  I felt honored to be asked due to loving Mayfairgrin's brilliant soundscapes.  At the same time I happened to be in the studio recording with a new acoustic project called The Remission so it was good timing and I recorded something for him.  More news soon."


Press Release: May 18, 2006
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"I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!"
POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM AT WALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE

Poet Billy Lamont is bringing his influential,  signature,  postmodern poetry with performance art to the New York State Historic Site,  Walt Whitman Birthplace,  in South Huntington,  Long Island,  New York on Friday night,  June 16th.  Lamont will be accompanied by the electronic music artistry of Descendant.

"I believe this event will be a very special night capturing the essence of Walt Whitman,  as a man and as an artist,  reflecting his dignity and love for all life.  We'll be bringing this to a younger generation and also inside and outside of society thinkers  and artists.  Very exciting!"  said Lamont.     

   Lamont will be reciting from his new book of poems entitled "strobe light generation" released by Infinity Publishing and is available now at borders.com and amazon.com.  In the spirit of Whitman's poetry "strobe light generation"'s message of hope shines brightly but in the context of today in this fast paced age of consumerism, quick fix spirituality, sensationalism in the press and reality television.

Lamont comments, "Whitman is such a wonderful poet whose work is filled with the wonder of life.  I especially love and am inspired by 'I Sing The Body Electric' and 'Great Are The Myths.'  He is the first great American poet that helped define our great country and he was born right here, the second of nine children in Huntington, Long Island on May 31st in 1819."

Billy Lamont,  also a Long Islander,  has performed and been interviewed on national television including MTV,  Much Music Television and the Joe Franklin Show and has appeared on major radio stations across the United States. 

In response to the success and impressive sales of his previous book of poems,  "The Gallery Of Light," he has given book signings in shopping malls at such major book stores as Barnes and Noble and Waldenbooks.  He has also appeared on major radio stations across the country.  "The Gallery Of Light" is distributed nationally in the U.S. by Ingram.

Daniel Berrigan,  legendary poet/activist and speaker on social justice issues,  has this to say about Lamont, "You,  Billy Lamont, are a rare bird indeed,  and a dazzling one,  bringing together as you do unassailable gifts and a phoenix (out of the culture’s ashes) faith.  I congratulate and thank you.  Blessings on your fine work!”

Lamont has also been encouraged by the late Poet Allen Ginsberg,  who showed love and appreciation for Lamont's artwork by appearing on Lamont's first CD,  entitled "Into The 21st Century,"  Ginsberg recited from his legendary poem "Howl."  This Cd also included a special guest appearances by Mike Peters of the rock band The Alarm. 

A few copies are left of Lamont's latest CD "billy lamont with the peculiar people" which is available at Antiphonic Records. 
"billy lamont with the peculiar people" was on the bestsellers lists for New Releases,  Experimental and Dance Music at the excellent electronic music label Flaming Fish Music for over a year.  Although hard copies of the CD are nearly sold out Lamont is celebrating its international digital release with the largest international digital music distributor/label The Orchard.  The Orchard also distributes the "Into The 21st Century" CD.

Lamont has also performed at many major rock festivals.  Lamont said that he is looking forward to his spoken word performance at Cornerstone Festival 2006 on Friday night,  July 7th.  Lamont is returning to the Cornerstone festival after a
much acclaimed appearance before/with rock band The Alarm on the 4th of July at the 2004 festival.  This year Lamont will be reciting performance poems of activism in between punk/heavy music bands on the HM Magazine stage.  Cornerstone Festival will take place in Bushnell, Illinois (near Chicago,) on July 4th through the 8th and will feature rock band POD as the headliner.    

According to Lamont he has also been in serious communication with the Lollapalooza festival concerning a performance at this year's festival at Grant Park in Chicago in August.  This is due to the success of his past performances and tour dates with Lollapalooza in 1994, 1995,  and 2003.  The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the headlining act for Lollapalooza.

"I sing the body electric!  I can't help but to be moved by the 'good grey poet's artwork and humanitarian spirit as America's identity was being defined.  Did you know that he volunteered a major portion of his time to help nurse soldiers from The Civil War back to health?" Lamont said.  

Lamont concludes,  "I am honored to be celebrating my appointment to the Board Of Trustees at the Walt Whitman Birthplace with this special event.  I am grateful for the trust executive director Barbara Mazor Bart has placed in me and for her friendship."

This special event at the Walt Whitman Birthplace on Friday, June 16th will be at 7:30- 10:30 PM sharp.
Refreshments will be served.   Donation will be $3.

 The night will be hosted by NYU College Professor and Board of Trustees Member Cynthia Shor.  Special guests will include the original indie band
His Mighty Robot and Steve Messina,  singer from the punk/heavy music band The Serial Poets,  who will be performing spoken word.  Lamont will also debut a new poetry promo video experiment that was edited by Jeff Elefterian, the Editor of numerous major movie trailers and was shot by cameraman, Rich Martinez, who has to his credit among other things cameraman for the soap opera "One Life To Live."  Young Film/Videomaker Andy Jimenez will also share a trailer from a documentary he is working on featuring Billy Lamont.  Long Island originated Radio X,  that also streams internationally,  will also be present at the event conducting interviews.  More surprise guests.  Further news will be announced as information becomes available.

Walt Whitman Birthplace is located at 246 Old Walt Whitman Road. in South Huntington, Long Island, NY 11746-4148.
For directions,  please click the following link at: waltwhitman.org
or telephone 631-427-5240.

  Official Website: billylamont.com



Press Release: May 3, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM AT CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL ON JULY 7TH

Billy Lamont will perform spoken word poems at Cornerstone Festival 2006 on Friday night, July 7th.   Lamont will be reciting performance poems of activism,  from his latest book of poetry entitled "strobe light generation"  in between punk/heavy music bands on the HM Magazine stage. 

Cornerstone Festival will take place in Bushnell, Illinois (near Chicago,) on July 4th through the 8th and will feature POD,  Relient K,  Project 86,  MXPX as well as many other amazing bands.
 
Poet Billy Lamont is returning to the Cornerstone festival after a much acclaimed appearance before/with rock band The Alarm on the 4th of July at the 2004 festival.  Lamont's 2004 performance also resulted in an exclusive internet interview with HM Magazine.

Lamont's influential, signature post modern artistry is at it's best within his new book and "strobe light generation"'s message of hope shines brightly in this fast paced age of consumerism, quick fix spirituality, sensationalism in the press and reality television.

Lamont said, "I am on fire to share some of my latest poems at the festival.  I can't wait.  It feels like I have kicked open a new door where I have found new reformation and redemption which I am expressing in my art.  This is all in the context of a lot of personal misfortune."

A few copies are left of Lamont's latest CD "billy lamont with the peculiar people" which is available at Antiphonic Records.
"billy lamont with the peculiar people" was on the bestsellers lists for New Releases,  Experimental and Dance Music at the excellent electronic music label Flaming Fish Music for over a year.  Although hard copies of the CD are nearly sold out Lamont is celebrating it's international digital release with the largest international digital music distributor/label The Orchard.  The Orchard also distributes Lamont's first CD "Into The 21st Century" that included special guest appearances by Mike Peters of The Alarm and the late legendary poet Allen Ginsberg.

According to Lamont he has been in serious communication with the Lollapalooza festival concerning a performance at this year's festival at Grant Park, in Chicago in August,  due to the success of his past performances and tour dates with Lollapalooza in 1994, 1995 and 2003.

Billy Lamont has performed and been interviewed on national television including MTV and Much Music Television and the Joe Franklin Show.  Due to the success of Lamont's previous book of poems,  "The Gallery Of Light," he has given book signings at major book stores like Barnes and Noble and Waldenbooks in shopping malls and has appeared on major radio stations across the country. 

According to Lamont he is looking forward to two new recording projects.  One is a poetry with accoustic folk music project called The Remission and the other is dark electronic music with poetry and is entitled PAINKILLER.  More details on these projects and additional tour dates to be announced soon. 

Lamont said,  "I am honored to be asked back to the Cornerstone Festival.  It is a wonderful community and a favorite festival of mine.  I'm thankful to John Herrin and Doug Van Pelt.  Van Pelt's former band Lust Control has become one of my favorite punk bands along with The Alarm,  The Clash,  Patti Smith,  Jim Carroll,  The Dead Kennedys and The Altar Boys."

 
News Brief:  April 29, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM AT CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL 2006

We are pleased to announce that Billy Lamont will be performing spoken word at the Cornerstone Festival in Bushnell, Illinois (near Chicago,) on Friday night, July 7th.  Lamont will  perform in between punk/heavy music bands on the HM Magazine stage.   Cornerstone Festival 2006 will be from July 4th through the 8th and will feature POD,  Relient K,  Project 86,  MXPX as well as many other amazing bands.  Press Release,  as well as other Billy Lamont summer dates,  to be released shortly.

In the meantime you can check out the following links:
Billy Lamont @ Cornerstone Festival 2006 page
Cornerstone Festival main page
Cornerstone Festival full band list and Bio's



News Brief:  April 27, 2006
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LAMONT'S THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL 20 YEARS AFTER DISASTER

Poet Billy Lamont is thinking of the children of Chernobyl on the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster by having a quiet night which included a few pints of guiness and conversation with members of the Chernobyl Children Project in a pub in the East Village in Manhattan.    

Lamont recalls,  "I will never forget the faces of the beautiful children of Chernobyl that I met in the Ukraine in 1992.  I was part of a group that visited some hospitols where they were.  We dressed up like clowns and put on puppet shows for some of the kids.  I hope to find some of the poems I was writing while I was in the Ukraine at that time,  so I can recite some and dedicate them to the children of Chernobyl at some of the summer concerts I will be doing this summer."
         
Please visit the following link and support this amazing organization:
Chernobyl Children Project



News Brief:  April 10, 2006
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INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL RELEASE OF POET BILLY LAMONT'S LATEST CD BY THE ORCHARD

Poet Billy Lamont's latest CD "billy lamont with the peculiar people" saw it's international digital release today by
The Orchard.   The Orchard is the world's leading digital distributor of music.  This is the continuation of a successful partnership between Lamont and The Orchard.  Lamont's previous CD "Into The 21st Century" is also distributed by them.  Lamont said that he is looking forward to exploring digital video releases with The Orchard,  as a partner,  as well in the future so his videos can be downloaded to iPODS by his audience. 

You can check out a link here:  The Orchard


News Brief:  April 8, 2006
*************************************************************************************************************POET REVIEW OF BILLY LAMONT'S CROSSROAD'S CAFE  PERFORMANCE

Poet Billy Lamont shook things up a bit at his Crossroads Cafe performance in the basement of the 1st Baptist Church in his hometown of Babylon, NY opening for M-Cruz on Saturday,  April 1st.  Lamont enjoyed the night,  found it inspiring ,  met lots of new friends and enjoyed M-Cruz's performance a great deal.  A highlight for Lamont was Banana Bill Poulos stopping by with his 12 string guitar to join him for a poem/song.  It was the first time the two appeared on stage together or played together in a number of years.

A review of the night by Jessiru from her Xanga website is below:

"coffeehouse was interesting tonight.  we had a poet visit tonight who was pretty neat.  he may have helped us lose a potential future musical guest, but truthfully, i'm glad he came...and the way he shared his message, although foreign to most of us and slightly uncomfortable to some, was definitely an important and relevant one...check him out for yourself... "

 billy lamont ---   http://www.billylamont.com

review:  jessiru

from her website: jessiru's_Xanga_Site.htm (30K)


News Brief:  March 28, 2006
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POET BILLY LAMONT TO PERFORM ON CABLE TELEVISION ON THURSDAY

"Peacesmiths Get Involved!" cable television show presents Billy Lamont on Thursday,  March 30th at 12:30 AM on Public Access Cable Channel 20 in Suffolk/Nassau County in New York.  Lamont's poetry and elctronic music performance was recorded on Friday night March 3rd 2006.

News Brief:  March 25, 2006
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"BILLY LAMONT WITH THE PECULIAR PEOPLE" CD ON ANTIPHONIC RECORDS

Antiphonic Records' store has just picked up the last hard copies of the "billy lamont with the peculiar people" CD/Chapbook.  This limited edition CD/24 page chapbook of poetry only had a few hard copies originally produced that have been sold or given away.   There is only a handful of copies left before being completely sold out without any plans to reproduce any more at this time.  However,  if downloading songs to your new iPOD or an MP3 player is your preference watch here for the international digital release of this CD shortly.  Also Billy Lamont mentioned that he has been recording and is planning on doing a lot more in the coming months. To purchase the CD/chapbook please click the following link:  
Antiphonic Records


News Brief:  March 13, 2006
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PHILOSOPHER,  WRITER,  POET AND COMPOSER ROBERT PEARSON COMMENTS ON LAMONT

Robert Pearson:  Philosopher,  Writer,  Poet and Composer was recently videotaped in conversation with Poet Billy Lamont  as part of a documentary. 

