In acknowledgment of such an honour, and as an extension of my gratitude forthwith, I am compelled to share this on behalf of my supporters...

www.thewire.co.uk

(Issue #307 | David Sylvian | September 2009)

Thank you Matt Thorne, and everyone at the Wire for adorning my work in your spotlight!

fondly and true,
B. Massei

So the big FENCE ACROSS AMERICA SPRING TOUR 09 has just come to a close...

Ladies and gentleman, let's hear it once again from Pictish Trail, Rozi Plain, and the Golden Ghost!!

Let's not forget those fine young film makers who have exposed all the dirt on us for their upcoming feature length film, D.A.R.Y.L. and Pulse Films, another round of applause, ladies and gentleman! You can view their tour blog complete with photos, which i've only discovered today, by clicking the URL link below:

http://www.darylusa.blogspot.com

We must offer you our tremendous praises for coming together on this one, y'all! This has been the funnest tour I've been a part of yet!! We're hoping to make it back out to the western states in the autumn, possibly, to conclude the FENCE ACROSS AMERICA TOUR 09 and we're trying like the dickens to bring KING CREOSOTE over, appropriately enough!!! Any other Americans interested in this happening, let us know, and by all means, twist the arm of Kenny, while you're at it! Go on and flood him with your praises and demands of his USA appearances...

www.myspace.com/kingcreosote  

So... NEXT STOP, SCOTLAND!!!

We're excited to get back for a wee while, to the bonnie braes of Scotland! We're gonna kick it all off, as one should, in the East Nook, Anstruther, for the FENCE HOMEGAME!!! I don't even know if there are tickets available or not, so i recommend you hunt them down, this is by a landslide THE BEST festival i've ever had the good fortune to be a part of! we're very eager to see those of you who make it to that!

www.fencerecords.com

following, from May 1 - 10ish, we're gonna be down in England. the confirmed dates are posted on our myspace pages, just finishing up the last of the arrangements, so i'll follow shortly with another bulletin about that very soon, but that tour will be 3 acts: Viking Moses, Pictish Trail, and Golden Ghost...

FOR THOSE OF YOU ANYWHERE IN EUROPE & THE MIDDLE EAST, Viking Moses and Golden Ghost (2 seperate acts!!!)  are available for concerts, festivals, private functions, etc from June onwards, and we look forward to your offers and ideas.

Thank you so much yet again, ladies and gentlemen, for the best tour yet! Thank you America, hopefully we'll get to the west before too long, in the meantime, Europe & The Middle East, we are ever eager for you!!

fondly yours,
Mosey and the Gang!!

Hey gang,

These are pretty rare, but i guess a box of them have been recovered in UK, so if you are new threads, and want to show your undying ViMo support as a walking billboard, you need look no further:

http://www.dustwindtales.com/vikingmoses.html

these are the same Viking Moses T-shirts immortalized in the new book "Noise: Fiction Inspired By Sonic Youth" in Matt Thorne's short story "Disappearer" found therein.

http://www.amazon.com/Noise-Fiction-Inspired-Sonic-Youth/dp/0061669296

ENJOY!

Alvin from the legendary band "Alvin and The Chipmunks" called us last night around 1am and left a voice message as we were sleeping. I couldn't understand much of the message, unfortunately, just that it was concerning a show, and something else to do with acorns, i think... Alvin, if you're out there, we're awake, and ready to do business!

Seasons Greetings friends!

We (Golden Ghost and Viking Moses) just got home from a grand year of touring, 104 shows played in 2008 in support of the new album "The Parts That Showed"!

After roughly 2 weeks of rest, we'll be hitting the road again in January 2009 for a quick regional tour of the Northeastern United States. Coming along with us will be some of our Scottish friends, The Pictish Trail, who will debut their show on American soil along side us! We are very proud and excited for this campaign!

2009 shall be the YEAR OF THE GHOST! Most of you, are well acquainted with Golden Ghost now if you've come to any Viking Moses concerts in the past year and a half... and since you've seen her, she's managed to write a new album's worth of songs, a terrific story, which will be called "The Unimaginative Body". We are nearly finished tracking and mixing this Spankin' new Golden Ghost album, and we hope to have it out and ready for you come Springtime 2009! after which, you shall be seeing your 1 gal out and about yet again...

