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Updated 17/11/19
Old
news
25-26/11/19 Chicago, IL, 24 hour Improv (check)(tickets)
With Steve Albini, Ty Segall, Sally Timms, Yo La Tengo and many
more
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
08/03/20 Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer (check)
09/03/20 New York, NY, Town Hall
11/03/20 New Haven, CT, College Street Music Hall
12/03/20 Providence, RI, Columbus Theatre
13/03/20 Portland, ME, State Theatre
14/03/20 Northampton, MA, Academy of Music
Theatre
Old tourdates:
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)
23/10/18 Brooklyn, NY, The
Bell House (an evening of conversation with musician Will Oldham
and New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich about Song of Love
and Horror, info)
To celebrate the launch of the Songs Of Love and Horror book,
live performances of Oldham songs from Alasdair Roberts &
Alex Neilson with friends
17/10/18 Glasgow, Mono (info)
18/10/18 Newcastle upon Tyne, Star and Shadow
Cinema (thanks Mike)(info)
19/10/18 Todmorden, Magic City
20/10/18 Bristol, Sea Scout Hut (info)
21/10/18 London, Moth Club (info)
22/10/18 Sheffield, Bishops' House (info)
•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 We've Only Just Begun sung by Bonnie Prince Billy. It's rough demo for a project, but the song was
not chosen for use (thanks Tonnie)(19/02/19)
•A split 7" single by Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Naked Shortsellers will be released on December 21 by Tiny
Room Records.
The single is limited to 333 copies and celebrates the 20th
anniversary of the Royal Stable site. Thanks to all the visitors
and contributors!
Listen to the songs here and pre-order the single or digital content here (14/12/18)
•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)