:: mike errico diary ::

:: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 ::

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:: mike 1:44 PM [+] ::

MIKE ERRICO
SPRING 2006



UPDATE ON THE NEW RECORD
Mike is in the studio, working on the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Skimming. Follow along with the progress the band is making by checking here.

Download the demo version of "Ever Since" from the forthcoming record HERE


MIKE NAMED EDITOR OF BLENDER.COM
Mike is now in charge of content on this highly trafficked music site Have a look:

VIDEOS of Beastie Boys, Dresden Dolls, eXtreme Elvis and many more: CLICK HERE
Mary J. Blige, on the pop charts and the Oxford English Dictionary: CLICK HERE
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O lets loose on new songs, old flames and space suits: CLICK HERE
Interview with country-punk badass Hank Williams III: CLICK HERE

Check back regularly at www.blender.com


MIKE ERRICO RELEASES ARE AVAILABLE AT WWW.ERRICO.COM


"SKIMMING" TRAVELS TO SUNDANCE
Skimming is featured in the new film Puccini for Beginners, starring Gretchen Mol.

WORDS WE DONT SAY FEATURED ON THE L WORD
Performed by Lesley Gore, co-written by Mike and featuring him on acoustic an electric guitars, this selection from Lesleys Ever Since will be on an upcoming episode of The L Word (SHOWTIME). Check your local listings.

UNRELEASED VERSION of "GRACE"
Live From WTMD Volume 1 - From the Very Beginning is out and available to subscribers of this great Baltimore-based station (also accessible as a stream on the Web). A live, unreleased version of "Grace," from Skimming shares the CD with Son Volt, Marc Broussard, The Fray, Bruce Cockburn, Mike Doughty, and more: CLICK HERE FOR INFO


BABY PICTURES!
Not Mike's baby. In fact, we don't know whose baby it is, but she likes "Skimming."

MIKE ERRICO STREET TEAM
Fill out the form HERE and let us know that you're interested, and we'll let you know what you can do to help spread the word when Mike comes to your area.


MIKE ERRICO POSTER CONTEST
Just send us the email addresses of 15 friends who you think would also be into Mike's music, include the cities they live in, and we'll send you a free, signed Mike Errico poster! Don't forget to include the CITIES and STATES of the addresses you're sending, and to include your mailing address, so we know where to send you the poster (duh).

SEE YOU SOON
:: mike 5:48 PM [+] ::

eXtreme Elvis: Live Video

Elvis Presley was extreme. eXtreme Elvis is extremely extreme.

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:: mike 2:58 PM [+] ::

New England College, Henniker, NH

Good people out there, five hours outside of NYC and beyond cell range. There was a moose sighting, which was unbelievable... a ten foot female who apparently stumbled over a guard rail and into the quad. Students screamed and chased her with camera phones while the intelligent Maine and New Hampshire natives kept their distance. Moose are wicked dumb, and as a result, unpredictable (their most human trait). The males can really mess a person up, Grizzly Man style, which doesn't mean that the ladies are particularly polite - they can do real damage, too.

But I guess a woman stumbling through a quad in a college always gets attention from guys with camera phones. How often have we seen this on late night cable TV?

Another hilarious feature of the college is a ramshackle old house right in the middle of campus, owned at some point by an angry old man who hated the school and put in the deed that it can absolutely never be sold to them. He's dead, but the house keeps rotting. Ironically, it looked beautiful, set in the long shadows of an early spring sunset. Long streaks of rust striped the boat-bottom green siding, and seemed like EXACTLY the kind of house the old man in "When She Walks By" would have owned. I brushed the song off and played it for them, which they really enjoyed. I haven't played that in a long while. It felt great.

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:: mike 3:34 PM [+] ::

wow.


I didn't know these were still out there.


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:: mike 8:27 AM [+] ::

So, I've had to pass on the upcoming Lesley Gore tour in order to keep all the plates spinning over here at home. That's a rare moment - I don't think I've ever said no to a tour in my life. So it took a little time out and reflection on my part. But it's right. They got a great guy (who also has glasses) and that's important.

I'll be focusing on artwork while they're gone. I think we have the cover photo, and I am totally psyched about it. We'll work backwards from there. On the other side of the fence, I have interviews with lots of musicians, and upcoming plans for festivals. Oh, yeah, and a solo show in New Hampshire. Jeez. It gets awful complicated over here sometimes.


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:: mike 10:07 AM [+] ::

Gorillaz: Live

The world's first virtual band rises above technical glitches to exceed a whole new set of expectations.

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:: mike 12:30 PM [+] ::

Such sad news: some of you may know about the time I played at the Sandtown School in Baltimore. It was one of the true high points in my career. I just recieved word that their funding is being cut off (ironically, for being too good at what they do), and they may close.

READ THE BALTIMORE SUN ARTICLE

THE KIDS' REACTION TO THE ARTICLE

NEW SONG's BLOG

MY PHOTO GALLERY WITH THE KIDS









:: mike 8:05 AM [+] ::

BIG GUITARS ARE NOW ON THE PLATE: Big guitars for Girlfriend Weather, Run, and OK to Go are done. More today - I'm ready. I got my bottomless cup of coffee. We got a:

Gretsch Silver Jet
Gretsch Country Gentleman
Epiphone Casino
Ibanez AR-500
Danelectro wacky nonsense guitar
Epiphone flying V

Plus whatever we need to borrow. I'm playing loose, and strong. Feeling it. Digging it.

Artwork: The more I think about the original cover of "Skimming," the more I like it for this project. Just starting to look at that now. But I love the direction.

Hell yes.

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:: mike 7:47 AM [+] ::

Head-spinning week. OK, so what happened? Let me try to piece it together:

Thursday: Bates College, Lewiston, ME. The Silo is a performance space of theirs, and just sounds phenomenal. Got some requests for "Strawberry Song" and "Free," which always makes my night. I am also letting the new songs fly, and they are really surprising me. I don't know why, but they are. They are touching on deeper territory, and even though they aren't fully recorded yet, they are already pointing a way towards the next work I have to do. I'm really interested in what's next.

Friday: Massachussetts College of Liberal Arts. Great show, great students in a small college nestled in the Berkshires. Some of the most beautiful driving I've ever done - a clear, almost-spring day winding along hairpin turns through the mountains. I stopped several times just to get out and look at the valleys and brooks. Only four hours from Times Square, and it felt as remote and expansive as anyplace I've ever been. There is just more oxygen out there. I don't breathe as hard. I sleep well, and sing well.

The college had an interesting light show - it was a standard light tree, but somehow connected to a Clapper that sensed sound. So if I played a chord, the lights would change configurations. I played a couple of really fast chords, laughed as the lights strobed along, and asked them to turn the Clapper part off. I'd never seen that before.

Saturday/Sunday - drove like a freak back to NYC just in time to pick up Blake and Carolyn and head out for a two-night engagement with Lesley Gore at the Queens Theater, which sits in the shadow of the 1964 Worlds' Fair in Corona Park.



The shows were strong, and Lesley always lights it up. It's inspiring.

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:: mike 7:23 AM [+] ::

BEASTIE BOYS: VIDEO

Awesome! Mike f*in' sat down with Beastie Boys to discuss the concept behind their innovative new concert film, Awesome; I F*in' Shot That!

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:: mike 7:18 AM [+] ::