Bright Eyes fall tour

[Dead Pilot]

Altho, we call it autumn here!

Bright Eyes Announce Fall U.S. Tour
Jessica Suarez reports:
Another season, another Bright Eyes tour. This autumn, as the weather turns chilly, warm your broken heart by the light of Conor Oberst’s smile and tortured indie-folk dirges. Fresh off a tour in Europe that included a climactic performance at the Glastonbury festival (he insulted John Peel’s memory and made out with Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls—who happened to be completely naked), the Sad-Eyed Poet of the Lowlands will embark on a month-long trek across these here United States. This time he'll be backed up by a “traditional Bright Eyes lineup”, according to a press release and will be “blending material from all of the stunning Bright Eyes releases to date”. English, Scottish and Canadian friends Magic Numbers, Sons & Daughters and Feist will be sharing opening duties, and Spoon will join Oberst and co. for a hometown gig in Omaha on November 11. Shout out for “The Calendar Hung Itself” at these places and times:

10-22 Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl *
10-24 Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Civic Center *
10-26 Reno, NV - Reno Hilton *
10-27 Davis, CA - Freeborn Hall *
10-29 Mountain View, CA - Bridge School Benefit
10-30 Mountain View, CA - Bridge School Benefit *
10-31 Arcata, CA - Humboldt State University *
11-02 Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre *
11-03 Bellingham, WA - Mt. Baker Theatre *
11-04 Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre *
11-05 Missoula, MT - University Theatre *
11-06 Salt Lake City, UT - Kingsbury Hall *
11-07 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theatre *
11-08 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theatre (E Town Live)
11-09 Fargo, ND - Playmakers Pavilion
11-10 Iowa City, IA - Memorial Union (University of Iowa)
11-11 Omaha, NE - Orpheum Theatre $
11-12 St Louis, MO - The Pageant
11-13 Bloomington, IN - IU Auditorium
11-14 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium #
11-15 Louisville, KY - W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre #
11-16 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre #
11-17 Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolf Auditorium #
11-18 Washington, DC - Constitution Hall #
11-19 Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music #
11-20 Portland, ME - Merrill Auditorium #
11-21 Buffalo, NY - Center for Arts (University of Buffalo) #
11-23 Concord, NH - Capital Center for the Arts #
11-25 Jersey City, NJ - Loews Theatre #
11-26 Jersey City, NJ - Loews Theatre #

* with Sons & Daughters
$ with Spoon
# with Feist, Magic Numbers

[floatingdown]

what?!? no los angeles dates???

for shame, conor!!!:mad:

[floatingdown]

haha, okay...despite my last post, i just got some kick-ass seats for the cali show :bop:

who else is going to any of these shows?

i can't wait!

[Mypocketsmellikepot]

I wanna go to the iowa show, since its at a college can you still go even if you are not a student?

[bellefleur]

i'm going tonight to the eugene show..!! oh yes

[liquorforblood]

Please let us know what they played!!

thanks liquorforblood

Originally posted by bellefleur
i'm going tonight to the eugene show..!! oh yes

[bellefleur]

Originally posted by liquorforblood
Please let us know what they played!!

thanks liquorforblood

ahh sorry, i don't have too much of their stuff so i couldn't tell you all of it. they started off with sunrise, sunset and they played some stuff off of i'm wide awake it's morning, though. in the encore m ward came on and played with them. it was awesome.

[ramblingrose]

I hate lucky Americans.

[Fab]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
I hate lucky Americans. x2, I would have killed to see M Ward, Jim Jams and Captain Oberst on the same bill. I even emailed Saddle Creek to ask if they'd ever play over here and they told me there was not a hope in hell (actual words):( .

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Fab
x2, I would have killed to see M Ward, Jim Jams and Captain Oberst on the same bill. I even emailed Saddle Creek to ask if they'd ever play over here and they told me there was not a hope in hell (actual words):( .

Who wrote the email? Surely not Thomas, he's lovely and would never use such language. He rang me up once.

[Fab]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
Who wrote the email? Surely not Thomas, he's lovely and would never use such language. He rang me up once. rang you up? golly! Did he want sex? He sends me free stuff though, so I'm a happy bunny. I don't remember who it was actually, might still be in my emails but I doubt it. Wasn't Jeff neither.

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Fab
rang you up? golly! Did he want sex? He sends me free stuff though, so I'm a happy bunny. I don't remember who it was actually, might still be in my emails but I doubt it. Wasn't Jeff neither.
He didn't seem like he wanted any sex. He doesn't send me any free stuff either, apart from a load of Cursive badges once. He likes you better! It was a bit embarassing because the conversation concerned breasts. He was really polite and sweet though.

[Fab]

why was he calling you again?

oh my, I just checked my audioscrobbler page and apparently Bright Eyes is only my 21st most played artist! He's even behind Broken Spindles! Probably not overall though, since it doesn't take into account stuff I listen to on my iPod.

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Fab
why was he calling you again?

oh my, I just checked my audioscrobbler page and apparently Bright Eyes is only my 21st most played artist! He's even behind Broken Spindles! Probably not overall though, since it doesn't take into account stuff I listen to on my iPod.

