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31 August 2010
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If You Are In NYC Please Go To This Show
8 September 2010
Hey all, there is a tribute concert for a friend of mine who was taken too soon. Ticket price is $35 but the money raised is going to his wife and baby daughter.
RAMONES MUSEUM GIG in BERLIN
7 September 2010
LAst night I played my first solo german show at the Ramones Museum. A great place you have to check out in Berlin if you come or if you live here. I did the show unplugged again. Everyone was very courteous and kept schtum. I think it went good. I played for an hour and that was that. Nora and Clay were there. Before the last couple of songs Clay shouted that he wanted to go home. I jumped down and ran over and gave him a kiss goodbye and then went back to finish the show. Later, my friend told me there were actually people behind him who thought this was staged!! hahaha. They obviously don’t have kids. Poor cynical souls.
Buttercups On R2
6 September 2010
Radio 2 made Buttercups (single 1 from Wreckorder) their record of the week. Very cool to be back on the airwaves.
Has anyone heard it yet… How does it sound on the fm?
The Shining. Bartók. Britney Spears
6 September 2010
My friend, the brilliant director Wolfgang Becker, invited us along with 18 others to the Berlin Philarmonie yesterday. The evening began early at X Filme HQ to watch a movie. It was a surprise so we all were curious as we took our seats in their little cinema. Wolfgang spoke in German but I picked up that we were about to see the best horror movie of all time and it was connected to the concert we would see later in the evening. It could only be one film. The Shining. One of Wolfgang’s partners Tom had managed to borrow an original 35mm print of the movie. I had only seen it on TV so this was a thrill to hear the hushed rattle of the projector behind the sound proof glass. If you haven’t seen it, The Shining is Stanley Kubriks take on horror. Jack Nicholson plays one of his most memorable roles…And if you get the DVD you have to see the documentary his daughter made while they shot the film. Some wonderful behind the scenes footage of Nicholson doing his thing… What a movie. It stays with you.
After the movie we drove to the Philarmonie and took our seats to watch the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra take us through Bartók, Luciano Berio and Igor Stravinsky. The conductor was Mariss Jansons. He produced the greatest classical music performance I have ever seen. The Firebird Suite was mindblowing. There was a standing ovation at the end of the concert. The place went wild. They did 2 extra compositions at the end. It was incredible. After the show we all walked out in a daze and drove over to stage 3 of the night which was dinner at a nice spanish restaurant in Kotbusser Tor.
Now afew days earlier Wolfgang had asked if I would accompany him on guitar and play some songs at this night. Of course I said of course and we rehearsed on Saturday afternoon. So we played one of his favourite songs Hit Me Baby One More Time and then he suggested the Keane song Try Again which Tim and I had been playing together on the recent tour and then he asked me to play one of my new songs… It was alot of fun. Christian, Wolfgang’s musical director played piano and me and Wolfgang on guitar. I had a nice chat with Tom Tykwer, another great german director. Another cool evening at the hands of Herr Becker.
Congratulations Herr Corbijn
4 September 2010
Number 1 at the US Box Office with your new movie The American. Well done Anton. We LOVE you!!!
Click on the Pic to watch the trailer.
The Boys Next Door
4 September 2010
The Boys Next Door played a storming gig tonight at the annual end of summer party next door. They have added a couple of Strokes songs to their set. They also have a new bassist. Anyways. Watch this space. They’re gonna be huge.
BERLIN SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT (LOOK WOLFGANG!!!)
3 September 2010
Fran Healy
Live
Monday, September 6th
20.00
At RAMONES MUSEUM BERLIN
Free entrance
More informations at www.ramonesmuseum.com
Fran Healy, the singer and songwriter from Travis, will be performing an exclusive Solo-Acoustic-Set on Monday, September 6th at Ramones Museum Berlin. Healy will perform songs from his new album “Wreckorder”, which comes out on October 8th , for the first time live. Entrance is free, but early arrival is recommended.
Vancouver “Anything Stripped”
31 August 2010
While watching the KINK session I noticed this popped up on youtube after the KINK video stopped… It was filed at the now infamous Vancouver Stripped show where I did the entore set off mic. So happy to find a great video recording of this. Happy that the mic on the camera wasn’t as good as the ears in the room. It sounded so much better than this. There is something huge about listening to sound and image matched up. The whoe idea of the strippd set was a fuck you to amplification. I dont really like live music amplification. No human sounds that loud. If it’s loud then your ears miss alot of stuff alot of detail. Anyways… I gonna hot the sack… night… Oh PS had a lovely evening tonight with Paul from Maximo Park who was in town today.
