W♥M Updates (August 2008)
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Tour Dates 08/10/08 Westfair Amphitheatre Council Bluffs, Iowa
08/13/08 Sziget Festival Budapest 08/14/08 Frequency Festival Salzburg 08/15/08 Gambel Open Air Gambel 08/16/08 Highfield Festival Erfurt 08/17/08 Beautiful Days Festival Exeter 08/19/08 Lucky Rijseen 08/20/08 Traum Kiel 08/21/08 Festival Malmo 08/23/08 Reading Festival Reading 08/24/08 Leeds Festival Leeds 09/12/08 The Asylum Portland, Maine 09/15/08 Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ, New Jersey 09/16/08 The Electric Factory Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 09/18/08 The Norva Norfolk, Virginia 09/19/08 House of Blues North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 09/20/08 Headliners Columbia, South Carolina 09/21/08 Amos Southend Charlottle, North Carolina 09/23/08 Varsity Theatre Baton Rouge, Louisiana 09/24/08 House of Blues Dallas, Texas 09/25/08 Verizon Wireless Theatre Houston, Texas 09/27/08 Schnepf Farms (EDGEFEST) Queen Creek, Arizona 09/28/08 Viejas Concerts In The Park Alpine, California 09/29/08 House of Blues Anaheim, California 10/10/08 Knitting Factory Boise, Idaho 10/11/08 Roseland Theatre Portland, Oregon 10/13/08 MacEwan Hall Calgary, Alberta 10/14/08 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia 10/16/08 Bell Memorial Union Concert – Cal State Chico Chico, California 10/17/08 Arcata Community Center Arcata, California 10/18/08 Radisson Hotel Sacramento – The Grove Sacramento, California 10/19/08 The Fillmore San Francisco, California 10/20/08 The Fillmore San Francisco, California 10/24/08 The Pearl – Palms Concert Theatre Las Vegas, Nevada 11/02/08 Academy Newcastle 11/03/08 Barrowlands Glasgow 11/05/08 Astoria London 11/06/08 Academy Manchester 11/07/08 Ambassador Dublin 11/08/08 Academy Birmingham 11/09/08 Academy Bristol 11/11/08 013 Tilburg 11/12/08 Gr Freiheit Hamburg 11/13/08 Tragarn Goteborg 11/14/08 Rockefeller Oslo 11/15/08 Arenan Stockholm 11/16/08 Vega Copenhagen 11/18/08 Huxley’s Berlin 11/19/08 Turbinhalle Oberhausen 11/20/08 Schachthof Wiesbaden 11/21/08 Tonhalle Munich 11/22/08 Z7 Basel 11/24/08 Listhalle Graz 11/27/08 Estragon Bologna 11/29/08 Razzmatazz 2 Barcelona 11/30/08 Rockstar Bilbao 12/02/08 Elysee Montmartre Paris 12/03/08 Limburghal Genk 12/04/08 Melkweg Amsterdam 12/06/08 Cruzan Amphitheatre West Palm Beach, Florida |
I’m sitting here on the couch, waiting for food and listening to the upcoming Bark, Hide and Horn‘s National Road for review for 8/12, and I swear the guy is singing “leave my belly alone.” I can’t be bothered to check my iPod to find out what track that is (edit: the track is “This Abdomen Has Flown”).
We have a few things coming up, which I’m pretty excited about. Derek is going to handle Tricky – Knowle West Boy for September 9th and Soup will be taking the Deerhunter – Microcastle for October 28th. The big one for me will probably be Noah and the Whale – Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, the band that apparently Laura Marling used to be in before she went solo.
So basically, some really great, awesome, quality bands that we really love are coming in! You can always figure out what we’re reviewing on site.w♥m (check out September 9th – insane, eight albums!) I must really sound like a broken record by now, but if you think you have what it takes to produce a 200+ word article/review, please contact me. At the moment, I have way too much music submitted and not enough dedicated writers.
So today, I will be heading out to the annual Irish Fair of Minnesota (you would think they would put this closer to St Patrick’s Day?). I am especially looking forward to seeing Flogging Molly at the event, they’re scheduled to appear around 9pm tonight.
If I’m not completely wasted, I might update to let you know how it turned out.
Update: There was a whole lot of walking around yesterday. The event was free, but you had to buy these “food tickets”, which are really design for you to spend 6 tickets and have 4 useless tickets left over (so you’re basically giving $4 to the event holder). The food and drinks were understandably overpriced as the whole event was free. Yet, for some reason, I still need to complain about my $7 Fish & Chips.
We didn’t spend too much time at the Irish craft stuff, but wasted some time listening to Irish storytelling, watching sheeps grazing the grass (not. very. exciting.), and looking at new/traditional Irish photographies and art.
The real attraction for us was the Flogging Molly show, who actually arrived earlier than scheduled. They were very anxious to get on stage and rock out. And it shows, Dave King came on stage with a pint in his hand, dressed in a suit – and launched into “Paddy’s Lament”, a very rocking song from their latest album, Float.
He made jokes about how they went to the Science Museum and discovered that the only dinosaurs there, were themselves. There were also lyrics changes, notably anytime a location was mentioned, it was changed to “Saint Paul, Minnesota”.
After five songs, the mostly young, punk, goth(?), gypsy crowd started getting rowdy and eventually forced me to flee my stage left corner. I had to leave through the front barrier, as looking behind me, there were over 1,000 people staring back at me. I got this sense of enviness as the young folks at the front thought I had been stage diving and wanted to hi-five me, screaming “yeaah man, you raawk!”
Yep, that’s me alright, crowd surfer extraordinaire.
I ended up watching the rest of the full set, over 1½ hour, complete with a two-song encore, with three police officers enjoying the show from the back.
