Category: Interviews

Big Star Looks Forward Despite Years

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Jon interview on Billboard.com – full story here.

“We had no expectations,” Auer tells Billboard.com of the recording sessions, “and I think we came up with a pretty credible record. It’s impossible, of course, to compete with the original Big Star, but it’s pretty crazy that a band that broke up 30 years ago made a new record.”

US Tour Takes Shape; Press Round-Up

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The Posies’ 28 September show at Maxwell’s in New Jersey is on sale at Ticketweb now, and their 8 September show at the Knitting Factory in California (with Matt Harris’ band Oranger opening) goes on sale tonight. Click here to visit Ticketweb. In addition, they will be playing Bumbershoot in Seattle during labor day weekend (September 2-5). Tickets are on sale now, and the full line-up will be announced this Friday.

The band was interviewed by Ethan and James at Three Imaginary Girls the night of their peformance at the Seattle International Film Festival; you can read the interview here.

Some recent foreign press… thanks to Amandine, Maako, and Andre for sending these in!:

*French: Xsilence.net
*Finnish: Desilbeli.net & Nojesguiden.fi
*Dutch: Fileunder.net – Jon interviewed, with photos by David Belisle & Fileunder.nl – review

European tour kicks off in 5 days!

Jon and Ken interviewed about the new album

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From May 17th.

In contrast to the painstaking production of previous Posies platters such as Dear 23 (1990) and Frosting On The Beater (1993), Every Kind Of Light is characterized by the immediacy and excitement of great live rock and roll. “We recorded the majority of this music as four people playing off each other in a room together,” says Jon, “and we tried to keep as much as possible of what we initially put down as a group.”

“Pretty much what you hear on this record is the first or second time we played the music all the way through,” Ken adds, “and it really shows. It’s alive.”

Read the entire article here.

Guardian of a message

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His work is a continuum, claims the 36-year-old Stringfellow, who’s stayed on in Australia for a string of solo dates following the recent REM national tour.

“I’m definitely interesting in accomplishing a lot,” Stringfellow says. “I’ve been trying to find an overarching mission in my life, trying to propel communication of a certain direct emotion between people.

“I’m so into it that I put myself in situations where I do that all the time, whether it’s helping REM with their message, or doing my own thing, or doing the Posies thing.”

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What’s the frequency, Ken?

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KEN STRINGFELLOW and EVEN
Annandale Hotel, 17 Parramatta Road, Annandale
Sunday, 8pm
$18
Bookings 9550 1078

‘Where in the crap is Ken Stringfellow?” screams the headline on a page of the singer-songwriter’s website. The answer, last week, was playing with REM.

This week, he’s supporting his mates, Melbourne guitar-rockers Even. Stringfellow agrees the page sums up his “they seek him here, they seek there” reputation.

“Yes, I’m constantly on the move with things I’m doing,” he says. “The first half of last year was about making records; the rest of this year and the first half of next year, those records are emerging, so I’ll see where they take me.”

Stringfellow has been a permanent touring member of REM since the late-’90s Up album tour and he contributed to the album Reveal, the Man on the Moon soundtrack and last year’s Around the Sun. He co-founded the respected American guitar-poppers the Posies, whose new album is due out this year.

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