A Head Full of Wishes

Reminder: Dean & Britta in London on Wednesday

St Giles in the Fields, London*

Just a quick reminder that Dean & Britta are playing in London for the first time in over two years tomorrow (Wednesday) night. The show takes place at the very lovely St Giles in the Fields church just off Tottenham Court Road. Tickets are £12 and are still available from wegottickets.

The promise is that Dean will be raiding the back catalogues of both Galaxie 500 and Luna for this show as well as that of Dean & Britta of course! Support comes from (Double Feature recording artist) Cheval Sombre who will be joined by Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3/Spectrum) and most probably by Dean and Britta.

Doors open 7pm and curfew is 11pm.

* Off topic: The above picture is of the wonderful The Clientele playing at St Giles a couple of years back – if you’re at a loose end on Thursday The Clientele are holding the UK launch of their album at The Luminaire.

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15th A Head Full of Wishes survey

Photo by boltron-

The 15th A Head Full of Wishes survey has just kicked off. Head over to cast your vote for favourite albums and tracks by Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi and Dean & Britta.

I have no incentives to get people to vote this year so you’ll all have to do it for the love of the numbers.

If you feel the need for inspiration you can check out the previous surveys.

It would be nice to beat last years 97 responses.

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Dean Wareham blogs about Spain, London, Australia and NYC

Dean has posted on the deanandbritta.com blog with news about forthcoming gigs in Spain and London; some reminiscences of their recent trip to Australia and a plug for a New Year’s Eve show in Brooklyn… Check it out on their website.

Britta was a ‘One Day Guest’ curator at Schmooze Blog choosing three favourite videos.

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13 Most Beautiful heads back down under

Dean & Britta will be taking 13 Most Beuatiful… back down under in 2010. Dates I’ve heard about so far are the 25th and 26th February as part of the Perth International Arts Festival in Western Australia and on the 4th March in Wellington as part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival

Before that they have a performance at the Reynolds Theatre in Durham, North Carolina, USA on 18th February

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Video: Dean Wareham instore performance

I just came across these very lovely videos of Dean Wareham (and Britta and the band!) playing at an instore in Vancouver while promoting Black Postcards last January – lovely stuff!

Hearing Voices

Indian Summer

Tiger Lily

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On the road

Limited edition Damon & Naomi tenugui

Both Damon & Naomi and Dean & Britta are heading out of the US for dates during November. Damon & Naomi, having just completed a North American tour with A Hawk and A Hacksaw are heading out east for six dates in Japan. The “Lost Gaijin tour” sees the couple setting out to visit previosuly unvisited parts of Japan using Japan Rail.

Meanwhile Dean & Britta head west for two dates in Spain as part of the Tanned Tin Festival and then on to the UK for a show at St Giles’ Church in London. The London show has support from Double Feature recording artist Cheval Sombre and features Sonic Boom.

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Galaxie 500 in Magnet Magazine

Galaxie 500 are the subject of the Over/Under in Magnet Magazine picking out five ‘over-rated’ and five ‘under-rated’ tracks. Nonsense of course! Anyone who even suggests that Snowstorm could be over-rated…

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Dean Wareham in (untitled)

Dean Wareham has a small part in the film (untitled) that opens this weekend and he even gets a line in the trailer.

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Recordings of Dean & Britta in Melbourne

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 to a couple of tracks but both sound very good. Registration needed to download from DIME.

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Dean & Britta in Melbourne

Dean & Britta are currently in Melbourne, Australia to perform 13 Most Beautiful as part of the Melbourne Arts Festival. They’re playing three performances at the CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (15th-17th October).

On Thursday Dean & Britta will be doing a special Q & A session at The Fairfax Studio, at the Arts Centre between 1pm-2pm – talking about the Warhol show, their soundtrack work, Luna, Galaxie 500 and more.

Also on Saturday they’ll be guesting at an instore appearance by Sand Pebbles at Pure Pop Records… actually probably an outside-instore as it seems to be in their “world famous Pure Pop Courtyard” – sounds like a must if you’re in the vicinity.

Sand Pebbles A Thousand Wild Flowers was the first non-Dean & Britta release on Double Feature Records.

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