A Head Full of Wishes

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Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July

Luna - Fourth of July

Come and join the new A Head Full of Wishes forum - Oblivious

A very good recording of Luna’s last show in Philadelphia (at the Theatre of the Living Arts in December 2004) is currently being seeded on Dimeadozen (registration required).

OK - not the most gripping of videos but beautifully hypnotic all the same - well for me anyway. Seeing Dear Paulina “out there”…on someone else’s record deck makes me proud of the fact that I was once organised enough to see the release of it through…

I came across these videos of Luna playing in Brazil a few weeks ago but forgot to post them here. They are from (I guess) a Brazilian TV show and features 11 live performances (intercut with offstage footage) and an interview from Luna’s show in Bela Horizonte in Brazil in 2001.

Things I’d Rather Be Doing has an interview with Dean Wareham about Black Postcards…
I could barely play the guitar at that point, how could I be a professional musician? But then you learn and perhaps this is the lesson of punk rock that you don’t have to be amazing players to cook up something beautiful. [...]

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 [...]

This is just a reminder that Kiek is still flooding Dimeadozen with Luna shows - here’s a list of the shows he’s done so far…

Luna - 9.30 Club, Washington DC, USA - 19960309
Luna - 9.30 Club, Washington WDC, USA - 20041218
Luna - BBC Radio One, Manchester, UK - Mark Radcliffe Session - 19951213
Luna - Bowery [...]

Stranded In Stereo has a cool post about The Days of Our Nights”, the album that Dean described (in Black Postcards) as “possibly the worst” of Luna’s albums (”It’s not for lack of trying that the fifth album is a bloated dud”). It has inspired me to give the album another listen…
“Is that your [...]

Here’s a cool snip of Luna finishing “Indian Summer” off at the Roxy in Valencia in October 1999. The video is shot from the side of the stage…

Kiek has seeded a couple of three four (and there’ll be more!) Luna shows on Dimeadozen…

Luna - Bowery Ballroom, New York NY, USA - 8th April 2000 (show details (and pictures) on A Head Full of Wishes)
Luna - Hultsfed Festival, Hultsfed, Sweden - 12th June 1998 (show details on A Head Full of Wishes)

Luna - [...]