For the longest time for the longest time I though Colin Meloy and Draco Malfoy were the same person, then I thought Marcus Mumford and Draco Malfoy were the same person, but, in reality, Marcus Mumford and Colin Meloy are the same person and they are both dating Laura Marling.
And Colin, the Decemberist lead singer, is going on a solo tour and I personally couldn’t be more excited. Listening to his 2008 solo live album, Colin Melroy Sings Live! (which kinda gives the game away, right) I am still pretty certain that Colin and Marcus are related through marriage or something.
Anyway, that was five years ago and here is what the relatively witty mass email has to say about the tour:
“Adored Mailing List Recipients,
Pause a while, here, gentle traveler of the internet. We here at Decemberists HQ have an item of fairly serious consequence to impart.
Colin Meloy, singer and songwriter for the band, is embarking on A SOLO TOUR. It’ll be his first in FIVE YEARS, folks.
The tour will bring him to many far-flung environs, from the eastern seaboard to slightly inland and just south a bit. It will vault him across the wide prairies of our great country’s midsection. It will eventually lead him to the Pacific coast, but we’re not quite ready to announce that part yet.
No doubt he’ll be bringing in tow a slew of songs, new and old, familiar and not so familiar. Songs you’re dying to witness live; songs you’d sort of forgotten about and to which you’re not exactly opposed to listening. Also in tow? A brand new Colin Meloy Sings… cover EP, which he’s been doing since forever, or at least since he started doing these solo tours. He’s paid tribute to Morrissey, Shirley Collins and Sam Cooke in the past; what will it be this time? Who knows? Does he even know? Possibly not.”
Colin is playing the Town Hall November 1st and will I make it? Only if I can get press listed and even then you gotta think it might be fairly painful.
Those damn deatheaters.