Willard Grant Conspiracy newsletter forwarded for your information... >*another of our tastefully infrequent howareyas* > >Hi folks, > >Well, here's what's up with your pals in Willard Grant Conspiracy! > >We are playing our first local shows since last August (yeesh!) this >month. Come by TT the Bears on Feb 10 or the Lizard Lounge on Feb 23 >(both in beautiful Cambridge, MA) and say hello. We're also playing a >festive Valentines Day show at Brownies in New York City with the Silos. > >A very nice guy from Paris named Laurent Orseu has made a WGC web site! >It's at "http://www.popnews.com/wgc/". It's in both French and English. > >Continuing our tradition of not getting "officially" invited to South by >Southwest but going on down anyway, we'll be once again in Austin TX this >year to play the Swollen Circus Night at the lovely Hole In the Wall, on >the Tuesday evening before the musicfest "officially" begins. This was a >blast last year and once again the bill is excellent - Gurf Morlix, Diane >from Lambchop, and Walter Salas-Humara, to name a few! > >We've finished recording our new record. It's a fifteen song extravaganza >of hope and joy and it's called Mojave. Actually the title is the phonetic >version of that word but damned if we can find those keys on this thing to >reproduce it here. It comes out in UK/Europe on the Slow River label on >May 18, and we'll be on tour all of June in UK/Holland/France/Belgium to >mark the release. (We'll be back in the fall to visit Germany, Austria, >Switzerland and hopefully some new places too!). > >Our friend Edith Frost, who has a coupla great records out herself on the >Drag City label from Chicago, came down to Boston to record with us and >sings on several of the songs. If all goes according to plan, she'll be >with us for the entire June tour as well and we'll be doing a set of her >songs and a set of songs or maybe one big long hoot where we mix it up. >Chris Brokaw from Come, Walter Salas-H from Silos, and Nick from Trona all >came by and played drums. Not at the same time of course. > >Hopefully before we leave, in April/May, we'll hit the road again and >cover some ground in our own goddam country. At the very least we'll be >back down South as far as Georgia. And we'll get this split single with >Sackville out! > >One more thing... seems we're on the compilation CD attached to the >new issue of UNCUT magazine. Since our first CD ("3 AM...") has been >licensed to Slow River for re-release, they marked the occasion by putting >a cut from it on the sampler. It's an excellent sampler. Lucinda Williams >is on there (who's former guitarist Gurf Morlix we'll share the bill with >in Austin) as well as Will "Bonny Prince Billy" Oldham (who our viola chap >Dave Curry recently did a short tour with). Yow... small world, huh? > >Well, hope to see you soon! Drop us a line when you can. > >W.G.C. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > radio free wgc beams from http://world.std.com/~dahlia/wgc.html >------------------------------------------------------------------------