Pearson comments on Billy Lamont,  "There's so much to discover in Billy's new book,  "strobe light generation."  Like his first major collection "The Gallery Of Light" you can wander into it and in a few moments feel yourself transformed by the spiritual vibration that Billy seeks to make present for his readers.  This is the most potent book of modern spiritual poetry that I have read."

Robert Pearson has just joined the myspace.com community so be sure to look him up.  You will be glad that you did.


News Brief:  March 10, 2006
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BILLY LAMONT'S PERFORMANCE OF PACIFIST AND JUSTICE POETRY TO AIR ON PUBLIC ACCESS CABLE TV
 
Billy Lamont's performance set of pacifist poems of freedom,  peace and justice was taped last week at Peacesmiths community coffee house on Friday, March 3rd.  It will air on an upcoming Thursday night at 12:30 AM depending on your local Cable TV system.  We'll keep you posted on the details.  You can check out a link here for a few photographs of the night:  Peacesmiths 3/3/06

Also Billy Lamont wanted to mention that he was interviewed by Daniel Fazzina for a digital film on faith and  healing.  According to Lamont,  he shared a story of his hope and faith.  Lamont also shared about a miraculous healing he had while he was in the hospitol in 1989.  Our friend Daniel Fazzina is a walking miracle himself.  Daniel has walked with God's grace through cancer,  that medically speaking,  should have taken his life.  But he is alive,  strong and in full health,  so he has been documenting many amazing stories of healing.  This video project is in addition to the recently mentioned Scott Perry and Andy Jimenez's documentary/performance/interview's and other promo and video projects.

News Brief:  March 9, 2006
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CHECK OUT POET BILLY LAMONT SONGS ON MYSPACE.COM

 Billy Lamont has added four poetry with music samples to his myspace.com page and would like to invite you to check it out and give them a listen.  If you have never heard his songs before let us know what you think by leaving a comment on the page and we will read it.  Lamont has had a presence on My Space for just over a year now and is celebrating by being in the process of redesigning his page,  adding these songs,  a calendar and changing it from a personal poetry page to a more official band page.  Hope you like it and please visit it often!!!
Billy Lamont's My Space Link:  Poet Billy Lamont- MYSPACE.COM
      

News Brief:  March 8, 2006
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BILLY LAMONT AND ROBERT PEARSON CONVERSATION TAPED FOR VIDEO DOCUMENTARY

Billy Lamont would like to invite you to check out Robert Pearson's page for his Press Release with information on their taped conversation and Robert Pearson's brilliant philosophy entitled Virtuism.  Lamont has long refered to himself as a Virtuist. 
Robert Pearson Documentary link.
 

News Brief:  February 27, 2006
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THE ALARM'S NEW SINGLE "SUPER CHANNEL" RELEASED AND TEARING UP THE UK CHARTS


 


The Alarm's latest major record release on EMI Records has been released and is entitled "Under Attack."  The first single "Super Channel" has gone to #1 on the UK rock charts and #24 on the top 40.   Check out this link:  The Alarm

Billy Lamont said,  "I received the single today and can't stop listening to it.  Mike Peters is kicking ass and tearing it up with The Alarm 2006!!!!!!! I can't wait to hear the entire CD!!!  Punk music is alive and well in 2006 and this is  the classic album that all counterfeit should be  compared to and revealed by.  'Super Channel,"  'The Thought Police,' 'Exit [No Way Out,]' and 'Think Again [Everything You know is Wrong]'    

Lamont continues,  "It's like Mike's recent fight with cancer is propelling him and the support of his fans to new heights instead of holding him back!!!   This CD is one to run out and buy right away and when you play it turn it up!!!  You will be glad that you did!!!  A major victory for The Alarm camp!!!!!!!  The Alarm has been one of the greatest live bands since their inception and it has been captured on this CD."

Lamont adds, "What is even more amazing is that the songs on "Under Attack" seem to tell the truth of his  own body being under attack from cancer but were written before any diagnosis.  These songs are powerful and prophetic.  I believe we are going to see a healthy Mike Peters on the road playing his heart out again.  I ask my family of friends to please to continue to pray for him .  I also believe that  The Alarm  will crack it wide open with this CD.  Mike Peters is one of the greatest songwriters of our time and proves it time and time again these last twenty years.  The time has come for this to be acknowledged in a huge way!!!!!!!"

Lamont concludes,  "Mike Peters even looks better proclaiming the truth with a powerhorn in his hand than I do!!!  I don't know how he does it.  The bar has just been raised for us all.  I'm really inspired.  Great work mate!!!

News Brief:  February 26, 2006
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BILLY LAMONT AND ROBERT PEARSON CONVERSATION TAPED FOR VIDEO DOCUMENTARY

Poet Billy Lamont and Writer,  Composer and Philosopher Robert Pearson were videotaped as part of a documentary that  Director Andy Jimenez is shooting on Lamont. 








Lamont said, "I said yes to being interviewed by two Directors recently.  Both are talented young Directors shooting separate Documentary's on my life and artwork.  Andy Jimenez was videotaping my book signing event at the Book Revue last July and wanted to expand that event with other ideas.  So we went back to the Book Revue the other day and he filmed a converstaion that Robert Pearson and I were having.  Always lots of art and ideas in our conversations.  Director Scott Perry filmed the last show I did at CBGB's 313 Gallery on Labor Day weekend and other shows I did through the years and recently we did an interview in my hometown of Babylon,  Long Island discussing my artistic and spiritual roots.  Here is a link to his website:  Scott Perry- Film Maker.  I am not involved in the production,  writing or editing of these two productions.  I gave them complete freedom with me okaying the final cut.  Scott Perry and Andy Jimenez and these projects show a lot of promise so it will be interesting to see what they come up with.  I am having fun just being in front of the camera."

Lamont adds,  "Although I have to say that I fell in love with film and video once again.  It all started with conversations with my buddy Steven Delopoulos of Burlap To Cashmere last year when we even began to shoot a movie together. [By the way thank you to everyone that is praying for Johnny Phillipidis of Burlap.  You can feel the good vibes and he is out of the coma and recovering well.  He's 80% and getting there.  Please continue to pray for him.]  Also I wrote and shot an interesting promo Co-Directed with Rich Martinez an ex- "One Life To Live" soap opera cameraman last summer that is being edited by a major Editor that will be announced later.  This promo will debut along with the other video documentary's  if they are completed for my Walt Whitman Birthplace gig in June  I have a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree majoring in Television and Film."  

***Note that we are looking for a new website graphic designer and banner designer after parting ways with Gloria Rios.  So if you have any leads let us know at email:  thepoet4u@aol.com.  Rios was kind enough to begin designing a new website with Billy Lamont in July of 2004 with a limited budget.  The two worked very hard on the new website but personal tragedy for Rios and other issues had delayed the project for a longer period than anticipated without any sign of completion so Gloria and Billy decided to allow Lamont to forge ahead with a website that better met his needs.  Thank you for your hard work and time Gloria!!!***       



News Brief:  February 25, 2006
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ROBERT PEARSON WRITER /PHILOSOPHER/COMPOSER VISITS WITH BILLY LAMONT

Billy Lamont said,  "It's been great spending time with my friend Robert Pearson again while he was in New York.  What a great thinker,  articulate speaker and amazing writer and musician.  A very inspiring time.  I would like to invite you to visit his website at www.rspearson.com  and  recommend his newly released books very highly."

Billy Lamont's cover blurbs for Robert Pearson's recently released books:
-"'Lushness Of  The Soul' is a brilliant prose masterpiece. This is how Arthur Rimbaud would have sounded if he had spent a season in Heaven instead of "a season in hell."  It's like language has been raptured and been reborn through Robert Pearson's pen.  Extemely skillful word craftmanship. He is a true genius!" ~Billy Lamont~

-"Virtuism: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue"-Like Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifestos and Andre Breton's Surrealist Manifestos, philosopher/artist Robert Pearson delivers a unique defining work for his Virtuism philosophy. Virtue is giving to others without expecting anything in return, acting from character, from who you are, not how you feel. I am a virtuist and am proud to consider myself a part of Pearson's Virtuism art movement. This book is a work of virtue and deserves a place of honor next to Tzara and Breton on my bookcase and yours too!" ~Billy Lamont~

News Brief:  February 3, 2006
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BONO'S BEST SERMON YET:  REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST

Poet Billy Lamont said,  "I would like to invite you to read Bono from U2's remarks about global poverty reduction below from the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. on Friday.   Bono's speech is very close to my heart as a passionate supporter of Jubilee 2000/DATA/The One Campaign from it's inception.  I am happy to share that President George Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton were in attendance during Bono's prophetic comments.  Please also read Jim Wallis from Sojourners magazine Editor's Note below.  JIm Wallis is an amazing writer/Christian social justice pacifist that I admire very much.  You should check out his "God's Politics" book.  I have read it and it is a favorite of mine.  It has been very affirming to me as a follower of Jesus Christ,  that is bipartisan politically and a pacifist."    

The National Prayer Breakfast is normally a time for reaffirming spiritual truths and testifying to the power of faith in people's individual lives, but not so much a moment for prophetic and controversial social utterances. There have been exceptions - when Sen. Mark Hatfield spoke courageously about the moral "shame" of the Vietnam War in the presence of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger (I know a lot about that prayer breakfast speech because I helped write it when I was a seminarian in Chicago); when Mother Theresa spoke about the sacredness of life and raised the issue of abortion with the Clintons on hand; and yesterday, when Bono spoke like a modern-day prophet about extreme global poverty and pandemic disease and called upon the American government, with George Bush and Congressional leaders present, to do much more. The speech, published below, was the most explicit about religion and the role of faith that I had ever heard Bono deliver, and his insistence on the biblical requirements of justice and not just charity was reiterated over and over again. In a small session with religious editors afterward, Bono spoke about how the churches had led on the issue of debt cancellation with the Jubilee 2000 campaign, on HIV/AIDS, and now on global poverty reduction. "You're the bigger crowd," he said, "much more than my stadium audiences." He said the church will just hear "fanfare" from musicians. But Bono is offering far more than fanfare, as his talk below demonstrates. To the religious editors he stressed how the justice issue is "really it," and said that the churches had to figure out how to make that clear to people and that "movement is the way" we will finally succeed. Bono said he believed that something is moving now and we have to create the momentum to accomplish our goals. On the way to the car afterward, we spoke together about how really crucial that movement building is, how nothing else will suffice to make the changes in our world that are so vitally and morally necessary, and how the strategy in the religious community is so key. We also talked about the Isaiah 58 passage he had quoted in his speech - that when we respond to the poor as the prophet instructs, "God will cover your back." This is one speech you will want to read and pass on to your friends. - Jim Wallis + Share this issue with your friends

