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Neutral Milk Hotel Reuniting, Touring, Making Us All So Happy!
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Jen Carlson
Published Apr 29, 2013
Modified Apr 30, 2013
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Although Jeff Mangum has performed some solo shows recently, Neutral Milk Hotel (with the original lineup) hasn't played in public for 15 YEARS. So today's news that they are reuniting this year for a tour had us feeling many feelings and levels of joy we've never experienced. So far only a handful of shows have been announced, for later this year, but there's a promise of "more to come," and Pitchfork has confirmed that "this touring lineup will consist of Mangum, Scott Spillane, Julian Koster, and Jeremy Barnes, the lineup that came together following the release of On Avery Island in 1996."
The shows so far are in Georgia, North Carolina, Taiwan and Japan—and the band's site says that a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will go to the charity Children of the Blue Sky. The site also features these words under the tour dates:
"and of water course womb rume is a wandering the welkin woman whose fune caul is all umbilical cord code that comes equipped with read volve vît curtains that čun seel my văl én tich radio reason in remembrance of mademoiselle gabrielle and her wone tym pad lock of burd language as it borders on twin tolk the wolk king wall of woolpack pigeons pointing to the fly blind readers riddle and his rian boh"
Try to decode that while you watch this full show from 1998:
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