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misshelenc · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:40 pm Post subject: Tour 2025!

Who has got their tickets and where are you going? I have booked myself a Cardiff one. Yey!
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lauragek · Joined: 26 May 2009 Posts: 167

Ohh yay a show in Utrecht! I'll be there!

ELLIOT · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 89

Have tickets for London but looking at a trip to Paris (for both shows), Cambridge and maybe some other stops too.

paulofromthebloc · Joined: 08 Oct 2017 Posts: 33

Cambridge, London, Cardiff, Bristol , Margate. I was toying with the idea of popping to Europe for one or two but I think my life is too busy and my annual leave too low.

misshelenc · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:11 pm Post subject:

Ohh come and say hi to me at Cardiff! It would be great to meet you.
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chocabloc · Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 149 Location: various

Such a great show in Malmö last night. Jeffrey seemed in fantastic spirits and pulled out some oldies - Seattle, Amanda is a Schlaper, Williamsburg Will Oldham, No LSD tonight, Arrow...so much fun.

misshelenc · Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 3:02 pm Post subject:

Had a great time seeing the Cardiff show this week! Lovely to see everyone and hear some new ones live. I love looking at the crowd too, so many interesting people! David Cs Wife were supporting and very good. Again interesting looking bunch. Said hi to everyone as well. My highlight was probably Sad Screaming Old Man because even though I’ve seen it live before it’s just one of my favourites and has been since I got that album those years ago. I do like the loud-quiet-loud things in songs generally. Or even quiet-loud-quiet. Treated myself to a T-shirt which is a good fit and also has brown/pink colouring which is excellent. I think this is JL T-shirt 6 at this stage! Been collecting them for a while. The band were sounding grand, super talented, and especially since the venue is an old church so has that lovely acoustics thing they do so well. Although saying that, I have a Victorian house with the really high ceilings and wooden floors which I think I could record a half decent record in, it sounds great in there when I play music. I’m spoilt for sound. Thank you so much to all the bands and team that put the gig together and for making your way to Wales, so many other people don’t bother (cough cough Conor oberst, even though you sang about wales in your second to last album!) so I really appreciate it and the night out.
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Giacomo · Joined: 05 May 2025 Posts: 3

Well found to everyone on this wonderful forum! first post here for me... after my first Jeffrey's gig just few days ago in Bruxelles! and nothing will ever be the same again in my life Very Happy

waiting to put together in my mind the flashes and memories (between the beers) of the fantastic evening and especially the meeting with our common hero to share them with you I greet you all!

misshelenc · Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 2:17 pm Post subject:

Hello and welcome giacomo! Glad you had an excellent time at the gig and are having a good day today. Nice to meet you!
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Giacomo · Joined: 05 May 2025 Posts: 3

jefflewis · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1512

Welcome to the Message Board and thank you for the funny report! I really like the part where you say, in the beautiful Botanique building in Brussels, you can "even lie down, perhaps sipping a good Belgian beer." This is a very funny image when I think of lying down (maybe on the floor of the Botanique) somehow drinking a beer while lying down... Maybe I can try this next time! : D
Oh yeah and then my brother Jack called on a video chat, because he calls almost every day when I'm on tour and it's really funny to have big chats with him and my whole band joining, every day in the car, and Jack can tell us criticisms about what we are doing wrong on tour, and what different songs we should be choosing to play, and what things I said that were good in some recent interview and what I said that was bad or stupid in some recent interview, and the band can ask Jack questions too. And also Jack's daughter Versie (4 year old) has become interested in hearing different accents, so sometimes there is an opportunity for me to hold up the phone and let Versie hear somebody talking in English with an interesting accent! Maybe a Scottish accent! Or a London accent! Or an Italian accent! Or a Belgian accent!

misshelenc · Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 8:51 pm Post subject:

Can you lie down and drink anything? Surely it just pours all over your face?! I expect you have skills I could only dream of.
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Giacomo · Joined: 05 May 2025 Posts: 3

Second part: the gig (Sorry for the delay, but sometimes life... well, you know the rest...) Cool

Mission accomplished, we met Jeffrey, fantastic, what time does the plane to Rome leave? oops, We still have to attend the concert! I'm so satisfied that I almost forgot about it!
It's nearly time, once I dried my t-shirt from the beer poured when I was drinking it while lying down, we are now heading towards the Orangerie stage. People are already starting to crowd in front of the closed doors... I immediately understand that these are not people who are there by chance, like us a few hours earlier at the Oi Voi Va concert, they all came there precisely for him. The group of people is now a crowd and I can distinguish people speaking in Spanish, French as well as Belgian. A small group of 3 or 4 rather young guys behind us seem very excited and one of them in a sentence intones excitedly "We don't want no LSD tonight!". I turn and immediately answer him singing: "Don't you panic, don't you panic give it one more try!". The boy smiles amused. But there's no time, The doors open, we're among the first, so why not take advantage of the opportunity to get in the front row? I had only managed to do that many years before at a Roger Waters concert...
Mallory, Valerie, Brent and Jeffrey are already on stage, taking care of the last details before starting, from here we can even understand what shoe size they wear.. Jeffrey perhaps understands and smiles.
I'm a little excited, I say to Ginevra: "we're in the front row!" She looks at me a little worried and replies: "Please...". What does she think? That I'll burst onto the stage? Let's not exaggerate, I'm 54 now and it's not that kind of concert... the Jesus Lizard will play only the following day and we will have already left.
During the preparation, in the background, there is a nice song that I don't know, but I could swear that it is Andre Herman Dune, aka Stanley Brinks, I would like to check it out but Andre's discography is so vast that it makes the task impossible. Anyway, everything makes sense, I love the first 3 or 4 Herman Dune records and the credit goes only to Jeffrey... it's clear that I'm finally at my first Jeffrey Lewis concert. And it's starting!
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