A Head Full of Wishes

Sydney Opera Houseoriginally uploaded by Christopher Chan

Dean & Britta will be performing 13 Most Beautiful at The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, on the 28th February 2010. Tickets go on sale on 4th December.

Two recordings from Dean & Britta’s trip to Melbourne have just turned up on bittorrent site Dimeadozen.
First up a recording of their 13 Most Beautiful performance from 15th October (including Night Nurse and Tugboat as encores)
Next their in-store appearance with Sand Pebbles at Pure Pop Records on the 17th October.
I’ve only given a quick listen [...]

14.IX_Teatro_Versace_AM_007originally uploaded by MITO SettembreMusica

I just came across this great set of pictures of Dean & Britta’s recent performance of 13 Most Beautiful in Milan. Head on over to Flickr to see the whole set.

On 31st August Damon & Naomi will be releasing a compilation album of 15 tracks from their Sub Pop albums selected from the four albums they released on Sub Pop between 1995 and 2002. The album will be released on 20|20|20 records. Tracklisting to follow (as soon as I have it) but in the meantime [...]

This year’s xmas gift to you is a collection of barely seasonal audio and video for your delectation. Admittedly most of it has been available on the site for a while but here they all are together! Enjoy this lot and have a lovely whatever-it-is-you-celebrate…
Galaxie 500

Video: Galaxie 500 – Snowstorm
Audio: Galaxie 500 – Listen The [...]

OK this is a shot at bringing the guestbook back – the code is still a bit flaky so some things may go fruity but please be patient Email me with any bug reports thanks.
It’s using the same code as the commenting so spam should be fairly well managed. The main problems are likely to [...]

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Galaxie 500 and related artists

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Magnetophone
Pierre Etoile
Damon and Naomi
Magic Hour
Kramer
Cagney and Lacee
Tuatara
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Angel Corpus Christi
The Pastels
The 6ths/Stephen Merritt
Pee Shy
Mercury Rev
Hugh Hopper
Mutton Gun
Ivy
Laetitia Sadier
Ralph Carney
Sterling Morrison
Tom Verlaine
Tom Rapp
Kickstand
Batoh and Kurihara
Cover Versions

Galaxie 500

Don’t Let [...]

The iambewitched FTP server has now been permanently closed.

A head full of wishes started at the tail end of 1994 sadly neither I nor the Wayback Machine have anything from that long ago – so here’s a quick glimpse of the site’s more recent history…
April 1997 – wayback machine
October 1997 – wayback machine
January 1999 – wayback machine
October 1999 – wayback machine
August 2000 – [...]

Rock fans who crave daring, innovation and an assertive stance in their music aren’t apt to take a shine to Luna.The band’s leader, Dean Wareham, is a small, slight fellow with a wan, murmuring singing voice and the personal magnetism of a loan officer. No stylistic adventurer, Wareham is content to follow in the well-trod [...]