- SOUL ASYLUM
- 06-12-97
- From the Daily Dish--Columbia:
- SOULED OUT
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- Columbia recording artists
Soul Asylum are kicking off a month long United States tour of clubs and
festivals beginning with a performance at the Fleadh Fest in New York on
June 12 (see itinerary attached). Following the tour, the band is scheduled
to enter the studio to work on their third Columbia album, the
eagerly-awaited follow-up to 1995's platinum Let Your Dim Light Shine (with
the hits "Misery" and "Just Like Anyone") and 1992's
double-platinum breakthrough Grave Dancer's Union (which contained
"Runaway Train," "Black Gold," and "Somebody To
Shove").
- The tour's finale will take
place June 28 in an airplane hangar at the Grand Forks, North Dakota, Air
Force Base, at the senior prom for students of Central and Red River High
Schools. When the original site for the prom was washed away in the floods
devastating the midwest this past spring, students of the schools asked Soul
Asylum to perform at the prom. Delighted at the request, the members of Soul
Asylum are looking forward to doing something special for the kids as the
capper on the "Left Laughing" tour.
- A Soul Asylum performance in
Boston this past April prompted Boston Herald rockcrit Robin Vaughan to
speculate on the band's current direction: "Judging by Tuesday's show
at Avalon (Boston), fans can look forward to a collection of catchy pop
tunes, semipsychedelic alternative-rockers, blasts of traditional punk and a
few laudable forays onto new ground.... Both old and new material, played
with the kind of rough energy the band's most dedicated fans have revered
since Soul Asylum's Twin Tone indie days, was received with roaring
approval...."
- In other news from the Soul
Asylum front, Dave Pirner is the man behind the score for the Miramax Film
release "Chasing Amy." Pirner wrote original music for -- and
contributed source music to -- the film. In addition to penning the score,
Pirner sang and played a variety of the instruments -- including trumpet,
trombone, piano, drums, and guitar -- used in the film's soundtrack. In
addition to the new original music composed for the movie, Pirner included
Bach's "Prelude #2 in C minor" (arranged by Petra Hayden) as well
as tracks by the Meters, Liz Phair, and a 1987 Soul Asylum song, "We
3." (Umm...more like 1990, Columbia folks -Rob)
"Chasing Amy" is the
third installment of writer-director Kevin Smith's GenX trilogy, following the
low-budget cult classic "Clerks" and "Mallrats."
"Chasing Amy" has grossed more than 2 million dollars and has played
on some 519 theater screens nationwide. The film placed in the American box
office Top 10 garnering great press in the process. "Chasing Amy"
marks Dave Pirner's second collaboration with Kevin Smith. The soundtrack to
"Clerks" featured "Can't Even Tell," an original Pirner
composition/Soul Asylum recording written for the film.
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