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Jonathan Richman live 84 Part 1 via bekfreak247

Directed by Manuel Huerga for television series Arsenal episode 24 and aired 28 April 1986 in Spain (Televisió de Catalunya TV3)

Jonathan Richman performs in a rousing show with Modern Lovers Brennan Totten and Andy Paley; also a saxophone, a stripey shirt (open!) and extemporizing in an argyle sweater

Part 1:

Ice Cream Man
This Kind of Music
Wipe Out
I'm a Little Dinosaur

Jonathan Richman live 84 Part 2 via bekfreak247

Part 2:

La Bamba
Rockin' Rockin' Leprechauns
The Beach
The UFO Man
Let's Take a Trip
Vincent Van Gogh
Give Paris One More Chance
Chewing Gum Wrapper
That Summer Feeling

JONATHAN reads a poem for MOJO

Jonathan Richman Reads A Poem For MOJO

more on MOJO

2012 February/March UK/Europe dates updated, California in April/UK in August

Susanne Piesker, Dezember

Lovely German composer, pianist, vocalist Susanne Piesker will again open for Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins when they perform in Germany this tour, coming up in March in Essen and Frankfurt. You may remember the delicate atmospheric beauty of Susanne's starkly wrought, hauntingly noir piano contribution to the song 'Our Party Will Be On the Beach Tonight' from 2008's Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild.

The UK/Europe 2012 Spring tour schedule has amassed to a staggering 25 (more or less???) dates in Wales, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and France, kicking off this evening in the gorgeous Wales countryside. Then it seems the wandering duo will spend some time in California (with probably more dates to come). August finds them back across the pond for a couple of great summercamp festivals (Green Man Festival in Wales and Summer Sundae in England).

Thanks to Susanne, Carsten, Bob, Alberto, Nacho, inkulto and Bob C. for help in assembling this information.

2012 UK & Europe
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Thu 23 Feb Bangor, Gwynedd UK Hendre Hall (tix)
Sat 25 Feb Queens Road, Leeds UK The Brudenell Social Club (tix)
Sun 26 Feb Liverpool UK The Kazimier (tix)
Tue 28 Feb Cardiff UK Clwb Ifor Bach (tix)
Wed 29 Feb Shepherds Bush, London UK Bush Hall (tix)
Thu 1 Mar Powis Square, London UK The Tabernacle (tix)
Fri 2 Mar Islington, London UK Union Chapel (tix)
Sun 4 Mar Essen, Germany Grend (tix) with susanne piesker
Tue 6 Mar Frankfurt, Germany Zoom (ehemaliger sinkkasten) (tix- no info) with susanne piesker
Wed 7 Mar Nuremberg, Germany K4 (tix)
Fri 9 Mar Florence, Italy Sala Vanni (tix)
Fri 10 Mar (possible- call venue to confirm) Naples, Italy Galleria 19 (tix- no info)
Sat 11 Mar (possible- call venue to confirm) Rome, Italy Coffee Pot (tix- no info)
Mon 13 Mar Marostica (Vicenza), Italy Panic Jazz Club (tix- no info)
Tue 14 Mar (possible- call venue to confirm) Trieste, Italy Etnoblog (tix- no info)
Thu 15 Mar (possible- call venue to confirm) Modena, Italy MrMuzik OFF (tix- no info)
Sat 17 Mar Madrid, Spain CasAmérica (tix)
Sun 18 Mar Murcia, Spain 12&medio (tix) with Raul Frutos
Tue 20 Mar Barcelona, Spain Cinemes Girona (tix- no info)
Wed 21 Mar Bilbao, Spain Kafe Antzokia (tix)
Thu 22 Mar (possible- call venue to confirm) Avilés, Spain Centro Niemeyer (tix- no info)
Fri 23 Mar (possible- call venue to confirm) Zarautz, Spain Lizardi Antzokia (tix- no info)
Mon 26 Mar Feyzin, France L'Epicerie Moderne (tix) with Zak Laughed
Tue 27 Mar Reims, France La Cartonnerie (tix)
Thu 29 Mar Paris, France La Flèche d'or (tix) with Warren Ellis

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2012 USA
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Wed 11 Apr San Francisco CA The Fillmore (tix) with M. Ward
Thu 12 Apr Petaluma, CA McNear's Mystic Theatre (tix)
Fri 13 Apr Oakland, CA The New Parish (tix)

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2012 UK
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Fri 17, 18, 19 Aug (exact date unknown) Glanusk Park, Wales Green Man Festival (tix)
Fri 17, 18, 19 Aug (exact date unknown) Leicester, England Summer Sundae Weekender (tix)

Confirm with venue before making travel plans

Just seen this on ents24

Jonathan playing at the Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park, Nr Crickhowell, Wales
Fri 17th Aug - Sun 19th Aug - don't know which days.


