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"Black Postcards" out today

Buy Black Postcards from A Shop Full of Wishes (US)
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If you’re in the New York City area this evening head along to Club Midway at 7:30pm for a reading/signing/performace by Dean - entry is free.

Black Postcards is a riveting, chilling read: a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of starting an old-school indie rock band, shot through with regret, desire and longing.
Everett True - Village Voice

At times a truly depressing read, and a more than valid shattering of the myth that living the dream does not automatically make for an easy bed, especially when those moments of being onstage for 90 minutes barely add up to the days and weeks in limbo where you try to exist as best you know how.
Craig Smith - Webcuts

Dean will be carrying out a (very) short promotional tour supporting the release of his memoir "Black postcards" - here's the schedule…

• 13th March 2008 @ Club Midway, 25 Avenue B, New York, NY - 7:30pm
  Reading, book signing, Q&A and a short performance
• 18th March 2008 @ Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY - 7:00pm
  Reading, book signing, Q&A and a short performance
• 20th March 2008 @ Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Boston, MA - 7:00pm
  Reading, book signing and Q&A
• 21st March 2008 @ Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Avenue, Boston, MA - 7:00pm
  Reading, book signing, Q&A and a short performance
• 26th March 2008 @ Book Court, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY - 7:00pm
  Reading, book signing and Q&A

If you can't make it to one of the signings you can buy the book from A Shop Full of Wishes…

• Pre-order Black postcards from A Shop Full of Wishes (US)
• Pre-order Black postcards from A Shop Full of Wishes (UK)

I nipped up to the attic this morning and sure enough after five minutes rummaging I came across another packet of Galaxie 500 press...

• Press: Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music (September 1990)
  "The nine songs here, with all their experiment and variation, are quite deliberate rather than naive or accidental. This Is Our Music takes the listener on a surreal journey of haunting and moody melodies."
• Interview: Galaxie 500 - SPIN (1989)
  "Galaxie 500's records have all maintained an atmospheric Velvets-on-a-moonwalk feel. 'Velvet Underground,' says Naomi, 'actually we've never heard 'em before.'"
• Interview: Galaxie 500 in Boston Rocks #95
  "People might even accuse us of writing dreary non-songs. Well, they are structurally simple, but they're kind of thick. We write love songs."
• Interview: Galaxie 500 - Rockpool (November 1990)
  "Certainly it takes a bit more than sensitivity or understanding or noodling with noise knobs to mesh Dean's voice into the dizzy sound of a straw blowing watercolor across construction paper."
• Interview: Galaxie 500 - Bucketful of Brains (1989)
  "No. I have strong opinions about things like politics but music isn't necessarily the right format for that, unless you 're Joe Strummer. Maybe I should spend more time writing lyrics but you go into the studio with five songs you don't have lyrics for and you're in a real hurry and you spend half an hour on them, and some of them you realise later are not good."

I finally got around to scanning in a bunch of old reviews and interviews that I have been sent over the years I've been running A Head Full of Wishes. I have a load more stashed somewhere but haven't managed to track them down - I think they may have found there way into the attic so I'll have a hunt when I go and get the xmas tree down!

In the meantime...

• ICA, London , UK - 26/September/1989 (Melody Maker - 1989-10-07)
  "Ultimately, however, the much-feted Galaxie 500 make me feel like I don't belong here. Only a rabid rock fanatic could go, all the way to extract succour from these remote rock regions. If this is what it takes then I am no longer a rock fan."
• Riverside, Newcastle , UK - 01/November/1990 (Melody Maker - 1990-11-07)
  "Galaxie 500 are a humming drum which beats out poetry, a bass that plucks perfection, a guitar which flies molten across unfathomable depths. But to describe them so transparently is to beckon ridicule."
• Interview: NME 16th September 1989
  "Subdued psychedelia, reticent rock 'n' roll, call it what you will, but tracks like 'Oblivious' and 'Flowers' are nervous geetar-orientated glides, traditional jaunts where songcrafting is infinitely more important than sonic warfare."
• Review: This is Our Music - NME 1990
  "Except for recent single 'Fourth Of July', a fine mid-tempo rumble of scorched thunder, every track unfolds in trademark slow motion. Eight sonic equivalents of a '70s wax lamp, at once mesmerising and monotonous, timelessly beautiful yet oddly nostalgic, pulsating with psychedelic colours."
• Review: Blue Thunder - Melody Maker 1989
  "PERFECTION: this has sepulchral bass, guitars which caress and crumble as through an opium-drenched haze, straining out-of-tune vocals which never quite attain, a wired saxophone which bursts in just when you don't need it, silence so full of wailing noise as to make you shiver with awe every time."

More when I can find them...

I've just published the results of the 2006 "A Head Full of Wishes" survey. Top Galaxie 500 album is, as usual, "On Fire" with the other two studio albums not too far behind...

"Fourth of July" is the perennial favourite track and "Listen The Snow is Falling" takes over as top rated cover version from "Ceremony". Top five tracks...

1. Fourth of July
2. Tugboat
3. Blue  Thunder
4. Listen The Snow Is Falling
5. When Will You Come Home

Head on over to A Head Full of Wishes to see the full survey results (including Luna, Damon & Naomi and Dean & Britta)

I posted this on my personal blog but while I'm in the mood for posting stuff here this fits so nicely...

In the olden days we used to go out and get fresh air or sit around the fire telling stories - some people might try and tell you that those days were better. But in the days before the Internet the chances of me seeing someone playing a Galaxie 500 song on a steel drum were pretty slim..no matter how many carnivals or school fetes I went to..

I must admit that because of the 'official' tag that this MySpace page has, I've been a little neglectful of it. It feels a bit odd being someone else (even in some sort of 'official' capacity) and obviously even harder it being a band that hasn't existed for 15 years. But it's great that there's so much interest and my fear of empty spaces has forced me into filling this blog with a dull ramble ...please forgive me.

Last year saw long LONG overdue arrival of the Peel Sessions. It always bothered me that they were not included in the box set when that was issued in 1996.

They finally got an official release last year on 20|20|20 so now everyone can enjoy Galaxie 500 covering The Sex Pistols. I remember seeing Galaxie 500 in London shortly after the second Peel Session was aired and the bloke behind me screamed "SUBMISSION" at the top of his voice in between every song...they never played it...I can probably remember his screaming better than I remember the gig which is pretty sad.

20|20|20 is Damon & Naomi's record label and has recently released the first in an International Sad Hits series of albums compiling singer-songwriters from around the world.

Dean and Britta had a single out last month and have their second album out in February.

-=Andy=-
A Head Full of Wishes

Here's a clip of Galaxie 500 performing a strange version of Strange with a kazoo intro...