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Updated 06/11/24
Old
news
Bonnie Prince Billy:
USA:
14/11/24 Louisville, KY, Bomhard
Theatre, Festival of Faiths - Will Oldham is there as a speaker
so no music I think (info)
All dates with Dave Ferguson:
07/02/25 Santa Cruz, CA, Vet's
Hall
08/02/25 San Francisco, CA, Grace
Cathedral
09/02/25 Grass Valley, CA, Center
for the Arts
10/02/25 Sonoma, CA, Sebastiani
Theatre
12/02/25 Ojai, CA, Topa Bowl
14/02/25 Los Angeles, CA, Pico
Union Project
15/04/25 Lexington, KY, Recital
Hall at Singletary Center for the Arts (info)
Old tourdates:
Germany:
09/10/24 Karlsruhe, Tollhaus
10/10/24 Frankfurt, Zoom
11/10/24 Erlangen, Redoutensaal
12/10/24 Regensburg, Audimax
13/10/24 München, Kammerspiele
15/10/24 Essen, Lichtburg
16/10/24 Leipzig, Peterskirche
17/10/24 Hamburg, Kampnagel
18/10/24 Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Saal (info)
19/10/24 Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Saal (info)
USA:
21-22/09/24 Accord, NY, Arrowood
Farm Brewery, Woodsist Festival (info)
07-08/09/24 Evanston, IL, Dawes
Park, Evanston Folk Festival (info)
UK:
29/08/24 Salisbury, End Of The
Road Festival (info)
30/08/24 Manchester, New Century
Hall (info) (look at the gig)
31/08/24 Glasgow, Queen Margreat
Union (info)
01/09/24 Birmingham, Supersonic
Festival (info)
Ireland:
22/08/24 Clonakilty, DeBarras (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
23/08/24 Cork, The Everyman (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
24/08/24 Limerick, Dolan's
Warehouse (w/ Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
25/08/24 Galway, Roisin Dubh (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary) (photos)
26/08/24 Dublin, National Concert
Hall (w/ Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
27/08/24 Dublin, Whelan's (look and look)
26-28/07/24
Nelsonville, OH, Nelsonville Music Festival (info)
01-04/08/24 Portland, OR, Pickathon
(info) (check out In The
Wilderness)
25/07/24
Louisville, Headliners (info) (with Dave Howard, Dane
Waters, Sara Callaway, Jacob Duncan and Thomas Deakin)
Listen back from here
14/07/24
Lexington, KY, Kentucky Theatre, Harry Dean Stanton Fest
Will Oldham will join the This Must Be The Place screening and do a
Q&A before the screening to discuss his participation in the
film
Italy:
15/05/24 Torino, Spazio 211 (info) (video)
16/05/24 Milano, Santeria Toscana
31 (info)
17/05/24 Parma, Teatro Farmesee (info)
18/05/24 Padua, Anfiteatro Del
Venda (info)
19/05/24 Pesaro, Mengarden
21/05/24 Perugia, Auditorio San
Francesco al Prato
22/05/24 Roma, Monk - Sala Teatro
23/03/24 Knoxville, TN, Big Ears
Festival (info)(tickets)
18/01/24
Jacksonville, FL, Intuition Ale Works
19/01/24 St. Petersburg, FL, Side
Door (at The Palladium)
20/01/24 Orlando, FL, Pugh Theater
at DPAC (pictures)
21/01/24 Miami, FL, Miami
Folkways - Miami Beach Bandshell
16/12/23
Louisville, KY, The Whirling Tiger (fundraiser for the Louisville
Folk School)
with Bonnie Prince Billy, Catherine Irwin, Joan Shelley and many
others
•Bonnie
Prince Billy comes up with a
new album: The
Purple Bird. Recorded with David Ferguson. Pre-order here, here, here. To be released January 31.
Watch the first single of the album: Our Home (feat. Tim O'Brien)(23/10/24)
•Cardinals At My Window, is a compilation that has, next to the
other 136 contributions, a song by S.G. Goodman featuring Bonnie Prince
Billy (thanks
Jonathon)(10/10/24)
100% of proceeds split evenly between Community Foundation of
Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR),
and BeLoved Asheville.
•Finally to be seen, Burn To Shine 4: Louisville. Recorded November 27, 2005 with Paul & Will Oldham, Parlour, Magik Markers and others
(thanks Sascha)(09/10/24)
•Vague news, but it seems a new Bonnie Prince Billy album will appear in about 4 months or so
(13/09/24)
•High and High and Mighty by Bonnie Prince Billy is released on vinyl
through No Quarter (07/09/24)
•Listen to Liffeyside by Nuala Kennedy
& Eamon
O'Leary with Will Oldham singing along in the Liffeyside Chorus
(21/06/24)
•To be released May 31: Hear The Children Sing The Evidence by Bonnie Prince Billy, Nathan Salsburg
& Tyler Trotter. On No
Quarter (thanks
Leon)(25/04/24)
•Irish singer and flutist Nuala Kennedy and Dublin/New York singer and guitarist Eamon O’Leary have recently released their new song “Liffeyside.”