Bob C

Less Than Perfect¹, More Than Special²

An appreciation of Vic Chesnutt done almost entirely in two footnotes.

Image: rb

¹ Of course ‘less than perfect’ describes how Vic Chesnutt saw himself.

² And ‘more than special’ describes how everyone else, everyone who was touched by his presence and had the privilege to glimpse the gleanings of his spirit, how everyone else saw him and could not, could never adequately articulate what they knew (knew, to have known, to know, as in the biblical sense, which can be carnal, sure, why not, if you want that meaning but is more like what happens when a soul encounters a soul and KNOWS and things progress from there to a sort of a bang and a bang and a bang and a bang and a bang to the spawnings of fathomless universes heretofore unknown and undreamt of and mysterious in their workings, circling in their relations, enchantments and horrors) in instinct but not in words, and the exhaustive impossibility of ever being able to describe this special quality to anyone who has never experienced it (can you really describe a moment of EUREKA to someone who has no conception of such a moment and its divergence of the pathways of a lifetime but can only see what is comfortably familiar and the illusion therewith? Or can you accept that a mind must mature to acquire some of the finer nuanced tastes and there is nothing really you can do about it as this is that other person’s journey to embark upon or not?) I digress.

I tried to begin writing this in the first days of Vic’s passing. I couldn’t.

Image: rb

#515

There is a pain—so utter—
It swallows substance up—
Then covers the Abyss with Trance—
So Memory can step
Around—across—upon it—
As one within a Swoon—
Goes safely—where an open eye—
Would drop him—Bone by Bone—

-- Emily Dickinson (one of Vic Chesnutt’s many poet heroes)

The morning after he took wing I was in the Smoky Mountains with my husband where we had spent a somber Christmas day, and caught this sunrise, 26 December 2009, after a sleepless night:

Image: rb

When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

-- Wallace Stevens (another of Vic’s poet heroes), from ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’

2012 UK and Europe dates updated

Jonathan Richman ©Nathan Connelly via NGCCartoons All Rights Reserved

The tour will go continental in March. Please let us know if you come across other dates. Thanks!

(Previously in UK)

Sun 4 Mar Essen, Germany Grend (tix)

Tue 6 Mar Frankfurt, Germany Sinkkasten Arts Club (tix- no info)

ALSO IN ITALY (info courtesy Alberto via Bob in comments, venues unknown):

09 MARZO 2012 - FIRENZE

10 MARZO 2012 - NAPOLI

11 MARZO 2012 - ROMA

13 MARZO 2012 - MAROSTICA (VI)

14 MARZO 2012 - TRIESTE

15 MARZO 2012 - MODENA

Sun 18 Mar Murcia, Spain sala 12 y medio (no info)

Mon 26 Mar Feyzin, France L'Epicerie Moderne (tix) w/ Zak Laughed

Thu 29 Mar Paris, France La Flèche d'or (tix)

Confirm with venue before making travel plans

Thanks to Nathan Connelly for the use of the great cartoon!

Bohemia: Friday at The Smell in LA (9 Dec 2011)

Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins - 'Bohemia' via BLACKTENTPRESS

Elsewhere (Santa Ana), Todd A writes:

In what’s become an annual tradition, I went to see Jonathan Richman last Thursday night. This time, he was in the Constellation Room at the Galaxy Theater. (read more, great pics too)

the man does what he wants

image ©2011 RosebudPenfold

︙Sam Lefebvre at SF Weekly on Wednesday's show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco:

Indeed, when he played "Old World," a cut from the first Modern Lovers LP, it was straight-ahead, but inflected with the nervous and emotive vocal style cultivated on recent records. Only half the song was actually performed: it ended abruptly, and it was difficult to tell whether that was intentional or not. But Richman gracefully began a new tune immediately. The man does what he wants. (read more)

Sex Pistols – Roadrunner via geminiLIZ

︙Sean J. O'Connell at OC Weekly on Thursday's show at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana:

Johnny Rotten once told Spin magazine that he "hates all music." "Not one song?" asked the interviewer. "Oh yeah," he responded. "'Roadrunner' by the Modern Lovers." How's that for an endorsement? (Read more)

Old World
Roadrunner