Collected Animals • Deakin Tour

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Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2018 3:35 pm

7/27 - Thetford, VT - Thetfest
8/3 - Washington, D.C. - Comet Ping Pong
8/4 - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMoca
8/5 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
8/8 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter
8/10 - Asheville, NC - the Mothlight
8/11 - Baltimore, MD - the Crown

Spoiler: show

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:43 pm

Man I wish I could make the philly date as it my birthday. Deakin is my last ac member to see solo

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2018 8:01 pm

Yeah hope to see the philly show too

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:57 am

Dang, gonna be Baltimore adjacent 3 days too late.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:46 pm

I'll be at the Asheville show. Excellent time catching Avey there so here goes round 2!

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:44 pm

see y'all in asheville

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:04 am

wish he was swingin out to chicago

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:20 pm

Wait I didnt notice the richmond date shit
Much easier to work out

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:39 pm

MrAirplane wrote:

8/3 - Washington, D.C. - Comet Ping Pong

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:46 am

def gonna try and make the crown show

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:46 am

richmond yea! anyone else coming to strange matter?

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:47 pm

I lost my stupid card so i cant buy a ticket

Hopefully ill still make it

Post **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:07 am

rva! strange matter is decent i’m just so short i hate tiny crowds like that. also sometimes way too many vcu students lol

Post **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:13 am

Get there early! Im probably going, I really like the tinyness of smatter its kinda cozy

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:10 pm

jfw7 wrote:

MrAirplane wrote:
8/3 - Washington, D.C. - Comet Ping Pong

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:26 pm

ahaha

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:59 am

I don't get it

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2018 4:18 pm

deakin just got added as opener to the gang gang dance show at the empty bottle in chicago on sept 10!

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2018 3:56 am

hope someone records some of boots of these shows. would be great to see him again.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:12 pm

Andrew_VB wrote:

deakin just got added as opener to the gang gang dance show at the empty bottle in chicago on sept 10!

Chicago is a 3 hour drive for me and this is on a weeknight but I want to go just so I can say I saw all 4 members of AC perform solo within a 1 year period

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2018 5:25 am

Im goin to the Richmond show at Strange Matter, just bought my tickets

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:02 pm

Just got my ticket for the Chicago show with Gang Gang Dance, gonna be a good time

Post **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2018 2:15 am

I saw him in Thetford- was anyone else here at that show? It was apparently a very small music festival (3rd year its been public, but has existed as a local entity for about 13). It was entirely organized by young people "making a scene where there is none." He mostly played new material! It played Golden Chords as well as Wide Eyed. At one point he commented on all the mosquitoes, "I think I've lost a pint of blood. If I'm going to die, mosquitoes aren't gonna do it." and he kind of grinned at the end of that. He has enough material that I could see an ep or additional project coming about fairly soon.
There were technical difficulties due to rain at the outside venue but it was a fairly ideal scene for seeing Deakin for my first solo performance of his- backdrop was a barn on some kind soul's farmfields. Just because it's a nice addition to the story, my partner and I laid in the tent listening to the remainder of the bands, and in the morn swam and bathed in a nearby river.

Also! Does anyone know why Deakin likes to wear white pants? I always associated with a type of John Lennon spiritual figure image. Unsure if the man himself has commented on this.

(No boots, sorry!)

Post **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:10 pm

was not there but someone on reddit (maybe you?) said he played roughly 7 songs including Harpy. I'm guessing the other 4 were DownDown, the 1 new song from Ottobar, and the 2 new songs from Elsewhere.

glad you liked it! can't wait for the rest of the tour. I'm hoping he plays even longer sets and some boots come out

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:41 pm

I’ll be in Maryland but I won’t have any way to get to the Baltimore show, feels bad man

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:39 pm

going to chicago. Not going to record so I can just enjoy the show.

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:09 am

Rolling Honey wrote:

Also! Does anyone know why Deakin likes to wear white pants? I always associated with a type of John Lennon spiritual figure image. Unsure if the man himself has commented on this.

(No boots, sorry!)

Because white pants fucking rock. Although without boots is pretty strange

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:30 pm

saw in bk

I'm not up to date on what he's currently working on, but the new songs are very early and undeveloped right now, more like sketches. he played wide eyes, golden chords, and 6 new ones. all very meditative and personal and dont really go anywhere. look forward to seeing them develop.

the songs are very much like 'old AC' and I think it's most interesting that dave and noah are out touring old songs and here is josh--maybe for the first time--kind of 'out front' and putting himself out there and experimenting in front of small but sympathetic audiences. two very different tracks running parallel right now

Post **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2018 12:07 am

Excited for the show on wednesdayyy

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:50 am

Everybody go out and see deakin
These new songs are less acoustic and denser electronic
I started cheesing so hard out of enjoyment during the 4th new song? It had lots of organ and deakin going terry riley on his keyboard, hence why I named the song Organ Traveler.
Wide eyed was so driving and fun

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:19 pm

Last minute show added tonight in Staunton, VA

Spoiler: show

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:13 pm

dang, pay by hat. thats next level

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:16 pm

did anyone see the Highlife set? I've been waiting for new music from that project for a long time

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:02 pm

Then maybe you’ll be interested in some crappy phone recordings from the Philly show

Highlife:

Spoiler: show

Deakin:

Spoiler: show

Anyone record any other shows? I’m curious to hear how the new songs morph over time

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2018 4:09 pm

thanks! i think that sounds pretty good!

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2018 4:23 pm

btw i just messaged josh on instagram and he said no titles yet for the new songs

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:11 pm

Thanks for asking. I checked the stage for a setlist and he had a little notebook open where he mapped out the dial positions for each song. Seemed more personal and practical than a setlist so I felt bad looking at it.

Favorite bit of banter which I think you can hear in the recording (paraphrased)
Deakin: “got about 2 more songs. maybe 3”
Guy: “play as many as you want!”
Deakin: “well yeah, that’s the thing”

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2018 4:15 am

Just saw Deak at the parkway. Very chill. Setlist:

New song
New song
New song
Wide eyed
New song
New song
New song
Golden Chords
Harpy
Good House

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:06 am

damn that's a lot of tracks. how long was the set?

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:35 pm

Confirmed he is working on a new record "but I'm gonna play the old stuff too, because that's what you guys came here for" haha. But yeah the first, second, and fourth new songs he played were all on synth (think it's a dave smith prophet), while the others were guitar. The Parkway is such a cool venue (it's usually an indie movie theater) and I'm so psyched I made it to the show with costco_boy_42] and bansheebeaten last minute