American Music Club Play Ireland (again)

They have a gig at Whelans in Dublin on the 3rd September 2008.

Idler Interview

I haven't seen the latest issue yet but there is apparently an interview with Mark Eitzel in the latest issue of the Idler. For those of you that haven't see it, the Idler is a British magazine dedicated to living a more relaxed way of life. And no, that is not a drug euphemism.

American Music Club Play Belgium

The autumn leg of the tour is starting to appear now. The band play the Handelsbeuer club in Ghent, Belgium on the 1st October 2008. More details as they appear.

Tour Videos

Here are some clips of the band on their current tour.

Decibels and Little Pills


The Stars


All The Lost Souls ...


Hello Amsterdam


Wish the World Away


All The Lost Souls ...


I Know That's Not Really You


Another Morning


Hello Amsterdam (ish)

Tour Photos

Here are some pics of the band on their current tour.

All The Lost Souls ... - Video

Looks like "Lost Souls" is probably the new single as they have gone and done a video for it. The woman in the video is Grace Zabriskie who has appeared in a whole host of interesting films and TV shows. What do you think?

AMC @ Bam! Fest

Looks like another festival appearance for the American Music Club, this time at Bam! Fest in Chicago. This takes place in Roscoe Village, Chicago on June 28 & 29.

More Dates Ahead

According to the bands press bloke

We are currently booking UK, Belgian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese and hopefully eastern European & Italian dates stretching from Sept 2 until Oct 10th. There will be a new live tour cd taken from their last dates for this.

Late Gig Review

Here is a review of a gig somewhere on the North American continent. Possibly Torronto judging by the ads. One of the comments says something about one of the shows selling out.

Sean Body (RIP)

It has come to my attention (via the Firefly mailing list) that the writer Sean Body has passed away. This gets a mention here as Sean was the author of Wish The World Away, the marvellous book on the American Music Club. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you order a copy now. As well as that, he used to run Helter Skelter book shop (no longer) on Denmark St in London. Our thought go out to his family.

AMC On The Radio

There is an appearance by the American Music Club on Minnesota Public Radio. Songs performed: "Home," "All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco," and "The Windows of the World."

A few more interviews as well.

More interviews ...

Here (quite good for the group photo), here and here.

Guaranteed Good Review

If you ever want a sure fire way of getting a good review on then net then look no further. All you have to do is dedicate a song to one of the audiences pet dogs. They will love you for it.

Mark Answers 20 Questions

In PopMatters.

Worlds Briefest Interview?

There is another interview over at the Frog and Blender magazine/blog. Some really interesting questions are asked but some of the replies given are really short.

Another Interview

This one is quite interesting. He goes into what happened with Danny and Tim and working with Vudi.

An Interview

The US tour is getting nearer so we can probably expect to see a bit more press in the coming weeks. There is an interview with Mark here.

American Music Club @ Sled Island

Yep, the American Music Club are playing the Sled Island music festival in Calgary. Thats in Canada in case you didn't know. It takes place on the 27th and 28th June if you are interested.

Bruce Kaphan On New No-Man Album

Ex Music Clubber and all round excellent pedal steel player Bruce Kaphan appears on the new album by a band called No-Man. No idea what they sound like but

"schoolyard ghosts is released by Kscope / Snapper music in mid-May, 2008, and will feature a 22 piece orchestra on the 13 minute track truenorth, as well as contributions from a number of guest collaborators (including Pat Mastelotto, Bruce Kaphan, Porcupine Tree's Gavin Harrison and Colin Edwin, and Tim Bowness Band members, Pete Morgan, Andrew Booker and Peter Chilvers)."

So there.

User Generated Content???

The tour is well underway and apart from the fact that Mark has started doing Firefly as a solo encore, there isn't much else for me to report. However, if any of you have reviews, photos, videos, audio recordings of the current tour tat you would care to share then let me know. Either leave a comment with details or e-mail me at "ThirdPrize AT Gmail DOT Com" and I will post them on the site.