Updates on what we should all be calling the "Raking A Big Yard Full Of Leaves" tour with Evan Dando in January:
Tickets for the Philadelphia show with Evan at World Cafe Live (on Jan 24) go on sale from December 15.
The Jan 22 show at Iota Club & Cafe, Arlington, VA is also now confirmed by the venue, which doesn't sell advance tickets.
Support for the tour comes from Lady Lamb the Beekeeper.
The project with Evan Dando looks to have legs.
Word of US dates in January appears to be confirmed with the announcement by The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY of a show on January 21, 2011. Tickets are now on sale.
UPDATE: On the ThisIsTheSound forum, Andrew has posted the following dates (all now confirmed):
01/20 Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ (confirmed)
01/21 The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY (confirmed)
01/22 Iota Club & Cafe, Arlington, VA (confirmed)
01/24 World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA (confirmed)
and as part of 'Wes & Eugene's Cabinet of Wonders'
01/30 Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, CO (confirmed)
UPDATE 2: A further date has been added:
01/23 Daniel Street, Milford, CT (confirmed)
A few more links for this week's Juliana & Evan shows in Boston:
The Boston Phoenix has a blog article on the choice of The Real Kids' Common at Noon in the setlist and the dedication to Billy Ruane. The article also has a YouTube clip of the song from the November 2 show.
As is now customary, spiketop has posted video from both shows at YouTube.
There's also a great set of photos (including the one above) posted at C. Van Slyke's Tumblr.
UPDATE:
Carsten has reviewed the first show with photos at Only Everything.
"Dando explained his cheerful chattiness as a byproduct of his delight in playing with his longtime friend, and Hatfield laughed and smiled more than she normally does onstage as the pair conferred on the set list, chords, and lyrics."
The November 1 Juliana & Evan show, reviewed at the Boston Globe.
(thanks to Carlos for the link.)
The set list from the second of two Juliana & Evan shows at Great Scott:
thanks again to Andrew for sharing this list via This is the Sound.
“I walked into a tree before I came onstage,” Hatfield explained before the pair’s sixth song, Teenage Fanclub’s “Cells.” She’d been on the street looking the other way at a homeless person and - bang.
Last night's Juliana & Evan show at Great Scott reviewed at the Boston Herald.
A couple of covers from last night's Juliana & Evan shows at Great Scott, Allston - Breakfast (Eugene Kelly) & Common At Noon (The Real Kids).
via spiketop
From last night's Juliana & Evan show at Great Scott, Allston - a song they didn't play at the New York shows.
via spiketop
The set list from the Juliana & Evan show last night at Great Scott:
The Real Kids cover was dedicated to Boston promoter and scene regular Billy Ruane, who died last week.
Thanks to Andrew for sharing this list via This is the Sound.
A second Juliana & Evan show at Great Scott, Allston, MA has been added for November 2, 2010.
A roundup of the latest links for the Juliana & Evan shows:
There's a nice set by Andrew at Cheap and Plastic covering both shows, including the merch - a Juliana & Evan mug anyone?
Other photosets from the September 30 show can be found from georgia.kral at Flickr, waydown_watson at Flickr, and at QRO Magazine.
There's also a blog review and photos at {City Girl} Knows.
The YouTubeification continues too. Arty farty but still cool angle alert in the following clip of Rain from September 29 by pilmgrimsprogress, who has more of the same at YouTube. This is followed by When You Loved Me from September 30, part of spiketop's marathon documentation of the shows, which has now spread to the second night.
The entire Juliana & Evan show from Wednesday September 29, 2010 at New York's Mercury Lounge can now be viewed on YouTube thanks to Spiketop's arm muscles of steel.
"This is explicitly about having sex with you," Dando mumbled, prefacing the hit "It's About Time."
"I didn't know that until we were rehearsing recently," Hatfield quipped, making light of it. "But I never did it."
"That's true," he said.
The second Juliana & Evan show at New York's Mercury Lounge reviewed with photos at The Village Voice.
A couple of tracks were added from Wednesday's set to last night's Juliana & Evan show at the Mercury Lounge:
Groundhog Day - thanks again to Andrew for the photo and sharing this list via This is the Sound.
"On tracks off her latest release, 2010's Peace & Love, Hatfield sang diary-entry-esque lyrics about "butterflies landing on my pillow" ('Butterflies') and "missing your dreams" ('What Is Wrong'). They were sometimes abstract, sometimes intensely confessional, as in her ode to her singing partner, 'Evan.'"
Last night's Juliana & Evan show in New York reviewed (with photos) at Spin.
via dublinrambler
"There’s a timelessness to their deceptively simple, distractingly pretty songs about drugs and despair and dreams (as momentary relief from insomnia)."
The September 29 Juliana & Evan show reviewed at Capital New York.
"the set is a meandering, pleasant enough meander through songs nobody bought for very good reason: because they aren't very good."
This 'meandering, pleasant enough meander' of a review is at Rock NYC.
"On the jaunty likes of 'Hospital' and 'Bit Part,' both Lemonheads tunes, they joined their voices in not-quite-perfect harmony, his resigned, foghorn bellow serving as a foil for her pained, strained -- yet somehow still gorgeous -- delivery."
Last night's Mercury Lounge show reviewed in Spinner.
