A Head Full of Wishes

Dean has answered ten questions for French pop magazine Magic - you can read the full questionnaire at deanandbritta.com
E: What was the worst thing you ever did to achieve your goals?
D: Play an acoustic set at the corporate offices of HITS magazine, a trade magazine for the radio industry, sometimes referred to as SHIT magazine.

Dean Wareham announced on the Dean & Britta MySpace blog that they have acquired the ownership of the first Dean & Britta album L’Avventura and it will be re-issued on the 2nd September on the couple’s own Double Feature records. The new release will include three bonus tracks that were previously available on the Sonic [...]

Oblivious - A new online forum
It’s been a few years since I last tried to get an online forum going for A Head Full of Wishes and I thought it was time to try again. The Galaxie 500 Mailing List has been a bit quiet of late, maybe that’s because things are just quiet or [...]

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).

Dean & Britta will be performing on Wednesday 25th June (that’s next Wednesday!) between 7 and 9pm at Harlot, 46 Minna Street. The invitation (left) was posted out on Dean & Britta’s newsletter - if you wish to attend you need to RSVP to MVRSVP@condenast.com.

Damon just emailed me to say that the London date that Damon & Naomi have had penciled in for a few months now will not be happening after “the promoter who told our agent he was holding that night didn’t come through, and at too late a date to find anything else decent”.

I’ve just seeded a recording of Dean & Britta’s first London show from June last year on www.dimeadozen.org. The show was recorded to DAT by a friend of mine. I also have a recording of the next nights show that I’ll seed later in the week.
Dean & Britta
19th June 2007 - Metro Club, London, UK
Show [...]

metaphotographyphoto by Franck
As metadata is data about data, and metaphotography is photographs of people taking photographs then I’d have to assume that metablogging is blogging about being blogged.
I just implemented a delicious tagging system on A Head Full of Wishes (which I’ll write up in more detail tomorrow) and posted about it to the Galaxie [...]

All of this is merely a scarcely re-versioned news report that was recently posted on Damon & Naomi’s web site so you may want to head over there to read it…
Damon & Naomi’s very excellent debut album More Sad Hits is being reissued on their own 20|20|20 label - remastered onto CD and LP and [...]

Britta is interviewed about music and politics on pinkomag.com
Pinko: So what’s up next from Dean and Britta?
Britta: We have a few shows coming up at The Zipper Factory in NYC on July 24th, August 21st and September 20th. The Zipper Factory is an old zipper factory on W. 37th St. It only holds about 200 [...]