Casper & the Cookies July-Aug '05 tour w/ Elekibass & KJA

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Casper & the Cookies are playing some east coast shows leading up to the Athens Popfest. We will be playing with our dear friends Elekibass (Japan) and Keith John Adams (UK).

Things kick off with a show on Thursday, July 27 at the 40 Watt when Elekibass and KJA open for Biirdie and Fabulous Bird. The tour starts the next morning.

Elekibass/ Casper & the Cookies/ Keith John Adams tour dates:

July 28 Winston-Salem, NC at Werehouse with "A Visit from the Quarry Mums" (puppet show)
July 29 Pittsburgh, PA at Gooski's with The Hope Harveys
July 30 New York City, NY at 169 Bar with So Lil' & Pretty Flowers
July 31 Northampton, MA at The Elevens w/ Cars Can Be Blue
Aug 1 Providence, RI at AS220
Aug 2 Bethlehem, PA at Globe Cafe
Aug 3 (9 AM) Third Rail Radio, WMCU Washington, DC (live stream at www.wmucradio.com !)
Aug 3 Washington, DC at DC9 Club with Lil' Hospital
Aug 4 Charlotte, NC at the Evening Muse
Aug 5 Chattanooga, TN at Lamar's
Aug 6 Nashville, TN at Hair of the Dog with Good Lord to the Devil (7PM show)
Aug 10-13 ATHENS POPFEST

For up-to-date show times and admission, use the club links below or call ahead.

(And if anyone has available floor space, we'd like to stay with you!)

Here's more info...

ELEKIBASS
Elekibass, from Japan, are like a vaudeville act that might have played the UFO club in swinging London. This is only their third tour in the US, and their show is not to be missed. They are an instant party.
Their homepage is
http://www.waikikirecord.com/elekipage/index2.html . Here's an mp3, "Autumn Almanack" from their third release on HHBTM, Welcome Wonderful World.
http://www.hhbtm.com/extras/06%20elekibassalmanack.mp3 .

KEITH JOHN ADAMS
Keith John Adams is a singer/songwriter from the UK that will be opening shows on this tour using only an acoustic guitar, a toy piano, a ukelele and a his winning personality. As a foreign corespondant for the BBC, one would maybe expect songs about world politics, but Keith writes from (and about) the human heart.
You can hear clips from his great 2003 album Sunshine Loft at
http://www.keithjohnadams.com/, but his upcoming record, Pip, is even better. HHBTM is releasing Pip this year in the US.

links:
www.waikikirecord.com/elekipage
www.casperandthecookies.com
www.keithjohnadams.com
www.hhbtm.com/popfest

clubs:
www.169bar.com
www.40watt.com
www.as220.org
www.dcnine.com
www.elevensmusic.com
www.eveningmuse.co
www.thewerehouse.com
www.wmucradio.com

[RaelO]

You know? I was all up & ready to go to the NY one. I was in NY anyway; I went to see my mom and the bass player from the band I had had in college. I wanted to see Brian Jonestown Massacre, but I had erroneously assumed they were playing on Saturday at Bowery Ballroom when it turned not only were they Sunday, but already sold out.
If I'd had more time to be in NY, I'd have stayed til Tuesday's Olivia tremor Control show, but I needed to be back here to pay my bills.
so. I see this post. whoa! see the Cookies instead, thinks I. but my ankle was already killing me, & the lady at the club when we called said ye's weren't going to START playing until midnight. Not that I'm not a night owl, but the subways are a curious thing. Unlike many places that have a stop point for buses & trains, the subways claim to go all night, but past midnight they are few and far between, and the platforms are like the most horrid and peculiar sauna you ever stepped into; you can go in fresh from the shower and feeling cheerful and clean, and in scant seconds you will be drenched in both sweat and grunge; itchy, sopping and miserable. so...no. Instead, we went to see Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" (which was dull, dull, dull, BTW) and wound up in a cafe just off Christopher Street.