BECK TO TAKE OVER SIRIUS MUSIC CHANNEL

SIRIUS’ Left of Center (channel 26) will become “Radio Beck” for the entire weekend beginning Friday, October 10 at 3:00 pm ET and will air through Sunday, October 12. Beck will play songs from his new album, Modern Guilt, and his entire catalog, as well as songs by various artists who have influenced him throughout his career.

Additionally, SIRIUS listeners will hear a live recording of Beck’s performance at the Austin City Limits Festival from September 27, 2008. The live performance will air on Saturday, October 11 at 12:00 am, 2:00 pm and 10:00 pm; Sunday, October 12 at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm and Monday, October 13 at 2:00 am, 12:00 pm, 8:00 pm and 12:00 am (all times Eastern).

For more information and to sign up for a FREE 3-DAY TRIAL, go to: http://www.sirius.com/leftofcenter <http://www.sirius.com/leftofcenter> .

Three cool pieces of news today:

1. Beck added a third NYC show to his tour, October 8th at the United Palace Theatre. Presale tomorrow (Friday) at 10 AM here, password is YOUTHLESS.
2. There is news about the Information on vinyl. It will be limited to a pressing of 3000 individually numbered sets. It looks awesome!
3. Fake Beck is twittering!

Also, the tour starts up again tomorrow! Have fun at the shows and make sure to send us setlists, pics, and recordings!

Go to Beck.com/tour for details

Sorry for the late notice, I just learned of it; it appears tickets are sold, but maybe someone can get lucky. Or, I suggest just going down to the place anyway, they may let you pay at the door…

First, the Reno setlist. Devendra Banhart opened, and played a couple songs with Beck. Our own Vitamin.Deb was there, and from whom I got the setlist:

Devil’s Haircut
Nausea
Timebomb
Loser
Girl
Minus
Que Onda Guero
Black Tambourine
Soul of a Man
Modern Guilt
Gamma Ray
Nicotine & Gravy
Youthless
Walls
Hell Yes (Ghettochip Malfunction)
Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (with Devendra)
Hey Mama Wolf (with Devendra)
Golden Age
Lost Cause
Orphans
Where It’s At
Chemtrails
E-pro

Second, Outside Lands Festival… tonight. I’m a bit late on this, and am as annoyed as anyone, but apparently Beck’s set was webcast at attblueroom.com. GAH, missed it! Did anyone happen to watch and rip it? Please let us know: computergirls@whiskeyclone.net

UPDATE: Some clips of Outside Lands are already on YouTube. Watch and enjoy!

Beck played a warm-up show tonight at the El Cid, a tapas bar/music venue near Silverlake in Los Angeles. The band has come together very impressively since their first warm-up shows prior to the Europe tour. They head out on a short west coast trip here tomorrow, before a fuller North American tour next month.

Beck covered “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”–a classic Bob Dylan song. I’m told he recorded the song for some sort of compilation or project coming soon.

It was also nice to hear Beck play a bit of acoustic guitar on 3-4 songs, the last few times I’d seen him, he’d only played electric.

The El Cid setlist:

1. E-Pro
2. Modern Guilt
3. Timebomb
4. Nausea
5. Que Onda Guero
6. Gamma Ray
7. Mixed Bizness
8. Nicotine & Gravy
9. Youthless
10. Soul Of A Man
11. Replica
12. Girl
13. Minus
14. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
15. Hell Yes
16. The Golden Age
17. Lost Cause
18. Orphans
19. Volcano
20. Walls
21. Think I’m In Love
22. Chemtrails
23. Devils Haircut

According to Pitchfork, China will be clamping down on artists/musicians who perform there.  After an “outburst” in which Björk shouted “Tibet!” while performing in Shanghai, China says, “Any artistic group or individual who [has] ever engaged in activities that threaten national sovereignty will not be allowed in.”

I’m guessing they would include performing at a Tibeten Freedom Concert in that statement?  Who knows.  Anyways, Chinese Beck fans hang in there and feel the Beck love.

Beck has added another summer show, this one in Paris on July 7.

Paris Show Announcement

Beck will perform at the Olympia in Paris, France on July 7th.

from beck.com/news

Hey all you west coast frx and other universal travelers. Another Beck performance for the people this summer in Seattle at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival in Seattle from Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at the Seattle City Center.

Here’s a link to the site for more info.

Again from JMJ, the setlist (songs with links are to youtube videos that have surfaced) for DAY 2 opening for The Police in Buenos Aires :

01. Devils Haircut
02. Black Tambourine
03. Think I’m In Love
04. The New Pollution
05. Fuckin’ With My Head
06. Sunday Sun
07. Paper Tiger
08. Lost Cause
09. Soldier Jane
10. Girl
11. Where It’s At
12. Nausea
13. Minus
14. Loser
15. E-Pro

*Video quality on the youtube videos is not all that great and camera kinda goes everywhere, so frxz who get motion sick watch out. hehe. Sound quality is pretty decent, however.

i’m not sure where the dates came from, but according to ROSEMINT cafe Beck’s episode of Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement should be available December 15th.

From The Basement is a music series that features the most intimate live performances from the finest musicians on the planet.

From The Basement launched with special performances from Thom Yorke, The White Stripes and Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid. Beck, Jamie Lidell, The Shins and Jarvis Cocker have all shown the appreciation too with exclusive performances for future transmission. Filmed in high definition with live sound by producer Nigel Godrich, and with no host and no studio audience, From The Basement sets a new standard for music TV production.

From the Basement site

From the Basement MySpace

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PS I think this will appear online, but if not you UK people should record it. It’ll be on SkyArts (267) and SkyArts HD (268).

UPDATE: there’s a clip up now on the website - Motorcade

UPDATE #2: Sky Arts has e-mailed us some pics from the show. Thanks Sky Arts!