Elephant Six Surprise Holiday Tour Coming To Minneapolis!
The year’s best Christmas presents ocvcasionally come well after the actual fact. At least that may be the case with the Surprise Elephant Six Holiday Tour coming to Minneapolis’s Varsity Theater on 3/14. Who will take part in this illustrious tour? The bands that have been named so far are Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Circulatory System, the Music Tapes. In case you stopped listening after Neutral Milk Hotel (I did) keep in mind that nothing has been said about whether reclusive frontman Jeff Mangum will actually join the tour. Keep posted though – since if Mangum does show up it promises to be a legendary evening, considering that the songwriter has only performed a handful of live songs over the past decade. Count me excited.
— Jon Behm
Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour:
02-24 Roswell, GA – WhirlyBall Atlanta
02-25 Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder (Florida State University)
02-26 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
02-28 Austin, TX – Emo’s Inside
03-01 Dallas, TX – The LOFT at the Palladium
03-03 Phoenix, AZ – The Duce
03-04 Los Angeles, CA – The Satellite
03-05 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
03-08 Portland, OR – Backspace at the Someday Lounge
03-09 Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
03-11 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
03-12 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
03-14 Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
03-15 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
03-16 Kalamazoo, MI – The Strutt
03-17 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
03-18 Toronto, Ontario – Horseshoe Tavern
03-19 Buffalo, NY – Big Orbit’s Soundlab
03-20 Easthampton, MA – Flywheel
03-22 Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory
03-23 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
03-24 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
03-25 Charlottesville, VA – The Southern Cafe and Music Hall
03-26 Raleigh, NC – Kings Royal Barcade
.
fwiw, it’s not actually any of those bands touring, this is the press release info:
“The Elephant 6 orchestra consists of Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, Peter Erchick, John Fernandes, Julian Koster, Scott Spillane, Andrew Rieger, Laura Carter, Derek Almstead , Heather McIntosh, Bryan Poole, Theo Hilton, Robbie Cucchiaro and others that will play the music of The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Circulatory System, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Gerbils, Nana Grizol, Major Organ and Adding Machine, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t, plus games, films & other surprises.”
but yes, would be pretty damn cool if Jeff showed up at a few of these like he did on the 2008 version of it.
So what your saying is, even if every single member of Olivia Tremor Control will on on this tour, and they will be playing OTC songs, I still can’t say that the band is actually playing?
Sort of like saying “Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney will be going on tour playing sets of Black Keys covers. This won’t be a Black Keys tour though.”
Plus, probably half these people are in multiple E6 bands listed. I think it is probably as close to full band lineups for many of these bands as we are going to see
hah, well your initial post makes it sound like all of those bands are playing is all, it’s a bit misleading as it’s a bunch of E6 alumni playing the songs of those bands, rather than those bands in full. :).
plus i don’t see Eric Harris on that list re: OTC ;P
there’s a really great live stream of their show from DC in ’08 here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96105602
Set List
“His Mister’s Pet Whistles” (Major Organ and the Adding Machine)
“Yesterday’s World” (Circulatory System)
“Love Athena” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
“NYC 25” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
“The Afternoon” (The Apples in Stereo)
“Minister of Logitude” (The Music Tapes) (This song was omitted at the artist’s request)
“Snorkel” (The Gerbils)
“Lead” (The Gerbils)
“Spiral Stairs” (Elf Power)
“Old Familiar Scene” (Elf Power)
“Karaoke Free” (Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t)
“I Have Been Floated” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
Filmstrip Intermission (Brian Dewan)
“Kolyada #2” (Julian Koster)
“No Growing” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
“Stream Running Over” (The Apples in Stereo)
“Devils” (63 Crayons)
“Back to the Web” (Elf Power)
“The Arrow Flies” (Elf Power)
“Songs for Oceans Falling” (The Music Tapes)
“Television Tells Us” (This song was omitted at the artist’s request)
A poem reading by Thax Douglas
“Cynicism” (Nana Grizol)
“Ginsberg” (Nana Grizol)
“Two Skies” (The Gerbils)
“My Honor” (The Gerbils)
“Mister Henry” (Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t)
“Solid Forms Dissolve” (Circulatory System)
“A Sleepy Company” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
“A Sunshine Fix” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
“The Fool” (Neutral Milk Hotel)
“Life Forms (Transmission Received)” (Major Organ and the Adding Machine)
Encore:
“Everything You Ever Hoped or Worked For” (Nana Grizol)
“Blackbox (Constellations)” (Nana Grizol)
“Glue” (The Gerbils)
“The Opera House” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
“Skyway” (The Apples in Stereo)
“Neon Globe” (The Olivia Tremor Control)
“Manifest Destiny” (The Music Tapes)
“Forever” (Circulatory System)
“Engine” (Neutral Milk Hotel)
err, sorry, Chicago
This is a great celebration.
This is beautiful and enchanting.
I love this.
Thank you for posting.
y todo lo mejor