Harp-humping singer-cum-screecher Joanna Newsom - her new album Ys is quite The Good, you know - has announced a one-off London show.
Newsom will play Ys, Don't Look Back style, at the city's Barbican Hall on January 19. She'll be backed by The London Symphony Orchestra.
Photograph by Lucy Johnston
Immediate update: Oh cursewords, this show is, like, sold-out! Oh well...
album of the year
so far. so beautiful, especially 'only skin'.
yay
I have front row tickets, I hope she plays old songs to and doesn't add the orchestra to them.
that
joanna newsom is just about gorgeous.
I'm going
i'm on the balcony :(
But I am going! it's going to be amazing.
Fucking sold out
like sufjan...can someone warn me about these gigs in ADVANCE please...thanks...?!
yeah it must be impossible
for people who don't spend 24 hours a day on the internet to get tickets for anything these days, luckily I do.
err
and it totally isn't one off. she's touring and also playing Glasgow, Gateshead and Manchester with the Northern Sinfonia.
I'm aware o' this, now...
...blame newsfeeds and their EVIL.
Update coming...
full (four) dates...
...here, now
http://www.drownedinsound.com/bands/6983
cumscreecher
...
off to Manchester we go
I went to see her in Bristol last year because I didn't want rubbish seats at the Royal Festival Hall. This year I have to go all the way up to Manchester because it sold out in London before my friends could get organised. I'll be seeing her in Egypt next time by the way things are going.
i'm gonna be at the manc one
i predict it will be the single greatest event in my life thus far.
fuck :(
fuck :(
From *joy* to *gutted* in a few paragraphs.
Yay!
Ys = Album of the year.
Seeing her in Manchester!
i have
front row centre for the barbican!!!!!!
SEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMEN
justice (louis armstrong voice)
was aghast to see barbican sold out. was ecstatic to see manchester tickets available today. Ys is ridiculously good, I have no idea how they intend to pull it all off live-how the fuck will she remember all the words? spelunking indeed.
she's been doing most of the album at live shows
since early last year. I think she knows the words pretty well by now.
I'm going
just. Apparently we have bad seats. This'll be such a lovely evening, I can't wait to hear the climax to Only Skin.
i'm going
and am salavating as I type.