Royal News
The news page: I
try to update this page as soon as I can when there's news.
Anyone who has some news about Will Oldham or related bands can
send it to me and I'll add it.
Updated 26/09/20
Old
news
06-08/11/20 Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Folk Festival
(this was supposed to take place in April: reschedule info)
Old tourdates:
10/06/20 Folk Medicine live stream benefit
concert for the people of the Amazon.
Listen and look back here
With Bonnie Prince Billy, Mariee Sioux, Devendra Banhart,
Santiparro and many more artists. More
info here
14/05/20 Los Angeles, CA,
The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood (info) cancelled
15/05/20 Los Angeles, CA, The Masonic Lodge at
Hollywood (info) (w Emmett Kelly) cancelled
07/04/20 Miami, FL, Books
& Books (cancelled)
31/03/20 Jersey City, NJ, WFMU-FM interview pt.1
(listen)
07/04/20 Jersey City, NJ, WFMU-FM interview pt.2
Bonnie Prince Billy (with Emmett Kelly) / Jonathan Richman (with
Tommy Larkin)
05/03/20 Bloomington, IN, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
06/03/20 Nelsonville, OH, Stuart’s Opera
House (check)
07/03/20 Washington, DC, Lincoln Theatre (review)
08/03/20 Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer (check)
09/03/20 New York, NY, Town Hall (review)
11/03/20 New Haven, CT, College Street Music Hall
12/03/20 Providence, RI, Columbus Theatre (check)(cancelled)
13/03/20 Portland, ME, State Theatre (check)
14/03/20 Northampton, MA, Academy of Music
Theatre (cancelled)
14/03/20 Louisville, KY, ARTxFM show (check)
15/03/20 Rochester, NY, Montage Music Hall (w
Emmett Kelly & Crush the Junta) (cancelled)
21/02/20 Louisville, KY,
Headliners, Wink Aid: The F*ck Cancer Fundraiser with Juanita
& Will Oldham, Freakwater, Jaye Jayle, Parlour, The Get Down
& Dj Ricky Feathe (info)
08/02/20 Louisville, KY, Columbia Theatre, Voix
De Vill 2020: A variety show celebrating of four years of WXOX
97.1 FM (info)
With special musical appearances from the Signifying Wolf
Bonnie Prince Billy & Friends
31/01/20 Louisville, KY, Guestroom Records (info)
17/01/20 Pittsburgh, PA, The Rangos Giant Cinema,
Matewan – 4K Restoration screening, Featuring a Q&A with
Will Oldham and Bill O’Driscoll (info)
18/01/20 Pittsburgh, PA, White Whale Bookstore
(book signing and live performance) (check)
18/01/20 Pittsburgh, PA, Beach Bum screening at
Harris Theater, Will Oldham will present Beach Bum by Harmony
Korine.
The screening will kick off with a short video directed by Korine
for Oldham’s song, “No More Workhorse Blues.
25-26/11/19 Chicago, IL, 24
hour Improv (check)(tickets)
With Steve Albini, Ty Segall, Sally Timms, Yo La Tengo and many
more
16/11/19 Louisville, KY, Surface
Noise (with Matt Sweeney, playing all new songs)
14/11/19 Louisville, KY,
Louisville Free Public Library – Alanna Nash & Will
Oldham in conversation (check)
12/09/19 Morehead, KY,
CoffeeTree Books (check)
24/08/19 Asheville, NC,
Transfiguration III Festival (look here)
14/08/19
Lexington, KY, Lyric Theatre Shell-Bon-Sals trio played a
mini-set at Woodsongs; airs in September
Trio rearranges for Bonnie “Prince” Billy maxi-set at
Transfigurations 3 in Asheville
13/06/19 Los
Angeles, CA, Family Bookstore, (it seems that) Will Oldham uses a
random number generator to choose songs from the lyric book to
sing or read or talk about in this performance and book signing
17/05/19 Louisville, KY,
Speed Art Museum, an intimate performance with Will Oldham
featuring his new book Stories and Songs of Love and Horror (info)
•A
new Will
Oldham song will appear on
the soundtrack album of Once Upon A River. Always Bound can be heard here. To be released October 23 (18/09/20)
•Three
Queens In Mourning & Bonnie Prince Billy - Hello Sorrow Hello Joy is available now (02/07/20)
•Just released: Universal Prayer by Golden Spine.
