Dean Wareham, originally uploaded by Chris Gersbeck.

8/18/10 @ The Rock Shop in Brooklyn

Our February tour started with a date in at Duke University’s Reynolds Theatre in Durham, North Carolina. For Matt and Lee (longtime residents of Chapel Hill) it was a homecoming — though they would have preferred we play at UNC. Britta and I took the morning before sound check to visit Double Feature’s distribution office — Red Eye Distribution out in Haw River. “Where should we eat?” I asked as we left. They sent us to Biscuitville, and it was yummier than it looks.

Three days later, after 30 hours of flying, we found ourselves in Perth, Western Australia, performing a short, informal set outdoors at the Perth Festival (we came on right after a set by Robert Forster) in the shadow of this Ferris Wheel.

We had a great time in Perth; the festival promoters really took care of us. We swam in the Indian Ocean, ate passionfruit yoghurt and the best mangoes ever, took in an excellent Brian Jonestown Massacre gig, and hung out with Rick Maymi  and Matt Hollywood and Joel Gion.

After four days in Perth, it was on to Sydney. We were picked up at Kingsford Smith Internatonal Airport in a white minibus and driven to our hotel on Kent Street. I walked out onto the balcony and realized that we were right across the street from St Andrew’s Cathedral School, which I attended in 1975. Or rather, we were across the street from the Cathedral — the school had been moved around the corner, but our hotel was built on the exact spot where I attended 5th grade.

We’ve been playing in some beautiful venues around all the world, but tonight’s show at the Sydney Opera House probably takes the cake.  I was here in 1973 on the day that the Opera House opened, and it was pretty special to be back in Sydney, playing in the Concert Hall. All the more so because my parents had made the trip from New York, bringing my son along too. He slept through the performance but was awake for post-show drinks  – outside on the Opera House terrace.

The view from our dressing room at the Sydney Opera House

I just signed up to be a “walk captian”!

WALK: meet @ 12 st & 7th ave @ noon and march to Times Square

Sign up to walk with us: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpfcrc

RALLY: Times Square @ 2pm!

Sign up for the rally here: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpfc3r

We also need LOTS of volunteers at the rally to hand out information, direct the crowds, etc. If you can help out at Times Square on the 29th, please email Allie Feldman: allie.feldman@gmail.com

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Dean & Britta’s last show at the Zipper Factory on west 37th Street, performing songs from their 2003 album “L’Avventura,” re-issued this month on their own label - Double Feature Records.

Also on the bill that night, from Rugby, England -  SPECTRUM - featuring our good friend  Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3). Spectrum are en route to the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival upstate, this is their only NYC appearance. This is a rare opportunity to see Spectrum with a full band, playing songs by Spectrum and Spacemen 3.

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