UK Ocean Rain tour dates.

[Voodoo Billy]

Porcupine + Evergreen = where can I get the pre-sale tickets?

You can get them through my PayPal account. There will be no actual shows but the tickets will be among the nicest you have ever laid eyes on.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Great. I'm ready to pay top whack for this one, show or no show. This a VIP event, I take it as I don't want to go for the ordinary standing stalls in your back garden. I want to watch the band not performing the rehearsal, not meet and greet the band because they won't be there, eat all your food, drink all the beers in your well-stocked fridge, use your toilet and shag your wife. Where do I pay?

[black francis]

The Bunnymen are dead to me.

[Voodoo Billy]

I knew your brain would meander down that particular avenue the minute I used the word 'laid' in my previous post.

[Voodoo Billy]

The Bunnymen are dead to me.

Quitter.

Marriage is for life

A dog's for life not just for Christmas.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

The Bunnymen are dead to me.

Dunno, my ears raise all dog-like every so often. You not doing any Croc/HUH dates when they are in the States to get the last drop of power from your dead car battery? Honestly, they are well worth going to.

[morty]

It was Candy his daughter.

No it definitely wasn't his daughter, I don't think Mac would be looking like that with his own daughter somehow - besides I know what Candy looks like.

I'd say she was around 33 with glasses and extremely sexy.

[In The Margins]

Whoever she was, she didn't last long. Less than six months later he was impregnating a woman just one year older than his daughter.

In the video they released for that show, there's clips of daughter Mimi backstage with the band laughing it up, until Ian comes along and puts a stop to it.

Also, did anybody in the Bunnymen camp even go to school? What a poorly written press release! But what's new?

Echo & the Bunnymen are to perform their classic album “Ocean Rain” across the country this autumn.

In celebration of the band’s 30th anniversary two years ago performing Ocean Rain in its entirety they undoubtedly captured just how influential and highly regarded the band are. They played sold out shows to rapturous audiences at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall and Radio City Music Hall in New York, plus a homecoming gig at Liverpool Echo Arena.

Released in 1984, Ocean Rain was Echo & the Bunnymen’s fourth album and is widely considered to be their masterpiece. It mesmerised Bunnymen fans and broke them to a much wider audience on the strength of such towering songs as “Silver”, “Seven Seas” and the unforgettable “The Killing Moon.”

What’s so special about this show is that “Ocean Rain” is to be played, in its entirety accompanied by strings.

[morty]

Whoever she was, she didn't last long. Less than six months later he was impregnating a woman just one year older than his daughter.]

All sounds rather sordid doesn't it?

What was he thinking - this other one seemed much more age appropriate and if you ask me better looking than young Miss Zoe Devlin.

Bad press releases and getting young girls pregnant.
Yes its all good in the Bunny camp.

[In The Margins]

Maybe he only "rented" glasses lady's services for the night, so don't think too poorly of him, Morty....

[morty]

Surely she wasn't!

To many dreams shattered at once in that one post In The Margins.

I don't see Mac 'renting' ladies of the night and holding hands with them in public somehow though.

[Stuart]

How much are the tickets?

[black francis]

Dunno, my ears raise all dog-like every so often. You not doing any Croc/HUH dates when they are in the States to get the last drop of power from your dead car battery? Honestly, they are well worth going to.

Won't be going I'm afraid. It was hard enough getting excited for the tour but fucking Club Nokia? I thought I was gonna see a rock band play. And Jesus tap dancing Christ flogging the OR shows again? So much for the special, once in a lifetime 2008 shows which I think we all suspected weren't so once in a lifetime even back then.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Hmm... looking at Club Nokia pictures, I see what you mean. I feel your pain.

More stuff off Crocs/HUH were the only performances I was really waiting for over the last 13 years (other than hearing In Bluer Skies and Higher Hell live) so I was no way disappointed with that. I would like to hear Evergreen peformed in its entirety as a bit of a closure for the live stuff, given that's where it started when I got a bit bored with Pulp's musical direction and started checking the Bunnymen out. Pulp are back this summer, so I can get all nostalgic properly as 1980s Bunnymen isn't really my era (neither is 1980s Pulp for that matter). I'm quite excited about that even before they have announced a tour proper. I watched a repeat of the whole of Pulp's Glastonbury performance on TV a few weeks ago and for the first time for quite a while, a little tear came out of my ghostie eye - it moved me that much...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD06IXtvEc4&feature=related[/youtube]

[Mr.Sparkle]

They are still doing OR gigs??? I must be out of the loop. When I saw this thread I thought it was from last year and someone had "bumped" it.

Is this the only way the band is making money now? So sad, but if the band is making money, more power to them I guess. Personally, not interested at all. Even if they did Porcupine (by far their best album, IMO) I think I'd still pass without Les and Pete.