Oldham News

•2012: Australia: 25/02/12 Margaret River, Jewel Cave 02/03/12 South Brisbane, Gallery of Modern Art 05/03/12 Sydney, Opera House, Concert Hall 07/03/12 Adelaide, The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Idolize Spiegeltent (thanks Dominic) 09/03/12 Melbourne, National Theatre 10/03/12 Castlemaine, Theatre Royal (Golden Plains Sideshows, thanks Anthony) 10-12/03/12 Meredith, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, Golden Plains Festival Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince Billy (check): 25/04/12 Edinburgh, Queen's Hall (thanks Shandy) 26/04/12 Holmfirth, Picturedrome 27/04/12 Leeds, Hyde Park Picture House 28/04/12 Cheltenham, The Frog And Fiddle 30/04/12 Exeter, Exeter Phoenix (thanks Marc) 02/05/12 Penzance, Acorn Theatre 03/05/12 Bristol, Trinity Centre 04/05/12 Oxford, Bullingdon Arms (The Bully) (thanks Adam) 06/05/12 London, Islington, Union Chapel (thanks Jason)

Old tourdates: Travelling with Susanna in Europe 23/01/12 Utrecht, Tivoli 24/01/12 Gent, Vooruit 25/01/12 London, Black Cab Session 25/01/12 London, Hackney Empire 27/01/12 Glasgow, Strathclyde Suite (w. Nuala Kennedy) 29/01/12 Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections Festival 31/01/12 Dublin, Vicar Street 01/02/12 Cork, Opera House 07/12/11 Chicago, IL, Second City, Letters to Santa (5 am) 18/10/11 Lyon (Feyzin), L'Epicerie Moderne 19/10/11 Montpellier, Rockstore 20/10/11 Bilbao, Kafe Antzokia (with El Hijo) 21/10/11 Madrid, Joy Eslava (with El Hijo) 22/10/11 A Coruña, Auditorio Expo Coruna (with El Hijo) 23/10/11 Guimaraes, CC Vila Flor 24/10/11 Lisbon, Teatro Maria Matos 26/10/11 Valencia, Mirror (with El Hijo) 27/10/11 Barcelona, Casino L’Aliança (with El Hijo) 28/10/11 Bordeaux, I Boat 29/10/11 Vendôme, Chapelle Saint-Jacques, Festival Rockomotives (with Alasdair Roberts) 30/10/11 Nantes, Le Lieu Unique, Soy Festival 01/11/11 Rouen, Club 106 (with Alasdair Roberts) 02/11/11 Lille, Aeronef (with Alasdair Roberts) 03/11/11 Paris, Le Trianon, Telerama session 03/11/11 Paris, Le Trianon (with Alasdair Roberts) •Bonny & Cairo: 27/09/11 Nelsonville, OH, Stuart's Opera House (with Phantom Family Halo) 28/09/11 York, PA, Capitol Theater (with Phantom Family Halo) 29/09/11 Wilmington, DE, World Cafe Live at The Queen (with Phantom Family Halo) 30/09/11 Asbury Park, NJ, Ashbury Park Convention Center, ATP Festival 02/10/11 Alexandria, VA, The Birchmere (with Phantom Family Halo) 04/10/11 Knoxville, TN, Bijou Theatre (with Phantom Family Halo) 05/10/11 Marshall, NC, Marshall High Studios (presented by Harvest Records) (with Phantom Family Halo) 06/10/11 Wilmington, NC, The Soapbox (with Phantom Family Halo) 09/10/11 Louisville, KY, The Clifton Center (with Phantom Family Halo) 15/07/11 St. John's Newfoundland, Cochrane Street United Church (Celebrating MIGHTYPOP's 80th show) (solo show) 22/07/11 Calgary, Calgary Folk Music Festival •Bonny & Cairo: seven Floridian record stores will host free performances open to all All instore performances are at 7pm. Inbetween there are radio peformances. 25/05/11 Pensacola, FL, Revolver Records 26/05/11 Gainesville, FL, Hear Again Music & Movies 26/05/11 Tallahassee, FL, WVFS (3pm) 27/05/11 St. Augustine, FL, Budget Records at Push-Push Salon 27/05/11 Jacksonville, FL, WJCT "First Coast Connect" (9am) (cancelled) 28/05/11 Orlando, FL, Park Ave CDs 28/05/11 Orlando, FL, WPRK (3pm) 29/05/11 Tampa, FL, Mojo Books & Music 30/05/11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Radio-Active Records 31/05/11 Miami, FL, Sweat Records 31/05/11 Miami, FL, WVUM (3pm) •Bonnie "Prince" Billy featuring the Cairo Gang + Special Guest TBA 23/05/11 Chicago, IL, Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Downtown Sound (review & pics)

