Posted on April 6th, 2008 by Andy
It snows so rarely in London that I really shouldn’t miss an opportunity to post a picture and use a Galaxie 500 (via Yoko Ono) track as a title…
How sad am I? The answer is “very”.
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Andy
I’ve just finished Dean Wareham’s book - for a fan it is a slightly frustrating gem of a read - it’s written in an easy casual style with Dean’s dry wit recognisable from 20 years of listening to his lyrics. Too often, however, the story ends too quickly - I know it’s because I’m a fan and the book is written for people who don’t necessarily care about every little detail of every little tour. That’s possibly why the extended chapter on Pup Tent is so one of the high (and simultaneously low) points of the book.
There’s a last page spoiler coming - you have been warned…
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Andy
I created a Flickr group to collect all the pictures of Britta singing You Turned My Head Around just because I wanted to look at a slideshow of them.
How sad am I? The answer is “very”.
All the pictures are in the group pool - Photo credits: 1. Dean and Britta at the El Rey on 2-19-08, 2. Dean & Britta @ Luna Lounge, 3. dean & britta in pittsburgh, 4. 9Jan07_britta5, 5. Dean & Britta, 6. Britta Phillips, 7. dean_britta_14784f.jpg, 8. Dean & Britta, 9. Dean & Britta, 10. Britta & the Drummer, 11. 20070312-deanAndBritta, 12. Dean and Britta Austin 080223, 13. “Hey baby…… “, 14. Britta, 15. Britta
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Andy
The last time Dean appeared in this series I rushed off to the Puma website to try and buy his shoes (now that’s the dedication of a fan). I do rather like these white shoes but they are white and I don’t think I can pull that off ( I don’t think many people can pull off white footwear!)
So this time I’m not as inspired to walk in the shoes of my hero.
To be honest I do have a problem with Dean and his white things - I’m not that keen on seeing him holding a white guitar and as for the white jeans he wears far too often (shudder)…
#18 Dean Wareham of Dean & Britta and his white sneakers.
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Andy
By default WordPress installs a silly little plug-in called “Hello Dolly” that…
…symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page
I dived in and changed the code a little…
How sad am I? The answer is “very”.
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Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Andy
I must admit that It bothered me when I read on Damon & Naomi’s website that…
Naomi has been dressed for this tour by designer Gary Graham. You’ll have to follow the band to see all the outfits
…because…well…nothing really looks cooler than jeans and a T-shirt so why bother with fancy frocks?
But Naomi looks great in this picture - and as frocks go I’d have to say that this looks very nice…although accesorizing with that bass guitar makes all the difference! But of course Naomi always looks great.
Apologies for the crap title pun!
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Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Andy
Kirstiecat has a a short review and a lovely set of photos of Damon & Naomi’s recent show in Chicago…
I’m looking forward to the end of November when they reach London although I’m a bit sad that they only seem to be doing a support slot in a mid-sized venue rather than a headliner in a tiny club…that would be so much nicer.
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Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Andy
There was a time in between Galaxie 500 splitting up (in 1991) and us getting the Internet (late 1993 or early 94 I’d guess [1]) when I thought I was the only Galaxie 500 fan in the world. Occasionally a journalist (normally Everett True) might drop their name into an article but otherwise it was just me. The friends I’d seen Galaxie 500 with didn’t seem all that bothered by the fact that they weren’t around any more. Of course there was Luna, but I never really knew any Luna fans either and was always surprised that there was anyone else at the Luna shows I went to. So the Internet was a glorious revelation not only did the people on there know of Galaxie 500 but some of them loved them as much as I did.
Whenever I find a post like this one at Indie Selections For Your Erections I get a buzz to know that there are people who cared as much as I did (and still care) - it’s probably a bit sad because most of my Internet existence since 1994 has been amongst Galaxie 500 fans - but most of them don’t make such explicit declarations of love - I think they should do it more often…I do it all the time!
[1]The earliest mention of my Internet presence I’ve managed to track down (after a couple of minutes searching) is this post to alt.music alternative in September 1994 but we had definitely been around longer than that (we’d had a Compuserve account before the Demon one that this post was from).
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Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Andy
Galaxie 500’s first ever show
Read a bit more about the first show on A Head Full of Wishes
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Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Andy
Sometime in the Autumn of 2004 I put forward the idea of a tribute album to the members of the Galaxie 500 Mailing List and a bunch of excellent contributions trickled in over the next few months…the plan was to put out a proper CD in a nice two colour package sometime in the spring of 2005.
The project slipped…and slipped…partially because I was trying to get up the nerve to put together a contribution of my own (something that never happened) but mostly because I was just crap at getting things together…I started trying to ignore the reminders I set for myself but by the end of 2005 it was getting embarrassing.
I decided to scale down the ambition and go for a CDR and a laser printed b/w sleeve and so in March 2006 the tribute finally saw the light of day. I can’t remember how many copies I sold/gave away (probably 80 or so).
But it was really too good a project to leave it at that. One of the contributers, mkorchia of the very excellent Watoo Watoo suggested a few months back that I should put the album on line somewhere - and even that took me bloody ages!
But here it is…finally…
You can download the complete album for nothing…
Decomposing - the songs of Galaxie 500 and Luna
Please download it and enjoy it becuase it deserves a listen…and try not to think about the fact that it took me three years to do…I try not to!
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