A Head Full of Wishes

Rendezvous has plenty of great songs - IMO it’s not Luna’s best album but was a very fine swansong and in Speedbumps has a song that’ll very probably turn up in my top 6 Luna tracks list when I can be bothered to do one. From the first moment I heard it I was taken [...]

Greg commented on my blog to remind me that Dean’s Best of Luna sleeve notes never made it into the European release (although we did get a whole extra CD so I can’t complain) so here they are. My OCR software did an OK job but it still required a fair amount of massaging into [...]

This is an attempt to collect together all the groups and communities related to to A Head Full of Wishes, please leave a comment (or email me) if I’ve missed anything out. You can find me as “grange85″ in most of these…
Mailing Lists etc.:

The Galaxie 500 Mailing List (417 members)

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Don’t Let Our Youth Go To [...]

In February 1989 Galaxie 500 went into Noise NY and recorded eight songs in three days - the recordings where demos for Slash records although four of the recordings eventually turned up on On Fire. During the sessions they recorded the Joy Division track Ceremony for the first time. They would re-record the track in [...]

Review by Jens Aage Pedersen - originally posted on the Galaxie 500 Mailing List
I had the pleasure of attending not one, but two Dean & Britta shows last weekend, Friday evening at the Studenterhuset and a surprise secret show Saturday evening in the basement of the club Apparatet (which I didn’t hear about until Dean [...]

The Scala is a converted cinema near London’s King’s Cross station, we arrived about 7:30 after a long haul through the miserable traffic on London’s westway. There were three bands on the bill with Damon & Naomi up second and penciled in for a meagre 45 minute set. The venue was as expected far from [...]

This is a different video for Lovedust from Luna’s Romantica.
Directed and edited by Martina Broner it features rare studio footage shot during the Romantica sessions as well as backstage, soundcheck and live footage of the band.

You can see the art gallery Lovedust video here.
Thanks to Lee Wall for passing this on to me.

OK maybe this’ll turn into a series or maybe that “#1″ in the title will be redundant but here goes…
#1 Matt Quigley
Matt Quigley was Luna’s (very) short-lived bassist filling the gap between Justin’s "leave of absence" and Britta’s appointment.
Previously of glam duo Vaganza purveyors of "elaborately arranged, ornate, bloated songs" Matt got the job in [...]

I think I’ll declare 29th August 2007 a holiday - take the day off and tell your boss it’s OK because it’s Galaxie 500’s birthday…
I guess I’m not really in a position to decide at what point Galaxie 500 came into existence, that’s a decision better left to the protagonists - but hell they’re all [...]

Damon & Naomi Within These WallsStreet date: Sept 25, 200720/20/20202020.05
In 2005, Damon & Naomi released The Earth Is Blue, an album that looked outward to all the places they had visited and cultures they’ve experienced. The release was also a voyage in itself, marking their departure from a ten-year relationship with Sub Pop and the [...]