New Sydney Date Announced
The Decemberists will perform at Sydney Festival on Jan 20th. Tickets go on sale Monday at 9am here.
The Decemberists | News 11.17.09
• The Decemberists to perform live on UK television TONIGHT!
• "Embedded" on The Current in U.S. TOMORROW!
• All posters at the Decemberists Shop now on sale!
Adored Mailing List Recipients,
This introductory paragraph will be guest-written, by dictation, by Becky Stark: "London is lovelier than ever. We're glad to report. Thank you, London, for catching our fall. Here we are at the end. Of our tour. Our tears are dried by the crisp winds. Delightful winds. Wings. Winds. That bring us, um, newly. That bring us, um, why do I want to say newly risen? That bring us into our new season of parting. Here is where we part."
The Decemberists will appear on the season finale of the long-running music show "Later Live...with Jools Holland." The show airs live in the United Kingdom on BBC 2 aqt 10 pm Tuesday night. An extended version of the show (with extra Decemberists bits) airs on BBC 2 this Friday night at 10:45 pm. More info here.
To those of you stateside (and on this mailing list, that means most of you), fear not. You have your own exclusive Decemberists' television appearance to gloat about. The Decemberists will be featured on a new show called "Embedded" on American cable channel The Current. The episode, which includes rehearsal footage and band interviews shot in Portland last March, also features Bon Iver and Passion Pit. The show debuts this Wednesday (TOMORROW) at 11 pm ET. The show will air in the UK in January - we'll let you know the details soon.
Finally, The Decemberists Shop is proud to announce a massive poster-sale. Nearly 60 different limited edition silk-screen posters, many signed and numbered by the poster artists, are on sale 20% off across the board for a limited time! Click here to go directly to the Posters Page at the Shop.
Yours,
The Decemberists
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The Decemberists | News 10.14.09
Points of Order:
• Headline shows in Australia announced!
• Last US Hazards of Love shows this weekend
• Video by UK art students for "The Rake's Song" posted on the A/V Page
• Kids show in Portland on October 24!
• "Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" featured on Bonnaroo DVD
Adored Mailing List Recipients,
More good news for Australian fans. In addition to the seven Big Day Out Festival shows, we are pleased to announce two headline shows. The Decemberists will play the Metro Theatre in Sydney on January 19 and Billboard in Melbourne on January 24. These shows will not be Hazards of Love shows. Tickets go on-sale on Wednesday, October 21. All but the Auckland, NZ Big Day Out shows are sold out.
This coming Sunday and Monday, The Decemberists play the last two Hazards of Love shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Limited tickets remain for Treasure Island Festival. The October 19 show in Los Angeles marks the debut of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a collaboration between the band and four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria -- each of whom have created animation to accompany a section of the album. At the show, the band will perform the entire album synchronized with the animation, as well as an additional second set of older and newer material. Watch the trailer for a preview of the animation. A few tickets still remain for this show.
Also on the animation front, students at Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London submitted ideas for a video for "The Rake's Song" earlier this summer. The winning video was created and directed in Moscow by second year students Alex Dashino and Varvara Volodina. The finished video is now available for viewing on the A/V Room page.
The Decemberists will play a special set of music for kids as part of the "You Who" series, a new monthly children's variety rock show, on Saturday, October 24 at the Kennedy School in Portland, OR. The show is at 1:00 PM and doors open at 12:30 PM. Tickets are available at Black Wagon and the Crystal Ballroom Ticket Outlets. More information available here.
Finally, the band's performance of "The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" live at Bonnaroo is featured on the festival's DVD, which is now available for pre-order here.
Yours,
The Decemberists
www.decemberists.com
twitter.com/thedecemberists
Video for "The Rake's Song" Created by UK Art Students
Students at Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London submitted ideas for a video for "The Rake's Song" earlier this summer. The winning video was created and directed in Moscow by Alex Dashino and Varvara Volodina, second year students studying Moving Image at St. Martins. The finished video is now available for viewing on the A/V room page here.