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Bono's best sermon yet: Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast [RUSH TRANSCRIPT: CHECK AGAINST DELIVERED REMARKS] If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex. Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation. Well, I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural...something unseemly...about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the south of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert...but this is really weird, isn't it? You know, one of the things I love about this country is its separation of church and state. Although I have to say: in inviting me here, both church and state have been separated from something else completely: their mind. Mr. President, are you sure about this? It's very humbling and I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish. I'd like to talk about the laws of man, here in this city where those laws are written. And I'd like to talk about higher laws. It would be great to assume that the one serves the other; that the laws of man serve these higher laws...but of course, they don't always. And I presume that, in a sense, is why you're here. I presume the reason for this gathering is that all of us here - Muslims, Jews, Christians - all are searching our souls for how to better serve our family, our community, our nation, our God. I know I am. Searching, I mean. And that, I suppose, is what led me here, too. Yes, it's odd, having a rock star here - but maybe it's odder for me than for you. You see, I avoided religious people most of my life. Maybe it had something to do with having a father who was Protestant and a mother who was Catholic in a country where the line between the two was, quite literally, a battle line. Where the line between church and state was...well, a little blurry, and hard to see. I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what religious people, in the name of God, did to my native land...and in this country, seeing God's second-hand car salesmen on the cable TV channels, offering indulgences for cash...in fact, all over the world, seeing the self-righteousness roll down like a mighty stream from certain corners of the religious establishment... I must confess, I changed the channel. I wanted my MTV. Even though I was a believer. Perhaps because I was a believer. I was cynical...not about God, but about God's politics. (There you are, Jim.) Then, in 1997, a couple of eccentric, septuagenarian British Christians went and ruined my shtick - my reproachfulness. They did it by describing the millennium, the year 2000, as a Jubilee year, as an opportunity to cancel the chronic debts of the world's poorest people. They had the audacity to renew the Lord's call - and were joined by Pope John Paul II, who, from an Irish half-Catholic's point of view, may have had a more direct line to the Almighty. 'Jubilee' - why 'Jubilee'? What was this year of Jubilee, this year of our Lord's favor? I'd always read the scriptures, even the obscure stuff. There it was in Leviticus (25:35)... 'If your brother becomes poor,' the scriptures say, 'and cannot maintain himself...you shall maintain him.... You shall not lend him your money at interest, not give him your food for profit.' It is such an important idea, Jubilee, that Jesus begins his ministry with this. Jesus is a young man, he's met with the rabbis, impressed everyone, people are talking. The elders say, he's a clever guy, this Jesus, but he hasn't done much...yet. He hasn't spoken in public before... When he does, is first words are from Isaiah: 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,' he says, 'because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.' And Jesus proclaims the year of the Lord's favour, the year of Jubilee (Luke 4:18). What he was really talking about was an era of grace - and we're still in it. So fast-forward 2,000 years. That same thought, grace, was made incarnate - in a movement of all kinds of people. It wasn't a bless-me club... it wasn't a holy huddle. These religious guys were willing to get out in the streets, get their boots dirty, wave the placards, follow their convictions with actions...making it really hard for people like me to keep their distance. It was amazing. I almost started to like these church people. But then my cynicism got another helping hand. It was what Colin Powell, a five-star general, called the greatest W.M.D. of them all: a tiny little virus called AIDS. And the religious community, in large part, missed it. The ones that didn't miss it could only see it as divine retribution for bad behaviour. Even on children...even [though the] fastest growing group of HIV infections were married, faithful women. Aha, there they go again! I thought to myself judgmentalism is back! But in truth, I was wrong again. The church was slow but the church got busy on this the leprosy of our age. Love was on the move. Mercy was on the move. God was on the move. Moving people of all kinds to work with others they had never met, never would have cared to meet...conservative church groups hanging out with spokesmen for the gay community, all singing off the same hymn sheet on AIDS...soccer moms and quarterbacks...hip-hop stars and country stars. This is what happens when God gets on the move: crazy stuff happens! Popes were seen wearing sunglasses! Jesse Helms was seen with a ghetto blaster! Crazy stuff. Evidence of the spirit. It was breathtaking. Literally. It stopped the world in its tracks. When churches started demonstrating on debt, governments listened - and acted. When churches starting organising, petitioning, and even - that most unholy of acts today, God forbid, lobbying...on AIDS and global health, governments listened - and acted. I'm here today in all humility to say: you changed minds; you changed policy; you changed the world. Look, whatever thoughts you have about God, who He is or if He exists, most will agree that if there is a God, He has a special place for the poor. In fact, the poor are where God lives. Check Judaism. Check Islam. Check pretty much anyone. I mean, God may well be with us in our mansions on the hill. I hope so. He may well be with us as in all manner of controversial stuff. Maybe, maybe not. But the one thing we can all agree, all faiths and ideologies, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. "If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom with become like midday and the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places." It's not a coincidence that in the scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions. (You know, the only time Christ is judgmental is on the subject of the poor.) 'As you have done it unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me' (Matthew 25:40). As I say, good news to the poor. Here's some good news for the president. After 9/11 we were told America would have no time for the world's poor. America would be taken up with its own problems of safety. And it's true these are dangerous times, but America has not drawn the blinds and double-locked the doors. In fact, you have doubled aid to Africa. You have tripled funding for global health. Mr. President, your emergency plan for AIDS relief and support for the Global Fund - you and Congress - have put 700,000 people onto life-saving anti-retroviral drugs and provided 8 million bed nets to protect children from malaria. Outstanding human achievements. Counterintuitive. Historic. Be very, very proud. But here's the bad news. From charity to justice, the good news is yet to come. There is much more to do. There's a gigantic chasm between the scale of the emergency and the scale of the response. And finally, it's not about charity after all, is it? It's about justice. Let me repeat that: It's not about charity, it's about justice. And that's too bad. Because you're good at charity. Americans, like the Irish, are good at it. We like to give, and we give a lot, even those who can't afford it. But justice is a higher standard. Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties, it doubts our concern, it questions our commitment. Sixty-five hundred Africans are still dying every day of a preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity, this is about justice and equality. Because there's no way we can look at what's happening in Africa and, if we're honest, conclude that deep down, we really accept that Africans are equal to us. Anywhere else in the world, we wouldn't accept it. Look at what happened in South East Asia with the tsunami. 150,000 lives lost to that misnomer of all misnomers, "mother nature." In Africa, 150,000 lives are lost every month. A tsunami every month. And it's a completely avoidable catastrophe. It's annoying but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain. You know, think of those Jewish sheep-herders going to meet the Pharaoh, mud on their shoes, and the Pharaoh says, "Equal?" A preposterous idea: rich and poor are equal? And they say, "Yeah, 'equal,' that's what it says here in this book. We're all made in the image of God." And eventually the Pharaoh says, "OK, I can accept that. I can accept the Jews - but not the blacks." "Not the women. Not the gays. Not the Irish. No way, man." So on we go with our journey of equality. On we go in the pursuit of justice. We hear that call in the ONE Campaign, a growing movement of more than 2 million Americans...Left and Right together... united in the belief that where you live should no longer determine whether you live. We hear that call even more powerfully today, as we mourn the loss of Coretta Scott King - mother of a movement for equality, one that changed the world but is only just getting started. These issues are as alive as they ever were; they just change shape and cross the seas. Preventing the poorest of the poor from selling their products while we sing the virtues of the free market...that's a justice issue. Holding children to ransom for the debts of their grandparents...that's a justice issue. Withholding life-saving medicines out of deference to the Office of Patents...that's a justice issue. And while the law is what we say it is, God is not silent on the subject. That's why I say there's the law of the land¿. And then there is a higher standard. There's the law of the land, and we can hire experts to write them so they benefit us, so the laws say it's OK to protect our agriculture but it's not OK for African farmers to do the same, to earn a living? As the laws of man are written, that's what they say. God will not accept that. Mine won't, at least. Will yours? [ pause] I close this morning on...very...thin...ice. This is a dangerous idea I've put on the table: my God vs. your God, their God vs. our God...vs. no God. It is very easy, in these times, to see religion as a force for division rather than unity. And this is a town - Washington - that knows something of division. But the reason I am here, and the reason I keep coming back to Washington, is because this is a town that is proving it can come together on behalf of what the scriptures call the least of these. This is not a Republican idea. It is not a Democratic idea. It is not even, with all due respect, an American idea. Nor it is unique to any one faith. 'Do to others as you would have them do to you' (Luke 6:30). Jesus says that. 'Righteousness is this: that one should...give away wealth out of love for him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for the emancipation of the captives.' The Koran says that (2.177). Thus sayeth the Lord: 'Bring the homeless poor into the house, when you see the naked, cover him, then your light will break out like the dawn and your recovery will speedily spring fourth, then your Lord will be your rear guard.' The Jewish scripture says that. Isaiah 58 again. That is a powerful incentive: 'The Lord will watch your back.' Sounds like a good deal to me, right now. A number of years ago, I met a wise man who changed my life. In countless ways, large and small, I was always seeking the Lord's blessing. I was saying, you know, I have a new song, look after it¿. I have a family, please look after them¿. I have this crazy idea... And this wise man said: stop. He said, stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Get involved in what God is doing - because it's already blessed. Well, God, as I said, is with the poor. That, I believe, is what God is doing. And that is what he's calling us to do. I was amazed when I first got to this country and I learned how much some churchgoers tithe. Up to 10% of the family budget. Well, how does that compare with the federal budget, the budget for the entire American family? How much of that goes to the poorest people in the world? Less than 1%. Mr. President, Congress, people of faith, people of America: I want to suggest to you today that you see the flow of effective foreign assistance as tithing.... Which, to be truly meaningful, will mean an additional 1% of the federal budget tithed to the poor. What is 1%? 1% is not merely a number on a balance sheet. 1% is the girl in Africa who gets to go to school, thanks to you. 1% is the AIDS patient who gets her medicine, thanks to you. 1% is the African entrepreneur who can start a small family business thanks to you. 1% is not redecorating presidential palaces or money flowing down a rat hole. This 1% is digging waterholes to provide clean water. 1% is a new partnership with Africa, not paternalism toward Africa, where increased assistance flows toward improved governance and initiatives with proven track records and away from boondoggles and white elephants of every description. America gives less than 1% now. We're asking for an extra 1% to change the world. to transform millions of lives - but not just that and I say this to the military men now - to transform the way that they see us. 1% is national security, enlightened economic self-interest, and a better, safer world rolled into one. Sounds to me that in this town of deals and compromises, 1% is the best bargain around. These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a globalised world. Now, I'm very lucky. I don't have to sit on any budget committees. And I certainly don't have to sit where you do, Mr. President. I don't have to make the tough choices. But I can tell you this: To give 1% more is right. It's smart. And it's blessed. There is a continent - Africa - being consumed by flames. I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not to - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do. Thank you. Thank you, America, and God bless you all. + Share this issue with your friends

News Brief:  February 1, 2006
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"STROBE LIGHT GENERATION" BOOK REVIEW IN THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

Poet Billy Lamont's new book of poems "strobe light generation" is reviewed on The Phantom Tollbooth's excellent music/books/entertainment website.  The book was reviewed on 1/10/2006.  

Reviewer Justin Wright writes, "From short poems (three lines of six syllables each) to poems that run multiple pages,  'strobe light generation' is never boring,  and very enlightening.  Lamont exhibits a level of social consciousness and awareness that is generally lacking in Christianity today.  Open up to his thoughts,  ideas and principles put forth in this book of poetry."

 For the full "strobe light generation" review you can click the link here:  The Phantom Tollbooth
for a "Into The 21st Century" CD review from 1999 you can click the link here: The Phantom Tollbooth




News Brief:  January 30,  2006
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POETRY AS HEALING GIG THANK YOU

"What a day we had at the cafe on sunday the 22nd.   The Spirit that showed up and the timing of it was amazing!!!  More than I can share but the highlights for me were when my old Walk On Water buddy M-Cruz  showed up with his band and I recited poetry as they played Larry Norman's "I Wish We'd All Been Ready,"  the intimacy of just feeling the moment without a set list and reciting poems that I never have from my latest book 'strobe light generation' and also a passionate improv of a scottish acapella song from a stranger/new friend named Alan Short who was in attendance.  The afternoon meant a great deal to me on a personal level," said Billy Lamont.  You can check out M-Cruz's website here: http://www.m-cruz.com/  .   



News Brief:  January 19, 2006
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BILLY LAMONT:  POETRY  AS A PRAYER OF HEALING

***Sunday, January 22, 2006- Cafe Portofino
in Northport, Long Island, New York- 3PM-5PM

An invitation from Poet Billy Lamont:  "It is Thursday [and I know this is short notice but...] I would like to invite the raggamuffins-  my family of friends and fans,  the peculiar people, out to a Northport cafe on Long Island, on Sunday for a few hours for a casual,  intimate poetry reading in what feels like almost a living room atmosphere." 

Lamont continues,  "My heart feels grieved with the recent news of violence/sickness/unemployment/poverty and death of many loved in our family of friends.  Yet my heart is filled with hope and this poetry reading is my prayer of hope,  peace,  love,  healing,  prosperity and life in the face of this grotesque darkness.  The darkness only defines the light and allows it to shine brighter in truth.  Poets feel free to bring a poem of healing .  Musicians please bring a song.  Bring an accoustic guitar.  Also there is a nice sounding piano in the cafe available.  If you don't write or play you could bring a favorite poem to read, or have me read if you are shy.  Or you could bring a song on CD that we could play.  Actually it would be really cool if you could bring a little CD  boom box because mine is broken."

"Please bring any prayer requests for yourself or loved ones and pray for the health of my family member Joanne Matheis and close friends Mike Peters of The Alarm and Johnny Phillippidis of Burlap To Cashmere.  If you cannot make it please email me at: thepoet4u@aol.com with your prayer request and I will lift it up to God in my own way.  This reading is free and my gift to you.  My desire is your presence filled with "new life" for the New Year of 2006.  Love and life to you,"  Lamont concludes. 

Cafe Portofino is located at 249 Main Street,  Northport, NY 11768.  Telephone 631-262-7656.  Directions on CALENDAR page of this website.


News Brief:  December 28,  2005
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"STROBE LIGHT GENERATION" REVIEW IN HM MAGAZINE

Poet Billy Lamont's new book of poems "strobe light generation" is reviewed in the latest January/February 2006 issue of  HM Magazine,  the hard music magazine. 

Reviewer Sam Farries writes, "His (Billy Lamont) latest collection of poetry,  'Strobe Light Generation,'  affirms the cries of the American soul in 21st century stigmatas such as environmental protection,  social justice,  corporate greed,  and spiritual identity."

 For the full review you can purchase it at the following link.  It is the issue with POD on the cover:  HM Magazine
For last year's internet exclusive interview with HM Magazine you can visit this link:  Billy Lamont/HM Magazine Interview

"Happy and blessed New Year everyone!!!  I will be doing a gig in the next few weeks,  poetry and music as a prayer for those in our family of friends in need of:  a healing from a sickness,  a place to live/work or comfort due to the loss of a loved one.  It will be a gathering of the ragamuffins celebrating new life in the new year,"  said Billy Lamont. 

