THE HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT(27 February 2010)
John will be making a rare solo appearance as part of a benefit show for The Haiti Kids Kino Project at The Cube Cinema, Bristol on Saturday , March 6th.
Also, the soundtrack to Xialu Guo's She, A Chinese is now available. You can read an essay by John on the subject on this page.
SHE, A CHINESE (30 January 2010)
John's score to Xialu Guo’s new film She, a Chinese is being released through Dreamboat Records on February 23rd 2010.
As well as original compositions by John, the soundtrack album features songs by Chinese artists Mumma, Hang On The Box and Tian Zhen plus Feist’s ‘Lonely lonely’.
The album, available on CD or digital download, is being released at different times in different territories to coincide with the film’s cinema releases.
UK/Europe CD release : 23rd Feb
Digital Release : 3rd March
US CD release : 6th April
To buy direct – pre orders available from Jan 25 click on the following link.
For a high res. front cover artwork image click on this link.
MORE NEWS ABOUT FILM MUSIC (04 January 2010)
Xiaolu Guo’s She, a Chinese, with an original score by John Parish, has been on the festival circuit, winning The Golden Leopard (best film) at the Locarno Film Festival.
The film, description following courtesy Toronto Film Festival, will be released early 2010 in the UK, Germany & Austria. Further territories to be announced shortly.
She, a Chinese is a rock 'n' roll odyssey that follows a young woman on a soul-searching journey. The film stands in stark contrast with its title, which would seem to define the cultural and ethnic origins of its protagonist. But this is a truly nationless movie, addressing contemporary issues that trespass borders and blur socio-political lines into a globalized world of shared values and collective problems. Challenging the visual style of traditional Chinese cinema, novelist and filmmaker Guo Xiaolu focuses her subtle narrative on an enigmatic woman who creates her own path. Framed in chapters and often using short, lyrical captions or silent, beautifully composed snapshots of landscapes, the film is an unpretentiously sophisticated hybrid of documentary, creative writing, visual poetry and cinema.
Alternately accompanied by the soft musical score of John Parish and the punk-rock songs of Chinese bands like X.T.X & Cold Blooded Animal, Guo's graceful images are charged with an instinctive, tactile elegance. Romantic, at times melancholic, but always realistic, this is a story about survival and the art of leaving and longing. She, a Chinese glows with powerful inner charm and confirms Guo as one of the brightest talents of contemporary world cinema.
John has also contributed some original music to Sebastien Lifshitz’s new film, Plein sud, due for French release on December 30th.
Follow this link to see the trailor…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tuB95gY_k
JOHN'S FILM MUSIC LIVE (19 August 2009)
John will be giving two live performances of his soundtrack work on September 11th & 12th 2009 to commemorate the reopening of the Media/Film Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (MuHKA).
The former MuKHA Media has been restyled & will now be called Cinema Zuid.
The address is:
Cinema Zuid
Lakenstraat 14
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
There will also be a warm up show at the Thunderbolt in Bristol on September 9th.
The band is John Parish on guitar & vocals, plus Marta Collica on keyboards and vocals, Giorgia Poli on bass and vocals, Jean-Marc Butty on drums and Jeremy Hogg on slide/lap steel guitar. They will be playing a selection of John’s music for films, including Belgian director Patrice Toye’s Rosie (1999) and (N)iemand (2008), Water (2003 USA, dir. Jennifer Houlton), the forthcoming She, A Chinese (2009 UK/China, dir. Xiaolu Guo) and the Dutch television drama Waltz (2006, dir. Norbert Ter Hall)
WORLD PREMIERE OF BLACK HEARTED LOVE (25 February 2009)
The worldwide premier of Black Hearted Love will be on Zane Lowe's Radio One Show on Monday March 2nd.
Tune into Zane Lowe's BBC Radio One show on Monday night, March 2nd, from 7pm when he will exclusively play Black Hearted Love the upcoming single from Polly & John's forthcoming album.
Click here for more info on the show.
The track will then be available to download digitally straight after the play from www.pjharvey.net and www.johnparish.com and from all usual outlets the following day.