Bonnie
Prince Billy (amongst
others) sings along on two songs on the album (thanks
Charles)(28/05/20)
•Coming up in July: an album by Three Queens In Mourning & Bonnie Prince Billy - Hello Sorrow Hello Joy (thanks frankie)(22/05/20)
Three Queens in Mourning is Alasdair Roberts, Jill O'Sullivan and Alex Neilson.
Three Queens in Mourning will play Bonnie Prince Billy songs.
Bonnie Prince Billy will deliver an original song and a cover
from all three of the Queens.
It will be out on Textile Records, listen here to a few songs (25/05/20)
•Lift Up Louisville is a community sourced song written and performed
by 20+ musicians with ties to Louisville, Kentucky.
Among them is Will Oldham
singing along. All proceeds go to One Louisville: Covid-19 Response Fund (28/04/20)
•Joan Shelley released Live at the Bomhard, a theater in Louisville. The band is
great and Bonnie
Prince Billy is singing
along on a bunch of songs (14/04/20)
•New Superwolf single is out: You'll Get Eaten, Too - all proceeds to support Superiority
Burger and Drag City staff relief funds (27/03/20)
•Check out the video for New
Memory Box by Ben Berman. The song is treated with a hi-energy
remix by J
Dawg (thanks ray)(08/03/20)
•The second re-release of the Box of
Chocolates record from
1990 is coming through Drag City. It has 2 not before released
songs,
at least one sung by Will Oldham, listen here
(thanks Ger)(08/03/20)
•Listen to take me home (part 2) by Cabane featuring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & BostGehio. Bonnie sings on 5 songs on the album mentioned
below (08/02/20)
•Cabane will release their album Grande Est La Maison at the end of February. Bonnie Prince Billy and Kate Stables will be singing some songs on it (30/01/20)
•The new single is This Is Far From Over, to be released through Drag City on January 14 and through Domino on March 10 (17/01/20)
The b-side has a Carpenters cover We've Only Just Begun
Here's the video for the a-side by Olivia
Owens Wyatt
•I Made A Place will be released digitally on January 31
(17/01/20)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy mixtape Volume 6 is available through Bandcamp (07/12/19)
•Check out the video for Squid Eye from I Made A Place. On Spotify you can find another version of the
song: Squid Eye - Premix (17/11/19)
•Check out the video for In Good Faith, a song from the forthcoming album I Made A Place (thanks ray)(08/10/19)
Read about the song here
•Check out the video for “Victory Dance,” it is the theme song for Norton
Children’s Cancer
Institute’s Cancer Beats music therapy program.
The program aims to use the power of music to help our patients
affected by cancer.
It's a remix of a My Morning Jacket song. Will Oldham
sings along in the chorus (01/10/19)(thanks ray)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy mixtape Volume 5 is available through Bandcamp now (24/09/19)
•Listen to and look at the new Bonnie Prince Billy single At The Back Of The Pit. A new album I Made A Place will be released on November 15 through Drag City & Domino (thanks John)(10/09/19)
Read some about it here
•Listen to the Songhoy Blues song Time To Go Home, written by Will Oldham & Matt Sweeney.
On October18 it will be released on Meet Me In The City 12" (30/08/19)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy mixtapes Volume 3 and Volume 4 are available through Bandcamp (18/08/19)
•After mixtape Volume 1, mixtape Volume 2 is now available
on Bandcamp (16/07/19)
•Joan Shelley's new album Like The River Loves The Sea comes out on No Quarter on August 30: Will Oldham sings along on 2 songs (16/07/19)
•There's a new mixtape of miscellaneous older Bonnie Prince
Billy/Palace musics on Bandcamp now (27/06/19)
•On August 30 a collaborative album by Bonnie Prince Billy, Eighth Backbird and Bryce Dessner will come out. It is called When We Are Inhuman and features
a number of new Eighth Blackbird arrangements for Will Oldham
songs, as well as a new installment of Dessner’s Murder
Ballades series written for Eighth Blackbird.
