Live

• John Parish Film Music Live

  17 August 2009: John Parish will be giving two live performances of his soundtrack work on September 11th & 12th 2009 to commemorate the reopening of the Media/Film Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (MuHKA) - MuHKA Media, now called Cinema Zuid.
  The venue is Cinema Zuid, Lakenstraat 14, 2000 Antwerpen,Belgium.
  
  There will also be a warm up show at the Thunderbolt in Bristol on September 9th.
  
  The band is JOHN PARISH on guitar & vocals, plus MARTA COLLICA on keyboards and vocals, GIORGIA POLI on bass and vocals, JEAN-MARC BUTTY on drums and JEREMY HOGG on slide/lap steel guitar. They will be playing a selection of Parish’s music for films, including Belgian director Patrice Toye’s ‘ROSIE’ (1999) and '(N)IEMAND' (2008), ‘WATER’ (2003 USA, dir. Jennifer Houlton), the forthcoming ‘SHE, A CHINESE’ (2009 UK/China, dir. Xiaolu Guo) and the Dutch television drama ‘WALTZ’ (2006, dir. Norbert Ter Hall)

• European and US tours

  15 June 2009: Our apologies - we haven't been keeping up. We've been doing some behind-the-scenes work on the dsign of this website and neglecting current events as a result. John, Polly, Giovanni, Eric and Jean-Marc have just arrived in Seattle after playing at Minneapolis zoo. No reports have yet come in from the animals, but apparently Pig Will Not went down well. Dates and venues of all concerts are listed on the Shows page - we'll put links and details in here when we catch up with ourselves.

• Queens Hall, Edinburgh

  26 April 2009: The smallest, most intimate venue so far, and possibly one of the best shows - great reviews in the Edinburgh Evening News, the Herald and the Scotsman.

• The Ritz, Manchester

  24 April 2009: Another good show, and another warm reception. Manchester's City Life seemed to like it too, though they mistook Polly's Dorset accent for a "posh Devon burr" and thought they were being kind by calling the band "mature". Like a fine cheese or a good whisky, we presume?

• Town Hall, Birmingham

  23 April 2009: The Birmingham Post reviewed the show, commenting on the warmth between the band and the audience.

• Shepherds Bush Empire, London

  21 April 2009: The second London show - Howe Gelb supported, and apparently Kate Moss attended.

• Shepherds Bush Empire, London

  20 April 2009: Howe Gelb supported for a second night. The tireless celebrity spotters noticed Siouxsie Sioux and John's sister Sarah Parish (cleverly disguised with new specs). The London Evening Standard gave a favourable review of the show, cleverly deciding to call John Parish "the hat man", because he wears a hat... We don't think it will catch on.

• Anson Rooms, Bristol

  18 April 2009: Supporting act was Howe Gelb, with John drumming on one number. For the fashion-conscious, Polly wore the white dress with a beaded top. Celebrity spotters noticed in the audience some members of Portishead (as well as some residents of the original Portishead) and photographer Maria Mochnacz. Nice review in the Bristol Evening Post.

• Oxford Brookes, Oxford

  16 April 2009: Reports just in from Oxford mention a sighting of Terry Edwards in the audience, and that one of John's amps blew up...

• Corn Exchange, Brighton

  15 April 2009: Reviews of the opening show of the UK tour appeared in The Independent who found Polly's performance humorous and fun but John's red shirt too 'lurid' (?!) and The Times who found it all deadly serious and dark, dark, dark. The Guardian seemed to enjoy it most, and are the only review to use "avuncular" to describe John. Tom Brosseau supported, you can find more about him here.

• Coming up: UK Tour beginning in Brighton on the 15th April

  For full list of gigs see Shows page

• Irving Plaza, New York

  26 March 2009:

  John, Polly and the band played a brilliant show (despite technical hitches) in New York. Reviews appeared in the New York Times and other publications...[links to come]

• El Rey Theater, Los Angeles

  23 March 2009:

  Reviews of the El Rey concert appeared in the LA Times

  and other publications...[links to come]

• SXSW

  21 March 2009:

  PJ Harvey and John Parish and the band (Eric Drew Feldman, Jean-Marc Butty and Giovanni Ferrario) played South-by-Southwest in Austin, Texas.

  Photo © Oliver Gray 2009
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  Features

  • The Independent / California Chronicle - 27 March 2009
  • The Sun - 26 March 2009
  • LA Weekly - 25 March 2009
  • Dazed and Confused - April issue
  • The Age - 26 March 2009
  • The Australian - 28 March 2009
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