SECOND DATE IN PARIS + TRACKLISTING (20 January 2009)
Due to demand, Polly and John have just confirmed a second show in Paris' Bataclan on Monday May 18th. Tickets will be available from Wednesday 21st. Click here for more information.
Also, the tracklisting for the forthcoming album A Woman A Man Walked By is now available:
1. Black Hearted Love
2. Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
3. Leaving California
4. The Chair
5. April
6. A Woman A Man Walked By / The Crow Knows Where All The Little Children Go
7. The Soldier
8. Pig Will Not
9. Passionless, Pointless
10.Cracks In The Canvas
UK AND EUROPEAN TOUR DATES (16 January 2009)
PJ Harvey and John Parish will embark on a UK and European tour this April and May. The tour is in support of their second collaborative album A Woman A Man Walked By which will be released by Island Records on March 30th. The album has been
described by journalist John Harris, as “...mischievous, deadly serious, elegant and poetic, and possessed of a brutal power – it
is doubtful that you will hear a record as brimming with creative brio and musical invention this year…”
Beginning in the UK on April 15th in Brighton, the pair will be backed by a band comprising of Eric Drew Feldman, Giovanni Ferrario and Jean-Marc Butty and will play seven shows across the UK, with a London show at the Shepherds Bush Empire on
April 20th. They will then head to Europe for a string of dates, taking in Berlin, Paris and Milan along the way.
The show will feature music from both the forthcoming album as well as their first collaboration, 1996’s Dance Hall At Louse Point.
Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am Monday 19th January (with the exception of Oslo, which goes on-sale on Wednesday 21st), full list of dates and ticketing info is below.
UK TOUR DATES:
Wednesday April 15th – Corn Exchange, Brighton
www.gigsandtours.com & 01273 709 709
Thursday April 16th – Regal, Oxford
www.gigsandtours.com & 0871 2200 260
Saturday April 18th – Anson Rooms, Bristol
www.gigsandtours.com & 0844 444 4400
Monday April 20th – Shepherds Bush Empire, London
www.gigsandtours.com & 0844 477 2000
Wednesday April 22nd – Town Hall, Birmingham
www.gigsandtours.com & 0121 780 3333
Friday April 24th – Ritz, Manchester
www.gigsandtours.com & 0161 832 1111
Sunday April 26th – Queens Hall, Edinburgh
www.seetickets.com & 0871 220 0260
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:
Saturday May 2nd - Portugal, Porto - Casa Da Musica
www.casademusica.com & +351 220120200
Monday May 4th – Italy, Milan - Auditorium
www.ticketone.it
Wednesday May 6th – Germany, Stuttgart - Theaterhaus
www.tickets.de & +49 (0)69 - 944 36 60
Thursday May 7th – Germany, Berlin - Passionskirche
www.tickets.de & +49 (0)69 - 944 36 60
Saturday May 9th – Sweden, Stockholm - Nalen
www.nalen.com & 0771-47 70 70
Sunday May 10th – Norway, Oslo - Rockefeller
www.rockefeller.no & +47 815 33 133
Monday May 11th – Denmark, Copenhagen Vega
www.billetlugen.dk & +45 70 263 267
Wednesday May 13th – Holland, Amsterdam - Paradiso
www.ticketservice.nl & + 31 20 6211288
Thursday May 14th – Belgium, Brussels - Ancienne Belgique
www.abconcerts.be & +32 2 548 24 24
Sunday May 17th – France, Paris - Bataclan
www.fnac.com & +33 1 41 57 32 28
www.ticketnet.fr & +33 1 46 91 57 57
NOWHERE MAN SELECTED IN VENICE (08 August 2008)
Patrice Toye's film Nowhere Man, with an original score written and performed by John, has been selected for the 65th Venice International Film Festival which opens on August 27th 2008. It will be shown as part of the Giornate Degli Autori - Venice Days section.
We can also announce that Flood has completed
mixing the new John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey album, which is due for release early 2009.
