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Your Hard Work Is About To Pay Off, Keep on Keeping On Your Heart is Pure, Your Mind Is Clear, Your Soul Devout Show Your Love and Your Love Will Be Returned Do Not Let Anger or Jealousy Get the Better of Your Good Judgement Despair Is Criminal Your Ability To Help Others May Not Be Seen By All You Are Not Superman Romance Comes Into Your Life in a Very Unusual Sort of Way Your Whole Family Are Well There is Admirable Potential in Every Person We Are Here to Create, Not Merely to Survive

Will Oldham - vocals / guitar / percussion Cooper Crain - synth / FX Robert Frye - flute / saxophone / ukulele Dan Quinlivan - synth / FX no one knows quite what to expect from this show these shows there are three of them, after all and it’s will – so surely there will be much variation across the three nights so does that mean, each evening, that we’ll get a bajas set, a bonnie set, and a third collaborative set? in the end, it’s only the latter and it’s gorgeous but hard to see how they’ll change it up much from night to night but maybe that’s not the point it’s intensely meditative several people around me struggle with the necessity of abandoning themselves to it they shift awkwardly in their seats they giggle nervously they frown at each other, furrowing their brows but the only real way to deal with this is to lay back in it – like a salty ocean on which you can bob freely with no fear of sinking and maybe three nights of it will have a cumulative effect maybe, when we leave on thursday, we’ll all notice that we’re floating an inch above the ground or maybe not only time will tell in the meantime... enjoy ray x

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You Will Soon Discover How Truly Fortunate You Really Are He Who Cannot Endure The Past Will Not Live to See the Future A Good Home Is Happiness Your Heart is Pure, Your Mind Is Clear, Your Soul Devout Your Whole Family Are Well May Life Throw You A Pleasant Curve Your Home Is A Pleasant Place Your Hard Work Is About To Pay Off, Keep on Keeping On

Will Oldham - vocals / guitar / percussion Cooper Crain - synth / FX / ukulele / cymbal Robert Frye - flute / saxophone / ukulele / floor tom / autoharp Dan Quinlivan - synth / FX / autoharp second of these three shows and some instruments have been added a pair of autoharps, a floor tom and a cymbal the percussion, in particular, adds something quite different to tonight's experience things seem a little more urgent - though urgent is probably not a word that would first spring to mind for this music.. a little more… propelled, perhaps will starts the show dressed for what appears to be orienteering and plotting a course for this journey is perhaps something that has to be carefully undertaken but as the evening progresses, the hood comes off, and we abandon the marked path and when he turns and stares us deep in the eye, imploring us to heed these words of wisdom, we would follow this errant scout leader anywhere truly, perhaps, the only important thing is to keep putting one foot in front of the other keep on keeping on indeed enjoy ray

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Despair Is Criminal Show Your Love and Your Love Will Be Returned You Are Not Superman Watch Your Relations With Other People Carefully May Life Throw You A Pleasant Curve chat Your Heart is Pure, Your Mind Is Clear, Your Soul Devout * Nature Makes Us For Ourselves * You Will Soon Discover How Truly Fortunate You Really Are * Your Hard Work Is About To Pay Off, Keep on Keeping On * A Merry Heart Makes A Cheerful Countenance *

Will Oldham - vocals / guitar / percussion / jaw harp Cooper Crain - synth / FX / ukulele / bells / cymbal Robert Frye - flute / saxophone / ukulele / autoharp / keyboard Dan Quinlivan - synth / FX / autoharp / floor tom * Charles Hayward - percussion / melodica and so we come to the end three very different nights of a very similar thing what's the same is the mood created the warm, buoyant ocean - simultaneously enveloping you and pushing you up towards the sky what's different is how that ocean is conjured up tonight another magician is added to the circle - this heat's charles hayward dour of countenance but prodigious of talent, the floor around him is littered with every percussive implement you can think of, and several you haven't and all of them get struck, shaken or rattled at some point bonnie and the bajas seem extra energised by the knowledge that tonight is a culmination and pull out every stop to find all the bliss inherent in the skronk, the chant, the drone, the ebb and flow, and the ever- circling round lights flash heads nod eyes close and all is well with this rainy corner of the world their hard work has paid off enjoy ray

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