Due to this splendid news, i have decided to put a bit of a limit on Viking Moses concerts for the next year to concentrate ..ing spread the good word of the Golden Ghost and her spectacular new album!  

Please join us in January, to wind down the Viking Moses Campaign, continue the Golden Ghost, and debut The Pictish Trail for the first time on American shores!

fondly and truly,
Brendon



FENCE RECORDS - The Legendary Scottish independent label, birthing ground of the BETA BAND, and home to King Creosote and James Yorkston brings a special line-up to east coast America!



FENCE ACROSS AMERICA TOUR!
PICTISH TRAIL / VIKING MOSES / GOLDEN GHOST
JANUARY 2009!

JANUARY FENCE AMERICA!
PICTISH TRAIL / VIKING MOSES / GOLDEN GHOST!
Sat 3 Philadelphia, PA @ Big Rock Candy Mountain
Sun 4 Baltimore, MD @ Annex Theater (419 E Oliver St)
Mon 5 Annapolis, MD @ House Show (9 Tucker Street)
Tue 6 Carlisle, PA @ Cafe (details pending)
Wed 7 Allentown, PA @ (details pending)
Thu 8 Syracuse, NY @ Castle Rockmoore (113 West Borden Ave)
Fri 9 Rochester, NY @ Casa Del Awesome
Sat 10 Binghamton, NY @ TBA (details pending)
Sun 11 Northampton, MA @ King Street Manor (113 King Street)
Mon 12 Portsmouth, NH @ Red Door (107 State Street)
Tue 13 Portland, ME @ TBA (details pending, either art gallery or house show...)
Wed 14 Worcester, MA @ TBA (details pending)
Thu 15 Providence, RI @ TBA (details pending)
Fri 16 Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands Gallery (289 Kent Ave.)
Sat 17 New Haven, CT @ TBA (details pending)
(please stay posted to www.myspace.com/vikingmoses for updates on pending details!)


Scotland's Fence Collective extraordinaires The Pictish Trail are headed over to the Northeastern USA to rock our shores! We're awful proud for this opportunity to show them around via DIY tour American style!

ALL SHOWS ARE ALL AGES, well, except for maybe the Portsmouth one...

eager to see you all!

fondly,
Mosey

i'm very excited to tell you all, we've been asked to open a few shows on the east coast with one of my all time favorites, Cass McCombs! (www. myspace. com/cassmccombs)

his new album "Dropping The Writ" has been by far receiving the heaviest rotation of all the albums i own!

the dates for these concerts are below, but if you'd like to fill in any of those dates, just give me a holler, and we'll see what can come of it...

VIKING MOSES opening for CASS McCOMBS
Thu Aug 7 Cambridge MA @ Middle East
Sun Aug 10 Baltimore MD @ Creative Alliance
Tue Aug 12 Chapel Hill NC @ Local 506

as you can see there are some open dates between those, and a long stretch back to Rhode Island after Chapel Hill, so if you'd want to book anything, please contact me with your offer: vikingmoses at gmail dot com (re: Booking)

please note any of these henceforth booked shows would be Viking Moses only, with an option of some Golden Ghost on the side, and would NOT include Cass McCombs, as he has other shows lined up, elsewhere, which i must insist you attend if at all humanly possible, as you'll be kicking yourself the rest of your life, otherwise...

Cass McCombs only (dates WITHOUT Viking Moses.)
Aug 8 New York NY @ South Street Seaport
Aug 9 Philadelphia PA @ Johnny Brenda's
Aug 11 Charlottesville VA @ Gravity Lounge
Aug 13 Asheville NC @ Grey Eagle

thank you for all your support!

yours,
Brendon

Hi all!

so we've had lots on the burner so far this year, went on a huge 50-some-odd date tour of the USA with the Golden Ghost, the first extensive USA Viking Moses tour since 2005, and the first ever full USA tour for Golden Ghost! (www.myspace.com/heygoldenghost)

since we've been home, Golden Ghost has finished writing her new album "The Unimaginative Body", so i've taken it upon myself with pride and passion to produce this album for her, which shall be keeping us busy at home in Providence, Rhode Island for most of August... we are glad to be working with chief engineer Brendan Glasson (www.myspace.com/viomire) on this album, and having musical accompaniments by John McCauley III of Deer Tick (www.myspace.com/deertick), and others!

i'm very excited to tell you all, we've been asked to open a few shows on the east coast with one of my all time favorites, Cass McCombs! (www.myspace.com/cassmccombs) his new album "Dropping The Writ" has been by far receiving the heaviest rotation of all the albums i own! the dates for these concerts are below, but if you'd like to fill in any of those dates, just give me a holler, and we'll see what can come of it...

