kore888 asked:
Is Bloody Sunrise (and eventually the rest of the album) going to be available to buy in digital format anywhere? Somewhere like bandcamp?
I don't have any music subscriptions but I would love to be able to buy the song.
It should be, yes. All of the record releasing stuff is being done by Fourplay and their manager Jordan – go to
for the song, go to
to preorder the album and go to
For all the stuff (vinyl, tee shirts, bags etc).
The painting on the cover is by the incredible Shaun Tan, by the way.
In 32 minutes this link goes live. It’s really good. And I’m not allowed to say anything about it until it drops.
It’s live! Go and watch it. It’s a song I wrote about being a sad and lonely vampire, brought to life by the astonishing FourPlay String Quartet, from our forthcoming album Signs of Life. And it’s a VIDEO. It has a plot and everything!
Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney: three very different events in January
Here are the events and ticket links for Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart in January. Come and see me.
(It will be a very different show in each location, because I do not want to repeat myself.)
JANUARY 17, 2015
Neil Gaiman - The Sleeper & the Spindle
Location: Hobart, Australia
Saturday, 5:00pm
As part of the MONA FOMA festival, I’ll be at The Theatre Royal, with Jherek Bischoff and a musical accompaniment to read the story of The Sleeper and the Spindle. And probably do some other stuff too.
TICKETS:
http://purchase.theatreroyal.com.au/en-AU/shows/neil%20gaiman%20-%20the%20sleeper%20-%20the%20spindle/events
JANUARY 24, 2015
The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Saturday, 7:30pm
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
This is the show we first did in the Sydney Opera House, then took around the world. Eddie Campbell illustrations, FourPlay music, and me reading a story about a little man and a tall man and revenge and treasure.
TICKETS:.
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=NEILGAIM15
JANUARY 31, 2015
An Evening With Neil Gaiman
Location: Sydney, Australia
Saturday, 7:30pm
The Syndey Writers Festival are co-presenting this. I want to do shorter pieces you;ve not heard in Sydney before. And some of the songs that FourPlay and I wound up doing in places like, er, the Carnegie Hall.
“Join Neil Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet for an evening, in two halves, of storytelling, music and song. Throughout this eclectic performance, Neil will read a variety of work and perform new collaborative pieces with the musicians of FourPlay. There’ll also be the opportunity to ask Neil a question or two.”
City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney.
TICKETS:
http://www.cityrecitalhall.com/events/id/1763
Tell the world! Tell them all!
Well, tell the people who might want to go to a Carnegie Hall show with me and a string quartet who play while I’m reading in it, anyway. (It’s like a movie you make in your head. You want to come and see this.)
Oh god, this is so exciting! #neilgaiman #tickets #usherhall #bringonjuly
Usher Hall has just gone on sale. Lots of tickets.
The two nights at the Barbican, and the San Francisco night, are practically (but not quite) sold out.
Carnegie Hall (NYC) still has plenty of tickets for sale…
From this blog…
If you are in the UK, and you are a member of the Barbican you can buy tickets tomorrow morning for the reading of my story, THE TRUTH IS A CAVE IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS on the 4th and 5th of July 2014. If you aren’t a member of the Barbican, you must wait until Friday morning to buy tickets.
THE TRUTH IS A CAVE… won the Locus Award for best Novelette, and the Shirley Jackson Award for best Novelette as well. Eddie Campbell is an amazing artist (and he co-hosts the evening with dry Scottishness) and the Four Play String Quartet are the most wonderful musicians.
I’ll read the story, while Eddie Campbell’s paintings are projected above me and the astonishing Four Play string quartet plays underscore music. We’ve done it twice before now, at a very sold out Sydney Opera House, where it was originally performed, and in Hobart to about 3,000 people at the MONA FOMA festival. Each time to very happy audiences.
(Photo of the rehearsal from Eddie Campbell’s blog, here.)
There will be the reading of the story (and paintings and music). There will be a Q and A. There’s other things that get read as well…You can see video extracts from the Sydney Opera House performance at http://play.sydneyoperahouse.com/index.php/media/1152-neil-gaiman-the-truth-is-a-cave-in-the-black-mountains.html and at http://youtu.be/BQ65W7_eeic?t=2m44s.
This will be its first ever performance in Europe. Two performances, I should say, as we are doing the Friday night and then the Saturday too.
Tickets go on sale to the general public (not Barbican members) on Friday morning at 10 am UK time. If the Fortunately The Milk* reading (which wound up like this) was anything to go by, the tickets will sell fast, so do not put off buying tickets until May.
The link to click on — and I’ll try and remember to do a timed WhoSay post to remind you all, when the tickets actually go on sale to the general public on Friday, will be… http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?id=16044.
Created and performed for a sell out crowd at Sydney Opera House’s world-renowned Graphic Festival, then repeated a year later for cutting edge festival Mona Foma in Tasmania, this haunting tale of adventure, revenge and treasure, told as a hybrid between a storyteller, an artist and a string quartet comes by popular demand to London for these two performances only.
Tickets on sale to the public at 10am Friday 31 January
What’s that you say? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could also perform it somewhere like San Francisco or New York…? Hmm. Let me think about that one.
Attention Sydney (the Australian one)
…on DECEMBER 28th there will be AN EVENING WITH NEIL GAIMAN in a theatre somewhere in Sydney (yes we know which one, no we aren’t saying yet). I’ll be reading and talking. The Fourplay String Quartet may be doing something exciting and new with me too, as part of it.
KEEP THE DATE FREE.
Yes, I know it’s probably not the most convenient day of the year, what with being in the middle of the holidays and all. But that’s when I’ll be there.
STAND BY FOR MORE INFORMATION.
One of the best things that happened to me in Tasmania early this year was watching FourPlay start an impromptu version of this backstage at the Monafoma festival.