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NP: "The Greys" - Frightened Rabbit.
NP: "Music Now" - Frightened Rabbit.
NR: The press releases and emails I've been writing. Yawn.

So it's finally happening. The dates are really confirmed and the shows are really going to happen. I can't believe that they get on a plane on Sunday night. Insane. Really insane.

Click the photo for everything you need to know about Frightened Rabbit and their U.S. tour dates that I set up.

01.09.07 a way too short post that should be much longer

NP: "The Ghost Of A Smile" - The Pogues. Downloaded all the Pogues albums that I didn't have the other day. What a brilliant band.
NP: "The Sunnyside Of The Street" - The Pogues.
NP: "Lorelei" - The Pogues.
NP: "Fidelity" - Regina Spektor. If you don't like this you are an idiot.
NP: "Demo Track #2" - The Oranges Band. Don't even know the name of this. The new 3-song demo is brilliant.
NP: "Round And Round" - Spandau Ballet. "She was only 18 summers long". The delivery sounds like Teddy Leo to me.
NR: Same as last posting.

Some stuff I was listening to a while ago, but didn't write about. Didn't write much for almost a month there. I guess it was a solid month, actually. A very eventful (and good) month. Getting back together with Kendel has felt like a revelation, and it's been good. Very good.

Going to London and Glasgow was amazing. I need to pick up the rest of the photos. I'm sure not many of them came out, either, but... I would like to scan a couple of the decent ones. Frightened Rabbit were total sweethearts, and they're set was the best thing I've seen in forever. So fucking good. Claire and Marcus at Hits The Fan were great, Robbie was great, Fraser was great, The Twilight Sad were great. The food at Ubiquitous Chip and Stravagin was great. The whiskey was great. The Guinness was great. It was all amazing.

I was very lucky to be able to make the trip. I've been lucky all month. Maybe this is my year? It's definitely OUR year.

01.08.07 i haven't a clue

NP: "It's Christmas So We'll Stop" - Frightened Rabbit. What a beautiful fucking song. If this isn't the UK pop charts Christmas 2007 #1, there's something even more seriously wrong with the world than I tend to think.
NR: Same as last posting. Except I'm halfway through 2 of the last 3 New Yorkers. Went back and read the Warner Herzog article from last summer, too. Looking forward to "Rescue Dawn".

Been working 8-10 hours a day on this Frightened Rabbit tour. Don't even know why I'm doing all of this, really, but... I'm excited to get to see them seven more times, that's for sure. I hope it goes well. On one hand I'm completely confident and find myself saying things like "If the Mercury Lounge show sells out...", and then on the other hand I'm wondering if my pride is kicking in too much and I fear that nobody is going to show up to any of the shows. I guess only time will tell, eh?

And there's not much time left.

01.07.07 spandau ballet

NP: "I'll Fly For You" - Spandau Ballet.
NR: started the new Alice Munro. Haven't touched that Pinera in a month. Still have the last vignette in "Last Exit To Brooklyn" to finish.

Downloaded every Spandau Ballet album the other day. Slowly going through it all. Can't find that John Darnielle article from the print-only version of Last Plane To Jakarta. It must have been 2500 words on Spandau Ballet. At least it was in my memory. Anybody out there have copy of it that I could scan / transcribe?

01.06.07 happy new year

NP: nothing.
NR: nothing.

i've got a lot of catching up to do, but i am madly in love with this woman.

happy new year from kendel and i!

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