Blake Babies played an outdoor event yesterday for Allston's Awesome Christmas. It looks like it was a lot of fun.
Thanks as ever to David Young for these excellent photos of the show.
A 4 minute clip via PledgeMusic with snippets of last month's Blake Babies shows at Q Division. Includes a Q & A clip where all 3 are asked what they are up to now.
Blake Babies have been announced as headliners for Do617's Allston's Awesome Christmas event at Pop Allston, 89 Brighton Avenue, Allston, MA which, despite the name, is scheduled for Saturday September 10, 2016.
The event is free to attend via RSVP on Do617's site.
Photo: David Young
I think we can call it a bona fide reunion now.
After the release of the 1980s Earwig demos and the semi-private shows last month for PledgeMusic subscribers, Blake Babies today announced a couple more shows in John’s “hometowns”:
October 15, 2016 - The Basement East, Nashville, TN
October 16, 2016 - Saturn, Birmingham, AL
Support at both shows is Phoebe Bridgers.
Tickets are on sale Friday, August 5, 2016 at 10am CDT.
Magnificent.
Since we'll be close, we are open to booking a house concert within approx 200 miles of Nashville on Friday, 10/14, details tbd. Hit us up!
— Blake Babies (@blakebabies) August 4, 2016
Regular visitors here will be familiar with David Young's excellent live photos. He has kindly provided us with another exceptional set from the Blake Babies show at Evanston, IL yesterday.
David has sent a different photo set to the band too so look out for them should they be posted across the official accounts.
This is the setlist from Saturday's Blake Babies show at Space, Evanston, IL:
Thanks for spiketop for sharing the info and for the video of Rain above, taken from a YouTube playlist with 6 other clips.
With thanks to spiketop, here's the set list from the 2 Blake Babies shows on July 9, 2016:
As premiered at Stereogum here's an official live recording of Lament, from the Blake Babies' Q Division shows earlier this month.
Best wishes to any of you going to the Evanston show tomorrow. Hope you have a great time.
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Thanks to spiketop for getting in touch with the above Sanctify clip from the weekend's Blake Babies shows.
Also, the Girl In A Box clip is taken from Thalia M's thalianation Instagram account, where there are more clips of Lament, Severed Lips and Nirvana, also embedded in an account of the shows at Vanyaland.
The most important news to emerge from the shows is John P Strohm confirming that both sets at Q Division Studios were recorded. YERRRSSSSS!
Video from yesterday's Blake Babies reunion shows in Somerville, MA.
There's more on the Blake Babies Facebook page.
The Earwig demos from 1988 were released on Friday (July 8) as a download for those of use who placed PledgeMusic orders. The quality is outstanding in every sense.
The previoulsy announced private Blake Babies shows are now scheduled for July:
July 9, 2016 - Boston, MA
2 private studio performances (matinée & early evening)
pledgemusic.com/projects/blakebabies/bundles/17122
July 23, 2016 - Evanston, IL
Private matinée performance
pledgemusic.com/projects/blakebabies/bundles/17128
There's a couple of photosets on Flickr from the Juliana Hatfield Three show at Cuisine en Locale in Somerville last month:
A roundup of links for the final leg of March 2015 dates on the Juliana Hatfield Three Become What You Are tour:
Leslie Kaholi has a great Flickr photoset of the Belly Up Tavern show at Solana Beach, CA on March 18.
On March 20, the band played a late night SXSW showcase at Buffalo Billiards in Austin, TX. There's a brief review by Cindy Royal (who took the above video) at On That Note. Among the crowd that night was a certain Blake Baby:
The Atlanta, GA gig at Terminal West on March 22 is reviewed by Chris Martin at Examiner.com:
Todd Philips and Dean Fisher set the pace keeping things steady as Hatfield flexed her vocal muscles and showed off her underappreciated guitar skills. 21 years later the Juliana Hatfield Three stills packs a punch. The band’s big rock sound hasn’t aged and Sunday night they sounded like a band that had been together for years.
There's some nice photos (including support band - fellow 90s veterans Magnapop) by John McNicholas on Flickr.