JUNE 2008 NEWS (06 June 2008)
Various bits of news for this month's entry. First of all, the new album co-written by John and Polly Jean Harvey has been recorded and is being mixed by Flood this month. The release date should be announced soon. The album comprises ten songs and one instrumental (music written by John and words by Polly). Other musicians featured are Eric
Drew Feldman, Carla Azar and Giovanni Ferrario.
Also, we had previously mentioned Waltz, a Dutch seven-part circus drama directed by Norbert ter Hall for which John wrote the soundtrack. It is being broadcast for the second time over seven
consecutive nights from the 9th to the 15th June at 23:50 on NL2. The programme is also available as a DVD box set (in Dutch).
Talking about soundtracks, Patrice Toye's new film, now titled Nowhere Man and featuring music written and performed by John, is due for release on 20th August 2008.
Several records produced by John came out recently. First of all, This Is The Kit's lovely album Krülle Bol is now out on Microbe Records. Storia di Caino by Cesare
Basile is out on Urtovox and Afterhours'
I Milanesi Ammazzano il Sabato, for which John produced four tracks, is out on Universal.
PICTURES FROM PARIS + TOM BROSSEAU (13 November 2007)
A few days after John's appearances in France, we have updated the gallery section with pictures from the gig that took place in Paris at the Divan du Monde. Cathimini from Abus Dangereux magazine, Vinciane Verguethen from Le Cargo and Alain Grodard from www.le-hiboo.com were also kind enough to lend us some of their own pictures. You can access them from the gallery page or from those pages:
1 2 3 4 5
Also, Tom Brosseau's new album Cavalier, which was produced by John, is now available on FatCat Records and we strongly recommend that you check out this beautiful record.
ITALIAN DATES + ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES (23 October 2007)
John and the band will perform two shows in Italy in December and will also appear at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival curated by Portishead. We dont't know the names of the venues for the Italian shows yet, but we will update this page as soon as possible.
01.12 - Cagliari, Sardinia
04.11 - Mestre (Venezia), Italy
07.11 - All Tomorrow's Parties, Minehead, UK
NEW COLLABORATION WITH POLLY HARVEY (17 September 2007)
Just a few days before the release of White Chalk, the breathtaking new album by PJ Harvey, which was co-produced by John as well as Flood, we are pleased to announce that John and Polly Harvey are about to collaborate again on a new record. A follow-up to the fantastic 1996 album Dance Hall At Louse Point should be released sometime in 2008, and the recording will probably start around January. We can assume that the concept will be similar to what they did on Dance Hall At Louse Point (music written and performed by John, lyrics written and sung by Polly).
We will keep you informed about this project as more details are announced. In the meantime, be sure not to miss White Chalk. It's an outstanding piece of work, definitely one of the finest PJ Harvey records.
TWO MORE DATES IN NOVEMBER (26 July 2007)
John and the band will also be performing in France in November. Two dates have been announced:
08.11 - Divan du Monde, Paris
09.11 - Festival des Musiques Volantes, Metz
More about the Festival des Musiques volantes here.
The evening at the Divan du Monde is the first in a series of events entitled Welcome To The 21 Love Hotel, hosted by French band 21 Love Hotel with various guests and friends. This first gig will feature John and his band as well as
Poney Express, 21 Love Hotel themselves and a DJ set by Kid Loco. This event should take place monthly at the Divan du Monde. More information on the band's MySpace page.
SEPTEMBER DATES + NEW PJ HARVEY ALBUM (07 July 2007)
Two new dates have been announced for the John Parish Band in September:
14.09 - End Of The Road festival, Dorset (UK)
15.09 - Festival BàO, Espace Doun, Aix-en-Provence (F)
Information about those festivals is available on the
End of The Road Festival website and the Espace Doun page.
September will also see the release of the new PJ Harvey album White Chalk which is produced by John and Flood. It will be out on September 24th. More details to follow on www.pjharvey.net.
NEW EUROPEAN DATES + NEW PJ HARVEY RECORD (8 February 2007)
John is currently in the studio co-producing (with Flood) the new PJ Harvey album due for release later this year.