Available through 37d03d (thanks Dan)
Read more about the album here and listen to the single (thanks ray)(21/06/19)
•For the 10th anniversary of the Lightning Dust album The Infinite Light, Will Oldham
recorded a version of Dreamer off that album.
Check here for more (12/06/19)
•Joan Shelley has a new single out: Coming Down For You. Bonnie Prince Billy is singing along (thanks ray)(12/06/19)
•A Bonnie
Prince Billy song is
featured on the soundtrack of new movie Once Upon A River by Haroula Rose.
It’s not clear whether this is new material or an existing
song (thanks ray)(10/05/19)
•Listen to Where My Heart’s Scared To Be, a new song by Bonnie Prince Billy in the T Magazine article Songs for America in 2024.
Along with Stephen Malkmus, Kelsey Lu and Meg Baird original songs are shared and inspired
by the theme of T’s Culture issue (thanks Dan)(15/04/19)
•A couple of months after recording I See a Darkness, Bob Arellano
and Will
Oldham returned to the same
studio with the same rhythm-section and created a full album
worth
of material as Havanarama.
At the time, they compiled about 9 tracks (originals &
covers) on a handmade CD-R titled Fish+Crabs.
For the first time this album is released on vinyl now on Inner Dunes: owner Levi Morris
loved the initial CDR album so much that he planned a
20th-anniversary version of the album.
As extra track there's an unreleased live version of West Palm Beach sung by Bob Arrellano and Will Oldham,
recorded in 2017. Check here (25/03/19)
•The mysterious Sundowners
are releasing a new 7" named Ancient Cares on April 5 through Sea Note. It is still unknown who the Sundowners are
(thanks ray)(10/03/19)
•Listen to Baptiste W. Hamon's version of Mon Capitaine feat. Will Oldham (thanks Robin)(24/02/19)
•Listen to the podcast One Nation Under Whisky, Season 4, Ep 16 of 23 September: Whisky and Music with Will Oldham (thanks ray)(26/09/20)
•On October 13 Mike Ayers's book One Last Song: Conversations on Life,
Death, and Music will be
released. Mike Ayers talks to musicians about what piece of music
they
want to accompany them on their journey to the afterlife. Will Oldham is one of the musicians who is
interviewed (thanks ray)(05/09/20)
•Listen to a new Bonnie Prince Billy demosong on The Deep End with Joey Mudd (show #334, around minute 20) (12/08/20)
•Here's a tribute to Viva Last Blues from France: A Decouvrir Absolument Hors Serie #15 -
Tribute To Palace
(thanks gdp)(12/08/20)
•Listen to a review of New Partner
on the episode "The Hall of Presidents & New Partner" of The Anthropocene Reviewed, from
March 28 2019 (thanks Jeff)(02/08/20)
•Here's an interview in Portugese with Will Oldham. Will mentions a duet album with Bill Callahan that they're working on (12/07/20)
•Dum Drugs plays a cover of No
More Workhorse Blues
(thank Ryan)(12/07/20)
•Check this Bonnie Trailer by Deeper Into Movies. Which can be seen on July 10, 11, 12
through ParadiseTV
(02/07/20)
•Listen to Wijzang from the new album, De Liefde Is De Eerste Wet, from Broeder Dieleman. It's a Dutch
translation of 2/15 from Get On Jolly by Bonny Billy & the Marquis de Tren
(30/05/20)
•Read an interview with Matt Sweeney. Amongst other items he speaks of the
collaboration with Will Oldham
(thanks ray)(28/05/20)
•Will
Oldham can be heard as
Bubble Man singing Mirror Man in episode 6 (Vulture With Honor)
of Duncan
Trussell’s animated
Netflix show The Midnight Gospel (thanks ray)(28/04/20)
•Already made in November 2019..; listen to the Apology podcast by Jesse Pearson with Will Oldham (thanks ray)(20/04/20)
•Louisville Academy of Music presents Songwriting with Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks
ray)(14/04/20)
•Listen on WFMU-FM
to part 2 of an interview with Will Oldham that took place on April 7
(thanks ray)(14/04/20)
•Listen on WFMU-FM
to part 1 of an interview with Will Oldham that took place on March 31.
