The Minor Alps European dates now include a Scottish show:
April 23, 2014 - O2 ABC 2, Glasgow, Scotland
The Minor Alps European tour as announced last month now includes 3 shows in England.
3 more Minor Alps shows (UK)!
April 24 Manchester--The Roadhouse
April 25 London-- Shacklewell Arms
April 26 Brighton--Bermuda Triangle
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) March 4, 2014
Yes, a Minor Alps 2014 European tour.
Juliana and Matthew are to play the following shows around our continent:
April 28 Rotown, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
April 29 Kantine Berghain, Berlin, Germany
April 30 Prinzenbar, Hamburg, Germany
May 1 Vera, Groningen, The Netherlands
May 2 Ekko, Utrecht, The Netherlands
May 3 Luxor, Cologne, Germany
May 4 Zoom, Frankfurt, Germany
May 5 Kantine, Augsburg, Germany
May 6 Circolo Magnolia, Milano, Italy
May 7 Bleu Lézard, Lausanne, Switzerland
May 8 Komplex Klub, Zürich, Switzerland
May 9 Spielboden, Dornbirn, Austria
May 10 Acoustic lakeside warm-up, Bad Bleiburg, Austria
May 11 Nu Spirit Club, Bratislava, Slovakia
May 13 La Rodia, Besançon, France
May 15 Sala Sol, Madrid, Spain
May 16 Café Azkena, Bilbao, Spain
May 17 Krakatoa, Bordeaux, France
May 19 Fleche D’Or, Paris, France
More dates to be announced:
UK dates still to be added to minor alps tour, we'll keep you posted!
— MINOR ALPS (@minoralps) February 21, 2014
A roundup of remaining links for the last few shows of the recent US Minor Alps tour:
Black Cat, Washington DC, November 19:
The Vinyl District (Review)
Bowery Ballroom, New York City, November 20:
Impose Magazine (Photos)
World Café Live, Philadelphia, November 22:
iradiophilly (Review)
The Swollen Fox (Review)
The Swollen Fox @ Flickr (Photos)
Phawker (Review)
The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA, November 23:
Johnny Anguish @ Flickr (Photos)
Fruit Fly (YouTube as above)
I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands (YouTube)
BDCWire (Photos)
If you missed them on This Is The Sound, here are links to various photos from the tour not previously posted here. Again, thanks principally to Carlos and Andrew for these.
Seattle, November 8:
My personal favourites were taken before the tour proper began at the Minor Alps acoustic session for KEXP. These photos are outstanding. Don't miss.
Los Angeles, November 12:
Soda Bar, San Diego, November 14:
Black Cat, Washington DC, November 19:
Bowery Ballroom, New York City, November 20:
Eleventy thousand smartphone owners have attended the Minor Alps tour this month. Some of them used these devices to watch large portions of the shows through a screen with their arms held up.
So many in fact that it's been hard to keep up.
A roundup is therefore required commencing with more from the Los Angeles shows. See earlier posts here for links for the first few gigs.
Thanks to everyone who has submitted or shared these links here or elsewhere on the internet. In particular thanks to liveontomorrow reader Carlos for submitting dozens of recent links that appear here, and also to Andrew who has been keeping us all up to date with news for many years chiefly via the This Is The Sound group. If you're a member there, these links have already been posted on that group too. It is really appreciated guys.
Thanks too to the uploaders, obvs.
With one exception, these are single camera YouTube efforts.
Echoplex, Los Angeles, November 12:
I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands
Soda Bar, San Diego, November 14:
If I Wanted Trouble (clip on NBC San Diego)
Schubas, Chicago, November 15
Rockwood Music Hall, New York City, November 21:
Main Street Music In Store show, Manayunk, November 22:
World Café Live, Philadelphia, November 22:
RT for the opportunity to win tkts to see @minoralps in NYC tonight
@RockwoodNYC. Doors: 7:30pm. Show: 8pm. 21+ only. pic.twitter.com/Pj7VLqKlYH
— MINOR ALPS (@minoralps) November 21, 2013I don't think this was previously announced.
More from the Echoplex show earlier this week.
There's a short review at LA Record, which includes photos by Leslie Kalohi that are also available (and best viewed) at Flickr.
Blake Babies FTW.
12 songs from the LA show in a YouTube playlist courtesy of spiketop.
There's some photos at Pink is the New Blog and a Caws-heavy set by vertouiseau at Flickr, and from the previous night in San Francisco by Bryan Gordon.
Charlie reports that the list for last night's LA show was the much the same.
Minor Alps' second show in Portland- November 9, 2013
See also - Fruit Fly
KEXP have posted a review of the show. See also their photos at Flickr.
Theres a nice photo set by David Lee at Flickr.
The first Minor Alps show ever. #Barsuk15 pic.twitter.com/q6StXMQEcy
— Seth Sommerfeld (@sethsommerfeld) November 9, 2013
Minor Alps set list Nov 8, 2013 pic.twitter.com/DhL1mHfRvl
— matthew caws (@nadasurf) November 9, 2013
After a radio session earlier in the day, Minor Alps debut live appearance took place last night at the Neptune Theater, Seattle as part of the Barsuk Records 15th anniversary.
They both played acoustic guitar with Juliana also on keyboards, while Matthew ran the effects and drum loops.
Notable setlist moments:
Live On Tomorrow, baby! Live On Tomorrow with special Juliana guitar solo no less.
Candy Wrappers with Matthew on lead vocal.
Thanks to Charlie for the info.
Minor Alps will play an in-store acoustic set at Main Street Music, Manayunk, Philadelphia at 6pm on November 22.
This is ahead of their previously announced World Café Live appearance later that evening.
Juliana performed a live acoustic show today, broadcast via Livestream as an exclusive for PledgeMusic subscribers.
There was an unscheduled break halfway through when the stream broke down completely, and although some reported further problems those of us lucky ones without such issues saw a stream that was of a decent quality and Juliana sounding great.
This is the first time she has done anything like this and she seemed keen on feedback with a view to doing more. She said it felt odd not to see or hear her audience response. This, and indeed the whole atmosphere, sound and actual physical experience simply do not translate when the audience isn't in the room. For those of us privileged to have seen Juliana perform in person in recent years this virtual event didn't compare. At all.
So it was best not to think of it as a substitute for an actual gig, be thankful for what it was and as the set was largely made up of requests sent in by pledgees prior to the show, enjoy those live rarity treats.
The setlist:
- Taxicab
- Hurt Me
- Learn To Fly
- I Picked You Up
- Make It Home
- Everybody Loves Me But You
- Hotels
- Until Tomorrow
- Choose Drugs
- Table For One
- For The Birds
- Law Of Nature
- The End Of The War
Juliana's new album project launches tomorrow (Sunday, June 2). While we wait, here's some further footage from last year's Melbourne shows with Evan Dando as uploaded to YouTube this week by Evie170.
See also Bit Part, All My Life, and It's About Time.
Thanks to Carlos for the tip.
Ok then, more.
Here's some terrific videos of the Australian tour taken by Bambino Koresh's leticianischang:
UPDATE: See also Ride With Me (Sydney), It's About Time (Sydney) and Pale Blue Eyes (Melbourne Night 2).
Down About It (Sydney):
Choose Drugs (Sydney):
Ugly (Melbourne Night 2):
Somebody Is Waiting For Me (Melbourne Night 2):
Ride With Me (Melbourne Night 1):