September 2010
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Greetings from London,
When we arrived here yesterday, we were exhausted, relieved, and then ecstatic to be back in the U.K., in that order. Despite the jet lag, we rushed out onto the streets and stumbled around in a daze, trying to remember where our favorite things were, to varying degrees of success. A couple years ago, we played our “30 shows in 30 days” tour here, in towns which—when we talk about now—have made the average Londoner scratch his or her head in bewilderment. Aldershot? Cornwall? Fife? Really? Yep. We drank in some very strange pubs, ate more kebabs than we probably should have, got beaten down by weather, and then we returned several more times. So yes, coming back here to the U.K. feels, strangely, like coming home.
Photo Credit: Prue Hyman
ALL I EVER WANTED DVD AVAILABLE NOW ON ITUNES AND AMAZON
Back in our actual home of North America, our documentary film All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall is finally, officially out TODAY in the U.S. and Canada on DVD and Blu-ray. It has new songs, old songs, random covers, a string quartet, a high school marching band, a children’s choir, a horn section, ballet folklórico dancers, and of course, an accordion player. We hope you enjoy it. We did, though we also almost went crazy putting the whole thing together.
You can buy it on iTunes HERE.
And on Amazon HERE.
SECOND SCREENING ADDED IN LONDON
The Raindance Film Festival has added a second screening of All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly, this Friday, October 1st at 2:30 p.m.
If you’d like to attend, you can buy tickets HERE.
Also, a few tickets are also still available for our premiere this Thursday, September 30th at 7:15 p.m. (at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly), which we’ll be attending..
Good morning,
D.C., Boston, Philly, New York, Toronto, Chicago. It’s been a bit of a blur, but the good kind, where you can’t wait to see what happens next, and there’s a string section accompanying you.. We’ve been wandering into cities with our friends and cohorts the Calder Quartet, and setting up our instruments inside some unique, historical sites: a synagogue, a church, a former vaudeville theatre, an old suffragist meeting hall.. We’re still reeling from the experience and currently hurtling across the country, back to the West Coast. Seattle, San Francisco, L.A., we’ll see you in a few.
Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, Washington D.C. (Photo Credit: Corey Mowery)
Tickets for the London premiere of our documentary film All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall on September 30th at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly Circus are available NOW.
You can buy them at the Raindance Film Festival website HERE. Showtime is 7:15 p.m.
OPENING NIGHT LIVE SET IN LONDON
To mark the occasion, we’ll be performing at the Raindance Opening Night Party on September 29th. This is our first U.K. show in nearly a year. It’s been too long, we can’t wait to get back.
NOTE: The venue location has changed. The new venue is now Café De Paris in Piccadilly. All tickets purchased for the previous venue (Heaven) will be honored at the new one. Doors open at 9:00 p.m.
Café De Paris
3-4 Coventry St
London W1D 6BL
For more info, click HERE
CLIPS:
Vevo recently posted the DVD performance of the title track “All I Ever Wanted.” To watch it, click HERE.
Also, AbsolutePunk.net posted a video of our cover of “The Book of Love” by the Magnetic Fields at Disney Hall. It’s a song close to our hearts. You can watch that...
Join the Airborne Toxic Event on September 9 at 7pm EST for the online premiere of a 30 minute excerpt from their documentary film “All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall.” An on camera camera Q+A with the band and director Jon Danovic will follow. Leave questions now or ask questions to the band LIVE:
Good morning,
It’s a Tuesday morning in Washington D.C. and the tour bus is rumbling with the sounds of string players stirring softly in their sleep. For this tour, we have brought with us the Calder Quartet: world-class players, performers, former Juilliard artists-in-residents. They are accustomed to slightly more formal digs and this is their first time on a crowded tour bus. The smell of string resin and priceless wood commingles with that of stale beer. Ah, tour.
We are the pirates, the cowboys, the lonesome spacemen of our time — dreamily contemplating the view of earth from a rocket-ship bound for the sun.
Photo Credit: Prue Hyman
TONIGHT, is the first show of this special acoustic “we’re-doing-this-because-we-can” tour. We’ll be playing some new songs as well as some old, as well as some very old. We’ll be playing a synagogue (tonight), churches, town centers, small hilly amphitheaters surrounded by coyotes and scrub-pine, the errant swell of viola notes wafting in the air. We look forward to seeing you, we look forward to meeting you, we look forward to adding you to this dizzy mess of spacemen and cowboys, virtuosos and pirates.
TONIGHT, we play the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue starting at 8:00 p.m..
Next: Boston (Somerville), then: Philadelphia (Glenside), New York, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. After that: London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff.
Here’s the deal on tickets:
Tue Sep 7 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 8 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theater – SOLD OUT
Fri Sep 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Sep 11 – New York, NY – Town Hall – BUY TIX
Mon Sep 13 – Toronto, ON – Trinity St. Paul’s Church – BUY...
Good morning,
It’s a beautiful day here here in L.A. We look forward to seeing you TONIGHT at the premiere of our documentary film All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Vista Theater in Los Angeles (Los Feliz). It means a lot to us to be able to show the film for the first time in our own neighborhood, where this whole thing got started.. The whole thing starts at 9:00 p.m.
Also, we still have some tickets available for our New York premiere at the Sunshine Theater next week:
Thu Sep 9 – New York, NY – Sunshine Theater (Lower East Side) – BUY TIX
For those of you in London, we’ll be playing the opening night party of the Raindance Film Festival at Heaven, Under the Arches in London. Tickets are on sale now.
Wed Sep 29 – London, UK - Heaven – BUY TIX
CALENDAR:
Los Angeles Movie Premiere:
Thu Sep 2 – Los Angeles, CA - Vista Theater (Los Feliz) – SOLD OUT
New York Movie Premiere:
Thu Sep 9 – New York, NY – Sunshine Theater (Lower East Side) – BUY TIX
Acoustic Evening with the Calder Quartet:
Tue Sep 7 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 8 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theater – BUY TIX
Fri Sep 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Sep 11 – New York, NY – Town Hall – BUY...
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