A Head Full of Wishes

The Scala is a converted cinema near London’s King’s Cross station, we arrived about 7:30 after a long haul through the miserable traffic on London’s westway. There were three bands on the bill with Damon & Naomi up second and penciled in for a meagre 45 minute set. The venue was as expected far from [...]

Naomi in blueoriginally uploaded by grange85

I’ll write up the show a bit more fully tomorrow but in the meantime here’s a bunch of photos from the very beautiful (if far too short) London show…

A nice video of Damon & Naomi at their recent show in Bari, Italy…

Naomi has just posted to the Damon & Naomi MySpace Blog
I had considered writing a blog/tour diary on this long, long tour we’ve been on…[but] I don’t have a laptop of my own and I think keeping a blog must require not having to constantly borrow someone else’s computer!
The European tour dates have been updated [...]

Popmatters has an excellent in depth review of Damon & Naomi’s Within These Walls…
For an album that musically emulates a moment of stillness preceding potential utter devastation, it manages a surprising amount of diversity. The strings, horns, and Kurihara’s guitar are part of this, as their appearances are carefully arranged to maximize the musical and [...]

Thomas Barrasso sent me a bunch of lovely photos of Damon & Naomi at their recent show in Cambridge MA. I haven’t as yet managed to get the pictures bit of A Head Full of Wishes into the new site and it seemed a shame to sit on these so here are a couple of [...]

Damon & Naomi were interviewed for the public radio show Weekend America in which they discuss the influence that Frank Sinatra had on their recent album.

You can download Damon & Naomi’s recent performance in Washington DC from www.dimeadozen.org - registration is required.
It’s a decent recording although the taper was a little unimpressed…
So, that said, this is basically girlfriend music. Very nicely orchestrated girlfriend music - with four musicians, they still manage to create a very dense atmosphere of sound (I [...]

The break-up of Galaxie 500 was not a pleasant one and for many years after Damon & Naomi chose to keep a very clear distinction between their past and the present. In 1997 when I decided to try and put a mailing list/fan club single together I emailed Damon and Naomi asking if they’d be [...]

Sorry that this months track is a bit late (again); Sorry that I’m raiding a show I’ve used before; Sorry it’s been so long since the last D&N TOTM. This recording is from the show in London in May 2001. Damon and Naomi are accompanied by Kurihara on guitar. “This Car Climbed Mt. Washington” has [...]