Joanna Newsom announces special London show

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by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 0 comments 17:32 November 6th, 2006

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...

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album of the year

so far. so beautiful, especially 'only skin'.

waves | 6 Nov '06, 17:35 | X | Reply

yay

I have front row tickets, I hope she plays old songs to and doesn't add the orchestra to them.

gay4conoroberst | 6 Nov '06, 17:36 | X | Reply

that

joanna newsom is just about gorgeous.

cyan_scarab | 6 Nov '06, 17:41 | X | Reply

I'm going

i'm on the balcony :(

But I am going! it's going to be amazing.

millionaire | 6 Nov '06, 17:42 | X | Reply

err

and it totally isn't one off. she's touring and also playing Glasgow, Gateshead and Manchester with the Northern Sinfonia.

RockNRollMassacre | 6 Nov '06, 17:50 | X | Reply

Fucking sold out

like sufjan...can someone warn me about these gigs in ADVANCE please...thanks...?!

OvertakenByTractors @millionaire | 6 Nov '06, 17:50 | X | Reply

I'm aware o' this, now...

...blame newsfeeds and their EVIL.
Update coming...

Mike_Diver @RockNRollMassacre | 6 Nov '06, 17:55 | X | Reply

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.

gay4conoroberst @OvertakenByTractors | 6 Nov '06, 18:03 | X | Reply

cumscreecher

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spookyelectric | 6 Nov '06, 18:17 | X | Reply

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.

Filip | 6 Nov '06, 18:18 | X | Reply

fuck :(

From *joy* to *gutted* in a few paragraphs.

tomddf | 6 Nov '06, 20:28 | X | Reply

i'm gonna be at the manc one

i predict it will be the single greatest event in my life thus far.

restlessboy @Filip | 6 Nov '06, 20:49 | X | Reply

Yay!

Ys = Album of the year.

Seeing her in Manchester!

TheWildSon | 6 Nov '06, 22:24 | X | Reply

i have

front row centre for the barbican!!!!!!

SEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMENSEMEN

joshua_t @TheWildSon | 7 Nov '06, 00:00 | X | Reply

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.