Madrid le Blanc

(click the image to be taken to a gallery of photos from all three nights)


Thank you Jesús for making this whole shindig happen, my hat off to you for working tirelessly to pull of such a wonderful festival.

Andrew King and John Murphy for your conversations and interviewing with me on such short notice.

Many thanks to Simon Collins - I am so happy that we met. Dimo, Thomas, Gerhard, it's a pleasure as always. Marco, it was a joy talking with you, and I am sad that we could not have had more time together - stupid spanish payphones.
To the bands, thank you!
Arnica - You were, without a doubt the biggest and most welcomed surprise of the festival!

Also a big thanks to PortaBrace for making such a great hardcase! Without their case, those baggage handlers would have broken my camera 100 times over.


I will try to write more about the festival when I can - With this, as well as the footage from the Novemthree, A Minority of One, Waldteufel and Fauna show in Seattle, and the additional Bain Wolfkind footage, I have over 40 hours of footage to edit through.

Changes!

This may be the most excited I've been in a long while. I'll be filming Changes on June 21st in Philadelphia at David E. Williams' Germ Books.

Hurray!

I'm very grateful to Nicholas, Robert and David for providing me this opportunity. I cannot express how wonderful this really is.

Also a huge thank you to Scott Broderick  for making me aware of this show. It's going to be great!

Updates

As mentioned on Bain Wolfkind's myspace blog(here) I shall be editing additional footage onto the upcoming dvd release, featuring live footage and intimate (.... maybe not the best word to use) interview footage and a photo slideshow. There were brief talks with Albin Julius of releasing it through HauRuck!, however the dvd needs to find itself in finished form before anything further can be worked out.

I hope to have news of a release date within the next two months.


Other news - Due to a very frustrating manufacture error, 3 out of 5 sets of my new years eve footage from Leipzig were rendered basically unusable. In conclusion - DO NOT BUY ZOOM AUDIO RECORDERS.

Madrid in may I hope. Die Weisse Rose, Andrew King, Foresta Di Ferro, KnifeLadder, Allerseelen, Svarrogh and other awesome acts (understatement). I'm really hoping everything works out for that, for it's going to be a satanically weekend!

If Madrid doesn't work out - or even if it does and I can get my planning spot on - I'll be headed to Seattle for a Waldteufel and A Minority of One show at the Northwest Folklife Festival.

In Leipzig

I've arrived here in Leipzig. After missed flights, misplaced baggage and the usual airport insanity and chaos I'm happy to say that all is well for the most part.

Tomorrow evening is the New Year's event at Hellraiser which I mentioned previously. It's going to be an extremely busy day as I will begin shooting interviews around 9:30 in the morning and will be working basically non-stop until the evening is through.

Tuesday will be a day of relaxation before heading off to Berlin - the day will be spent between the St. Thomas Church/J.S. Bach Museum, the botanical garden, and the Naturkundemuseum.