Dandy Warhols News
Hey, it looks like we are going to be headlining at the Clean Air Clear Stars Festival on Saturday, September 19th in Pioneertown, CA. If you can make it out there, the price is nice — it’s free. Yeah! Also on the bill for that day, our label mates Spindrift, The Upsidedown, and 1776. Beat the World is taking over this place.
| DATE | VENUE | CITY | TICKETS |
| SEPT 19 | Clean Air, Clear Stars | Pioneertown, CA | FREE |
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Well, here we go. Take a look at the awesome new video for “And Then I Dreamt of Yes”, directed by Mark Helfrich.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g26kxIuobk
Zia: We as a band have a soft spot for old, vintagy, trippy stuff so Mark getting inspiration from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fit perfectly with our aesthetic. We had no problem coming up with our individual ‘looks’ for this video and filming with water pouring over us and having our eyes closed through entire shots was an interesting challenge. Mark and his crew did a fantastic job and any input we had during the final editing was minimal. I’m so glad such a beautiful piece of film was made for my favorite song on the album.
A big thank you to IFC for hosting the video.
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Our cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” is now available for public consumption. You may purchase the single in FLAC format, MP3 + Apple Lossless formats, or as a part of a The Dandy Warhols Are Sound album package.
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Remember when we released The Dandy Warhols Are Sound today? And then you bought it? Good times.
Thanks for helping us out with this, reTweeting and posting this news to Facebook and Myspace and the rest. (Hint.) The future success of the musicians like us lay in the hands of fans who continue help fund them. That’s you. So help us out and help insure people even have music to listen to in 2010 and beyond. We have some great extras to go along with The Dandy Warhols Are Sound, so check out the purchase page and help us along. And tell your friends.
Graçias.
PS. Hey, these songs are familiar…
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Hey. Since the tragic news of Mr. Jackson’s passing yesterday, we here at The Odditorium have been besieged with requests of the status of The Dandys’ cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird”, as foretold, and some would say, fore-promised (that’s probably not a word), in the title track of our 2003 album Welcome To The Monkey House. Please note that this was not an anticipated event and we had no cover of “Blackbird” all rearin’ to go. I mean, how could we? With both Courtney and Fathead currently out of town we cannot say when we will be able to get to this cover of “Blackbird”, but we will, as soon as we are all together and able, since we have come to find that it means so much to a lot of you.
We thank you for your continued love and patience. Much love back, on behalf of The Dandy Warhols and all of us here at the Odditorium in Portland.
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Get on this before you forget.
NOTE: General public on-sale for these shows is June 26 Indy, June 27 for the rest.
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We thought it would be fun to tour with our friends and label mates Spindrift, so we came up with this, what we are calling “THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA TOUR”. (See if you can figure out why.) All shows are all ages, so you can throw that fake I.D. in the trash. (No one believes it anyway.)
Tickets are already on sale (or, on “pre-sale”) if you’re a Dandys subscriber. OH!! Tickets for the rest of youse go on sale at noon tomorrow (June 24th). That’s probably noon our time (pacific), not yours. Check back here then for a special pre-sale widget. (Tickets for the Monolith Festival, September 13 at Red Rocks are already on sale, no waiting or widgets.)
| DATE | VENUE | CITY | TICKETS |
| SEPT 01 | The Vogue | Indianapolis, IN | 06/24 |
| SEPT 03 | Beaumont | Kansas City, MO | 06/24 |
| SEPT 04 | Pop’s | St. Louis |
06/24 |
| SEPT 05 | Diamond Ballroom | Oklahoma City, OK | 06/24 |
| SEPT 07 | Warehouse Live | Houston, TX | 06/24 |
| SEPT 08 | Granada Theatre | Dallas, TX | 06/24 |
| SEPT 09 | Emo’s | Austin, TX | 06/24 |
| SEPT 11 | Sunshine Theatre | Albuquerque, NM | 06/24 |
| SEPT 12 | Belly Up | Aspen, CO | 06/24 |
| SEPT 13 | Monolith Festival | Red Rocks @ Morrison, CO | YES |
See you there.
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I heard from Sarah’s friend Jo Ryan that there was a Dandy Warhols bike ride as one of the events for “Pedalpalooza“. It was listed in the paper saying it was going to a tour of the important locations in the history of the band around the city of Portland. Zia and I went and there was a great turn out and we cruised around in a giant mob blasting the Dandys on a boom box that was attached to the tour guides bicycle. We went to the WTTMH studio, to Slabtown, the Rock Dorm, the Oddy, a bar called “Plan B” to watch some Dandy videos, (including ‘Plan A‘ – get it?) to the X-ray Cafe, and some locations around town where some of the Dandy music videos were shot. We finished up at pretty much my favorite bar in town, the Red Fox on Albina for beers. Zia and I tried out a ‘tall’ bike. Pretty scary ! An absolutely perfect night.
Pics from King Fader and Zia McCabe, others:
BRENT DEBOER
“Seeing my first bunny was like seeing a yeti…”
— Courtney Taylor-Taylor, to NME, on playing at the famed Playboy Mansion.
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Now, I don’t normally (ever) go on the road with the band, but one thing I can tell you about The Dandy Warhols from me knowing them for 200 years is that I’m pretty sure — and mind you, I’m not there to witness what is actually transpiring — but I’m pretty sure that they are having the best time ever this weekend in L.A. Hopefully, when everyone’s hair is dry, we can get a full-ish report when they get home on Monday.
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