The first day of summer finds Portland cloudy and cool. Well, so far. It’s not turned hot yet, but I expect the place to turn into Rio de Janeiro any second now. Court and Fathead have other plans, though, for the forthcoming week. The Slimmer Twins will be in sunny (??) Los Angeles for the DIG! premier at the Los Angeles Film Festival this Friday (06/25). Howdy do. Drop by and say hi, if you can get through the throngs of industry goons. Thick as thieves they will be, we expect. 

UPDATE: Zia and Peter are now going to fly down for the L.A. premierE as well. So, if you’re in the US, this is probably your only chance to see the four of them together all year.

Our only dates for 2004 are now listed on the SHOWS page. It’s BBQ season, what can we do?

There will be a couple of screenings of Dig at the San Francisco Film Festival this weekend. Saturday  April 17th @ 6:30pm AMC Kabuki and Monday April 19th @ 9:00 pm AMC Kabuki. Check it out if you can, Zia will be around, so say hi, if you can.

We Do This For The Dinners

We had an amazing time this week doing what we do best, throwing fancy dinner parties and entertaining out-of-town guests. Our friend David dropped by The Odditorium on Monday (04/12) for a tour and a quick game of pool.. Then it was dinner for David’s band, made for us by our friends at Obo. Unbelievable. After dinner, a little informal All-Star Jam with us and David’s band. They’re amazing, they really are. The show (04/13) at the Rose Garden was over the top. These people are pros. Hats off to David and his friends, drop by anytime.

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While that would have been enough for most rockers, we still had work to do. No, not on our new record (we hear you, we’re gonna get into it), but we had more out-of-towners to entertain. By fate or dumb luck or both, Wednesday (04/14), The Strokes, The Vines, and Jet were all in town. So we said “Hey, c’mon over–you know what the roof looks like.” So, it was Big Rock and Roll Dinner pt. 2. with food by our friends at Colosso, followed by The Vines/Jet show at Roseland, followed by one of those late night rock parties that your mother always warned you about. After the mess was finally cleaned up late Thursday (04/15) afternoon, it was time for The Strokes show at Roseland. Sadly the night before had burned through our twelve cases of free Guinness we received just for being The Dandy Warhols, so no party was held, which is good, because our new smoke-eater was really starting to wheeze. :cough:

Hey, what’s going on? Yesterday, we started recording some basic tracks for our next record. Just some drum stuff, some piano stuff. We were just fucking around, so we didn’t get any video or anything of this, but we should have kind of video or pics up of what we have done to the studio in the past month to get ready for recording mode. It looks pretty amazing.

Oh yeah, just to let you all know, we will not be touring this summer to the usual places. We will be playing a few–very, very, very limited–festivals, but not ones we have been to before, not in locales we have played before. Cool? Ciao.

Hey, If you’re in New York City, there are going to be a couple of screenings of Dig this weekend — tonight, Friday, 8:30 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, and Sunday (03/27/04) at 12:30 p.m. at the MoMA Gramercy Theater. If you can, check it out.

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Thanks, Australia, we had fun.

We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, but I know we’ll meet again some sunny day…

photo ©Ondi Timoner

Hey, remember when Ondi Timoner was following Jonestown and us around, like for almost a decade. Remember we told you she was making a movie about us? Remember you said that the movie would never see the light of day? Well you were right there–movie’s can’t been shown in the light of day. It’s almostimpossible. 

Ondi’s finished movie, Dig, is kicking the shit out of everyone who comes in contact with it. Courtney narrates the tale of two notorious bands forever entwined, one on a path of clear destruction and the other …. Jesus, that sounds corny. Hopefully, you will be able to see the film for yourself in the cool theater in the cool part of your town soon. Meanwhile, visit the movie’s site, digthemovie.com for news and other info on the flick.

From our dear friend Adam Dineen at the BBC:

Guess I should’ve mentioned this some time ago to be included on The Warhols news page but we have an hour long special on our radio show on Christmas Day (7.30pm GMT) with Brent and Courtney which is entitled  ‘A Brief History of…The Dandy Warhols’. The Show is called “The Evening Sequence with Tom Robinson” and the station (which is also online) is 6 Music (BBC).

From the title of the feature you’ll probably guess that it goes from the first version of the xmas single through Rules OK, The Black Album, …Come Down, Are Sound and Monkey House. It’s an hour special on the actual show but as Courtney gave us plenty of chat in the end there’s a full version which is over 30 minutes longer that I’ll be putting online after the radio transmission.

Hope that makes sense and that you have a top Christmas time of it

adam

Hey. We’re almost done with this Bowie tour. After that we have a couple of weeks off and then we’re playing some Big Day Out gigs in Australia, which is something we have always wanted to do. But you know what, we’ve been having a fucking great time and everything–a good god damned motherfucking great time, but we’re pretty tired. So it will be good to have a few days off at home. You know? 

The kids at the label, God bless ’em, want us to tell you that PLAN A is getting ready to be released as a single in the UK on the 24th. Check it out, because it has a version of “The Jean Genie” on it that’s supposed to be something. And if you haven’t already, check out the video we shot for PLAN A using money we had left over from the LAST HIGH video shoot. Who says we just use our money to have a good time? Oh wait, that was us.