The Posies will be playing the Hi Tone in Memphis TN on September 18th.
Author: Taylor
Archies Shirts Are Back
From Andrew:
At the shows this weekend you will have the ability to purchase the newly designed Posies/Archies shirts. Darius and Matt are now featured along with Jon and Ken. They are VERY limited and once gone, I don’t know when they will return.
If any of the shirts get past AZ they will be available at future dates until gone.
I will be working with Taylor to get a mail order thing going if there is a demand. We have to work on the logistics with paying the band and all of the details….
Here is the updated design:
(The original design was done by Chris Mowrer – you can see his portfolio here and check out some of the other things he’s done.)
More Instores Coming Up + Big Star Ecard
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2005 – TEMPE, AZ
Stinkweeds Records 4PM – Ken & Jon acoustic set
1250 E Apache Blvd , Tempe, AZ 85281
On-air Radio performance:
KASC Ken & Jon on The Blaze (ASU) 5PM
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 – TUCSON, AZ
Ken & Jon will be doing their acoustic set at the ZIA RECORDS in Tucson Arizona
7940 E Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85710
www.ziarecords.com
ON-AIR RADIO PERFORMANCE
7:30 PM KAMP
Ken & Jon on KAMP
KAMP Radio – University of Arizona
http://kamp.arizona.edu/
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 – ALBUQUERQUE, NM
6PM Natural Sounds in-store performance – Ken & Jon acoustic
3422 Central Ave Se, Albuquerque, NM 87106
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – DALLAS, TX
7 PM GOOD MUSIC IN-STORE PERFORMANCE
Ken & Jon acoustic set
617 N. Good Latimer
Dallas, TX
http://www.goodrecords.com/
Also, here is an ecard created by Jonathan Krop for the new Big Star album. Three full-length songs available (‘Lady Sweet’, ‘Best Chance We Ever Had’, ‘Dony’) to listen to on the site.
Houston Show Cancelled
The 9/16 show in Houston, TX has been cancelled.
Tempe AZ Instore – This Saturday!
Jon and Ken will be doing an acoustic instore peformance at Stinkweeds Records in Tempe AZ this Saturday. It starts at 4pm and the store is one block away from the venue, located at 1425 E. Apache.
Alex Chilton Safe
It has been confirmed by friends & family that Alex Chilton has been located and is safe.
Also, a ton more of Jon’s tour photos have been added here.
Alex Chilton Updates
For updates on the status of Alex Chilton (who remains missing after the hurricane), please visit his Yahoo group, or this thread in our forums.
Reunited, Posies are reconstituted
The breakup of the Posies in 1998 carried with it an undeniable sense of finality. There was a farewell album and tour. In addition, a career-capping boxed set of rarities and unreleased material was unveiled in 2000.
But front men Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer have since resurrected the Posies, and they say the band is as strong and vibrant as ever. A reunion album called ‘Every Kind of Light’ was released recently. The band starts a two-month U.S. tour Wednesday at Slim’s in San Francisco.
In a phone interview from his home in Paris, Stringfellow acknowledged that it would have been better if the group had taken a sabbatical rather than announce a full-scale breakup.
Read the full article at MercuryNews.com
New Orleans Show Cancelled
The 9/18 New Orleans show has been cancelled in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. To donate to the Red Cross and aid the victims and recovery efforts, please click here.
Interview in San Francisco Gate
As the band re-emerges today, a full 15 years after making its major label debut — with a new album, Every Kind of Light (Ryko), and a U.S. tour that brings the reinvigorated quartet to Slim’s in S.F. on Wed., Sept. 7 — little has changed in the band’s bracing blend of big, crunching guitar chords, complex keyboard ornamentations and sumptuous, alternately smooth and tangy vocal harmonies. But a lot of turbulent water has passed under the bridge.
“We’ve had this amazingly up-and-down relationship over the years,” singer-guitarist Jon Auer said in a phone call earlier this week from Seattle, talking about his partnership with singer-guitarist-keyboardist Ken Stringfellow. “There’s something about what we create when we do work together that just seems to be indestructible. We’ve done things to each other and said things to each other that perhaps would cause most people to not even bother talking to each other ever again. Yet for some reason we feel still drawn to making music together.”