•Out soon: Time To Be Clear, the next single from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’ from the Wolfroy Goes To Town album. The release will include
two new songs, Whipped and Out Of Mind. The b-sides will be available on vinyl and download on February 28th (thanks Dustin)(02/02/12).

•New on the market: Bonny Billy Blend. It's Kona Rose Coffee and it is 100% Kona Coffee certified Organic by HOFA. 100% Wolfroy certified too (25/01/12).

•Out on valentines day on Spiritual Pajamas records: a double 7" with four songs by Mariee Sioux and Bonnie Prince Billy. Two originals
and two coversongs. Pre-order here (18/01/12)

•Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince Billy release the album The Marble Downs on Honest Jon's. They also will tour together in April (thanks Ray)(06/01/12)
The release will be late March, early April (12/01/12)

•Gyroskope released a part of the May 23 show from Chicago in digital video format (thanks Dan)(16/12/11)

•Domino is to reissue five Palace albums on the 27th of February. The five albums are: There is No-one What Will Take Care Of You,
Days In The Wake, Hope, Viva Last Blues, Lost Blues And Other Songs. The reissues will feature new artwork and packaging, with
text written by Will Oldham (11/12/11).

•Pieces of The This Must Be The Place OST can be heard here. David Byrne and Will Oldham collaborate in The Pieces Of Shit.

The album is released on CD in Italy (thanks TJ)(17/11/11)

•Wolphin no.14 features "Will Oldham telling an eerie bedtime story". It's the short David Lowery film Pioneer (thanks Joel)(17/11/11)

•Read this interview and listen to a demo version of Time To Be Clear (thanks Jeffrey)(13/10/11)

•From Drag City: The folks at Gyroskope filmed Bonnie's performance this summer in sweet home Chicago's Millennium Park.
We want to give you the first glimpse at this amazing performance. Footage for "Island Brothers" and "There Is No God" are
currently available, with more to come.
Also available is a "remix" version of "Quail and Dumplings". (27/09/11)

•Knitting Factory Records released "The Mindeater" by Bonnie Prince Billy & The Phantom Family Halo on CD and digital download (27/09/11)

•Anna Ternheim will release The Night Visitor. An album produced by Matt Sweeney who also plays guitar. Will Oldham does some backing vocals (19/09/11)

•Check the video by Ben Berman for Quail and Dumplings here. Starring Kennan Gudjonsson and Nina Nastasia.(14/09/11)

•A new Bonnie Prince Billy digital single is out now: Quail & Dumplings with two songs not available anywhere else (13/09/11).

•A new Bonnie Prince Billy album will be out on October the 4th available through Drag City: Wolfroy Goes To Town
Featuring Ben Boye, Van Campbell, Shahzad Ismaily, Emmett Kelly, Danny Kiely and Angel Olsen (thanks Christopher)(06/09/11).

•In this Januari 2011 interview with Alex Neilson he says: "I'm currently writing a bunch of duets for Will (Oldham) and Lavinia to sing in the near future."
Check this video that might be one of the songs (thanks Tonnie)(06/09/11).

•A new song named Mother Nature Kneels is available from here. Long Haul went down to Arkansas to check in with the residents about what's going
on with those mysterious wave of thousands of small earthquakes that have rattled the towns of Guy and Greenbrier since September, 2010.
They shared the tape they collected with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, who wrote an original song to contribute to the narrative (10/07/11).

•Haggard Harper Bonnie 7" is available now. Check Spiritual Pajamas (21/06).

•The 10" and Afternoon Book, a collaborative effort between artist Ashley Macomber and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy will be out late summer 2011.
On Black Tent Press (thanks Daniel)(14/04/11)
For pre-order now (01/06/11)

•Check the video for There is No God and download the ringtone from Drag City (23/05/11).

