Wow - very cool
I saw him recently on his first come-back tour (about a year ago). Our
city was added on at the very last minute (and doesn't even appear on the
back of the tour t-shirt)
Was such a phenomenal show. If he's appearing anywhere near where you are
- go go go!
complete tour:
Thomas Dolby - North America - Fall 2007
09.11.07 LONDONDERRY, NH--TUPELO MUSIC HALL
09.13.07 PHILADELPHIA, PA--WORLD CAFE LIVE
09.14.07 AKRON, OH--TANGIER
09.15.07 PITTSBURGH, PA--REX THEATRE
09.16.07 NORTHAMPTON, MA--THE IRON HORSE
09.17.07 NEW YORK CITY, NY--BB KINGS
09.19.07 ANNAPOLIS. MD--RAM'S HEAD
09.20.07 SELLERSVILLE, PA--SELLERSVILLE THEATER
09.21.07 ALEXANDRIA, VA--BIRCHMERE
09.22.07 NEW YORK CITY, NY--MOOGFEST
09.23.07 GREENWICH, CT--REENTRY (afternoon charity show)
09.24.07 BOSTON, MA--HARPERS FERRY
09.25.07 TORONTO, ON--MOD CLUB
09.27.07 MONTREAL, QB--CAFE CAMPUS
Thomas Dolby - England - Fall 2007
10.03.07 LONDON--ICA
10.04.07 BRIGHTON--CONCORDE
10.05.07 BRISTOL--ACADEMY
10.07.07 MANCHESTER--ACADEMY
10.08.07 BIRMINGHAM--ACADEMY
10.10.07 ISLINGTON--ACADEMY
MEK
experimedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/14/2007 09:27:43 AM:
> THE SCIENTIST OF SOUND IS COMING TO AKRON TO SHOW US HOW ITS
> DONE...AND NOT ONLY THAT BE HE WILL BE PERFORMING AT ONE OF THE MOST
> ACOUSTICALLY FRIENDLY PERFORMANCE SPACES IN AKRON
>
> THOMAS DOLBY - AKRON, OH - SEPT. 14TH
> For info visit.
> http://dolby.experimedia.net
>
> VENUE INFO - http://www.thetangier.com
>
> Last fall, Thomas Dolby hit the road and reminded audiences of his
> early contribution to the fusion of electronic and pop music. He also
> unleashed a live retrospective album and DVD, each called The Sole
> Inhabitant. Never one to stay in one place for long, Dolby will return
> to North American soil this year, but with a twist: He'll be joined by
> the Jazz Mafia Horns from San Francisco, who will help him present new
> material while adding new shades to Dolby's catalog of classics which
> include the hits "She Blinded Me With Science," "Hyperactive," "Europe
> and the Pirate Twins," "The Flat Earth" and more.
>
> Dolby will also debut a new between-albums EP titled Thomas Dolby &
> the Jazz Mafia Horns: Live @ SXSW on his own Lost Toy People label.
> The five-song EP contains four Dolby originals ("The Key To Her
> Ferrari," "May The Cube Be With You," "My Brain Is Like A Sieve" and
> "Your Karma Hit My Dogma") as well as a new take on George Clinton's
> "Hot Sauce." The album is available at iTunes, CDBaby and
> ThomasDolby.com, and will be sold at tour stops across North America
> but will not be sold at brick-and-mortar retail outlets.
>
> Of his hookup with the Jazz Mafia Horns, Dolby says, "I discovered in
> San Francisco there's a vibrant underground movement of young jazz
> musicians who are wide open to everything from 'turntablism' to New
> Orleans marching band funk. One ensemble that plays regularly in North
> Beach clubs and bars is the Jazz Mafia, whose numbers on a given night
> can vary from three to thirteen brass players. Over the years I've
> employed sampled and synthesized brass on many of my more up-tempo
> tunes, but I've rarely had the opportunity to jam with live horn
> players. It seemed to me that the inherent rigidity of my electronica
> might be nicely offset by the looseness and liveness of real brass, so
> I got with the Jazz Mafia and worked out new arrangements of some of
> my tunes. This works especially well when I'm building grooves by
> 'looping and layering' live tracks and building songs from scratch."
>
> The Jazz Mafia Horns consist of Rich Armstrong, trumpet and backing
> vocals; Adam Theis, trombone; and Joe Cohen, saxophone.
>
> In its review of Dolby's appearance at South by Southwest (SXSW) this
> past March, the e-zine LiveDaily.com wrote: "Unsurprisingly, the
> technological wiz is a gearhound. The stage at the Elysium looked like
> the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, with only a small space left
> for the Jazz Mafia Trio, a horn section that spiced up Dolby's
> electronic soundscapes. The bald, mad scientist-like Dolby was
> relaxed, personable and smiled from the start of his set to the
> finish. In between, he created off-the-cuff loops to back his vocals
> (both of which sounded great), danced, and managed a library of video
> imagery projected on a large movie screen; interspersed with canned
> video segments were live shots of the crowd, filmed via a cam mounted
> to Dolby's left headphone. The performance exemplified the word 'fun'
> - which makes perfect sense, since the presumably well-off Dolby isn't
> doing this for any other reason."
>
> "Dolby's one-man stage show is a bizarre hybrid of computer generated
> music, video montage, and film projections bordering on performance
> art theater."
> "Dolby's Video Jockey, Johnny DeKam mixes live video feeds of the
> performance with original footage onto large projection screens behind
> Dolby as he performs."
> "For one number, Dolby constructs an entire song on-the-spot, with web
> cams tracking each step."
> "It's interesting to watch. I have a camera on my head so you can see
> my point of view on the knobs." - Dolby
