Here’s a very cool video of Dean & Britta performing Galaxie 500’s Tugboat at The Black Cat in Washington DC last week. To see it in glorious high definition head on over to the YouTube page and flip the HD switch on the player.
kubacheck also has videos of Ceremony and Tiger Lily from the same show (also in HD) – go check them out too.
Luna on Songkick
Almost a year ago a friend of mine put me in touch with Ian Hogarth one of the founders of gig tracking site Songkick. Ian told me that they were planning a new version of the site and was interested in meeting up to talk me through what they were planning and how I, or more specifically A Head Full of Wishes, might be able to help. I met Ian and Michelle from Songkick over a lemonade in a pub in Shepherds Bush where they outlined, with huge enthusiasm, what they planned to do. A Head Full of Wishes’ role in the new Songkick was to be one of the many sites that Songkick planned to trawl to create their huge archive of past concerts.
I met Ian & Michelle again a few months later to have a look over the alpha of the new Songkick and got a warm glow seeing that their database was filled with hundreds of Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi and Dean & Britta gigs. I couldn’t wait to get in there and start building my own personal database of gigs I’d attended over the years.
This morning Songkick’s new site was rolled out to the world and is a joy for all gig-goers. The ability to keep a track of all those past (and future) concerts, and to interact with people who were also there (or will be going), as well as uploading pictures and videos make the site a huge amount of fun. And with it already full of gigs that you probably went to it’s a fairly trivial process of building up your own gigograohy. Head over there and feel free to track me down and check out my shady heavy metal past and keep an eye on what I’m up to.
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slowmotiontrax has put up loads of pictures from Dean & Britta’s performance at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia including some of the couple performing with support act (and Double Feature recording artist) Cheval Sombre.
Nice, funny interview with Dean & Britta at The New Gay, touching on gays in the army, who they’d “go gay” for and the dawnings of heterosexuality…
The New Gay: When did you first realize you were straight?
Dean Wareham: I remember looking at dirty magazines, probably around age 10, and being aroused by photos of naked ladies. I did make out with a girl named Wendy Little at age 8 but it wasn’t particularly sexual.
Britta Phillips: When I was 7. I had fantasies about David Cassidy.
Read the full interview at The New Gay.
This is just hilarious!
Here’s a great video of Dean & Britta playing Tugboat at last night’s Galaxie 500 heavy show in Philadelphia. Check IvyMike777’s other videos for a couple more from last night.
Philadelphia Weekly’s music blog Make Major Moves has just posted part one of a long Q&A with Dean Wareham. Mostly discussing the writing process and content of Black Postcards…
I think at a certain point I realized that several people are going to be upset by this and by that, and if I went back and took out every thing that was going to upset somebody, it would just be a puff-piece and not a very interesting book. And I think part of the larger point I was trying to make about being in a band is that it’s all about conflict. And so I wanted to go into some of that conflict.
Read part one of the Dean Wareham interview at Make Major Moves. Part two will be published tomorrow.
UPDATE: Part two of the interview is online now – more talk about the book, about 13 Most Beautiful and about Galaxie 500… It’s hard to sing those songs, too. I feel like I need to cough, and I sing real high. Your voice naturally lowers as you get older, I think. And also, I didn’t know how to sing at all in Galaxie 500 [...] That’s absolutely part of the charm of it, when people say, you know, the vocals on the first Galaxie 500 album sound like I’m singing from outer space. I think I was thrown out there in front of a microphone and I’d never really been in that situation, I hadn’t practiced in front of a microphone, and I only got one take of everything. I’ve since learned that it’s on the third take that I start to get it good. It’s never the first. Sometimes the second. With vocals, that is. Read part two of the Dean Wareham Interview at Make Major Moves.
Dean seems to have moved his blog from deanandbritta.com to the couple’s iLike page (although I suspect crossposting back to the official site and MySpace). In the latest post he blogs about food, upcoming shows and Zabriskie Point…
Thursday we’ll be eating cheesesteak sandwiches in Philadelphia; before our show at Johnny Brenda’s, Friday it will be chili dogs before our gig at the Black Cat in D.C., and Saturday night we will eat and perform at Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. This last is an early show – Cheval Sombre will go on at 7:30, we’ll be on at 8:30. These will likely be our last non-Warhol shows of the year, at least here in the USA.
Read the full post at Dean & Britta’s iLike blog.
Nothing official here but Canadian record store, Ditch Records, mentions that the Galaxie 500 albums will be reissued by Damon & Naomi’s 20|20|20 records on the 28th July. We’re due one of D&N’s monthly updates imminently so hopefully there’ll be more details and confirmation there.
Decider New York has a short interview with Dean Wareham touching on fans, fatherhood and drug taking…
Don’t be a rock star. I’ve seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a “go” button and a “stop” button, and some people just have the “go” button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they’ll say, “Okay, I have to get more now.” I’m not that kind of person.
Read the full interview at Decider NY
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