As a tie-in to the Augusta, GA premiere of 13 MOST BEAUTIFUL, the Augusta State University Fall Film Series will kick off with a free screening of Matthew's documentary TELL ME DO YOU MISS ME. The screening will be on Monday September 13th at 7 p.m in 170 University Hall. Matthew will be there to field queries and criticisms…

 

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"The ideas for these came about pretty naturally. For the NYC poster, I actually came up with the title first, and the image just kinda appeared on the page after a quick sketch."
(Now That Enough Time Has Passed) It's Safe To Go Back Again

"For the Philly show, I had just finished a sketchbook piece (which I've posted before here), and I thought this would be a great opportunity to bring it to life as a screen print."
Hello Again / Goodbye Again

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The Styrofoam Drone has a nice review with a couple of videos

For starters, Dean Wareham actually did a great job hitting those high notes he did over 20 years ago when they recorded the Galaxie 500 albums. Not only that, but I’m sure his guitar playing (as you would probably expect) has only gotten better over the years

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A bunch of pictures by Chris Gersbeck

A review at Soundbites

So it was a thrill getting to hear "Strange," "Flowers," "4th of July," "Tugboat" and others again, not to mention essential covers "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" (Jonathan Richman) and set-closing "Ceremony" (Joy Division/New Order).

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You can hear the show and see the playlist on the WFMU site – zip through to about 1hr 15mins in for the session and interview (here's a direct link to the mp3 of the full show).

There are also a few pictures on Flickr…

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On 13 Most Beautiful…

I’m not sure I would’ve actually liked to be hanging around the Factory. I have something of a work ethic—well, those people did too, I guess, because they were on spee [...] Sometimes you hear about these people in these incredibly productive periods where they’re just working all the time. It’s the same with Bob Dylan. How’d he do this? Then you find out they were on speed. You’re sleeping four hours a night, and I’m sure it can make you very productive for a short period. Obviously then it destroys some people as well.

And the upcoming shows playing Galaxie 500 songs

I know I get a real kick, an emotional charge, out of playing a song I haven’t played for 10 years. It just takes you back to that point in your life. I think I should’ve been playing more of these songs all along [...]
The songs are more difficult to play than I remember. I listened to the live Galaxie 500 album from Copenhagen, and I realized that’s at the end of a tour, after we had been touring for a couple of months and had gotten pretty good at it. In terms of chord structure, the songs are incredibly simple. For example, a song like “Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste” is only one chord, but there’s a whole lot going on in it.

Read the whole interview on The A.V. Club website
Upcoming "13 Most Beautiful" and "… plays Galaxie 500" shows

Dean & Britta performing Galaxie 500's Strange

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Happy Birthday Dean!

Speedy & the Castanets

Galaxie 500

Anesthesia

Luna – Bewitched

Happy Birthday!

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Hazel and I arrived at The Barbican and tracked down our tickets. Shearwater were about to start their support set but we nipped outside to eat first. We caught the second half of Shearwater's interesting set. They were a wee bit prog and I found the singers voice a little hard to be comfortable with but otherwise they made some nice noise as the five of them revolved around the array of instruments they had… I was also liked that they had a member who seemed to be called Thor!

Shearwater

Dean & Britta's performance of 13 Most Beautiful was again lovely. The sound wasn't as good as I'd expected/hoped – the drums seemed a little too much and the rest occasionally seemed to lose a bit of definition. Perhaps it was my imagination but they seemed to have polished the timing since we saw them in Dunfermline. The songs and films seemed to be better synchronised. That impression may have been influenced by the seats we had – sitting further back gave the opportunity to see the whole show rather than having to switch between band and film – I certainly noticed the films more this time. Noticing that Paul America and Edie Sedgewick above all the others lived up to the "beautiful" tag… noticing that Dennis Hopper seemed to be looking down at the band… noticing that Billy Name was just trying too too hard.

The most beautiful Paul America

The band returned to the stage for an encore of Galaxie 500's Strange and then, all too soon, it was all over. Hopefully they'll be back at the end of the year for a whole evening of Galaxie 500.

After the show I chatted to a couple of Galaxie 500 list members who were nice enough to come over and introduce themselves and then hung around to have a chat with Dean & Britta who were patiently chatting and signing autographs… including one, it seems, for Andy himself…

Dean signs an autograph for… wait a minute…

Had a nice (and short, and uncomfortable) chat with Dean & Britta, dipped into the after show party, where Hazel and I just nabbed a drink and some peanuts and olives, and then made our excuses and headed home. Thanks to Richard, and Darren and Beth for coming and chatting, thanks to Dean and Britta for being here and being so sweet.

There are a few more pictures on Flickr

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First them doing Luna's Chinatown

And then doing Adam Green's We're Not Supposed to be Lovers

If you look back through the morkygorky's earlier videos you can find some short clips of other songs from the show earlier in the day.

Previously:

• MP3: Dean & Britta with Nikolaj Nørlund play Ceremony
• Review: Dean & Britta in Copenhagen

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