Here's a Robyn Hitchcock cover performed by Minor Alps at their Madrid show back in May, but only just posted to YouTube by La Chaterreria. There's also a new clip of Live On Tomorrow from the same event.
Because that's the news you've come here for. Minor Alps videos from 6 months ago, right?
(More on that other thing soon.)
Minor Alps, on the question of more music and that song they worked on in Europe:
Juliana Hatfield : On n’a pas de projets. Matthew a commencé à travailler sur le prochain Nada Surf donc il va surtout faire ça et on n’a pas de projet après ce soir, notre dernière date. Aucun projet.
Matthew Caws : Si ! On a commencé à parler d’un enregistrement ! On a cette reprise…
Juliana Hatfield : On a aussi écrit une chanson sur scène.
Matthew Caws : Ah oui ça aussi !
Juliana Hatfield : On a écrit une partie de la chanson et on veut enregistrer cette reprise qu’on joue en live donc il y a ces deux idées.
Matthew Caws : Oui, c’est cool ! On ne sait jamais, peut-être que ça pourrait aller ensemble : on a ce refrain qu’on a écrit au début de la tournée et on ne sait jamais, ça pourrait être le couplet ce qui serait énorme. Parce que... c’est dur à dire. On a écrit le couplet le plus joyeux du monde… et puis il y a la reprise…
Juliana Hatfield : Il y a toujours d’autres trucs qui peuvent mener à des futurs trucs…
The full interview (en français) from the final night of the recent European tour in Paris can be read at Froggy's Delight. There's also a review of the show.
Thomy Keat's photo portraits used in the interview can be viewed in higher res at Taste Of Indie.
Matthew Caws, on the cover art for 'Get There':
It’s a photograph from the Olympic Peninsula, near Seattle. It’s not an Alp. We actually were messing around with a lot of photos of the Alps themselves; there were some really cool ones, night time ones, but it was hard to make them work. They were awesome, but really weird and dark. I’ve actually had a bad experience with that in the past, with a Nada Surf record we did called Lucky. You don’t always know how it’s going to print; you’re looking at your computer screen and thinking it looks great, but obviously the screen is generating light. You get the real thing and think “oh, man. This is not how I thought it was gonna look, it’s really fucking flat.” We love that picture too, though. It’s a nice fit, I think.
Dating back to their Manchester show in April, there's an interview with Juliana and Matthew published today at Drowned In Sound.
Linkage not previously posted here:
Carsten's Tour Database / Google Maps overview of the tour
YouTube:
Lausanne (whole show)
Out There @ Madrid
Inside Of Love @ Bordeaux
Candy Wrappers @ Paris
Bette Davis Eyes @ Paris
Reviews:
Rave Child (Glasgow)
Bearded Magazine (Brighton)
Let's hope this is not the last we hear of Minor Alps. Big thanks to Matthew and Juliana for bringing this project to Europe.
Taken from mariovzq's Flickr uploads of last night's show in Madrid.
There's a separate set by Bsides.es too.
Thanks to Estanis for these photos taken at last night's show in Barcelona.
See the full set at el dedo índice.
Estanis reports that this week is the first time Juliana has ever played in Spain so this was a pretty big deal for Spanish fans.
Matthew+I are going 2 informally play some songs @8 tonight @ la place de la cathedrale in Strasbourg. if it rains, rue des grandes arcades
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) May 12, 2014After Bordeaux at the end of this week it will be 25 nights without a break.
Concert acoustique improvisé Minor Alps (Nada Surf), rue des Grandes Arcades #Strasbourg pic.twitter.com/SFTT3bn8gZ
— alain walther (@alainwalther) May 12, 2014Also, Maxon
Also, Beautiful Beat.
From a YouTube playlist of 10.
Thanks to Carlos for the recent video links.
Another German radio interview, including a live performance of 'I Don't Know What Do With My Hands'.
Towards the end of the interview, Juliana and Matthew say that although there are no firm plans for Minor Alps in the future (Matthew is returning to work with Nada Surf after the tour), they are "working on a new song".
Whoop.
There's a Minor Alps radio interview with performances of 'I Wanna Take You Home' and 'Waiting For You' at FluxFM.
