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Dear all,
This gig at Kings Arms on Sunday Feb 4 ($10...7pm to 10) will be an amazing event! Jeff Mangum, singer/songwriter of WWOB Inc., is best known as the force behind the utterly bloody wonderful Neutral Milk Hotel, an Athens, Georgia band with two albums and a frothing fanbase worldwide. Laura is also in the band and plays keyboards for ElfPower. Jeff hasn't appeared in front of a live audience for two years so this is a pretty special occasion...several thousand US fans would kill to be there.

Jeff and Laura are actually over here purely for a holiday, their first overseas jaunt, so this is very much an afterthought...I played with him in Athens two years ago (one of his fans, Michael Stipe was there) and the solo performance was spine-tinglingly good. Great songs, phenomenal voice, strong and athletic, sorta like if Will Oldham could sing like Jeff Buckley and had the great taste to not do all the stupid vocal gymnastics...sorta...Barbara, who'd never previously heard of him, fell in love immediately.
He'll be playing guitar and Laura will accompany on accordion and clarinet. I'll do some songs and we'll do a few together (probably covers...given we get some time to practise). OK, enough raving, come early,
Love
Chris
PS: The accompanying poster implies that I'm part of WWOB...
blame my layout skills!

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