We'll share details as soon as they are available.


News Brief:  December 17,  2005
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PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FRIEND MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER

"It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of my good friend Mike Peters of The Alarm being diagnosed with cancer.
[I want to make sure that Mike is having second opinons from other specialists and investigating alternative medicine before having chemotherapy on Thursday.  As you know chemotherapy is like putting death into your body and many people are   misdiagnosed with cancer at times.]  My heart is also hopeful because I have traveled through Mike having a similar diagnosis of cancer 10 years ago and have been an eye witness of the glory of God in a miraculous healing that he received.  His positive, strong mind is awesome and science is amazing but the power of prayer and the grace of God is key.   There is divine love completely surrounding him now.  Please pray for Mike,  Jules and Dylan Peters and also my friend Johnny Phillippis from Burlap To Cashmere!!!  Thank you." Billy Lamont

My prayer- ~ The love,  peace,  protection and healing power of our soveriegn God be upon Mike,  Jules, Dylan Peters and Johnny Phillippis and YOU this Christmas/holidays and into the New Year and His will be done by His grace in the name of Jesus Christ.~  Billy Lamont  

December 17,   2005 A Personal Message From Mike Peters

Hello my friends, I hope you are all enjoying the best of times as the holiday season approaches. I have some very difficult news to share with you. Last Thursday on the 8th December, I was diagnosed as having cancer. I have been told by my consultant, Dr. E that I have Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). The good news is that although my illness is not curable, it is treatable and, in the words of Dr. E, it is a disease I will probably die with, rather than of. Obviously, this has come as a massive shock to me and my family, especially as it is almost ten years to the day that I was originally diagnosed with cancer (Non Hodgkins Lymphoma). In 1995, no one really knew what had happened to me and how I had come to be 'cured'. Now, with the breaking of the DNA code and the huge leaps in 'understanding cancer', that have happened since, I now know far more about my situation. Ten years ago, it seems that my own immune system supressed the cancer and I was able to go into 'remission' for ten years. (A 'good deal', according to Dr. E!). Today, modern science has unlocked some of the dark secrets of cancer. The one thing about me that is different today from ten years ago, is that my white blood count is extremely high. A normal reading would be between 5 and 10. My count last Thursday was 482! This was the main indicator for my particular form of cancer - CLL (which is almost exactly the same as Non Hodgkins Lymphoma). The team at my local Hospital / North Wales Cancer Centre have been absolutely amazing. I have received only the best, in terms of treatment, care, reassurance and honesty. Last Friday, they sent me to Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor for a treatment known as Leukapharesis. I was wired up to a machine and my blood was drained off a litre at a time, separated by a centrifugal force and put back into me, minus the white blood. It was a long and arduous procedure lasting over four hours (and not without a considerable amount of discomfort!), but it has brought my white blood count down to 380. On Monday, I was back at the Cancer Centre to see Dr. E who had arranged for me to have a biopsy under general anaesthetic on Wednesday. The Biopsy is to confirm Dr. E's diagnosis of CLL and to rule out any other form of cancer such as Mantle Cell Lymphoma. The biopsy was performed by Dr. Z, who successfully removed an enlarged lymph node from my neck. (The other good news is that I was out in time to see Man Utd v Wigan on T.V. that evening!). At the hospital during the afternoon, I was again visited by Dr. E, who indicated to me that with my cancer being at CLL Stage 1, he feels I should begin a course of chemotherapy starting next Friday the 22nd December. He has also told me, that, subject to my response, he should be able to work the chemotherapy around my desire to perform at The Gathering in January. I am starting out on the mildest form of chemotherapy and providing it is timed correctly, I should be in an 'up' part of my cycle and therefore fit enough to perform. I want to reassure all of you that I will be fighting this fight with every ounce of energy I can muster. I have my wife Jules, and son Dylan beside me and they are reason enough to live for. They have both been incredible. Jules has embarked on a virtual degree course this weekend. She has asked Dr. E a million questions and has searched the web, devouring information to enable us both to deal with the shock of this life-changing situation. Be reassured, my outlook for the future is still the same as for any healthy person of my age. The only difference is that now I have to learn how to live with cancer. If I respond well to the chemotherapy, I can hopefully put the cancer into remission for another ten years or even longer. That is the only uncertainty, how long will my body keep the cancer at bay before having to start all over again? My immune system will never be the same as it once was. From now on, I have to be vigilant at all times and protect myself against infection. The biggest threat to my life is not from cancer but from infection. A common cold that, if not treated immediately, could turn nasty and become pneumonia. This is the mantra that has been drilled into me by the medical team - to protect myself against illness. I know all of this will be a massive shock to you but I want you to stay positive and focused. Life is for the living. The Gathering is going to be extremely special this year and ironically, the new album could not be more aptly titled. 'Under Attack' has taken on new meaning for me, my family and the band. I believe it is the best album I have ever had the pleasure of recording. Some of the songs came to me on my iPod whilst I was in hospital and they gave me a big lift. I am so looking forward to next year because of the music, you would not believe. I will still be able to make music and perform concerts (although I think it's safe to say I won't be traveling abroad until I have got this thing under control and there may be two bald guys in the band come January!!!!!!). I also hope to take a full role in the promotion of the single and album. At times like this you need your family and friends around you and as you are all part of my family, I aim to keep you as informed as possible. I'll be running a detailed diary on the website and keep you posted with regular updates. I will be trying to live my life as normally as possible and I have to say that I feel incredibly positive about the future. I will see you all at The Gathering or at a show in the U.K. Until then, keep me in your thoughts, you will be in mine. Love and life, Mike Peters December 15th 2005

Press Release:  December 13, 2005
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POET BILLY LAMONT JOINS BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR WALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE.

 

Internationally acclaimed Poet Billy Lamont has accepted an offer to become a member of  the Board Of Trustees for the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in West Hills/Huntington,  Long Island.

 

"My desire to be on the Board Of Trustees for the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association comes from a deep respect artistically for Walt Whitman's poetry,  a genuine appreciation of the spiritual aspect of "the man" and his birthplace house's historical significance.  My goals as a Board Member are intertwined with this vision,"  Lamont said. 

 

Billy Lamont has stated his goals as a Board Of Trustee member are towards: education for Long Islanders and visitors internationally so they can reflect and learn from Whitman's life,  work and times;  preservation of this important historical landmark with it's integrity intact;  event ideas,  coordination and contacts for inside of society families,  children and scholars but with a new focus on the youth and an added perspective for sometimes outside of society artists,  musicians,  poets,  intellectuals,  philosophers and activists,  for the well known as well as the unknown;  and the spiritual significance of Whitman's work including his wonder for life and humanitarian efforts to help encourage hope,  dignity and respect for all life.  Lamont states an example of this last point is Whitman's compassion for the soldiers during The Civil War in helping nurse them back to health and his humanitarian spirit as America's identity was being defined.

 

Lamont comments,  "Whitman is such a wonderful poet whose work is filled with the wonder of life.  I especially love and am inspired by 'I sing The Body Electric' and 'Great Are The Myths.'  He is the first great American poet that helped define our great country and he was born right here,  the second of nine children in Huntigton,  Long Island on May 31st in 1819."

 

Poet Billy Lamont is also a Long Islander.  He has performed on MTV and Much Music Television and appeared on major radio stations across the United States. Lamont has also performed at many major rock festivals including touring with Lollapalooza '94, '95, 2003 and Cornerstone Festival 2004.

Billy Lamont's new book of poems "strobe light generation" was just released by Infinity Publishing and is available now at www.buybooksontheweb.com, borders.com and amazon.com. Like Walt Whitman's poetry "strobe light generation"'s message of hope shines brightly but in today's setting of this fast paced age of consumerism, quick fix spirituality, sensationalism in the press and reality television.    

 

In response to the success and impressive sales of his first above ground book of poetry, "The Gallery Of Light," Lamont has given many book signings in shopping malls at such major book stores as Barnes and Noble and Waldenbooks. "The Gallery Of Light" is distributed nationally in the U.S. by Ingram.

 

Lamont said, "We are planning a special night on May 12th,  on a Friday night,  to celebrate Walt Whitman's birthday.  This event will feature my post modern poetry with innovative electronic music artistry that will be especially interesting to young people and artists." 

Lamont's latest CD/chapbook is entitled "billy lamont with the peculiar people" and is a benefit for the Father of Christian Rock Larry Norman's Emergency Healthcare Trust Fund. It is available through Flaming Fish Music at www.flamingfish.com and is currently on the label/distributors bestseller's list for new releases, dance and experimental electronic music.

 

Lamont's first CD/EP "Into The 21st Century" is a benefit for Teen Challenge and includes the late Allen Ginsberg reciting from his legendary poem "Howl" on the title track. In Mr. Ginsberg's last years he showed love, respect and encouragement to Lamont's artwork through this appearance. Mike Peters of The Alarm also appears on the title track as a special guest. This critically acclaimed CD is distributed by The Orchard at theorchard.com and available digitally internationally at iTunes.com. 

 

Lamont has performed for live audiences of up to 10,000 people. Lamont's first national television performance/interview was on the Joe Franklin Show in 1991 and his first nationally syndicated radio interview/performance was on the "Religon And Rock" program recorded at WBAB, in his longtime hometown of Babylon, New York.

 

Lamont's family roots in Babylon date back to the 1930's when his grandparents Charles "Sal" and Mary Amoreno settled here in Babylon.  Charles was the architect for the Jones Beach Theater and Water Tower under Robert Moses and Mary was a member of the first woman's auxillary in Babylon.

Lamont is also a talented and accomplished television industry professional with an extensive background in master control operations and supervision.  He currently oversees the origination of thirty television networks on a daily basis for Rainbow/Cablevision including IFC,  AMC, WE,  High Definition Voom Networks and regional Fox Sports networks.

 

For the last years Lamont has also been serving as a Board of Trustees member that oversees the New York area for the justice organization Jubilee USA/2000 /International Movement.  Lamont's affiliation with Jubilee goes back to 1999 when he organized and performed in a show in Manhattan for Jubilee 2000's first national mobilization on Washington D.C. 

 

Lamont concludes,  "I am very honored to accept this position and to be in such good company on the Board Of Trustees.   My love for Walt Whitman's poetry and friendship with the Executive Director Barbara Mazor Bart of the Walt Whitman Birthplace goes back a number of years including a successful Book Release Party/Poetry Reading I hosted to launch my first above ground book of poetry 'The Gallery Of Light' in 1994.  We are planning some exciting events for the future.  Whitman's  birthplace is an official New York State Historical site." 

 

Lamont attended his first WWBA board meeting on Saturday,  October 29th. 

Still interested? More information at his Official Website: billylamont.com

News Brief: Thursday, December 8, 2005
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LAMONT REMEMBERS JOHN LENNON OF THE BEATLES

"It is the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death.  I find myself feeling really sad today like on the day he was tragically murdered.  Lennon with The Beatles and solo  will always be  one of the greatest  recording artists of all time and one of my biggest influences from when I was a child.  I remember reading a quote from him a long time ago.  I can't remember where.   Lennon said something like he was always a violent youth and he learned to be more peaceful and this is why he wanted to express peace and give it to others by publicizing it,"  Lamont said.

Lamont adds,  "I can relate a lot to this comment by Lennon.  Those close to me know that I am a pacifist but I wasn't always this way.  I grew up a street kid getting into fights often.  This is something that a lot of people don't know because I had sort of a 'sensitive pony tail man' look when most people started becoming aware of my poetry.  I sort of became a hippie in some people's minds although I was more of an alternative artist but just traveling through a U2-like "The Joshua Tree" period at the time.  Well it could have been worse I could have been  labeled in my bi-level mullet haircut photo's.  hahahahahahah."

Lamont continues, "It's just so sad that we lost another man of peace to violence.  It's often a random, crazy guy that kills the man of peace too,  isn't it?  Or the man of peace being discredited as insane.  In a way the violence to Lennon ended up helping to define his life and made it more powerful.  It reminds me of a quote from Einstein that my friend Steve Wolf shared with me one time that says 'Great spirits often encounter violent opposition from lesser minds.'."

Lamont said, "It's like when I attended the U2 concert at Madison Square Garden a few weeks ago.  It was an amazing show with two of my greatest influences/inspirations performing.  Everyone knows how much I love U2 and poet/punk Patti Smith who was opening the show.  I sat in the first row behind the stage when Patti Smith said something like 'There is no such thing as a righteous war.' mentioning Iraq.  A good portion of the large Madison Square Garden audience began to boo her.  I felt like 'Oh my God.  I can't believe this.  How could this be?'  I felt like running on stage and sticking up for Patti to the crowd.  War is insane.  Can't we speak about that publicly.  Patti then did a beautiful version of 'Peaceable Kingdom' from her latest CD 'Trampin.'  Later in the night U2 did an intense version of their new song 'Love and Peace Or Else' that was well received.  I was happy later that they had Patti Smith join them in the final encore of John Lennon's 'Instant Karma.'  Unfortunately the audience once again began to boo Patti.  It was then that I started to contemplate and remember the late John Lennon and realized later that thankfully his spirit of peace is still alive through these artists."

