of Montreal is playing a few shows next week including a recently added show in Paris!

May 8 - Paris, FRANCE - Paris Point Ephemere
May 9 - Brussels, BELGIUM - Les Nuits Botanique
May 11 - Rye, ENGLAND - Camber Sands Holiday Center (All Tomorrow’s Parties)

Of Montreal has been nominated by the 2008 Flagpole Athens Music Awards in the categories of Best (Athens) Pop Band and Best Live Band.  You can vote here for Of Montreal and other Athens acts.

Thanks to lou2ser.

Kevin will be playing a solo performance at the Mod Club in Toronto this coming Sunday, May 4th; doors open at 7.

And of Montreal still have a number of summer festivals lined up. Here are those that have been announced so far.

May 4 7:00P kevin solo show @ the mod club / Toronto, Ontario
May 9 8:00P Botanique / Brussels BELGIUM
May 11 11:00P All Tomorrow’s Parties / Camber Sussex ENGLAND
Jun 28 8:00P Sled Island Festival / Calgary, Alberta
Jul 4 8:00P Rothbury Festival / Rothbury, Michigan
Aug 8 8:00P OFF Festival / Myslowice POLAND
Aug 9 8:00P Field Day Festival / London ENGLAND
Aug 10 8:00P Summer Sundae Weekender / Leicester ENGLAND

The April 22nd Paste Magazine Culture Club podcast features, at the 29:12 mark, a brief interview with Kevin’s mom.  It’s Episode #67.  Thanks to Houch for the head’s up. 

Nina is expanding her Geminitactics line of clothing designs by selling them through the Satisfactory Etsy store (where you can also purchase other custom-designed of Montreal merchandise). Expect a bigger website to open soon, with a wider line of goods. Of course, she’s also still selling beautiful items directly through her MySpace page.

If you’d like to model Geminitactics tee-shirts for the website(s)–that would be you, in a Nina tee-shirt, with Nina’s drawing of you transposed upon the photo, contact Nina through MySpace and she will post all her customized photos in her MySpace photo gallery. To get an idea of what that looks like, you can see some Kevin-modeling here.

of Montreal’s performance from the 2007 Coachella will be aired again as a special encore webcast at AT&T’s Blue Room this Wednesday, April 16th, at 5pm EST/4PM CST.  It’s part of the run-up to Coachella 2008, and the live webcasts that will air on the Blue Room April 25-27.  So if you missed it the first time around, you can catch the band’s ‘07 performance tomorrow along with other acts from ‘07.

check out this interview kevin did with paste magazine while he was in Austin at SXSW 2008.

 

Kevin played a short set at SXSW at the Hot Freaks Show at Club de Ville last Saturday (billed as “List Christee”).  The Lullabyes.net blog has a recording posted here.  “Intended to be an acoustic set, Kevin ended up borrowing an electronic guitar from the band White Rabbits, who were next up on the bill, after technical issues forced him to set aside his acoustic.”  The picture is from Pitchfork’s coverage.

A lovely concert review from Paste Magazine’s online blog - excerpt:

So all that was a fairly good Of Montreal show. But the final two songs are what everyone will remember. They performed the drone-y synth instrumental “October Is Eternal,” at which point Barnes left the stage and let everyone else carry the groove. He was conspicuously absent as festival crew taped a large sheet of plastic to the stage behind his microphone, a foreboding and puzzling action. The song transitioned into “The Past Is A Grotesque Animal,” which, even on Hissing Fauna…, lasts almost a full 12 minutes. Suddenly, a huge open coffin, covered in flowers and other woodsy detritus, appeared, being rolled onto the stage by the crew and the costumed actors. It was filled with a viscous white substance, two heavily-coated hands gripping its edges. They propped the case upright in front of the microphone, and out stepped Kevin Barnes, completely coated in shaving cream—a zombie, a mummy in personal hygiene products. “At least I author my own disaster,” he intoned, his cohorts popping balloons full of glitter on his head. The song reached its climax, and he began jerking and shimmying in his jiggling shaving cream a little more ecstatically; then with a sudden motion, he dropped to the ground. One moment he was there, the next he was barely visible, limbs flashing intermittently into sight as he rolled frantically around. He then leapt off the stage and into the photo pit, rubbing against the crowd, wailing “Let’s tear this shit apart!” and covering everyone in shaving cream.

When Barnes returned to his place, the set concluded and they left the stage triumphant, tossing copies of their EP Icons, Abstract Thee into the stunned, sated, and shaving-creamed crowd.

Read it all here.

heyo,

our good friend, nick canada:
he who makes most of
of Montreal’s merchandise,
is selling some of his wares online
including some of Montreal gig posters.

check it:
Satisfactory Etsy Site
Satisfactory Poster Section