OCTOBER 4, 2005 (tomorrow!)
7:30PM RECORD TIME
Ken & Jon in-store performance
262 W. Nine Mile Road,
Ferndale, MI 48220
http://www.recordtime.com/
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Press This Week; Q&A with Darius
– NOW magazine, Toronto
– Metro Times, Detroit
– Sailor Jerry, review & photos from a show last week
– MusicOMH, Philadelphia show review
– Worcester Telegram interview
Also, theposies.net will be doing a Q&A with drummer Darius Minwalla about a week from now – you can post your questions for him in this thread in the forum, or if you don’t want to register, e-mail taylord@theposies.net or post as a reply to this update.
NYC Venue Tonight
The venue for tonight’s show in NYC listed on the tour page is incorrect; they will be playing at the Bowery Ballroom (not Maxwell’s).
‘Conversations’ video & in-store updates
The Posies’ video for “Conversations” can now be viewed online here at Rykodisc’s website.
Here is the latest update on upcoming in-store performances & radio apperances:
SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 – TUESDAY – SHOW DAY PHILLY
7PM AKA MUSIC
27 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, 19106
SEPTEMBER 28, 2005 WEDNESDAY – SHOW DAY HOBOKEN
2:30PM WFMU
Jersey City, NJ 07303
http://www.wfmu.org/
8PM TUNES
225 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
SEPTEMBER 29, 2005 – THURSDAY – SHOW DAY NEW YORK
7PM NYCD
173 West 81st Street (between Amsterdam & Columbus)
New York, NY 10024
SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 – FRIDAY – SHOW DAY NORTHAMPTON
5PM B-SIDE RECORDS
273 Main Street Northampton, MA 01060
More Shows & Instores
– 9/29 in New York City: they’ll be playing at NYCD @ 7pm. The store is located at 173 West 81 St.
– and a new show has been added: 10/12 in Kansas City MO @ Hurricane.
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.
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.”