Nightingales US tour

Nightingales US TourIf you like the Fall and other similar vintage post-punk bands (Josef K, Orange Juice, those Messthetics comps on Hyped2Death, all those Peel Sessions Simon's been posting...) and you live in the US, you may have a chance to see one of the great lost bands of the 1980s and 1990s perform a rare series of shows this March. That's right the Nightingales, born once (and again) in Birmingham, are making the rounds this spring in a series of mostly East Coast dates. Here's the schedule:Wed. Feb. 28 Beat Kitchen, ChicagoThurs. Mar. 1 Cafe Bourbon St., Columbus Fri. Mar. 2 Cleveland/Akron/Kent, tbcSat. Mar. 3 Gooski's, PittsburghSun. Mar. 4 Johnny Brenda's, PhiladelphiaMon. Mar. 5 AS220, ProvidenceTues. Mar. 6 Cake Shop, Manhattan NYC Thurs. Mar. 8 Union Hall, Brooklyn NYCFri. Mar. 9 The Abbey Lounge, Somerville/BostonSat. Mar. 10 Rudy's, New HavenIf there are any journalists out there, let me just say that Robert Lloyd is one of the most entertaining interviews ever. Here's him talking about the Prefects (Nightingales predecessor band) reissue in Splendid a couple of years ago: http://www.splendidmagazine.com/features/prefects/There are some sound clips embedded. And finally, there's a relatively new Nightingales album out now on Iron Man records, which I liked a whole lot. Here's a bit from my Dusted review. "With its galloping drums, nervy, jabbering guitars, its basso sarcasms murmured over claustrophobically confined grooves, 'Born Again in Birmingham,' the lead-off track from Out of True sets the black-humor tone. It's like the Fall but darker, madder and more literate, blistering, clattering beats shackled to noirish stream-of-conscious. 'The Chorus Is In the Title' carries the same sort of jerry-rigged menace, all boxy beat and whipsaw guitars over mordant rants like 'You know it's easy / Just lower your standards / And get as much sex as you desire.' The headlong rush, the dead stop, the hurtle into semi-melodic chorus – it's like a carnival ride, this song, threatening to throw you but always whipping around the corner just in time." (And more at :http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3236)