David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights USA tour
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2007 6:29 pm

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David Kilgour is on tour in the US with Euro's Child (featuring former front man from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci). Pitchfork jokes " Whaddya get when you cross Euros Childs and the guy from the Clean? Why, baby wipes, natch! Grrrroooooan. " Anyway, Pitchfork should probably look out cos this time David has the whole Heavy Eights with him on the road – and you shouldn’t mess with those big wave surfing boys.

• Sat Oct 27 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
• Sun Oct 28 San Francisco, CA -12 Galaxies
• Tues Oct 30 Portland, OR - Holocene
• Fri Nov 02 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
• Sat Nov 03 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
• Mon Nov 05 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
• Tues Nov 06 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
• Wed Nov 07 Detroit, MI - Pike Room
• Thurs Nov 08 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
• Fri Nov 09 Brooklyn, NY - TBA
• Sat Nov 10 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
• Sun Nov 11 Cambridge, MA - TT the Bear's Place
• Tues Nov 13 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
• Wed Nov 14 Washington, DC - DC9
• Thurs Nov 15 Durham, NC - Duke University Coffeehouse
• Fri Nov 16 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
• Sat Nov 17 Nashville, TN - The Basement

David Kilgour - The Far Now - Out Now
Posted: Tue Feb 6, 2007 9:31 am

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Arch Hill Recordings are very pleased to say that David Kilgour’s sixth solo album “The Far Now” is out today! If you get in quick you will get yourself a copy of the limited edition “Australasian Double” with a ten track bonus disc “Orange Feathers” - containing some outtakes and tracks from his last two albums...

Look out for David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights NZ Tour dates – details below...

The album is already getting the good word from the critics in New Zealand and abroad.

Russell Baillie in the NZ Herald gives the album FIVE STARS writing “an acoustic-powered psychedelic pop wonderland...it’s one beautiful album”

Grant Smithies writes in the Sunday Star Times “Kilgour’s albums are among the best made in this country...The Far Now may be his best solo album to date”

A number of highly respected US websites also give the album the big thumbs up. Spacelab writes “David Kilgour’s latest release The Far Now has rightfully made him one of New Zealand’s most veritable folk-pop heroes...The Far Now is one that will make people take notice of him in a new light and find serenity in its soft fluid motions with healing elixir strings.” http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2007/01January/MusicReview-10DavidKilgour.htm

Popmatters gives the album 8/10 and writes “Whether it’s how he records or how he plays or just how he is, his songs have always been more than the sum of their parts, luminous, mysterious and inexplicably gorgeous.” http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/9177/david-kilgour-the-far-now/

David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights NZ/AUS Tour Dates

Thurs 8th Feb - Chch - Dux de Lux (with Anji Sami)
Thurs 15th Feb - Wellington – SFBH (with the Haints of Dean Hall)
Friday 16th Feb – Napier – Lattitude (with the Haints of Dean Hall)
Sat 17th Feb – Auckland - Schooner (with the Haints of Dean Hall)

Kilgour in Rolling Stone Critics top 10
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:24 pm

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David Kilgour's 'Frozen Orange' features in Rolling Stone's critic Marie Elsie St. Leger's top ten albums of 2004. For the full list go to

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6795933/elliottsmith?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1

RE: "Frozen Orange" LP Release Announced
Posted: Tue Dec 7, 2004 9:35 am

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yea cool

David Kilgour USA tour with Yo La Tengo
Posted: Wed Oct 6, 2004 7:49 pm

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Merge have released 'Frozen Orange' in the USA (Arch Hill in NZ) and David is over there at this very moment touring the Eastern sides of the US with the Yo La Tengo rotational travelling road-show extravaganza. you can check the dates at http://www.mergerecords.com/index.php

David Kilgour - Frozen Orange - Out Today!
Posted: Mon Sep 6, 2004 7:46 pm

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Frozen Orange is David Kilgour's latest offering and a slight departure for him - not so much in style as in method. The idea for the record came about as David was touring the States with both the Clean and solo in late 2001 and early 2002. The 2002 tour in support of A Feather In The Engine featured David as the opening act for his American label Merge mates Lambchop. For the tour, Kilgour recruited several members of the eclectic Nashville collective to serve as his backing band. The experiment was a huge success. During rehearsals in Nashville, David also met Lambchop producer/engineer Mark Nevers (Calexico, Lambchop, Will Oldham and others) who convinced David that perhaps he should come to Nashville to record.

Frozen Orange was recorded almost entirely by Mark Nevers at his Beechhouse Studios in Nashville (2 tracks-"Dogs Barking" and "A Head Full Of Rolling Stones"- were recorded with the Heavy Eights back home in New Zealand), over the course of two visits in the summer and late fall of 2003. Frozen Orange features the contributions of Lamchop members Matt Swanson, Tony Crow, William Tyler and Sam Baker. There is even a surprise appearance by Jason Loewenstein. The album showcases a sublime combination of Kilgour's signature guitar lines and shambolic, quirky melodies with an added twist of country twang and a little bit of R&B/soul courtesy of his friends in Nashville. Frozen Orange also marks the first time that Kilgour has relinquished control in the studio to an outside producer; such was his faith in Nevers and his vision for the project.

An interview with David will screen on Headliners tonight (5.30pm) as well as footage from his new video for 'Living in Space'. The video was made by Bridget Sutherland and filmed around the traps and in the Nashville studio.

Look out for David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights on Tour in NZ
Dunedin - Sat 11th September with SJD
Wellington - Friday 17th September with Phoenix Foundation
Auckland - Saturday 18th September with the Tokey Tones

"Frozen Orange" LP Release Announced
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:12 pm

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David's new solo LP "Frozen Orange" will be released in the USA on 24th August on Merge Records. NZ release is still unconfirmed but will most likely be around September.

David is also playing at the Merge 15th Anniversary Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA on August 1st along with Lambchop and the Clientele. Other gigs in the USA may be added.

David will tour the USA later in the year to promote the new LP.