The Posies will play the Beautiful Days festival in the UK on August 20th. They will also play the Ankkrarock festival in Finland on August 6th.
(thank you to Dave and Maako for the dates!)
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Jon and Ken on KEXP tomorrow
From Barbara Mitchell, posted to the dear23 list:
just a heads-up that jon and ken will be on cheryl waters’ show on kexp (
www.kexp.org for those of you outside of seattle) at 10 am on thursday, may 5.
they’ll be playing a new song live and probably spinning something off the new
album.
More summer tour dates coming in
The Posies are to play the Öya Festival in Oslo, Norway on August 11th.
(thanks to Ole-Andre!)
EVERY KIND OF LIGHT – Japanese pre-order
You can pre-order the new Posies album at eil.com, although it will not be released until 22 June. Information on it:
THE POSIES
Every Kind Of Light
2005 Japanese CD album includes ‘It’s Great To Be Here Again’, ‘All In A Day’s Work’ and ‘Last Crawl’, BONUS TRACK expected, picture sleeve plus obi-strip, more details to follow…
(thanks to Remi on the jonauer.com board!)
Posies to play Benicassim Festival
From Billboard.com:
A host of top rock and electronic acts will descend on Spain’s Benicassim Festival this summer. The event will be held Aug. 4-7 and feature performances by Oasis, Keane, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the reunited Dinosaur Jr., Doves, Polyphonic Spree, the Raveonettes, Athlete, Kaiser Chiefs and Kasabian.
Also on the Benicassim bill are Kings Of Convenience (group member Erlend Oye will perform an additional solo set), the Posies, the Tears, Mylo, the Glimmers, Jeans Team, Lori Meyers and Matthew Herbert.
Hear ‘Conversations’ clip; Posies to play Paleo festival
A 30-second clip of a song called “Conversations,” from the Posies’ new album, Every Kind of Light, can be heard here.
They will be playing the Paleo festival in Switzerland on 19 July 2005.
Upcoming Posies date
From KS.com –
5/7 POSIES at the Nightlight, Bellingham USA
Posies album news & new Ken tour dates
As posted by Barbara Mitchell to the dear23 list –
just wanted to check in with a quick update. i’m sure you all know jon’s
record is done – should have news on a release date, etc. soon. posies album
is done and will be out WORLDWIDE at the end of june. we’re putting together
the subsequent tour – be assured that even if you live in outer mongolia,
you’re likely to get an opportunity to see them this time around!
in the meantime, ken’s doing some solo dates in between r.e.m. duties. we
just confirmed the australian tour (a co-headlining run with even) and two
dates in new zealand. details below.
i should have some more news shortly. this is going to be a VERY busy year
(or years!) in the land o’ posies. thanks for all your patience and support!
EVEN and KEN STRINGFELLOW “Together Alone” April 2005
Saturday 9th – The Zoo, Brisbane
Sunday 10th – Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Monday 11th – day off
Tuesday 12th – day off (Ken may do Perth)
Wednesday 13th – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
Thursday 14th – Grace Emily, Adelaide
Friday 15th – Republic Bar, Hobart
NEW ZEALAND DATES
Saturday 16th – Kings Arms, Auckland
Sunday 17th – Matterhorn “Sunday Roast,” Wellington
Archies shirt orders over
The deadline of February 2 was pushed forward, and Andrew has decided to stop taking orders for the shirts as of tonight, as there are enough to print in all three mediums.
Update on Archies shirt
The last day Andrew will be taking requests for the shirt is February 2nd, which is this coming Wednesday, so if you’d like one, the information is in the update below.
Currently, there are enough requests for one run (as of yesterday, the total is 29), and he will be sending out a mass mailing to everyone who is interested after he is done recieving orders.