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JAMIE STEWART SOLO TOUR, CD SERIES, CHOCOLATE, AND MORE! (02/11/09)
Jamie Stewart Announces Spring Solo Tour!
It has been five years since Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu went on a solo tour. That 2003 trip with Devendra Banhart predated most of what Xiu Xiu has become known for since. They have played shows in more than 30 countries including Serbia, Mexico, Taiwan and Russia. They have released six full-length LPs, five EPs and 10 seven-inches. They have also created original music for plays and documentaries, and been the subject of a book of photographs.
Throughout all of this, without fail, every month someone asks Jamie Stewart when he is planning on another solo tour. People who have been there since the beginning want again to see those songs that they have come to appreciate in their rawest, most emotional state. People who have come to know the band later have heard what few live recordings there are from that tour and want to see that explosion of sadness and weight for themselves.
In a recent solo benefit performance for New York City's Housing Works with Michael Gira, Prurient and Larkin Grimm, Dominick Fernow of Prurient, one of the heaviest musicians on Earth, called Stewart's set "more than intense."
The sets from this tour will be from a repertoire of over 80 songs plus several brand new pieces from a new Xiu Xiu record tentatively scheduled for a 2010 release to be called Dear God, I Hate Myself. The shows will be played in the most intimate of arrangements with just electric guitar, bird call whistles and a stylophone (a late 60s toy synth that one plays with a pen). Stewart will be playing several songs that have never been heard live before and some that haven't been heard in many years.
There will also be a parallel photo project in which long time Xiu Xiu accomplice/art brut David Horvitz and Stewart will take a solo photograph portrait of every single person at every single show. This includes the audience, the sound people, the promoter – everyone. These will all be posted on the Xiu Xiu blog and the best 300 will be published as a book. Additional information can be found HERE. And don't worry about looking your best before you get there. Xiu Xiu combs will be available for you to fix up your hair.
Also available at the shows will be Xiu Xiu's lauded and beautiful recorded catalog, 10 different hand decorated Jamie Stewart mix CDs and a poster series of his massive collection of stuffed animals.
04-02 Greenville, NC - The Spazzatorium
04-03 Norfolk, VA - The Boot
04-04 Richmond, VA - The Triple
04-05 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
04-06 Brooklyn, NY - Monkey Town
04-09 Durham, NH - The Stafford Room
04-10 Chicago, IL - Ronny's Bar
04-11 Grinnell, IA - Gardner Lounge (Grinnell College)
04-14 Seattle, WA - The Vera Project
04-15 Portland, OR - Backspace
04-17 San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord
04-18 Los Angeles, CA - Echo Curio
04-19 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
04-21 Austin, TX - Salvage Vanguard Theater
04-24 St. Augustine, Florida - Cafe Eleven
04-25 Atlanta, GA - Wonderroot
Subscription Series
1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION
12 DISCS
HAND NUMBERED (in an edition of 50)
HAND WRAPPED (in felt and yarn)
HAND AND (everything)
of
Ambient,
Experimental
and
Minimalist
Works
by
Jamie Stewart of Xiu xiU
There will be only 50 subscriptions available
There will be one disc sent to you every month
There will be a different leaf under each disc's tray
12 discs $100
DELUXE EDITION
$110, 13 discs plus
hand made chocolate by Jamie Stewart
Anyone can sign up for this series at XiuXiu.org or on the Kill Rock Stars blog.
