A Head Full of Wishes

You may remember a couple of months back that excellent blog The Sound of Indie decided to hold a recording of Dean & Britta’s Galaxie 500 show at the Zipper Factory hostage to prevent Howard Wolfson, pundit for the vile media outlet Fox News, getting his paws on it. The recording would be kept locked [...]

Damon & Naomi @ Rough Trade East
After a rather tiring and unsatisfying traipse around East London (we’ll return soon with a better plan – there’s so much to see and yet we managed to see almost nothing). We got to Rough Trade East in plenty of time, picked up our wristbands said “hi” to Damon [...]

Damon & Naomi have scheduled a gig at Rough Trade East on Sunday 12th October. The show kicks off at 7pm and is free. The duo’s previous attempt at a London show fell through last July, so thankfully Londoners haven’t had too long a wait for a replacement.

A nice sounding recording of Luna playing at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco, CA USA from 2002 is being seeded on Dimeadozen. You need to be registered with the site to grab this. Registration can ocasionally be difficult (the site is generally at its user limit) but apparantly persistence is the best advice for [...]

A very good recording of Luna’s last show in Philadelphia (at the Theatre of the Living Arts in December 2004) is currently being seeded on Dimeadozen (registration required).

I’ve just seeded a recording of Dean & Britta’s first London show from June last year on www.dimeadozen.org. The show was recorded to DAT by a friend of mine. I also have a recording of the next nights show that I’ll seed later in the week.
Dean & Britta
19th June 2007 – Metro Club, London, UK
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Dean & Britta have added a Paris show to their European tour they will be playing a free show at Fleche D’Or at 102 Rue de Bagnolet, Paris, 75020 on December 3rd
There are also links to a lot of photos from their recent CMJ gig on their MySpace blog

The Sound Of Indie has Dean & Britta’s recent CMJ performance at The Bowery Ballroom for download.
One of the highlights of this particular show was the ending Joy Division cover, Ceremony. What is even more impressive is that Ceremony was initially covered some 20 years ago by Dean’s first seminal band, Galaxie 500.

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 [...]