In addition to the previously announced January Australia dates, we are pleased to announce two new shows.  We have added a second Sydney show at the Metro Theatre on January 18 and a second Melbourne show at Billboard on January 25.  Tickets are on-sale now.


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Points of Order:
• Headline shows in Australia announced!
• Last US Hazards of Love shows this weekend
• Video by UK art students for "The Rake's Song" posted on the A/V Page
• Kids show in Portland on October 24!
• "Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" featured on Bonnaroo DVD

Adored Mailing List Recipients,

More good news for Australian fans.  In addition to the seven Big Day Out Festival shows, we are pleased to announce two headline shows.  The Decemberists will play the Metro Theatre in Sydney on January 19 and Billboard in Melbourne on January 24.  These shows will not be Hazards of Love shows.  Tickets go on-sale on Wednesday, October 21.  All but the Auckland, NZ Big Day Out shows are sold out.

This coming Sunday and Monday, The Decemberists play the last two Hazards of Love shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Limited  tickets remain for Treasure Island Festival.  The October 19 show in Los Angeles marks the debut of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a collaboration between the band and four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria -- each of whom have created animation to accompany a section of the album.  At the show, the band will perform the entire album synchronized with the animation, as well as an additional second set of older and newer material.  Watch the trailer for a preview of the animation.  A few tickets still remain for this show.

Also on the animation front, students at Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London submitted ideas for a video for "The Rake's Song" earlier this summer.  The winning video was created and directed in Moscow by second year students Alex Dashino and Varvara Volodina.  The finished video is now available for viewing on the A/V Room page.

The Decemberists will play a special set of music for kids as part of the "You Who" series, a new monthly children's variety rock show, on Saturday, October 24 at the Kennedy School in Portland, OR.  The show is at 1:00 PM and doors open at 12:30 PM.  Tickets are available at Black Wagon and the Crystal Ballroom Ticket Outlets.  More information available here.

Finally, the band's performance of "The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" live at Bonnaroo is featured on the festival's DVD, which is now available for pre-order here.

Yours,
The Decemberists
www.decemberists.com
twitter.com/thedecemberists


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Students at Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London submitted ideas for a video for "The Rake's Song" earlier this summer.  The winning video was created and directed in Moscow by Alex Dashino and Varvara Volodina, second year students studying Moving Image at St. Martins.  The finished video is now available for viewing on the A/V room page here.


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Points of Order:
• The Hazards of Love gets a Visualizer!
• Band to perform live with the animation in LA
• Tour dates, tour dates!  Last chance to see HoL!

Adored Mailing List Recipients,

September has arrived.  Things once new now fade and dry and fall.  The air has grown crisp in the mornings.  The movies in the theaters arrive just a little more serious, each one mining the potentials of human despair a little more concisely and sentimentally, their starlets' dewy eyes gazing upwards in wonder at what the Academy might bestow.

And so, dear readers, we Decemberists would like to announce something we've had in our proverbial pressure cooker for a while now: Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized.  During the making of The Hazards of Love, we Decemberists were secreted away in an underground vault by the suits at Capitol, with only a tape machine, a handful of mics, and a bag of peanut butter and honey sandwiches with which to wile our time.  Occasionally, the then-president and CEO of the company, Walter M. Klammerdale, would visit this subterranean crypt, built in ancient Roman sewer tunnels miles below the Capitol tower, to check on our progress.  Klammerdale, a ponytailed relic of the business and self-described "psychedelic cosmonaut," would casually ingest upwards of 600 mg of high fructose blotter acid at each meeting, demanding more and more outlandish things of the band.  Chris Funk must play this guitar line in his pajamas.  Colin must sing this lead vocal without ever having heard the backing track.  Nate Query must kegel.  And, most terribly, Jenny must play all her piano parts on a keyboard made entirely from the finger bones of mummified Los Angelinos.  Notably, he commissioned four seasoned animators to provide a visualizer of sorts, an hour-long animation to accompany the music of Hazards of Love, that would play on a loop on a giant flat-screen television in the middle of the vault.  Well, the long and short of it is this: we finished the record, released it, Klammerdale disappeared while on a vision quest in Joshua Tree,  and a Capitol intern, while sweeping the ancient underground Roman vault one day, discovered the DVD of the visualizer.

And so: we Decemberists are pleased to announce the official release of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a collaboration between the band and four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria -- each of whom have created an animation to accompany a section of the music.  At Royce Hall on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on October 19, The Decemberists will perform the entire piece synchronized with the animation, as well as an additional second set of older and newer material. A limited presale will be underway Wednesday at 10am PST at http://decemberists.tickets.musictoday.com/Decemberists/calendar.aspx.  General tickets will go on sale this Friday, September 18.

And, incidentally, autumn marks your last opportunity to catch the "A Short Fazed Hovel" Tour, in which the band is playing The Hazards of Love in its entirety, along with a second set of random material.  Check for your city in the list of dates!

Yours,

The Decemberists
www.decemberists.com
twitter.com/thedecemberists


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