We just flew in to New York from London and after a day of spacing out in Brooklyn The Battle of Land and Sea and me Jacob Golden are taking off for the first shows of the tour. This is the first time I’ve played around the extended east coast for years and it should be a good adventure all around. We are doing a lot of alternate spaces as well as small clubs and Living room shows Also check out the free in-stores i’m playing along the way at Barnes and Noble.
Please help us spread the word if you have friends in any of the places we are playing it would be great to meet you and get the music out there to as many people as we can.
See you out there!
love,
jacob golden

Played a really cool show Friday Night in Portland. I was playing guitar for ‘the battle of land and sea’ and we supported a really sweet band called Vetiver.
the guys in the band were really friendly and as Sarah pointed out there was a quality of “the Band” to their songs. you should check them out if you can www.myspace.com/vetiverse

Getting ready to head over to the uk next week. there’s always so much to do before these trips. We are also booking our own tour around the east coast and the west coast of America. I will be posting dates on my page for the tour soon. I’ve been playing everyday in my music room at home and trying out different songs, different ways of approaching older songs and just trying to continue to move forward as an artist.

It’s easy to become focused on building a career and while i know its important to make a living, the bottom line is I always want my music to be the main focus whether or not I’ve “made it” or not. I was just talking with a friend about how important it is to cultivate loving situations and I think this really applies to building a career. I’ve always wanted to travel the world playing music, making records and doing something positive with my life. not settling. when you stick your neck out to do that there’s plenty of folks who will support that and plenty that just don’t give a fuck and thats fine. but I really want to be conscious about making sure what I’m doing with my time feels good, artful, fulfilling and not clouded by commercial self-consciousness. I guess it’s about finding the people out there that respond to my approach.
I’m certainly not banging down the doors of the mainstream, but i do feel my songs have a longevity about them and with the right
situation could find their way into the ears of musically discriminating folks.
it can be a bit hard to stay afloat when you haven’t quite reached the harbor
or maybe I haven’t even left yet?
bon voyage,
jacob

I think there should be some tickets still left for these shows-

18.05.08: Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach, supporting Sarabeth Tucek. Tickets are £6

21.05.08: Bath Porter Cellar Bar, supporting Sarabeth Tucek. Free entry.

23.05.08: Glasgow Oran Mor supporting Sarabeth Tucek. Buy tickets

I will be headlining a show at the infamous Troubadour club in London.
The Troubadour was the first place where Bob Dylan performed in London. So I’m pretty honored to play this stage. I’m pulling a double shift that night and playing atmospheric guitar for “The Battle of Land and Sea” who are on first, So be sure you get there early to catch all the action.

Also, the really cool thing about this show is everyone that comes will get a free e.p. CD which I recorded a few months back at RAK Studios. I haven’t officially put this out yet, but it’s definitely the best official ‘bootleg’ you are gonna find of my music.

After the show, I’ll be signing copies of the cd as requested.

This is a very intimate venue and only holds around 100 people so make sure to reserve
your tickets for this one early.

click here to order your tickets

Oh yes, I have single coming out on Monday in the UK. In fact it’s my very first single from the
new album and practically of my life. It’s a double A side of “Out Come the Wolves and Zero Integrity”.
I even convinced my record company to press up some Vinyl 7inches (just like mom used to make)
and we’ve sprinkled them like easter eggs for hard core music fans to hunt down across the UK
in indie shops and hmvs. There’s not a lot of them out there so if you want one of these I’d make a move.

For the rest of us you can also get the single digitally from itunes…
Here’s a slightly cheeky idea-
If you already own my album and want to turn your friends onto my music
you can “gift” the single from iTunes to as many people as you like. It’s a cool way
of helping to spread the word click here to gift this single
and it would be very sweet of you I would think! ; )
Have a wonderful day and weekend!
jg x

Here’s a nice review of the new single from “This is Fake DIY”

Jacob Golden - Out Come The Wolves

Artist: Jacob Golden

Rating: 4/5

Daintily piecing together a florid yet sorrowful collage of sounds, ‘Out Come the Wolves’ is a graceful example of that fashionable sphere of genre-robbing musical hybridity. Swathed in a phantasmagorical mist, the track, taken from Golden’s new release, ‘Revenge Songs’, would not seem out of place on a fantasy score, though its numerous references to modern culture prevent it, happily, from being swallowed by fancy.

Wonderfully sombre from beginning to end, the listener is entranced into an intense head-trip where ‘the Dalai Lama and Quasimoto hand in hand step off the Karmic wheel’ and cavort with James Brown and an army of ants. Such bewildered lyrics which rarely come together are salvaged by the backbone of Golden’s confident strumming, imbuing the track with what can only be described as extreme anxiety, which bizarrely appears to work in his favour.

Golden is Jeff Buckley for the faithless generation; a solemn, yet no less inventive Jeffrey Lewis. Using little more than a weeping guitar and hauntingly wistful vocals, ‘Out Come the Wolves’ cuts and sticks the humble debris of Golden’s imagination to form a rich patchwork of sounds and sympathies. Misery has never been so sexy.

‘Out Come The Wolves’ is released as a single through Echo on 3rd March 2008.

Emmy Watts
www.thisisfakediy.co.uk

I sang “Out Come the Wolves“. I practiced all i could and with a little red wine in me I went to it. I started the song and there was a lot of emotion in my body that left me a little shaky and breathless but as I got into the chorus I began to forget about the cameras, the audience, Liza (The daughter of Judy Garland i.e. Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz!)
and all the other bands standing around me and I just dug into the words and it was a real rush.
I almost forgot where i was for a minute and then the song was over I opened my eyes and there was Jools shaking my hand and I had done it- My first UK Live television show.
It wasn’t a “perfect” performance, but I put all I had into it, it was real and I feel good about it being beamed out into peoples living-rooms.

The show will air this Friday February 15th on BBC2 and will also be viewable on the http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/ website (Sorry Uk only but check on youtube I’m sure someone will upload it!). Check it out and let me know what you think!

Well, I’m off to New York for the next adventure, maybe I’ll see some of you at my housing works show on Friday and you can also catch me playing guitar with the Battle of Land and Sea at the Mercury lounge on Sunday.
Bon Voyage,
Jacob Golden