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champions league-friendly stagetimes for JEFFREY LEWIS' show at CrawDaddy tonight Wed 29th April
Ugly Megan 8:30 – 8:50
Don’t Move! 9:00 – 9:30
Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard 9:50 – 11:10
tickets for the show are just €14 and include entry to midweek indie haven Antics afterwards.
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard play Crawdaddy this Wednesday 29th April. Jeffrey, along with brother Jack, drummer Dave, and Dave's partner Fletcher, join up as a 4-piece band touring Jeffrey’s fifth and newly released album Em Are I. Support will come from their friends Don’t Move!
Em Are I was released April 20th through Rough Trade. Some praise for the album below.
'His comic-book sensibilities burst from the record with Technicolour verve' - NME
'...2009 should continue to see young Mr Lewis sweeping up old and new hearts alike across the world's underground.' - Bearded
'One of America's funniest, most sincere songwriters' - The Guardian
'A gem from a songwriter hitting his stride. ...Easily his best work yet' - Guitarist Magazine
‘…he's become spectacularly good at devising melodies that really snag your ear….he sounds like an artist really coming into his own’ – guardian.co.uk
‘Easily the most engaging figure to arise from 2001's "anti-folk" scene in New York, Jeffrey Lewis has since acquired a skiffle-ish backing band, and is rightly making waves’ – Telegraph.co.uk
Antifolk tragi-comic singer/songwriter and graphic storytelling aficionado from New York City.
Jeffrey Lewis began his career in the 90s playing open mic events and antifolk festivals at New York’s Sidewalk Cafe along with the likes of Kimya Dawson and Major Matt Mason USA.
Since then he has released four extraordinary albums on Rough Trade Records. Recently he has been writing for the New York Times online Op-Ed page Measure for Measure and lecturing on his senior thesis subject of the Alan Moore graphic novel “Watchmen”.
POD Concerts presents
JEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNKYARD
Support: Don’t Move!
Wednesday April 29th
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €14/17 available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.thejeffreylewissite.com
www.myspace.com/jefflewisband
Born Jeffrey Lightning Lewis in New York City, November 1975, Jeff grew up with loving beatnik parents in an East 9th St tenement. Having no television in the household, young Jeff became a comic book fanatic before he even knew how to read. His brother Jack was born in 1980. After graduating New York State University at Purchase in 1997 (with a Literature degree and a senior thesis written on the comic book "Watchmen") Jeff spent the lonely winter of 97/98 starving in a 150$ a month illegal co-op sublet, listening to lots of scratchy Pearls Before Swine and Donovan records, and making up some musically minimalist songs on an old guitar belonging to his dad.
Subsequently, spring of 1998 found Jeff playing at Lach's Monday night Anti-hoot open mics, and that summer friend/mentor Whip (of Timesbold) assisted the recording of 11 of Jeff's solo acoustic songs onto a 4-track tape, to which Jeff added two bedroom-recordings of songs sung by brother Jack, who had recently picked up playing electric bass. The resulting 13-song cassette "Indie-Rock Fortune Cookie" (the title a spin-off of the 1960s Blues Magoos records "Psychedelic Lollipop" and "Electric Comic Book") was packaged with a photocopied miniature comic book and sold for $3 at Jeff's soon semi-monthly gigs at the Sidewalk Cafe.
In 2001 Adam Green and Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches made a CD of 8 songs selected from Jeff's first two cassette albums and passed it along to Geoff Travis at Rough Trade Records in England, beginning a chain of events which lead to the September 2001 UK release of "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and other favorites" a 10-song CD culled from 2 years of Jeff (and Jack) Lewis' DIY recordings. Jeff has since released three further albums on Rough Trade.
With brother Jack on bass and David Beauchamp on drums, the Jeffrey Lewis Band mixes 60s acoustic psychedelia like Pearls Before Swine with the experimental art-punk of the Fall and the urban lyricism of Lou Reed, sounding a bit like if Woody Guthrie fronted Sonic Youth. Live shows also incorporate "low budget videos", Jeff’s large illustrations displayed to accompany certain songs
The Jeffrey Lewis Band has toured the US, UK and Europe, sharing bills with Steven Malkmus & the Jicks, Devendra Banhart, Black Dice, Thurston Moore, the Fall, Beth Orton, Frank Black, the Fiery Furnaces, Daniel Johnston, Scout Niblett, the Mountain Goats, the Moldy Peaches, Cornershop, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Wooden Wand, the Cribs, the Danielson Famile, Dr. Dog and others.
Their last album Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs, released by Rough Trade in late 2007, is a collection of songs by the legendary anarchist punk band Crass, reworked by Jeffrey into glorious folk, rock, psychedelic, orchestral and electronica productions which dazzle the ear while losing none of the political power of the originals. For the recording of 12 Crass Songs Lewis was joined by Helen Schreiner on back up vocals.
12 Crass Songs follows in the footsteps of the critically acclaimed Jeffrey & Jack Lewis: City & Eastern Songs, which was produced by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Butthole Surfers, Low, Daniel Johnston, etc) and was selected as one of 2006's best albums in Time Out NY, the Boston Globe, CMJ Monthly and elsewhere. Jeffrey's most recent comic book series Fuff is currently up to issue seven.
