On the road to god knows where 2

DB's FEB-MARCH EU TOUR DIARY VIDEO

The Spirit of Crazy Horse: LIVE at Bergen, Norway

Photo by Line + Eda

SAS airlines had lost our equipment that day, we were told our equipment will be on the next flight coming in from Malmo, and all was good until a plane's engine caught on fire. The next 2 hrs resulted in mayhem as the airport shut down and lost track of ALL baggage. It was impossible to get our gear back at that point, not until tomorrow. On our last tour Frank and I had already missed Bergen because KLM airlines fucked up our booking. (Some kind of curse w/us trying to play Bergen?) So there was no fucking way we were gonna cancel again. No way Jose.

Through last minute scavenging, Landmark helped us put together something that could work as a improv set, providing us: Fender Rhodes, drum kit, guitar amps, and mics.

Special thanks goes out to Line, Eda, for taking care of us and drinking us almost to death (happily) the Viking way, and Michael (the sound guy) for recording this one off rare occasion. Thanks guys.

But most importantly, to the audience of Bergen who gave life to our performance with their enthusiasm. This show has changed us permanently in a weird spiritual way in which we will never look at ourselves the same way again. Re-charged with youthful fearlessness, raw power, and pure raucous, we have successfully channeled our 19 year old selves for 1 hr, and unleashed some kind of weird dark ass shit within. Our minds have been altered forever after this show. I finally understood how Nick Cave and some of the bad seeds got around to form Grinderman. That blood thirsting youth is locked in there somewhere, you just have to dig him out. It don't matter if your 32, 43, 54, 67, that blue bird is in there somewhere.

Don't let him die.

I'll drink to that, Amen.

LISTEN HERE:
http://dirtybeaches.bandcamp.com/album/the-spirit-of-crazy-horse-live-at-landmark-bergen-norway

The Hippo OST

another new addition on DB's bandcamp is the score I did for LA film maker J Asher Lynch's short film: THE HIPPO.

http://dirtybeaches.bandcamp.com/album/the-hippo-ost


Also check out J Asher's other video works here:

http://vimeo.com/jeremyasherlynch

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There will be 3 film score projects I'll be working on this year, all different genres. Its gonna be a very busy and exciting year to learn more and how to score different types of films. Can't wait.

Tarlabasi and Dune Walker 7"s now Available

Hi guys, just got back home from our EU tour, currently stricken with bronchitis... sorry its hard to update stuff without computers while your on the road, but alas here are the links for ordering the 7"s from Europe. Sorry there are no distro in north america:( these two 7"s were made in europe with our good friends from ravenna and cologne, its limited to 500 copies each so first come first serve. Both 7"s are also uploaded on DB's Bandcamp as well so you can stream all the tracks, it will be available digitally for downloads.

Tarlabasi:
you can order it here:
www.bronsonproduzioni.com/lab/store/#ecwid:category=2038076&mode=product&product=9130558

or via Rough Trade:
www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=348715

Dune Walker:
http://www.slowboy.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=206&osCsid=5ce9f5477fd1550110f60dacd52857a7


more photos and video from the EU tour will be uploaded soon~!

Copenhagen venue change

Hi guys just realized show in Copenhagen will be at this venue instead:

Spillestedet Stengade
Stengade 18
2200 København N.

www.stengade.dk/events/dirty-beaches-can

DB EU TOUR 2012

Really glad to be able to go back to Europe and reunited with some of our friends, and to newer territories that I've never played before like Oslo, stockholm, and malmo. We will have some new merch to sell too:

1) DB tour t-shirt based off the US GIRLS split 7" cover art I designed a while back (the image above), it will be available on white t-shirts.

2) 2 new DB 7"s Made in Europe
one from our buddies Bronson in Ravenna, (MADE IN ITALY WITH LOVE)



and the other one is from our friend Jan's Slow Boy label in Cologne, (MADE IN GERMANY WITH LOVE)



*Info, help needed for Eastern Europe:

I've been wanting to tour through Eastern Europe for a very long time now but with no luck with the bookings, the furthest I've gone to is Czech Republic. If you are a DB fan or can help with booking shows in eastern europe, please get in touch with me and my EU booking agent Rebecca: rebecca@elasticartists.net

Thanks

xo
Alex


* Updated 2012 Feb 1



Tue 07-Feb-12 Ravena Italy Bronson

Wed 08-Feb-12 Torino Italy Astoria

Thu 09-Feb-12 Rome Italy Traffic Club

Sat 11-Feb-12 Baden Switzerland Fjord

Sun 12-Feb-12 Lignon Switzerland Piscine du Lignon

Wed 15-Feb-12 Amiens France Lune des Pirates

Thu 16-Feb-12 Roubaix France La Condition Publique

Fri 17-Feb-12 Joué-lès-Tours France Le Temps Machine

Sat 18-Feb-12 Montpellier France Rockstore

Sun 19-Feb-12 Paris France La Maroquinerie

Mon 20-Feb-12 La Rochelle France La Java des Paullu...

Tue 21-Feb-12 Kortrijk Belgium De Kreun

Thu 23-Feb-12 Groningen Netherlands Vera

Fri 24-Feb-12 Cologne Germany King Georg

Sat 25-Feb-12 Berlin Germany Kater Hotzig

Sun 26-Feb-12 Hamburg Germany Indra

Tue 28-Feb-12 Copenhagen Denmark Loppen

Wed 29-Feb-12 Malmo Sweden Debaser 450

Thu 01-Mar-12 Bergen Norway Landmark

Fri 02-Mar-12 Oslo Norway Revolver

Sat 03-Mar-12 Stockholm Sweden Debaser

Wed 07-Mar-12 Rotterdam Netherlands Worm

Expressway compilation

Happy New Year everyone, I curated a compilation with my friend cody watson (AKA Pink Priest) and asked some of our peers to participate in this FREE DOWNLOAD COMP to thank everyone that has supported our crew over this past year. The comp features bands like Wet Hair, Ela Orleans, Lantern, DB, and many more of our awesome friends.

More info here:
http://batheticrecords.com/blog/expressway/

Heres to a blazing year of more music in 2012 !!!!!