Living Room Tour 2013: Hosts Needed!

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UPDATED! WE HAVE A NEW ROUTING BELOW:

TICKETS GO ON SALE JANUARY 2.

Hello Friends! We need your help. Will Johnson is headed out on a Living Room Tour in February. We need hosts for the dates and towns listed below. Please get in touch if you live in or near or in-between one of these places and you want to host a show.

Read below for all the details on how the shows work and how to submit our house. After reading all of this and you’re interested, send an e-mail to: bob@undertowmusic.com and adam@undertowmusic.com

Please include a photo of the space where you would like to have the show and put “Will Johnson Living Room Show” and the city where you live in the subject line of the e-mail.

GET IN TOUCH BY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12th.

PS: We’re working on plans to get Will to the west coast for living room shows later in the Spring. More news about that soon!

FEBRUARY
12 – Alexandria, LA // CONFIRMED
13 – Mobile, AL // CONFIRMED
14 – Waverly, AL // CONFIRMED
15 – Athens, GA // CONFIRMED
16 – Atlanta, GA // CONFIRMED
17 – Hunstville, AL // CONFIRMED
18 – Nashville, TN // CONFIRMED
19 – DAY OFF
20 – Memphis, TN // CONFIRMED
21 – Dallas  TX // CONFIRMED
22 – Houston, TX // CONFIRMED
23 – Sealy, TX // CONFIRMED
24 – Austin, TX // CONFIRMED
25 – San Antonio, TX // CONFIRMED

We’ll make this as easy as possible for the hosts. All you have to do is let us borrow your living room for a couple of hours and in return you’ll get 5 free tickets for friends and our eternal gratitude.

Here’s how it works.

1. You have a house or loft space that can comfortably and safely host 35-50 people. A place with a big living room, finished basement or other indoor residential space would be ideal. (sorry, we can’t do outdoor shows). There needs to be enough parking nearby and your neighbors should be cool. It would be a huge bummer if someone called the cops because of all the extra cars and people coming to your house. You probably shouldn’t do this if you live in a small apartment with a bunch of uptight neighbors or a cranky landlord.

2. The shows will not be open to the public and no tickets will be sold at the door. We’ll pre-sell a set number of tickets for each show on our website. Be realistic on how many people your place can hold. We need to know how many tickets we can sell in advance. Ticket prices will be $15.

3. We’ll provide you with a detailed list of everyone coming to the show. This way the host won’t have to deal with money and only needs to check people off the list as they arrive.

4. The host gets 5 free tickets for the show. If you have other friends who want to come to the show you can direct them to the link to buy tickets on-line.

5. We’ll ask people to start arriving around 7:30pm. The shows usually start at around 8pm. It should be over by around 9:30pm. We’ll make it clear to everyone that they should be out of your house by 10:00pm.

7. You don’t need to provide any sort of sound system. All you need is a chair for Will to sit on while playing and some kind of ambient lighting like a floor lamp.

8. Your home address will not be published on the web and will only given to those people who purchase tickets.

9. We’ll need your help to spread the word to your Facebook friends and Twitter followers.

We’ll review all requests. Once we have a routing figured out we’ll be in touch.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Bob

Texas Monthly: Six Degrees of Will Johnson

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by Andy Langer

How the Centro-Matic front man’s knack for making friends and introductions helped turn Denton into “the new Austin.”

Will Johnson. Musician. Yes, sir, I do.Earlier this year, those were the answers Will Johnson gave to a U.S. Customs official as he returned from a European tour. The first two questions were standard: Name? Occupation? The third was clearly off-script: Do you make a living doing that? Not a question the official would have likely bothered asking Steven Tyler. “I suspect he was a little disappointed he wasn’t meeting a rock star,” Johnson says. “And if you’re not a recognizable rock star, you can’t be making a living, right?”