Ugly Megan 8:30 – 8:50
Don’t Move! 9:00 – 9:30
Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard 9:50 – 11:10
tickets for the show are just €14 and include entry to midweek indie haven Antics afterwards.
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard play Crawdaddy this Wednesday 29th April. Jeffrey, along with brother Jack, drummer Dave, and Dave's partner Fletcher, join up as a 4-piece band touring Jeffrey’s fifth and newly released album Em Are I. Support will come from their friends Don’t Move!
Em Are I was released April 20th through Rough Trade. Some praise for the album below.
'His comic-book sensibilities burst from the record with Technicolour verve' - NME
'...2009 should continue to see young Mr Lewis sweeping up old and new hearts alike across the world's underground.' - Bearded
'One of America's funniest, most sincere songwriters' - The Guardian
'A gem from a songwriter hitting his stride. ...Easily his best work yet' - Guitarist Magazine
‘…he's become spectacularly good at devising melodies that really snag your ear….he sounds like an artist really coming into his own’ – guardian.co.uk
‘Easily the most engaging figure to arise from 2001's "anti-folk" scene in New York, Jeffrey Lewis has since acquired a skiffle-ish backing band, and is rightly making waves’ – Telegraph.co.uk
Antifolk tragi-comic singer/songwriter and graphic storytelling aficionado from New York City.
Jeffrey Lewis began his career in the 90s playing open mic events and antifolk festivals at New York’s Sidewalk Cafe along with the likes of Kimya Dawson and Major Matt Mason USA.
Since then he has released four extraordinary albums on Rough Trade Records. Recently he has been writing for the New York Times online Op-Ed page Measure for Measure and lecturing on his senior thesis subject of the Alan Moore graphic novel “Watchmen”.
POD Concerts presents
JEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNKYARD
Support: Don’t Move!
Wednesday April 29th
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €14/17 available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.thejeffreylewissite.com
www.myspace.com/jefflewisband
Born Jeffrey Lightning Lewis in New York City, November 1975, Jeff grew up with loving beatnik parents in an East 9th St tenement. Having no television in the household, young Jeff became a comic book fanatic before he even knew how to read. His brother Jack was born in 1980. After graduating New York State University at Purchase in 1997 (with a Literature degree and a senior thesis written on the comic book "Watchmen") Jeff spent the lonely winter of 97/98 starving in a 150$ a month illegal co-op sublet, listening to lots of scratchy Pearls Before Swine and Donovan records, and making up some musically minimalist songs on an old guitar belonging to his dad.
Subsequently, spring of 1998 found Jeff playing at Lach's Monday night Anti-hoot open mics, and that summer friend/mentor Whip (of Timesbold) assisted the recording of 11 of Jeff's solo acoustic songs onto a 4-track tape, to which Jeff added two bedroom-recordings of songs sung by brother Jack, who had recently picked up playing electric bass. The resulting 13-song cassette "Indie-Rock Fortune Cookie" (the title a spin-off of the 1960s Blues Magoos records "Psychedelic Lollipop" and "Electric Comic Book") was packaged with a photocopied miniature comic book and sold for $3 at Jeff's soon semi-monthly gigs at the Sidewalk Cafe.
In 2001 Adam Green and Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches made a CD of 8 songs selected from Jeff's first two cassette albums and passed it along to Geoff Travis at Rough Trade Records in England, beginning a chain of events which lead to the September 2001 UK release of "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and other favorites" a 10-song CD culled from 2 years of Jeff (and Jack) Lewis' DIY recordings. Jeff has since released three further albums on Rough Trade.
With brother Jack on bass and David Beauchamp on drums, the Jeffrey Lewis Band mixes 60s acoustic psychedelia like Pearls Before Swine with the experimental art-punk of the Fall and the urban lyricism of Lou Reed, sounding a bit like if Woody Guthrie fronted Sonic Youth. Live shows also incorporate "low budget videos", Jeff’s large illustrations displayed to accompany certain songs
The Jeffrey Lewis Band has toured the US, UK and Europe, sharing bills with Steven Malkmus & the Jicks, Devendra Banhart, Black Dice, Thurston Moore, the Fall, Beth Orton, Frank Black, the Fiery Furnaces, Daniel Johnston, Scout Niblett, the Mountain Goats, the Moldy Peaches, Cornershop, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Wooden Wand, the Cribs, the Danielson Famile, Dr. Dog and others.
Their last album Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs, released by Rough Trade in late 2007, is a collection of songs by the legendary anarchist punk band Crass, reworked by Jeffrey into glorious folk, rock, psychedelic, orchestral and electronica productions which dazzle the ear while losing none of the political power of the originals. For the recording of 12 Crass Songs Lewis was joined by Helen Schreiner on back up vocals.
12 Crass Songs follows in the footsteps of the critically acclaimed Jeffrey & Jack Lewis: City & Eastern Songs, which was produced by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Butthole Surfers, Low, Daniel Johnston, etc) and was selected as one of 2006's best albums in Time Out NY, the Boston Globe, CMJ Monthly and elsewhere. Jeffrey's most recent comic book series Fuff is currently up to issue seven.