It was to do with a Rilo Kiley shirt, they only had really small ones and I was concerned my bosoms wouldn't go in them (they do). I told him it was for "a friend" though.
I can't get to grips with Audioscrobbler because I'm a retard.

[Fab]

it took me so long to work it out, and when I did I found out it had been logging my stuff for months because I'd tried to install it but thought it hadn't worked when it had.

glad to hear about your bosoms :yes:

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Fab
glad to hear about your bosoms :yes:
gah, they're a mixed blessing and that's for sure.

[floatingdown]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
gah, they're a mixed blessing and that's for sure.

yup, i so hear ya...

[Mypocketsmellikepot]

saw him last night and I pushed my way to the 2nd row haha. The show was pretty good. I liked how he started off the show. It started off with harp being played very softly and beautifully and then after about a minute of this it kicked into sunrise sunset. For the encore he did "Lets not shit ourselves" and the place was going pretty crasy.

[Silence]

Originally posted by Fab
x2, I would have killed to see M Ward, Jim Jams and Captain Oberst on the same bill. I even emailed Saddle Creek to ask if they'd ever play over here and they told me there was not a hope in hell (actual words):( .

Conor will never play in the UK?
or do you mean M Ward, Jim and Conor as a three piece will never play in the UK?

[Mister Grieves]

I don't often post here, but I just got back from the Concord, NH show and I thought I'd post a list of what I remember (in no order)

Sunrise, Sunset
The Calendar Hung Itself
Old Soul Song
Lua
Something Vague
Gold Mine Gutted
Napoleon's Hat
Bowl of Oranges
You Will
Falling Out of Love at This Volume
And a few others I can't remember

Encore:
First Day of My Life
True Blue
Lets not Shit Ourselves

He also did a rap, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Feist was amazing too.

[Fab]

Originally posted by Silence
Conor will never play in the UK?
or do you mean M Ward, Jim and Conor as a three piece will never play in the UK? Conor's played in the UK loads of times, though I'm starting to worry about a Digital Ash tour. But yeah, it was the M Ward, Jim Jams and Conor tour that I asked about, I do love Jim Jams.
Oh, and they did the Harp thing when I saw them last year in Manchester, it was kinda funny though because they were just about to get it going properly when they realised that Conor's guitar wasn't making any noise. I say funny... maybe you had to be there :darn:

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Fab
Oh, and they did the Harp thing when I saw them last year in Manchester, it was kinda funny though because they were just about to get it going properly when they realised that Conor's guitar wasn't making any noise. I say funny... maybe you had to be there :darn:

maybe you should have been there but for some reason people decided to entrust you to buy the tickets and you forgot.:(

[Redroses9]

Wow I went to see Bright eyes last night it was awesome...the last night of the the tour... he said his parents were there and they waved. the setlist was pretty much the same and I had just gotten fevers and mirrors and I think sunrise, sunset is my favorite song so it was nice they opened with it...gret show conor Thanks

[Fab]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
maybe you should have been there but for some reason people decided to entrust you to buy the tickets and you forgot.:( You didn't miss much. Best time I saw Bright Eyes was at Joseph's Well. OMG CONOR WALKED RIGHT PAST ME!!

[ramblingrose]

That was a great gig indeed. He didn't walk right past me at that one but I did have a rather embarrassing moment at the met where my friend tried to make me go talk to him and I fell over a load of chairs and he looked at me all sympathetically, and then I fell over a load more chairs in my haste to get away. That's not the Conor story I'd like to be able to tell but it's the true one.:-o

[ramblingrose]

ps isn't he little?

[Fab]

He's TINY! I was 15 at the time (now you feel ancient, yes?) and he was smaller than me! At least he'll probably remember you and not in the way he remembers who who to avoid.

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Fab
He's TINY! I was 15 at the time (now you feel ancient, yes?) and he was smaller than me! At least he'll probably remember you and not in the way he remembers who who to avoid.

[Fab]

I don't understand your eyes thing.

[ramblingrose]

I was trying to convey disappointment at Conor's lack of height (not that I'm heightist but anyway), horror at my ancientness and double horror that he might one day tap me on the shoulder and say "you're that stupid idiot who fell over a load of chairs, oh and by the way you are SO OLD and you're not so tall yourself."

[Fab]

I'm sure he found your lack of coordination endearing.

[ramblingrose]

He did look quite amused, once he'd stopped looking concerned.

[thinkimjusthapy]

Oh, I was there on opening night and I wanted to come and share about it but I lost my blammo password and found it this morning!!


Dear god was it wonderful..... (the show not the password)

After he played The Calender Hung itself I yelled out "thank you!" and he looked right at me and whispered "You're welcome" into the microphone. It was unexpected, definetely.

[floatingdown]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
I was trying to convey disappointment at Conor's lack of height (not that I'm heightist but anyway), horror at my ancientness and double horror that he might one day tap me on the shoulder and say "you're that stupid idiot who fell over a load of chairs, oh and by the way you are SO OLD and you're not so tall yourself."

really dumb question, but just how tall is he?

[Fab]

my guess would be around 5'7", certainly less than 5'10"

[ramblingrose]

I'd agree, he's about the same size as my dad.

[floatingdown]

muchos gracias :)