REMINDER: RICHARD SWIFT @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto 6/27

Please welcome Richard Swift to Toronto!

Tues, June 27 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON.
With special guest The Walkmen!
Advance: $15 Day of Show: $18 http://www.libertygroup.com/phoenix/phoenix.html

Contact Craig Laskey for show/ticket info: craig@atgconcerts.com | 416.598.0720
Contact David Halstead for press publicity: dave@secretlycanadian.com | 812.335.1572

JPGs and other press related materials can be found here:

http://www.secretlycanadian.com/press/swift/swiftpress.php


UPCOMING TOUR DATES

05/25/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
05/26/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
05/27/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
06/03/06 Seattle, WA - Triple Door w/ Josh Ritter
06/04/06 Seattle, WA - Triple Door w/ Josh Ritter
06/05/06 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge w/ Josh Ritter
06/07/06 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall w/ Josh Ritter
06/09/06 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre w/ Josh Ritter
06/10/06 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Josh Ritter
06/17/06 Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse Music Venue w/ The Walkmen
06/19/06 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa w/ The Walkmen
06/20/06 Houston, TX - Numbers w/ The Walkmen
06/21/06 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater w/ The Walkmen
06/23/06 Nashville, TN - Exit/In w/ The Walkmen
06/24/06 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall w/ The Walkmen
06/27/06 Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre w/ The Walkmen
06/28/06 Montreal, QC - La Tulipe w/ The Walkmen
06/29/06 Boston, MA - Avalon Ballroom w/ The Walkmen

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We realize that you've never heard of Richard Swift. We here at Secretly Canadian will change that. In fact, Richard Swift will consume your life. "The Collection Vol. 1" is a great place to start. "The Novelist" - Swift's highly acclaimed, succinct, eight song, nineteen minute and thirty-eight second-long, audiophile archivist experiment - immediately ushers the listener deep into the recesses of Swift's creative core for a kaleidoscopic trip aboard an intergalactic vaudevillian steamship with a speakeasy code-word. Yet, "The Novelist" is only one small manifestation of Swift's entire musical manifesto and only one-half of this double-disc set. "Walking Without Effort" - the second disc in the two-disc set - is the first, and perhaps most deceptively complex, yet decisively understated, Swift release to date. A slight step eastward from the eclectic musings of "The Novelist", "Walking Without Effort" intentionally paints another image, and baptizes believers born-again into Swift's unique brand of sonic schizophrenia. Gramophones are replaced by 8-tracks and Persian rugs are covered with shag, as Swift nods to the early 70's solo efforts of McCartney and Harrison, while waving to Burt Bacharach and Van Dyke Parks. They're just passersby as he drives down main street in a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. Don't be scared, be excited that Swift intends on writing and releasing music until the day he dies and intends to never make the same record twice... not even on a double-disc.


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posted by dbs