Also, he will be touring Europe in April with his four-piece band (JP, Marta Collica, Giorgia Poli and Jean-Marc Butty).
11.04 - Leuven (B) Het Depot
12.04 - Eeklo (B) N9
13.04 - Saarbrücken Sparte4 w/Raphelson
14.04 - Ludwigshafen Das Haus w/Raphelson
15.04 - Dresden Star Club w/Raphelson
16.04 - Rosenheim Hammerhalle w/Raphelson
17.04 - Wien (A) B72 w/Raphelson
18.04 - Düdingen (CH) Bad Bonn w/Magicrays
19.04 - St.Gallen Grabenhalle w/Raphelson
20.04 - Macon (F) La Cave a Musique w/Raphelson
21.04 - Angouleme (F) La Nef
SPANISH DATES (17 March 2006)
As announced before, here are the dates for John's Spanish tour in May:
Apr 15 - Tongeren, Viva Velinx Festival (Belgium)
May 20 - Zaragoza, La Casa del Loco
May 21 - Girona, Sala Platea
May 24 - Madrid, Moby Dick
May 25 - Murcia, Auditorio Regional de Murcia
May 26 - Sevilla, Teatro Central
May 27 - Granada, Teatro Alambra
May 28 - Malaga, Teatro Canovas
APRIL SHOWS (05 March 2006)
A few more dates have been announced for April:
Apr 15 - Tongeren, Viva Velinx Festival (Belgium)
Apr 19 - Forli, Diagonal Loft Club (Italy)
Apr 20 - Pavia, Orto Sonico (Italy)
Apr 21 - Regio Emilia, Tunnel (Italy)
Apr 22 - Torino, Hiroshima Mon Amour (Italy)
Apr 25 - Brighton, Hanbury Ballroom (UK)
Apr 26 - Norwich, Arts Centre (UK)
Apr 27 - London , Spitz (UK)
Apr 28 - Reading, South Street (UK)
Apr 29 - Winchester, The Railway (UK)
EUROPEAN SHOWS IN FEBRUARY (17 January 2006)
A few more European shows have been announced for February. The band line-up is the same as during the 2005 tour (John Parish, Marta Collica, Giorgia Poli and Jean-Marc Butty) and all Italian shows are co-headliners with Cesare Basile.
Feb 15 - Aarhus, Vox Hall (Denmark)
Feb 16 - Copenhagen, Loppen (Denmark)
Feb 18 - Leipzig, Moritzbastei (Germany)
Feb 19 - Dresde, Star Club (Germany)
Feb 20 - Ludwigshafen, Das Haus (Germany)
Feb 22 - Roma, Circolo degli Artisti (Italy)
Feb 23 - Bologna, Estragon (Italy)
Feb 24 - Rovereto (TN), Teatro Cartiera (Italy)
Feb 25 - Legnano (MI), Jail (Italy)
GIANT SAND AND OTHER STRANGERS (06 January 2005)
In January and February, there will be a few more Italian shows with
the Songs With Other Strangers project, then John will be
doing two shows with Jean-Marc Butty, Marta Collica and
Giorgia Poli , opening for Giant Sand. The dates
for Giant Sand are as follows:
Feb 4 - Bologna, Il Covo, viale Zagabria 1
Feb 5 - Verona, Interzona, Via Santa Caterina 12
Songs With Other Strangers is a live collaborative project
featuring a bunch of musicians playing each other’s songs
in various combinations. The musicians in question are:
Manuel Agnelli
Cesare Basile
Jean-Marc Butty
Roberta Castoldi
Marcello Caudullo
Marta Collica
Stef Kamil Carlens
John Parish
Giorgia Poli
Hugo Race
Sometimes everyone will playing, sometimes just two or three.
Some songs will be brand new, some may be familiar to a few people.