Part 2 will take place on April 7 (thanks ray)(07/04/20)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy is one of the
artists who will play an on-line show for Band Together,
A benefit organisation raising funds for free food delivery to
those in need in the Santa Fe area (thanks ray)(07/04/20)
•You can listen to Bonnie Prince Billy who covers some songs to help us through this
Corona crisis (I guess), start here
(27/03/20)
•Max Porter talks to Max Liu about collaborating with Bonnie Prince Billy (27/03/20)
•Rough Trade Edition No. 35: It’s Going to be a Bright New Day:
Would You Rather, with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is Max Porter asking Will Oldham questions (thanks Tonnie)(09/03/20)
•Read an interview with Bonnie Prince Billy on Parklife DC (thanks ray)(09/03/20)
•WOUB speaks briefly with Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks ray)(09/03/20)
•Listen to NGF51 podcast: Will Oldham
of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and his Life’s Work
(thanks ray)(08/03/20)
•Read a re-posted interview with Bonnie Prince Billy from 2010 (thanks ray)(08/03/20)
•Listen to the ArtxFM show OhManYes! with Julie Gross
from january 28. Guest is Will Oldham
who is interviewed and plays a song (02/02/20)(thanks frankie)
•Listen on NTS to Bonnie "Prince" Billy who shares some of his favourite tracks
from Cat Power, Van Morrison & more (28/01/20)(thanks Tonnie)
•Read here:Will Oldham on Old Joy (thanks Jeff)(21/01/20)
•Read here song by song about I Made A Place (thanks frankie)(17/01/20)
•The new Louisville Is For Lovers Vol. 15 Dreaming In Love City will be released on February 4.
It has no music by Bonnie Prince Billy but there's a photo of him
in the accompanying calendar (17/01/20)
•Can You Make the Band Name Bigger? is a book documenting 15 years of the
poster art of Luke Drozd.
It contains a poster made for a Bonnie Prince Billy gig, incuding comments by Bonnie (thanks
Tor)(13/12/19)
•Hotel Magazine #6 has content by Will Oldham. Available for pre-order (09/12/19)
•Meg Samples has recently recorded with Bonnie Prince Billy and others (09/12/19)
•Drag City Limits presents Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Jacob Duncan performing I Have Made a Place, for a Steamroom Session (07/12/19)
•Read an interview in Exclaim! with Bonnie Prince Billy by Vish Khanna (thanks ray)(19/11/19)
•Listen to Edith Frost
covering I Send My Love To You, live in New York City in 1996 (thanks
Tonnie)(17/11/19)
•The December issue of Uncut has an interview with Bonnie Prince Billy (08/11/19)
•Bandcamp daily has ‘a guide to Will Oldham’s various personas’ (thanks ray)(08/11/19)
•Here's a John Sayles interview now Matewan has entered the Criterion Collection (thanks ray)(02/11/19)
•Joan
Shelley is interviewed by Marc Maron on his WTF Podcast, with talk about
Louisville and a small piece on Will Oldham (thanks Bradley)(02/11/19)
•On November 12 Jack
Carneal (who played
drums in the Anomoanon and in the Palace Brothers) will release Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives, a book with memoirs of playing in a
rock & roll band (thanks Bradley)(15/10/19)
•Listen to Mi Heim Es Et Meer by Köster & Hocker. It's on their album Fremde Feddere (10/09/19)
•Deathprod will release Occulting Disk on double vinyl October 25 via Smalltown Supersound. The liner notes are written by Will Oldham (thanks Coen)(30/08/19)
•Look at the clip for Joan Shelley's Fading,
featuring Will Oldham singing along (30/08/19)
•Here's an interview with the late David Berman and a Louisville Tribute by Will Oldham, Brett Ralph
and Tim Barnes (18/08/19)
•Listen to the song Bonnie by Cecilie Anna which is a tribute song to Will Oldham (18/08/19)
In October the song will appear on her album New Bird
•To be released in October on 2-DVD and Blue-Ray: Matewan by John Sayles. Will Oldham plays Danny Radnor (thanks Jerry)(23/07/19)
•Superwolf features on this rather weekly scotch / music pairing playlist from Scotch Whiskey (thanks ray)(23/07/19)
•Read about Jay Bolotin who is currently at work on The Book
of Only Enoch, a film featuring the voices of Will Oldham, Michael York, and others (thanks
ray)(16/07/19)
•The September issue of Uncut has an interview with Joan Shelley and has some Will Oldham quotes (thanks ray)(16/07/19)
•Will
Oldham is the narrator on
new documentary The Butterfly Trees. Screening in July on the Flyover Film Festival in Louisville (thanks ray)(21/06/19)
•Hands that Bind is a film written and co-directed by Kyle Armstrong. One of the faces in the film is Will Oldham.