Charlotte, NC for @julianahatfield at the @NTheatre. pic.twitter.com/TZ8hBU1EuR
— Dan Wuori (@dwuori) March 24, 2015
The Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, NC show on March 23 has some YouTube video including This Is The Sound. Jeff Hahne's review (with photos) for Creative Loafing, Charlotte suggests this was a small attendance and low key performance, perhaps not helped by excessive, intrusive mobile phone / flash use - the scourge of many gigs these days:
Two-thirds of the way through Juliana Hatfield Three's hour-long set at the Neighborhood Theatre on Monday night, I noticed a man standing in front of the stage holding up his cellphone, taking video of the 47-year-old singer. Nothing new nowadays, right? Without missing a beat, Hatfield turned inward toward her bandmates. A moment later, she moved back on the dimly lit stage, a few steps toward the drums. As the song ended, Hatfield moved back to her original spot and told the crowd, "I'm always in the same place on this tour and wanted a different view." To me, it looked like she didn't want a cellphone distracting her. .. but perhaps a one-minute change of scenery was needed.
A few songs into the band's brief encore, though, a woman in front of the stage was taking pictures with her phone. As the flash went off multiple times, Hatfield once again grabbed her mic stand and moved back on the stage. It wasn't long after that the show ended.
Taking a few cellphone momentos of a show is understandable. Sharing them is often great for those of us not there. There's a line that you shouldn't cross though, particularly by doing things like failing to disable camera flash; you're not considering other people's enjoyment or, most importantly, the artist you're there to support. Weird that some people don't get that. Anyway...
Update There's some non flash, non cellphone pics by Kevin McGee for Shutter 16 at Flickr.
The final March date was the Cat's Cradle show at Carrboro, NC on March 24. There's bits on YouTube uploaded by TheSublminalPandaBear including Supermodel and My Sister (below) which began with some Juliana improv during Dean's amp issues.
There's now a little break before a handful of shows back on America's East Coast in mid April, 2015. The tour dates are here.
Photo: David Young
Another date has been added to the JH3 tour.
They will play at Cuisine en Locale, Somerville, MA on April 19, 2015 with support from Potty Mouth.
The previously announced tour dates are here.
Laura Morgan with a great review of last week's LA show at lyriquediscorde:
I felt both excitement and a sudden sadness when the last song began. That said, sing-screaming along to the line “I’ve got no idols” felt so cathartic. That surge in the crowd hit again, the bouncing and spinning, everyone singing it together, with Juliana. It was powerful, the combining of voices, the variety of people, from different walks and ways, coming together for the music. We may all have no idols per se, except for maybe the music, and for many of us there that night, Juliana’s Three.
The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles welcomed the Juliana Hatfield Three tour on Monday.
There's a couple of JH3 photos (in a set focusing on the support act Miranda Lee Richards) by BentleyBT at Flickr.
Trent at Pink Is The New Blog has a short review of what is described as the best show ever, so there's that.
Update - There's another great review at lyriquediscorde.
It seems like this was a really good one.
Juliana Hatfield Three (@julianahatfield) tonight at @theroxy! pic.twitter.com/5U0iGmJjD1
— joe1138 (@joe1138) March 17, 2015
The set list is changing a little bit between shows. At LA it was:
Thanks to Spike U. Topian for the set info, report of a "full enthusiastic high energy crowd", and a few videos on a YouTube playlist featuring Supermodel, Mabel, A Dame With A Rod, Addicted, and I Got No Idols.
There are various cuts on YouTube from other people if you search.
@julianahatfield You are the Triple Goddess and very loved. (And you kicked ass tonight!)✨ pic.twitter.com/4guUn7QEuW
— Heather Pierce (@heathervox) March 16, 2015
The Juliana Hatfield Three tour landed at The Chapel in San Francisco on Sunday.
There's a review and a great set of photos by Greg Chow at Three Match Breeze.
Photo: Lieve Neven
Three new East Coast dates have been added to the JH3 US tour. Update - There's now a fourth new one at Somerville. Update 2 - A Vermont show previously listed for April 16 has been removed from the schedule
The revised list of shows still to come as of today:
March, 2015
18 Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA
20 SXSW, Austin, TX
22 Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
23 Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC
24 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
April, 2015
17 Historic Theater, Portsmouth, NH (double bill with Buffalo Tom)
18 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
19 Cuisine en Locale, Somerville, MA
21 Columbus Theatre, Providence, RI
