How Those Days Just Disappear.

Poster from The Lucksmiths farewell concert, 2009.

I woke you up to say goodbye.

The Lucksmiths, my favorite band that's still together, have decided to break up. I've seen them play four times, and the last time I saw them, when they closed with "The Year of Driving Langourously" I knew I might never see them again.

Also, Motopizza, home of the $5 pizza on 82nd in Portland, has closed.

I'm not sure how I can carry on.

Here are the lyrics to "the year of driving langourously:"

Darling roll the window down
I can't breathe
And I want to feel the northerly down my sleeve
I love a sunburnt elbow pointing to the sea

And, darling, can't you find us something on the radio?
A song to pass the time
Sweet and slow
Conversation was forsaken long ago

It's getting worse
You've hardly said a word
Since you set eyes on the horizon
But I've seen the other side of that ocean there
And it can't compare

Has it really been a year?
How did those days just disappear?

We held our breath across each bridge
Til we were blue
But I wonder if I wished the same as you
Like a ten-year-old pretending
Summer isn't really ending

It's getting worse
You've hardly said a word
Since you set eyes on the horizon
But I've seen the other side of that ocean there
And it can't compare to this
So I'll steal another kiss
Before the sun goes down on this fibrotown
And we give chase
Like all those other days
I suppose it's no surprise
We drive, time flies

Has it really been a year?
Where the hell do we go from here?

New LUCKSMITHS album

The Lucksmiths, my favorite band that is still banded together, have a new album. It's entitled "First Frost" and it's hitting my Discman and headphones in November 2008.

http://www.indiepages.com/matinee/catalog.html?id=cd049

The track listing is:

The Town and The Hills
Good Light
A Sobering Thought (Just When One Was Needed)
California In Popular Song
South-East Coastal Rendezvous
The National Mitten Registry
Day Three of Five
Never and Always
Lament of the Chiming Wedgebill
How We Met
Song of the Undersea
Up With The Sun
Pines
Who Turned on the Lights?

The Lucksmiths cheer me up. I can't wait to hear this.

Lucksmiths return to USA!

The Lucksmiths are coming back to the USA this September to play shows. Though no tour is confirmed, my sources have these shows listed so far:

Seattle's Crocodile Cafe on September 24, 2007. LINK
Washington DC at DC 9 - September 30, 2007. LINK

That's not all! The Lucksmiths have a new double CD coming out entitled "Spring a leak" which, like "Where were we?" collects b-sides and rare tracks from the last few years. Reportedly, this is going to be 45 songs. After that they are going to do a new single and a new album. All these will be released in the United States on Matinee Records and elsewhere on Mark from the Lucksmiths own Lost and Lonesome Recording Company.

One track from "Spring a leak" is up for RA streaming on Matinee's site. It's a cover of their fellow Australians' band The Sugargliders' track "Dolly." I highly reccomend this track!!!