Thursday, March 06, 2008

Neil Young

More confirmed Neil Young European summer tour dates:

  • 06/27 Rock in Rio, Madrid, Spain
  • 06/29 Malahide Castle, Dublin, Ireland
  • 06/30 Live at the Marquee, Cork, Ireland
  • 07/04 or 05 or 6 Roskilde Festival, Denmark
  • 07/12 Passeio Maritimo, Lisbon, Portugal

Latest updates as always at Neil Young News.

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Say Hi

Say Hi is basically just one guy. Eric Elbogen is a musician who sleeps in his recording studio. During waking hours he polishes his songs with endless patience, coming up with sounds that stick in your brain. Resistance is futile. He is an electronics wiz operating in Radiohead country, weirder than Thom Yorke on a good day. His previous albums dealt with robots and vampires, on his latest effort The Wishes And The Glitch he delivers his visions on mostly human things, like the post-coital song Apples For The Innocent. Elbogen dropped his old band name Say Hi To Your Mom for the shortened version to show that is getting serious about his lyrics: "Just a lock of her hair and a jar of her breath. It might work this time, oh yes" (Toil and Trouble).

Say Hi: The Wishes And The Glitch

Elbogen played all the instruments, bringing in friends like his touring keyboardist / vocalist Nouela Johnson to contribute vocals. The Wishes And The Glitch is released on Elbogen's own label Euphobia Records.

Tracks:
  1. Northwestern Girls
  2. Shakes Her Shoulders
  3. Toil And Trouble
  4. Back Before We Were Brittle
  5. Oboes Bleat And Triangles Tink
  6. Magic Beans And Truth Machines
  7. Bluetime
  8. Spiders
  9. Zero To Love
  10. Apples For The Innocent
  11. We Lost The Albatross

MP3: Say Hi - Northwestern Girls
MP3: Say Hi - Toil And Trouble

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» myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom

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Hospital Bombers

Anything good coming from The Netherlands? Erhm, tough one. Wait! The Hospital Bombers are a pretty cool foursome - 3 guys, 1 chick. Their album Footnotes gets a USA release May 13th. Changes are they will pack a few to sell during their string of USA live dates.

  • 03/07 Brooklyn, NY @ The Market Hotel
  • 03/08 Cleveland, OH @ Front Room Gallery
  • 03/09 Chicago, IL @ Ronny’s / South Union Arts
  • 03/10 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s
  • 03/12 Austin, TX @ TBD SXSW
  • 03/13 Austin, TX @ TBD SXSW
  • 03/14 Austin, TX @ TBD SXSW
  • 03/15 Austin, TX @ Habana Calle 6

Footnotes is released on Excelsior.

MP3: Hospital Bombers - The Devil's Music

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» myspace.com/hospitalbombersatmyspace

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Lou Reed - photo: Ronbert Leslie

Lou Reed performed Berlin for five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. Disregarded at the time of release in 1973, it is now considered to be his masterwork about love's dark sisters; jealousy, rage and loss. Director Julian Schnabel made a film about and there is screening on March 4 in Austin, TX ,on Wed March 12 at 4pm at the Paramount Theatre.

Berlin Austin screening
With performers like Fernando Saunders, Antony, Steve Hunter, Rob Wassermann, Rupert Christie and Sharon Jones, a seven piece orchestra and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus all working to create a captivating and enveloping world, Lou Reed is able to take the audience with him as he bares witness to Caroline’s self-destruction. Julian’s set design create the backdrop of a hotel with greenish walls and with Lola Schnabel’s films displaying the beauty and tragedy of the narrator’s leading lady (played by Emmanuelle Seigner) the experience is devastating and beautiful.

Reed tours Europe again with Berlin this summer:

  • 06/23 Cork, Marquee, Ireland
  • 06/24 Belfast, Waterfront, Northern Ireland
  • 06/25 Edinburgh, Playhouse, UK
  • 06/26 Nottingham, Royal Centre, UK
  • 06/28 Paris, Salle Pleyel, France
  • 06/30 London, Royal Albert Hall, UK
  • 07/03 Munich, Philharmonie, Germany
  • 07/06 Hamburg, CCH – Congress Centrum, Germany
  • 07/07 Copenhagen, Opera House, Denmark
  • 07/09 Stockholm, Annexet, Sweden
  • 07/11 Tallin, Saku Arena, Estonia
  • 07/12 Riga, Arena, Latvia
  • 07/14 Warsaw, Towar, Poland
  • 07/16 Brussels, Bozar, Belgium
  • 07/19 Lisbon Campo Pequeno, Portugal
  • 07/20 Loule, Moinumento Dujarte Pacheco, Spain
  • 07/21 Malaga, Terral Festival, Spain
  • 07/22 Madrid, Conde Duque, Spain
  • 07/25 Girona, Portaferrada Festival, Spain
  • 07/26 Benidorm, Bullring, Spain

MP3: Lou Reed - Caroline Says II

» berlinthefilm.com
» tour press release
» loureed.com

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