Autumn Friends,
Yes, we all love the helpful cunning woman (smiling from the window of her gingerbread house, healing broken bones with a touch of her gnarled hand, fluent in the language of birds), but what of the evil-minded witch? As Halloween approaches we're likely to again encounter her foul ways. Be wary, we speak not of a mere apple filled with razor blades or a broomstick dancing in the moonlight. Gentle reader, herein learn the signs of true bedevilment as well as find TOUR DATES and PAINTINGS from THE HANDSOME FAMILY...
THE SIGNS:
1. cows give sour milk
2.butter spoils too quickly
3.children generally inconsolable
5.stormy weather (hail, wind, rain of frogs and/or blood)
6.poisoned apples (one bite may induce coma)
7.unexplained cackling at crossroads, riversides, abandoned quarries
8.piglets dancing
9.vomiting up black roses, sharp pins, wads of dog hair or the like
10.unexplained pooling of water in family room (often boiling)
11.white robed figure gliding silently through forest
12.thousands of yellow birds gathering in nearby trees
13.common household dowsing rod turned to hissing snake
14.razors dulled, knives missing, scissors dancing across bedspread
15.family cat disappears into crack in wall and/or offers to help you make invisibility cream using a lock of your own hair
I STILL HAVE TWO PAINTINGS FOR SALE:
http://www.handsomefamily.com/forestsaints.html
REVEAL THE WYRDING WITCH! Think carefully! Did you refuse an old woman a piece of sausage at your wedding? Did you spit into a still pond and disturb a sleeping swan? Did you see a white hare hop over your grave in a rainstorm? Place a lock of your hair and/or fresh nail parings in boiling water. The witch will draw near. Burn witch cakes (made of rye meal and your own fresh urine) near enchanted well. Witch will soon arrive riding goat backwards. Bind her with the fingers of a hanged man dipped in milk and/or a circle of rowan branches.
TOUR DATES
UNITED KINGDOM (see below for more dates in October)
Wed 20 Sept. LONDON ARTS THEATRE, 6/7 Great Newport Street, London WC2
£17.50 adv. Doors - 7pm, 0870 0601742
www.ticketmaster.co.uk <http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk> (Note to anyone who’s had trouble purchasing our tickets: search for "Handsome Family" as they have listed our name without the 'The')
SCANDINAVIA
Sat 23 Sep DENMARK ARHUS, Voxhaus
Sun 24 Sep DENMARK COPENGHAGEN, Loppen
Tue 26 Sep SWEDEN STOCKHOLM, Café Teatern
Wed 27 Sep SWEDEN GOTHENBURG, Pusterviksen
Thu 28 Sep NORWAY OSLO, Elm Street
Sat 30 Sep NORWAY STAVANGER, Cementen
IRELAND
Wed and Thu, 4 and 5, Oct IRELAND DUBLIN, The Point
THE POINT SHOWS: We’re part of a big line-up of musicians for The Dublin Theatre Festival’s “Came So Far for Beauty”--an evening of Leonard Cohen songs. For further info: http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com. Sorry, we've been asked by the Dublin Festival not to book any other Irish dates around the time of these shows. Looks like we’ll be back in March, 2007.
UNITED KINGDOM
Sat 7 Oct PONTARDAWE ARTS CENTRE (with The Burning Leaves)
tickets:01792 - 863722, www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk/pontardaweartscentre <http://www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk/pontardaweartscentre>
Sun 8 Oct RUNCORN THE BRINDLEY ARTS CENTRE
(with The Burning Leaves), tickets: 0151 907 8360
Mon 9 Oct SHEFFIELD MEMORIAL HALL
tickets: 01142 789 789 www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk <http://www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk>
Tue 10 Oct BIRMINGHAM GLEE CLUB
tickets: 0870 241 5093 www.glee.co.uk <http://www.glee.co.uk>
Thu 12 Oct GLASGOW ABC2
tickets: 08700 600 100 www.ticketweb.co.uk <http://www.ticketweb.co.uk>
Fri 13 Oct STIRLING TOLLBOOTH
tickets: 01786 27 4000 www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth <http://www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth>
Sat 14 Oct FORT WILLIAM LIME TREE
tickets: www.limetreestudio.co.uk <http://www.limetreestudio.co.uk>
Sun 15 Oct ABERDEEN LEMON TREE
tickets: 01224 642 230 www.lemontree.org <http://www.lemontree.org>
USA
ALBUQUERQUE:
OCT 21, Los Poblanos Organics Farm Harvest Festival.
We’re still in the planning stages, but this is a daytime event and you can find out the details here once they’re finalized:
http://www.lospoblanos.com/calendar/
NOVEMBER, 2006, West Coast USA
We’re doing a six-show tour of the west coast as support for the legendary band Wall of Voodoo. Also adding a few shows of our own (possibly with The Darling Downs) before and after. More details to come. So far...
Nov 27 '06 (8:00 PM), Solana Beach, CA, Belly Up Tavern with Wall Of Voodoo
Nov 29 '06 (8:30 PM), House of Blues Los Angeles with Wall Of Voodoo
Nov 30 '06 (9:00 PM), House of Blues Anaheim, CA with Wall Of Voodoo
Dec 2 '06 (9:00 PM), San Francisco, CA, Slim's with Wall Of Voodoo
Seattle and Portland dates TBA, with Wall of Voodoo. Also solo dates in Tucson, Pioneertown, and possibly Vancouver, Denver, Salt Lake City.
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND
We’ll definitely be in both places in February, 2007. So far only confirmed event is the Perth Festival.
"Let girls do the spelling, I'll do the shooting" --Daniel Boone
Xo Rennie