Lamont concludes, "While I'm rambling on about roots and influences lately I want to mention how powerful it was to see the Bob Dylam documentary 'No Direction Home' by Martin Scorcese.  It is so well done and is like a conversation I always wanted to have with Dylan about his influences and life.  I recommend it hightly.  Very powerful footage and interviews focusing mostly on his early folk to electric band period.  The Johnny Cash movie 'Walk The Line' is also  a well acted,  really well done movie.  I don't know how accurate the content is but I enjoyed it and I love the late Cash's work.  From one 'man in black' to another well done.  Talk to you soon."                     

News Brief: Wednesday, December 7,  2005
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LAMONT COMMENTS ON HARRY CHAPIN,  JOHNNY PHILIPPIDIS OF BURLAP TO CASHMERE

Poet Billy Lamont said,  "Today would have been Harry Chapin's 63rd birthday.  I just heard a Bruce Springstein cover of one of Chapin's songs called 'remember when the music' played on WFUV Fordham University  radio.  Chapin was a native Long Islander who did a great work for Long Island's poor by founding the  Long Island Cares organization which is still doing amazing work today.  Some of my first poetry performances were where Chapin had lived when he was alive in Huntington,  Long Island  in 1991 and 1992 and were benefits for this organization."   You can check out a link to:
Long Island Cares

Lamont said,  "Harry Chapin's music reminded me of my friend's Steve Delopoulos and Johnny Philippidis of Burlap To Cashmere's music today.  It is so well crafted but beyond that really brings the sun up and Heaven's glory down!!!!!!!  You may have heard that Johnny Phillipidis was beaten within an inch of his life with a baseball bat in Brooklyn a few weks ago in a road rage incident after a car accident.  Johnny was leaving a recording session.  Please pray for Johnny and his family.  I am praying for Johnny and believe these guys will play live and record again soon." 

More information on Johnny Philippidis below on Thanksgiving Day News Brief.

News Brief:  Tuesday, December 6, 2005
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POET BILLY LAMONT WRITES LETTER FOR "MOVE ON" PETITION TO NEWSDAY

More information below from MOVEON.org and a link to sign this petition:

Dear New York MoveOn member,

Newsday is slashing 171 people from its staff¹, despite large corporate profits.² This means watered-down coverage of local news in the Long Island and New York City area. Politicians and corporations who should be held accountable by vigilant watchdog journalism will instead be covered by a staff that is stretched too thin.

Equally outrageous, New Yorkers are being kept in the dark about why these cuts are really happening. Despite reaping huge profits, Newsday's corporate owners in Chicago simply aren't satisfied—they want more, and they are willing to sacrifice good journalism to get it.³  Instead of stating this, Newsday's publisher makes veiled references to how "our 2006 goals" require finding "areas where work could be done differently or stopped altogether."⁴

Newsday's corporate owners think they can get away with this because nobody is paying attention. But we're starting a petition to show the strong public opposition to these cuts. MoveOn Media Action is a campaign empowering regular people to fight back when news outlets abandon their journalistic duty to be a vigilant watchdog for the public.

Please sign the petition to Newsday and its corporate owners demanding they reverse the newspaper staff cuts by clicking here:

http://civic.moveon.org/newsdaycuts/?id=6481-4539599-3joY_gec9LrSIQ0g20v9Gw&t=3

After you sign the petition, please forward this message to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers who read Newsday.

The Tribune Company is forcing many of its newspapers around the country to slash their staff.  Over 550 staff cuts at eight papers have been announced this year—with nearly a third of them at Newsday alone. As a result of these cuts, two Newsday editors who helped guide Pulitzer Prize winning coverage were fired this year.⁵

One of Newsday's most celebrated reporters, Pulitzer Prize winner Laurie Garrett, resigned in March. Her exit memo to colleagues describes the priorities of the paper's corporate owners:

They serve their stockholders first, Wall St. second and somewhere far down the list comes service to newspaper readerships. In 1996 I personally confronted [top Newsday executive Mark] Willes on that point, and he publicly confirmed that the new regime was one in which even the number of newspapers sold was irrelevant, so long as stock returns continued to rise...All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.⁶

This issue is increasingly in the news. On CNN, media reporter Howard Kurtz addressed such staff cuts and asked, "Does this mean the papers are losing money? Don't be naive. It means their double-digit profit margins aren't high enough to satisfy Wall Street."³

A former official at the Los Angeles Times, also owned by the Tribune Company, summarized the corporate owners' disregard for the quality of the paper's reporting as follows: "You've no idea how fast these folks are strip-mining the place...They care nothing for journalism."⁷

We must defend the reporters and editors who produce the paper each day but cannot speak out against their corporate owners and managers. We can fight these news cuts by forcing Newsday's corporate owners in Chicago to pay attention to the readers they are supposed to be serving in New York.

Please sign the petition to stop the news cuts at Newsday, and pass it along to others you know:

http://civic.moveon.org/newsdaycuts/?id=6481-4539599-3joY_gec9LrSIQ0g20v9Gw&t=4

Thank you for all you do.

–Noah T. Winer and Adam Green
  MoveOn Media Action
  Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

News Brief:  November 24, 2005- Thanksgiving Day
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"PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FRIEND JOHNNY PHILIPPIDIS OF BURLAP TO CASHMERE WHO IS IN A COMA AFTER BEING A VICTIM OF A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT IN BROOKLYN LAST WEEK" ~poet billy lamont~
STORY BELOW

Road-rage horror

Musician in a coma after beating in Brooklyn fight - suspect arrested

BY AUSTIN FENNER and ROBERT F. MOORE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

John Philippidis A Christian rock musician - who once played for Pope John Paul II - was nearly beaten to death early yesterday by an off-duty airport security agent during a Brooklyn road-rage clash, cops and relatives said. Johnny Philippidis, 27, lay in a medically induced coma last night at Lutheran Medical Center, and his mother, Jannine, was keeping vigil at his bedside. "He was beaten and left for dead," said his stepfather, Bill Eisenhardt, 54. "It's a shame to be attacked over something as minor as a fender-bender." The Christian rocker was attacked shortly after leaving a Manhattan studio where he had been recording a new album, his family said. Jonathan Goody, 25, was driving from his job at Kennedy Airport when his luxury sedan and Philippidis' SUV collided at 12:40 a.m. at 65th St. and Third Ave. in Bay Ridge, police said. Both men got out of their vehicles after the wreck and allegedly exchanged heated words. Police said the federal Transportation Security Administration agent hit Philippidis several times and then sped away. A concerned passerby tried to help Philippidis as he lay in the street, less than a mile from his home, a police source said. The passerby called 911 and an alert cop - who had earlier ticketed Goody for parking in front of a fire hydrant - heard the description of the vehicle over the police radio. The cop already had Goody's address, and drove to his Brighton Beach home and arrested him. Charges were pending last night, police said. Goody's mother said her son is a quiet man and an Army veteran who was honorably discharged in January 2003 after serving in the Mideast before the Iraq war. "The police told him he was in a hit-and-run," said Brenda Goody, 47. "They had to search his car." Philippidis suffered a broken nose and fractures to his jaw and eye socket. The coma was induced to relieve pressure on his brain. Philippidis, who played for the Pope in Rome in 2001, was a member of the now-defunct Christian group Burlap to Cashmere. The Brooklyn-based group, begun by Philippidis and his cousin Steven DeLopoulos, recorded an independent album in 1997 and signed with A&M Records the next year. "His music is about living," his stepdad said, adding that the 5-foot-8 140-pounder would never have started the fight. "His hands are his livelihood. He would never attack anyone."

News Brief:  November 4, 2005
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POET BILLY LAMONT JOINS BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR WALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE.

Poet Billy Lamont has accepted an offer to become a member of  the Board Of Trustees for the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in West Hills/Huntington,  Long Island. 

Lamont comments,   "Whitman is such a wonderful poet whose work is filled with the wonder of life.  I especially love and am inspired by 'I sing The Body Electric' and 'Great Are The Myths.'  He is the first great American poet that helped define our country.  Walt Whitman was born the second of nine children in Huntigton,  Long Island on May 31st in 1819.  His family and ancestors had also lived in Huntington for many years before this."      

Lamont adds,  "I am very honored to accept this position and to be in such good company on the Board Of Trustees.   My love for Walt Whitman's poetry and friendship with the Executive Director Barbara Mazor Bart of the Walt Whitman Birthplace goes back a number of years including a successful Book Release Party/Poetry Reading I hosted to launch my first above ground book of poetry 'The Gallery Of Light' in 1994.  We are planning some exciting events for the future.  Whitman's  birthplace is an official New York State Historical site." 

Lamont attended his first board meeting with them on Saturday,  October 29th.  A formal press release will be released shortly.  You can check out the Walt Whitman Birthplace link at:
Walt Whitman Birthplace Accociation

Lamont is also on the Board Of Directors for Jubilee USA in New York helping to oversee the New York area the last few years.  You can check out Jubille USA link here:
Jubilee USA

News Brief:  October 17, 2005

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INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL RELEASE OF POET BILLY LAMONT'S "INTO THE 21ST CENTURY" CD

Poet Billy Lamont's CD entitled "Into The 21st Century" has just been released digitally internationally to itunes,  Rhapsody,  eMusic,  MSN Music and many others through the label/distributor The Orchard.  This CD/EP is from 2000 and includes two of Lamont's biggest inspirations as guests the late Allen Ginsberg and Mike Peters from The Alarm.  See link below.

"There is still a lot of interest in this CD in an underground sort of a way and I thought that considering the future of the music business this would be a great way to deliver it to the fans internationally that would prefer to purchase it digitally for their IPOD's or home computers,"   Lamont said.

Lamont's newly released book of poems "strobe light generation" has been gaining momentum including just getting picked up by Borders.com and Amazon.com.  These links are below. 

Lamont says,  "All kinds of people are connecting with 'strobe light generation's' message of hope in this age of consumerism,  quick fix spirituality,  sensationalism in the press and reality televison.  There is a wind of change in the world right now.  Can you feel it?  The strobe light's light keeps getting brighter and the darkness more grotesque."

Lamont's latest CD/chapbook "billy lamont with the peculiar people" is still on the bestsellers lists for new releases,  dance and experimental music at the excellent electronic music label/distributor Flaming Fish Music in Canada.   Also Lamont's first book of poems "The Gallery Of Light" from 1994 is still in print and continues to sell well  being distributed by Ingram.  We also recommend our new partners NetStoreUSA.com very highly for international orders of "The Gallery Of Light." See these links below.

Lamont comments,  "I am grateful for my relationship with Flaming Fish Music and Ingram.  Flaming Fish is a great label that has turned me on to so much great electronic music and I am proud to be associated with them.  I have been inspired and will be continuing in the electronic music direction in the near future.   Ingram was/is my first above ground national distributor and are the biggest distributor of books in the world.  They warehoused "The Gallery Of Light" in many parts of the United States helping it to find it's way to the shelves of many major book stores.  This has been a key business relationship for me."               

Borders.com:
"strobe light generation"- new book of poems

Flaming Fish Music:
"billy lamont with the peculiar people"- latest poetry with music CD

Amazon.com:
"Into The 21st Century" -CD of poetry and music
"The Gallery Of Light" -book of poems

The Orchard- digital release of "Into The 21st Century" poetry with music CD to itunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and MSN Music:
"Into The 21st Century"- digital release through The Orchard

NetStoreUSA.com:
International orders of "The Gallery Of Light"- book of poems

 Note:  Free copies of Lamont's latest book's and CD's are available to members of the media desiring to review them.  Free CD's are also available for radio play at major and college radio stations and internet radio sites.  We just ask for the date and  air time so we can stream audio and invite fans to listen in through the internet when available.  Please contact The Other Perspective Management with requests at 631-981-4780,  or email: thepoet4u@aol.com or mail to: P.O. Box 284, Northport, NY 11768. * Lamont will send free CD's/books to fans that would like to have them but cannot afford the price when available in stock.  Please use the same The Other Perspective contact information for these requests.   

Billy Lamont would like to travel and perform/do book signings in different states of the U.S. and in other countries more often in the near future.   If you would like him to perform in your area please telephone 631-981-4780 or email:  thepoet4u@aol.com for rates and more information.  Billy Lamont is willing to waive his performance fee for worthy causes from time to time.    

Also Note:  Our apologies for the delay in rolling out the new billylamont.com website.  We have been promising it and it has been in production for way over a year.  Professional webdesigner Gloria Rios has been creating a beautiful new site with Billy Lamont's input that will be worth the wait.  Gloria Rios' family health issues and other issues has delayed the process.  Please pray for her.  Like so many people in our family of friends personal tradgedy has been hitting us just as we are ready to move ahead and soar to new heights.  It is similar to what Billy Lamont has been experienceing as he focuses on promoting his new book.  Usually personal tragedy and unusual drama has a way of becoming a counter force.  Please pray for us also so we can continue to bring hope and a voice for the voiceless to the world in a spirit of love without opression.  Thank you.  Love and life to you.      
 

