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Squeeze tour dates

retroDan — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:26:34 +0000

a new round of U.S. live dates for the recently reunited Squeeze have been announced.

Thu 08/21/08 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Fri 08/22/08 Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre
Mon 08/25/08 Torrington, CT Warner Theatre
Tue 08/26/08 Foxborough, MA Showcase Live!
Fri 08/29/08 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
Sun 08/31/08 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Festival
Wed 09/03/08 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Fri 09/05/08 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa
Tue 09/09/08 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
Wed 09/10/08 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
Sat 09/13/08 Saratoga, CA The Mountain Winery
Mon 09/15/08 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
Tue 09/16/08 Seattle, WA Showbox At The Market

for those that missed the initial leg of their reunion tour last year, be sure to grab Five Live, the official live album from the 2007 shows.

Five Live track list:
Take Me I’m Yours, Slightly Drunk, Love Circles, Hourglass, I Think I’m Go Go, Third Rail, Electric Trains, Annie Get Your Gun, Some Fantastic Place, Melody Motel, Piccadilly, Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken, Goodbye Girl, Slap and Tickle, Walk Away, Cool For Cats, Tempted, If I Didn’t Love You, Pulling Mussels

extra tracks that didn’t make it on the official release are still available for downloading over on the official Squeeze website. the extra tracks are: Footprints, Up the Junction, Messed Around, Is that Love and Black Coffee in Bed. I’m not sure how much longer they’ll be up so grab ‘em while you still can. scroll down to news item 26Nov07 to find the tracks.

Other World

retroDan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:02:03 +0000

for today’s song of the day, i’ve got one of my favorite singer/songwriters, Glenn Tilbrook performing a Ben Jones cover. it’s a special acoustic version that’s different than the one that appears on his album, The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook.

If only I’d been there when you needed me
If I’d been a better friend
I wouldn’t be alone again
Sometimes I feel somewhere I went wrong
I don’t know where but I know I’ve been there

I remember when you held me in your arms
I can feel you near me tonight
You’ve been dancing in my mind like an angel
In my other world

When I’m with you I see what I don’t see
I go where I’ve never been
Out there and back again
I’m out of my head to say what I said
To treat you like I do as if I don’t need you

I remember when I held you in my arms
I can feel you near me tonight
You’ve been dancing in my mind like an angel
In my other world..

Other World written by Ben Jones

performed by Glenn Tilbrook (acoustic version)

Glenn Tilbrook: One for the Road

retroDan — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:52:10 +0000

you know, as a longtime fan of singer-songwriters like Todd Rundgren, John Wetton, Neil Finn and Ben Folds, i’m well aware that without financial support from a major record label, it’s more than likely that an artist would lose money touring around the country with a full band and sound/stage crew in tow. and so artists like Rundgren, Finn and Folds end up touring alone with minimal equipment in order to keep expenses as low as possible. so when i watched Glenn Tilbrook – One for the Road recently on DVD, i wasn’t at all surprised to see in the documentary that Tilbrook was touring across the U.S. in an old beat up 1988 RV with no band. sad but true, it this day and age, legendary singer-songwriters like Tilbrook can only fill up small clubs and can only afford to bring along a couple of acoustic guitars with him on tour. how unjust! the man wrote Tempted, Black Coffee in Bed and Hourglass for goodness sakes!! Tilbrook along with tons of other working musician/songwriters are in the same boat and they are fighting to stay afloat in an industry geared only toward selling millions of units of easy to market music to impressionable teens. The DVD is an interesting glimpse at a middle-aged musician happy to travel across the country and sing for his supper. I love Glenn Tilbrook’s music and his live performances but…unfortunately the actual documentary was poorly done. the person responsible for the documentary, Amy Pickard, is just a fan of Tilbrook’s and not a skilled filmmaker. So yes, it’s a nice little video memento from a fan’s perspective but I really believe she missed a big opportunity here. Pickard never goes into any depth with Tilbrook about his life or his view points about music, Squeeze or songwriting. and the video is edited in a way in which Glenn never gets to say more than a few sentences before another abrupt jumpcut to a performance or another clip about the infamous RV. yes, yes i’ve heard all about Pickard’s sob story about the little financing behind this project, her being unemployed during the filming and the four years it took to edit the footage down etc. but that’s no excuse for her downright awful interviewing skills. just watch one of the extra segments on the DVD where she interviews ex-Squeeze member Chris Difford. you’ll get to experience a whole slew of cringe-worthy and totally banal questions from Amy Pickard interspersed with a whole lot of “uuummmm….”, “you know what i mean?”.. “like… uummm” … “and like I said to Glenn …” and such. after enduring 40 minutes worth of lame assed questions, a viewer’s brain turns to mush, i swear! how did someone this incompetent get this fantastic opportunity to spend time with one of pop’s most talented songwriters??? that’s the question that continually pops up during the viewing of this DVD. and can us fans finally get a properly produced DVD of this legendary musician sometime soon? anyone? anyone? bueller? …yes, it’s sad indeed.