Songs With Other Strangers is happening in Italy at the
following times and places:
Jan 13 - Bologna, Estragon - h. 22.30
Jan 14 - Settimo Torinese (TO), Suoneria - h. Jan 21.00
Jan 15 - Brescia, Freemuzik - h. 22.30
Jan 21 - Napoli, Teatro Mediterraneo - h. 21.00
Jan 22 - Senigallia (AN), Mamamia - h. 23.00
MORE SHOWS AND OTHER NEWS (17 Sept 2004)
Following the shows in Italy, three new dates have been announced:
September 25 - Brescia (Italy), Freemuzic
November 23 - Bristol (UK), St Bonaventures Social Club
November 27 - Copenhagen (Denmark), Loco
The band line-up will be the same as in Milano and Modigliana (see previous news).
John will also be playing a short solo instrumental set at the opening of Walter Seidl's photographic exhibition Disclose/D&S on September 30th, at the Fotohof gallery in Salzburg. His set will start at 7:00 PM.
Also, John's recent contributions as a producer include
Giant Sand's Is All Over The Map and Jennie Devoe's Fireworks And Karate Supplies. The latter is currently available
in the US only, but you can find some information
here.
And finally, John has announced that he has started working with Jean-Marc Butty, Giorgia Poli and Marta Collica on a new album, which he hopes to finish by the end of the year for release sometime in 2005.
Also, John has just announced he will be doing a couple of shows in Italy with new material and a new band.
SHOWS IN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND (17 Feb 2004)
John will be touring Belgium and Holland in the following weeks, taking part in a series of theatre shows entitled Zien en zein by the company Stan.
It's a show for two actors and a musician. John wrote part of the music and will also be improvising.
The dates and venues are as following:
Feb. 17th & 18th AMSTERDAM
de Brakke Grond
Nes 45
NL - 1012 KD Amsterdam
tel.: +31 20 622 90 14
website: http://www.brakkegrond.nl/
Feb. 20th & 21st ROTTERDAM
Lantaren/Venster
Gouvernestraat 133
NL - Rotterdam
tel.: +31 10 277 22 66
website: http://www.lantaren-venster.nl/
Feb. 24th & 25th LEUVEN
STUK kunstencentrum
Naamsestraat 96
B - 3000 Leuven
tel.: +32 16 32 03 00
website: http://www.stuk.be/
Feb. 27th HASSELT
BELGIE kunstencentrum
Burgemeester Bollenstraat 54-56
B - 3500 Hasselt
tel.: +32 11 22 41 61
website: http://users.skynet.be/kunstencentrumbelgie/
LAST TOUR DATES AND OTHER NEWS (11 May 2003)
John and his nine-piece band are about to play the final two shows of the How Animals Move tour. The dates are as follows:
May 22 The Cube, Bristol (support from Pop Parker)
May 24 Primavera Festival, Barcelona, Spain
(Rockdeluxe Stage, 8.00 PM)
Other news from John's recent projects: he has produced two tracks for the forthcoming Léo Ferré tribute album (Barclay Records): versions of La solitude by Tue-Loup and Thank you Satan by Dionysos. In April, John also spent ten days in The Cave Studio in Catania (Sicily)
oberdubbing and mixing the new Cesare Basile record.
Also, John is currently writing and recording the score to New York director Jennifer Houlton's first full-length feature film Water at Honorsound in Bristol.
US TOUR DATES (28 Feb 2003)
Sorry we couldn't post this before, but here are the dates for John and his band's US tour in March:
05 Washington D.C., Black Cat
06 Philadelphia, Theatre of Living Arts
07 New York, Bowery Ballroom
08 Off
09 Boston, Paradise
10 Off
11 Toronto, El Mocambo
12 Detroit, Magic Stick
13 Off
14 Chicago, Abbey
15 Minneapolis, First Avenue
The band line-up will be the same as during the European tour (see below).
The gig was a success, as were the other dates according to about anyone who attended them (there is a review of the Berlin gig by Oliver Gray on John's officiel website), as well as enthusiastic mails from fans on the message board). The band line-up was perfect, with the nine members complementing each other perfectly, and the music beautiful and impressive as ever. Numbers like Burn Rubber Barons from the Rosie soundtrack, The Florida Recount and especially How Animals Move reached an amazing level of intensity.