News Brief:  September 25, 2005
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POET BILLY LAMONT DISCUSSES ATTENDING "DEAD MEN WALKING" SHOW

On Friday night,  September 25th Billy Lamont attended the Dead Men Walking show at CBGB's.  This performance could very well be one of the last CBGB's shows with the possibility of the club closing down after Helmet's show on Wednesday.  Dead Men Walking is an all star punk/alternative music band that includes Mike Peters of The Alarm,   Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats,  Captain Sensible of The Damned and Kirk Brandon of Theater Of Hate/Spear Of Destiny.  European dates have included Billy Duffy of The Cult,  Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols and Mick Jones of The Clash.     

Lamont tells it in his own words,  "I consider Mike Peters a brother and it is always great to see him.  His performance tonight was unbelievable as well as all the Dead Men Walking.  Peters is through the roof.  He keeps getting more and more outstanding everytime I see him.  It was great hanging out with and enjoying a few laughs with the very amusing original punk Captain Sensible from The Damned (the first punk band's were The Clash,  The Sex Pistols and The Damned,  right?) in the wee hours of the morning.  The highlight of the night for me was listening to what Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats had to say and chatting with this amazing artist/pioneer.  It turns out that Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats and Lemy of Motorhead joined these guys on stage over the past few nights in California.  Kirk Brandon of Theater Of Hate and Spear Of Destiny also was hanging out and gave an awesome vocal and guitar performance that night."

Lamont continued, "It was also great to run into Alex Coletti,  Executive Producer of  MTV/M2 "Unplugged" show (and many other programs) again.  It brought back a flood of memories of MTV days:  being interviewed and reciting on MTV's Most Wanted show with VJ Kennedy at the Beach House,  appearing in the audience of MTV Video Music Awards 1996 sitting in the 4th row next to a Saturday Night Live comedian as he was performing/impersonating then President Bill Clinton.  I was sitting behind the Red Hot Chili Peppers and then basketball star Dennis Rodman.  I remember sitting in front of and chatting with/hitting it off with then comedian,  now movie star/activist Jeanne Gorotholo.  I received international telephone calls from friends/music business acquaintances for weeks after that appearance,  also some hard to reach major music business executives were suddenly taking this poets phone calls,  hahaha....,  this poets stock went through the roof at that time.....hahahahha.  Arround that same time I remember making a quick cameo appearance in Mike Peters "Shine On" music video that Alex Coletti worked on and  that Darius Anthony was Director for.  In the video I was sitting on Mike Peters' left side as he plays his acoustic guitar in the streets of Soho, New York City.  It was shot on my birthday.  The song was played on MTV and was on his "Feel Free" CD.  I decorated the streets of Soho with my "War On Poverty" protest sign and some friend's artwork and books lined the streets.  I also remember traveling to Whales,  England with Coletti and others in 1996. 

Lamont concludes,  "Another highlight for me was seeing and hanging out with my first poetry with music collaborator and long time friend/collaborator Billy "Banana Bill" Poulos and his "Happy Nightmare" WUSB,  Stonybrook college radio show partner Peter.  I'm glad to hear that they may be doing that show once again.  "Banana Bill"'s quick wit was hillarious on that show.  I remember appearing on that show a number of times and Poulos turning me on to all kinds of new underground electronic music and industrial music too.  Poulos and I also chatted about our first national television appearance (nationally syndicated) on the Joe Franklin show in 1991 and past CBGB's performances together.  It was also nice to see my friend Rochelle Goldman who has a longtime punk rock show on WUSB 90.1 FM on Long Island.  It was also very cool hanging out with fellow poet Steven J. Messina from The Serial Poets and..... passing the policeman's breath analizer test when I was pulled over while driving home that night (with probable cause?)..... I'm not going out that way G!!!!!!!! hahahaha..... Sorry I'm rabbling on it's just that I am so excited.  Just wanted to say-  it's nice saying goodbye to CBGB's in this way these last nights.   What a punk rock show!!!"

News Brief:  September 13, 2005
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Billy Lamont's new book of poems "strobe light generation" has been picking up momentum and is now available at
borders.com and amazon.com
The CBGB's 313 Gallery gig was an awesome night with great performances from Billy Lamont and Steven Messina of The Serial Poets.  Lamont said,  "My emotional response to Hurricane Katrina Disaster in an improv poem,  possibly saying goodbye to CBGB's,  personal situations and also the anniversary of World Trade Center Tragedy all added to the intensity of my perfromance that night.  I feel it may have been one of my best performances ever and I am glad independent filmaker Scott Perry was videotaping it.  That show had my blood all over it."

Lamont would like to ask you to check out this Sojourners Magazine link and consider taking the Katrina pledge:
Sojourners "Katrina Pledge"
also to consider givng to the Red Cross unless as Lamont said, "you can find a way to aid the victims more directly because I have observed lots of/most of the money disappearing down the rat hole of bureaucracy at the Red Cross in New York,  money that should have been for the families of September 11th victims.  As in any company/charity/government accountability and transparency is needed when dealing with large sums of money and it hasn't just been the Red Cross.  It just makes me sick when money is stotlen from victims that need the money to survive and might not have the energy or knowledge to fight for it.  It is a disgrace.  That is the next fight I should help fight!"   
Red Cross

Press Release: August 18, 2005
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POET "BILLY LAMONT WITH THE PECULIAR PEOPLE" HELPING TO SAVE CBGB'S IN MANHATTAN ON SEPTEMBER 3RD

Internationally acclaimed New York poet Billy Lamont will celebrate Labor Day with a performance/book signing of his new book of poems entitled "strobe light generation" at the legendary CBGB's 313 Gallery located at 313 Bowery in Manhattan on Saturday,  September 3, 2005 at 8-8:40 PM sharp.

 Lamont said,  "CBGB's has been a home away from home for me.  I am grateful for having a space that has allowed me the freedom to develop my live show and performance art these past years.  The door money will be going to help save CBGB's from being closed down due to irresponsible rent increases by the landlords.  My last minute performance with The Serial Poets and Loki The Grump last week on Friday, August 12th in CBGB's Underground Lounge was also to benefit CBGB's and in addition the victims from the London bombing's families."  For information on how you can help save CBGB's you can visit the website:  http://www.savecbgb.org/.

Lamont continued,  "I will be reading/performing from my newly released book "strobe light generation" which is a statement on the illness within our culture and it's soundbite thought patterns.  It searches for the underlying wisom in the noise.  I declared this 'the strobe light generation' a few years ago while performing at Lollapalooza with my friend Mike Peters from The Alarm. This idea and philosophy is now coming to fruition as it is expressed within the poetry in this book."  "strobe light generation" which is published by Infinity Publishing can be purchased throught the website:  buybooksonthe web.com or more specifically at the link:  http://www.bbotw.com/description.asp?ISBN=0-7414-2338-3

The night at CBGB's is entitled "billy lamont with the peculiar people" after the title of Lamont's new CD/chapbook on the electronic music label/distributor Flaming Fish Music located in Canada.  Since it's release it has been steadilly on the bestsellers lists for new releases,  experimental and dance music.  It is available at the flamingfish.com website link: http://www.flamingfish.com/storev2/customer/home.php?cat=62/websitef  Lamont said,  "the peculiar people concept shows the art in everyday materials,  see's God in ordinary people."       

 Lamont will perform "insecurity/glisten" his new single with The Way Sect Bloom from "the peculiar people" CD.  He will also be performing his previous single "protest: a declaration/what are you afraid of?" with drum and bass electronic music provided by Base 9 recording artist's Alpha One Seven.  This song was being played live at the recent Republican National Convention protests as well as on WBAI radio 99.5 FM in Manhattan during the protests.   

Lamont concludes,  "My poetry's postmodern imagery will resonate in this art gallery atmosphere.  Some of my first poetry performances and photo shoots have been at this legendary punk club and in this gallery.  Sure feels like the birthplace of what I consider to be my sacred art.  I saw one of my biggest inspirations punk poet/mystic Patti Smith perform here.  I hope to see you at CBGB's."

Honorary members of "the peculiar people" John Bembenek of Jerky Medicine and Steve Messina of The Serial Poets will also be performing.  Messina will perform a set of spoken word with music.  Messina is also a recognized hardcore rock and roll photographer.  You can check out his music at:  http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=3004447&Mytoken=20050818100316

Poet Billy Lamont's official website is: billylamont.com.  Lamont has performed on MTV,  Joe Franklin Show,  Much Music Television and his first above ground book of poetry entitled "The Gallery Of Light,"  which is distributed by Ingram,  has been a great success internationally.  His first CD/EP "Into The 21st Century" was a benefit for Teen Challenge,  includes the late Allen Ginsberg,  as a guest,  reciting from his legendary poem "Howl" and is distributed by The Orchard at theorchard.com.  Both this book and CD are also available through the amazon.com website.  Lamont has performed and toured with the rock festival Lollapalooza many times including the "World Of Just BeCauses" activism area for the Lollapalooza 2003 tour.  On the 4th of July 2004,  Lamont joined the rock band The Alarm on stage to rave reviews at the Cornerstone 2004 Festival near Chicago, Illinois. 


Official website:  billylamont.com

Contact:
      The Other Perspective Management
      general:(631) 981-4780
      fax:  (631) 376-0180
      e-mail:  thepoet4u@aol.com
           mail:  PO Box 284, Northport, NY 11768

News Brief:  August 13, 2005
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POET BILLY LAMONT PERFORMS AT BENEFIT AT CBGB"S UNDERGROUND LOUNGE/ATTENDS ALARMSTOCK AT ELECTRIC LADYLAND STUDIOS

Poet Billy Lamont performed to a jam packed CBGB's Underground Lounge on Friday,  August 12th as a guest of punk bands The Serial Poets,  Loki The Grump and Early Edison.   The show was a benefit to help save CBGB's from closing down and for the Red Cross in London to aid families of the London bombings.  Lamont said that it was an incredibly inspiring few days for him starting at CBGB's and hanging out with his family of friends as well as the next day on Saturday, August 13th attending an event hosted by Mike Peters Of The Alarm at Electric Ladyland Studios and having a late night dinner at the White Horse Tavern where poet Dylan Thomas used to hang out and write.

Billy Lamont and Mike Peters of The Alarm recorded a song together with the late Allen Ginsberg reciting from his legendary poem "Howl" that Mr. Ginsberg was kind enough to give his blessings on prior to passing on.  The song is entitled "Into The 21st Century" and is included on Lamont's first CD of the same title released in 1998 available at The Orchard as a benefit for Teen Challenge.  Lamont has performed together with Mike Peters many times including at Lollapalooza 1995 at Randall's Island,  Fez in 1995,  Mercury Lounge in 1998,  CBGB's Underground Lounge also in 1998 all in New York,   at Maxwell's in Hoboken,  New Jersey,  The Saint in Asbury Park NJ and also in Arizona and throughout California in 1998.  Lamont also performed with The Alarm's full band at the Cornerstone 2004 Festival in the Chicago area.

Billy Lamont in awe at Electric Ladyland Studios being blown away by his long time friend Mike Peters of The Alarm's acoustic performance and new recording's and the history within this studio at Alarmstock event.  Photo by Steven J. Messina.

Mike Peters of The Alarm at Electric Ladyland studio in the process of claiming his crown as one of the greatest songwriters/recording artists of our time!  This is the same studio Jimi Hendrix built on West 8th Street in Manhattan.  The Clash,  Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones among other  legendary rock bands have recorded classic albums/CD's here.

Question:  ***Hey who's book and CD/chapbook is that in Mike Peter's hand in the above photo.
Answer:  ***Billy Lamont's new book of poems "strobe light generation" and CD/chapbook "with the peculiar people."
That's who!!!  Cheers Mike!!!!!!!

News Brief:  July 20, 2005
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POET BILLY LAMONT BOOK SIGNING AT BOOK REVUE A GREAT SUCCESS

Poet Billy Lamont's book signing on Tuesday, July 19th at the Book Revue in Huntington,  Long Island was a great success.  Billy Lamont signed and performed poetry from his recently released book of poems "strobe light generation"  and also had a questions and answers session with the standing room only crowd overflowing the book store.  All of Lamont's books on hand for sale that evening were sold out with a great demand for more. 

Lamont said,  "This was a very memorable night.  Many longtime friends as well as new friends/fans,  some traveling great distances,  shared personal stories of being influenced by my poetry at important times in their life.  It is humbling,  I received a lot of love and it is appreciated .  A heartfelt thank you to everyone that made this night a success.  A special thank you to Decendant.  His electronic music artistry in our collaboration was amazing."

