Barr Brothers on tour and The Slip in Japan!!!

[harrymcq]

Just got the Barr Brothers World Tour dates in the ole' email which is exciting enough (except for the fact that they won't come within 1000 miles of me) and saw a little gem hidden in there... Feb 25th in Tokyo with The Slip!!!!!!

January 13th – Burlington VT @ Parima (w/ Brett Hughes + Joe Adler & The Cajun Sludge)
January 18th – New York NY @ Rockwood Music Hall (9:30PM) (w/ Nathan Moore)
January 20th – Cambridge MA @ The Lizard Lounge (w/ Jocie Adams of The Low Anthem)
January 21st – Providence RI @ Firehouse 13 (w/ Jocie Adams of The Low Anthem)
February 15th – Quebec City QC @ Cabaret du Capitole (w/ Plants & Animals, Think About Life)
February 25th – Tokyo JP @ Liquid Room (w/ The Slip, Special Others)
March 12th – Toronto ON @ Canadian Music Week
March 15th – Montreal QC @ The Segal Center for Performing Arts
March 16th – 20th – Austin TX @ SXSW
April 1st – Valleyfield QC @ Salle Albert-Dumouchel (w/ Patrick Watson)
April 2nd – L’Assomption QC @ Theatre Hector-Charland (w/ Patrick Watson)
June 17th – Paris FR @ The Louvre (special feature appearance w/ Emily Loizeau)

[harrymcq]

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"The harp is too rare in the blues and the group, very elegant, capable of beautiful velvet like rough cudgel, was already a mature bordering the insolence and had written a gaggle of more popular songs. Woodwork enthusiasts splinter and forests electrified, you are warned: you might love it."

-Les InRocks, France

Translating a review of your show from French into English is a cute bit of gimmickry that has probably been overused, but it's still the funniest, and possibly most accurate, way to convey the live show experience. Anyone who has been "cudgeled" by a harp might agree.

We hope you've had a great holiday season filled with love, family and trophies of admiration. For our part, we have dappled the upcoming months with a handfull of performances we'd like to tell you about. First, we will be returning to the Northeast states for a few shows in some of our favorite cities. These include 2 gigs with our good friend Jocie Adams, known for her exquisite work as a member of The Low Anthem....

Following that, we'll be heading to Austin, TX for South by Southwest in the middle of March, where vampires dressed as Betty Page serve you BBQ platters on Rock n' Roll buns. Again, dates and venues will be announced. And to kick off the summer season, Brad will be performing a solo show at The Louvre in Paris on June 17th, as part of a series hosted by French songstress Emily Loizeau . We plan on rounding this out with some Barr Brothers dates in France during that time frame. Stay tuned!

We are still proud to let you know that our debut album is available in limited quantity off our webpage and at shows. It has not been officially released and we hope to have it more readily available to you, digitally and physically, by this Spring. To hear some tracks, please visit : http://www.myspace.com/superlittleband .

If you would like to receive regular Barr Brothers updates, please sign up for the mailing list at http://www.thebarrbrothers.com

Thanks for reading!
Brad and Andrew Barr

PS. Do not fret, The Slip is still hard at work taming it's voodoo dragon into some new sounds... Stay tuned!

January 13th - Burlington VT @ Parima
(w/ Brett Hughes + Joe Adler & The Cajun Sludge)
January 18th - New York NY @ Rockwood Music Hall (9:30PM)

January 20th - Cambridge MA @ The Lizard Lounge
(w/ Jocie Adams of The Low Anthem)

January 21st - Providence RI @ Firehouse 13
(w/ Jocie Adams of The Low Anthem)

February 15th - Quebec City QC @ Cabaret du Capitole
(w/ Plants & Animals, Think About Life)

March 12th - Toronto ON @ Canadian Music Week

March 15th - Montreal QC @ The Segal Center for Performing Arts

March 16th - 20th - Austin TX @ SXSW

April 1st - Valleyfield QC @ Salle Albert-Dumouchel
(w/ Patrick Watson)

April 2nd - L'Assomption QC @ Theatre Hector-Charland
(w/ Patrick Watson)

June 17th - Paris FR @ The Louvre
(special feature appearance w/ Emily Loizeau)

[bradm]

March 12th - Toronto ON @ Canadian Music Week

I found a schedule for Canadian Music Fest at

http://canadianmusicfest.com/schedule/

which lists The Barr Brothers as playing on Thursday, March 10, at The Dakota Tavern; the full schedule for that night is

Ruth Minnikin 9:00PM
Lake of Stew 10:00PM
Billy The Kid 11:00PM
Jen Lane 12:00AM
Kevin Kane 1:00AM
The Barr Brothers 2:00AM

They're also listed as playing on Saturday, March 12, at Czehoski; the full schedule for that night is

Paisley Jura 9:00PM
The Barr Brothers 10:00PM
MotherMoon 11:00PM
Terra Lightfoot 12:00AM
Ariana Gillis 1:00AM

Aloha,
Brad

[lucasdavidsamuels]

I'll be seeing The Barr Brothers 3 times in the next week and a half (opening for The Low Anthem and playing CMF all in Toronto), and I'll be covering each show so expect some sweet reviews, pictures and probably some video of this dynamic quartet pretty soon.

[Phrazz]

...wow...pleasantly stunned to see SlipBase alive again! ;-}

2/25/11: Liquid Room - Tokyo
Set 1: improv * > The Soft Machine, Motherwolf, Even Rats, Get Me With Fuji, Broke The Promised Land, The Weight of Solomon
Encore: Before You Were Born
Notes: * with Special Others (opening band)
Harry McQ <harryATsupunturtleDOTnet> - Fri Feb 25 21:19:18 EST 2011

Thanks again, Harry!

[bear]

wow, all the way across the Pacific for a 6 song set?

[harrymcq]

wow, all the way across the Pacific for a 6 song set?

Slip set was about an hour, so was barr bros, assuming they did the same on Sunday that's probably 4-4.5 hours of some sort of barr music. Seems like the Sunday show may not have been taped though

[bear]

bummer. is the headliner playing so short custom to the Japanese music scene? Or just b/c they played both as the slip and Bbros? So did Marc only play during the SLip's set? I feel last time they were there, they were doing 2 set shows. 4.24.04 comes to mind.

[harrymcq]

Well that 4/24 show was The Slip w/UA and 1st set was with her and then 2nd set was just The Slip. That was a longer show, probably around 2.5 hours for 2 sets. The 12/17/00 show was 2 sets, around 2 hours total. 1/13,14/02 were longer 2 set shows 2.7 and 3 hours respectively. The recently re-seeded 9/8/02 was a festival set about an hour and a half. 2/18/05 was over 2 hours but 2/19/05 was just an hour. 8/19/06 was a festival set but was around 1.2 hours.

Anyway now that I'm done geeking out it seems that though the shows tend to be on the shorter side over there this set seems very short. There was at least 1 other Japanese band on the bill though so they may have run out of time. I'm guessing though with the double bill with the Barr Brothers it is different than if it were just The Slip... and of course who knows what they played on Sunday.

[lumpy]

i'm impressed with the geekage harry!

Curious to hear any reviews about the Sunday show....loving the youtube videos I've seen so far.

[lucasdavidsamuels]

2nd slip show in japan sounds like an interesting set from what i could piece together from a video clip:
mudslide, airplane/primitive, sometimes true to nothing, before you were born....