The track will be released on their their forthcoming album and
will have Will
Oldham singing along on it
(thanks ray)(15/03/24)
•First only to be seen in selected theatres, now available
to watch here: Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You by Ryan Daly & Will Oldham
(06/03/24)
•Check out the video for Big Man by Thee Conductor
w/ Bonnie
Prince Billy. From the
upcoming album Ennoia (07/02/24)
•Earlier only available as download, now Spirit Of A Ghost by Thee Conductor
is available on cassette. Featuring Bonnie Prince Billy on 2 songs (28/01/24)
•The High Llamas will release their album Hey Panda on March 29. Bonnie Prince Billy co-wrote two songs. Check out here (10/12/23)
•Thee
Conductor with Bonnie Prince Billy will release their album Ennoia in Februari 2024 through Spacefight Records - bandcamp link
•Listen here and look at the new video for Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You (Tents/Hash) by Bonnie Prince Billy (24/11/23)
•Listen to a band version of Tents/Hash by Bonnie Prince Billy here (thanks Luca)(10/11/23)
•Cabane released “The unreleased series Pt.1”
on all streaming platforms, it features Easily We’ll See with Bonnie Prince Billy, this version is different from the one on
Cabane's first album (08/10/23)
•Check out the video for Rise and Rule (She Was Born In Honolulu) by Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks John)(23/09/23)
•Neil
Hamburger Presents Seasonal Depression Suite with contributions by among others: Neil Finn, Alan Bishop
and Bonnie
Prince Billy.
To be released November 17, 2023 through Drag City (thanks
ray)(01/09/23)
•Check out the video's for Crazy
Blue Bells and Willow, Pine and Oak (thanks John)(27/08/23)
•Listen here to Jaye Jayle's
When We Are Dogs (feat. Bonnie Prince Billy, Patrick Shiroishi)(thanks John)(29/06/23)
•The new Bonnie Prince Billy album Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is available for pre-order now, check here, here and here. To be released August 11.
Check the various bundle options and look and listen to Bananas (22/05/23)
•Listen to episode 99 of The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast
for Kids and Families.
Bone Wars
and The Ghost Town Rhyolite:
This episode features the narration talents of musician Will Oldham, also known as Bonnie Prince Billy. Will
tells the story of Rhyolite,
a town once founded in Death Valley after the discovery of gold
by Frank “Shorty” Harris. Today it is a ghost town
(thanks ray)(06/11/24)
•Will
Oldham on the building blocks of music (thanks ray)(29/08/24)
•Listen here to Bonnie Prince Billy's random playlist at the Freak Zone Playlist
(while it lasts) (thanks ray)(21/08/24)
•Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White
form new band The Hard Quartet, read about it here (thanks John)(20/07/24)
•If you're a member you can read The Aquarium Drunkard interview about the latest output covering Lungfish (thanks ray)(14/06/24)
•Listen to Will Oldham
at Big Ears Music Festival 2024 (thanks ray)(01/06/24)
•Will Oldham on Steve Albini (thanks ray)(17/05/24)
•Swimsuit released a coverversion of One With The Birds, check it out here (thanks Karl)(10/05/24)
•Listen to the Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive: Recorded in Kentucky (thanks Sascha)(07/02/24)
•Life Of The Record: for the 25th anniversary of the album
you can listen to the making of I See A Darkness by Bonnie “Prince” Billy - featuring Will Oldham (thanks ray)(28/01/24)
•Take a look a the film Green Man Festival 2005 with unreleased footage of Bonnie Prince Billy, Joanna Newsom and more. Read about it here (thanks Luca)(28/01/24)
•The Miami New Times has an interview: Bonnie "Prince" Billy Was Destined to Play at the Miami Beach
Bandshell (thanks ray)(28/01/24)
•Listen to a new Bonnie Prince Billy song, played live 18/01/24 in Jacksonville,
FL (thanks Luca)(28/01/24)
•Listen to the Meet Our Makers podcast, with Bonnie Prince Billy - Singing Life (thanks ray)(03/01/24)
•Listen to Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Will Oldham on the song that changed his life
(thanks ray)(24/11/23)
•Here are pictures of the gig from Jong Langford and Bonnie Prince Blly at Joe's Pub (thanks ray)(24/11/23)
•Check out this video for Shorty's Ark
(thanks ray)(10/11/23)
•Listen to Lucia & Leo's version of Lay and Love. Also available on their album Saudade (thanks ray)(10/11/23)
•Bonnie
Priince Billy is featured in
the "December" issue of Uncut, available in the UK on October 12,
apparently, Will will be giving "a tour of his kentucky
neighbourhood” (thanks ray)(13/10/23)
•POP Montréal is Talking Secrets with Bonnie
“Prince” Billy
(thanks John)(08/10/23)
•Listen to AEWCH #237 Will Oldham
on the life of music and devotion (thanks ray)(23/09/23)
•Jeff Nicols' new movie The Bikeriders has Will Oldham
in it playing the role of a bartender. TBR December 1 in US
theatres (thanks ray)(10/09/23)
Check the trailer and pay close attention around minute 1
•Check out some Will Oldham
favorites on Perfectly Imperfect (10/09/23)
•Check out these pictures of Will Oldham
and Michael
Hurley, by Lance
Bangs (thanks
ray)(10/09/23)
•Dutch OOR magazine has a lengthy interview with Bonnie Prince Billy (in Dutch)(01/09/23)
•The Guardian posted some answers to questions from readers to Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (thanks ray)(27/08/23)
•Listen to You're Doomed by Tim Heidecker
and the Good Band joined by Will Oldham,
played in 17-08-23 in Louisville at The Whirling Tiger (20/08/23)
•The Guardian asks to post your questions for Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (thanks ray)(18/08/23)
•Listen to Episode 300: Kentucky Pocketwolves (feat. Will Oldham) of the Trillbilly Worker's Party
(thanks ray)(06/08/23)
•Check out the trailer for the Bonnie Prince Billy skateboard plus 7" Rose Hornung made for Otherness Skateboards in 2022 (thanks John)(06/08/23)
•Former Essential Tremors guest Will Oldham guest hosts the June 21 episode featuring a
conversation with June Tabor
(25/06/23)
•Read this interview with Sammy Harkham
about he got to do the drawings for I See A Darkness (thanks ray)(25/06/23)