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Music Tapes Bell House pics, a Hawk & a Hacksaw tour dates

words by Andrew Frisicano, photos by Tim Griffin

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The Music Tapes visited NYC for two nights in March – Maxwell’s in Hoboken (3/1, which I wrote about) and two days later at the Bell House (3/1), where Tim Griffin took pics (below) and wrote:

“The big event was when julian came out in to the audience and asked everyone to sit around him. I didn’t catch all of what he was saying, as he was un-mic’d, but he handed out paper and pens to everyone (from a plastic camel attached to the end of a broomstick – of course) and asked them to write down a memory on a piece of paper, and that afterward we’d all go outside and burn it. Seemed nice enough. Until everyone was outside. 11 degrees feeling like -3 with the wind. Brrrr….as the fires ‘raged’ in the pot, Julian lined everyone up and they proceeded to run and jump over the burning paper in a pot. Admittedly it was all very engaging and charming, however …we were outside for at least 15 minutes, which was more than enough to make my hands completely numb. I was grateful to go back inside, where Julian and Co. finished out the set and the evening.”

In other Neutral Milk Hotel related news, A Hawk and A Hacksaw – Jeremy Barnes (ex-NMH like Julian from Music Tapes) and Heather Trost, will be touring as a four-piece, accompanied by Mark Weaver on tuba and Samuel Johnson on trumpet. They’ll visit SXSW on Thursday, March 19, before opening for Andrew Bird, and then Wilco across North America, and then touring the UK in June.

AHAAH’s fourth album, Délivrance, is set for release on The Leaf Label on May 18. Its first single, “Foni Tu Argile,” comes out April 27th as a digital download and a “limited edition of 500 hand-numbered 10″ singles, cut at 78rpm, with packaging that replicates the shellac records of old.” (The song is streaming now at the band’s Myspace. )

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A Hawk and a Hacksaw – 2009 Tour Dates
Thu 19 Mar (1230pm) Found Magazine Party, Red 7, Austin TX, USA
Thu 19 Mar: (3.30pm) Other Music and DigForFire.tv’s SXSW Lawn Party, The French Legation Musuem, Austin, TX, USA
Thu 19 Mar: (8.00pm) Hometapes/The Leaf Label, SXSW, Habana Bar, Austin, TX, USA
Thu 2 Apr: Allen Theatre, Cleveland, OH, USA #
Fri 3 Apr: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, ON, CANADA #
Sat 4 Apr: Le National, Montreal, QC, CANADA #
Sun 5 Apr: The Copperworks, Pittsfield, MA, USA
Tue 7 Apr: Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, USA #
Wed 8 Apr: Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI, USA #
Thu 9 Apr: The Hideout, Chicago, IL, USA
Fri 10 Apr: Civic Opera House, Chicago, IL, USA #
Sun 12 Apr: Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis. MN, USA
Tue 14 Apr: Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI, USA $
Wed 15 Apr: Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI, USA $
Thu 16 Apr: University Auditorium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA $
Fri 17 Apr: Templeton-Blackburn Auditorium, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA $
Sat 18 Apr: Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN, USA $
Mon 20 Apr: The Classic Center Grand Hall, Athens, GA, USA $
Tue 21 Apr: Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, NC, USA $
Wed 22 Apr: Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL, USA $
Thu 23 Apr: The Lyric, Oxford, MS, USA $
Sat 2 May 2009: fuseleeds09, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK
Tue 16 Jun 2009: Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton, UK
Wed 17 Jun 2009: Fiddlers Club, Bristol, UK
Thu 18 Jun 2009: Cecil Sharp House, London, UK
Fri 19 Jun 2009: Baltic, Gateshead, UK
Sat 20 Jun 2009: Tollbooth, Stirling, UK
Sun 21 Jun 2009: The Arches, Glasgow, UK
Tue 23 Jun 2009: Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
Wed 24 Jun 2009: Holywell Music Room, Oxford, UK
Thu 25 Jun 2009: Arts Centre, Norwich, UK
# w/ Andrew Bird
$ w/ Wilco

A Hawk and a Hacksaw @ NYC Lomography Store, January 26, 2009.