Tour Update

The Posies will play the Festival Rock Alaquas in Alaquas, Spain on Sept. 2nd, and the Ebrovision Festival, in Miranda del Ebro, Spain, on Sept. 23. On the tour page, you can find a new Big Star festival date in Spain for September, and a show Ken is playing as part of The Disciplines (featuring Bjorn, Baard, and Claus of Briskeby) in Norway at the end of December.

Also, Ken is now on Myspace – click here to check out his page and add him to your friends.

Bordeaux Show Cancelled; KS/Big Star Dates for 2006

The Posies’ 12/2 show in Bordeaux, France has been cancelled.

In addition to his 12/31 show in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Ken will be playing these additional shows in January:

1/4 KS solo at B72, Vienna AUSTRIA
1/5 KS solo at Weekender, Innsbruck AUSTRIA
1/6 KS solo at Sporting Club, Crans-Montana SWITZERLAND

Here are two Big Star dates for February (tickets are for sale now for both shows):

2/21 Big Star @ Tivoli, Utrecht NETHERLANDS (tickets)
2/22 Big Star @ De Handelsbeurs, Gent BELGIUM (tickets)

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

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On-air Radio performance:
KASC Ken & Jon on The Blaze (ASU) 5PM

5~10人で北海道に行くのですが、幹事として計画を時に注意した方がいいこととは?

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.

Big Star Travel “Space”

An article from rollingstone.com today:

The mystique of the first three Big Star albums was not on the minds of the band members during the making of In Space. “No one was ever going to recreate the mood and vibe of those early records,” Stringfellow says. “The conditions that generated the first Big Star records were so special, there’s no way they could be repeated.”

With the upcoming release and a possible supporting tour, Stephens is certain about one thing that never happened for Big Star the first time around. “A lot of people will be interested in listening to this record,” he says. “It would be great if it connects.”

read the whole article here

Big Star Looks Forward Despite Years

Jon interview on Billboard.com – full story here.

“We had no expectations,” Auer tells Billboard.com of the recording sessions, “and I think we came up with a pretty credible record. It’s impossible, of course, to compete with the original Big Star, but it’s pretty crazy that a band that broke up 30 years ago made a new record.”