Guided By Voices Extend Fall Tour | "Please Be Honest" Out Now Via GBV Inc.
GUIDED BY VOICES EXTEND FALL TOUR
PLEASE BE HONEST OUT NOW
Photo Cred: Matt DavisGuided By Voices have announced new dates on their Fall tour, including a New Year's Eve show at Music Hall Of Williamsburg with The Moles. The dates will feature the new lineup, with former GBV guitarist Doug Gillard rejoining the band. The new lineup, Gillard, Kevin March (drums), Bobby Bare Jr. (guitar) and Mark Shue (bass) will be recording a new GBV album with leader Robert Pollard in September. Pollard comments: "We're all extremely excited to have Doug back in the band. He is one of the best guitar players in the world, if not the best.”
Robert Pollard wrote and recorded and played all the instruments on Please Be Honest and when he finished it felt to him like a Guided By Voices record. He's not wrong. The songs are compact and tuneful, the playing expertly slack, the production raw and unpolished: sounds pretty much like every review of Bee Thousand.
A better cognate, however, might be Vampire On Titus, Pollard's 1993 pre Bee Thousand(somewhat overlooked) lo-fi tour de force. On that record Pollard similarly played every instrument -- and while his drumming skills then were so rudimentary that he had to record the bass drum and the snare parts separately, which is no longer the case -- as with everything he does, it's about the songs, man. Of which Please Be Honest has no shortage, fifteen of them clocking in at just over 33 minutes. The point being there's precedent for a GBV record where Pollard plays everything, and maybe more importantly there's a reason for that precedent.
Robert Pollard is Guided By Voices. This has never not been true, certainly, and is now more true than ever. He delights in confounding expectations, and you have to at least suspect that after over twenty-years of making records under any number of pseudonyms, of which Guided By Voices is just one, and maybe not even his favorite one, he chafes at the notion that there exists some Platonic ideal of "Guided By Voices" that isn't just Bob writing and recording the songs with whatever musicians he wants to use. Guided By Voices' new live line-up reflects not just a possibly subconscious desire to prove that unalterable fact, but fits with Pollard's unchanging changeability. He does what he wants. He is who he is. The only "classic lineup" that has ever mattered is singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/band leader/magician/thunderstorm Robert Pollard. Long may he reign.GUIDED BY VOICES TOUR DATES
Aug 13 Tulsa, OK - Cain's BallroomAug 14 Dallas, TX - TreesAug 16 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent BallroomAug 17 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up TavernAug 19 Los Angeles, CA - The Teragram BallroomAug 20 Los Angeles, CA - The Teragram BallroomAug 22 San Francisco, CA - The IndependentAug 23 San Francisco, CA - The IndependentAug 26 Seattle, WA - NeumosAug 27 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom - Music Fest NW presents Project PabstAug 31 Minneapolis, MN - First AvenueSep 01 Milwaukee, WI - Turner HallSep 03 Chicago, IL - MetroSep 09 Maquoketa, IA - Daytrotter Presents at Codfish Hollow Barn / GARP Festival Sep 16 Ottawa, ON - CityFolk FestivalSep 17 Toronto, ON - Toronto Urban Roots FestivalOct 07 Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater Oct 08 Philadelphia, PA - Project Pabst Philadelphia / Electric FactoryNov 01 Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music RoomNov 4-6 Austin, TX - Sound On Sound FestivalNov 06 New Orleans, LA - The Republic NOLANov 07 Birmingham, AL - SaturnNov-09 Atlanta, GA - Variety PlayhouseNov 11 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music HallNov 12 Carrboro, NC - Cat's CradleDec 31 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
8/13 - 9/1 except 8/20 & 8/27 with Broncho
8/20 with DTCV
8/27 with Summer Cannibals
10/7 with Destroyer
10/8 with Animal Collective, Mac DeMarco, Hop Along
11/6-12 with Surfer Blood
12/31 with The Moles
PLEASE BE HONEST OUT NOW
Photo Cred: Matt DavisGuided By Voices have announced new dates on their Fall tour, including a New Year's Eve show at Music Hall Of Williamsburg with The Moles. The dates will feature the new lineup, with former GBV guitarist Doug Gillard rejoining the band. The new lineup, Gillard, Kevin March (drums), Bobby Bare Jr. (guitar) and Mark Shue (bass) will be recording a new GBV album with leader Robert Pollard in September. Pollard comments: "We're all extremely excited to have Doug back in the band. He is one of the best guitar players in the world, if not the best.” Robert Pollard wrote and recorded and played all the instruments on Please Be Honest and when he finished it felt to him like a Guided By Voices record. He's not wrong. The songs are compact and tuneful, the playing expertly slack, the production raw and unpolished: sounds pretty much like every review of Bee Thousand.
A better cognate, however, might be Vampire On Titus, Pollard's 1993 pre Bee Thousand(somewhat overlooked) lo-fi tour de force. On that record Pollard similarly played every instrument -- and while his drumming skills then were so rudimentary that he had to record the bass drum and the snare parts separately, which is no longer the case -- as with everything he does, it's about the songs, man. Of which Please Be Honest has no shortage, fifteen of them clocking in at just over 33 minutes. The point being there's precedent for a GBV record where Pollard plays everything, and maybe more importantly there's a reason for that precedent.
Robert Pollard is Guided By Voices. This has never not been true, certainly, and is now more true than ever. He delights in confounding expectations, and you have to at least suspect that after over twenty-years of making records under any number of pseudonyms, of which Guided By Voices is just one, and maybe not even his favorite one, he chafes at the notion that there exists some Platonic ideal of "Guided By Voices" that isn't just Bob writing and recording the songs with whatever musicians he wants to use. Guided By Voices' new live line-up reflects not just a possibly subconscious desire to prove that unalterable fact, but fits with Pollard's unchanging changeability. He does what he wants. He is who he is. The only "classic lineup" that has ever mattered is singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/band leader/magician/thunderstorm Robert Pollard. Long may he reign.GUIDED BY VOICES TOUR DATES
Aug 13 Tulsa, OK - Cain's BallroomAug 14 Dallas, TX - TreesAug 16 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent BallroomAug 17 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up TavernAug 19 Los Angeles, CA - The Teragram BallroomAug 20 Los Angeles, CA - The Teragram BallroomAug 22 San Francisco, CA - The IndependentAug 23 San Francisco, CA - The IndependentAug 26 Seattle, WA - NeumosAug 27 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom - Music Fest NW presents Project PabstAug 31 Minneapolis, MN - First AvenueSep 01 Milwaukee, WI - Turner HallSep 03 Chicago, IL - MetroSep 09 Maquoketa, IA - Daytrotter Presents at Codfish Hollow Barn / GARP Festival Sep 16 Ottawa, ON - CityFolk FestivalSep 17 Toronto, ON - Toronto Urban Roots FestivalOct 07 Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater Oct 08 Philadelphia, PA - Project Pabst Philadelphia / Electric FactoryNov 01 Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music RoomNov 4-6 Austin, TX - Sound On Sound FestivalNov 06 New Orleans, LA - The Republic NOLANov 07 Birmingham, AL - SaturnNov-09 Atlanta, GA - Variety PlayhouseNov 11 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music HallNov 12 Carrboro, NC - Cat's CradleDec 31 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
8/13 - 9/1 except 8/20 & 8/27 with Broncho
8/20 with DTCV
8/27 with Summer Cannibals
10/7 with Destroyer
10/8 with Animal Collective, Mac DeMarco, Hop Along
11/6-12 with Surfer Blood
12/31 with The Moles
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