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Status: Married
City: Portland
State: Oregon
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/31/2007

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Friday, October 30, 2009 
Visit the BLACK FRANCIS WEB STORE now to pre-order a limited edition BLACKFRANCIS.NET tshirt.

Shirts are high quality striped American Apparel apparel tees, printed using a full color process. Specially designed by M.L. these shirts look, fit, and feel great.

Only 100 of these shirts are available and you can get $5 OFF by order BEFORE November 1st.





Saturday, October 24, 2009 

Category: Music
Winston Calling: A Rock and Comedy benefit concert for baby Winston Bertrand hosted by Black Francis.  

Tuesday December 8 @ Echoplex in Los Angeles (1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026, tel.213-413-8200) will be Black Francis (that's me!) doing band and solo performances with special guest appearances by people like members of THE PIXIES and LOVE & ROCKETS, FLEA, SHE WANTS REVENGE, WEIRD AL YANKOVIC, MICHAEL PENN, DAVID J, THE 88 and GRAND DUCHY...more to be added as we are able to confirm!

Wednesday December 9 @ The Echo in Los Angeles (1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026, tel.213-413-8200) will an evening of comedy hosted by Black Francis (that's me!) featuring TIM & ERIC (form the Tim & Eric Awesome Show!), BOB ODENKIRK, BRIAN POSEHN, DAVID LOVERING, solo performances from Black Francis plus others to be announced as we can confirm!

$20 adv $25 dos ($35 for both shows Dec 8 & 9)

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 
BLACK FRANCIS HAS MADE A NEW RECORD. TENTATIVELY TITLED "NON STOP EROTIC" IT WAS RECORDED IN LA, NYC, AND LONDON. A COLLABORATION WITH ERIC DREW FELDMAN, THE RECORD CONTAINS 11 TRACKS:

WHEN I GO DOWN ON YOU
LAKE OF SIN
O MY TIDY SUM
RABBITS
WHEELS (FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS)
DEAD MAN'S CURVE
CORRINA
SIX LEGGED MAN
WILD SON
NON STOP EROTIC
CINEMA STAR




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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 

Category: Music

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 
::Report from Golem front by M. Lemhouse (Golem book designer)::

 The Golem book is being conjured as we speak. The amulet is being placed upon it's breast and it will be ready for mass consumption for the masses post haste.
This "box set" will be in a book format with CD's included. 2 live performance Cd's of the live score, 2 Cd's of the studio recording and a DVD with the film score synced up to the original film. The book will include photographs of sheet music that was hand cut and pasted in with studio and live performance shots spread throughout totaling over 50 pages. The first page will be a hand pressed (from an 1860's letter press) title page that will note a number between 1 and 500 with Black Francis's autograph. Each book will be a one of a kind.

::That is all::
 
M. Lemhouse
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 
A new track has been uploaded and it is titled "ALL AROUND THE WORLD." This track is a live track which came from a live performance which was performed in the Netherlands. In Nijmegen.

We're putting together a live USB release which chronicles the events that took place that night. The night was February 28th, 2008. The song is one of many. Other goodies you will find on this release. And it is all coming soon. So shortly you will see it here and around.

THE BUREAU
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 

Category: Music
Saturday, January 31, 2009 

Current mood:  curious
"My oldest boy, he likes his tomato sauce with pasta so sometimes I've got to make it really quickly but I don't like using jars of sauces. So the first thing you need is an iron skillet." So said Frank Black when he contributed to our Rock'n'Roll Cook Book last year; proof, if it was needed, that the Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV of 2009 is a domesticated creature.

It makes his latest joint venture, Grand Duchy - a band comprised of Black and his wife, Violet Clark - a little less surprising. It's a move that will no doubt engender nay-saying, most likely from dyed in the wool Pixie-ites, who after 20 years are still hanging onto the coattails of Tame or Monkey Goes To Heaven in the unlikely hope that history might decide to repeat itself. Well hey, it probably won't, and certainly doesn't with Grand Duchy.

Sure, there are shades of Doolittle basslines and Black's trademark sneer makes the odd cameo (opening track Come On Over To My House being a prime example), but let's dispense with nostalgia and focus on the here and now: Petits Fours is an exceptionally tight and accomplished album. But rather than a safe, family outing, we get an exciting blend of 80s synths and enjoyably uncomplicated indie-rock anthems (Fort Wayne). It's fused with a chemistry and sense of playfulness perhaps normally akin to fledgling lovers, rather than the bearers of a five-strong litter.

Crucial to the longevity of marriage and ultimately the success of Grand Duchy is Black's willingness to share the limelight: this is far from a solo record, and on more than one occasion Clark's vocals usurp those of her more illustrious paramour - mischievous, sassy and devilish. Lovesick reveals the frustration that no doubt comes with Black’s jet-set life, the abandoned Clark giggling frivolously at her husband's skittish attempts to instigate phone-sex. Throughout the album, we get glimpses into the alternative lifestyles both lead – with album highlight Fort Wayne offering an account of life onstage in Indiana by contrast.

That the first collaboration between the couple was a Cure cover (A Strange Day - for a tribute album last year) proffers a fair indication as to the stylistic quality of Petit Fours: always hooky, sometimes kooky and unashamedly pop-based. Hell, sometimes they even venture into AM-friendly territory. But ultimately, Petit Fours should appeal to Pixies diehards and indie kids alike. Black & Clark join Ike & Tina, Win & Regine, and Johnny & June in adding another string to the already tuneful bow of matrimonial musical history.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 

Current mood:  breezy
Category: Music
Hello and welcome to the Official Black Francis myspace page. We tend to communicate a bit more over at blackfrancis.net, but we hang out here, too, and will try to keep things current, interesting, and, of course, extremely serious.