The Art Of Touring

There's a new book out, edited by Sara Jaffe and Mia Clarke. The Art Of Touring. It's a lot of fun.

Pictures of fuzzy dogs, smiling wide-mouthed cats, photographs of desolate airplanes, debris, euphoric fans, a Jeffrey Lewis comic strip that's so great I've already read it five times, essays on lack of concentration, blizzards in New York, Blue Oyster Cult, marzipan seals... Contributions from musicians out of bands like Le Tigre, Explosions In The Sky, Devendra Banhart, The Ex... A DVD of similarly tangled live footage. (There's even a contribution from me in there somewhere, about being tear-gassed in Siberia.)

Oddly, it continues along a conversation I was having in Perth a few weeks back, that there is an alternative to U2 tour buses and tales of overturned hotel rooms THAT DOESN'T NEED TO BE DULL... and... well, I think it's worth checking out, well worth checking out.

The link's right here.