I wouldn't be surprised if Johnny Cash announces a tour too. (by Manning, 5:33pm)
I saw Nick Cave with Marjorie a couple weeks ago, and then my friend Courtney scored us tickets to see Leonard Cohen in Nice this summer! Nice is going to be kind of inconvenient, but seeing Leonard Cohen is totally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so I'm going to make it happen; I'd regret it forever if I didn't.
And now I learn that Tom Waits is also going on tour this summer for the first time in a million years, and European dates are going to be announced soon! Good heavens. This here press conference is fantastic and very much worth watching:
That makes three of my favorite singers, two of whom I've never seen before, and I definitely would've lost a lot of money on a bet that I would never get the chance. Instead, I'll lose a lot of money buying tickets on eBay and taking a train to who-knows-where. I say this because Leonard Cohen isn't playing in Paris, which is somewhat perplexing, and that makes me think it's very possible Tom Waits won't either; I don't think he's very well-known in France at all. I know he was huge in Germany in the seventies and eightes (huge in relative Tom Waits terms, I mean) so it's very possible I'll end up hopping over there to see him, which would suit me just fine. Or maybe I'll get lucky and he'll play Paris and he can crash on my couch. Hell, if it's good enough for Ladyfingers, the Dead Sexy Inc, et cetera, I imagine it's good enough for him.
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