We from RockingEels.com have received our copy of “Tomorrow Morning” today and we just wanna give a quick shout out to every Eels fan out there: We are very pleasantly surprised. This seems to be yet another really amazing record by the Eels. E delivers very strong material on “Tomorrow Morning”, with some absolutely astonishing sounds, melodies and noises. We haven’t listened to it enough to name highlights of the record but all we can say is: buy it. It’s a real treat.
(For our German-speaking visitors we can recommend FLIGHT13 to get the LP, by the way.)
Articles, reviews and interviews regarding this record can be found HERE.
Listen to yet another track from the upcoming album “Tomorrow Morning”. Stream “That’s Not Her Way” HERE.
Yesterday the band rocked in Melbourne on their last concert in Australia. Seems like everybody’s been really enjoying the Eels tour so far. Only positive comments to be found so far. Here’s a collection of links from the gig for you:
Photos:
Flickr
FasterLouder.com
Videos:
“Jungle Telegraph”
“Souljacker Part I”
“I’m Going To Stop Pretending…”
“I’m Going To Stop Pretending…”
“That Look You Give That Guy”
“Summer in the City”
“Summer in the City”
“Tremendous Dynamite”
“Mr.E’s Beautiful Blues”
“Grace Kelly Blues”
Enjoy photos of the Eels gigs in Australia HERE, HERE and HERE.
Update: Watch videos of “That Look You Give That Guy” and “I’m Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn’t Break Your Heart” performed in Sydney. Also, here’s a nice video collection of songs performed in Brisbane.
Also, if you’re looking for setlists of the shows, the website setlist.fm has some.
Laura Imbruglia (their support act) says that the “Eels tour is super fun”.
There are four more awesome live videos from the warm-up gig at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana. Enjoy all of them HERE. Thanks to our friend Jon for uploading all of those videos.
Also, as you may have noticed we have a new logo for our site. It was designed by Edouard Relou (check out his other fantastic illustrations on his WEBSITE) and we are absolutely in love with it. Hope you folks like it, too.
We’ve got a little something for our dear RockingEels.com visitors: there’s a contest on our FACEBOOK PAGE to win a copy of “Blinking Lights and other revelations” signed by E. Take part and good luck to each and everyone of you.
Furthermore, check out the Interview with E on FASTERLOUDER.COM.AU, in which he explains that “Looking Up” “might be the favourite track I’ve ever done”. Also interesting to learn about the backing vocals in this song: “No, the ‘girls’ singing on that are actually me. That’ll be tricky in a live setting but we’ll figure it out.”
More articles and interviews HERE.
Eels just concluded their first regular concert of their world tour on the Summersonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan. See the first photos in our FACEBOOK GALLERY.
Learn everything (setlist, band line-up, review, photos, videos, fan reactions) about the warm-up gig at the Galaxy Theatre HERE. (Contains massive spoilers, OBVIOUSLY!)
Yesterday the band had their warm-up show for the upcoming tour, which will start in Japan in a couple of days. Here are the first reactions:
- (High quality) video of “Little Bird” –> YouTube
- (Bad quality) video of “Tremendous Dynamite” –> YouTube
- “Heavy on new stuff (only two Tomorrow Morning songs, however). Nothing from Electro-Shock, two songs from Blinking Lights, nothing from Shootenanny, three from Souljacker, couple Daisies cuts, one from Beautiful Freak.Some fine cover choices this time, a heavy “summer” theme in the choices.It was a beautiful rock and roll rave-up. A relatively simple set-up, nothing too complex, lots of guitar goodness.There will probably be plenty of photos and some videos turning up. A girl standing relatively close to me seemed to capture pretty much everything rather than just ENJOYING THE FUCKING SHOW.MERCH:
No new tour album. Tomorrow Morning t-shirt, poster, a new hoodie, some vinyl, some CDs.
Murder on bass.
Knuckles on drums
Chet on steel and guitar
new guy on guitar (forgot him name)
E on guitar (no keys)
Couple more small observations:
No lights on encore.
Also, I’m never really attempt to grab the setlist at shows, so I’m not sure if this is standard practice with the Eels, but they made sure to remove all setlists from the stage pre-encore to avoid anyone from the crowd grabbing one. The aforementioned woman with the camera went out of her way to ask for one from the roadie and he clearly told her it wasn’t a possibility. I’m not saying this as a judgement on either the fans or the band, as I’m indifferent either way. Just found it interesting.” (john @EstrangedFriends)
- “The Eels concert was amazing tonight!!!” (DanielleTowne @Twitter)
- “At The Eels concert. It’s like floating in a comfortable womb. Then they electrify the shit out of things and you get born. Spectacular.“ (DoyledAgain @Twitter)
- “Why do opening acts exist??? Weirdly I’m at an Eels concert and there is a ventriloquist w creepy baby… Um what? http://yfrog.com/mrinzj (tamiklockau @Twitter)”
- “A small thing regarding tonight’s opening act:
It was pretty terrible. I have to presume the opening act was hired separately by the venue and was not chosen by E. Rick Mitchell. He was a ventriloquist comedian not too dissimilar from Jeff Dunham. Really boring, uninspired gags involving puppets. So tedious I almost thought it was intentional – like some sort of gag testing the audiences patience.
Reflecting on how inane his set was, it really seems like there’s no possible way he was sanctioned by Eels – so, mercifully, none of you will have to suffer through his (thankfully short) set.” (john @EstrangedFriends)
Listen to the phenomenal “Baby Loves Me”, yet another song from the upcoming “Tomorrow Morning” HERE.
Furthermore, an extensive E interview with “Drowned in Sound” can be found HERE.
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