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I just came across this version of Incandescent Innocent, from 13 Most Beautiful, mashed up with The Fire Escapes song My Dreams are like Diamonds (with a bit of The Velvet Underground's Heroin thrown in) and sung by Lucy Pullin of The Fire Escapes... it is rather lovely: Dean & Britta -v- The Fire Escapes Incandescent Diamonds Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

Dean & Britta appeared on WFUV's "Words & Music" show earlier int he week talking about 13 Most Beautiful and performing (full band) live versions of some tracks. You can listen to the archived show streamed, on the WFUV public archive (scroll down the page and select Dean & Britta #2) - you'll need a Windows machine or Flip4Mac to listen. Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

On September 13th There will be a free screening of the film document of Luna's last tour Tell Me Do You Miss Me... the film's director posted this on Facebook As a tie-in to the Augusta, GA premiere of 13 MOST BEAUTIFUL, the Augusta State University Fall Film Series will kick off with a free screening of Matthew's documentary TELL ME DO YOU MISS ME. The screening will be on Monday September 13th at 7 p.m in 170 University Hall. Matthew will be there to field queries and criticisms... [...]

On September 13th There will be a free screening of the film document of Luna's last tour Tell Me Do You Miss Me... the film's director posted this on Facebook As a tie-in to the Augusta, GA premiere of 13 MOST BEAUTIFUL, the Augusta State University Fall Film Series will kick off with a free screening of Matthew's documentary TELL ME DO YOU MISS ME. The screening will be on Monday September 13th at 7 p.m in 170 University Hall. Matthew will be there to field queries and criticisms... [...]

James Flames, the artist of these two lovely posters for the recent Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 shows in New York and Philadelphia has just posted about how he created them . You can also buy limited edition numbered and signed copies of the posters directly from him . "The ideas for these came about pretty naturally. For the NYC poster, I actually came up with the title first, and the image just kinda appeared on the page after a quick sketch." (Now That Enough Time Has Passed) It's Safe [...]

Here are a few bits and peices turning up from Dean & Britta's Galaxie 500 show at The Trocadero in Philadelphia on Friday night. evolrecinc has some videos - here's Ceremony Also: Blue Thunder , Tugboat , Strange The Styrofoam Drone has a nice review with a couple of videos For starters, Dean Wareham actually did a great job hitting those high notes he did over 20 years ago when they recorded the Galaxie 500 albums. Not [...]

This beautiful site, Freakin' & Peakin' by Jenell Kesler hosted on Rate Your Music collects together a phenomanl amount of memorabilia related to Galaxie 500, Luna and Dean & Britta. It includes the largest collection of posters as well as setlists, ticket stubs, records. It also has some interesting lists such as cover versions and recurring themes. Well worth a visit. Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

The first show (not counting last night's "secret" warm up ) of the Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 tour - I'll add to this as I find stuff - in the meantime here are a few videos thanks to ciaoluna - enjoy Galaxie 500 songs sung by Dean Wareham accompanied by some of the less tuneful members of the crowd! Blue Thunder Tugboat Fourth of July Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

On Wednesday Dean & Britta played a not all that secret and sold out show at the small new venue in Brooklyn - The Rock Shop - here's some bits found around the Internet: A bunch of pictures by Chris Gersbeck A review at Soundbites So it was a thrill getting to hear "Strange," "Flowers," "4th of July," "Tugboat" and others again, not to mention essential covers "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" (Jonathan Richman) and [...]

Here's a wonderful video of Dean & Britta performing with Mercury Rev's Grasshopper and Jonathan Donohue on the Mystery Spot front porch on Sunday. First up is a cover of Galaxie 500's Snowstorm and then Mercury Rev's Car Wash Hair (which featured Dean on guitar when it was released as a single all those years ago !) Posted via email from AHFoW (slight [...]

Just came across a set of pictures from Damon & Naomi's recent festival appearance in Katowice, Poland... this is my fave... more pics Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

Just after returning from their 13 Most Beautiful show in London Dean & Britta popped into WFMU for an interview for the show Underwater Theme Park with Meghan. They performed a three song set comprising I'll Keep it with Mine, I Found it Not So, and Galaxie 500's Hearing Voices. They also chatted at length about 13 Most Beautiful, Galaxie 500 and anything else that popped up. The interview is lovingly punctuated with Meghan's laughter. You can hear the show and see the playlist on the WFMU site - zip through to [...]

• Meghan and WFMU - We are just passing the Mason Dixon Line (plus a roadside attraction with Dean and Britta) from 8/12/2010

Just came across this sweet video of Dean & Britta playing a session for East Village Radio . Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

The A.V. Club has an interview with Dean Wareham covering the two roads that Dean & Britta are currently going down. On 13 Most Beautiful... I'm not sure I would've actually liked to be hanging around the Factory. I have something of a work ethic—well, those people did too, I guess, because they were on spee [...] Sometimes you hear about these people in these incredibly productive periods where they're just working all the time. It's the same with Bob Dylan. How'd he do this? Then you find out they were on speed. You're [...]

Dean & Britta are coming to London to play the songs of Galaxie 500. The show is at The Garage on the 8th December. Tickets go on sale on Monday 9th August. Full details on the ATP website . Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

Today (Sunday 1st August) is Dean Wareham's birthday so here's a hastily compiled journey through his career using promo photos/postcards. Happy Birthday Dean! Speedy & the Castanets Galaxie 500 Anesthesia Luna - Bewitched Happy Birthday! Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)

Hazel and I arrived at The Barbican and tracked down our tickets. Shearwater were about to start their support set but we nipped outside to eat first. We caught the second half of Shearwater's interesting set. They were a wee bit prog and I found the singers voice a little hard to be comfortable with but otherwise they made some nice noise as the five of them revolved around the array of instruments they had... I was also liked that they had a member who seemed to be called Thor! [...]

A couple of videos of complete songs from Dean & Britta's secret Copenhagen show from 2007 have just appeared on YouTube. First them doing Luna's Chinatown And then doing Adam Green's We're Not Supposed to be Lovers If you look back through the morkygorky's earlier videos you can find some short clips of other songs from the show. Previously: MP3: Dean & Britta with Nikolaj Nørlund play Ceremony Review: Dean & Britta in Copenhagen [...]

Online culture mag The Quietus has a lovely in-depth interview with Dean Wareham covering his whole career from Galaxie 500 "Leaving Galaxie 500 was a relief; I felt free. The problem there, beyond ego or personality or all the other petty stuff, was the very structure of the band" through his experiences of labels, both indie and major, and his thoughts on the music industry... I used to come home from school and sit on my bed and listen to music; now of course teenagers have [...]

Matthew Buzzell's band Night People will be making it's New York debut on 31st July at The Rock Shop . Matthew was the film-maker responsible for the Luna documentary Tell Me Do You Miss Me and Night People also features Sean Eden on guitar. Night People on Facebook Night People in New York event on Facebook Ticketfly Posted via email from AHFoW (slight return)