From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #144 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Wednesday, June 13 2001 Volume 03 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: OT: Posies play UK Carling Fest Aug. 24-25; Chicago's Dble Door July 13-14 ["Jennifer Woyan" Subject: OV: OT: Posies play UK Carling Fest Aug. 24-25; Chicago's Dble Door July 13-14 http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=allstararticle/fid=271465/ from=sr-117124 Posies Kick Off Tour With Chamber Strings, Pernice Brothers On July 17 June 8, 2001, 2:25 pm PT The Posies will form a pop triumvirate with the Pernice Brothers and the Chamber Strings for a handful of East Coast dates, beginning July 17 in Boston, following a four-city trek of their own, which kicks off July 9 in Los Angeles. Posies Jon Auer (whose covers EP, 6, was recently released on Pattern 25 Records) and Ken Stringfellow reunited for an acoustic tour last year (allstar, July 10, 2000) behind their acoustic live album, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In. The duo released the Nice Cheekbones and a Ph.D. EP earlier this year (allstar, Jan. 31). Following the U.S. dates, the Posies will make several European festival appearances, beginning Aug. 2 at the Benicassim Festival in Spain. On Aug. 5 at Benicassim, Auer and Stringfellow will play a show with Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens of Big Star, a role they have reprised sporadically since 1993. The Pernice Brothers just released the follow-up to 1998's Overcome by Happiness: The World Won't End on Ashmont Records. The Chamber Strings, meanwhile, are touring behind their latest LP, Month of Sundays, which was produced by Pernice Brother Thom Monahan. Posies tour dates: July 9, Los Angeles, Troubadour July 10, San Francisco, Bottom of the Hill July 13-14, Chicago, Double Door July 16, Hoboken, N.J., Maxwell's Posies/Pernice Brothers/Chamber Strings tour dates: July 17, Boston, Middle East July 18, Easthampton, Mass., TBA July 19, Philadelphia, Khyber Pass July 20, Washington, D.C., Black Cat July 21, New York, Bowery Ballroom Posies European dates: Aug. 2, Benicassim Festival, Spain Aug. 5, Benicassim Festival, Spain (with Big Star) Aug. 24, Reading, England, Reading Festival Aug. 25, Leeds, England, Reading Festival - -- Pat Berkery Jennifer A. Woyan jenwoyan@xsite.net 773.580.1440 ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #144 **********************************