•From Drag City: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy will have another 10" single coming out on June 19: There Is No God b/w God Is Love. This time in support
of our dying oceans, and the lives that depend on them. For pre-sale now (20/05/11).

•For pre-sale now available: "The Mindeater" a 10" by Bonnie Prince Billy & The Phantom Family Halo. On Sophomore Lounge Records and Tapes (05/05/11).

•Sufjan Stevens' album Seven Swans is reimagined. The Bonnie Prince Billy contribution All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands
can be heard on twentyfourbit (27/03/11).

•Another 10" is coming up: Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy - Must Be Blind b/w Life In Muscle. To be released April 19.
For pre-order on Drag City now. Will come out on Domino as well (22/03/11).

•From Blurt: Drag City to release audiobook of Rudolph Wurlitzer's Slow Fade as read by Will Oldham and D.V.deVincentis on April 19th (thanks Anders)(12/03/11)
Check here for more info on the audiobook/tour (thanks leo f.).

•To be released in April on Sophomore Lounge Records and Tapes: a 10" by Bonnie Prince Billy & The Phantom Family Halo
"The Mindeater". Check this video from June 25, 2010 (thanks Cuneyt)(07/03/11)

•From Drag City: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy will have another single coming out on April 19, reuniting him with his Superwolf brother Matt Sweeney (24/02/11)

•Check this video for New Wonder by R. Alverson (thanks Tucker)(18/02/11).

•Coming up is a new 10" by Bonnie Prince Bily & The Cairo Gang. Two songs on it, the release will be February 21 on Domino
& Drag City (thanks all)(25/01/11).

•David Byrne and Will Oldham will pen music for a new film from the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino 'This Must Be the Place'. Sean Penn
stars in it (thanks all)(25/01/11).

•Somewhere in April the book Bonnie Prince Billy by Alan Licht & Will Oldham will see the light of day. Check this. (thanks Ken)(17/01/11).

•Check this Babblers version of Kevin Coyne's Come Down Here. From Brooklyn Vegan (thanks Uwe)(11/12/10).

•Sufjan Stevens' album Seven Swans will be reimagined. It will contain the Bonnie Prince Billy contribution
All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands. Available in March 2011 (thanks Daniel)(29/11/10).

•The Trembling Bells with Bonnie Prince Billy 7" is available now at Trembling Bells gigs and at Honest Jon's (29/11/10).

•From Pitchfork: The electro-pop nerds and the bearded folkie goof off and sing along to this rework of the One Life Stand cut;