VIKING MOSES opening for CASS McCOMBS
Thu Aug 7 Cambridge MA @ Middle East
Sun Aug 10 Baltimore MD @ Creative Alliance
Tue Aug 12 Chapel Hill NC @ Local 506

"okay, Brendon," you're saying, "lot's of great things are happening for Golden Ghost, and Cass McCombs, and all these people, but what about new Viking Moses projects and tours? when is YOUR new album 'THE PARTS THAT SHOWED' coming out? wasn't that supposed to come out last year??"

well folks, its been a rough and rocky road with life's little obstacles this past year, but they've yet to keep us down! we've been given much opportunity with the immeasurable support from gracious friends and strangers like yourselves, and i am tremendously excited to say that my long awaited, brand new album "THE PARTS THAT SHOWED" should be on its way to the manufacturer sometime this week, in preparation for an October 2008 release...

we are presently making plans to tour our asses off until the year's end anywhere we are welcomed and can afford to go... if you or anyone you know would like to arrange a concert for this campaign in the Americas (Oct 16 - Dec 31), please contact our booking agent Jeremy Hadley at Invisible City Booking.
(jeremy at becomeinvisible dot com).

for shows in UK, Europe, Middle East, or anywhere else in the Eastern Hemisphere, (September 1 - October 15) please contact:
(vikingmoses at gmail dot com) (re: Booking.)

as always, we plan to be fully stocked with new limited edition recordings, one of a kind hand made drawings/paintings, and other various souvenirs as a token of our time together...

for those of you who are finding trouble waiting all the way until October, there are plenty of fresh limited releases still available online:

-Recovery Songs (LP) (www.fridlystmusic.com)
-Crosses/Spenking (Double CD) (www.marriagerecs.com)
-Is Orange Birds (comp) (www.marriagerecs.com)
-The Dusty Tales (comp) (www.dustwindtales.com)

In support of our good friend James Yorkston's upcoming brand new album "When The Haar Rolls In", you will be able to find a Viking Moses cover of "Steady As She Goes" along with other JY covers by many other of your favs, available only in the Special Edition Box Set offered by Domino Records, available 1st September, 2008. (www.jamesyorkston.co.uk)

and of course, there are plenty of brand new Viking Moses songs under way as well! i have been writing new songs, and making demos of them, and shall continue to sneak them on and off of the myspace page and play them at upcoming concerts... (www.myspace.com/vikingmoses).

thank you for taking this time to share our exciting news, we are truly looking forward to sharing time with you all out on the road in these months to come!

eagerly yours,
Brendon and the Viking Moses Team!

thank you all, a good friend has donated toward the guitar, so i am taking the post down...

i was so shocked at all the response this got, and truly touched, so thank you all for the encouragement and interest...

i may start working on some paintings in the next few days, to keep busy, and hopefully generate some income... i can keep you all posted about those accordingly...

again, thank you...

sincerely,
Brendon

Interview W/ Viking Moses and Golden Ghost at Skinless Productions Gallery from Release TV on Vimeo.

Hi All,

this has been a wonderfully fun tour, and thank you everybody involved!

we only have about a week's left of shows, and we are looking forward to winding it down back east!

also, our Golden Ghost appearence on WNYC's Spinning On Air with host David Garland has aired and is archived now here, i highly recommend you hear it, chock full of her bangin brand new songs!
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/episodes/2008/05/11

VIKING MOSES / GOLDEN GHOST - USA TOUR

wed may 14
Baltimore, MD
@ Floristree
(405 W. Franklin St.)

thu may 15
Philadelphia, PA
@ Big Rock Candy Mountain (*)
(please contact myspace.com/thebrcm for address)

fri may 16
New Brunswick, NJ
@ Courtlandt-land

sat may 17
Brooklyn, NY
@ Union Pool (*)
(484 Union Ave.)

(* featuring very special guest David Garland! myspace.com/davidgarlandmusic )

do come around if you can, otherwise see you again next year or so, hopefully...