A couple weeks back, You Ain’t No Picasso threw a great contest where one winner got tickets to our show in Lexington, KY along with a $50 shopping spree at CD Central with Bryan. Zach (YANP winner) got to cruise through the vinyl bins as Bryan picked out some records for him. Good times! Check out the article by clicking HERE. Above photo by Saraya.

you can also listen to past performances: May 2005, January 2006, February 2007

Of Montreal Performance KEXP from More Dust Than Digital on Vimeo.

January 20 – London ENGLAND – London Heaven %
January 20 – Berlin GERMANY – Kesselhaus 16+ CANCELLED
January 21 – Amsterdam NETHERLANDS – Paradiso AA #
January 22 – Brussels BELGIUM – Botanique AA #
January 23 – Utrecht NETHERLANDS – Tivoli AA #
January 24 – Brighton ENGLAND – Brighton Digital 18+ #
January 26 – Glasgow SCOTLAND – Oran Mor 14+ (w/ legal guardian) #
January 27 – Belfast N.IRELAND – The Stiff Kitten 18+ #
January 28 – Dublin IRELAND – Button Factory 16+ #
January 29 – Manchester ENGLAND – Club Academy 14+ (w/ legal guardian) #
January 30 – Lille FRANCE – L’Aéronef AA #
January 31 – Paris FRANCE – Le Bataclan AA #
February 1 – Strasbourg FRANCE – La Laiterie AA #
February 25 – Auckland NEW ZEALAND – Kings Arms
February 26 – Wellington NEW ZEALAND – San Francisco Bath House
February 28 – Perth AUSTRALIA – Beck’s Music Box – Perth Festival
March 3 – Sydney AUSTRALIA – Manning Bar 18+
March 4 – Brisbane AUSTRALIA – The Zoo 18+
March 5 – Melbourne AUSTRALIA – The Hi-Fi 18+
March 7 – Golden Plains AUSTRALIA – Golden Plains Festival
March 10 – Osaka JAPAN – Club Quattro
March 12 – Tokyo JAPAN – Duo Music Exchange
March 15 – Singapore SINGAPORE – Mosaic Music Festival @ Esplanade Theatres

% opening for Franz Ferdinand
# w/ Casio Kids
AA = All Ages

our tech roadie, Johan a.k.a. Jim Garrett a.k.a. the Charming Swede, has a blog on his band’s myspace page. he has been writing about all the shows on the oM’s current tour. besides listening to his beautiful music, check out his blog and also look in his pictures section for some of Montreal shots.

we are in philly tonight playing at the ‘troc’ which has some good charm to it though our guitars are buzzing like crazy. some of the older venues have crappy power. i’ve played a lot of venues in philly: pi lam, upstairs at nicks, pontiac grille, the upstage, the khyber, the first unitarian church, starlight ballroom, the northstar and some all ages place i can’t remember that well… i remember playing with matt pond pa. none of the venues are put together too well, but the shows were almost always great. much love to philadelphians.

now… buffalo? well… last night some schmuck stole my Gibson SG guitar. he took it while we were loading our stuff out of the club. after triple searching every piece of the club and our stuff, the club went through the parking lot with a flashlight looking inside cars and found it! an oldesmobile bravada with tinted windows. the thief put it in the back of his car and then went clubbing i guess. we called the cops who were very pleasant, but after calling in the license plate number and finding out whose car it was, they said they couldn’t break into the car to retrieve the guitar. we would have to wait for the person to come back. which we figured he wouldn’t considering he probably saw about 20 people crowded around his car. the cops were sympathetic though. after someone suggested creating a diversion for the cops so they wouldn’t see us break into the car, one cop said, ‘i think i need to go somewhere for a few minutes.’ the other cop nodded and they both got into their cars and sped away. i walked as far as i could from the parking lot and let things take their course. my guitar was retrieved and brought to our vehicle. this was not the way i wanted things to go. i wanted this thief to be prosecuted, but i did appreciate the pragmatism of the officers.
they said they couldn’t impound the vehicle. we would’ve had to wait for the thief to return to the car. i could’ve been stuck in buffalo for days.

oh yeah… we went to mccarthy’s across the street earlier. not merlin’s. got a good veggie burger with jackson (grand buffet) and davey and kev at jim’s. i love my grand buffet peeps. more on them l8rdaze…. b.p.