The set also included a fantastic cover of David Bowie's Speed of Life.
'HOW ANIMALS MOVE' IS OUT (20 Sept. 2002)
John's long-awaited solo record How Animals Move (Thrill
Jockey) is out at last. This 13-track album consists mostly in
instrumentals, with the exception of:
Shrunken Man (from The The's Shrunken Man EP,
vocals by Does De Wolf), Stable Life (vocals by
David Donahue/Aaron Dewey), Airplane Blues
(featuring Polly Harvey)... and another track built around a
walkman recording of a bunch of Spanish girls singing on the beach.
Other guest musicians include Howe Gelb, Eric Drew Feldman,
Adrian Utley, Jesse Morningstar, Pat MacDonald, Clare MacTaggart
Will Gregory and Jeremy Hogg.
How Animals Move is a perfect follow-up
to John's previous projects such as the Rosie soundtrack
or the 1996 album Dance Hall at Louse Point written and
recorded with Polly Harvey. It shares with them the same
sense of invention, the same occasional bluesy feeling (especially
on the fantastic Westward Airways). There is also
a similar blend of textures and atmospheres, as well as a subtle
way to play with the listener's emotions (the best example of that
being the title track). This is the kind of record that gradually
gets under your skin before you can even realize you are becoming
addicted. Be sure not to miss it.
Talking of which, here is the provisional routing for
John's November tour. (Some dates are still to be confirmed.)
SPOTLIGHT ON MORNING STAR AND DOMINIQUE A (04 Dec. 2001)
Both these records (featuring and produced by John)
have been out for a little while now, but they definitely deserve your attention.
My Place In The Dust, by Morning Star, is a haunting record, quiet and atmospheric, which reveals a talented songwriter named Jesse D. Vernon. This is not John's first collaboration with Jesse, who was notably one of the eleven musicians who recently played with John onstage.
My Place In The Dust is available through
Sink and Stove Records (and also through Microbe
Records in France). More information about Morning Star is available here.
On a more energetic tone, Auguri (Labels) is a new album by French songwriter Dominique A. Auguri was recorded in Monnow Valley in Wales and was engineered by Head. Other musicians involved on this record included Aaron Dewey,
Olivier Mellano, Sacha Toorop and, well, the birds of Monnow Valley (according to the inner sleeve).
The official page
for Dominique A on the Labels website features information (in French) about his previous releases and also provides access to video clips
and extracts from the album.
A GIG WITH HOWE GELB (21 Sept. 2001)
It seems that John will be touring with Eels until the end of the year, and until then it is very likely that all the news posted here will be about the releases of albums he has produced. The Eels record Souljacker, including some songs co-written
by John, is already available, and Dominique A's album Auguri should be out in October.
Meanwhile, John will be one of the special guests appearing at a gig hosted by Giant Sand frontman Howe Gelb. As we are writing this, we are still waiting for a confirmation about the date and venue, but it seems that the gig will take place on November 3rd at The Barbican, London. The other announced guests
are John Convertino (Giant Sand, Calexico), Evan Dando, Kristin Hersh, Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Vic Chesnutt. They will all be playing their own material.
(Many thanks to Simon Van der Linde and Cathimini for sharing the information.)
Among other recent collaborations, John has just finished producing the forthcoming album by
French artist Dominique A. The record is due for release on Labels in October.
TOUR DATES CONFIRMED (22 February 2001)
John and his eleven-piece band (the same band that opened for The The last year -- see below for more details) will be touring at the end of March. The following dates have already been confirmed:
March 25 - Bristol, Cube Cinema (UK)
March 26 - Bristol, Cube Cinema (UK)
March 27 - Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms (UK)
March 29 - London, Dingwalls (UK)
March 31 - Haarlem(Netherlands)
April 1 - Brussels, Ancienne Belgique
John Parish is headling at all shows except London where the headline act is 16 Horsepower.
Howe Gelb will be on the bill at all shows except for Brussels.