According to Steve Wolf and Nick Cusumano at The Other Perspective Management,  this book has great potential and along with Lamont's passion for live performances is lighting a fire for an even greater audience and influence for Lamont's artwork.  "strobe light generation" and also the "billy lamont with the peculiar people" CD can be purchased through the "LINKS" section of this website.      

Lamont said,  '"strobe light generation" was definitely born from the area and the times I've grown up in.  I feel Walt Whitman's influence in his birthplace of Huntington.  I feel the alleys ,  backstreets,  rooftops,  lofts,  cafes and love of New York City in my poetry and feel like I visit punk/poet/mystic Patti Smith there in this post-911 era.  I think of Jack Kerouac and the late Allen Ginsberg when I walk through the town of Northport,  Long Island and chat with his old drinking buddies at Gunther's pub except I am declaring this the strobe light generation instead of being a member of the beat geberation.  I feel the wonder of Whitman,  the searching of Kerouac and the edge and compassion of Smith in these writngs among other great influences but with my own originality and voice as a postmodern signature.  Thanks again to everyone for there love and support."           

Press Release: June 5, 2005

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POET BILLY LAMONT BOOK SIGNING AT BOOK REVUE IN HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND

Internationally acclaimed New York poet Billy Lamont celebrates the release of his new book of poems entitled "strobe light generation" with a book signing/poetry recital at the Book Revue bookstore located at 313 New York Ave. in Huntington, Long Island on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 8 PM.
 
"The poetry in 'strobe light generation' is filled with words of creation and healing. Words of hope that encourage dignity, uphold life, exorcize demons, seek truth and that will inspire you to live by love. It's my voice crying out in the wilderness of post modern pop culture, Lamont said. He adds, "The book was designed in an 8x8 inch format by the amazing graphic designer Christopher 'DJ Circuit' Kelly to symbolize the idea of gift. Poetry, my gift for you,." 

Poet Billy Lamont, a native Long Islander, grew up in Babylon and East Northport and has performed on MTV, Joe Franklin Show and Much Music Television and appeared on major radio stations across the United States including WBAB, WLIR and Z100 in New York. Lamont has also performed at many major rock festivals including touring with Lollapalooza '94, '95, 2003 and performing before/with the rock band The Alarm at the Cornerstone Festival 2004 with over 20,000 people in attendance.

Lamont said, "I have been buying books at the Book Revue since the late 80's when it was a small book store. I met the Klein brothers back then and they helped sell my first little underground chapbook of poetry and were a great encouragement to me as i started out my journey as a young poet. I have always loved books, almost sacred in my hands, and independent bookstores where thought and artistic expression runs free. It is great to see how this one has grown into such a giant one attracting such major writers (much like City Lights in San Francisco where the Beats used to go to hang out.) I remember meeting the great humanitarian ex-President Jimmy Carter at a book signing here in the 90's." 

In response to the success of his first above ground book of poetry, "The Gallery Of Light," Lamont has also given many book signings in shopping malls at such major book stores as Barnes and Noble and Waldenbooks. "The Gallery Of Light" is distributed nationally in the U.S. by Ingram.

Lamont's first CD/EP "Into The 21st Century" is a benefit for Teen Challenge and includes the late Allen Ginsberg reciting from his legendary poem "Howl" on the title track. Mike Peters of The Alarm also appears on the title track as a special guest. This critically acclaimed CD is distributed by The Orchard at theorchard.com.

Lamont's latest CD/chapbook is entitled "billy lamont with the peculiar people" and is a benefit for the Father of Christian Rock Larry Norman's Emergency Healthcare Trust Fund. It is available through Flaming Fish Music at www.flamingfish.com and is currently on the label/distributors bestseller's list for new releases, dance and experimental electronic music.

Daniel Berrigan, legendary poet/activist and speaker on social justice issues has this to say about Lamont's new book of poems 'strobe light generation,'

"Thank you for the delightful book. You (Billy Lamont) are a rare bird indeed, and a dazzling one, bringing together as you do unassailable gifts and a phoenix (out of the culture’s ashes) faith. I congratulate and thank you. Blessings on your fine work!"

 
"strobe light generation" was just released by Infinity Publishing and is available now at www.buybooksontheweb.com.

 
Currently Lamont is also on the board that oversees the New York area for the justice organization Jubilee USA/2000/International Movement. Jubilee is an organization that petitions for a debt-free start for impoverished nations so they can have money to pay for food, water, healthcare, education and sanitation instead of paying back loans to the world’s richest nations. Lamont first became affilated with Jubilee in 1999 when he organized and performed in a show for them at The Knitting Factory in Manhattan for the first national "Drop The Debt" mobilization on Washington D.C.

Contact:
The Other Perspective Management
general:(631) 981-4780
fax: (631) 376-0180
e-mail: thepoet4u@aol.com
website: www.billylamont.com
mail: PO Box 284, Northport, NY 11768

News Brief:  May 31, 2005
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POET SWIMS WITH BARRACUDA SHARK!!!

While vacationing in the Bahamas this last week Poet Billy Lamont went snorkeling and encountered a Barracuda.  Lamont was dangerously close to this fierce shark-like fish in it's natural environment.

Lamont jokes that,  "The women arround me know that I have always considered myself 'the catch of the day' but I really didn't consider the possibility of being shark bait at this point in time.  Even though... I am from New York and there is always the possibility of  'going swimming with the fishes.'  Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"  Lamont laughs with a good belly laugh. 

Lamont explained that he was snorkeling when the women that was with him sighted the shark-like creature and it's teeth a few feet away.  Lamont circled and saw the fish and it's teeth and it's approximately 4 foot body by some underwater wreckage.  Lamont warned a man with his children close by and then swam to a lifeguard posted off shore and let him know.  Lamont described what he thought was a shark but the lifeguard clarified as a Barracuda and cautioned that they are attracted to shiney objects,  will attach when hungry or if you swim too close to them considering it a challenge and added that Lamont should be okay if he followed these directions.  Lamont needed to swim past the Barracuda at a healthy distance on his way back to shore again and did so.

Lamont added that he always wears a shiney cross arround his neck and that lucilly the leather strap broke and it fell off of his neck the night before.  Lamont said,  "God is sovereign.  When it is your time to leave this earth no one can make you stay and when it is not your time no one can make it your time.  I really believe that whole heartedly."  This is one of many close brushes with death that Lamont has faced in the  last year and a half.

Lamont concludes,  "Now I know how Chevy Chase felt in  the movie 'European Vacation.'"

News Brief:  April 22, 2005

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NEW BOOK
***Billy Lamont's new book of poetry "strobe light generation" is available now for $19.95 at http://www.bbotw.com/description.asp?ISBN=0-7414-2338-3 or buybooksontheweb.com or by telephoning Infinity Publishing at 1-877-BUYBOOK or (610) 941-9999.***

THE SPIN
Poet Billy Lamont's personal/business life has been in a bit of a spin.  It all started a year ago with health problems for Lamont,  then surgery in November,  a delayed release date for his new book of poems missing the scheduled Christmas release date due to technical problems by the publisher .  Finally continued personal/business life issues including family/friends health issues and deaths and finding a new place to live without the luxury of telephone or internet communication for a period has been dominating most of Lamont's time cutting into his new book of poems "strobe light generation" (and also CD/chapbook "billy lamont with the peculiar people" promotion and performance touring time.  The good news is that as the dust is settling new dates and special events to be announced soon!!!

When asked about the recent events Lamont smiles and says,  "Everything in seasons.  I have been in a season of suffering but God is sovereign!  No worries.  The sun still rises,  the sun still sets.  I take God's good days why not the bad ones?  I have to say that I have written some intense material in this period though."  Lamont adds,  "Thank you to all my friends for your letters and e-mails.  Also thank you to the book stores in shopping malls across the country that have requested that I do book signings in different regions.   I would love to do this as a possibility for the future combined with performance dates like I have done in the past with my last book,  "The Gallery Of Light,"  but would need to work out additional distribution that makes good business sense like in the past.  I am hopeful about this but the bottom line is that a lot depends on business details and established business relationships and I will be discussing this soon."    

MY SPACE
-A few months back poet Billy Lamont joined the My Space community.  Visit him at http://www.myspace.com/poetbillylamont

THE CD
***The "billy lamont with the peculiar people" CD/chapbook is still on the bestsellers lists for experimental music,  dance music and new releases at Flaming Fish Music  http://www.flamingfish.com/storev2/customer/home.php?cat=62/  This is a limited edition CD as a benefit for our friend Larry Norman's Emergency Healthcare that is nearly sold out.  Thank you to everyone for making this a success.*** 

ELVIS COSTELLO
Billy Lamont told us that he ran into Elvis Costello on the street in New York City yesterday.  Lamont said,  "It was a real highlight for me meeting Elvis Costello,  as he walked right in front of me on the street and him being so cool and down to earth with me.  To tell you the truth I wasn't having a particularly good day yesterday and I was shocked when he was standing right in front of me.  You have to understand I have loved his music for years from early punk with The Attractions and "Armed Forces" to the brilliant classic "Spike" to his collaboration with Burt Bacharach to the witty "When I was Cruel" to the beautifully romantic poetry in the lyrics of "North" to his new CD with The Imposters including the song  "There's A Story In Your Voice" with Ema Lou Harris."

Lamont continued, "I imagined perhaps meeting Elvis Costello in a sweaty pub in the English countryside someday probably piss drunk but here I was in a good suit on the upper west side of Manhattan meeting the man himself......he was very generous with giving me a bit of his time.  I let him know how much I appreciated his great songwriting,  I mean he's never written a less than great album,  and the poetry within his lyrics... wow,  I mean he has a song on "North" where he describes and compares falling in love to a leaf falling off the top of a tree that would have a Romantic Poet like Shelley or Lord Byron jealous.  I mentioned to Elvis Costello how I was out here today in New York City just busy surviving.  Costello was even kind enough to encourage me 'to keep it up.'  I'm going to hold on to that word of affirmation in this sometimes brutal life."

News Brief:  February 24, 2005
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~Poet Billy Lamont joined the www.myspace.com community.  Search his name on this website and visit his space and forums.  If you are a member of myspace.com Billy Lamont would like to extend the following invitation to you to be one of his friends~

greetings from poet billy lamont:

calling all poets, musicians, writers, artists, philosophers, activists, everyday people, outsiders, photographers, new friends, old friends, fans and media contacts to be a part of my family of friends, ~the peculiar people~, sure.
peace to you, poet billy lamont  

~Also the www.billylamont.com website is being redesigned by a professional webdesigner and is coming out real cool.  It will be rolled out soon.~

~POET BILLY LAMONT'S NEW BOOK OF POETRY HAS BEEN RELEASED AND IS AVAILABLE NOW!!!  It is a gorgeous 8x8 inch book entitled "strobe light generation."  Lamont has chosen the square format with graphic designer Christopher "DJ Circuit" Kelly to symbolize the idea of "gift" and to compliment Circuit's Cubism style.   Lamont looks at this book as his "postmodern gift of poetry" for you.  It is 162 pages and can be purchased right now by telephoning Infinity Publishing at:  1-877-BUYBOOK or (610) 941-9999 or through their website at:  http://www.bbotw.com/description.asp?ISBN=0-7414-2338-3
It is $19.95 and then shipping expense.  Discounts are available to book stores or if you buy five or more and twenty or more.~  

~CD THANK YOU
Thank you to everyone for making the "billy lamont with the peculiar people" CD/chapbook #1 Bestseller on Flaming Fish Music's electronic Dance music charts: http://www.flamingfish.com/storev2/customer/home.php?cat=62,   #3 on Experimental music and #3 on New Arrivals chart for several months now. It is starting to drop on the best sellers list now but with a little push and a few more sales we can make it #1 all arround. Let's make it #1!!!!!!!  Money goes to Larry Norman's Emergency Healthcare Trust Fund.   You can read more about our friend Larry's health at:  www.larrynorman.com  

Poet Billy Lamont opened the show for the brilliant band Burlap To Cashmere on Friday night in Philadelphia.  During Burlap To Cashmere's set at The Mad Donkey,  Steven Delopoulos and Johnny Phillipidis invited Lamont on stage with them for a spontaneous poetry/music jam.   A classic moment.  The audience of about 250 people showed their appreciation and applause.  The guys from Burlap shared how they were big Billy Lamont fans from the stage.  Lamont said how humbled he was by that moment because he has been a huge Burlap To Cashmere fan these last few years and respects them a lot.   Lamont feels that they are the true artistic heavyweights but can't help to smile thinking about the performance.  You can check out Burlap to cashmere's website at:  burlaptocashmere.com  and Steven Delopoulos solo at: www.stevendelopoulos.com        

Thank you.

Love and life to you.

News Brief:  January 11, 2005
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Thank you to everyone for making the "billy lamont with the peculiar people" CD/chapbook #1 Bestseller on Flaming Fish Music's electronic Dance music charts:  http://www.flamingfish.com/storev2/customer/home.php?cat=108,  #3 on Experimental music and #3 on New Arrivals chart.  With a few more sales we can make it #1 all arround.  Let's make it #1!!!!!!!

