July 2005 Archives
July 29, 2005 Look Out Of Any Window
We are indeed touring once more before the year's out after we get home from Australia. I'm also playing a solo set right here in Durham at the Durham Music Festival in August, but that's not really part of a tour or nothin'. That's just me and the guitar and at least one song from Hot Garden Stomp. The U.S. tour, on the other hand, looks like this:
October
12 - the Canopy Club, Urbana, IL 18 & Over
13 - Open End Gallery, 2000 W. Fulton Suite 310, Chicago, IL All Ages
14 - the Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL 21+
15 - Kraftbrau Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI 21+
17 - Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON 19 & Over
18 - The Buffalo Icon, Buffalo, NY All Ages
20 - Uptown Theatre, Washington, PA 21+
21 - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA probably all-ages, not 100% sure
23 - Haverford College, Haverford, PA also presumably all-ages
26 - The Iron Horse, Northampton, MA 21+
27 - Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA All Ages
28 - Fuel Rocket Club, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH All Ages
29 - the Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY 21+
All shows with The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, those proud sons of Bradenton & servants of light!
Thanks to the dozens or hundreds of people who've stayed on my back throughout the years about playing more all-ages shows: I love you people, you keep me honest & I can't wait to see you all.
July 18, 2005 No Rest for the Righteous
The rumor is true.
The Mountain Goats Australian Tour 2005: A Vegemite Odyssey
SEPTEMBER
10 - The Zoo, Brisbane, Queensland
tickets available from Rocking Horse & Skinnys
11 - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, Victoria
13 - Manchester Lane, Melbourne, Victoria
tickets for Melbourne shows available at links above or at NSC box office, 301 High Street, Northcote; telephone 9486 1677
14 - Newtown, Sydney, NSW
tickets available at links above or at the divinely named Moshtix
15 - Jive, Adelaide, S.A.
tickets available from Venuetix
16 - The Rosemount, Perth, W.A.
tickets available from 78 Records (9322 6384), Mills Records (9335 1945), Planet Video
(9328 7464) & The Rosemount Hotel (9328 7062)
Last time I came down there I was all by my lonesome; this time I'm bringing Peter Hughes along. Make ready the vast vats of vegemite and tell Kostya Tzuyu that he's permanently on our guest list - we can't wait to see you all!
July 5, 2005 Tour's End - also, The Vinyl
...and so, with two really fun shows in Brooklyn, concludes the first half of the year's touring! Thanks SO MUCH to everybody who came out & held each other's hands & swayed & sang and made my life, and Peter's, so much richer. Not to get all maudlin & whatnot but we are so thankful to be blessed with listeners who show us so much love. Every day of my life, I try to take a minute to think about how much you-all really mean to me. So thank you. A thousand times over: thank you.
And now, to bust out the lecturing-dad style kung fu. There has been a lot of nonsense disseminated about the vinyl edition of the Sunset Tree. I twice sold out of the ones I brought with me on the road really quickly, but note the important qualifier "the ones I brought with me" modifying "sold out." I have only finished decorating about half of these rascals. The rest sit, blank-faced mute witnesses to my insanity, in various places around the house, eating up all the restful hours I was hoping to give myself between now and the video shoot. (What? Ahem, well, yes.) I remain convinced of two propositions: 1) the number of people who are interested in hearing these renditions of these songs is almost exactly 1,000; 2) accordingly, pretty much everybody who wants one will end up getting one. The only people who will never, ever get one are people who write me personally trying to bypass the middleman. I do not do mail order, because I cannot be trusted to mail things out in a timely fashion. Anyone who sends me money for the record will wait 'til the resurrection of the dead to actually get one, and even then there will be no guarantees, since zombies have first dibs on the limited vinyl.
July 1, 2005 Oh Yeah Dude Did I Tell You
Also in the "probably should have mentioned this earlier" category: I'm doing two solo sets this weekend in NYC, because I am insane. Both shows are on rooftops & will also involve the screening of cool movies. Dates and locations:
Saturday, July 2
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street at the corner of 3rd Ave.
Gowanus, Brooklyn
Tickets: $15 available at the door or online at rooftopfilms.com
Monday, July 4
On the roof of The Fulton Mall Parking Garage
300 Livingston St., between Bond & Nevins
Downtown Brooklyn
tickets as above
As it has been a long time since I played a solo set, I am stoked. And while I'm here, let me just say that we need more, not less, use of the word "stoked" in daily parlance. See you soon!
