Buffalo Tom play their first show in quite some time at Boston's

Paradise Rock Club, Friday June 26, 2009.  Mean Creek is opening up along with a reading by CHRIS CAMPION, author of "Escape From Bellevue: A Dive Bar Odyssey" and lead singer of the Knockout Drops.

Ticket link to online sales below or you can buy with no service charges at the Paradise BO open M-Sat noon to 6pm:

http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/406961

Our buddy, Jon Bernhardt, celebrates his 25 years as a DJ on the
influential (and amazing!) WMBR during that last week of June. Yo La
Tengo (aka The Condo F**ks), The Bevis Frond, Sleepyhead play TT's
Sunday June 21 and Buffalo Tom, Versus and Rebecca Gates gather
Saturday June 27 at CHURCH (formerly The Linwood) to give thanks and
praise. Ticket Info

We are going to start posting some music from the vaults on a regular basis. Some studio, some live, some unreleased. Keep checking back.

First up is "Blake". (For those who attended one of the Somerville Theater shows a few years back, you may remember a live version of this one. ) In the winter of 96-97, Buffalo Tom holed up for a week in Chappaquiddick on Martha's Vineyard. They were joined by Tom Gorman from Belly on keyboards, who also played a string of live shows with them at that time. The band was in the beginning stages of working on material for 1998s "Smitten" album. A couple of tracks from this time made it onto the B-sides ep released that same year, "Cupid Come" and "Hawaian Baby".

"Only Living Boy in New York" , a Simon and Garfunkel cover, is from the same session as Blake.

"Frozen Lake" was from a Kendall Cafe shows a few years back.

"Sun God" is another from the 8-track recordings at Chappaquiddick. 

Buffalo Tom have been writing and rehearsing about 15 new songs in one of the coldest, bleakest Boston winters in recent memory. Lots of animal names in the working titles suggest some type of barnyard theme.

Thanks to Ken Okaya again for his great shots from the 10.26 show at the Somerville Theater.

Check them out on flickr

Check out the new video "You'll Never Catch Him", it's done by Mike Boudo and from the latest album "Three Easy Pieces"

> see it here

Here is the set list from Chris:

 1. Gravity (bill, chris joins)
 2. Butterscotch (chris, bill)
 3. Porchlight (chris, bill)
 4. My Responsibility (chris, bill)
 5. Taillights (tom joins on bass)
 6. You’ll Never Catch Him (acoustic band)
 7. CC & Callas
 8. 4th of July (Tanya Donelly joins)
 9. Wiser
10. Scottish Windows (Tim)
11. Crutch (Tim)
12. Pendleton (Bill on piano)
13. Oh Sister (Hilken Mancini joins)
14. Good Girl (Hilken and Chris Toppin)
15. Spider and the Fly

    Intermission

 1. Sodajerk
 2. Kitchen Door
 3. Frozen Lake
 4. I’m Allowed
 5. Bottom of the Rain
 6. Late at Night
 7. Tangerine
 8. Hearts of Palm
 9. Larry
10. Thrown (Tim)

Do your part to help homelessness and pick up this new cd featuring BT's "Ink Falling (Father Outside)." Also on there, tracks by Bruce Springseen, Natalie Merchant, Tim Robbins and more, and more and more.

Get it at Amazon

Just announced: There will be a concert on Friday Nov 16 at the Grand Re-Opening of the Stand Theater in Boston featuring Natalie Merchant, Mighty Sam McClain, Mario Frangoulis and Buffalo Tom.

More info available at the Give Us Your Poor website

Holland

Nirwana's Tuinfest 2008 / Lierop Holland
August 9

http://www.nirwanatuinfeest.nl/

Belgium

Lokerse Feesten 2008 / Belgium
August 10

http://www.lokersefeesten.be/2008/ 

> see it here