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VIDEO: You Will Be Here, Mine

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My finding of the Galassi Brothers is a trophy etched with fortune, oddity, beauty, and space.  Hailing from just outside Petersburg, Illinois, these two Otherworld siblings and I diligently forged a friendship unbreakable by many large bears. In the Fall of 2004 I was in our attic, looking through a box of pride, when I found their heads.  I posted two different listings in the Greensheet for their bodies, carefully jarring and preserving the heads in a concoction of ice and Gogurt.  The ice represented the brothers’ solidarity, composure and calmness, and the Gogurt represented a type of yogurt that is eaten on-the-go.  After seven weeks, Blue Man Group contacted me, stating that they had the matching bodies in good condition. A union and meeting place was agreed upon to reassemble the components.  Boomer and Adam, in their newfound and at the same time, original conditions, immediately went on to artistic victory, writing and creating films such as Troubadours and Salt Creek County.There were more conduits, though.

In 2006, I found Tahmus Rounds on the sepia-drenched, cooling dusk of a late September sunset.  Bossman and I had driven some nineteen hours from Texas in a Nissan, and he greeted us at the steps of an early 1970’s A-frame home.  He was without a shirt, but wearing decorated wings.  We embraced, agreeing upon common connections while two Springer Spaniels played at the base of the steps.  The sun went down, the quadrant was complete, and we quietly made inner blood pacts to create things whenever time allowed.

Under a ceiling of Hurricane Isaac’s spinoff storms, we recently spent an afternoon flirting with the ambiguous but tender relationship between two individuals, and taking advantage of access to a fully charged golf cart.

– Will Johnson / September 2012.

Scorpion: Pre-Order Now!

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Will’s first solo record in 8 years will be released on September 11.

Download the first song from the album:  “You Will Be Here, Mine”

For this project, Johnson has decided to cut out the middleman and self-release the album direct to fans via Undertow Music/Thirty Tigers. Scorpion was recorded in the wooded outskirts of Denton, Texas, at the studio of longtime bandmate, producer and engineer Matt Pence.  Also lending their skills to Scorpion are multi-instrumentalists Scott Danbom (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Sarah Jaffe), Howard Draper (Tre Orsi, Shearwater, Okkervil River) and Magnolia Electric Company’s Mikey Kapinus.

Unlike Centro-matic’s Candidate Waltz or Johnson’s last solo album Vultures Await (both of which were written well in advance and recorded using carefully conceived arrangements), Scorpion documents the genesis and germination of its songs. “A lot of them,” Johnson says, “Were written in the studio, right then and there, in the moment. I enjoy capturing those initial gut reactions in songwriting. It doesn’t always work, but when it does—you capture the song in such a raw, unique form.”

Johnson is hitting the road this fall in support of Scorpion, with his friend and New Multitudes collaborator, Anders Parker, playing a mix of traditional club shows and intimate acoustic living-room sets.

Tickets for Living Room Shows on sale now!

BUY LIVING ROOM TICKETS HERE

Tickets for venue shows are available from the venue websites.

THU Sept 13 – Mobile, AL @ IMC / Satori Coffee House
FRI Sept 14 – Waverly, AL @ Living Room Show
SAT Sept 15 – Birmingham, AL @ Living Room Show
SUN Sept 16 – Atlanta, GA @ Living Room Show
MON Sept 17 – Athens, GA @ Living Room Show
TUE Sept 18 – Saxapahaw, NC  @  Haw River Ballroom
WED Sept 19 – Baltimore, MD @ Living Room Show SOLD OUT
FRI Sept 21 – Philadelphia @ Living Room Show
SAT Sept 22 – Rosendale, NY @ Market Market Cafe
SUN Sept 23 – NYC @ Mercury Lounge
MON Sept 24 – Boston, MA @ Living Room Show SOLD OUT
TUE Sept 25 – Montpelier VT @ Living Room Show
WED Sept 26 – Buffalo, NY @ Living Room Show
THU Sept 27 – Cleveland, OH @ Living Room Show
FRI Sept 28 – Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s
Sat Sept 29 – Saint Louis @ Off Broadway
Tue Oct 2 – Dallas, TX @ Texas Theatre
Wed Oct 3 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
Thu Oct 4 – Austin, TX @ Cactus Cafe