Author: Pedro the Lion

Thanks to everyone who’s helped with the house shows so far! We are planning a few more before the end of the year.   If you live in or near these cities and want to host a show in your living room on one of these days, please read the details below and then get in touch.

Wed Dec 9 – Ann Arbor / Detroit MI
Thu Dec 10 – Cleveland, OH
Fri Dec 11 – Columbus, OH
Sat Dec 12 – Dayton, OH
Sun Dec 13 – Cincinnati, OH
Mon Dec 14 – Indianapolis / Ft Wayne, IN
Tue Dec 15 – East Lansing, MI

Be sure to put “Bazan House Show” in the subject of your email so it gets past our spam filters. Thank you!

Here’res how it works.

1. You have a house or loft space that can comfortably and safely host 30-50 people. A place with a big living room, finished basement or other large indoor space. There would need to be enough parking nearby and your neighbors should be cool. It would be a huge bummer if someone called the cops because of all the extra cars and people coming to your house. If you live in a small apartment with a bunch of uptight neighbors or a cranky landlord… you should probably not do this. We’d done over 70 of these shows over the past few months without any problems at all.

2. The shows will not be open to the public and no tickets will be sold at the door. We will pre-sell a set number of tickets for each show on David’res website before the show. Be realistic on how many people your place can hold. We need to know how many tickets we can sell in advance. Ticket prices will be $20.

3. We will provide you with a detailed list of everyone who will be coming a week before the show. This way the host won’ret have to deal with money and will only need to check people off the list as they arrive.

4. The host will get up to 5 free tickets for the show. If you have other friends who want to come to the show you can direct them to the link to buy tickets on-line.

5. We’rell ask people to arrive around 7:30pm. The show would start at 8pm and would be over by 9:30pm. Everyone should be out of your house by 10pm.

7. You don’ret need any sort of sound system. All you need is a chair or bar stool for David to sit on.

8. Your home address will not be published on the web and only given to those people who purchase tickets.

9. The shows will not be promoted or advertised anywhere except David’res websites.

10. After we agree on a date and location we’ll ask you to sign a simple performance agreement. READ THIS FIRST!

After reading all of this and you are interested please send an e-mail to:
trey@billions.com and bob@undertowmusic.com

Please include a photo of the space where you would like to have the show and put Bazan House Show and the city where you live in the subject line of the e-mail.

We’ll review all requests. Once we have a routing figured out we’ll be in touch with people in the towns we are able to work into the schedule.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Tune in to Sirius XMU on September 23 at 9pm (ET) to hear David talk about his new album with and perform a few songs in the studio.

Replays:
Thursday @ 4pm ET
Friday @ 9am ET
Sunday @ 12pm ET

http://www.sirius.com/siriusxmu

David played a house show in Brooklyn last week. Enjoy!

David and his band played their first show together at a venue in NYC on September 1st. Someone captured a clip of Bless This Mess.

On August 31st, BrooklynVegan will present a performance to the entire world in Bazan’res first and only Online House Show, with a live audio and video feed of the event. To watch, fans can direct their browsers to http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bazan, where they’rell also be able to participate in the event with a live chat and Twitter feed, from which Bazan will take a handful of questions for his customary live question and answer session.

Go Here Monday, August 31st @ 8:00pm EST To Watch And Participate

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bazan

UPDATE: These shows are all sold out. Thank you!!!

Thu Aug 27 – Sanbornton, NH – sold out
Fri Aug 28 – Beverly, MA – sold out
Sat Aug 29 – Long Island, NY – sold out
Sun Aug 30 – Philadelphia, PA – sold out
Mon Aug 31 – Brooklyn, NY – sold out
Wed Sep 2 – Philadelphia, PA – sold out
Fri Sep 4 – Baltimore, MD – sold out

Joining Bazan on tour will be: Eric Elbogen: guitar (Say Hi), Andy Fitts: keyboards + guitar (Aqueduct), Casey Foubert: drums (Richard Swift, Sufjan Stevens), Blake Wescott: guitar (long-time Bazan collaborator)

10/01  – San Francisco  CA –  Independent
10/02  – Costa Mesa  CA  – Detroit Bar
10/03  – San Diego  CA  – Casbah
10/04  – Los Angeles  CA  – Troubadour
10/05  – Tucson  AZ –  Solar Culture
10/07  – Austin  TX  – Mohawk
10/08  – Denton  TX  – Dan’s Silverleaf
10/09  – Memphis  TN  – Hi-Tone Café
10/10  – Murray  KY  – Lovett Auditorium / Murray State
10/11  – Birmingham  AL  – Bottletree
10/13  – Orlando  FL  – The Social
10/14  – Atlanta  GA  – Drunken Unicorn
10/15  – Chapel Hill  NC  – Local 506
10/16  – Washington  DC  – Black Cat
10/17  – Philadelphia  PA  – Kung Fu Necktie
10/18  – New York  NY  – Bowery Ballroom
10/20  – Cambridge  MA  – TT the Bear’s
10/21  – Montreal  QC  – Il Motore
10/22  – Toronto  ON  – Lee’s Palace
10/23  – Pontiac  MI  – Pike Room
10/24  – Chicago  IL  – Schuba’s
10/25  – Champaign  IL  – Highdive
10/27  – Madison  WI  High – Noon Saloon
10/28  – Minneapolis  MN  – Turf Club
10/29  – Iowa City  IA  – The Picador
10/30  – Lawrence  KS –  Jackpot Saloon
10/31  – Omaha  NE  – Slowdown
11/01  – Denver  CO  – Hi Dive
11/02  – Salt Lake City  UT  – Kilby Court
11/05  – Vancouver  BC  – Media Club
11/06  – Portland  OR –  Mississippi Studios
11/07  – Seattle  WA  – Neumos

all dates with Say Hi
+ The Soft Drugs in Boston
+ The Sea Navy in Seattle

David Bazan’s Curse Your Branches (9/1, Barsuk) is the Pedro The Lion/Headphones main man’s first full-length under his own name. We spoke with him about its “Bless This Mess,” which debuts in this week’s ‘Gum Drop.

“Bless This Mess” covers a lot of territory — dysfunctional families, alcoholism, mirrors, forgiveness, history. What inspired it?
The song is largely autobiographical. So any narrative in the song reflects actual events. Though I may have embellished a bit. But the main lyrical gimmick is sort of a self-conscious and hopeful interpretation of the Beatitudes, which I have an uneasy relationship with as the narrative tends to illustrate.

[READ MORE + DOWNLOAD SONG]

A lot of people have asked about the CD package. It was designed by the super talented folks at Decoder Ring. There is an outer sleeve that goes around the jewel case. Once the sleeve is removed there is a die-cut circle in the booklet that reveals the album title printed on the CD. The booklet is tri-fold and includes all the lyrics and album credits. The outer sleeve and booklet are printed on good quality matte paper stock. We’ll post photos and details about the LP package as soon as we have them in stock.