•Bonnie Prince Billy played the 100th Black Cab Session. Watch Black Cabtain & Coconuts (02/0/12). •Naomi Burkhart has released Swallowed By the Sky. The album contains traditional songs, Naomi's recycled originals and a cover of Big Friday (11/12/11). •The Travel Almanac has Will Oldham on the front cover. Inside there is an interview Will Oldham talking about travels and Portugal (thanks Vitor)(02/12/11). •Check this Telerama session from November the 3rd in Paris (thanks Julien)(21/11/11). •Will Oldham will be live on guardian.co.uk/music at 3pm GMT on Monday 21 November to answer your questions (thanks Eamonn)(17/11/11) The answers are here (21/11/11). •On October 15, on the Cincinnati, OH radio program "Trash Flow Radio," after playing an hour of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy rarities, Will Oldham was interviewed on-air for about 100 minutes. The entire three hours can be downloaded, ad-free, in three parts, from here, here and here (18/10/2011) •Listen to WFPK's Wild and Woolley reviews. Bonnie speaks and plays a song (thanks frankie)(14/10/11) •A star studded curatorial compilation, Handpicked Songs 1955-1962 is a shot of Louvin Brothers magic. This LP features 14 tracks performed by the Louvin Brothers, each personally selected by the likes of Beck, Emmylou Harris, Will Oldham, Kris Kristofferson, Jim James, Dolly Parton and many more. On Light In The Attic (14/10/11) •Check two interviews here and here (thanks Jeffrey)(09/10/11) •Will Oldham has been interviewed for Revenge Of The Mekons, a documentary feature directed by Joe Angio, he wrote on facebook: It's a wrap! Final shoot with Will Oldham this afternoon in Louisville. Now on to the home stretch of the edit (thanks Olivier)(29/08/11). •Two more interviews here and here (01/06/11) •Read here a telephone interview with Will Oldham (thanks Uwe)(20/05/11). •Read here an interview with Will Oldham (thanks Daniel)(20/05/11). •Angel Olsen's (of Babblers and Island Brothers fame) release Strange Cacti is out now on 12" (13/05/11). •Old Calf will release a new album; Borrow a Horse will be out on April 12 on No Quarter. Old Calf is Ned Oldham and Matty Metcalfe (22/03/11). •Drag City reports: "Will Oldham does his comedy like no one else, and it's full-on flaming in the latest season of The Internet Shack" (thanks Daniel)(22/03/11). •Check this Bonnie Prince Billy interview by misterbuckets (thanks Daniel)(22/03/11). •Listen to Will Oldham and Todd Brashear on Louisville's WFPK. Talking about the blueprints for a new album and more! (thanks Christopher)(12/03/11). •Listen to the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show of Februari 23 with guest Bonnie Prince Billy (thank Daniel)(10/03/11) •Look at Bonnie Prince Billy play live in 2003, filmed by Lance Bangs (07/03/11). •Check this version of Death to Everyone by Woody and Paul (thanks Serp)(24/02/11). •Cheyenne Marie Mize covers Bonnie 'Prince' Billy for Valentines Day, listen here (18/02/11). •The Annual Mrs. Robinson Will Oldham Valentine's Special will be on Sunday Feb 13, 2011 on WHFR from 9:00pm - Midnight EST. It can be heard on the radio at 89.3FM in the Dearborn-Detroit, MI area or online at http://whfr.fm. The annual valentine's special is dedicated to Will Oldham. Will should be calling in this year too (11/02/11). •Director John Bosch has been working for many years on a documentary film about singer/songwriter Paul K, who formerly led the band Paul K & the Weathermen. A trailer for the still-unfinished movie can be seen on this site, you can see Bonnie Prince Billy sing a song (thanks Ken)(03/02/11). •Read this R Kelly interview by Will Oldham (thanks all)(01/02/11). •Will Oldham was in Rotterdam at the world premiere of New Jerusalem. Together with Rick Alverson and Colm O'Leary they answered some questions about the movie afterwards (01/02/11). •Check here, at the bottom of the page, two lost Palace/Drag City promo sheets. Also added are two older Palace promo pics (big thanks to Daniel)(26/01/11). •Listen to this Fogged Clarity session by Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks Dan)(08/01/11) •Download the New York show from December 7 at Maxwell's here (thanks Uwe)(08/01/11) •Read and listen to this Fogged Clarity interview with Will Oldham (01/01/11) •Check this piece by Bonnie Prince Billy about Alasdair Roberts' album No Earthly Man (23/12/10) •New Jerusalem, a film by R. Alverson will premiere at the 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam Januari 26 - Februari 6. Will Oldham acts in it. (thanks Daniel)(21/12/10) •Look at this Babblers page by Pascal Regis (21/12/10) •Sundance 2011 will have the screening of the short David Lowery movie Pioneer. Will Oldham acts in it. Look at the trailer. (thanks Jessica)(13/12/10) •Check Drag City's news report on Bonnie art (thanks Daniel)(09/12/10) •Check this, this and this report about the Babblers (thanks Cristopher)(02/12/10). •Check Jolie Holland play (End of) Traveling (29/11/10). •Look at this video "what am weyoui waiting for?" from Richard T. Walker (thanks Jan)(02/11/10). •Check this interview at KCSB (thanks Daniel)(02/11/10). •In the movie Jackass 3D Will Oldham has a small cameo as a gorilla tamer (26/10/10). •Check this nice live show at Amoeba (thanks Uwe)(26/10/10). •Check this interview at Music Illuminati (thanks Lance)(16/10/10). •Watch Will Oldham say a few words about freedom of thought here. Check the total film "In The Woods: Pathway" here (26/09/10). •Will Oldham plays the hunter in The Edge of Town (2008) by Christopher Ciancimino. Watch it online here (thanks Angelo) (31/08/10). •Check this: there's a new solo Ned Oldham 3-song 7" out, just announced today. Free MP3 and release information here (25/08/10). •Check this article about Will Oldham in the Irish Times (thanks David) (01/08/10). •According to Pitchfork, Will Oldham plays a Beaver on "Squidbillies", the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim show about a family of Appalachian squids (thanks Daniel) (01/08/10).