Today the Eels slithering with "Amateur Hour"
Here's Some info sent to us by Play MPE:
One evening in the fall of 1998, EELS were taping their second appearance on the British television show Top of the Pops, performing “Last Stop: This Town” from their about to be released ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES album. Also appearing on the program was PJ Harvey, performing “A Perfect Day Elise” from her then current album IS THIS DESIRE? Backstage EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, met PJ Harvey producer and band member John Parish and the two hit it off. The discussion led to the idea of collaborating on some music.
Not long thereafter Parish flew to Los Angles to live in the tiny cabin with no running water in E’s Los Feliz backyard for 3 weeks while they spent the days making music in E’s basement. By the time Parish flew back to his home in Bristol, England, the fourth EELS album, SOULJACKER was complete.
During the height of the pandemic lockdown in early 2021 E got an out of the blue message from Mark Romanek, director of the first EELS video, “Novocaine For the Soul.” “I hadn’t been in touch with Mark for years and he told me he was going through an intense SOULJACKER phase, listening to that album a lot,” E explains. “And it got me thinking… it might be time to check in with John Parish and see what we might make these days.”
The timing turned out to be good. John was in between numerous projects and immediately got to work in his HonorSound studio in Bristol and began sending ideas to E. The two began a rapid-fire exchange of ideas, sending recordings back and forth between Bristol and L.A. The result became EXTREME WITCHCRAFT.
Eels 2022 Tour Dates:
05/08 – San Diego, CA @ Belly Up
05/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre,
05/10 – Berkeley, CA @ The UC Theatre
05/12 – Seattle, WA @ The Neptune Theatre
05/13 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
05/15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Bar
05/16 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
05/18 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
05/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/20 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
05/21 – Munhall, PA @ Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
05/22 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
05/24 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
05/25 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
05/26 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
05/27 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
05/28 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse