Former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham will commemorate the recent reissuing of the long-defunct dream-pop act’s entire catalog with a special and very rare one-off concert at a club in Atlanta this fall during which he will be “performing the Galaxie 500 songbook.”
Dubbed “Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500,” the concert is set for Sept. 17 at The Earl, and will find Wareham backed by wife and current bandmate Britta Phillips, plus Dean & Britta members Anthony Lamarca and Matt Sumrow. The concert’s co-promoter, Party Panda Productions, writes on its MySpace blog: “They are playing a full set of Galaxie 500 songs! 1st time in probably 20 yrs since Dean has done this.”
Earlier this year, Galaxie 500’s three albums — 1988’s Today,
And in related news, Pitchfork this week posted a great oral history of Galaxie 500 featuring fresh interviews with Wareham and bandmates Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, among others. Check it out.
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Galaxie 500 reissuing ‘Today,’ ‘On Fire,’ ‘This Is Our Music’ as 2CD sets
- Galaxie 500 reissues 3 albums on remastered vinyl, digital downloads
Of all places, it has to be in Atlanta! sigh.
You reported this morning that Dean Wareham will be playing Galaxie 500 songs in Atlanta in September, and quoted the promoter as saying, “1st time in probably 20 yrs since Dean has done this.” In fact, Dean and Britta played an all-G500 set in New York in August 2008. The entire set was recorded by an audience member and is available for download at The Sound of Indie:
http://www.thesoundofindie.com/?p=861
Of all places, it’s Atlanta! Woo-hoo!
(And The EARL rocks!)
FYI, the show on has like 30 tickets left before it sells out.
http://www.badearl.com or http://www.ticketalternative.com for tickets…