Want to be in the new Titus Andronicus Video? Those humble gentlemen from Glen Rock sent out the following Myspace message asking for your help (this Monday – probably today depending on when you’re reading this – April 6). Read on, and get ye to a silent barn…
Our masters at eXtra Large Recordings have decided that the audiotory elements of Titus Andronicus are not doing the job as far as moving units is concerned, and so we must enter the visual world in the form of a music video for our forthcoming UK single, “Upon Viewing Brueghel’s ‘Landscape and the Fall of Icarus.’”
Since the men of Titus Andronicus are all ugly bastards, we humbly request yr presence at Silent Barn on this coming Monday (this is where we are going to make the video), so that you, in all yr beauty, can dance and throw confetti and pretend that Titus Andronicus are actually playing music instead of just pretending. In this way, perhaps we can manipulate the record-buying public into allowing us to seperate them from their hard-earned money, the fools.
The prancing around will begin at around 4:30 PM and continue long into the evening. If any of you still have jobs for some reason, or some other obligation to see to, it will be perfectly fine in you want to come at a time after 4:30 PM. Nobody will think ill of you. We just desire yr presence in whatever way it may manifest itself.
We ask with the utmost humility that you come equipped with either a white or black t-shirt and pants.
No print on them please – a shirt turned inside out would be okay!Also, please feel free to invite all yr friends so that we can create the illusion that everyone loves us.
This is all happening at Silent Barn, which can be reached by taking the L Train to Halsey, or by taking the M to Myrtle/Wyckoff. Here is Silent Barn on Google Maps.
Okay, that’s all. Please come, or our self esteem will suffer irreparable damage.
Try having that on yr conscience!”
Sounds like fun! Of course, the boys are on tour. Read on after the jump for dates with Lucero and Ted Leo (separately)!
Apr 9 Off Broadway St. Louis, Missouri * [get tickets]
Apr 10 Metro Chicago, Illinois *
Apr 11 The Majestic Theatre Detroit, Michigan *
Apr 12 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, Ontario *
Apr 14 Mohawk Place Buffalo, New York *
Apr 15 Pearl Street Downstairs Northampton, Massachusetts *
Apr 16 The Paradise Boston, Massachusetts *
Apr 17 We are not playing at the First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ???? [get tickets?]
Apr 18 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York *
Apr 19 Black Cat Washington, Washington DC *
Apr 21 Outback Lodge Charlottesville, Virginia *
Apr 22 123 Pleasant Street Morgantown, West Virginia *
Apr 23 Southgate House Newport, Kentucky * [get tickets]
Apr 24 Radio Radio Indianapolis, Indiana * [get tickets]
Apr 25 Headliners Louisville, Kentucky * [get tickets]
Jun 8 Ottobar Baltimore %
Jun 9 Canal Club Richmond, Virginia %
Jun 10 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, North Carolina %
Jun 11 40 Watt Club Athens, Georgia %
Jun 12 Bottle tree Birmingham, Alabama %
Jun 15 Southgate House Newport, Kentucky %
Jun 16 Diesel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania % [get tickets]
Jun 19 Toads Place New Haven, Connecticut %
Jun 20 AS220 Providence, Rhode Island %
* w/Lucero
% w/Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
