A Head Full of Wishes

There’s a nice in-depth Q&A with Dean Wareham at the Philly Fringe website promoting Dean & Britta’s 13 Most Beautiful appearances at the festival in September (and their regular show at Johnny Brenda’s on Thursday). The interview deals mostly with 13 Most Beautiful covering, amongst other topics, how they selected screen tests…
The more I read [...]

There’s a nice in depth review of “13 Most Beautiful” over at Movie Morlocks the official TCM movies blog. Although they sadly failed to get Britta’s name right…
Wareham and Murphy [sic] are, hands down, the ideal collaborators for this project as their music has always had a dreamy, drug-induced quality, even in their new incarnation [...]

Dean has just blogged on deanandbritta.com with news that you can buy the 13 Most Beautiful DVD direct from them ahead of the official release date of April 7th. He also mentions some more dates for the summer.
We are playing our last 13 Most Beautiful show for a while, this Saturday night at the Massachusetts [...]

Photo by Robert Loerzel
Robert Loerzel has a good review of one of Dean & Britta’s recent Chicago performances of 13 Most Beautiful in The Huffington Post…
At this show, Dean & Britta sounded more like the V.U. than ever. Other than a few loud moments, they stayed on the more delicate end of the V.U. groove, [...]

Dean Americaoriginally uploaded by kirstiecat
Very cool composite picture of Dean Wareham and Paul America from Dean & Britta’s recent show in Chicago. Photo taken from Kirstiecat’s photostream where you can find another of my favourite Dean & Britta pictures.

The Walker Arts Center blog has posted a nice Q&A with Dean & Britta in preparation for next weeks two performances at the Minneapolis venue.
What do you see as your artistic legacy?
Dean: I like getting emails from kids telling me that they just listened to Galaxie 500 as the sun came up.
Britta: For me it’s [...]

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has added a second performance of 13 Most Beautiful…there will now be two shows on the 28th February, the originally scheduled one at 8:30pm and a late show at 10:30 – tickets for both are $22.

Photo: Carolyn Coles on Flickr
A couple of blogs (1, 2) have mentioned that Dean Wareham will be doing a reading/signing/performance at Zulu Records in Vancouver on Saturday (31st Jan) at 4pm. I was waiting for confirmation on the Zulu records site or Dean & Britta’s blog or MySpace, but so far nothing so best get [...]

The Sound Of Indie has posted a live recording of one of the songs from 13 Most Beautiful (anyone care to identify it for me? Update: Thanks Jeff for pointing out that I really ought to have known what the track was – it’s The Enabler as previously released on a Luna EP and is [...]

The New York Times has a great review (accompanied by a fantastic picture) of Dean & Britta’s show at the Lincoln Center in New York last weekend. Looks like it was quite a spectacle!