Mercury Rev are doing a 'Deserters Songs' tour next month- I was going to buy a ticket for it, but spent my money on Yo La Tengo instead, when I found out they were playing. Does anyone know if they plan on performing much non-Deserters Songs material?
Outside of YLT, I'm planning on seeing Drive By Truckers and have tickets for Simone Felice and Loudon Wainwright III- am particularly excited about the latter.
I saw a Josh T Pearson set last week and wasn't at all impressed by it, in spite of quite liking the album. There was far too much tedious between song chat ("It takes a lot for a Texan to be smart- just look at George W Bush!") and he seemed to play without any real focus, but rather in a self-important, meandering way. The fact that he wasn't suited to a packed, standing only venue didn't help.
Fuck it, I'm going to buy a Mercury Rev ticket right now.