Also thank you for your patience in ordering Billy Lamont's new 162 page book of poetry "strobe light generation."  Infinity Publishing was having a technical problem with the book so was turning away orders/pre-orders for the holidays so as not to have a slow turn arround time.  This is unfortunate but please keep trying if you were turned away.  The book of poems should become available any day now.  You can order the book by telephoning Infinity Publishing in PA directly at:  1-877-BUYBOOK or (610) 941-9999 right now for $19.95 and then shipping expense.  It will also be listed and sold on the website:  www.buybooksontheweb.com in the next few days.  Discounts are available if you (or a book store) buy five or more or twenty or more. 

Billy Lamont and his buddy John Bembenek of Jerky Medicine brought in the New Year by attending the St. Mark's Church New Year's Day Poetry Marathon.  Lamont said he enjoyed some interesting and funny moments hanging out with his acquaintance/friend/big inspiration Jim Carroll of "Basketball Diaries" fame.  A highlight was also seeing another friend/acquaintance/gigantic influence the legendary Patti Smith again and also sharing a few giggles with Taylor Mead (appeared in many movies including the recent "Coffee and Cigarettes.")  Lamont enjoyed seeing some old poet friends from arround Manhattan and touring mates from the Lollapalooza tour in
'94 'sPoetry Tent  including Reggie Cabicco,  Maggie Estep,  Bob Holman and Hal Sirowitz and hearing about their recent success' and the interesting poetry they have been writing.  Lamont said he also enjoyed hanging with Emily XYZ whose work he has admired for quite some time.  Lamont also mentioned that the night reminded him of his friend Marty Wilson Piper of the rock band The Church/solo fame and also with All About Eve and now The Saints.  Lamont said that the last time he saw him perform he enjoyed Piper's original poetry and music along with his passionate recitals of Garcia Lorca and the late Allen Ginsberg.  We just added links to Marty Wilson Piper's and Jim Carroll's website on our links page of this website so you can visit them.
Patti Smith's and the late Allen Ginsberg's websites have been included there for quite some time now.  Enjoy.

For those interested Billy Lamont wrote a feature article for the Jan/Feb issue of the cool national/international magazine Relevant Leader
magazine that is published in Florida.

"protest: a declaration/what are you afraid of?" track #1 from the "billy lamont with the peculiar people" cd/chapbook will be included on a show honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, January 15th at 2:30 PM and reairing on Thursday, January 20th at 4PM on the program Calliope's Corner on WRHU Hofstra University radio.  You can listen nationally/internationally through the website:  wrhu.org and click on WRHU 88.7 FM link.   

Press Release:  December 17, 2004
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"STROBE LIGHT GENERATION"
A NEW BILLY LAMONT BOOK OF POEMS RELEASED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Poet Billy Lamont's long anticipated new book of poems entitled "strobe light generation" was released today by Infinity Publishing.   The book is 162 pages and available for Christmas for $19.95. 

"I wanted to release this book for Christmas for my family of friends/fans.  This is definitely the book I wanted to release.  Great care was taken by Christopher "DJ Circuit" Kelly in the book's artistic postmodern design,  and by me in the content,  the experimental craftsmanship,  to the 8x8 inch square formatting of the book which symbolizes "gift."  I have always looked at this as 'the gift of my poetry to you.'  This may end up being a limited edition run of this book,  depending on business details as they unfold, because Jah willing,  it looks like a bigger independent or even major publisher may pick it up,  Lamont said.

Lamont's book includes postmodern poems of activism,  faith,  love,  life,  peace,  healing and hope.   The anger,  suffering and despair  within life is also represented. 

Lamont said,  "The book started as a small book to reflect the live shows.  For example their is a 50 page section featuring what the poem "the gallery of light" has evolved into as a performance poem.  So the poetry pops off the page in a new light influenced by many live readings.  Then the book took a philosophical turn as a statement about our times,  life in America today.  As it is completed it now reads as more of a deeply personal book to me,  reflecting on all areas of life.  Kind of like one of my new poems entitled "new york meditations:  wisdom in the chaos" states : 'can you see the wisdom/ my blood on these pages?/ my poems are like fragments of light/ tiny pieces of my soul on paper.'  It sounds intense but I really do feel like that."

 "strobe light generation" can be preordered right now by telephoning Infinity Publishing at: 1-877-BUYBOOK or (610) 941-9999 for $19.95 and then shipping expense.  It will also be listed and sold on the website:  www.buybooksontheweb.com in the next few days.  Discounts are available if you buy five or more or twenty or more.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT BILLY LAMONT'S NEW BOOK OF POETRY "STROBE LIGHT GENERATION"


Peter Garrett Cover Blurb for Book

"Billy Lamont’s pithy, ‘now’ poetry is true,  from his heart to ours-  a straight line and a truth that’s good to read.  I wish there was more like it.”

Peter Garrett is the front man from the rock band Midnight Oil and the President of the Australian Conservation Foundation.


Daniel Berrigan Cover blurb for Book


“Thank you for the delightful book.  You (Billy Lamont) are a rare bird indeed,  and a dazzling one,  bringing together as you do unassailable gifts and a phoenix (out of the culture’s ashes) faith.  I congratulate and thank you.  Blessings on your fine work!”

Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit Priest,  legendary poet/activist and speaker on social justice issues.


Seydina A. Senghor Cover Blurb for Book

"I've been an eyewitness of Billy Lamont's warm-hearted dedication to durable peace in the world,  international morality,  global solidarity and global justice.  I have seen Billy Lamont take serious risks to support many good causes including the Jubilee 2000 International Campaign,  a global alliance for the end of the unjust,  immoral and genocidal debt of the nations of the global South.  At the Knitting Factory in 1999,  in New York,  Billy put together a show with Larry Norman and himself for the benefit of Jubilee USA's first National Mobilization on Washington.  Billy Lamont is a true activist.  Whether he is protesting,  serving or encouraging,  his poetry and deeds are songs of hope,  a catalyst for change that reveal a grassroots heart of caring and love for people from the streets of New York to the poor and impoverished of the world."

Seydina A. Senghor is a Co-Founder of the Jubilee 2000 USA/International Movement.



Larry Norman Cover Blurb for Book

“Young William the poet walks with grace among the
literary traditions of romanticism, between yearning
idealism and stark urban reality. He brings Heaven
closer to Earth, and beckons men closer to
self revelation. His poetry is both comforting and
disturbing.”

Larry Norman is the Father of Christian Rock.  He is a singer/songwriter that was on Capitol Records with The Beatles,  Founder of The Vineyard Church and Jew For Jesus,  Gospel Hall of Fame Inductee. He was dubbed the most important songwriter since Paul Simon in Billboard Magazine and the top solo artist in his field by Time Magazine.


What people have said about Billy Lamont's previous book of poems "The Gallery Of Light"

MIke Peters Foreward for Book

"There's no truth like the truth you dare to let yourself see.  Billy's poetry lets you see the truth of himself and the truth that surrounds him which is also the truth that surrounds you.  Take a look and you will find love,  hate,  all life in it."  

Mike Peters is a singer/songwriter and frontman for the rock band The Alarm.


Dave Kendall Cover Blurb for Book

"Billy Lamont is in possession of a strange and compelling vision."

Dave Kendall is the Host of MTV's "120 Minutes" show.


Malibu Sue Cover Blurb for Book

"Billy's poetry is... inspirational."

Malibu Sue is DJ for the legendary New York alternative music radio station WLIR and WDRE.


Joe Franklin Cover Blurb for Book

"In the tradition of Jim Morrison,  Bob Dylan,  Patti Smith and Jim Carroll comes Billy Lamont... and I love it!"

Joe Franklin is the Host of New York WOR-TV's nationally syndicated Joe Franklin Show.


Bob Buchmann Cover Blurb for Book  

"As Billy writes,  'Poetry is therapy!'  I thank him for his gift."

Bob Buchmann is the Vice President/DJ for the New York classic rock radio station WBAB.


Scott Albert (Klayton,  Clay Scott) Cover Blurb for Book

"Billy's poetry is intriguing.  He is experimental,  philosophical and spiritual.  His message of hope cannot be ignored."

Scott Albert (Klayton, Clay Scott) is a recording artist with the innovative electronic band Circle Of Dust and Celldweller.

News Brief:  December 15, 2004
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POET BILLY LAMONT'S NEW BOOK OF POETRY HAS BEEN RELEASED AND IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!! 

*More information about this and the CD/chapbook "billy lamont with the peculiar people,"  in a personal note from Billy Lamont to "the peculiar people." *

A PERSONAL NOTE FROM POET BILLY LAMONT :

Dear family of friends,  

~the peculiar people~

Seasons greetings,  a blessed Christmas wish to you all,  with love,  as you celebrate with loved ones, with a diversity of different belief systems and traditions, this holiday.  This is truly a sacred season to me as I reflect on the birth of Jesus and the redemption he can bring to our lives.

First to share something personal,  I am very humbled by and grateful for God's mercy on healing a severe sinus infection that I have had since last March that was misdiagnosed a lot by doctor's and dentists and luckilly self diagnosed by me in time.  This infection should/could have killed me or effected my brain or my left eye.  I am thankful that I am fine and Jah willing should be fully restored to health in the coming week.  

NEW BOOK "STROBE LIGHT GENERATION" WOULD MAKE AN AWESOME CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY GIFT

***Not only that but I am excited to share that my new book of poems entitled "strobe light generation" is finally going to be released in the next few days.  It is a gorgeous 8x8 inch book and I have chosen the square format to symbolize the idea of "gift" because I look at it as "my gift of poetry" for others.  It is 162 pages and would make an awesome holiday gift.  It can be preordered right now by telephoning Infinity Publishing at: 1-877-BUYBOOK or (610) 941-9999 for $19.95 and then shipping expense.  It will also be listed and sold on the website:  www.buybooksontheweb.com in the next few days.  Discounts are available if you buy five or more and twenty or more.***  

        Naturally I would like to make a big debut with this book so please purchase it as soon as possible if you plan to.  More major and independent publishers have already been showing interest in picking this book up (but no committment has been made yet) so this is a bold move releasing this now for the holidays  So it's kind of like all eyes will be on how well this is doing.  We anticipate this book of poems to sell as well and even surpass the sales of "The Gallery Of light" in a shorter period of time.  This release of "strobe light generation" may turn out to be a limited edition version of the book,  that will be edited from this original format by a bigger publisher,  so I am looking at this as a gift for my friends/fans to enjoy for Christmas into the New Year.  In other words I can see this version of the book being discontinued,  depending on busiuness details,  when another publisher buys this out.    

THANK YOU AND MORE NEWS
Also a heartfelt thank you for your support if you purchased my new CD/Chapbook "billy lamont with the peculiar people" from the excellent electronic music label Flaming Fish Music at www.flamingfish.com for $15. This limited edition CD/EP is selling well and is making the best sellers list for new releases,  experimental and dance music at this cool electronic music label/distributor.

Note: It was temporarilly sold out so was not on the Flaming Fish website but it has now been re-stocked at: http://www.flamingfish.com/storev2/customer/home.php?cat=62

Adding to this success has been being featured in HM Magazine's Oct/Nov issue as part of a new poetry movement/revolution and being featured on their website in an exclusive interview at
www.hmmagazine.com/exclusive/poet_billy_lamont_qa200408/index.php, my Cornerstone Festival appearance before/with the rock band The Alarm on the 4th of July, a grassroots international following for my poetry and an alternative underground interest in the inspiration/collaborating Klayton (the amazing artist from Circle Of Dust and now Celldweller fame) and I shared pre-Circle Of Dust in the early pioneering industrial music days.

If you are intending to buy the "billy lamont with the peculiar people" CD and haven't yet please purchase it soon from flamingfish.com http://www.flamingfish.com/storev2/customer/home.php?cat=108 because it is selling out fast and is a limited edition release. It is greatly appreciated!!!

If the Flaming Fish Music $15 price and then shipping is too expensive a few copies are left and can be purchased through the billylamont.com website for $10. Also, if perhaps you really desire this CD strongly and can't afford it due to hard financial times mail a note to Billy Lamont at :
P.O. Box 284, Northport, NY 11768 and I will send it to you for free while supplies last. No prob.

May I suggest that this CD would also make a nice gift for the holidays. A nice bonus is that your hard earned cash is going to a good cause because the CD is also a benefit for the Emergency Healthcare of my friend, Larrry Norman, who is in a life or death situation.

Thanks again for all your support!

Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones!!!!!!!

love,
always, forever, now
billy lamont

P.S.- For those interested I have wriiten an article for the national Relevant Leader Magazine for their Jan/Feb issue. It is a really cool national magazine if you are not familiar with it.

News Brief:  December 9,  2004
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News Brief:  November 15. 2004
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What people are saying about Billy Lamont