Live: Cork XSW 2010

Fantastic lineup for this year's CorkXSW (based on the US SXSW), which takes place Saturday 31st of July in Skibberean, Co. Cork. So far ten acts have been confirmed, but there's sure to be more added to the lineup. It features some fantastic acts, both from here and abroad. Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Martha Wainwright, Mick Flannery, heck, all the acts on the bill are worth checking out.

Lineup:
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY
THE FRANK AND WALTERS
JOHN SPILLANE
MICK FLANNERY
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS
LUKA BLOOM
INTERFERENCE
JINX LENNON
FUTURE TRAD COLLECTIVE

Tickets are on sale now at a price of €55.

More info:
http://www.corkxsw.com/

Live: Bonnie Prince Billy at Whelan's

Will Oldham, also known as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy will be playing Whelan's in Dublin along with the Cairo Gang on June 28th. The Bonnie Prince will be in town to promote his new album For the Wonder Show of the World. This new album is a much more stripped down album than his previous record, Beware, but stands strongly beside everything else in his catalogue.

Tickets cost €29 and are on sale now.

Watch 'I Am Goodbye' from Beware:

Album News: Bonnie Prince Billy - The Wonder Show of the World

To announce his upcoming album with the Cairo Gang, Bonnie Prince Billy has posted a Valentine's message an a somewhat-NSFW video through his UK and US labels, Domino and Drag City. The album will be called The Wonder Show of the World, and is due for release on March 22nd. Not a lot more info than that as of yet, but have a look at the video below.

Watch 'A Valentine for You':

Album News: Be Yourself: A Tribute to Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners

On May 25th, Grassroots will be releasing a tribute album to Graham Nash's 1971 debut album. Nash was a member of the Hollies, and more famously Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but his solo material is definitely worth checking out if you haven't heard it before. The album will be called Be Yourself: A Tribute to Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners, and features a whole host of splendid artists covering Nash's originals.

Bonny Prince Billy, Robin Pecknold (of Fleet Foxes) and Brendan Benson's takes on Nash should all be interesting. Here's the full tracklist.

Tracklist:
01 Port O'Brien/Papercuts: "Military Madness"
02 Brendan Benson: "Better Days"
03 Nile Nash: "Wounded Bird"
04 Vetiver: "Used to Be a King"
05 Robin Pecknold: "Be Yourself"
06 Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "Simple Man (Hombre Sencillo)"
07 Moore Brothers: "Man in the Mirror"
08 Alela Diane: "There's Only One"
09 Mariee Sioux with Greg Weeks: "Sleep Song"
10 Sleepy Sun: "Chicago"
11 Various artists and Nile Nash: "We Can Change the World (Reprise)"

Bonus 7":
01 Tyson Vogel: "Hey You (Looking at the Moon)"
02 Johnathan Rice: "On the Line"
03 Jonathan Wilson and special guests: "And So It Goes (Music Gets You High)"
04 Bart Davenport: "Better Days"
05 Citay: "Military Madness"

Watch the original 'Sleepsong':

Album Cover: Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware

Forget about that Animal Collective record, the cover album for Will Oldham's upcoming album (due out in March) is up there with Morrissey's for album cover of the year. It's bloody amazing. It's like a cooler American Recordings.

Album News: Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware

And we're back for 2009. That was a nice few day's break down visiting the in-laws. Now it's over, it's back to blogging!

Will Oldham is set to release another record (not long after his last), under his Bonnie 'Prince' Billy guise. It's called Beware, and will be released March 13th in Ireland (16th in the UK, and St Patrick's Day in the States).

In addition to Oldham's band (Josh Abrams of Town and Country, Jennifer Hutt, Emmett Kelly of the Cairo Gang, and Michael Zerang), the guest list on Beware includes Dee Alexander, Leroy Bach (ex-Wilco), Jim Becker, Robert Cruz, DV DeVincentis, Jon Langford (Mekons), Greg Leisez, Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground/Isotope 217, Exploding Star Orchestra), Nicole Mitchell (Exploding Star Orchestra, Frequency), and Azita Youssefi.

Beware:
01 Beware Your Only Friend
02 You Can't Hurt Me Now
03 My Life's Work
04 Death Final
05 Heart's Arms
06 You Don't Love Me
07 You Are Lost
08 I Won't Ask Again
09 I Don't Belong to Anyone
10 There Is Something I Have to Say
11 I Am Goodbye
12 Without Work, You Have Nothing
13 Untitled Afraid Ain't Me

Album News: Bonnie Prince Billy - Is It The Sea?

Not only will we get the excellent Lie Down in the Light from Bonnie Prince Billy Will Oldham this year, but he's also announced the release of a Live LP, Is It The Sea?

The show was recorded in Scotland in 2006. It will be released in the UK on October 20th, so you should see it in about six different shops in Ireland on the 17th! Somehow I don't expect it to go straight to number 1 either. Damn Chris Brown and his rubbish!

Tracklist is as follows:
01 Minor Place
02 Love Comes to Me
03 Bed Is for Sleeping
04 Arise Therefore
05 Wolf Among Wolves
06 Ain't You Wealthy, Ain't You Wise?
07 Cursed Sleep
08 Molly Bawn
09 Birch Ballad
10 New Partner
11 Is It the Sea?
12 My Home Is the Sea
13 Master and Everyone


Here's a clip of 'Cursed Sleep' from that same 2006 tour (also in Scotland):