Category: Like Whatever
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Peter and Michele Wed
Peter and longtime fiance Michele were married August 3rd at the Holmstrom family home in Portland. The service, witnessed by family, close friends and all the natural forest surroundings, was officiated by Reverend Courtney Taylor.
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Warhols Hit (Platinum) Jackpot in Ireland
The Dandy Warhols passed yet another milestone Tuesday (07/02/02) as the band honored with their first ever platinum record. The award, for the 2000 release “Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia”, is for sales in the Republic of Ireland. The Warhols reached ‘gold’ status in Ireland in January, 2002, as well as gold in the United Kingdom in December, 2001, and…
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Rockwave Festival Canceled
This, again, from the band’s manager, Jen: Sean, There was a change to one of the tour dates. The Rockwave Festival in Greece wasn’t granted their license, so it was cancelled. And then it was reinvented as just this big gig in Athens on July 3rd (instead of 2nd). So, now we’re playing with The…
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Back To Work for the Warhols
The Dandy Warhols left Portland last Wednesday for a three week swing through some of your better European festivals, including Glastonbury, Parkpop, and David Bowie’s Meltdown Festival. The band will return to Portland for three weeks following Ireland’s Witness Festival in July before venturing back to Europe for more Festival work, including Reading, Leeds, and Lowlands. For more infor on…
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Contest Winner Announced
The winner of the two tickets to see the Warhols at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland was Peter Walters of Pendleton, OR. Not only did Peter’s photo contain a visual bribe in photos of sexy male models (presumably to sway judges Gothman and Zia), his was the only submission that didn’t contain overt references to rampant drug use. (“We…
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Portland, Reading & Leeds Dates Added
The Warhols have added dates to their summer excursion, including a hometown show at the Crystal Ballroom and perennial favorites Reading and Leeds. See the SHOWS page for more details. More from Fathead in London I wrote back to Fathead, saying: Nothing’s going on at home. Me and Coates and Pete and Sheeh are going to…
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Fathead’s London Update
Gothman hey man, its fathead. You gotta write something cool about us working with nick. We just walk over here every day from our hotel and start rocking around 1200 and stay till 2 3 or 4. Its going good. We will be here for about two more weeks or so so… It is sounding…
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“Notorious” Collaborators
With the main recording for the next Dandy Warhols record at an end, the band now turns its eye to two true musical geniuses for additional collaboration. Tony Visconti is best known for his work with David Bowie and T.Rex during the 1970s. He has a reunion, of sorts, with Bowie, as producer of of this summer’s Heathen. The…
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Warhols FHM Photo Spread
The Warhols appear in a photo spread for the British Edition of FHM Magazine. Not sure if it is this month or last month, but there’s a lot of naked people in it.
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Bohemian Video Wins SXSW Award
The video for “Bohemian Like You” was honored by the jury at South By Southwest as the best music video. Yee ha!