The movie is currently filming near Hanna and Youngstown in
Canada (thanks ray)(20/05/19)
•Topology of Sirens - A Film by Jonathan Davies will feature, among many others, Will Oldham.
The movie will explore the musicality of Los Angeles' hidden
sights and sounds, with production commencing in summer 2019
(thanks ray)(20/05/19)
•Mojo magazine 307, of June 2019, contains a free CD with
the Will
Oldham song New Partner (probably from Songs of Love and
Horror)(20/05/19)
•Listen to The Deep End with Joey Mudd and Will Oldham. You can listen to a new BPB song there!
(12/05/19)
•Watch Alexis
Taylor play a live version
of Jolly One (2/15) (thanks Tonnie)(12/05/19)
•Jake Xerxes Fussell has a new album out named Out Of Sight. The album announcement comes with a statement from Bonnie Prince Billy espousing Fussell’s genius (thanks
ray)(08/04/19)
•Listen to an episode of CJ Boyd's podcast Worst Show Ever with Will Oldham telling a story of dishonesty and the aggravating
effects it can have on tour (thanks ray)(28/03/19)
•Here's an interview with Will Oldham talking Songs of Love and Horror in Leoweekly (thanks ray)(19/03/19)
•The whole of Palace’s spring 2019 lookbook is now
on-line and can be viewed here (thanks ray)(19/02/19)
Will Oldham features on pages 11, 12, 19 and 21.
•Check out the Palace Skateboards spring 2019 collection teaser (thanks
ray)(14/02/19)
•Read here an article about Elsa Hansen Oldham and her husband (30/01/19)
•Read here also about the 20th anniversary of I See A Darkness (thank Blair)(28/01/19)
•Read here about the 20th anniversary of I See A Darkness (thank ray)(25/01/19)
•Here's the original painting of the sleeve of the Bonnie Prince Billy/Naked
Shorsellers split single
(25/01/19)
•Listen here to ClifTones with JC Denison, Episode 40: Will Oldham/Bonnie
'Prince' Billy
(21/12/18)(thanks ray)
•December 14 at the Speed Art Museum: Screenings of the short mockumentary Beyond the Song, a forensic look at the classic novelty
song
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer directed by Brandon Shell,
produced by Tim Morton, and starring Will Oldham (thanks Tonnie)(10/12/18)
•Watch the first two episodes of The Shivering Truth now - and hear Will Oldham and Tunde Adebimpe in the end credits (10/12/18)
•Read this: Will Oldham
would rather be drinking with a brewer (thanks Coen)(30/11/18)
•Will Oldham talks Songs of Love and
Horror in Slant Magazine
(thanks ray)(12/11/18)
•Will Oldham unmasked in GQ Style (thanks ray)(12/11/18)
•Listen to Laish playing I Would Prefer Not To. The song has a line in it about Bonnie
Prince Billy (12/11/18)
•Will
Oldham talks death, loss and
laughter before Berkshire Bonnie “Prince” Billy show. Listen here (thanks ray)(22/10/18)
•Will
Oldham can be seen as the
quirky narrator of Our Library, a documentary about the Louisville Public
Library system. Read more here (thanks ray)(18/10/18)